Chapter 45: Ch.44/ The Harsh Truth
Anupama''s POV:-
When I open the door of the library, I notice that Alessandro is not there making me confuse. So I call
out his name and suddenly one of the long book shelf stats to move. Suddenly the shelfpletely
open and Alessandroes out of what seems like a hidden room. He dial some code by the side of
the shelf and the shelf closes imidiately. When he finally stands in front of me I notice that his eyes are
slightly damp so I hug him without asking anything. He wraps his arms around me and put his chin on
top of my head with a sigh.
"You are missing your best friend,right?" I ask after a few minutes.
"Hmmm, he would be so happy to see me be a father for the second time and finally fulfill his
wish." He replies while rocking us side to side.
"What was his wish?" I ask while putting my chin on his chest while giving him a curious look.
"He wanted me to understand the value of family and how nice it feels to love someone
wholeheartedly." He answers while pecking me on the lips.
"He sounds like an incredible person who had a heart of gold. I would have liked to know him in
person." I tell him because a person like histe best friend is someone who is greatly admirable.
"Then let''s go and meet him." He says making me confuse because of how I can meet a dead person.
He gives me a small smile and take my hand in his. He dials some code by the side of the same
bookshelf from where he came out earlier, the shelf moves and reveal a room which is something I
have not seen before. He gets inside first and motion for me to follow him. Upon arriving in the room
my eyes widen seeing the stuff in the room as it feels like I have seen them somewhere before.
"Whose room is it, Alessandro?" I ask out of curiosity.
"I have made this room for myte best friend but he never got to stay in here. While designing this
mansion, I have kept in mind what he liked so I bought everything to his liking. He was also the one
who gave me the idea of attaching a library to my home office because he was a book lover and liked
to read anything he could find. But when I learnt that he was no more I decided to keep this room as
the way he liked to have it in the hope that someday may be he wille and surprise me saying that
he is just ying with me. But he never came back making me realize that he is indeed gone." He
confesses with a voice full of emotion. I feel my eyes moisture just hearing his sad tone but I know that
I can not break down crying because I need to be strong for him. So, I wipe some fallen tears and
ster a smile on my face before hugging him from behind.
"I am sure that wherever he is now, he is extremely proud of you. Because you have be so
sessful and you are taking such good care of your family. But I am sure that he would have not
wanting you to get sad because he is not here anymore. He would have wanted you to be happy no
matter what. So, please don''t be sad because it''s hurt me to see you so upset and our little baby is also
not happy seeing his or her Papa so sad." I say while putting his hand on my stomach with an assuring
smile. He closes his eyes with a sigh and open them after a few seconds while giving me a smile in
return.
"Come on, I want you both to meet my best friend." He says while pulling me further into the room. I
follow him with a bright smile but soon my smile fades while I halt in my steps seeing therge photo
frame on the wall. I feel like throwing up because of the anxiety I am having after seeing the photo, the
same photo I have drawn in my diary. I can feel non-stop tears slipping from my eyes because I can not
hold them anymore.
"Cara, meet my best friend, my brother Romil Basu." Alessandro says while looking at the photo with a
big smile.
I try to smile but the heavy emotions that are running through my mind is not letting me concentrate on
anything.
"This was thest photo he sent me before he passed away by heart attack. So, I print this photo and
put it in here." Alessandro says while turning to look at me but when he notices my state a frown form
on his face. He quicklyes to me before holding my face in his hands while looking at me worriedly.
"What''s wrong, Cara? Are you not feeling well?" He asks with so much worry that only makes me cry
harder. I don''t want to tell him anything but I don''t want to keep him in dark anymore. So, I will tell him
everything and after hearing everything he thinks that I am not worthy enough to be forgiven then I will
ept any punishment he will give me. With that thought in mind, I wipe the tears with my palm before
looking at him with a determined expression.
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"Alessandro, do you remember that I wanted to tell you something important before we got to know
about the pregnancy?" I ask him.
"Of course I remember but why are you asking me this question, Tesoro?" He asks looking confused.
"I wanted to tell you something rted to my past but then we got to know about me being pregnant so
I have thought that there is no need to tell you anything. But now I will tell you everything and after
hearing everything you can decide what you want to do." I reply looking straight into his eyes.
"What are you trying to say, Cara? Please stop with the riddle and tell me directly." He says with
impatience. I take a deep breath and look at the picture on the wall with a painful expression.
"Romil Basu was my first husband."
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Alessandro''s POV:-
"Romil Basu was my first husband." Anhuphama utters the most unimaginable words that can not be
true. But her expression is saying apletely different story and I can not deny that she is looking a
bit dishonest.
"But how can this happen? There is no record of you being married to anyone then how is this
possible?" I ask her after finding my voice. She gives me a sad smile before turning to look at Romil''s
photo.
"Because Thakurmaa never wanted anyone to find out about my marriage with Romil. As you know,
Pishimaa and thakurmaa didn''t let me study further. Then they convinced Baba that he needed to get
me married to someone as soon as possible because I was having an affair behind their back. Baba
believed them and started to look for a suitable person for me. Suddenly one day Pishimaa told Baba
that she had found a good guy for me to get married and the family was also very good. That''s how
Romil and I got married after one month. I was not very happy with the marriage because I wanted to
study more. However, Romil''s gentle and friendly personality started to bring me out of my shell. We
started to share little by little details about ourselves with each other and started to develop feelings for
each other. I can not describe it as love but yes, I respected him very much. After one year of marriage,
we got the news of my pregnancy. Both of us were extremely excited to wee our little one but his
family was not a bit happy as they didn''t want to spend money on another person. Romil told them that
he was capable of taking care of me and our unborn child so no one needed to think about spending
money on our baby. However, his mother was not having it. She was Pishimaa''s very good friend so
Pishimaa used toe to my inws house a lot and both of them used to taunt me whenever Romil
was not present there. Also, my mother-inw used to give me a lot of household work to do so I
wasn''t getting much rest as required as a pregnant woman. Still, I never told Romil what was
happening behind his back." She exins with an unbearable tone while I clench my fist in fury. How
can a person be cruel to treat a pregnant woman so badly? Fuck! My cara was pregnant but wait,
where is the baby now? Did her family take the baby away from her or what?
"I know what you want to know Alessandro." She says while turning to look at me. I bit my lip but still
nod my head because I need to know everything that happened in her past.
"Everything was going as usual but suddenly I got a call from Romil''s colleague that Romil was
admitted to the hospital because of sudden cardiac arrest. So, without wasting any time I informed his
family and my family before we reached the hospital. However, it was alreadyte because when we
got there, the doctor who was treating Romil told us that Romil was no more. I felt like my life copsed
in front of my eyes and I couldn''t even do anything to hold it back together. We also got to know that
Romil was having pain in his heart for some days before and he had already consulted with a doctor.
But he never mentioned this in front of me or any other person in the family. So, ultimately all the me
was thrown on my head. I was only five months pregnant at that time so I couldn''t handle the demise of
Romil very well and this made me very sick. So, Dadabhai brought me back to Sengupta Mansion
because he got to know what Romil''s mother was doing to me. I had be a living corpse by the
time my baby''s delivery date came close. But I think God was not done with punishing me as I
delivered a dead baby whom I didn''t even get to hold in my arms. Because Thakurmaa decided that my
baby was a sin so she didn''t want to have any connection with it. In fact, I didn''t even know the gender
of my baby. That''s not all, the doctor also informed me that I could not get pregnant again because my
fallopian tubes were blocked very badly but now I am pregnant again." She falls down on her knees
while heavy sobs wreck through her body. I want to reach out to her but I can not move from my ce
as if something is holding me back. I still can not digest the fact that my wife and my best friend used to
share a rtionship of marriage.
"I am going out for some time. The passcode for this room is Romil''s birthday and I think you know that
very well." I tell her without looking at her face because I know that if I look at her for once, I will
crumble in a second but I need to be alone for some time to clear my thoughts.
I get out of the room and soon out of the mansion before I start my car and drive out of the property. I
don''t for how long I am driving but I can feel the wetness in my cheeks and this time I am letting them
fall. Because I was deceived for so many years as Romil''s mother told me that his wife had an
extramarital affair with another man and when Romil got to know about this, he couldn''t handle the
betrayal and had a heart attack which took his life away. I have believed the lie and my hatred for his
wife got beyond the limit. I have vowed to punish her for killing my best friend but I never got any
information about her as Romil never told me his wife''s name because he wanted to introduce us face
to face. Now, I can understand why I have never got any information about Anhuphama because her
family has hidden everything very well.
"But now what? How am I going to face Anhuphama and tell her that I have been looking for her just
because of some misunderstanding? Fuck, everything is messed up."I hit the staring wheel hard after
parking the car by the roadside. Suddenly my phone starts ringing so I pick the call without looking.
"Where are you, Mr. Bianchi? Anu has lost consciousness so you need toe back quick wherever
you are." Mr. Ganguly says in a rush.
"Where is she now?" I ask while starting the car before driving at full speed.
"Jasmine is taking care of her but still she is not responding well." He replies with a tensed voice.
"I am on my way but please till then look after her." I plead while taking a u-turn.
"You don''t have to tell me that because I will do before I let anything happen to her again." He says and
cuts the call. It takes me more than half an hour before I reach the mansion. I hurriedly get inside
before going straight to our bedroom where I find Mr. And Mrs. Ganguly with a worried expression. But
when I look at my Cara, I notice the defeated look on her face which makes me want to hit myself for
leaving her alone in that room all by herself. I get near the bed and sit beside her before taking her
hand in my own. One by one tears starts to fall from her eyes making my own tears fall freely. I take her
in my arms and both of us break down in tears not caring about anything or anyone else. I shouldn''t
have left her alone after the past trauma she has to describe by her mouth. It takes gut to recall
everything and tell others about it.
"I am so sorry my love for leaving you all alone. Please forgive me, I won''t be doing it again." I tell her
while kissing the side of her head. She cries harder and clutch me tighter as if I will vanish somewhere.
"I have already lost so much in my life, Alessandro. Please don''t make me lose anything anymore.
Please don''t leave me again or I will surely die." She says with a trembling tone. I shake my head and
run my hand through her hair trying to calm her down.
"Shh, stop crying and I am promising you that I won''t leave you again. I love you so much to leave you
or our unborn baby alone." I tell her gently. Yes, I won''t leave her or our baby and this time she won''t be
losing her baby because I will be there to take care of her. But I still need to know what has happened
to her firstborn baby as I don''t believe neither her grandmother nor her aunt. Because there can be a
chance that her and Romil''s baby can be still alive but they have been hiding it as well. So, I am going
to find out the real truth about the baby no matter what.