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Story: Tainted Bride

“Aashiiii…”

Prakram and Avishka's voices echo there in unison. She is very afraid of water, so despite being in the scouts, she never learned to swim. However, upon witnessing Aashi leap into the water, she found herself unable to resist and immediately dove into the swimming pool. As soon as she jumped, she immediately held Aashi in her arms. The swimming pool is deep, and because of the sudden jump, she was moving fast towards the lower part. She held Aashi tightly and vigorously moved her leg with one hand, determined to reach the surface in any situation and save Aashi.

As soon as Prakram notices Aashi jumping, he rushes forward, only to find Avishka leaping into the water ahead of him to save Aashi. He also immediately reaches nearby and quickly jumps into the water, and he is some distance away from Avishka. Seeing her, he realizes within a moment that she doesn't know how to swim. He dives deep and immediately holds her waist because he has seen very well that she is holding Aashi well. Aashi also wrapped both her hands around Avishka's neck, so he immediately held Avishka's waist and brought them to the surface.

Avishka takes a deep breath and realizes that the one pulling them out of the water is none other than Prakram himself, who quickly swims to the edge and takes his daughter from her arms. He pulls her hand and holds her to the stand so that she does not fall into the water again, and he sits there on the end, hugging his daughter tightly as if he is trying to calm himself down, because Prakram is the scariest person in the world, but he is a very weak person as a father. Avishka has also come up holding the stand, and seeing Aashi safe in his arms, she immediately holds her in front of her and starts checking her carefully, almost scolding Aashi.

"Aashi, what was all this? Why did you go into the water and jump like this?"

Prakram also knows very well that what Avishka is doing at this time is not wrong because of the way she jumped into the water to save his daughter without thinking anything. He has become very indebted to her. And he understands that she loves Aashi very much. Without uttering a word, Aashi gazes first at her father and then at Avishka. She maintains this constant gaze, a sweet smile adorning her small lips, as she realizes that neither of them can understand her actions. But both of them guess that perhaps she did all this out of mischief, and now she is afraid to say anything. Avishka immediately takes Aashi into her lap and kisses her lovingly.

"Aashi, don’t ever do that again.... Don’t do that, dear."

Armaan and some bodyguards, not finding Prakram inside, immediately came towards the back to search for him everywhere, and as soon as they saw the scene behind them, they had made arrangements for no one to come there, so only those people were there. However, as soon as he arrives, Prakram immediately gets up after seeing them there, his gaze fixed solelyon Avishka and Aashi. Avishka is still loving Aashi very well and is constantly trying to convince her about many things, and with her wet scarf, she is trying to wipe her face and hair cautiously.

Prakram opens his suit jacket and sees his daughter, who is smiling continuously. She is neither scared of anything nor nervous at all, but unlike others, she is constantly smiling. It is more strange, but the way her eyes are fixed on Avishka today, he is giving a different idea that he cannot pay attention to these things at this time, so he immediately tells Avishka.

"Avishka…"

When she hears her name for the first time in his very heavy voice, Avishka immediately realizes that she is not alone there at all. She immediately turns to face him, prompting Prakram to turn his gaze towards her as well. Her scarf was not properly on her, but she quickly corrected it and was standing right in front of him.

"Get Aashi’s clothes changed."

Aviksha can only nod because the entire incident has frightened her, making it difficult for her to recognize her appearance. Her wet clothes clung to her body, Her entire suit had gotten wet and stuck to her body. Prakram looks at her once, from top to bottom, and then turns to see all his bodyguards who were looking at Avishka. As a result of their intense stares, Avishka shifts her focus to them, realizing that she has forgotten that her dupatta did not cover her properly. Meanwhile, everyone is staring at her drenched body with disdain. She quickly grabbed it and covered herself, not caring if it got wet.

Prakram has come to know very well that she keeps her face hidden all the time and does not like anyone to look at her, dueto which he stares at all of them by raising one of his eyebrows, with anger, and everyone's faces suddenly hang low because of his only look, but their stares already scare Avishka; she shivers suddenly and curses herself for her stupidity. Armaan also clenches his teeth at their actions and speaks to Prakram.

"Your clothes have also become completely wet, sir. We have booked a room here for Madam; your luggage is kept there; you should immediately go there and change your clothes."

Prakram just shakes his head, and Avishka immediately takes Aashi into her lap, as if she will protect her from this slight coldness by holding her in her arms and especially covering herself from these predatory eyes. Prakram turns again and again to see Avishka, who is walking behind with Aashi in her arms while continuously patting her lovingly. He knows very well that all of Avishka's clothes are wet, and she would not have brought spare clothes here for herself. But at this time, it is most important for him to change Aashi's clothes because he does not want Aashi to fall ill at all, so he ignores everything and starts walking fast.

But he is sensing very well the strange change that has taken place in Avishka's behavior and how she is trying to hide herself by clinging to Aashi. They immediately come into the elevator. Prakram turns angrily to face everyone and says,

“Armaan, no one should come with us except you, and I would like to meet all these people personally tomorrow.”

“Sure sir…”

As soon as they hear Prakram, there is an atmosphere of fear. Prakram immediately takes Aashi into his lap, who is continuously smiling at him. He expresses his happiness atseeing his daughter absolutely safe, while kissing her on the forehead. Is.

"You are my life; what will I do if something happens to you?"

With a smile on her face, Aashi immediately kisses Prakram on the cheek. Without any delay, she also kisses Avishka, causing Armaan to smile softly. However, Avishka remains in a corner, as she always does whenever father and daughter are together. She doesn't want to come between them, and Prakram has started looking at Aashi in a strange way due to her sudden actions.

CHAPTER 19

Prakram enters the inner room immediately, while Aashi remains by Avishka's side, smiling continuously. Avishka knows very well that whenever she commits a mistake, she tries to convince the other person by smiling at them, but Avishka is very angry with her because if she has done this even out of mischief, then it is a big deal. That's why Avishka quickly changes her clothes without engaging in conversation.

"Avu…"

"I don't want to talk to you; please wear your clothes quietly. Pay close attention to the fact that I will never listen to you again. You are a bad girl. Who didn't listen to anyone? Who jumps in a swimming pool like this?"

Avishka is angry with her; this hurts her a lot because she only knows that everyone in the house often talks about her mother's absence, and many of her cousins also have a mother. She doesn't have any mothers, which is why she doesn't feel good. Like her other cousins, she yearned for a mother who wouldlove her unconditionally, just like her father did. When Roma assured her that by doing this, she would receive a mother, she was overjoyed. She has not made any mistakes, so why is Avishka frustrated with her? But now, she is her mother, and a mother does not experience anger; they merely love their children, whom she frequently encounters. Avishka changes her clothes and takes a dryer to dry her hair, but by then Digvijay and Sandhya have also reached there.

"Aashi…"

As soon as both of them arrive, they immediately take her in their arms and begin to love her deeply. However, Aashi is deeply saddened by Avishka's anger towards her, raising the possibility that she may not love her as much as her cousins' mothers do for her cousins. Sandhya checks on her and scolds her too.

"How are you? What were you doing near the swimming pool? Who does such a thing? You have become so mischievous day by day. I'll tell Avishka to scold you even more and not love you at all.”