"Did you forget the route miss?" A stranger's voice came

Izna and Priya turned their heads towards the sound. The girls had scary eye contact with each other and held their hands tightly

"Ooohhh relax! I am not here to hurt you by anyhow Infact I am here to help you" the man tried to say

"Umm it's okay no need of help Anyways, thank you" Izna said and was about to go back

"Relax sweetie" the man said Izna frightened more and suddenly her thoughts went on Rohan's nickname 'beauty'

"The street is so empty, come let me show you guys the main road" the man said genuinely

"Umm okay, thank you" priya said

They both were following him. Izna denied her head to Priya and whispered

"I am getting bad vibes! Please let's just run from here"

"Shh. Relax, calm down. Nothing will happen, I am here na" priya tried to comfort her

"Give me my phone, let me call kiaan, we shouldn't have visited here in the first place, just for a pani puri?! Are we for real. I mean ughh fine I was the one who insisted at first but" Izna said and changed her words in last as Priya glared at her

"You for sure want to call kiaan?" Priya whispered back at her. Izna nodded her head positively

"So much trust in him already?" Priya asked

"too much" Izna replied instantly and confidently

Izna was about to call just then the stranger man snatched the phone but fortunately or unfortunately kiaan received the phone immediately as the ring went but the man or Izna did not notice it

"Relax sweetie! I am neither a ra©ist nor a kidnap*er. I am just helping you" the man said

He was about to return the phone just then he saw 'kiaan' on the phone display. His eyes turned red just by seeing his name on her display, he clenched his jaw and aggressively hung the phone and he returned back her phone

He closed his eyes to calm down his anger by facing the opposite direction of girls just then izna's phone ringed

It was kiaan. She received the call, before she can even say a word kiaan spoke

"Stay there wherever you are. I am on my way, I'll be there in two minutes. Don't worry Rudra and Dhruv are there and haan don't hang up the call until I reach there,okay? Talk to me jaan" kiaan said and in the last sentence he said slowly and sweetly

"Maar dunga agar tune meri biwi ko numbers diye tho" kiaan warned him while removing his phone from his back pant pockets as maan called Izna 'bhabhi number 1'

(Will kill you if you give any kind of numbers to my wife)

"Bhai kisko call kar rahe ho?" Rakshit asked kiaan as he is calling someone just after scolding Maan

(brother to whom are you calling?)

"Dhruv" he replied

Before they can ask further questions the opponent received the call

"Where is she?" Kiaan asked Dhruv on call

"Sir ma'am is here outside the city with her friend I don't know where they are going but I think they lost their route" dhruv replied

"You and Rudra there right?" Kiaan asked

"Yess sir, we are watching ma'am keenly. Don't worry sir we won't repeat our mistake" Dhruv answered politely and genuinely

"You better" kiaan replied coldly. Kiaan hung the call just then Maan spoke

"Kahan hai bhabhi?"

(Where is my sister-in-law?)

Kiaan just rolled his eyes and ignored his question royally soon after his phone rang once again and it was Rudra. Kiaan received the call and muttered "hmm"

"Sir a guy has approached ma'am, she looks freighted by his presence" Rudra said

"Then what the fvck you guys are doing by standing there go and protect her" kiaan scolded them

"Ye-yes sir" he replied and hung up the phone

A moment later the kiaan phone rang once again and it displayed 'my wife'.

He received the call instantly

"Hel-" he was about to complete his words just then he heard a man voice

"Relaxx sweetie-"

Kiaan didn't even take a sec he ran towards his bike and started his bike. He called Rudra as soon as the line got cut off. He asked them the location of her. His blood boiled listening to him calling his wife as 'sweetie'

"Ki-kiaan"

Kiaan came out of his chain of thoughts as he heard his buttercup voice, a slow whisper

"Yes jaan" he replied slowly

"Come fast" she asked

"Coming" he replied and started to drive faster

He reached the destination and saw a guy standing and talking to Izna and Priya. He went to them and heard the conversation between Izna and that stranger man

"I hope at least now you are not thinking of me as a criminal or something. I just came to help you" the man said and laughed

Izna was facing the opposite direction of kiaan. She did not notice him coming. He went to her and slid his hand to her waist and dragged her towards him protectively

"Thank you for your help mister. Now you should take your leave. I am here to help my woman"

Izna raised her head and looked at him with shock, adoration and love. The man looked at them for a brief time and left the place without saying anything. Kiaan lowered his head and looked at her and witnessed she is already looking at him

"Buttercup, you okay?" He whispered. She nodded her head positively in return he did the same

"Okay come let's go back to home" he said while holding her palm and looked at her then at priya

"My bodyguards will drop you at your place safely" kiaan said to Priya

"Than-thank you ji-jiju" priya shuttered and replied hesitantly

Izna nodded her head and waved her another free hand to her and said

"Bye-bye"

"Yeahh byeee" priya replied to Izna in the same way by waving her hand at her. Izna raised her head to see kiaan but witnessed he was already staring at her with adoration

"Let's go" kiaan said softly. Izna nodded her head. He held her hand and took her towards the bike and headed to home





On the other hand in the canteen ayushmaan asked

"Kya hogaya Bhai ko, aise achanak kyu chale gaye wo?"

(What happened to my brother, why did he go away suddenly like this?)

"Who knows" Rakshit said

"I hope Izna is fine" Ezra said unhappily

" I hope soo" Rakshit replied Concernedly

"She is, she is not a kid" Agni said

"You won't understand" Rakshit said

"Whatever. Anyways I gotta leave" Agni said and left

"ok bye guys, even I have some work" Rakshit said and bid adieu

Now it was only Ezra and Maan. They both looked into each other and suddenly they remembered the incident last night happened among them. The heartbreaking words they said to each other

"Ayush baby let's go to cafe" Maan and Ezra's eye contact got broken by chhaya's voice

"Huh?" After a while Maan asked

"Let's go on a cafe date, what do you say?'' chhaya said

"Now?" Maan questioned

"Of course, it's been a long time! Come let's go" chaaya said

"Umm yeah" he said and got up to leave. Before going he looked at Ezra who was calling someone. She looked tensed

"What happened?" Ayushmaan asked

"None of your business, you can leave" Ezra replied arrogantly

"You don't need to throw your unnecessarily tantrums on me, get that! And how dare you to tell me what to do, I will leave when I have to and I can stay if I want, it's none of YOUR BUSINESS and right now I am staying" Maan replied and got back to his seat. Ezra rolled her eyes

"What the hell ayush let's go" Chhaya said

"Chhaya let's go on a candle light dinner tonight okay?" Ayushmaan asked. Ezra looked at him with a side eye while dialing the Rakshit number which he was not receiving

"Aww that's amazing! Okay done" chhaya said with excitement

"Yepp now you can leave, I got some PERSONAL WORK TO DO" Maan said while looking at Ezra in the last sentence

"Yeah bye-bye" chhaya said and kissed on his cheeks

"Toh kiske saath aai thi subha?" Maan asked as soon as chhaya left

(So with whom did you come in the morning?)

"None of your business" she replied arrogantly

"Ohh well sweetheart whatever is your business that's eventually mine too Because YOU ARE MINE" Maan said while taking the sip of her orange juice. She raised her finger as he was drinking her juice but stopped irritatingly

"Come let's go, I'll drop you" Maan said and got up from the chair

"No thanks" Ezra replied bitterly

"Shut up Ezra, this is your first day in college, you are back after almost a decade so just come with me, I will drop you at home. Don't be stubborn" Maan scolded her

"The audacity of you to scold ME" Ezra said while standing and pointing a finger at him then turned her finger at her while saying "ME"

Maan came towards her and stood too closely at her, then touched her hand slowly and dragged at him. She almost fell on his chest then he slowly turned her hand backward. He kept his forefinger on her lips and whispered



"Shh, meri jungli billi! Apni jungli harkatien edhr nahi kahi aur dekhana hota hai, samjhi abhi chalo" he said and left towards his THAR

(Shh, my wild cat! I don't want to see your wild activities anywhere else than at that specific place understand now, let's go)



Ezra was too stunned to speak. She was digesting the fact which just happened

"Jyada socho maat aajao meri jaan" she heard Maan voice

(Don't overthink my life, just come)

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Here in Thakur mansion at around 8 p.m Gayatri (kiaan's mother) called Rakshit

"Jii maa, aapne bulaya?" Rakshit asked

(Yes mother, you called me?)

"Beta where is Agni? Wo ab tak ghar kyu nahi aayi?" Gayatri asked him

(Son, where is Agni? Why is she not home yet?)

Rakshit got tensed thinking of his missing wife, he dialled her phone number which unfortunately didn't reach

"Raat ke 8 baj chuke hai yeh Kahan reh gayi!" Rakshit thought worriedly

(It's already 8 in the night, why is she not home yet)

"Maa don't worry! She will be back soon" he assured her with a smile and went outside worriedly

Just then he heard the bike sound



He turned and saw his injured wife. He went to her concernedly and asked

"What the hell Agni! What is this! H-How?"

"Relax calm down, it's nothing" she replied to him casually

"What the hell nothing! Come with me" he scolded her and held her wounded hand carefully and took her to their room

"Sit here" he guided her. He went into the bathroom and bought a first aid kit.

He took her hand gently and slide the sleeves upward. He briefly looked at the bruises.

He cleaned the wounds with Dettol and then applied the bandage. The whole time he was focused on treating her wounds meanwhile her looking at him with adoration and astonishment.

As no one ever cared for her like this. No one ever applied ointment to her wounds. No one was there to treat her well when she was bleeding. She was feeling so blessed to have him at the same time she felt pity towards him as she is wounded tigress at the end of the day she will end up bleeding on him i.e hurting him

He raised his head to look at her who was already lost staring at him. He coughed 2 times to bring her back from the imagination

She awkwardly looked here and there to avoid his gaze.



"Tha-Thank you" she shuttered and was about to go back. He immediately held her both arms and made her sit back

"If you don't mind can I ask from MY WIFE how she got these wounds and bruises" he asked her

"It's my personal business" she replied arrogantly and got up and left towards the bathroom

This time Rakshit did not stop her as he wanted to give her space to adjust with this new environment. He sighed deeply and left for the dinner.

All the family members had their respective dinner at the dinning table except for babasaheb and his younger brother Harish as they are out for the purpose election. Atharv(Man's brother) and Darsh(Trisha's brother ) for clubbing. Dipti (kiaan's sister) and Amrita (Bua) have gone to the hospital to look for Trisha

"Agni beta where were you? Why you came so late and even your face look so dull, is everything fine?" Gayathri said and Agni got shocked and thought

'am I have became that much readable now?'

Rakshit noticed as she once again lost in her God knows which la la la dreamland

"Maa it's just she had some extra college work as she is a lecturer there. Everything is fine, she is just tired" Rakshit replied on behalf of her

"Uhmmm bhaii" Ayush teased him. Rakshit smacked his head

"Shut up"

"Yes Bhai, beat him more" Ezra replied while chewing the chapati aggressively

"You" Maan said and was about to pull her hair but lilavati (Ayushmaan's mother) smacked his head again

"Ouch! Maa ab aap bhi" Maan said irritatingly

(Ouch! Mother, now you also)

"Yes. Shut up and eat. Now you both are not children's anymore ayush beta. Don't annoy my daughter she has come after almost decade. Let her be happy" lilavati scolded Ayushmann and caressed Ezra's hair as she was sitting beside her and Maan opposite of them

"That's my aunty! Hehe, thank you and I love you" Ezra said in her melodious voice and hugged lilavati

"And don't you had candle light dinner with your so called girlfriend" Ezra asked maan

"That's none of YOUR BUSINESS" Maan said to Ezra

"Ezra betaa" lilavati nodded her head negatively and referred her not to tease him

"Umm okay aunty" she laughed and said

Everyone laughed seeing their cute tactics. Agni looked at them and a part of her wished to have a  mother daughter relation like them

"Beta take rest after the dinner" Gayatri said to Agni with a smile. Agni came out of her thoughts and unintentionally she imagined that kind of relation with Gayatri

"Hmm" Agni nodded her head with a smile for the first time. Rakshit looked at her with adoration and continued his dinner

Meanwhile Izna was missing her mother by seeing the relation like mother-daughter among Ezra-lilavati and Agni-Gayatri.

Kiaan noticed her sad face and then looked at her plate which was only filled with small portion of rice. He picked the chapati from the hot box and put into her plate. Izna looked at him. He gestured her to eat the chapati through his eyes

She raised her left hand to keep the chapati back. He understood it and instantly and held her hand. He continued to finish his food effortlessly while she was struggling to free her hand back. After so many times failing miserably she gave up

"What happened beta? Finish your food" Gayatri told to Izna

"Ji-ji maa" Izna replied. Later she finished her food through her one hand as kiaan was holding her another hand and he was seated there till she finished her dinner by acting as h

e was drinking juice so that no one can doubt on him for being seated even after finishing the dinner





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Upcoming spoiler:

Terrorism attack on college

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