Mehek Shaurya OS: Mrs. Khanna's Fast Part8+ Epilogue 2/9 pg39 - Page 3

Folks, I just couldn't resist. Like I said I am addicted. Not sure how far this will go, but I am offering the following teaser as to what could possibly happen next. I expect it will take a few days to complete the update in totality, and hopefully I will decide if this will become a full fledged story. Opinions appreciated on the following :

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"She cannot fast: I will not allow it." Shaurya brusquely announced. He frowned when his mother merely turned away from him to attend to a pan on the range top.

Away from his view, she smiled, as she stirred the gravy. "Beta, women: wives and mothers have done this for ages. It is tradition and believe it or not there are accommodations made for such situations."

This was not the response he expected or wanted from the one he had anticipated to ally with him in this matter. And anyway, who cared what women had done in the past; none of them had been his, nor had any of these nameless females been carrying his child, Shaurya thought.

"She is your bahu, Mother and carrying your first grandchild: the heir of this family. To even contemplate such tomfoolery ..."

"Haan beta, but you have to realize that she is also a wife, one who has seen the evidences of her husband's delicate constitution with her own eyes. How can you expect her not to want to succor the welfare of her husband: the father of her child, no less?"

It was a low blow to bring up his fainting spell, and evidence that he would find no support here. Thik hai, if the women of the house wanted to play hard-ball then so would he. He would just call the doctor to dispel the lunacy wrought by the upcoming festival.

"I'm afraid I am with your mother on this one, Shaurya beta...and frankly you should be grateful that your wife wishes to fast for the day. In fact, you should encourage it...one can just imagine the size she will grow to in the coming months. And it is not as if she cannot afford to miss a meal or two"

Shaurya rotated to glare at his aunt, who with her usual wine glass, had entered the kitchen.

"Congratulations Beta, you have done well by the family. And far sooner than I expected you, especially since my new niece doesn't exactly meet the standards of our class. I honestly thought it would take you longer to warm up to the task," Svetlana slurred, clearly under the influence of the intoxicants she had been imbibing. "Bhabhi you have done well in the selection of the family broodmare, but without doubt this particular one derives from "hearty" stock," she continued derisively. "Listen to your mother beta, a fast will hardly affect your wife, in fact you should insist on it. Aacha perhaps even a schedule throughout her pregnancy would benefit... "

Svetlana stopped when Shaurya advanced on her, fire in his eyes. But then he suddenly stopped. She rotated to follow the direction of the angry man's new focus.

Shaurya watched as Mehek backed out of the room she had entered; the abject pain unmistakable in her doe eyes. In reaction, he closed his own: he would surely kill his Aunt today.