Chapter-1
A girl was lying in the middle of the road. Her face had multiple stab wounds and there's blood all over her salwar suit. A car stopped. A wealthy looking man got out of it, assessing the situation. Then thinking for five minutes, he lifted the girl and laid her body on the back seat. He pushed a lock of hair smeared with blood off her eyes.
It took an hour for the woman to gain consciousness. The man is sure that something unspeakable had happened with her.
The man reassured her, stopping the car, taking a water bottle with him, "Calm down Okay. You are safe here." He reached towards her sliding in the backseat.
"Here, drink some water," he opened the bottle cap and forced the bottle into woman's mouth. The woman tried to protest, but now forcing the water bottle in woman's mouth with water flowing down the woman's chin with one hand, the man was beginning to open the buttons of his expensive shirt.
"You don't need to do that," said the woman and giving the man a seductive smile, she began opening the buttons of man's shirt with her own hands. Her hand felt for his shirt pocket and as the man closed his eyes to kiss her, she bit her lips and said, "I prefer man who see me with open eyes while kissing."
As the man opened his eyes, the woman thrust the pen she took from the man's pocket into his eyes.
The man screamed in pain. Then she took a screwdriver from the toolbox in the car and repeatedly stabbed the man in the neck with it.
"Why are you doing this?" The man was pleading now, "I don't even know you."
Whistling to herself, the woman fished out a wallet from the man's pocket which carried his credit cards, cash, IDs and in the backside of car, she found a shopping bag.
"It's for my girlfriend," the man was all snotty. The shopping bag had a little black dress
The woman fished out man's cellphone and in call logs, she found nine missed calls from a contact name- Wife. The woman smiled.
Then after taking everything from the man, the woman took a petrol container from the backside of car and drenched the man and the car with it. Then with the lighter she found it from man's things, she lit the car into a ball of fire.
She swallowed and there was moisture in her eyes. But then her eyes felt a sapphire ring on her finger and she said, "Jab paap ki har nishaani ka ant ho hi raha h, tab tera yahaan par kya kaam." And with that, she flung the ring into the blazing fire.
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In Aurangabad, a woman is scrolling through pictures on a cellphone. Her eyes stop at the picture of a family with husband-wife and a baby. The wife is wearing the same sapphire ring.
"Kitni baar kaha h meri cheezon ko haath mat lagaya karo, Sampada" the man was visibly irritated.
"Us Kalyani ki photo abhi bhi tumhare phone me kya kar rahi h, zara batao to Malhar?" Sampada pouted.
"Moksh ki bhi photo thi usme, isliye delete nahi ki," Malhar said, "Aur bola tha na maine ki Kalyani ka naam ab is ghar me kabhi nahi liya jayega. Mar chuki h ab vo vaise bhi."
"Malhar!" The woman kajoled, "Mujhe bhi aisi hi ring laakar do na."
Malhar sighed in despair. He didn't like Sampada, ever since she abandoned him for Atharva. But he couldn't bring up Moksh alone. Even though Moksh couldn't speak, he continuously cried since Kalyani died. For the millionth time Malhar wondered, if Kalyani would be alive today, if he had not pushed her down the stairs outside his house that day. Malhar told himself he didn't give a damn about Kalyani's death but the fate of unborn baby always made him sad. Though it would've been an illegitimate child born out of Kalyani and Atharva's extramarital affair, but it was not fair that the unborn child paid for the sins of his parents. The unborn child reminded him of his sister's Swara fate, who eventually killed herself to escape the torture by Kalyani's family.
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