Lawfully Wedded

Chapter 44

My hands tremble as I reach for door handle and twist it open. They group stops talking and Rohan looks up and my expression must have told him what I was thinking because he drops his smile and gets up as he walks towards me.

"Tell me what I overhead was not what is looked like," I whisper as clutch his wrists.

"Of course it's not like that, you know I would never,"

"Then explain to me what it exactly it Ro,"

"Calm down baby, I'll tell you all the details, just calm down will you?"

It was when he mentioned that I realised I was shaking and I try to calm down as much as I can. Rohan settles me in a chair and kneels down in front of me, cradling my face as he leans forward until my forehead touches his.

"You okay?"

I nod my head and take a deep breath and leaning away from him, staring at the people in the room. Apart from the employees there's only one stranger, who must be Aarush. He offers me a small smile and turns away from me.

"Right, so Sanjana, meet my friend Aarush, and Aarush meet my wife, Sanjana,"

"Hi," I say.

"Why don't I explain the whole situation? It'll be much easier that way," Aarush offers and my husband nods his head.

"Right so, in my office, there's someone who's always liked me, her name is Kavyal, I didn't like her at all, well not like she's not beautiful but I didn't find my person in her so I've told her off on several occasions. She continued being touchy, even around my 4 year old daughter, Tanaya. She's even gone to the extent of telling my daughter that she's her mother. So when I found out, I confronted her for this and of course like all the other times, she was not happy with what happened, so imagine my surprise when the next day, I find her in my living room, with bare minimum clothes, bruises all over her body accusing me of raping her,"

"Okay I'm not even sorry for asking this, but how do I know you're not lying?"

"I have a camera in my living room, because I work a 9 to 5 job and my daughter stays alone at home all the time, I keep a camera in the living room and her room so I can monitor her, you know the fears of a single parent,"

"Can I see the footage please?"

He shows me the footage and it clearly looks like Aarush has passed out on the couch of their living room and she somehow magically appears in the living room.

"Urmm... pause that video for a second,"

"Yeah,"

"How did she get in?"

"That is what I've not been able to wrap my head around,"

"Aarush you do know how nonsensical that sounds right?"

"I know, God I know, but I really haven't done anything to her, I haven't touched a woman since my baby girl was born Sanjana, and if I want I would have given into her advances right? Why would I go to the extent of raping her?"

"She does look injured though,"

"That is the least of our concerns,"

"How can you say that Rohan? Maybe she was raped? This video neither proves Aarush to he guilty nor does it show that he's done nothing, so how can you trust him so easily? Just because he's your friend? And no Aarush I don't hate you, but I'm skeptical of everything, every man to be precise because it takes me a lot to trust men, so please don't be offended,"

"Sanjana, you do know that some women make baseless accusations on men,"

"And you just don't come to that judgement without checking all the facts right?"