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'Ziva can you please call back? Atleast come home to see your mother. She wants you to be her side and I'm sure you wish for the same. I swear I won't disturb you.' Vami heard Mahi bhai on phone.

As soon as he noticed her presence he immediately began walking away.

'I need to talk to you.' she stated.

'What's going on here?' asked Sammy who had just gone there.

'He is sending a voice mail to his daughter on the phone and looks like she doesn't talk to him.' Vami told Sammy and Mahi bhai stopped in his tracks.

'I don't want this to a topic of discussion. I'd appreciate it if you keep it to yourself.' he announced and began to walk away.

'How long do you plan to keep ignoring us?' Sammy's voice came out louder than she expected.

'I am not ignoring anyone.' he replied.

'How many times have you talked to me since we  met at the food court?' asked Vami.

Mahi bhai dodged the question and kept walking away from them.

'You are living in regret. I can see it.' Vami screamed partly because she wanted her voice to reach him and partly because she was frustrated seeing him avoid them and the situation.

'Can you really see it?' Vami looked sidewards to see Sammy staring at me in confusion.

'Can you please be serious for a while?' she asked.

'I am serious. So I'm not even supposed to ask a question? You won't clarify my doubts now?' sammy fake sulked.

'Can you two please stop behaving like your fathers?' he asked.

'Why? Does that remind you of your kiddos whom you didn't trust?' Sammy asked bitterly.

'Ofcourse Sammy. He hates them and that's why he barely looks at us.' Vami provoked him.

'Yeah right. What else can we expect from him? Chachu thinks that his Mahi bhai still loves him. He's just living in a delusion. And this man loves no one!' Sammy said.

'If that's what you think it is, fine go ahead. It makes no difference to me.' it felt as if he's been hit by a lorry, fell from the top most floor and as if he's been pierced by  thousand knifes, all at once but he knew he deserved it.

'Why are you silent?' asked Vami.

'He's just a heartless human being. It's waste to even talk to him. Let's just go.' stated Sammy and it was the breaking point for him.

'Because I know I deserve this punishment. I don't deserve any love and I know that. Because I regret it every single day and I grew more and more despondent.  Because I know that I'm not eligible to seek forgiveness and because I know Ro would never forgive me. Because I know you all hate me to the core. That's why.' He immediately regretting saying it while the girls were still processing it.

His sudden outburst made them realise something, that he knows he's at fault. 

'And how do you know that dada won't forgive you?' Sammy asked.

'Why would anyone forgive the guy who's responsible for destroying his career?' said Mahi bhai matter of fact.

'You did do a mistake and you got punished for it as well. I know it won't be that easy for them to forgive you but how could you just sit without working for it?' asked Vami.

'Sammy, do you forgive me?' Mahi bhai asked as if he wanted to prove something to Vami.

'No.' replied Sammy coldly.

'How can you expect someone to forgive you without apologising?' asked Vami.

'You can't change the past but you can still set things right. I'll never be able to forget the pain you've caused to our family but chachu wants you to be with him, Dada wants you to apologise. I know dada will instantly forgive you if you apologise and might as well forget everything but you'd still not deserve it, unless you set things right.

And ofcourse you don't have to do this if you don't want us in your life. Honestly I feel nothing about you. But if you regret it, do something for him now.' stated Sammy and walked away.

'I'm sure she didn't mean to say that you mean nothing to her. She's just hurt and angry.' Vami didn't want Mahi bhai's and Sammy's relation to deteriorate further.

'But there's nothing wrong in what she said. I've thought as a coach instead of elder brother that day. If I trusted him that day, my wife would have not come to meet me and the accident would have not occured and my baby would have been alive and she would be healthy all this time.

That day I lost so much. Ziva was neither an adult to understand what's going on or an infant to not understand anything. It was so hard to tell her why mumma won't wake up. My anger and hatred for cheeku ate me from inside.

Slowly Ziva grew distant from me. She could only see that I spent less time with her but she didn't know what's happening inside me.'

'So you have been alone all these years as well!'

'If I trusted him that day, I would have had the most beautiful family with Sakshi, Ziva and my second child. I could have seen you all growing up as well. But I did this to me and to everyone around me. And I don't deserve any happiness in life now. I'm glad that Ro and cheeku have sorted everything and six of you are together.

You can all leave in 2-3 days and live your happy lives. I won't stop you all. Ziva is gonna take her mother and go away and I'd spend my life alone, being punished for what I did. That is the only thing I deserve.'

'Tell me one thing. That day when we met at the food court you were so angry. Was that an act or did you still think that dad was responsible for your wife to be in coma?' asked Vami.

'I knew that I was responsible for her state since the beginning but I kept telling myself that it wasn't my fault and tried to push the blame of cheeku. I thought maybe constantly lying to myself about it will make me believe one day that he was the only one responsible for it and it wasn't my fault.

I couldn't let myself think that I'm responsible for all the miseries in the lives of those who love me right. If I didn't ask  Priyanka to get a watch she wouldn't have gone that way and she wouldn't have met with that accident and she'd be alive today. And if I trusted Ro that day, my child would have been alive and Sakshi would have been healthy.' he confessed as tears sprang down his face and he was there, completely broken and vulnerable infront of her.

'There's nothing that can't be fixed. And it applies to our relations as well. And coming to Ziva, I blamed my parents and hated them for so long in my life but once I've started living with them, once I saw them fighting their own demons, it changed my entire perspective. No body is perfect, every person makes mistakes. You guys shouldn't have let anything affect your parenting that made us distant. But you should talk to her, tell her what exactly you went through and I'm sure she'll understand.' Vami explained as she embraced him.

'I'm sorry for all that I've caused.' he apologized.

'I shouldn't be the first one to hear this. And before you apologise to anyone there's something that you must do. And I think I know how to do it. And listen, Sammy is my bestfriend now I can't see her hurt. So you better sort this mess and give her happiness back to her.'

'I'm gonna give you all the happiness you deserve.' he said.

'You should be happy too, only then dad will be happy.' said Vami.

'I don't deserve to be happy. Anyways let's end this discussion here, I should go and cook food for sakshi.' he said and walked back into the house.

How many chapters more do you expect from this story? ( NEED ATLEAST 15 RESPONSES!!!!)

I'm happy with way a chapter from this story turned out, after so long!

I was going through so much in the last 2-3 weeks and I put this story on hold and n then the story that I've planned suddenly made me feel that it wasn't good.

So I began thinking again on how to develop this story and even though I resumed writing, I myself didn't like the way the last few chapters turned out.

You might have felt it or not but I did and now that feeling is gone and I'm happy with this chapter.

See you all tomorrow ✨

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