PART TWELVE
"Now we come to the good part. The emotional part. I am gonna write my name on your heart so you are marked with my name forever."
He couldn't see from where she got them but suddenly she had a pair of scissors and a razor blade in her hand that she was waving about proudly as if she had conjured them from thin air.
She came up close to him , and with the scissors ripped his shirt off leaving him naked to the waist.
Now razor blade in hand, and with childlike concentration she started slashing letters spelling out her name onto the left side of his chest.
Blood oozed out with each fresh cut.
"Arrey yaar, so much blood. One would have thought a cold and unfeeling person like you would have ice in their veins instead of blood."
She dabbed at his chest , blotting the blood with the tail end of her pallu.
"There. All done. S-H-R-A-D-D-A. That spells Shradda. Now everyone knows this heart belongs to Shradda only.
"Ah. Ok, maybe you've suffered enough. I am after all your dharam patni. Your welfare should be my only concern. I'll put you out of your misery. Let me first do something though.
"If you've been wondering why I have been recording all this then let me tell you it's for your Maa, my beloved saasuma. Hang on let me address her now ."
She turned to face the tablet,
"Hallo beloved Saasuma? How are you? "
She mockingly folded her hands together like a respectful daughter in law would when addressing her mother in law.
"So sorry to question my elders but what can I do if they are wrong?
"You never thought through the subsequent consequences of your actions did you? Never felt any remorse? Well I have taken measures to ensure there are repercussions for you. I am the avenging angel today."
She flapped her arms as if she was a bird,
"Check out my angel wings Saasuma. "
This was accompanied by a mad laugh that she broke off abruptly.
"Look at your son, Dhruv. Doesn't he look beautiful? "
She took Dhruv's lolling head in her hands and positioned it squarely in front of the tablet.
"This is all your doing. Check out the pain . That's your precious, precious beta suffering. Tee-hee.
How you blithely swapped one groom for another at the mandap. Tut tut tut. Playing God were you?
Just because certain of your kids think you are Bhagwan, did you delude yourself into thinking you were?
"Naughty, naughty Saasumaa."
She wagged her finger at the camera.
"You live for him don't you? Well let's watch how you live after I am done. In a minute I am gonna kill him and trust me this death is all on your hands. You interfering, unrepentant so and so. Toodles."
With that she smartly brought her legs together and put her right hand to her forehead in an imitation of a salute that she had observed all her life.
"And press 'Send'. That was fun." She cackled madly again. She sent the recording off and turned once again to Dhruv.
"See you in the next of our seven lifetimes together. "
She then walked to the open door, lit a match and threw it inside, closing the door behind her .
In the throes of immense pain the last thing Dhruv saw was a bright flame approaching him at furious pace.
He screamed in terror and tried to jerk himself out of the chair but to no avail.
He was quickly engulfed by the fire.
Edited by Bea1 - 9 years ago
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