Part Three
The eveing turned into night..The air seemed to crackle with raw energy..There was slight thunder and lightning,clapping and sizzling..The city will soon be awash with rain he thought..
Not bothering with something to protect him from nature's dance, he walked the street purposefully..
It was dark.. Time for him to strike.. Pounce on his prey..Get on with the retribution and avengement..
Chaffing his hands, he could visualise, how he would go about it..All these years will not go wasted..He will extract his pound of flesh..
The rain came in sheets now..Not to be blinded he held his hands above his eyes..He had now reached her house..
An independant one...Well she could afford it.. Afterall all her money was his, right?he thought bitterly..
He stood infront of the gate.. He didn't notice the sudden blackout of power due to the downpoar..It was almost pitch dark..
His eyes adjusted to the darkness..
There were some windows open and the shutters banging against the frame.. It seemed like a music building slowly to hit a cresendo.. Something was beating like a drum in unison. He was shocked to hear that it was his own heart..
He could almost visualise what will happen next..
Yes !!!
There she was, appearing at the window and trying in vain to close the shutter..
He saw her!!!
She was now in her nightdress!!
Satin blue, a favourite colour of his..
He focussed intently on her.. Never batting his eyelids..taking in the details..A sigh escaped him,involutarily..
He was mesmerised!!
He watched her..
She sensed something..
She saw him!!!!!!
Her eyes playing a drama..First in fear, then in disbelief and finally in love!!
He saw this.. It stunned him!!!
Eyes in love??
It was staggering but the truth..
He felt himself shudder.Shivering perhaps from the cold and the realisation..
He was rooted just holding the gate for balance..
He saw a faint light floating towards him..
She was running towards him with a torch..
Opening the gate with a jerk, she was heaving for breath and watched him intently..
Her intensity was too much to handle..He almost doubled over..
Strong gentle hands half lifted ,half helped him to wobble across the path..
His eyes had locked with her hers..
She seemed to plead, request and beg for his forgiveness..
But her love seemed to override even that remorseness..
He felt at home.. His nomadic life seemed to find a permanance..
A peace and tranquility seem to awash his tortured soul..
Tear flowed!!!!
His and hers..Together and apart..
He neither noticed his hands gripping her body strongly nor hers finding solace in his hug..
The dam broke loose..
The explanations and words will come later.. But right now its only them..
The minutes that passed seemed like hours..
All his aim and intent of wrecking a havoc in her life was obliterated..His bitterness and vengence seemed to dissipate by the seconds..
She led him indoors into a bedroom..
Another shock reeled him.. His mind and body was numb..
That GIRL!!
She was sleeping soundly..
His eyes truned towards his beloved.. Her nod and eyes spoke and answered his unasked question..
His Baby! His flesh and blood, right before his eyes..
Immense wave of saddness washed him..For want of proving a few things how she had distanced him from his rightful needs..How much he had assumed wrongly before realising her real worth and value..
Love is irrepresible and bittersweet..
Both had suffered and suffered enough..
The past can never be grieved , its gone..
The future neednt be bothered , it will come..
The present is now..to be lived beautifully and be remembered.
The Janus Man, the two faced man; one looking into the past and the other into the future is now singular..
He has changed, transformed..
A bitter and embattled man of the past waiting for the future to wreck and destroy her life, is now a Man of present..
Ram loves Priya
Priya loves Ram..
Both love Riya
Riya loves both..
~~~~~~~~~~~~The end..~~~~~~~~~~