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Chapter 4

"I made myself very clear before the marriage that I will never be able to treat you like my wife, but I will still be your friend and you agreed to that. So expecting my love was out of the question. I didn't ruin your life but you yourself ruined it with your jealousy." I am disappointed by her and want her to leave this house before my daughter wakes up. I am thinking about throwing her out of this house when she says "I know you want a family for a long time and I can give you that all I want is for that girl to leave. You can put her in a boarding school or hostel but I don't want her in this house." she says softly and I look at her as If she lost her mind for saying something like this in front of me.

"What is wrong with you?" I Roared at her and she flinched.

"That girl needs to leave, I don't care where she will go but she can't stay here any longer." The voice of this woman is making me angry and I just want to throw her out of here.

"She will not be going anywhere. She is my daughter and she will be staying with me. The person who will be leaving is YOU." I shout looking at her face.

"Today You need to choose Raghav, between me and that girl because I can no longer stay with her under the same roof. If you choose her I will leave with Rishi and if you choose me I will leave Rishi and we can have our own family. Family that you always wanted" She speaks her thoughts that are full of bullshit.

The fight is not going anywhere so I just tell her to leave and as she is leaving I look at her back but my eyes go to the figure who is standing near the pillar with unshed tears in her eyes - Tara.

*Present*

I tell Tara everything that happened and she is listening with a sad expression on her face and I can tell what is going in her mind so to ease her mind I say "You don't need to feel any kind of guilt towards that woman or this situation. What happened was not your fault. I am the one who should apologize to you for being absent from your life so much that you couldn't tell me these things. I am glad that I got to know about it because now you will not have to suffer because of that woman." I reassure her.

I look at her and she is looking at me with her doe eyes and after a few minutes she just puts her head on my chest and gives me a hug and I return the gesture and this is enough for me now. She is the only thing I need in my life and I will protect her from everything. "Now princess I need two promises from you" She raises her eyebrow asking about those promises "one that you will not hide anything from me. You will tell me everything and I promise I will listen to everything okay?" She looks at me for a second and says "Okay, I promise," I smile at her and continue "second promise is that you will tell me what that woman did to you. Whenever you feel comfortable you will tell me okay?" I know she needs time and I don't want to force her to tell me anything. "Okay I will do that." She says with a low voice and I am happy that she is trying to open up to me.

After sitting here for a long time I notice that it's already evening and I look at Tara who is sitting next to me with her head on my shoulder and she is reading a book. She looks at peace right now and I don't want to break it but I need to ask her something "Tara?" I call her and she looks at me "Will you go on a date with this old father of yours?" I ask her.

She gives me her best smile and I am proud of myself for asking her this question. "Yes!!! I will. Wait for me, I will get ready and come back." She kisses me on cheeks and leaves towards her room and I am just laughing looking at her excited face.

I am wearing white T-shirt with black trousers and my white sneakers. She comes to my room and I look at her. She is wearing white short kurti with blue jeans. She is wearing a jhumka and anklets "This girl is obsessed with jhumkas and anklets" I think to myself. She is looking beautiful.

"I am ready, old man. Hurry!!" She says with excitement and I pull her cheeks and go towards the main gate with her.

After driving for an hour we are at her favorite restaurant. This is also Nikita's favorite. Like a mother, like a daughter. I smile thinking to myself.

We sit near the window and a waiter comes to take our order. I look at Tara who looks happy while ordering south Indian food, her favorite, I also order the same thing.

We both are just talking about random things when my phone rings and I pick up after seeing my seniors name on the display.

*Tara POV*

I am looking at my father who is sitting in front of me at my favorite restaurant. He is talking to someone on call and I am thinking about all the things that happened today.

I got to know what happened yesterday and I am not very shocked after learning about my step mother's motive for making my life hell. She has always been evil for me.

I want to know about my real mother and I will ask him about her later when we both are healed enough to talk about her.

Right now I am on a date with my father which I always love going to. He always takes me on these dates and those were the best days for me.

He is the best father for me but I never get to tell him that. I will tell him this also. Ohh God I have so much to tell him.

After talking for a few more minutes he put down his phone and looks at me with a serious expression "what happened? Anything serious?" I ask.

"You remember on our last date I told you about the new branch that we all were working on." I nod my head remembering he told me how this branch is important for him. He made many new designs for the branch. They are pretty and I liked those designs very much. My father is very good at designing clothes.

"The branch is opening soon and now I need to join the main office."

I stand up from my seat and hug him with excitement. "I knew that you could do it. You are the best. But why are you serious? It's a good thing."

"If I join the main office then I will be staying in Delhi and I can't leave you alone here. Not anymore." he says, making me smile at my cute father.

"Arey mere cutu papa agar mujhe yahan akele nahi rakhna h toh saath le chalo mujhe bhi. We both can shift to Delhi. I will get the admission in the college there and you can join the office. Simple" I say with a smile and it looks like he likes my idea because he smiles widely and nods his head.

(My cute father, if you don't want to leave me alone here then take me with you.)

"Great idea we both will go there and start our new life. such a smart kid you are." He says and pinch my nose.

I scrunch my nose and say "That I am."

After that the waiter brings our food and we both eat, talk and enjoy our night. After reaching home we both go towards our rooms to sleep.

After changing my clothes I lay on my bed which is now all cleaned thanks to my father and I am just thinking about the journey I am going to start in Delhi.

Just thinking about Delhi is giving me a weird feeling that this journey is going to change my life completely.

Yayyy This is the end of the chapter 

Dilli abb dur nahi h 

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