Arhi FF: Kalarikkal House-2 [Thread 3 link posted] - Page 17

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*Gasp* What happened to Kalyaani? You know I can't post the next chapter without her making an appearance :)

-Devi

You have Psyched us all Devi 🤔 😆

Chapter 22 – Man-eaters

And just like that, the chill that had started spreading through his skin vanished when he felt the familiar surge of heat as anger boiled up at her mocking tone.

He pulled her to him by her waist in a quick move that startled her enough to make her drop the pictures of her great-aunt.

"Hasn't your father taught you to not go into strange men's rooms in the middle of the night?" he growled out next to her ear as she tried to push away from him.

"They tend to see it as an invitation. No matter how you try to scare them off with ghost stories."

"I could wear a purdah and men would still see it an as invitation, Raizada. I have decided that they only see what they want to see and not what I am actually telling them." She answered even as her attempts at pushing him away were proving futile. No matter the mind-f**king, he was still physically stronger than her.

"I don't think you know what you are telling me." He told her, which gave her pause. She kept the flat of her hands on his chest and pulled back to look up at his face.

"What am I telling you?" she asked.

He looked outside - the woman was still gone - and then looked back at her as he answered, "You are not afraid of me. Which makes you curious. When I grab you like this, it gives you a reason to fight me, which you like. You want a reason to fight someone. Not just fight with your words. But you want a reason to pummel the shit out of someone. And it seems that I am fair game."

She tilted her head curiously now as she asked, "How would I…pummel the shit, so to speak, out of someone?"

He felt an urge to smile at how genuinely interested she sounded and for a moment he forgot that he was angry with her.

"I don't know, Kashi, the men-folk here have been lusting after you for quite some time, from what I can see. Don't you want to do something to them?" he felt her hands clench into fists against his chest, although he didn't think she was aware of what she was doing.

"You want to take it all out on me." he added, watching her.

She looked back at him now, her eyes narrowing almost imperceptibly.

"What good would that do?" she asked.

"Well, for one thing, it would get all this anger out that you have stored up for too long. And secondly…" he paused, dramatically, lifting an eyebrow.

"And secondly?" she asked, her fists tightening.

"And secondly you are just curious." He answered.

"Curious?"

He smiled. "Yes, curious. You want to know if you can feel the same and what that would feel like if you did feel it."

"The same?"

"Desire. You want to know if you can feel it too."

She wasn't prepared for it when suddenly his thumb rubbed over where he had bitten her that morning and she gasped and jumped up onto her tip-toes.

"That right there. That's it. What you felt just now. That little spark where I touched you."

Her face took on a flush even as she looked away and bit out, "That's called being startled. Not desire."

"Did your sister ask you about it?" he asked suddenly, changing his tone. He didn't want to get her any more defensive.

"How do you know?" she asked, looking back at him.

"I saw her looking at your waist when you were bringing the dishes out. I told you to cover it up."

"I don't get bite marks on a regular basis that I would remember to cover it up!" she answered, irritated now.

"What did you tell her?"

She sighed and tried to push him away again.

He tightened his arm around her waist and held on.

"I told her I bumped it against a table's edge."

"And she believed you?"

"Why wouldn't she?" she looked angry now.

"Then the woman must be as nave as you. What is it with the folks here that no one has the guts to go after women who look like you both? Don't tell me she is manglik too!"

"No, of course not." She said before she looked out the window. Her voice was soft now when she added, "She and one of our neighbor's son had been essentially betrothed to each other since they were young."

"Had been?" he asked. He remembered Pallavi at the veena that morning and knew instinctively that he didn't want to hear whatever was coming.

"Her fianc died in an accident two years ago. Their wedding had been just a few weeks away." She paused then and her fists loosened at his chest when she spoke again, her gaze still facing the window. "My poor sister. I am destined to kill my husband after I marry him. She killed hers before. At least that's what people say. Makes us both sound quite the man-eaters, doesn't it?"

"f**k!" he said, feeling a helpless rage in that moment. How could there be so many tragedies in one place…

"He had been their only son. Soon after, they sold their house and left this place."

Something about this story sounded familiar to him then.

"Who did they sell the place to?" he asked in a low voice.

She looked back at him now.

"You."

This time when she pushed away from him, he let her go.

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''Cuz this is Thriller, Thriller night
And no ones gunna save you from the beast about to strike''
HAHA this song came to mind after reading

If i was in Arnav's situation I would flee the next morning... man that is scary
He saw laxshmi's ghost😲 ...and khashi's seen it before
Wow that's creepy =.=
What could be the meaning behind Shivan killing Anjali?
nice update!

Edit ***
You updated already 😲 lol
Another song came to mind which i used to hum alot

''Man eater, make you work hard
Make you spend hard
Make you want all of her love
She's a man eater
She's a man eater, a man eater''
by Nelly Furtado

LMAO is arnav giving her a little lesson on desire haha
The men in thier life really do have a tragic life
poor pallavi :(
awesome update !!

Man eaters - 😲 It must be stuck and engrained in them with all the village folks saying that.. Neither of them deserved that... Arnav bought the other house... Kashi views Arnav as someone taking advantage of someone else's helplessness! Arnav is helping kashi understand her perspective towards life...who knew this itty bitty girl would teach raizada what he has been running after so long is wrong!!!!

seriously yaar, all these 22 chapters happened in 24 hrs ?! unbelievable !!
i'm more in love with this ff than 'lavender' n 'before i fall again'...its not d chars but d story setting dat attracts...will we get one more update today ?

What the...ghost stories now? Loved how you described the dream

man-eaters... .thats horrible... its so sad that Kashi and her family is so full of tragedies but I totally admire their strength -each on of theirs... Arnav will learn a lot am sure from this family... this is really intense stuff... I felt a lump in my throat and had tears in my eyes thinking about both the sisters...