Segment #19
*tw: domestic violence*
Veronica jumped in surprise when the doorbell rang, and was pulled pit of her thoughts. She opened the door and Samarth smiled at her, food parcel bags in his hand.
"We didn't get to spend much time this week, so I took a few hours off."
Veronica nodded and let him in. She watched him as he served the food. How was she to tell him? Maybe the reports were wrong. But of they weren't, would it change anything between her and Samarth? She knew his reason of existence, his very being would change, would she also knew that she was the only person who could help him when he found out.
They are their food in a comfortable silence and Samarth offered to do the dishes. Veronica tried to find something to keep her busy till he would be back, but the images of the paper haunted her.
"Nica, can I ask you something?" Samarth asked as he sat next to her on the sofa. She nodded.
"What would you do if you found out that you had been lied to your whole life? Whatever you knew about yourself wasn't the truth, but the truth also puts you into a complicated mess?"
"I don't know. I guess I'll just go with the flow."
"But of going with the flow means hitting someone you love the most?"
"They'll forgive you if they know the emotional mess you are in. It's not your fault in the first place that you didn't know you were Abhay's brother." Veronica answered without thinking. Samarth gaped at her in shock.
"You know?"
Veronica looked at him for a few seconds and then handed him the reports.
"I thought that I would lose you when I read this, but then I realized, I was being stupid. It's not your fault you didn't know the truth. And no matter who you are, I love you, isn't that matters in the end, at least when it is about us, that we love each other?" Veronica asked. Samarth nodded and held her hand.
"I was going crazy since the day Nanu told me, I am so glad you know the truth now. I think you are right, I'll just go with the flow, and since you know the truth, I won't even betray you. It used to hurt me so much working for them knowing what they did to you, to me. But I will just soldier through."
Veronica smiled and kissed him.
"I love you."
"Me too." He smiled against her lips.
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Jiya applied concealer on the big wound mark across her neck.
"Sorry about that, baby." Vikrant said as her stood behind her and looked at her reflection in the mirror.
"It's nothing, baby, you just get a little rough," She answered, though she didn't remind him that she had begged him to stop choking her, that he was hurting her, but he hadn't listen.
"Where does Abhay think you?"
"Bhubaneshwar, I told him I have a meeting with a startup company based there."
Vikrant scoffed.
"The pretty lies that you tell him make you so hot." He gave her a lovebite on the nape of her neck. Jiya almost shrieked in shock and pain, but she was used to it, so put on a mask of a woman in love as soon as he looked at her."
"You know what, I am bored of Abhay. The aim is to hit that oldie Abhinav where it hurts him the most, right? What was the name of the other son? Samrat?"
"Samrath."
"Yeah, ditch Abhay, kill him after this deal with Sousa is done. Anyway, Abhay has been touching you for far too long and I don't like how you smell of him when you come back." Vikrant smiled viciously. "The Abhinav will know what's the pain of losing someone."
Jiya wanted to point out that Abhinav didn't even know Vikrant's existence apart from him being the Panther, but chose not to. Abhinav and his family were not worth her head rammed into the mirror.
"But baby, Samarath isn't even a part of the family."
"I know love, but he is sleeping with the woman you want to hurt so bad." He said and smirked, seeing the red in Jiya's eyes. She may have left the chapter named Saikat behind, but she could never get enough of seeing Veronica in pain.
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If you didn't realized, Ver still doesn't know Abhay-Sam's real parentage, she just thinks both are the heirs and he is a mere chauffeur.
I also realized Vikrant going on killing spree just because his "girlfriend" has a past wasn't really a great character arc, so... If he is wasting his resources, it should do him some good, am I right?
Edited by oh_nakhrewaali - 2 years ago