Anupama's POV:-
When the doorbell ring I feel my heart drop to my stomach in fear of seeing Romil's mother after so many years. But Alessandro gives my hand a gentle squeeze to let me know that he is here with me. I haven't said a word till now because I don't know if I have the strength to defend myself. So, I will let my husband to do that for me.
Marco is the first one to walk inside followed by Romil's mother who is looking scared. But for some reason, I don't feel a bit bad for her because she hasn't done anything less than Pishimaa and thakurmaa to insult me. Upon seeing her, pishimaa and thakurmaa's eyes widen in surprise before they both look at each other with a frightened expression.
"Thank you so much for bringing her here, Marco." Alessandro says getting up from his place beside me.
"She is our best friend's mother so don't thank me." Marco replies casually as if he doesn't reveal about Romil being their best friend.
"What do you mean by she is your best friend's mother?" Thakurmaa asks getting up from the couch followed by everyone else.
"Oh my bad, I forgot to introduce her to everyone. Here meet Ranjana Basu, our best friend Romil Basu's mother." Marco replies making Pishimaa and Thakurmaa shocked. Baba and others also look very surprised because they also don't know about this truth except dadabhai, Kakai and Jasmine di.
"Are you alright? Because you are sweating very much." Alessandro comments looking at Pishimaa who nods her head in response.
"Mr. Bianchi I have something to tell you." Baba says with guilt lacing on his tone so I know what he wants to tell Alessandro.
"I think I have an idea about what you want to tell me, Mr. Sengupta. But I don't want to hear anything from you, I want to hear everything from these two women." Alessandro says pointing at pishimaa and thakurmaa.
"We don't know what you're talking about. Maa my head is in so much pain let go to my room." Pishimaa lets out before trying to walk away from there with thakurmaa. But dadabhai blocks their way by standing in front of them.
"Where are you both going when there is a guest in our house? Also, I think that's your dear friend mom so why don't you talk to her?" Dadabhai asks folding his hands in front of his chest.
"Subho get away from my way." Pishimaa orders but much to her dismay dadabhai doesn't leave from his place.
"Not gonna happen, mom." Dadabhai replies.
"What's going on, Subho? Why are you behaving like this?" Baba asks looking unsure of the situation.
"Boro mama there are many things you don't have any idea about these two have done to destroy Anu's life." Dadabhai answers with a look of disappointment.
"Maa, Kamini tell me exactly what you have done behind my back." Baba orders but neither thakurmaa nor pishimaa says anything. I think Alessandro has enough because I can see that his face is getting red by how angry he is with everything.
"Fine, if you two don't want to admit anything from your mouth then let me do the honor." Alessandro lets out before turning towards Romil's mother who is already trembling in her place.
"This lady here is my and Marco's best friend Romil Basu's mother. Not only that, she is also my wife Anhuphama's ex-mother-in-law. Am I right, Mr. Sengupta?" Alessandro asks baba who looks down with a nod.
"Okay so this woman told me and Marco that Romil got to know that his wife having an extramarital affair behind his back, he couldn't take the information well and had a heart attack which resulted in his sudden death. Both I and Marco were extremely furious so we tried to find out about his wife so that we could avenge our friend's death. However, we didn't know anything about his wife because he wanted to introduce his wife personally to us." Alessandro says while I have tears running down my face.
"She is lying Mr. Bianchi. Our Anu never had any extramarital affair behind Romil's back." Mamoni lets out while looking at Romil's mother in disgust.
"I am aware of that because Anhuphama told me everything. She also told me how her dead baby was taken away from her before she could get a glimpse of the little one. Because someone decided that the baby was a sin so it shouldn't have any relationship with anyone." Alessandro explains while glaring at thakurmaa who avoids looking at him.
"I am sorry for everything that happened to Anupama in the past. I am her father yet I never tried to help her when she needed me the most. I am the main reason why she had to suffer so much." Baba says with shame.
"I am not going to disagree with you in this matter because yes, you should have protected your daughter from the evils. But you were also influenced by negative things which are your mother and sister so I think it's not your fault entirely." Alessandro assures baba and turn to look at Romil's mother.
"Come on tell them everything you have done to Anhuphama while she was married to Romil." Alessandro orders sternly.
"I never liked Anupama because she was the perfect wife and daughter-in-law so I tried everything in my power to abuse her mentally. I used to taunt her every chance I got. I also tried to break her and Romil's relationship by saying bad things about her character. But Romil never believed me and that angered me the most so when he died I spread the rumor about Anupama's extramarital affair. I didn't even spare her knowing she was five months pregnant and used to give her a lot of household work so that she couldn't get any rest. Luck was on my side because both Mr. Bianchi and Mr. Davis believed my fake story about Romil's wife having a extramarital affair. They also started to send me a huge sum of money every month because I told them that after the death of Romil, we were suffering from a horrible financial condition." Romil's mother narrates looking at the regretful but I am not going to believe her because a person like her can never feel guilty about hurting innocent people.
"How can you be such a cruel person to hurt our sweet Anu? You even fed lies to Mr. Bianchi and Marco about her. Shame on you, Ranjana boudi." Kakai exclaims with anger.
"Please forgive me. I didn't mean to do these all but Kamini was the one who filled my mind with evil thoughts about Anupama from the start. Please believe me, I am not lying this time." Romil's mother pleads folding her palms while receiving a glare from pishimaa.
"Stop with your non sense talk. I never told you to do anything bad to Anupama. So don't put your misdeed's blame on my head." Pishimaa replies confidently however Riya starts laughing. We all look at her to understand as why she is laughing so suddenly but then she put her phone on the table in the middle and a voice recording starts playing from it.
'Ranjana you need to humiliate that unworthy girl so much that she stops talking or eating. By doing this we can easily kill her unborn baby with all the stress she will be facing. So that no one will think that there is anyone responsible for her miscarriage then herself."
Pishimaa snatches the phone from the table and throw it on the floor harshly in result breaking it. But everyone has already heard the recording of her talking to Romil's mother about killing my unborn child by hurting me mentally. I look towards Alessandro and believe me, I have never seen him this much angry. Not even when he came to rescue me from Samantha and her partners.
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