Chapter 4
Aarti was living on cloud 9. Her father had given them a honeymoon in Italy as a gift. It was an awesome time. They spent their days shopping and experimenting different cuisines and restaurants and sightseeing and the nights making love all night long. She shopped for the family. And she loved to buy clothes and gifts for the kids. She knew she was getting ahead of herself, but she was already thinking of being a mommy herself.
She called her dad every day, she really missed him. And she spoke to her mother in law every day too. The bond that started when they met increased without her even being at home. She was so naughty. She would make her blush by the innuendos she made about their honeymoon. She was also eager to be a grandma again.
Finally they had gone home but they stopped over in Bhopal before going to Dehli. It seemed that her father's health was still deteriorating. She didn't want to leave him,
"Yash, do you mind if I stay home for a while to look after Pappa. I am really worried about him." in bed the night before they were to leave for Dehli.
"Sure."
"I will speak to Ma and check with her"
"Don't worry Aarti. She won't have a problem."
"I will miss you" she said.
"I know what you will miss" he said as he started to pull her closer to him.
"And you won't miss it I suppose?" she said smiling.
"You have no idea how much I will miss it." he said and started his assault. He pulled down her panties, spread her legs and entered her with a forceful thrust.
He looked at her with passion in his eyes.
"You are simply always ready Mrs Scindiya. No need for foreplay with you. I love that."
"Have you seen my husband Mr. Scindiya. He is marvellously hot and my body is on fire for him 24/7."
"How long will you stay here for?"
"Maybe 2 weeks?"
"2 weeks, huh? Then I have to get my fill tonight. No sleep for you tonight, babe."
"Promise" she said and moved her lower body up against him, making him lose control.
"Yes" he shouted. He kept his promise.
He left the following day.
She carried on as before she was married. Went to the office and taking care of her father. He seemed a little better now that she was at home. But at night when she had to go to bed she was terribly lonely. She missed him so much. She craved for him. She didn't want to without him anymore.
She called him every night when she went to bed. That didn't help. In fact it made her need for him even more. She even cried when they had to say good night. He just laughed at her silliness and assured her that the two weeks would be over soon. And that she should enjoy the time with her father.
She had come home from work the Friday after the first week. The plan was to cook and to watch a movie with her dad and then to bed.
She went to put the groceries in the kitchen and then went to her dad in the living room to greet. He had only worked half day that day. She heard voices as she approached the living room. She thought she recognised the 2nd voice but she was afraid to hope. Her footsteps quickened. And it was him. He was chatting with her father and they were both enjoying a cup of tea
.
"Yash. What are you doing here?"
"Visiting my father in law." he smiled.
"Why didn't you let me know you were coming?"
"I wanted to surprise you."
"Oh" she said. Her outward demeanour was calm, but her heart was beating a hundred miles a minute.
"Beta, you go with Yash to unpack his things and then you can order some food for us. You don't need to cook."
"Ok pappa." she said and she went to the room and he followed.
They didn't make it further than the bedroom door. The moment it shut they reached for each other and started to kiss passionately. Words were superfluous. There was no time for foreplay. The need was too great. They merely got rid of the essential obstacles that kept them apart. He lifted her onto him causing her to moan loudly. His thrusts were fast and frantic. They reached the peak of pleasure in minutes. And they were breathing heavily holding onto each other. Reluctant to part from each other.
"I missed you" she said.
"Me too" he said. His voice sounded almost anguished.
"Is something wrong?"
"No" he said.
"How long are you staying for?"
"The weekend."
"Yash, I have to arrange for supper."
"You feel so good. I don't want to let you go."
"I feel the same, but pappa needs to eat to take his meds."
"Fine" he lifted her off him.
She called one of her father's favourite restaurants and arranged for a delivery and then went to shower. She locked the door to make sure he can't follow her because she had no resistance against him. And she took her change of clothes with her.
She came out fully dressed. But he was sleeping. She smiled. He must have been up early to go to work and then fly here. She let him sleep and went to set the table. She woke him up for dinner.
Dinner was pleasant and afterwards she settled down next to her father to watch one of their favourite movies under a blanket in the lounge. They shared a love of epic movies and they would often sit and watch it together. She normally lay in her father arm while she was watching. The only thing different tonight was that her husband sat on the other side of her. She reached out and took his hand in hers. She could sense he was uncomfortable at first but he soon relaxed as he saw her father was fine with it.
He ended up staying the whole week till she would go home too. She would go to work every day and he would work from home. And at night they worked too. On each other.
The return to SM was an adjustment for her. She was now working from home and he went to the office. Their 2 companies were in direct competition to each other so to avoid conflict of interest she worked from as she was not going to rent office space just for her. And it worked thanks to modern technology.
When they married for 3 months her father had announced that he wants to retire and the he wanted Yash as his successor. She felt proud that her father trusted him to such an extent that he would do that. She had always thought that she would take over the business but her priorities had changed after she got married. She started liking the idea of having children and not working full time. And they could afford it. She wouldn't mind working part time but she lost the drive that she had before to run VK as she had before. The company had a few minor shareholders and her father gave her half his shares and half to Yash. And soon she had decided to sign her share over to him too as she wanted to concentrate on having a baby. She didn't want to be bothered with the running of the business.
Now 6 months late and 4 months into their marriage, she couldn't believe a well-educated career woman could make such stupid mistakes. She should have known better. How could she have given him everything? Now she had nothing and she was having his baby. Her love had made her stupid and blind. He played her and she fell for him hook, line and sinker. He had it all and she had nothing. Not even her husband. Not even her family. She didn't know who in the house she could trust and who was in on this scam. She didn't even cry now. She just sat in the bed in the hotel room until she was just too tired and sleep engulfed her.
She walked back in at SM the following day. Her mother in law ran to her and embraced her. She looked at her not sure if she could trust the love that she once welcomed from the only mother that she really knew now.
"Bahu. Where were you. I was so worried about you. Don't ever do that again. You will give me a heart attack."
She didn't answer.
"Have you eaten?"
She still didn't answer.
"Aarti"
It was him. She thought that he would be at the office by now. She gave him a look of pure hatred and walked past him to their bedroom.
He followed.
"Aarti, are you ok?"
She shot him another hate filled glare.
"We both know you don't care so just stop pretending."
"The baby"
She was shocked that he knew.
"How do you know?"
"I picked up the results outside bauji's office."
"I see. The baby is fine."
"What are you going to do?"
"Nothing."
"What do you mean nothing?"
"Exactly that. Nothing. To the outside world and my father we will be exactly the same. The perfect couple. But in this house, we will be nothing more than strangers that share a room. You have what you want, now you can leave me in peace."
"Aarti ..."
"Does Ma know?"
"She didn't. She knows now. I had to tell her when you didn't come home."
"Are you telling the truth?"
"Yes. She loves you. Please don't punish her for something I did."
"Yash, my happiness is the most important thing to my father. He must never find out about this. If he does, I will leave no stone unturned to make this families life a living hell. No one will be spared. He is all I have, and I don't want him to feel guilty because he gave me to you. Is that clear?"
"Yes."
"I suggest you contact your girlfriend because from now on this will be a marriage in name only. But I am sure that won't be a problem because it was all an act anyway, wasn't it. Shame, you had to put up with the ugly rich girl to get to her father's wealth. How you must have hated to touch me. To make l... to have sex with me." She closed her eyes. She felt sick. Nauseas. Humiliated. She couldn't bear to be in the same room as him anymore. She fled to the bathroom and locked the door. She vomited.
"Aarti, Aarti are you ok. Do you need a doctor?" He shouted from outside.
"I am fine. Just leave me,"
She took a long shower and when she got out, he was gone.
Her father's health took a turn for the worst soon after. She decided to go back to Bhopal. At least she could tell her father it was because of his illness. He was very excited to find out about his grandchild. And she took pleasure in taking care of him.
But he followed. Being the new CEO of VK, he said that he had to be at their head office in Bhopal. She was livid. And because she didn't want her father to know, she had to endure him close to her. And he put on an elaborate show for her father. He pretended to be very affectionate. Always touching and holding her. Where she loved his touch before, it now repulsed her. But she couldn't do anything for the sake of her father she endured it.
But he had never even seen his grandson. She was 7 months pregnant when he passed away. She had only found out when she moved back that he had cancer. She hated seeing him waning away and she only strove to make him more comfortable. And when he died, she had no one. She had nothing.
Yash woke up once again hearing her cry. And realised that it was only a dream. She was gone. He had searched for her all over, but he couldn't find her. He didn't know if she was dead or alive. His dream was recurring. And he lived his nightmare every day.
When her father died she was inconsolable. He wanted to hug her and make her feel better. But every time he came near her she withdrew like a scared child. The only one that could comfort her was his mother. She took care of her. Made sure that she ate and slept. She held her when she cried. Witnessing her diminishing like that made his self-loathing more intense. He had brought her to this place in her life. He broke her and then she lost her father. But that was not the worst.
He would never forget that day. Soon after her father's death she had gone into premature labour brought on by stress. But the baby was fine and fully formed. She had gotten a little bit of the sparkle back. Not for him, but for their son and his mother. She smiled again when she played with Ansh and spoke to him. But one morning he woke up by the sound of her crying softly. He woke up fully and saw her sitting on the floor with the baby in her arms. He knew immediately that something was wrong. He got up and went closer. She didn't even see him. She sat staring straight in front of her holding onto the baby. When he got closer, he saw that the child was blue. He touched him and he was ice cold. He ran out of the room calling his mother. They called the doctor and an ambulance.
It was heart wrenching. They tried to take the baby out of her arms and she wouldn't let go. Finally coming out of her catatonic state, she screamed.
"No!! No!!! My baby. His mine. You can't take him away. His mine. Leave him" She was sobbing and screaming, breaking everyone's heart in the room.
Finally his mother managed to convince her to give the baby and she was given a sedative. It was confirmed that it was a cot death. She never came out of her unresponsive state. She allowed Vidhi and his mother to feed her. They dressed her and took her walks in the garden. He still did not want him near her. She never spoke a word for 2 months.
Then one day he got a call at the office. Both Vidhi and his mother went out that day. And when they came back she was gone. He rushed home. They asked the servants but no one noticed anything. Then they looked at the security camera footage. They saw her simply walking out of the door and out of the gate. She was still in a trance like state and she had nothing with her. No luggage, no money, no identification. Everyone searched for her. The police were involved but nothing. A year later and still nothing.
He had gotten what he had set out to obtain. He was now the CEO and majority shareholder of VK and the merger with SE was nearly complete. Only to realise that that it meant nothing to him. But he realised that too late. Now he had lost everything that really mattered to him. His wife and his child. And he lost her by his own actions. He wiped away his tears. If he could give up everything he had to get her back he would. He still prayed every day that he would find her, for a miracle. His hope and prayers were what he had to cling to otherwise he would not survive.
Edited by B-onesie - 9 years ago
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