Part 14 – The Lovers

“I am sorry that I had to visit your home, this way”, Maria said to Rose with hesitance.
“Yes, you can talk”, Rose replied rather with an expressionless face.
On the contrary, Maria was fidgeting with her fingers and a sign of nervousness was visible on her face. But the concern for Samiksha and Karan’s future had brought her to Rose.
“Please listen to my words with a cool mind. I know you might not like to have this conversation at all but . .”
“You can talk”, was Rose’s blunt reply, regardless of Maria’s calm tone.

In the mean time, back at office,

Samiksha was seated on chair and Karan slowly made her hair aside.
He bent slowly and took his lips towards the entangled knot of the strings of the necklace. Samiksha’s heart was beating aloud. It always did when Karan was near to her. He gently tried to detangle the knot with his teeth. She caught the handles of the chair to resist.

Karan had the ability

to make Samiksha weak in her knees just by gazing at her. She hugged him leaving the handles of the chair and he reciprocated similarly.

He lifted her from the chair and carried her in his arms, towards his restroom, closing its door behind. She had closed her eyes to experience this bliss, she always got with Karan. They made love in the restroom.

After a while,

they came out of the restroom. Samiksha caught him by hand and he looked at her.
“The knot”, she smiled with tease and gazed deep into his eyes.
“Oh yes my baby.”
And as he reached out to her, she ran from there and putting her hands behind, detangled the knot with the nails of fingers.

He smirked at her and asked,
“Madam, are you trying to tell me, it was possible for you alone to remove this knot before too?”
She laughted her heart out and replied back,
“Mister, let some things be a mystery. Learn to guess sometimes, and wonder what might be the truth. Um . . its really interesting and a wonderful tonic to a happy married life.”
He pulled her close, “Hmm. In that case, I would love to guess many other things like . . “

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“Now you just keep quiet . . .”
She said trying to push him away.
“By the way who had called up before? Was it Varsha?”
Karan was alarmed at the question and he quickly said,
“Oh no! Mom was trying to contact me sometime ago. Varsha called up for the same”.
He rushed out of the cabin before leaving a kiss on her lips.

Samiksha closed her eyes, interlocking her fingers for prayer, and just prayed to her universe,
‘Dear Universe, please make everything alright, please’.

Not to mention,

the atmosphere was tense at Karan’s home. Rose’s phone rang. It was Karan. She did not take the call.
“Yes, you wanted to say something”, she asked Maria in a cold tone.
“We both are without the strongest support of our lives . . . Mr. Valenti. It was a co incidence that Karan and Samiksha met and later fell in love. We have been deprived of happiness in our lives at very young age. Why should our kids suffer for a mistake they haven’t committed?”, Maria told Rose with a serene tone.
Rose did not react first.

“Madam please think from their point of view”.
“Maria, the fact that Samiksha is your and his daughter is enough for me to reject any sort of relations with you people. I will never . . .”
“Samiksha isn’t my daughter madam”.
Rose was taken aback by these words. She looked at her with a shock.
“She is an adopted child. We had brought her from an orphanage, with a hope that she will be my support when I need one”.

Rose was still

in a shocked state of mind, as she had hated Samiksha for the fact that she was her husband’s and Maria’s daughter.
“Samiksha has found first love in Karan’s form. Don’t deprive her of this madam.” And Maria lost her control. She broke into tears, burying face in her palms, sobbed for the grief her daughter might have to encounter.

Rose suddenly felt she had been unfair towards Samiksha, even after not being aware of the truth of Samiksha’s birth. In the rage of her hatred towards Maria, she had hurt her son very deep. She became aware of how she had treated Samiksha unknowingly and hurt her pure and loving heart, where Karan stayed.

She went towards Maria, and kept her hand on her shoulder.
“Maria, can we forget everything and make the our kids lives happy?”
Maria was out of words by this gesture of Rose. She got up and embraced Rose.

Universe had accepted Samiksha’s prayer.

“Samiksha, I guess something is wrong. Mom isn’t taking my call. She was trying to contact me. I don’t know what might be the matter”, Karan spoke as soon as he entered Samiksha’s cabin.
“Relax. We both will go home and see what’s the matter. You calm down please.”
Samiksha pacified him and they both left for his home immediately.