I Am Ready
She smiled. “No, I don’t want to go to work. You can go. I just want to enjoy this luxurious life staying at home.”
“Fine, you’re the boss of my life. You can do whatever you wish to.” He said, taking a sip of his juice. He quickly ate his breakfast and left for work because lots of work was waiting for him at the company.
Eden got so busy with his work that he started to come home late and hardly spent time with Lavanya as he slept early every night because of his tiredness with all the work, and every morning, he left the mansion early. Sometimes, even before Lavanya could wake up.
On the weekend, he was sleeping by ten o’clock in the morning. Lavanya was feeling angry with him. She held the pillow in her hand and hit him hard with it. He opened his eyes with the sudden attack and looked at Lavanya, whose face was red with anger.
“What are you doing, Lavanya? Why did you hit me?” He raised his voice at her. Tears welled up in her eyes when he shouted at her. She threw the pillow which was in her hand on the floor and sat on her side of the bed, folding her arms across her chest without saying anything to him.Content (C) Nôv/elDra/ma.Org.
He sat on the bed and held her in his arms. “What’s wrong, baby?”
She shook her head silently. He sighed. “Lavanya, how will I know what happened until you will not tell me?” She released herself from his hold, stood up from the bed, and ran out of the room, leaving him worried.
Bella, who was coming to their room to ask Eden for breakfast, saw her and got worried, seeing tears in her eyes. Bella tried to stop her, but she ran downstairs.
Bella reached their room and knocked on the door.
“Come in!” Eden said, and Bella entered the room. “Master, what happened to Lavanya? She was crying.”
He took a deep breath. “I don’t know. She hit me with the pillow. I raised my voice at her, asking why did she do it. She started crying but didn’t say anything and left the room.”
Bella saw the pillow on the floor. She picked it up and placed it on the bed. “I think I know why she hit you?”
“Why?”
Bella smiled. “She is angry with you because you’re not spending time with her. Every day, you leave early in the morning, sometimes even before she wakes up, and come home late at night. Then you sleep early every night because of your tiredness. That’s why she is angry with you because she feels you’re ignoring her because of your work.” Bella explained to him the reason behind Lavanya’s anger, and he realized that she was right. He is ignoring Lavanya these days and hasn’t spent time with her.
He stood up from the bed. “Thank you, Aunt Bella. I will go and talk to her.” He left the room and went downstairs. He found her sitting in the living room. She was eating chocolate like a small kid.
He sat beside her and called her, but she ignored him. “Baby, why are you ignoring me?”
“Because you want this. You were also ignoring me.” She ate a piece of her chocolate.
“I am sorry, baby. I shouldn’t have ignored you because of my work, but I am doing this for us.” He stated, and she raised her eyebrows. “Doing this for us? Explain.”
“I am going to take you to India, and I want you to spend lots of time with your family. For this, I don’t know how long we will stay there. I don’t want something to come up in the company, and we need to come back here. That’s why I am finishing all my work, and explaining all the work to my employees, so they can handle everything in my absence.” He looked at her, hoping for her to understand this because he had said that he wanted her to spend time with her family, but in reality, he was thinking about something else that he couldn’t tell her for now.
“If this is the reason, then I forgive you, but at least you can spend half an hour with me.” She placed her head on his shoulder.
“I am sorry. Now, how about we go shopping and have a lunch date? You also wanted to visit mom and dad. I will take you there too.” He suggested.
“It’s great. Let’s go.” She kissed his cheek and went upstairs to get ready.
They visited Eden’s parents first. Lavanya placed the bouquet of Lilies on their graves. She held Eden’s hand. “Mom, dad, I promise you both that I will always take care of Eden and will always stand by his side whenever he needs me. I will always love him and keep him happy till my last breath.” Eden kissed her forehead, and she smiled.
They left the cemetery and went shopping. She brought some dresses for herself and shirts for Eden. Later, they had lunch in their restaurant. Lavanya was very happy when they returned to the mansion.
***
Daksh was sitting in the living room with everyone after having dinner. They all were calm from the day Lavanya had called them.
“I believe Daksh should get married now.” Jai smiled.
“Yes, Dad. I was thinking about this too. We should start looking for proposals for him.” Sakshi ruffled Daksh’s hair.
“I already have a girl in my mind for him. I am just waiting for him to agree.”
Daksh looked at everyone present in the room. “I have already told everyone that I will not get married until Lavanya comes. I want her to be present here and see me getting married.”
He left the room. Sakshi looked at him with a worried expression and turned to Jai. “Dad, please talk to him. He will listen to you.”
Jai went to Daksh. He was standing in the garden, looking at the moon. Jai placed his hand on Daksh’s shoulder. Daksh turned to look. “Dadaji (Grandfather).”
“Are you angry with me because I sent Lavanya to London for a trip?” Jai asked in his deep voice.
“No. You just sent her for one week. In the beginning, I thought it was because of you, but now I know, It’s her fault that she didn’t come back and fell in love with an unknown man there.” Daksh replied.
Jai sighed in relief hearing his reply. “If she had loved you, she must’ve come back when you asked her to, but she chose to stay with that man. She is living a happy life there with that man, and you are still waiting for her to come to see you getting married. She doesn’t care about you, so why do you care about her?”
Daksh wasn’t ready to believe his words because he knew that his Lavanya would never stop caring about him. Seeing that he was silent, Jai continued, “It’s my wish to see you getting married and living happily with your life partner. I have also selected a beautiful and good girl for you. Just meet her for once. You will like her. Your mother wants this too.”
Daksh thought for a moment, then looked at Jai and smiled, “I am ready to meet her.”
“Really.” Jai hugged Daksh in happiness. Daksh hugged him back and smiled, but inside his heart, he wasn’t feeling any happiness because he was missing Lavanya.