Chapter 72

"Di, you invited Manik and I to have dinner tonight and you also want to start wedding preparations today itself."

"Your point?"

"You are going hard on yourself."

"I know right! Last when I prepared for my wedding, that exactly didn't happen and I am am here again preparing. Though unlike last time, the groom is willing to help."

"Did you guys decide the venue or where you want the wedding to take place?"

"No. I am just going to look around and see what's trendy these days." Hayat said and they entered to the office of a decorator.

They looked through shops after shops to get an idea. After two hours they were exhausted. They decided to eat something and went inside of a cafe. The bodyguards followed them and settled around them after receiving glares from Hayat and Nandini.

"Di, I am thinking about opening another brunch in New York. It would be much better than going Paris to New York after every week."

"I am thinking the same. Murat is basically here because of me. Arsal and Myra too can live there permanently and we can see grandpa more."

"After your marriage, I am going to do paper work for my new brunch. Or else it will be too much with your wedding."

The waiter came and took their order. Hayat ordered pasta and Nandini ordered spaghetti. "Yeah, I don't know how I am going to manage the wedding along with my office. It's getting hectic."

They waited for their orders to deliver when Nandini said, "I can't believe you agreed to marry him. I mean he was your boss first then became the investor after he became your forceful husband. I never thought that you would agreed to marry him in a proper way."

Hayat's heart drop to her stomach. Of course Nandini would think that because she had no idea about their history. With the guilt gripping her heart, she sighed.

Nandini noticed it and asked "What's wrong? You are happy right? Is there anything you are hiding?"

Hayat wanted to tell her that it's nothing but the worried face she had stopped her from doing that and the waiter came to serve them that time.

"Start eating. I will tell you slowly."

After a few spoons of pasta, Hayat got her strength together and started talking.

"Nandu, there is something you don't know."

"You are scaring me now." Nandini put her fork down.

"Murat was not only my boss that time," Hayat said looking at Nandini's face.

Nandini had an eager face on, "And?"

"We were dating."

Nandini was so glad that she kept the fork down before Hayat disclosed that or else the sound of her fork falling would attract others.

She was silent for some moments, absorbing everything.

"You were dating?" Hayat nodded.

"Boyfriend?" Hayat nodded hesitantly.

"That's why!" Nandini slapped on the table and leaned on her chair.

"That's why what?" Hayat asked confused about her reaction.

"That's why he saved you like that from marrying Ibrahim. When I asked for his help, I thought he would not help or do anything else but he directly made you his wife. I was so confused about it.

He came, not because I requested to save you but he came to claim his girlfriend." Nandini had a look that she just solved the biggest puzzle in this world.

Hayat was not expecting this reaction from her. She was confused.

"I thought he was helping you with everything because he is a good man and he cares. Now that you say, he was your boyfriend, of course he would do everything for you." Nandini continued.

"You are okay with it?" Hayat asked.

"You are so lucky that you got Murat sir as your husband and he loves you. He is such a nice person."

"Yeah yeah, you don't need to fangirl about him."

"You could have told me before, it would save me from the tension. I was not sure about the future of your relationship and I hated it."

"So, you are cool with it?" Hayat asked again to be sure.

"Of course. You are living a fairytale dream, am so happy for you." Nandini hold Hayat's hand and shook it like a excited kid.

"You will get your fairytale dream too."

That line absorbed in Nandini's brain and she realized that she was living her fairytale dream too. Hayat came out with everything, told her everything and now it was her turn to disclose her secret. She had to say it then or she would not be able to gather the courage.

She took a deep breath and exhale it slowly. Hayat raised her brows, silently asking what's wrong.

"Since you revealed your secret, it's time to reveal mine."

"Okay?!" Hayat said slowly, afraid what Nandini was going to say.

"Please don't get angry. We didn't know the truth about your relationship with Murat sir but it was open, it was in front of us but mine was not."

"Nandini, just say it. Don't give me time to make any bad assumptions."

Nandini gulped and nodded. She was not ready to tell but she would not ever.

"Manik and I are not just friends."

Nandini could see Hayat's brain working with this information. "Then what?"

"We are together now."

Hayat nodded her head slowly, thinking something. "After that oven accident of yours?"

Nandini hesitated a little, "We became official after that. But we had something going on when I was his assistant."

"I don't understand."

"We were unofficial that time. Like we didn't tell each other how we felt but we knew about our feelings."

"Means you behaved like boyfriend and girlfriend but unofficially."

"Err.. Yes." Nandini felt embarrassed and her cheeks turned red.

"It sounds bad. I thought you were friends but after this disclosure, it sounds bad." Hayat said and became silent to think about it.

"Di, I know it sounds bad but it was not that bad." Nandini tried to convince. 'Thank God, didn't tell her about all the activities on bed.'

"Di, say something."

"I don't know what to say. You both were adult to know what you were doing. You can take decisions about your life and in that sense your unofficial relationship works but when I think about you and him, you people are mature to do something like that and in that sense it's hard to believe. You too didn't tell me what was happening."

"We needed time and then grandpa tricked them, I thought whatever we had is gone but it's still there and we finally told each other our feelings. I didn't tell you then because you were already upset and I didn't want to become more upset."

"I understand what you are saying. It's just you are my baby and I didn't think about something like this."

"Are you not okay with our relationship?" Nandini asked on the verge of crying.

"I don't know, Nandini. I don't know what to feel. I need some time to adjust with it. I need to go now." Hayat stood up to pay the bills.

"Di.." Nandini whimpered.

"See you tonight at dinner and we will talk then."