Category : Books-Fiction

Sub Category : Romance

Goa.
"Promise me Raj,you will look after Aishwarya."Om pleads to his only son. 

Time is very less.Doctors say its a matter of few hours.They are surprised how he is still hanging on. Maybe he is seeking forgiveness from someone.
                          ***
It was a major accident on highway Three people died on the spot.Two battling for life. It was all over in the news .After all it involves one of the city's richest industrialist and his family. 

Om's younger brother's daughter was getting married in their farmhouse near Pune.Whole family had gathered there.
It was a family reunion. 

Om's parents were still alive and they had invited all their relatives from all over for this auspicious occasion. It was a big affair.

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There's was a perfect marriage.Maya a beautiful medical student falls in love with a small town businessman and much against the wishes of her parents gets married to him. Soon they have a son.Life is beautiful. They live happily in a beautiful cottage near sea in Goa.
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"Good morning mom"Raj walks in the dinning hall where Maya is sitting on a twelve chair dinning table sipping her coffee.She is beautiful, soffisticated lady in her early fifties.Dressed smartly in a formal shirt , trousers and high heels.
Raj sits next her and helps himself to toast and coffee and open a newspaper in front of him.He is dressed in a formal suit.
Maya is on her mobile phone.
A beautiful swimming pool can be seen from the French Windows and beyond that the blue ocean.There are some deck chairs and sun umbrellas around the pool.

Both of them have breakfast together.Maya reminds Raj about the dinner at her brothers place in the evening and promises to be their on time.
Raj's mobile rings.He frowns as an Indian number flashes on the screen. 
                              ***
Raj is eleven years old when he finds  Tia in the front porch of his house.