Chapter 20
Burning Ice
The frozen water
lets tongues of flames burn me
I can't stop my heart from falter and my eyes betray me
Rivers fall down breaking
My legs stumble
My arms surrender shaking
My heart,so numb
The coldness takes me again
And the flame to fight parts away
The ice so overwhelming
The pain doesn't let me pray
The ice breaks apart and the hope falls in to pieces
My pain takes the will
And i fall forever in to a dream of frozen kisses
The guilty one is not he who commits the sin ~ but the one who causes the darkness~
Astha had meant to fake a little fall on the wet floor, by throwing the bar of soap on the floor and then acting as if she had slipped on the wet floor while trying to get the soap...
But she had never imagined in her mind that while faking a fall she would hit the wet floor so badly. Even God was with that Mafioso. She thought, mentally cursing herself for her foolish idea...
Now that Mafioso was watching her with suspicion in his eyes, and a hint of disapproval on his face. Maybe he had no idea that she was cursed with clumsiness from the time of her birth. Her bum had taken the worst of fall...
Groaning she sat up on the floor, rubbing the bruised portion, while Shlok leaned against the wall, wrapped his arms around his chest, negligently and looked at her as if she was the worst comedian in the world...
That Avdhoot girl was just like her father, so fake, he thought bitterly, his lips curling with distaste. Glad that he had gotten himself under control in time, before he would begin to have some feelings for her other than just lust and hate...
"Quit your show, and get up from the floor", he said menacingly, moving towards her.
"I would, if I could", she groaned, still rubbing her bruised bum. "Get up", he pulled her up, by gripping her arms, making her give a shriek of pain. A streak of pain had shot through her back and her head ached where she had hit it on the hard floor. "I can't walk", she looked at him with tear-filled eyes, her lower lip trembling.
"Tears a woman's ultimate weapon", he thought bitterly. Give a man some crocodile tears and he would melt like an ice-cream infront of her. But not him, he had seen so many tantrums thrown by women, and believed them to be so fake that he knew what to expect now from any woman. And that too from Avdhoot's daughter...
He cast a disdainful glance at her. She was looking like a down trodden rat now, with her hair tangled around her face, and her eyes swollen from crying. He put an arm around her back and another one under her legs and hoisted her in his arms, without giving her a chance to utter a no...
She winced with pain but wrapped her arms around his neck to anchor herself, and still sobbing put her wet face on his shoulder. She used to become clingy like a child whenever she cried, and would cry for hours until her mother would come, to hug her and then she would stop crying...
Shlok froze, she was sniffling in his shoulder, like a little kid, just like he used to cry. His memory took a nosedive...

"What happened Shlok?", a woman came running to him and crouched down beside him. He had slipped on the wet floor and had taken quite a bad fall.
"O my sweet son, don't cry dear", she was hoisting him up on her lap. He wrapped his arms around her neck, crying hard into her shoulder. "Don't my son, show me where it hurts and I would take away your pain", she tried to sooth him.
"Ae it hurts so much", he sniffled. "Where my son? just tell your ae where?", she caressed his back. "Here ae", he indicated his bum."O shh, nothing will happen to you okay, my son , shhh, you are strong, my son is very strong", she cajoled him, rubbing his injured portion.
"Shoo, shoo pain go away, don't hurt my son, see it's gone now, won't ever hurt you", she started to tickle him and he began to laugh. "Ae don't it tickles", he giggled...
She was laughing too. The voice of her laughter was just like a tinkling bell, echoing around him. Then it started to fade, and her arms fell away from him. "Ae he screamed, extending his arms to catch the last of her warmth".
"Hide, Shlok, hide my son", there was fear in her voice. "Ae I won't leave you", he wanted to tell her that don't fear, he will be with her always. But no answer came. Her vision was fading away in the swirling mist. "Ae please don't leave me", he screamed her name...
The mist was clearing away. His horrific gaze caught sight of her lying prone on the floor, in a pool of her own blood. "Ae wake up, see the pain is hurting me again, tell her not to hurt me again", he fell down on his knees at her side. Her eye were wide open, staring at the ceiling...
He put a trembling hand forward to touch her cheek and then snatched it back suddenly, she was so cold to his touch, that he felt that coldness seeping through his bones, congealing his blood in his veins...
"Ae please wake up, it's very cold here and I am afraid, please don't be so cold towards me, give me some of your warmth", he put his head down on her chest, curling his body at her side.
"Okay I'll never tease you again, if you don't want to talk to me right now I'll sing you a lullaby, you will listen it na, my lullaby", he started to sing, his tears leaking from his eyes, forming crystals on his cheeks, due to cold...

"What happened? Why did you stop? Are you playing statue, statue", someone's sarcastic voice brought him out of his nostalgic memories...
Shlok glanced back at the girl in his arms, his heart burning...
Astha saw the mist clearing from his eyes and the glance he threw her way was filled with such extreme loathing, that Astha started to struggle in his arms, her heart beginning to beat erratically due to fear...
"Shutup", he bit out. His jaw working hard to control his building rage. He dumped her on the bed with such force, that she hit the surface with a heavy thud. A streak of pain, went like a lightning through her back, making her shriek.
" You big oaf, can't you see I am in pain, why you have to throw me like this", she said angrily, rubbing her bruised back.
Shlok's hand curled to fists at his sides and he turned his back on her, his head bent, to control the pounding fury, racing across his mind. "Hello I am talking to you, have you gone again in your zombie mode", she said sarcastically.
"I said shut up", he bit out with a clenched jaw. His fists clenching more tightly at his sides and his nails dug in his palms. His neck cords were tightening due to his effort to control his anger.
"Why in the world I am even talking to you? You don't have anything human inside you, do you, you are a monster through and through", she delivered her taunt in a voice laced with satire.
Monster that word acted as a battering ram on his already pounding head. He turned towards her, his nostrils flaring, and eyes shooting arrows of flame at her. Astha saw the worst transformation of her life in front of her eyes. The man infront of her was lengthening before her eyes, growing into a huge monster, with rage. ...

She gave a squeak, and scrambled backwards on bed, when she saw him coming towards her...
"Monster, do you know what is that, do you even know what that word means", he pulled her towards him, shaking her so much that her teeth rattled, every bone in her body protesting at his manhandling". "Yes I know what it means now, thanks to you", she said through her teeth, her hands trying to loosen his merciless grip on her arms...
"You don't know me enough to say that to me", he delivered coldly. "I too don't have any wish to get to know you", she hissed. "You don't have to really know me princess, for what I have got in my mind and body for you", he said, his every word dripping with cold menace. At his words she raised her fearful gaze to his face and what she saw was enough to raise her hackles...
His smile was cold, but his eyes were burning with the fires of hell, and she could feel their heat singeing a hole right through her body, forming blisters on her soul. His rage had been like a caged animal in the past, prowling behind the bars of his cold attitude , that had kept him at bay, until now...
But that animal was breaking the bars one by one now...
He tightened his grip more tightly on her arms, jerking her closer to him...

When cold increases beyond a certain limit it causes immense damage to the skin and the underlying tissues, blisters then begins to form on the portion of the skin, that is in contact with the cold and the circulation starts to decrease causing your skin to lose all sensation. And that's when you know that frostbite has set in...
She winced, her arms were losing all sensation, going numb, yet she could feel her skin inflaming where he touched...
When you try to move that particular body part, that is loosening all sensation, it refuses to budge. And the feelings of helplessness and hopelessness starts to set in your mind, and you start thinking that is there a place beyond this vast wasteland of coldness, where you could go or have enough strength to go...
He was coming closer now, causing her to bent backwards and she kept going back, her gaze frozen on his face, like a startled deer caught in the headlights of a car...
Pain takes place of all sensations, emanating from every pore of your body...
"Please leave me you are hurting me", she whispered through numb lips. But he kept coming closer, his touch just a sensation of aching pain now, echoing throughout her body...
Astha hit the bed, with Shlok looming over her now. She swallowed, still looking into his burning eyes, like a helpless moth. He smiled, his lower lip curling faintly. He left his hold on her arms, moving a hand to touch her brow. She was senseless, helpless, becoming numb, yet feeling a sensation of acute burning, where he touched...
He moved his hand down, his index finger burning a scorching trail of fire, starting from her forehead and moving towards the bridge of her nose, then her ruby lips, which parted beneath his touch and lastly her slender neck, which she arched, in order to give him more access...
Astha's fists curled at her sides, as she tried to bring back her disordered senses. His mouth had taken the place of his fingers, his teeth nipping sensuously at her jaw line now, marring her soft skin. ...
She tried to move her face to the other side, but he caught hold of her chin in a strong grip, lifting her face upwards to bring her near to his own. She gazed at his mouth, mesmerized like a prey under the gaze of a hunter. His lower lip was jutting out, indicating a sensual fullness...
Astha gazed at him until his face blurred before her eyes and she could only feel his hot breath filling her senses. First the nuzzling tip of his nose touched the bridge of her nose, shocking her due to its coldness, before he swooped down on her mouth, swallowing her strangled cry...
A bolt of lightning streaked across her womb, causing her body to jerk in his grip, but he refused to let her go. His mouth was devouring her parted lips, his tongue thrusting inside to lick the slick creamy depths. He sank a hand in her hair and tugged, she gave a painful gasp, her mouth opening to give him more access for his plundering tongue...
She whimpered as his tongue plunged in and out, in the parody of how they'll move together, in the final union ...
Some sane or still-vague part of her mind shrieked a warning across her periphery, that she was on dangerous waters, and his touch was meant to demean and insult her, but her body refused to listen, it was a living breathing dragon, that was rejecting her minds attempt to put a harness over it's neck...

Shlok bit at her lower lip, causing her to give a delicious moan in his mouth. Her arms rose of her own accord to wrap around his neck, like a clinging vine. Her lips that were unresponsive until now began to move beneath him...
He gave a soft laugh but continued his assault on her senses. Their lips still enmeshed in a passionate duel, he left his hold on her hair and moved a hand to the waistband of her pajama, curling his fingers around it. Astha pulled her mouth away from him, coming back to her senses at his cold touch on the naked skin of her abdomen...
"No", her arms fell away from around his neck and raising herself on the bed, she put both her hands on his chest to push him away, but he was like the prehistoric Stonehenge, refusing to budge, even in a thousands of years...
"O, yes, he taunted, and bent his head to bit at the soft place where her neck joined her shoulder. She gasped, her head going back in shock and taking complete benefit of her momentary lapse he jerked her pajama off her legs, in a smooth move...
Astha gave a shocked scream and tried to curl her legs. But he was persistent, moving on his knees, he caught one fleeing foot, and then holding it as leverage, dragged her whole body in his arms, her legs automatically going either side of his waist...
Astha dug her knees in the bed spread and tried to move away from his lap. In this posture she was straddling his thighs, while his arms were wrapped tightly around her naked bottom, his burning hardness digging between the cradle of her thighs...
"No", she whispered again, as she saw his taunting mouth coming closer to her burning lips. "O yes princess", he said, licking the corner of her lips, raw satisfaction oozed from his voice. "Your body wants to say yes, but it's your mind that's saying no to me", he whispered, moving his tongue across her glistening lips now. Electric shivers were dancing across her skin, forming goose bumps...
"No, donnn..." , she tried to plead again,but he trailed a hand across her naked bottom, his finger moving upwards to skim the side of her ribs and then to palm the fullness of one breast, his fingers tugging at a turgid nipple. Then his mouth took the place of his fingers, sucking the swollen nipple through the cloth, biting at it's turgid fullness...
Astha gave a broken whimper and her head feel back on her neck, pushing her breast more fully in his mouth, her body burning hot and cold as if she was in hell right now and the flames that licked her were frostbitten. There was only one relief for her pain and pleasure, to burn completely in his cold flames, so that no sensation would be left in her traitorous body, not even pain...
So that nothing of her disordered senses would be left to reclaim, by her defeated mind...
They say that once frostbite sets in it transforms quickly into gangrene, causing the skin to lose all sensation of pain too. Then there is only one thing left that has to be done in order to see to the continuation of life...
And that is to amputate that part...
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