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ABHIRAJ 
My words were harsh and cruel, they were not filtered. He stepped up, he walked behind.
"Muqda!" He yelled loudly a minute later Muqda walked inside. She saw me with my gun pointing at Baba, but she didn't even falter and paced further ahead, 
"What is going on?" She asked, with concerns, unspoken ones, looked like she was worried that I might have revealed her baba about her pregnancy, given how much she is distressed, 
"Now, I will talk to her, silently. And no one will butt in? Do you understand?" I uttered ruthlessly to Rehman Ali as I instantly shifted my gun down and turned toward her, those black as deep as night eyes, overshadowing my intentions, my questions, and all the rough words I had planned to tell her.
I was here to make her defy Aadheesh and not involve this child in our family. But boring my eyes in her, I knew she had no intention whatsoever. 
I caught her wrist as I started to drag her away from everyone, she ran behind me, not even battling me to let go of her hand, not demanding me to leave her as I dragged her through the hallway of Chandravani Haveli and found an empty room as I walked inside and shut the door. He looked around the room if no one was there and then circled back to me.
Once again, the deep black ocean of her sight caught me off guard, she has something in them? Something that leaves a man wandering in an enormous universe apart from this word. 
Will the child be a girl, having those eyes? 
I was surprised at my thoughts, how can I wonder about a thing I am not even ready to accept? What kind of mind tricks and dark magic she does do with her gaze? 
I took my eyes away, call it guilt if you must as I looked around the room, it was a small room with a bed in the corner and a dressing with some cabinets around. Must be the room of one of the women who work here. 
I came back to who I truly was here for.
I didn't feel right asking her directly so I came up with the worst words, 
"How are you?" I asked her, and she smiled. 
"If you are here so you can hurt me for burning your fields? I will take a pass. I don't feel like fighting right now." She said and turned around. And started to go but I caught her hand from behind and turned her around again, solely on her hand. She fumbled a little, her unsettling eyes rested with a small air of surprise released from her. 
"I am not here for that," I said, as softly as possible. Watching her being so agitated about me, I wasn't so sure that I want to scare her further. "I... I just came here to ask you." I started but looking at her intense gaze, I felt bad asking her.
"You are here to ask me, who's a child is this?" She asked herself, the way she read me before I tried using the words, I was glad she understood me.
"Will you trust me if I tell?" She inquired, my breath hitched, my heart beat rose rapidly, 
"It's yours. This child? It is your blood." She said with no hesitation. The heavy feeling in my chest harden and I sighed closing my eyes. 
"You did this on purpose? To take revenge on me? Or attempting to create peril in my life didn't you? You intentionally didn't take the control pills? So that you can use it against me? " I asked her, and she laughed. 
She started to laugh, "Abhiraj Agnivanshi? Why are you a politician, you should be writing stories. Because you are good at making two things. I hate you true, I want to kill you, true. So why would I ever want to have a blood of yours in this world? Do you think I hate this universe this much, that I will give them another cruel, jerk and asshole like you again? I will choose to kill this child if I have to dissuade someone like you from being born again."
The moment she mentioned killing this child. A hustle killed in and I caught both her arm aggressively as I brought her face closer to me, she struggled in my grip, her arm reddening as she grunted.
"If you ever tried to hurt this child! I will fucking destroy you and torture you! And cut you in pieces and throw you in the river. I...I will never forgive you if you once again thought about killing it. You can't handle it. Fine! Birth it and give it to me." 
I don't know, how these words came out of me. I was here to deny it, and the emotions I don't understand where they came from. How come they affected me into uttering such words? 
I never even knew, I was capable of such emotions.
"It's an illegitimate child! Won't it ruin your reputation?" She asked me hysterically, but I knew exactly what I felt. 
"I will burn that reputation which hurts my child."
"You accept it's your child?" 
This words. I didn't know how to answer any further. 
"I have already publically announced that I will marry you? So I will. And we will have this baby. And I will protect it and look after it. With all my life."
"I don't want to marry you. Do you know why I did it on the stage? So I can get out of the situation."
"Now! You will have to. I won't hear a word against my decision. You know it's illegitimate. Let's make sure that this child never gets called that vicious and atrocious word ever. 
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AAMIRA 
I strolled into the driveway, as I waited for Abhiraj to come, I don't know where he went. But I had a feeling that he went to meet Muqda.
Aadheesh hasn't left Rajkot Haveli yet, after the fields burned there was a lot of chaos, but he is looking after them. I witnessed him talking to the helpers to see what he can do, in his shirt and pant. Both brothers hardly have any same features. 
"How long are you going to wait for him?" He asked me suddenly as I realized I zoned out while I was still staring at him.
"Hmm?" I hummed as I shook my head.  "I am not waiting for him. I think you should go home too." 
"I will leave. After I look for a few more things?" He told, I nodded. 
I know it's not his child, I didn't realize it at first but when Abhiraj said that it's biologically impossible, I realized.
"Why are you taking a child of some other man as your own?"
AADHEESH 
"Why are you taking a child of some other man as your own?" She asked me, as I smiled.
It's not some other men. It's Abhiraj's child. And the way he got upset, It seems I will enjoy having his weakness around my fingers.