THE BLACKMAILED MARRIAGE

HE stole HIM away!

"What just happened!!?" Khushboo Seksariya asked as she entered the car Arjun had set up for them.

"Ask What not has happened! He stole our daughter away from us and didn't even give us a chance to say a nice goodbye to her! To say that 'I hate him is an understatement ', IS AN UNDERSTATEMENT!"

"Calm down daddy, We will figure something out," Annu said.

"Let's run away," Shyam said while rummaging through his mind to find any way, any way, to get out of this situation.

"Seriously Shyam? How immature of you to run away at this age. Normally young woman elopes with some handsome man, not 1 beautiful woman, and her cute daughter with some old man."

"Ohh really?!!...so I am old now huh? Not long back you said my salt-pepper hair adds spice to your life?"

Khushboo Seksariya just turned her head away to conceal her tale-telling blush.

Now Annu understood from whom she inherited the pink volcanic eruptions on her cheeks.

"Anyway, We can't get away because Arjun has set up guards at our house and even after this car. He probably has some device that can record whatever we say. So the first thing we need to do is be silent. We will discuss this all afterward, at our house."

*time skip*

"Ok, we are at our house, let's figure something out." Anany's dad sat determined and started rubbing his forehead which was already too wrinkled.

"There's no way out," Annu said.

"What?"

"yes. I tried to figure something out. But the b**tard has set everything up. Guards are there, and it is very hard to get out of this mess." Annu said.

"Nothing?"

"Nothing."

"Good" Khushboo Seksariya said while chiming into the conversation and turning two heads in a split second.

"What the"

"Don't speak to me that way! I am your mother!"

"Mummy!! Stop messing with me! What are you thinking?"

"Go with him."

"Mummy.NO."

"Yes, you will go."

"Ahhhhhh! I got what you mean! I will go with him, and then make his life hell, make him tired of me, and get a divorce!! yay! Problem solved!"

"NO. No problem solved. You will go and then you will stay married."

"Why MOM WHYY!"

"I know that he is being forced. And he will leave you eventually when you will be safe. I trust him. I talked with him. He has a reason, Annu."

"Daughter on one side and him on the other. You are choosing him??!!!"

"I am not choosing anyone especially if he is by your side. I saw him, and I-I know he is being forced and he too wants the best for you."

"MOM! WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS? IS HE FORCING YOU?"

"NO ONE IS MAKING ME DO THIS! I KNOW HE IS SAFE FOR YOU! AND I WANT WHAT IS SAFE FOR YOU! HE EVEN SAID THAT EVEN IF YOU WANT TO BE STRANGERS WITH HIM TILL HE LEAVES YOU, WHY? BECAUSE HE LOVES YOU!"

"LOVES ME, MY ASS!"

"ASS? WHERE ARE YOU LEARNING ALL THIS!"

"DON'T CHANGE THE SUBJECT!"