Tides of Love

Chapter 32

It was around 7 in the evening when I packed up my stuff and walked out of the office, manik was in an urgent meeting and he did ask me to wait for him but I wanted to shower and out on clothes so I could make him something to eat since he did have this meeting very last minute

i was waiting for my cab since it was dark outside and manik would lose it if I walked home, he will still be upset, I know he will but not as much.

"And we meet again nandini" I hear a voice turning around to face manik's mother

"How can I help you?" I ask

"It's actually the other way around nandini, what are you wiling to do to not hurt manik?" She asks and my stomach drops a little

"Excuse me?"

"You see Nandini, I don't think my son is aware of your escapades with aryan" as soon as I hear the name my body freezes

I didn't have the energy to say anything, I couldn't say anything.

"Maybe I should have a conversation with aryan and see the kinds of things that you did with him. Not to mention how my son would react to those things"

"Nandini" I hear another voice, it was my cab driver

I walk to him and place my bag in the car and got in, the way home was a blur which is so bad because this cab driver could have taken me literally everywhere and I wouldn't notice

"Here we are" I hear him

I look around and saw the gate to my community

"Thank you" I mumble handing him some cash

"It's already paid for" he says because I paid over the app

"It's okay, keep it" I say

"Thank you" he says

I punch in the code and walk home, I swear my whole body felt weak, my phone was continuously ringing and beeping all the way home and when I was showering but I couldn't answer it

What if she was right and that once manik hears how dirty I am and how impure I am, he, what if he doesn't want me anymore and what if he is disgusted by me?

"WHAT THE FUCK NANDINI" I hear manik's voice

My head turns from the onions I was cutting to manik, he looks pissed, ballistic even

"FUCK, WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU" he screams grabbing my hand

I look down to noice blood oozing out of my finger, I didn't even notice, it was like I was numb. Even though now I had seen my finger and blood coming out of it, I wasn't in pain still

i hear him running around in the house as cold water runs over my finger, he shut the water and grabbed my hand and a clean towel

"What is wrong with you" he asks wiping my finger clean

"Shittt it's not stopping nandini what the hell baby, what were you doing?" His voice was full of concern as he puts my finger back under water

his arm holding me up because I don't even realize I was light headed until I felt him holding me tighter.

"Okay okay, it' okay" I hear him giving himself a pep talk as he sits me down on the chair in the kitchen

"Tell me if it hurts or if It's too tight" he says but I didn't feel anything

I look down to see him failing to put a bandaid on my finger because of how bad his hands were shaking, it takes him a couple bandaids to finally put one on