Before reading this, I am making it clear I am neither a sadist nor a masochist. I went with the flow. I don't think it is ending in the third part
*flashback starts*
She sat in front of the dressing table once again decked up as a bride in a nauvari saree ,tanmani and other gold jewellery around her neck and arm, nath on her nose and chuda in her hands. Her hair tied in an ambuda with hair jewellery and gajra made of jasmine flowers. Her eyes were adorned with kajal which bought out her beautiful eye colour. She wore a gold waistband band around her waist. She was quite a mixture of marathi and a telugu bride. She wore gold anklets and toe rings to finish her look. But she was not happy on her wedding day, tears formed in the corner of her eyes seeing herself getting married..how she always wished to stay with Deshmukhs, and what circumstances led to the wedding.
Seeing Raghav accuse her in front of the whole society and defaming her broke the pride within her which she carried proudly. She was thrown out of the house she was sitting in because of him..her so called family revealed their true faces and now she was getting married because of a threat Raghav placed over her head. He threatened to send Nikhil, her devar-who was equivalent to her little brother to jail if she didnāt comply to marry him.
She even tried moving away to another city, but unfortunately Raghav found her. He kept her locked in a storeroom for a whole day- and that day she came to a realization that this was not the Raghav she had come to know during the challenge...this was another version of him-the beast. That night was as horrible as it could have gotten, he had tied her to a chair and squeezed her neck almost cutting her breath...her eyes were red and swollen with tears, dust and dirt marring her skin, bruises forming on her neck, wrists and ankles. At one point of the night, he had untied her and asked her to run and asked her to go as far as she could. Even she knew she wonāt be able to get away from his clutches but she tried her hundred percent to escape from this and upcoming hell. She didnāt know why he kept saying in the last few days that he will take revenge from her for hurting his family. She pulled her brows together as she thought about what she could have possibly done to hurt them.
āPallaviā she was broken out of her reverie by Raghavās Ammaās voice. She came near her and put a kala tikka on Pallavi and said āBada sundar lag raha hai tum Pallavi. My son is really lucky to have you. From now on I am your Amma too. Now tell me what has been bothering you..what is bringing tears to your beautiful eyes?ā Pallavi teared up more hearing those words and told her about the incident and how Raghav threatened her and how he had tied her. Amma gasped hearing the deed of her son and put her hand on Pallaviās shoulder.
Pallavi concluded by saying "But how I mean..I feel suffocation here with my own family. And your son Raghav, that animal ,I'm so scared of him Amma . How will I live with him." She pleaded with tears and Amma nodded. āDonāt worry Pallu beta. Main aur Kirti tumhare saath rahega. Agar woh kuch bhi kare mujhe batana..I will take his classā Amma said as put two gold khandani bangles into her hand and welcomed her to the family.
"I know and you now must know that men like to satisfy their ego. And when they felt that their ego got hurt, they became animals like my Raghav. You are such a firecracker who never bows down to him and this just hurts his ego badly and you are too good for him. But what I do know is that one day you'll be happy with him." Amma said but she was lost in her words,trying to understand what to do or not.
Her aayi entered and said they should go now and muhraat has arrived.
"It's time now. Just think positive." Amma said and put a veil on Pallavi and kissed her forehead..
She was taken toward the hall where the mandap was set up. Raghav was seated beside her looking angry and furious. As each rasam was getting over, her eyes flowed the ocean of tears out. Her heart was pleading with her to run away from there but she just couldn't. She tried to control her sobs and hiccups. Soon, mangalsutra was tied around her neck and sindoor was put on her maang, little of which fell on her nose, as in no time she was now known as Pallavi Raghav Rao.
The hall was filled with the voices of congratulations but her heart was trembling. Trembling with fear of coming time. She was taken to the groom's room. Making her sit on bed her aayi with Amma took a seat in front of her.
"Pallavi" They called her as Amma caressed her face while Aayi her hair. Her wet face made them sad but both of them knew that nothing was in their hands. Everything was done.
"Why are you ruining your eyes?" Her aayi said and wiped her tears.
"Whereas everyone ruined my life,it's just my eyes I'm ruining." She said and cried more.
"You believe in your Shivaji right?" Her aayi asked and she nodded, still crying.
"Then let everything go as it's going. At the end you'll be happy." aayi said and kissed her forehead.
Everyone left the room and now she was left alone with tears and fear. There was only silence,the tick-tock voice of the clock which created more fear in the atmosphere. She was looking around his room. She had been here once before but never looked at it actually. A huge room fully coloured in light grey paint except the wall behind her bed. It was coloured in dark blue and his huge pic was hanging there making her scared. King size bed on which she was seated,a huge wardrobe, a dressing room and a dressing table on the left side of her bed,a writing table on the right corner of the room fully furnished with beautiful furniture. She was looking around when her eyes caught the glass wall just next to the writing table. Her feet came down from bed and she slowly walked toward the wall. She could see a pool outside. Her eyes went up to the sky which was covered with clouds and rain was drenching the earth. Some drops were sliding down the glass and her fingers went to touch them but they were on outside. Many drops of rain were falling in the pool and the flowers near the pool were dancing in the air and rain as they were smiling with happiness but her eyes were sad and so was her heart. Her body stiffened as she heard the door opened.
She didn't turn as she was not able to. Fear rooted her feet to the ground. The door closed down. She heard footsteps toward her.
"Pallavi." she heard the voice and trembled.
After the wedding ceremony he was seated with his business partners who were so happy for him but his happiness was nowhere. That time he was only feeling hatred and anger in his heart.
Time passed and he kept sitting there in the gathering. He didn't notice time but he knew that she would be in his room as his possession. He wanted her to wait for him. To live these moments in fear. Fear of him. Fear of coming time. And he really wanted to destroy her fully and take revenge from her.
"Anna, you should go now. It's quite late." Farhad said and he nodded.
Around 12 of night he stepped in the room. As he did the first thing he got was her fragrance which went directly through his nostrils to his heart. He for once closed his eyes to feel the fragrance and his lips smiled a little. She was still wearing the strawberry shampoo. But then reality brought him back and he opened his eyes immediately. Ignoring the fragrance he closed the door and looked at the figure which was frozen on its spot. He smiled evilly and took a few steps toward her.
"Pallavi" He called and as he did he saw her body shivered with fear and that's what he wanted.
But she didn't move nor answered. Raghav started walking towards her.
"Turn Pallavi." He commanded but she still didn't turn.
"I don't like to repeat myself. I said turn." He yelled this time and she turned immediately scared,shivering.
He laughed looking at her scary face and took two steps toward her. Pallavi took two steps back and her back touched the wall behind her.
"I wanted to see this. This fear." He said and ended the distance between them.
"Stay away." She tried to push him back but he held her arms and pinned them on the wall.
Her eyes widened and he was smiling on his victory. He wanted her to be scared of him like everyone does. He wanted to see this girl bowed in front of him. He wanted to see her defeated,broken and weak.
"Remember the day when you put up a challenge against me. I was playing fairly against you. Until that day you decided to drag.." He growled but then stopped midway looking in her widely opened eyes.
"That day you not only broke my belief in you but also you hurt my ego." He said and tightened his grip on her arms making her bangles to breakdown causing them to hurt her arm.
"Ah..." She yelled with pain and closed her eyes.
"Don't..don't close your eyes. Open them." He said while gripping her arms more tightly until she opened her eyes again.
"Good girl." He said and she gave him a heated look.
"Leave me Raghav." She tried to free her arms from his hold.
"Leave you! You are not understanding where you are stuck now." He growled and pulled her toward him and in a second pushed her towards the ground.
"There. I want to see you there." He said, looking at her who was seated on ground in front of his feet.
"In my feet. I want to see you there. Broken, helpless and in fear." He said and kneeled down in front of her.
"What did I do to you? Why...why are you doing this?" She asked while trying to hide her hiccups.
"Why?" He laughed with the words. "You know how arrogant I'm. And when something hurts either my pride or my family that means the other one is finished. And you have dared to hurt both" He growled and leaned on her face and hold her head from.back.
Gripping her hair in his fist which was in her dupatta he pulled her closer to his face making her yell in pain.
"You are so proud of your innocence right! You love acting naive and act white while you are filled with dirt and treachery yourself?" He asked and she looked at him confused.
Pulling her hair in his fist he made her yell in pain and he felt satisfaction. Her hiccups,her tears were satisfying his ego and he was sure he was getting revenge for all the pain Pallavi had inflicted on his family.
"You think you are beautiful or something!? But for me you are ugly. I don't find you beautiful Mrs Raghav Rao." He snarled and held her face in his hand. Pinning his fingers in her cheeks, he leaned on her face that his breath was burning her face. Her eyes were widely opened and fixed in his red eyes which were burning with anger. "An ugly girl who is full of pride. You are so proud of yourself right! On your innocence,on your family, on your shop and all. Tonight..!" He paused and smirked making her freeze on her spot. "And tonight I'm going to ruin your pride,your attitude, your arrogance and your dignity. I'll break your pride,and your dreams. Like you broke mine." He said while pushing her back harder.
He went toward the washroom and closed the door harder.
She was seated there motionless. Her heart was fluttering in fear. What he was going to do. And what she did to him. She didn't know anything. She pulled herself up. Her head hurt as he was holding her hair tightly. She touched her cheek to caress them to fade the pain his fingers gave her. She was always so fragile and innocent. She was always so pampered by her brother and her in-laws who never shouted at her and now her own baba pushed her in all this where she was receiving this kind of treatment from the man who was now her husband.
"So ready." His voice made her jump on fear and she turned to see him.
"Please stay away from me." She said weakly while moving back.
"Really." He said and took steps toward her.
Pallavi was not understanding what to do. She wanted to save herself from this man whose eyes were filled with anger. Her legs touched the bed behind her making her Fall on it. He laughed and walked more to her.
"See you reached your place." He said and covered the distance.
She tried to move back but he held her arm and pulled her closer to him. She was crying and begging him to leave her.
"Cry Pallavi, cry. I want to see you crying all night." He said and pulled her dupatta from her head to throw it aside. She looked at him shocked.
"Don't be shocked. I'm going to ruin your beauty,your pride tonight. You'll regret what you said about me." He said and pulled her nose ring making her yell in pain.
He pulled her necklace, earrings her all jewellery one by one. She was yelling with pain but he was not caring. He opened the bun of her hair and spread them on the bed. Pushing her on bed he came on top of her. She was feeling herself like a sparrow who was caught by a cruel hunter. She was like a deer who wanted to save herself but she had to be trapped and lost her life to some cruel one.
"Please." She pleaded but he grabbed her arms and pinned them above her head. She closed her eyes tightly.
Leaning towards her, so his breath could be felt on her face and brought out paper from his pant pocket and threw it on her face. āSign these without questions.ā
Pallavi frantically got up from the bed and looked at the papers with wide eyes. Those were the original copies of her saree shop DSE, Deshmukh Niwas and babaās handloom business and all their property was being transferred under Raghavās name. To say she was shocked would be an understatement but how Raghav got these papers was bothering her.
As Pallavi was opening her mouth, Raghav said āDonāt bother asking questions about those papers, Saree ka dukaan. Chup chap sign kar do nahi toh you know what can happen with Nikhilā he smirked evilly.
As soon as Pallavi signed the papers, he snatched them from her and went downstairs.
Raghav called for Farhad as soon as he reached downstairs and said to get the papers stamped by court by tomorrow afternoon. He went ahead and sat down on the bar chair and drank his glass of whiskey. Even after all he had done to Pallavi, he didn't know why some corner of his heart still felt guilty for behaving like this with her...especially today what he did with his behaviour. He pushed that thought to the back of his mind and returned to his room only to find Pallavi sleeping on the opposite side of his bed.
In the morning, she turned to see him sleeping peacefully on the other side of bed after destroying her family fully, her pride she had in her shop was now his. She got up from beside him and carried her broken soul and body from bed. Covering herself with her long dupatta, she went far from bed. She fell down in front of the glass wall. The rain was still going on. Her tears started streaming down on her cheeks like the rain was falling in the clean water of pool.
"Are you watching?" She asked looking at the sky and fell down on the ground and cried.
She lost everything. Everything to a man who was not the one she loved. He took her pride,her dignity. She lost everything to him. She looked at him who was deeply in sleep after breaking her into many pieces. She closed her eyes and all the harshness, and the moments of night how he treated her started roaming in front of her eyes and how she with her one signature snatched everything from the Deshmukhs.
The next morning came. Raghav got up fresh and happy. After claiming Pallaviās pride and claiming her family, he was so happy. He saw her standing in front of the mirror combing her wet hair. She was fully ready in her red saree with chuda, mangalsutra and sindoor. Seeing her like this gave him a sense of satisfaction- she was his now. Her wet hair was hanging on her back. Her eyes were red telling that she was crying. She slipped earrings in her ears as he got up from bed and walked toward her. She could see him coming but didn't react.
"Good morning Mrs Rao." He said but she remained silent.
"Amma is waiting for us." She said and he looked at her confused.
She turned to him and looked in his eyes. He was standing in front of her shirtless. He wanted to see the same fear like last night but her face was clear of any expression.
"Your mother came to call us down." She said and turned to put bindi on her forehead.
This is just the flashback and it is not over yet. But it will be over in the next one. Thanks for reading this. I hope this didn't offend anyone.
I hope you guys liked this.
Reem
Edited by ReemShah - 4 years ago
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