Geet woke up the next day feeling little bit better..she looks at Maan sleeping right next to her on the couch...she slowly tried to get up but soon stopped when she saw couldn't move her right arm...she removed the blanket to see Maan tightly holding her hand as he slept peacefully. She made a mental note to wash that area thoroughly in the shower...she slowly removes his hand but as she was removing it...Maan held it tightly again...he opens his eyes and looks at her...
Maan; Where are you going?
Geet: To the bathroom now let go
Maan (looks at her face and arms...) looks like you are all better (he touches her chin to make her look at him...she pushes his hand away. Maan becomes angry and comes on top of her..he holds her face tightly) DO NOT DO THAT AGAIN! I am letting you go again and again but that does not mean you can do it again and again! (He lets go of her face..the force was so great that it caused Geet to hit her head against the head rest..she yells in pain..she pushes him away to run to the bathroom.)
She looks at herself in the mirror with tears...she could feel a little bump forming on the spot..Maan paces the room in anger..."What does she think of herself..she follows my orders no matter what...that is it..I have been too easy on her..now she will know how the king really behaves..." he looks at the bathroom door..he was about to knock it but stopped..he puts his hand in the pocket to pull out something..he smirks...
Geet stood there looking at herself..thinking on what to do or on how to escape..she had to do something to postpone this honeymoon to get away from him...Maan opened the door to see her looking at herself in the mirror..she was touching her head where she hit herself...
"Need any help?"
Geet turned around to see him standing against the door with a smirk. "How did you get in?"
"Obviously with a key...now we need to get somethings clear"
Geet: I have NOTHING to clear with you...
Maan (holds her hand and pushes her against the wall...) Now, first rule: You WILL NOT disobey me...(he pulls her shirt off...she tries to hold his hands to stop him...)
Geet: What...
Maan (puts his finger on her lips..) ssshhh..Second rule: DON'T question my actions...(he puts his hand on top of her pants button..he opens them letting the pant fall on the floor...)
Geet: Stop...please...
Maan: Pleading does not work with me...this is who I am...(he picks her up and puts her in the bathtub...she stood there in her inners as Maan turns the shower on...she shrieks when the cold water hits her face...he steps in the shower with his clothes...he pulls her close to himself...) we need to make it up for last night...(he winks at her)
Geet: Let go...(she tried to get out of the bathtub..Maan holds fist full of her hair and pulls her head back so she can look straight into his eyes)
Maan: This is first and last time you would do this..
Geet: Or else what?! You
Maan (removes her inners with anger..now she stood naked in front of him..she tried cover herself with her hands but Maan holds them tight above her head) Now what will you do? (he kisses her neck as Geet squirms underneath him...he puts his full body pressure on her so that she doesn't move..) I have all the rights on your body..no one else! I can do whatever I want..you are my property a puppet in my hands...If I tell you to sit..you WILL sit..if I tell you stand you WILL stand...that is how it always have been...my mom did whatever my dad said and you will do the same
Geet: I am NOT your puppet or ANYONE'S puppet..I am my own person...I will do whatever I want whenever I want..You or no one else can tell me otherwise...women in your culture might be mere puppets in the hands of their husbands but my mom taught me how to be independent...how to live my own life and that is exactly what I am going to do...
Maan: Your mom gave you too much freedom...You are not my queen...
Geet: NO am not! I hate you!
Maan: That is enough talking...(what happened next was all a blur to Geet...she felt Maan biting her neck so hard that it bled turning into a bruise...he looks at her lips and tearful eyes..she just looked at him with anger and disgust...he holds her face bringing it close toward him...) respond to me...
he kisses her lips waiting for her to respond back to him but she never did..she just stood there...he bites her lower lip making her open up when she gasped in pain..he probes her mouth roughly tasting every corner of her mouth clamming it as his...he lets go of her hands and slowly brings his hand down her arm, past her stomach toward her leg..he takes one of her leg and puts it on his waist...holding it in place...
Geet felt disgusted..she wanted to push him but couldn't...she couldn't do anything...maybe she was a puppet now...a puppet that will follow his rules every day, do whatever he says without any question..is this what Babaji planned for her? Is this what she is reduced to for all her life? Maybe her mom was wrong..maybe still today women don't have the freedom that they like..maybe they are still bounded by rules...if he wants me to be a puppet then that is what I will be...a puppet with no emotions...
Maan pushes her on the floor of the bathtub...she laid there with eyes closed unable to look at him..."open your eyes..." she does...a puppet...the only word kept ringing in her head...he smirks.."Finally you are following what I am saying.."
Geet: I am a puppet in your hand...so that is what I am being
Maan (puts his hands on top of her curves pressing them until she moans...) hmm okay my third rule: DO NOT talk until I say so...(he bites her curves sucking on them until he was satisfied...he looks at her face..she was just lying there with no emotion...he takes his clothes off and enters without any warning...Geet tried to grab something to hold on to in slight pain...he makes her sit against the wall...)
YOU ARE ONLY MINE...(he said it more to himself then her...after he was done..he carries her back to the room..he lies her down on the bed..) I hate these red marks on you...(he puts the rash creme on her body...after that he dresses her...she looks at him...) hmm now you are learning...we are leaving now from here...(he was about to kiss her when his phone rang..it was from home...he frowns..) who could be from home...(She looks at the phone...thinking it might be Vicky..Maan picks up the phone..he roles his eyes) Yeah Dadima (he looks at Geet who was just standing there) yes she is right here...(he gives her the phone...she takes it..)
Geet: Ji Dadima...am good...(Maan wraps his arms around her waist from behind...)
Dadima: Actually Vicky wanted to talk to you...he has really grown fond of you...
Geet (smiles) Ji..me too...where is he?
Dadima: right here...hold on..."hello this is Vicky..."
Geet: Hi Vicky...how are you?
Vicky: Am good..when r u coming?
Geet: ohh umm..i don't know...it really..(Maan snatches the phone from her and hangs up...) what are you doing? I was talking to your brother...
Maan: I don't care...
Geet: Yeah you don't care..about anyone..not even your little brother who wants your love and attention
Maan (scoffs) He should learn that love and affection is not part of our culture..you are to learn how to be strong and how to rule..if he can't learn that then I have my other ways to teach him. Next week he is going to boarding school
Geet (looks at him shocked and tears) boarding school? why?
Maan: Don't ask me questions...and I don't have to explain it to you...we are leaving now
Geet (steps in front of him...) don't send him to the boarding school please..he doesn't need that...he just needs a big brother
Maan (holds her arms tightly with anger) what about me? I needed love and attention too when I was his age but instead I was taught to be a man to be a ruler...and now Vicky will learn that too...
Geet: You can't make him suffer just because you did too at his age
Maan; ENOUGH! I can do whatever I want..NO ONE questions me not even you...(he takes a handkerchief and puts it on her mouth) I DON'T want to hear you talk...(he puts her over his shoulder...he brings her outside where a helicopter was waiting for them...)
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