Broken By Love [COMPLETED]

Chapter 44

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Sikha

The lights go off in the living room, and the drapes get closed too, exactly how I had planned.

"What the fuck? What happened to the lights suddenly?" I hear Dhruv's angry voice.

You will know soon, Dhruv. Very—

I could not even complete that thought when the video starts playing on the screen, that I had placed in the front.

Everyone falls silent as my booming voice comes from the screen—it playing the video in Nisha's laptop, being projected to the screen through the projector.

"What the hell is this, Sikha?" Dhruv asks me in a hushed voice.

"Do you remember me calling my friend to the mansion two days back to make something in rememberance of all of Anjana's victims?" I ask and see him nod through the dim light coming through the video playing in the screen. "This is what we made for them."

"But, Sikha—" He begins when I interrupt him.

"Trust me on this, Dhruv," I tell him and smirk when he nods again, now looking ahead to watch the video.

Trust me to destroy and you and your family once and for all.

With my smirk widening due to that thought, I too look ahead to watch everything unfold.

"I am Sikha Agarwal, and I am here to tell you all the harsh truths that Anjana's victims faced and cruelties they endured.

"You all heard that right. The one who was the mastermind behind all those murders was not Anjali Rathore. It was Anjali's twin sister, Anjana.

"While Anjali was adopted by Dhruv's parents, Anjana was left in the orphanage. She later moved out of there when she got married to Manav Adhikari.

"After her marriage with Manav, she became a victim of domestic violence, where she was abused mercilessly by her husband and his business partner.

"That somehow deranged her and pushed her to kidnap her own twin and even kill her, but not before getting Anjali raped by partner in crime, Ridvansh.

"After murdering her twin sister, Anjana impersonated as Anjali to be a part of Dhruv's family and later killed his parents too.

"The years following that, she and Ridvansh murdered many girls. They specifically selected the adopted girls who were loved by their adoptive parents.

"They made those girls their captive and mercilessly tortured them. Ridvansh sexually assaulted them while Anjana watched, drawing sick pleasure from that, and later both of them killed those girls after completely breaking them.

"All the other details including the victims' names will be released officially by the authorities once they finish their investigation.

"I called you all today not only to give details about the crimes committed by Anjana, but also to urge you to think about what pushed her toward committing those crimes.

"I am not justifying her crimes by saying that as she was abused in her marriage, it was fine for her to abuse and kill those girls.

"It was barbaric what she did. And she should not be forgiven for those heinous crimes, no matter how much she had suffered at hands of her husband and his partner.

"There are many women who get abused in their marriage. Most of them never come out, never tell their story because they are taught it is normal. It is drilled into their minds that when their husbands take them forcefully, it is those husbands' right and not at all the marital rape.