"...she had to put up with your oh-so-moral- and- upright-innocent husband who got taken in by as you say, man stealing, gold digging' wh**e', ogling her all the time, putting up with his 101 disgusting contrivances to touch her on every possible occasion when she stepped into the RM. After what nkji said seems like she used it against him to rescue your disgusting brother..."
Arnav felt numb now. Of course, nobody else knew how she had cried on his shoulder the day her engagement had been broken off, but he did.
"whats the matter khushi, is it your mangetar, did he hurt you" he had asked, when she teared up trembling against him. He remembered now too late how she had teetered on the verge of speech to complain about her mangetar to him, like a child does to someone they trust, against wrongs done to her; then with a shake of her head had changed her mind and sealed up...just to----
"save your goddamn marriage with a husband you worshipped and swore you would die without", payal raged on"and you have the guts to call her names you blind, blind and besotted woman!"
He already knew the story recounted, she'd told him on the day he called her-----
'...and your brother thinks she is , CHARACTERLESS, huh? Just how did you force her into the marriage arnavji?"
But she never got an answer. Akash's calm voice broke in contradicting his brother for the first time in memory, "aapko yeh nahi karna chahiye tha bhai . u should have made sure of her even if you saw her in a compromising situation, especially because you saw the compromising situation, you should have judged properly. Think what she must have gone through bhai, and she might have been forced to be your wife but u should have remembered beforehand that she is also my saali"
"yeah, even after she rescued you today, you still couldn't believe her complete innocence nannav? If this is how you treat your wife you don't deserve her beside you"
Arnav could not look up, he barely heard them. Was he gonna lose her forever then The marriage night, he'd left her out in the cold...bruised her, made her cry, torn her with words like barbs...tum jaisi ladkiyon se toh yehi expected hai, maine tumhe pehle din jo samjha thah wahi sahi tha...low class ...ek jayega to doosra fassa logi...tumhe mein kabhi apne biwi ka darja nahi doonga...forcibly smearing sindoor on her choking her with the mangalsutra... ..mrs arnav singh raizada hone ke fayde acche lagte hain na tumhe sabke good books me aana chahti hoh taki jewelleries mile...how desperately had the poor kid clung on to him the day he left for London...hum saabit kar denge, aagar aap ne hamari bat na suni to ham saans nahi ...hamare dil ki dhadkan bar jati hai aapke paas aakar...agar aapko lagta hain ki hamare aur shyamji ka koi najayes rishta hai to aapki soch aapko Mubarak...hum aapko safai kyu de?...main tumse nafrat karta hoon...".KOI AAPSE PYAR KARE ISKE TOH LAYAK HI NAHI HAI AAP"
Yeah arnav thought i don't deserve her love , i don't deserve her concern for me , i don't deserve how she fought for me...i don't deserve to be forgiven by her and...by me...i only know i cant lose her ...no.
Amma only approached arnav and said "tumka hamne beta samjha tha, laga tha kit um hamre bitiya ka khayal rakkhoge shaadi jaisan bhi hua hoga, par ab tum khussi ka khayal rakkhoge pyatr karoge par tumne to humka khussi ki ma ko upar jake jawab den eke layak na choda"
Buaji grabbed her arm and said" madhumati abhi bhi itni kamjor nahi hui hai nand kisor ki apne bhanji ka dhyan na rakh paye, tumka kono jarurat nahi hai hamri sanka devi ka patin banne ka. Oo ke jindagi ma tum aur shyam dono hi rakshas ho rakshas!"
Without even a glance at arnav, buaji pulled amma and payal followed by akash, out to visit her titaliya lying with her wing bruised at the hospital leaving a wailing silence in their wake.
"ANJALI BITIYA!"
arnav shook out of his personal quicksand into which he was sinking, to see his di collapsing to the floor her hand clutching at her stomach.
"DI!"
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