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Sherline cried as Shayra's body was kept down from the bed. Seeing her sister this way was so much pain.
Little ahana did not even know what she lost as she stared at her Maasi with doe-like eyes carrying the innocence of the whole world.
Yash on the other hand covered her face with white sheets, he was nothing to see her again, seeing her dead once is painful enough.
" I'll wash her body and make her wear the red joda ( clothes) " Sherlin said as she wiped her tears.
She was about to get up from the floor but Yash shook his head at her.
" I'll do the needful " Yash said but Sherlin couldn't let him do it.
He was hurting all this was too hurtful.
" let me, please, " she gave ahana to him.
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Everything was ready, shayra was being let down by the strains, Jay, and Mahira stared at her body before the priest did the rituals, soon it was time to take her to the graveyard.
Ahana was crying badly when she saw her mother going away and not blowing a kiss at her.
Sherlin took the baby in her arms and hugged her.
Yash was holding his tears till he carried the body of his wife on his shoulders.
Jay and others knew how difficult it is for him, but they didn't say anything.
Every moment they shared together came in front of his eyes, their first fight, him teasing her when she was his secretary.
How he had made her climb all the stairs just to make her resign, the fire in the apartment complex, him marrying Her by force.
Her shooting him and pushing him down the waterfall, him falling in love with her again, the birth of Ahana
Everything and then how drastically their relationship changed and now she left him.
Jay put his palm on Yash's shoulder, it was time to give fire to her body.
Yash gulped his pain with his saliva before he took the earthen pot from the priest's hand and moved around before dropping it on the ground.
He gave fire to her and stood there numb.
" Yash let's go home, " Jay said to him when everyone had left
" Huh? " Yash wasn't in his senses, his body felt heavy, he wanted to leave too, he wanted to leave the world with her.
But he couldn't
Because of the promise he made to her.
His wife
" promise me Yash, you'll stay with Ahana, you'll never leave her alone, " Shayra said to him a day before all this happened.
" shayra—"
" promise me, Yash, " she cut him off and put her shaking hand on his.
And Yash did.
"SHAYRA! " his scream echoed in the whole graveyard, the birds nearby flew out of fear as he fell on his knees.
" AAAAAAAHHHH AAAA! " his sobs echoed as tears rolled down his face.
The heart-wrenching scene was witnessed by Sherlin.
She knew Yash will be broken but she didn't know he will be miserable.
She walked near him and stood in front of him, he looked at her before he pulled her close enough to hug her.
This was the most intimate moments they shared.
He let his tears fall on her back as she tried to hold him.
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