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" Have you gone mad? What were you doing? Why did you jump to get that doll? What if something had happened to you?" Ruhi said, slapping Rohit on the cheek.

The bodyguard and Rohit, who was holding his cheek, looked at Ruhi in surprise. Rohit said, "Hey, are you worried or hitting me?"

"I'm hitting you so that you remember not to do it again! Why did you do that?" Ruhi said, crying with anger. Rohit replied, "Because this doll is a token of you. I will never let it be away from me. It has been with me for so many years, so how could I let it go away today? It will stay with me for life."

"Why is it so important to you? It's just a toy, isn't it?" Ruhi asked softly, looking into his eyes. Rohit cupped Ruhi's face in his hands and brought her face close to his, saying, "It's not just a doll; it's a reminder of you when you aren't around. I've shared with it all the things I wanted to say to you. And now I'll say what I haven't even told it - I love you, Ruhi. I've loved you since childhood, I love you today, and I will always love you."

"And what if I don't accept your love? If I reject your love, what will you do?" Ruhi asked, still looking into his eyes.

Hearing her question, Rohit was silent for a moment. His silence bothered Ruhi, but then breaking his silence, Rohit said, "I know, Ruhi, you won't reject my love, because you love me more than I love you. But if your anger overpowers you and you reject my love, I will do the same as I did for this doll. I'll go to any lengths to make you believe in my love. I'll go to any lengths to win your love."

"If you pull such a stunt again, this time it was just a slap, next time I'll kill you!" Ruhi said, crying in anger. Rohit burst out laughing. After a moment of looking into Ruhi's eyes, Rohit placed his trembling lips, wet from tears, on Ruhi's lips, calming her down. Seeing this, the bodyguard lowered his head and left.

Ruhi was startled at first, but then she closed her eyes. Rohit's hands were caressing Ruhi's cheeks, and Ruhi was running her fingers through Rohit's wet hair. After a while, they pulled away from each other and began breathing heavily, looking at one another.

Rohit rested his forehead against hers and, while taking deep breaths, looked at Ruhi's face, which was breathing deeply with her eyes closed. Rohit softly said, "I've said it, now you say it."

"Say what?" Ruhi asked, still with her eyes closed. Rohit brought her face closer and said, "Say what I want to hear. Tell me that you are still the same Ruhi who belonged only to Rohit. Tell me that you still want to marry me. Tell me that you love me, only me." There was a desperation in Rohit's voice.

Ruhi opened her eyes and looked into his, which were eagerly waiting for her answer. Ruhi placed her hand on Rohit's cheek and said, "Yes, I am still the same Ruhi, your childhood Ruhi. And , I want to marry you , spend my entire life with you, and bother you for the rest of my life. Yes, I still love you, love you very, very much." Tears welled up in her eyes again, which Rohit kissed away from her eyes, and then kissed her damp eyelids. Ruhi hugged him tightly. Today, they both found each other's love.

Shergill Mansion

Shivika was sitting in her room, thinking about Hardik because Hardik had suddenly disappeared without telling anyone. No one knew where he had gone, and she couldn't ask anyone. So, she was just wondering where Hardik could have gone so suddenly. Just then, someone knocked on her door. Shivika looked towards the door and saw Anokhi and Preeti standing there.

"Oh, you both are here? Come in," Shivika said, smiling. Anokhi and Preeti came and sat beside her.

"What happened, is there something you need?" Shivika asked, looking at them.

Anokhi said, "Didi, I'm here to talk to you."

"Yes, go ahead, what is it?" Shivika said.

Anokhi glanced at Preeti and then held Shivika's hand, saying, "Shivika Didi, I'm here to talk to you about Hardik Bhaiya."

Hearing Hardik's name from Anokhi's mouth, Shivika was startled for a moment but said nothing, waiting in silence for her to continue.

Seeing her silence, Anokhi continued, "Shivika Didi, you were about to marry Abhinav Sir, but when his love returned to his life, won't you give your love another chance?"

"What do you mean?" Shivika asked.

"I mean, will you give Hardik Bhaiya a chance? If he returns to your life?" Anokhi asked Shivika.

"Shivika Didi, you and Hardik Bhaiya love each other a lot, don't you? So why don't you give him a chance?"

"And why do you think that Hardik loves me and that I should give him a chance?" Shivika asked, looking into Anokhi's eyes.

Hearing this, Anokhi fell silent and looked at Preeti.

Preeti said to Shivika, "Shivika, only the lucky ones find love. Hardik lost his first love, don't let him lose his second love."

Hearing her words, Shivika looked at Preeti in silence and then suddenly smiled after a few moments. Seeing her smile, Anokhi and Preeti looked at each other.

Shivika, smiling, said, " Anokhi, Preeti Bhabhi, you are right. Hardik lost his first love, I won't let him lose his second love. I will never leave Hardik. Hardik was, is, and will always be in my life."

"Really?" Anokhi asked, excited.

Shivika nodded with a smile. Seeing this, Anokhi jumped with joy and hugged Shivika tightly.

"You know, I am so, so happy!" she said, smiling. "And you know, Hardik Bhaiya is really, really good. He helps everyone. He has helped me twice in my life. The first time, he helped with my mom's surgery and saved her life. Then he saved Rishabh Ji's life, twice. So really, he is very good."

"He's also a fool, your Hardik Bhaiya!" Shivika said, pouting with a bit of annoyance.

"Why, what did he do?"

"Exactly, he did nothing! Instead of coming and making up with me, he's gone who knows where, foolish man!" Shivika said angrily.

Anokhi began to smile. Seeing her smile, Shivika squinted her eyes and said, "Why are you smiling like that?"

"Nothing," Anokhi said, shaking her head with a smile, and got up to leave the room.

Seeing her leave like that, Shivika said to Preeti, "She smiled like that, does she know something?"

"I don't know," Preeti shrugged her shoulders.

Anokhi returned to her room smiling, and saw Rishabh sitting on the sofa, working on his laptop. Seeing this, Anokhi's smile disappeared, and she got a bit angry.

She stormed over to Rishabh, closed his laptop, and said angrily, "Rishabh ji, you're working again? I told you not to work, didn't I? But you still don't listen."

When Rishabh looked up at her angry face, he smiled and said, "Oh, I wasn't working, just checking emails," and as he said that, he placed the laptop on the side table and pulled Anokhi onto his lap. Anokhi was still glaring at him, so Rishabh pinched her nose and said, "See, I've put the laptop aside now, why are you so angry?"

Anokhi, making a face, said, "Yeah, right! I came in, I shut the laptop, so you put it aside; otherwise, you'd just keep working, right? If I hadn't come in, then..."

Just then, Rishabh placed his hand around her waist, pulling her closer, and said, "So, you didn't come here to romance with me? Tell me honestly, what did you come here for?" At his words, Anokhi started looking around as if caught red-handed.

Rishabh, holding her face and bringing it close to his, asked, "What happened? Why are you looking around? Am I right? I've noticed, these days you don't come to me, you've forgotten how to spend time with me."

"Rishabh ji, how could I forget you? We live in the same house, in the same room, so how could I forget you?" Anokhi said, lovingly putting her arms around his neck, trying to pacify him.

Rishabh glared at her and said, "Don't butter me up too much, quickly tell me

why you came into the room."

"Yes, well... I came to give you good news. Do you know? I talked to Shivika Didi, she still loves Hardik Bhaiya and is even willing to give him a chance. If Hardik Bhaiya proposes to her in a grand way, she'll agree. Isn't that great? By the way, Hardik Bhaiya must have reached Gujarat by now, right?" Anokhi said, playing with his shirt collar.

Rishabh, thinking, replied, "Yes, he must have reached by now. You're very interested in other people's love stories, aren't you? Don't you want to create your own love story?"

"Create what? Our love story is already complete," Anokhi said, showing her teeth.

Rishabh, holding her cheeks with one hand and bringing her face very close to his, said, "Oh really, our love story is complete?"

"Isn't it complete? Everything's done between us," Anokhi said, her voice fading as she bit her tongue and tightly closed her eyes. Seeing this, Rishabh laughed.

He lifted Anokhi in his arms and, taking her towards the bed, said, "Yes, everything happened, but only once. I want it to happen every night."

"Let me go, Rishabh ji," Anokhi said, squirming. But Rishabh threw her onto the bed and came on top of her. Anokhi, showing her innocent eyes, said, "Rishabh ji, let me go, I have a lot of work to do."

"Yes, I also have a lot of work," Rishabh said, unbuttoning three buttons of his shirt and starting to kiss Anokhi's neck.

"No," Anokhi's grip on the bedsheet tightened. Just then, someone knocked on the door from outside, and Shobha's voice came, "Anokhi, come down quickly, I need your help."

"Yes, Maa, coming," Anokhi shouted and pushed Rishabh to the side, quickly getting off the bed. Rishabh glared at her and said, "You escaped this time, but tonight you'll be here, let's see how you escape then."

But Anokhi, teasing him, quickly ran out of the room. Seeing this, Rishabh smiled and thought to himself, "It's your innocence that makes me fall in love with you every time. I'll never let this innocence of yours fade, my cupcake," and with that, he lay down.

Gujarat,

Prafull was sitting in his house, working on some jewelry designs, when a man came in and said to Prafull, "Mota Bhai, there's a man here to meet you."

"A man? Who is it?"

"I don't know, he says his name is Hardik."

"Hardik is here!" Prafull said, somewhat surprised, and then, after thinking for a moment, added, "Alright, send him in."

At his words, the man left, and after a while, Hardik entered.

"Come, Hardik, sit down," Prafull gestured towards the sofa and started gathering up his papers. Seeing the papers, Hardik said, "Uncle, you're doing important work, I can wait."

"You've come all the way from Mumbai, so what you have to say must be important too. No worries, I can do this later. Go ahead," Prafull said as he neatly placed the papers in a file and sat on the sofa opposite Hardik.

The man who had come earlier brought tea and snacks, placed them on the table, and left. Prafull handed a cup of tea to Hardik and said, "Here, have some tea and tell me what you came to discuss."

Hardik put the tea cup back on the table and started rubbing his hands together. Seeing him so nervous, Prafull said calmly, "Whatever it is, just say it clearly."

"Uncle, you know about Shivika and me..." Hardik trailed off, looking at Prafull. But there was no trace of anger on Prafull's face. He said just as calmly, "Yes, I know about you and Shivika. Shivika has loved you for years, you rejected her love, and she went into depression and now takes sleeping pills."

Hearing this, Hardik lowered his gaze. He said, "Do you know why I rejected Shivika's love?"

Prafull shook his head. Hardik looked at him and said, "I was in love with another girl in college, her name was Rakhi. But one day, someone brutally raped her, and she left this world. I swore at that moment that I wouldn't let the one who wronged her live, and I would get justice for Rakhi."

"And I believe you did that?" Prafull said, thinking for a moment.

Hardik nodded and continued, "But that wasn't the only reason. I lost my parents when I was young. I lost my parents, then the girl I loved, she too left me."

"And you feared that if you accepted Shivika, loved her, she too would leave you," Prafull completed Hardik's thought.

Hardik nodded once again. Prafull placed his tea cup on the table and said, "So, why are you here?"

"I want to marry Shivika because I love her. I know I've made mistakes, said wrong things, and hurt her a lot, made her cry. But Uncle, I just want one chance to prove my love."

Prafull asked, "So, you're here to ask for my daughter's hand?"

Hardik stood up from his seat, knelt down, and with folded hands, said, "You're a father who loves his daughter dearly. I've given your daughter a lot of pain, so before asking for her hand, I want to apologize to you, I want to atone for my mistakes. Whatever punishment you give me before giving me a chance, I'll accept it, but please give me a chance."

"Have you asked Shivika for this chance? Have you apologized to her?" Prafull asked.

Hardik nodded and said, "Yes, I did, but at that time she was intoxicated, and I don't think she remembers. But I'll apologize again. However, I want you to forgive me first, to give me a chance. That girl cares about your happiness. She's decided that whoever you choose for her to marry, she'll marry him. And I don't want to create a critical situation for her, I don't want to put her at a crossroads. If I apologize to her first and say that I love her, she might punish me, but she might also forgive me. But if at that time you don't forgive me, that girl will be stuck at a crossroads, between her love for me and her love for her father. That's why I want you to forgive me first."

"And if I don't forgive you, don't give you a chance, what will you do?" Prafull asked sternly.

Hardik fell silent immediately. Looking into Prafull's eyes, he replied, "I've lost my love once, I pushed it away myself the second time. But I won't let it happen a third time. To get a chance from you, I'll do anything, even if it means you shoot me."

Prafull observed him for a while, without any emotion, and then suddenly smiled and said, "A son-in-law is considered like a son here, even like a god. We cannot sacrifice either a son or a daughter's husband."

"What? What did you say?" Hardik asked, his eyes wide, wanting to confirm what he had just heard.

Prafull, laughing, said, "Your ears are working just fine. I did say that I consider you my son-in-law."

"What does that mean? Does that mean you've accepted my and Shivika's relationship?"

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