This chapter is long...in a monstrous way that I have split it into two parts. But since the parts are interconnected they are named as part i and ii.
You will find part i below.
Part ii will be yours this Friday.
Enjoy!
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The Bitter and the Sweet
Summary: Ab yeh Sach saat janmon taq nahi badalne wala...
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Shrigar 1923,
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Mahendra had returned as soon as he heard the news. There was little in London that could have kept him, when, almost miraculously - it is his wife who calls.
He doesn't expect her to write, given the way they had parted - and telephoning had never even occurred at the time. Maybe it was because he is more of a letter writing kind of a man, of ink and paper - of drafts and perfected cursive - of phrases upon phrases that he would write and then feed the fire. And he wasn't raised with telephones.
But he had written to her, every day - knowing full well that the letters would soon be fed to fire than opened and read - he had written to her.
He did not imagine Nalini to love him. No, she had disillusioned him of that very early into their marriage.
He hadn't expected to love her either. But he had no intentions of making her life a living nightmare as she seemed to believe - ha had no intention of being her personal jailer.
Pratap Singhs did not marry twice, whatever the reasons that brought them together were, his and Nalini's was a union of a lifetime. He might not be her love - first or last, but he did his part as he husband. Such was his promise to her and to her father.
There is nothing she could want of, nothing she could complain of - nothing that she wished and longed for - except perhaps, the man she loved.
It is not to be, Mahendra wished she realized that. The one she had chosen to love would have ruined them all - maybe, time would make her realize.
Maybe time had.
When she telephoned, she had been crying.
"May I go home?"
"Nalini you are home."
She sniffed.
"Please Maharaj ji, let us not play this game right now. Humein Ma ke paas jana hai. Humein - humein -"
He had clutched at the receiver as her words dissolved into sobs, heart wrenching ones.
"Will you tell me what has happened?" He doesn't ask her, he cannot demand answers from her, not then - not ever.
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