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Posted: 11 years ago
#31

Originally posted by: Desire6

HAPPY NEW YEAR JASU 🤗 " Get powerful enough to protect me. But not so powerful that you forget me".

I jus lovd dat one line...wat a powerful line...


awesome prologue.
.now lemme go read 1st chap...
ok I lk d title..

thank you. and happy new year to you too.
love that line as well

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Posted: 11 years ago
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Regret

My eyes were heavy with sleep and closing involuntarily as I stepped into the office elevator. But the guilt always came back just in time. I worked two doors away from her company and their current state of affairs had just been adding to my burden.

"Ah, I made her like this. Whatever is happening is my fault". These thoughts would always overwhelm me when I saw her flustered face pleading with the audit officers. I know she hasn't done anything wrong. That she only touched the dirty money once. That was she was laden with guilt to begin with. That she would never dream of doing it again. But that wasn't the mistake that undid her. In fact, with her intelligence, no one would have ever known what really took place unless she told them. And, this is where she went wrong...she told me. Everything, every single trade secret that protected her from the big bad world, she revealed it to me.

"I am always disarmed around you", she used to say back when Sky corporation was just a start up. "I feel naked with you. My body, my head, my thoughts, I want to share with you everything I call mine. I want you to see my good side, my bad side, and my ugly, dirty, despicable core".

And just like that, she confessed. "I committed a crime. I, honestly, I...one day I am going to pay for this. But, today is not that day. I saved my company. Even if my sun goes down, I will make sure my software sees the light of day".

She was so confident even in her most vulnerable minute. Her deep breaths content to have me by her side. I turned ten shades of blue before burying her faults in my chest.

"She may be a criminal but her crime didn't kill a person. She isn't a monster. Then, that's okay", I told myself and decided to forget our conversation ever happened. Little did I know the real monster was hiding under my own skin.

When the time came to pick money over love, I didn't hesitate for a second. Even though she is the woman I love...even though she kept my child at 16...even though she quit school to be with me...even though she worked three jobs to put me through law school, I betrayed her without a blink. I sold her out to a rival company so I could become the CEO in exchange for bringing on charges against my own wife. I remember telling her about my new job a month ago.

She must have been so elated that she twirled in circles around me, praising my abilities like I was latest developed program. "You are so intelligent. That's right, you deserve this and much more. Do well, hubby! I'll be watching you".

How could a woman like this exist in the world? She didn't ask me what my reason was for choosing her rival company. Why a lawyer would suddenly want to change professions? Why a man so uninterested in computers was out looking for a job as the CEO of a software company? Instead, she just smiled and offered me the warmest hug before going back to work.

Then, like the storm that was inevitably headed our way, the court notice came. She'd been summoned for a hearing about the insider trading charges. A warrant was soon issued for arrest. Even all this while, she didn't confront me. Her focus was on the one thing in front of her- her new beloved program in progress. It was like I was shut out of her world.

Not like this was our first time. Her genius always requires solitude. But this felt too burdensome. I was in panic mode. I thought about coming clean but deep down, I knew she knew. She had every idea what I did to her. I was the only one with access to all her secrets. I was the only one she confessed to...

We haven't really talked since then. We greet each other, we say things but our words don't have meaning. She's shunned me. I know it. I am certain she doesn't want me. So, I announced our separation. I called it "taking time off to think". In reality, it was my defense to run away. Because I knew my mistake but no way to fix it, I just ran. And she didn't stop me. What I am telling is a story but, I don't think it's a love story...I destroyed the love a long time ago.

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Posted: 11 years ago
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First of all great to see an update. Second, wow that is a lot to process in this short chapter.
She got pregnant young, had their son, bared the burden of it all put him through law school only to be betrayed by the only man who truly knew all her secrets. I'm still not quiet sure how I feel about it all, there needs to be time to process it all. Madhu knows it all and I'm sure from the way their son behaved in the previous chapter he does too. RK committed a crime, they both know and she will let him get away with it. I know in the end you said it's not a love story but I do hope there is some love left that he finds the courage to save his love, his wife, his son, his family and may be even himself. 😭😭

Fantastic job dear!
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Posted: 11 years ago
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awesome update...so madhu did everything for RK & their future , but his love was not so strong enough...😭
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Posted: 11 years ago
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Originally posted by: rdave1

First of all great to see an update. Second, wow that is a lot to process in this short chapter.

She got pregnant young, had their son, bared the burden of it all put him through law school only to be betrayed by the only man who truly knew all her secrets. I'm still not quiet sure how I feel about it all, there needs to be time to process it all. Madhu knows it all and I'm sure from the way their son behaved in the previous chapter he does too. RK committed a crime, they both know and she will let him get away with it. I know in the end you said it's not a love story but I do hope there is some love left that he finds the courage to save his love, his wife, his son, his family and may be even himself.😭😭

Fantastic job dear!



thank you.
correction: MADHU (and not RK) committed the crime. so, she really was involved in insider trading. just that she told RK and he reveal the truth for his own selfish reasons. RK isn't entirely at fault here. he did the right thing (in a way) even if his motives behind revealing the truth weren't right.
and yes madhu would win in a contest of who is more pitiful by a handful but she isn't made of all gold either. she has her flaws.
thank you for the insightful comment 😆
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Posted: 11 years ago
#37
Wow .. love it ... very unique concept again! Please continue soon ...
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Posted: 11 years ago
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Originally posted by: sanghita0000

awesome update...so madhu did everything for RK & their future , but his love was not so strong enough...😭

or he could just have been moral. the dude exposed a huge crime😆 oh who am I kidding, he ruined himself and his family😉
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Posted: 11 years ago
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THOUGH U SAID IT IS NOT A LOVE STORY ...BT HOPE DEY FIND SOME LOVE IN D END...
MADHU DID ALL FOR DER LOVE
UNIQUE CONCEPT...
READ BOTH D PARTS NOW
FAB WORK JASU
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Posted: 11 years ago
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Chapter 3

I stepped out into the real world again- with black hearts spitting false praise and greed conquering any leftover human decency. I was drained all over again. It is was tiring and difficult but it was the path I chose. Nobody forced me become the monster I am, I just never stopped to look back at my mistakes. I kept covering up my scandals, sticking bandages on wounds until they were of sight, cutting pain with alcohol until I was too numb. I don't know if I am a person any more. Maybe just a lifeless, money hungry monster? Why? Why did I do that to her? Fighting my own wife, I must be senile or another kind of crazy.

I need her close to me so I can atleast pretend to be sane. So I dragged my guilty flesh back home.

My son, my gentle, pure, smart son had on an expression of extreme worry. His eyes were fixated a chess board but his thoughts were running circles.


"What's wrong?" I asked. He broke out of his trance and rubbed his temples.

"Nothing. Nothing dad".

His small smile healed a hole in my heart. Even if I did nothing right in life, I'd raised a good son. "That's good. Where's your mother?"

"Knocked out", he replied.

"What?"


"She's been working constantly since she came out of the meeting on Monday. The only break she took was to talk to you yesterday. I don't even know if she ate or pissed or washed up. Just running on coffee and Redbull. Dad, I was so worried that she was going to die. So I went in and begged for the kheer she always makes me".

"And?"


"And she made a face like she usually does but gave in. She served it on the dinning table but when I went back to wash the dishes, she laid spat on the floor. I tried waking her up but she said, 'don't let Rishabh steal my work' and started snoring loudly. What am I going to do with this woman?"


As soon he finished his storytelling, I burst out laughing. My little Arjun sounded like an overprotective grandmother. "Your folks are tough. We're used to working hard, kiddo". That was the best I could offer to calm his nerves. But clearly I knew nothing about comfort because that only made the kid more agitated.

"Hurry up and check on her", he scoffed.


As I entered the kitchen, I could see the tablet, code sheets, and all other equipment from Madhu's work had carefully been taken away by the mama's genius. I wonder why they can't trust me. I rolled my eyes and moved on to my wife lying on the cold concrete floor. Face pressed against a rug, the rest of her body was covered in goosebumps. Sometimes I wonder if this woman can fall asleep on call. I lightly kicked her abdomen to check just how out of it she really was. Even before I could finish my inspection, the mama-sider yelled out, "what do you think you're doing?"

"..."


"Don't hurt my mother like that".

"I was just checking. Relax, it won't hurt".


"Move", he simply pushed me aside and lifted her up in his arms. "I was wrong to call on you in the first place. I am strong enough to protect her so you just go".

"Arjun Kundra, is this how we raised you?" I don't know who I was more angry at- him for making the childish mistake or myself for letting the situation slide out of hand like this. I probably deserved this, I probably...


"What's going on?" Our commotion must have woken up Madhu.

"Nothing. Dad's being a jerk again", his shoulder brushed against mine as if he was ready to shun my being. As if I was never a part of his identity.

"What? What did you just say?"

Madhu slipped out of his grip, straightened herself upright, and gave him the angriest of disciplinary stares. I kid you not, I have never seen this woman stand up for me in 15 years we've been together.


"Your father, this man, raised you for fourteen years. He changed your soiled diapers every morning before school, he stayed up at night to feed you, he nursed you when you were sick, he took care of you when you were sad or angry or throwing tantrums or crying your heart out. And what do you say? You can't take it because he being a jerk? Do you know what a jerk is, you brat? Apologize, right now!"

"M...m...mum"


"Yes, mum what? Mum what? You thought I would praise you and tell you 'job well done son' when you look down on your own father like that? Honey, did we raise such a bad child?" she turned to me but I couldn't answer. It hurt to much to speak. My tears were doing my talking. I never knew it would come to this. The 17 year old girl I was madly in love with had grown up a great woman. And if I could, if I would become just an inch of the man she thought I was, my life would be worth living.

"Sit down Arjun. You need to know what kind of a person your dad is. Now, more than ever".

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