Chapter-57

"Would you tell me what is going on in this fucking house?"

I yell at lorenzo.

"Meddling with me was fine but involving kuhu is too much."

I say in a stern voice.

"Just few days ago, she was unconscious and now this. I don't know about you but I can't see her like that.

She has been subjected to toture since you kidnapped her."

You know how much pain was in her eyes as she begged me lying on the floor.

The anger in my voice rising.

I see him clench his jaw but he doesn't argue.

"This is my last warning to you and your father. If something like this happens again I am taking my baby and wife back to Russia and believe me noone will be able to stop me."

He raises his eyebrow and says

"Yeah right, your wife."

His tone filled with sarcasm.

I fist my hand. Now that he knows the truth about our marriage I can't say anything to him.

I stand up from the chair facing him.

"Well instead of mocking me look into your devious father beacuse if he is the one hurting kuhu. I will kill him with my bare hands."

I move out after threatening him.

Walking through The hallway I enter back into my room. I slump down on the chair seated right next to the door. Resting my head back on the chair I contemplate on the situation before me. I can't wait for lorenze to act I must make haste because whatever it is that his father is threatening kuhu with is eregious.

But what can it be?

My mind race through different scenarios of what has kuhu in such a grevious situation but nothing crosses my mind.

I really want to act on my own but I don't think now I can.

Especially when Lorenzo knows the truth about our marriage.

My mind reels back to that day when I needed Lorenzo's help to save the data from being transferred. In a jiffy everything that we kept hidden was aired in front of him.

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"Don't you care about him being exposed as the preparator."

His smile widens as he says

"NOT. EVEN. A. BIT."

"What do you want?"

I asks the question that he wants to hear from me.

"Tell me the truth of your marriage with kuhu."

I fist my hand, my knuckles turning white.

"What do you mean truth? She is my wife."

I speak choosing my words meticulously.

"I have been fooled by you two for a very long time but now I know that you both are anything but husband and wife. So stop beating around the bush and tell me what happened in the past year when she went to Russia?"

He says seeing pass my farce statements.

Taking a deep breath I prepare myself to tell him the truth.

"She is not my wife. We are not married."

"Nikolai?"

He questions

"He is my son. Kuhu didn't give birth to him. They are not blood related."

I answer.

"Whose son is it then?"

"I told you mine and that's all you need you know."

"Then how come you both met and what is with this whole family situation?"

He again questions.

"You must be aware that a year ago in russia the indigenous doctors went on strike against the foreign medical graduates.

The whole healthcare was in crisis. There was shortage of doctors even in prestigious hospitals.

The doctors refused to tend to patients."

I reiterate.

"Yes, it was grave."

He affirms.

"Around the same time Nikolai was born. He was a weak child. I still remember the day I met kuhu. Nikolai was very ill. I had to rush him to the hospital. But there was shortage of pediatricians, rather there was no pediatrician. That's when I met her."

"She was working in the ER. Rushing a patient in, tending to him and immediately moving onto the next patient."

"I was a mess. My hand which held an unresponsive nikaloi was shaking. My men were shouting for doctors. It was a whole situation."

"She came and grabbed Nikaloi out of my hands. I don't know what she did but she put some tubes in him and turned on some machines. After a while niko started crying that's when I looked up at her."

"I remembered her from the mafia ball. I saw her at the beach singing last year in Italy. You must know too."

I say.

"Yes, you went to the local hospital just to see her and made a scene. Of course I'd remember."

He taunts me.

"Well that's how met. Over the next few days we both introduced ourselves and had a brief talk."

"I noticed her she was like robot working 24 hours with a netural face. She had turned into a shell of her previous self. Dull eyes, pale face you couldn't recognise her."

"The only time I'd see her smile was with nikolai. She would have this bright smile when she would hold him in her arms. It was like they both were meant to meet. Niko also started getting much better under care. She grew really attached to him so much so that we continued to meet even after niko was discharged."

"We would meet up in a park or her apartment everyday. I used to wait for that time the whole day. It was like a daily routine to meet and spend time with her. Niko grew more attached to her and so did she."

"It was like they were meant to be.

Everything went smooth for a month."

"But then a bill was passed. The protest of indigenous doctors came to end as their demands were accepted and many foreign medical practitioners were dropped from hospitals. One of them was kuhu."

"She had lost her job. She was in desperate search of job as she had spent all her saving in settling in russia.

But no hospital was hiring.

That's when I offered her to move in with me and take care of Nikolai."

"Initially she was hesitant but I knew she had started cherishing niko a lot. So after persuading her a few times she moved in."

"With her moving in everything became perfect. She strated laughing more. Her and niko would be attached to the hip.

Things were smooth for a couple of months."

"But then some paparazzis spotted all three of us together one such time. For people I am a big businessman back in russia. So this became the headline of many newspapers."

"All sorts of nasty things were written about her. She was labelled a slut, a mistress and what not."

"People came to know about her and started looking down on her."

"She was not happy with any of this. She used to cry a lot every night. It became extreme. She was afraid to meet people and face them as if had committed some crime."

"I had to put a stop on all this so I had a brief interview and proclaimed her as my lawfully wedded wife. Initially she was against the idea but she slowly eased into it."

"We both would only be husband and wife for namesake and for Nikolai.

That's how we both became husband and wife."

I say with a sigh.

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I haven't even told kuhu that Lorenzo now knows about our marriage. I don't know how she will react and admist all this drama, I don't know what to do.

Maybe I should talk to her. It'll help me understand what actually is bothering her and then maybe I could help her.

Sitting here idly won't help. I have to go and soothe her and also tell her that now Lorenzo knows everything.

Getting up immediately I move towards her room.

Reaching near the door I knock. But noone answers.

I knock again, still no answer.

I slowly open the door and peek in.

The room is dark only light coming is of the moonlit sky through the windows.

I move into the room and shut the door behind me.

There she is sitting with Nikolai in her lap.

She is gently patting his head all the while looking at him.

"Kuhu, darling."

I call out.

"I need to tell you something."

She says finally looking up at me with determined eyes.

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There are only 10 more chapters left in the story. Please be patient I know I have been a menace with the slow updates.

So I apologise and thank you all again for indulging in the story.