118 History.

Tara knew exactly what she was doing right now, she was taking a very big decision all by herself but wasn't it enough for her family and her loved ones to suffer this much.

Her grandfather was wrong, what he did to her brother and the family was wrong but after fighting for so many years she can now understand that buisness never excuses the weak, if you are not capable you are out of buisness nothing can save you and her grandfather made her strong.

Her grandfather's way was wrong but his intentions were never wrong.

Today when she look back and see herself as the nineteen years old young girl struggling to survive among the buisness sharks she know now who protected her from them, it was him, always.

Tara's thoughts were disturbed when Mr.De suddenly started speaking about the incident that happened years ago.

"Travis's grandfather and I were a part of an association, it was famous for its hacking skills we were capable of hacking anything no web security was enough to stop us...that were the times when we were young" Me.De said in a heavy tone.

"Then I met your grandmother and she became my whole life and to save her from any possible danger because of our line of work I stopped being that careless youth, I started concentrating on important things, I started my own company from scratch I worked day and night to establish everything but on the other hand I forgot about my comrades..." Me.De sighed softly.

"Travis's grandfather was still my best friend , our hearts never seperated from each other but our paths definitely changed...he continued his buisness in the hacking field and I started my own family and buisness in the media field" Mr.De stopped for a second to see Tara's expression.

"Both our sons grew up with each other but of course his son was way more intelligent than your uncle and I was so proud of him. I never differentiated between both of them, both were so important to me but I failed to notice that my son was suffering" Mr.De again sighed softly.

"Society was never fair to my son all the time everywhere they compared him to Travis's father and that made him feel inferior. I failed to notice that he stopped talking to me he closed his heart and started working like mad man, day and night he worked like crazy man and I simply thought that he was passionate about his job but he was not, it was his feeling of inferiority that was pushing him towards the cliff and I failed to notice that too...so many years passed but nobody stopped criticizing him he did everything possible to prove that he was also worth something but you know people don't change their views so easily" Mr.De looked at Tara who's eyes were glistering with tears.

"He did everything to save his own children from the society's pressure and in the mean time his own depression resurfaced and you know what happened after that...." Me.De quickly wiped off the lone tear that escaped his eyes without him noticing.

"Tara...he is not a bad person... beleive me he is not..." Mr.De held Tara's hand softly.

"I know...." Tara said softly and hugged her grandfather tightly.

Tara hugged her grandfather tightly giving the old man some support.

She now understood why he behaved so extremely when it came to her and her brothers because he never wanted them to suffer like his own child did.

"Grandpa....I am sorry" Tara said softly.

"No...you should not be sorry Tara...I was wrong... I was wrong when I snatched your youth from you ...I was wrong when I made Siddharth work fifteen hours a day that young man never opposed me in the fear that I will do the same to his other brothers if he resist ....I was wrong when I stopped his marriage...I was wrong when I revealed your real identity....I was wrong my child...I was..." Mr.De held Tara's hands tightly and his sobbing sound filled the silent room.

"Tara... forgive me...I know it's hard but please don't hate grandpa... please..." Mr.De looked at Tara and wiped her tears off her face.

The atmosphere inside the office was slowly coming back to normal but a man outside was fighting his own share of inner battle with himself.

Sid who was standing outside Tara's office heard everything his grandfather confessed before his sister.

His legs were weak, he was holding the wall to support himself , his heart was bleeding, his whole mind was a mess right now.

The incident that gave him his sister also snatched his parents from him he never forgot that but he never knew the reason behind everything that happened eighteen years ago and now when he knows everything he can't control his tears. For all these years he was hating his grandfather but he never knew that the old man had his own shares of misery but the most important thing was how he is going to face his best friend and sister again after knowing that his father was the reason why their parents died.

He knows that his sister forgave his father and grandfather but he needs some time to digest everything.

He left the office in hurried steps wiping off his tears.