I heard another gun shot but this time it pushed me on the verge of loosing my own life .She shot herself which was the most unexpected and dreadful thing I never had imagine .

Her body fell limp on the floor .Blood drenched her white shirt in a dark maroon colour .She was breathing faintly.

I crouched her body in my lap with trembling hands I cupped her face,she was struggling to keep her eyes open with a dying smile still lingering on her lips.

"No..no.. please stay with me..you can't leave me like this..please stay with me..I won't let anything happen to you ,Do you get that.."tears fell from my eyes with no barrier .

"I am... sorry... but I couldn't.. live with the guilt of ...the sin I have committed.."she spoke with great difficulty .Her breathes became uneven .

"Shut up you silly brainless woman who told you to do this cavalry act..now do as I say "I tried to sound firm but my own voice ditched me,"I can't live without you.. Strawberry infact my life has just started which I want to live with you....."my voice died in my throat and my strength squeezed out of my bones yet I needed to stay strong for her.

"I love you too Randhir ...more than I ever love someone.. please forgive me..and give me a good bye kiss.."her voice cracked ,her body loosened .

"I will not only kiss you but make love to you but when you will be completely healed..mark my words.."I said with iron will.

"Morris..take us to the hospital within lesser time...if you have to break the rules then do it..I will handle every legal issues..but I don't want to loose her.."I said to Morris who vanished out of the room before waiting for me to complete.

"I will save you if I will have to fight with the Almighty then I will ..."I promised to her while running out of the place with her in my arms.

I can ever trust on Morris's driving skills within no time he took us to the hospital .

The paramedic team took her inside the OT ,I followed them madly but the senior one stopped me .

"What the hell can't you see she is in a critical condition and I need be with my wife.."I screamed at him.

"I can understand your humanly feelings but we have to operate her and your stubbornness would be a great trouble for us..please wait outside until we start our work.."he professionally said to me.

"She is my wife and nobody has right to stop me from being with her,you should engage yourself in her treatment rather than stopping me to stay here and keep dying when she is on the thin verge of life and death.."I dangerously barked at him.

He stared at me as if I have been suffering with some mental disorder.

"Still I am sorry we can't allow you inside.."his curt tone and plain eyes gave me the last warning before the doors closed at my face.

They were doctors and I was just a normal human being who could only trust on their surgical skills.Every seconds the tik tok of the clock was indicating kept sinking my heart with dreading possibilities of loosing her forever .

I had no strength left to stand my feet neither my body wanted to give up and sit.My eyes were only aimed at the door like an eagle in the sky .My hopes were fading in the mist of disillusionment and depair .

She filled the optimistic living colours in my life transforming my mechanic body into a living human soul in the brief period of merely six months but now when I imagine my life without her presence it looks blank like the empty vast desert with no sign of life.

"Randhir...how did it happen.."Her mother's panic stricken voice reversed my way back to the present .

I stared at her with no emotion.How could I tell her that daughter tried to take her own life for saving him from committing the same crime which she had done to save her husband's hands painted in someone's blood.

"She will be fine.."I gave her a hope when I was going through the state of uncertainty.

She embraced me crying her heart out for her child .For a second I found motherly comfort in her arms and let my own tears to ease the pain .

Meanwhile I saw my Dad and Andy rushing towards us .I made her mother sit on the visiter's chair til then Dad stopped near me and threw a questionable glance at me.

"Since how long are they treating her?"Dad asked me .I could observe traces of worry for my wife .

"Almost an hour.. they said the bullet nearly passed her heart ."I told him feeling more guilty of myself.

"Don't worry son she is a fighter ,I know the little injury won't harm her life,I have seen her courageous and bold side all the time she stood with iron wil when Abbey was in same condition ..."Dad consoled me .

"I am sorry Mrs. Agrawal she shot herself because of me..I am the reason who pushed her to do something which was against her moral values ...I am sorry.."I apologized to her mother .

"No.. absolutely not infact you're the reason of her happiness..its true I gave her birth and as a parent I failed her to give the happiness that she deserved in her childhood and her youth .All her life she only got scars not on her body but also on her innocent heart .But after marrying you ,for the first time I saw her real self .She is happy..she wants to be happy ...and you're the source of her happiness..Son.."she smiled faintly .

But I wanted to bang my head on a rock .The guilt spread in my entire sense .She was searching her happiness in me and I became the most painful wound of her life.

Suddenly my nostrils hit the raw aroma of the coffee thus I looked at the person who was standing in front of me with a cup of hot coffee.

"Brother take this ,you need energy to stay positive .."Andy forwarded the cup to me.

"No Andy I am fine.."I softly turned down her request.

She kept the cup on the table and hugged me .I felt light .I badly needed such consolation.

"Brother you know it's only you who can take her back from the final destination's path ...and for that you have to stay healthy and optimistic..morever if Sanyukta would come to know that I didn't take care of her husband,surely she won't spare me .."she chuckled and a brief smile too appeared on my lips.

The night spent like a century .The doctors rushed in and out but denied to update me about her improvement.

My eyes were burning due to lack of sleep and my muscles were sore .

I gazed out of the window over the purple golden horizon .It was the beginning of a new day but the sun of my life still eclipsed by the darkness .

"Randhir..."I felt someone gripping my shoulder .I turned only to see my Dad there .

"Is there any news of Her?"I asked him with a pounding heart which was trying to come out of the rib cage due go anxiety.

"She is more than find ,the doctors successfully done the surgery and now she is in her senses ..."the words escaped from Dad's mouth which my ears wanted to hear for hours of waiting and dying .

I couldn't wait any longer to see her,to clasp her in my arms and won't let her go away from me .I had many things to say to her .

I rushed towards her room and in few seconds I was standing at the door where my legs automatically stopped .Again I couldn't gather the enough amount of courage to see her in a vulnerable condition.

Well the door creaked open before I knock and the doctor emerged out with his team . He gave me an assuring smile of victory.

"I must say she is a tough person..or else most of the patient hardly survive after getting a brutal gun shot.."he praised the most strong willed lady who is my wife.

I felt like a proud husband .I can't thanks enough the Supreme Power for choosing her as my life partner.

The tension freed my soul and I entered inside .

And the moment stopped for me when our eyes met .Her frame was lying on the hospital bed with lots of machines beeping all around her ,though her skin became dry and hairs messy but the glory of her eyes was everlasting.

"You kept your promise..."she smiled at me .

"I told you..I never face defeat.."I replied with a triumphant smile and the later moment I was leaning over her . I held her like a fragile valuable object.

"I love you so much Strawberry..please never leave me.."I sobbed in her weak arms.

"Not until the God want.."she answered .I felt the depth of love in her words.

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