Book 7 of the Mangoverse
What's written in your fate, finds you on its own.
Collection of short stories.
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Connected to my book Hasratein but can be read on it's own.
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Life can change in mere seconds. I was a sheltered daughter yesterday and now I walk into my house with nothing but a steel spine.
I will stand up for myself. I won't let my father dictate my life anymore. Because if he gets to do that, he will take my child away. And I won't let him. The sky is dark by the time I step foot inside my old prison again.
It's funny how much I learned by being outside for just one day. Because I can learn everything if I stay outside. My father's angry glare falls on me the second I step foot inside that house. My mother stands behind him and looks worried.
And that is when my eyes move to the third person. Yug lounges on the couch with one ankle over his knee and smiles when he sees me.
"What is he saying Aradhna?!" How would I know? I just stepped in. "What did he say?"
"He is here to threaten me. He says he wants to marry you! That you're pregnant with his child and he would not leave me alone if I don't listen to him." He does have some issues with leaving people alone.
"What am I supposed to say in this papa?"
"Tell me it is a goddamn lie!"
"It's not. But if me saying that it is helps you then sure." My father gapes, my mother looks surprised while Yug frowns.
"Is this the way to talk to your father?"
The driver walks in with a stray dog leashed up. Poor thing was starving on the street. My father makes a disgusted face. "What the hell is that?"
"It's a dog."
"I know that, why is it here?"
"Because I want to keep it."
"You can't keep a dog here."
"Why?"
"Because I said so. This is my house!"
"The one you built with my money." Betrayal crosses my father's face and Yug looks like the proudest he has ever been. Doesn't matter, I don't like him right now.
"What are you talking about?! This man," he points a finger at Yug, "has brainwashed you! This is why I told you to stay away from men! He has corrupted you, and if what he says is true and you actually are pregnant, then you will abort this child and that is the end of discussion!"
I will end all his discussions. A woman walks in behind me. She is a lot taller than me and her eyes look sharp enough to fire blades through them.
She wears a maroon pantsuit with sky high red bottom stilettos. She has black hair that falls a bit below her shoulders and has diamond studs in her ears. She smiles maliciously at my father with her maroon painted lips.
"Hello Mr. Aggarwal. I am with the court of law. My client, who is also your very own daughter, by the way, requests you to kindly return all her earnings she has made since the age of twelve. The earnings you were only supposed to look after as her legal guardian. You have till the end of this month. If you fail to do so in the given timeframe, she will sue you for fraud, child neglect, and unfair use of her money."
