The Replacement (#royals Book 1) by Shikha A (books to read as a couple .txt) 📕

SHIVAY POV

I went to my bed and started looking at her picture on my phone, I clicked this while she was sleeping like a baby. 

Her one look made me smile. I don’t know how I will live without her for these 14 days. She is light in my darkness, she has become my addiction. I just want her around me all the time. 

She is the first person I trusted after that woman left me all alone crying. Thinking about her my blood boils.

Shipra is different. She doesn't care about my money, status, or looks, No maybe she does care about my looks. I know my proximity affects her, I know she likes me, the way her cheeks get red tomato whenever I am close to her. 

I want to eat them. 

Our first kiss awakened my all desire which I have buried somewhere deep inside my heart. And her innocent lips are not making my life easy either.

I am the first man who touched her. It’s not like I am a caveman and I am against the relationship as I had a fair share with girls but nothing serious but I don’t know this information about her made my heart flattered.

She is the purest soul I have ever seen in my life and she is all mine.

Thinking about her I closed my eyes and sleep took over me.

**

After 10 days.

I was sitting in my office and finishing my work as I had to leave in an hour for Delhi.

Four days left for the wedding, the day after all the functions will start and my red tomato is so busy shopping and all that she doesn't have time to talk to me. 

After marriage, I will tie her to me so she doesn't go anywhere. I laugh at my thoughts, I guess this girl will make me crazy one day. 

I shake my head and give a final check to the document before signing.

I was almost done when I heard the cheerful voice and I knew who it belonged to. I did not look up to see and continue my work.

Shivi baby are you still working? Do you even remember you have a marriage to attend and for a change that marriage is your own?

Hearing this I said, "I know Karan I am just done give me ten minutes and we will leave”.

Yes, Karan is coming with me and he will irritate me for the next 6 days. 

"When Maa will reach Delhi?" Karan’s mother Shobha Maa, I love her as my mother. She loves me like her elder son. She manages their school which is opened by Karan’s family.

"Mom will reach tomorrow today kids have the last exam in school so she will be there by 11 I guess."  

I nod in agreement and finish my work and get up. “Come on, let's go.”

We left the office and went straight to the airport. My stuff had already arrived there.

We were about to board the plane when I got a call from Daijan.

"Yes, Daijan?" I asked.

"Shivay, where are you? What time will you be here?" 

I heard the panicked voice of Dai Jan. I knitted my eyebrows and asked "what happened to Dai Jan?"

"Shivay hukum fainted suddenly, we are taking him to the hospital. please come as soon as possible." She spoke in one go.

"What happened to him was that he was all fine two hours ago," I spoke to him and he was sounding fine.

"I don’t know yet. You just come fast." Saying that she cut the phone.

Thinking something will happen to Dada Hukum filled my heart with panic, I rushed inside to tell the pilot to take off as soon as possible.

Karan saw a change in my demeanor and asked "what happened shivy?"

"I don’t know if Karan Dada Hukum fainted. They have taken him to hospital."

"Don’t worry everything will be fine, Dada hukum is a tiger and nothing will happen to him." He said holding my shoulder. 

Karan is the one who always stood by me, He is a strong pillar in my life.

I smiled a little and we took a seat before the plane took off.

We reached Delhi in an hour and I went straight to the hospital. Dada Hukum’s bodyguard was there and they guided us towards the ICU.

I reached and saw Dai Jan and Shipra’s father was talking to the Doctor.

Dai Jan saw me come towards me and hug and started crying. I hold Dia Jan and look towards the doctor and ask “Doctor happened?”

He looked at me and said, "Mr. Raghuvanshi has Glioblastoma Multiforme, or can say GBM is one kind of Brain Tumour."

"What?" I asked the doctor as this new information surprised me to the core. 

I looked at Dai Jan to answer but she looked equally shocked.

"Yes, we need to do his surgery as soon as possible. I have been telling him to do the surgery but he told me he will do it after his grandson gets married as surgery is a bit life threatening so he doesn't want to take any chances." The doctor explained to us.

I looked at Dada Hukum’s bodyguard Ramcharan and his eyes told everything. He knew everything.

Before I asked anything he came to me and bowed his head and said "Hukum I can’t go against Bade Hukum’s (elder) order."

He is the most trusted person of dada hukum and I know he will die but he will never open his mouth and go against Dada Hukum. 

Still, I gave him a deadly look and he shivered visibly. I looked back at the doctor and asked, “How is he feeling now?"

"He is fine right now and he will wake up anytime soon. But tumor's size is increasing fast and we need to operate if possible today itself." He too pauses and said again.

"Convince him sir we need to do it as soon as possible or else things will be completely out of our hands." The doctor said in one breath.