Revenge In Love

CH 56- Unspoken Truths

AUTHOR'S POV
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"I was too young back then to understand everything. I thought they had hurt my mom, but I didn't realize they had destroyed her."

As Arjun spoke, his voice cracked, and tears streamed down his face.

Siya began to cry too; she could empathize with Niharika's pain. She placed her hand on his shoulder and asked softly, "Arjun, why did Mira Aunty do this?"

Arjun gave a bitter smile and replied, "I was too young to understand at the time, but now I realize that maybe she wasn't entirely wrong in her way. Still, I can never forgive her for ruining my mother's life."

A whirlwind of questions flooded Siya's mind: Why had Mira spoken against Niharika? What role did Kimaya play in all of this? Who was truly responsible for destroying Arjun's mother's life? She wanted to ask everything but could only see the pain in his eyes, which made it hard for her to speak.

Taking a deep breath, Arjun continued, "After that day, Shaurya Singh Rathore never came home. With him, my mom's smile disappeared forever. She became like a lifeless doll, sitting in silence, barely eating, and never talking to anyone. She didn't even come to me. I was too young, and perhaps that's why she couldn't share her pain with me. Besides me, she had no one else.
Days passed like that until one day, she seemed to come back to life. She showed me love again, just like before. That night, she read me a bedtime story and tucked me in. But I had no idea it would be the last time... the last time."

His voice broke as he said this.

"The next morning, when I woke up, the house was eerily silent. I went downstairs, but no one was there, staff, no mom. I thought she might be sleeping, so I went to her room. I knocked on the door, but there was no response. I opened the door and stepped inside, and in that moment, my whole world shattered... everything ended. I found my mom..."

Arjun pointed toward the ceiling fan, his voice trembling.

"I found her hanging from the fan. She had taken her own life, Siya. She was gone. Gone forever."

He broke down in sobs, and Siya's eyes filled with tears as well. Maybe she hadn't experienced his pain firsthand, but she understood it deeply. She had lost her father before her very eyes and knew the heartache of losing the person who meant everything to her.

"I sat there in the room, clutching my mother's feet, not knowing what to do. I was too young to understand what was happening. A while later, Meera came in and saw everything. She was the one who called the police, relatives, friends, and even Shaurya Singh Rathore. When my mom was alive, she didn't have a single person to share her pain with, but the moment she was gone, thousands of people showed up. Do you know what she wrote in her suicide note?"

Arjun looked into her eyes, which were filled with concern.

He gave a faint, bitter smile and said, "Even in her final moments, she was asking her husband for forgiveness. She was trying to convince him that she was innocent, that she hadn't done anything wrong, and that it was all lies...It was so hard for me to accept that my mom was truly gone forever. My world had completely shattered. For days, I couldn't believe it. I thought maybe it was just a bad dream, and once it was all over, my mom would come back to me and hold me in her arms. I waited for days, hoping she would return, but she never did. Not ever."

Siya gently wiped his tears with her hands, feeling immense sorrow for the little boy he once was. He didn't deserve any of it-not even a bit.

"For a month, I didn't speak to anyone. I didn't leave my room or eat properly just waited, thinking at any moment my mom would come back. Shaurya Singh Rathore took me to a psychiatrist, but it didn't help."