Chapter 1

Green

It was a disgusting color, she found out the hard way. She looked on, her head bleeding and hurting in the most terrible of ways possible.

She wanted to rip that saree of off her. How dare she!

Here all she could remember for the major part of her youth was how he had never ever dressed her up. Watching seething in burnt lava as he carefully took a green saree from the clothesline nearby, and gently wrapped it around her, as if she was some precious thing that needed to be protected from the big bad scary world, she realized it all. That he was in love with her.

And the bitter realization made her aware of one more fact.

That she wanted to be the one. Not that flimsy feeble Parvati.

Iske saamne tameej aur maryaada mei rehna.

His words were a serrated knife, slowly making her heart wrench out in pain as she registered the hold that chit of a girl had made on her Rudra.

And that made the ugly green monster roar, destroying everything else in its wake.

Laila just wanted to kill her. Destroy that Paro for making him a human.

She wanted her Rudra back. She wanted her devil back to play with the monsters in her head.