Rikara One Shot Story Collections I

The Hired Wife

The Hired Wife

Hello everyone... Thank you so much for the comments and vote for the previous story. This was supposed to be a small story, that I thought I will finish in half a day, but this got so long that it took me 4 days to finish it. I hope you guys will like it.

Warning: I have not much medical and legal knowledge. All the blunders in this story, please consider it creative liberty hehehe.

"1 lakh for one year." Tej tells Gauri.

"Dad!" Omkara calls him in anger.

"Keep quiet, Omkara." Tej tells him sternly. Then turning to Gauri, he tells her, "Even if you wish you can't see this much money in this short span. It's a good deal."

Gauri nervously looks at Tej and then Omkara, the man she loved.

"Just stop it, Dad." Omkara requests him.

"Your fiancé refused to marry you, Omkara! As she doesn't want to marry a man like you! Where am I to find a replacement in this last minute?" Tej asks him furiously.

"I just don't want to marry!"

"Already people look at you like an animal in zoo. And add to that, a broken marriage! I won't have our family be humiliated like that." Tej tells him. Then turning to Gauri, he says "Do you agree?"

Gauri turns to look at Omkara and sees him helplessly looking down, he would be humiliated. She couldn't see him like that.

"Fine!5 lakhs." Tej says.

"Okay." Gauri whispers as she looked at Omkara.

Hearing her, Omkara turns to her in shock, then it turned into pain and finally anger.

"My lawyer is bringing the contract marriage paper. You need to sign the prenup too." Tej tells her getting to business. "And don't even think that you will be his wife. This is just to save face. You are chosen because you are young and you joined only recently, so no one here knows that you are a maid here."

Gauri nods as she looked away from Omkara's face as her eyes filled up.

"You are a maid here and you'll remain a maid here. Just think of yourself as Omkara's personal maid. From now on, you'll take care him. Got it?"

Omkara mutters furiously under his breath and walks out in anger.

Gauri nods.

"You won't tell your family that I hired you as my son's wife for a year. Don't want those people coming to claim relation to us. got it?"

Gauri nods.

"I'll send your salary every month so they don't come here asking for your salary."

Tej steps close to Gauri and stares down at her, "My son is not desperate, but if you get pregnant, then let me make it clear to you, that neither you nor your child will have any rights on our property. It is going to be on the contract so don't think you can claim rights on my son with a baby."

After signing tons of papers, Gauri was dressed up as a bride and took to the mandap. She had sat there with her head down.

The moment all the guests left, Omkara had walked off to his room while Gauri went to the kitchen. She changed her clothes and not knowing what to do, she started cleaning up the kitchen. The rest of the servants were giving her curious and sympathetic looks. Gauri ignores everyone and continued to do her job. Hearing someone walk in, Gauri turns around and sees Tej behind her.

"What are you doing here?" Tej asks her.

Gauri worriedly looks at him.

"Take your things and go sleep in Omkara's room."