With you Forever

CHAPTER:- 23

Rudra's Pov

"You are never a good father to me. But I trust you as a business man. I hope you won't break your promise. Because trust me, if Aahan will be fired, then I will give you my resignation and the last string of our connection will be broken." I heard my daughter's voice from the other side.

It would be a pure lie, if I said that this behavior of her didn't hurt me. Infact her rudeness felt equal to being stabbed for thousand times. Yet, I was happy, because I was hearing her voice after a long time.

Being a father was definitely not easy.

But the next minute, the line went silent and I realised that she cut the call.

Now I had to yearned to listen her voice again.

Wiping the tear, that had left from the corner of eyes betraying my self control, I moved towards the stairs.

There, Ayush was waiting for me, with a hopeful face. As soon as I reached near him, like an excited bunny, he hopped in front of me and asked, "Dad! What did Di say? Is she still angry over us. I don't even know what wrong I have done. But I have appolised to her for countless times."

I smiled at his innocence. He had inherited it from his father, because his mother was definitely an example of evilness.

"Don't worry. Now your Di will stay with us." I lovingly said to him, running my fingers over his hair.

"Forever?" He asked carrying hope in his eyes and my smile dropped.

Forever! Such a small word it was, but it could create a havoc inside me for sure.

"Cut this hair short. Your Di won't like you living with a hair style of villain." I said, changing the topic.

"Then I will cut them now only." He grinned, before jumping again on the stairs to descend.

"Arey, it's 4 in the night. Wait till the morning at least." I shouted.

"We are the Vermas, Dad. And if our princess has a problem with my long hair, then I will get them cut. What she wants, she will get." He declared and then I found him out of my sight.

"Silly Boy!" I muttered, laughing at his antics, what I missed was someone noticing both of us with anger in her eyes. Infact I was glad that I missed her sight, but God didn't bless me for long and she made her appearance visible.

"Indeed, my son is too silly. Here you father and daughter are playing with his emotions, and he is too silly to notice that.", said my legally wedded wife - Naysa.

"He loves us, Naysa. You won't understand this. Because you are blind in greed." I replied.

"Greed! You are playing here, Rudra. You are trying every way possible to bring that girl here. Why? If that girl wants to stay away then let her be. Let her do whatever she wants, however she lives. Why she us returning to our life again and again. I just hope, she will leave us in peace forever. Let her die..." Rest of the words didn't come out from her mouth, as I choked her throat.

"Remember, she is my princess, the heir of Vermas'. Dare you to call her as 'that girl', consequences would be bad. Trust me, I am very serious this time." I roared in anger.

Seeing her struggling for breath, I left her there and moved to my study room.

No body was allowed to enter here, except my princess - Ishita. It was another thing that she had never wished to come in this room. Most of the time I stayed alone here, because I liked it in this way only.

The room had the memories, the moments that I always yearned to have again, but never had them back. Because memories were never created alone. And that special person, who had made my moments special here was no longer with me.

I saw the portrait that was hung on the wall. It was the portrait of my marriage with my wife, my love - Ishita.

I met Ishita when I was in my MBA final year. She was junior to be and a science student. I was smitten by her at the first glance only and misunderstood it as my attraction. But over the time, I yearned to catch one glance of her and realised how much she mattered to me.

I proposed her and she reciprocated my feelings. We got married with the blessings of both of our family.

It was not a cake walk, but a thorned path of life. And I did my best to lift up Ishita in my arms, so that the thorns on path could do nothing to her. But, I failed. And she left me in the middle.

When Ishita left, at that moment the nurse kept my new born princess on my hand and I saw her eyes, they were similar to Ishita - held the same innocence and equal shape.

I felt like I got my Ishita back in her form and I named her the same.

But she hated me.

While I could never hate her.

"You know right, Ishu, how much I love our daughter! You know everything. Then why are you not telling her! I am getting week in this fight. She is not understanding anything. She is not at all trying to understand anything. There are snakes, surrounding her. And I have to protect her. But, I am getting tired. Why did you left me, Ishu? Haven't we promise a forever? Then why did you break the promise. But, I won't let you break it. Let me set up this empire for our princess. Then, I will come to you. We will complete our promise of forever." I said, looking over the portrait.

I knew that my princess hated me. Her behavior worried me sometimes. She liked to stay in her one world and I was afraid that she will be lost in the maze that she had created in her mind.

There were enemies around her. Some reside in her mind, while some in her home. And she couldn't recognize them. Thus she let them free and they continued to grow.

But, I was awared of everything.

And I had promised my self and my wife that I will protect our daughter against all the odds.

To be continued...