Warning⚠️– Abuse is mentioned further in this chapter.
Prerna's POV
"Why is it always me? WHY?" My voice came out hoarse. My breathing was ragged and my heart thudded against my chest, trying to break free and bury itself because the humiliation and the shame was too much to handle.
The world watched me falling apart. By the next one hour the photos will be spread across the social platforms like forest fire. They will judge me and I cannot handle it. I just cannot.
Naina held my hands tight, stopping me from clawing my body. But I needed it, dammit.
I want something to get my head off of everything otherwise it would burst. The feeling of mortification was overwhelming me. The physical pain will takeover the mental one and I want just that.
My body trembled and muscles tightened with every passing second. It was getting hard to breath. My eyelids felt heavy and white sparks were all I could see.
I am going to faint. I wanted to voice it to Naina but my tongue betrayed and the words refused to come out in proper order.
Just when I thought I was going to pass out, the door burst open and a manly voice called out for me.
"Prerna!" Sanskaar Bhaiya sat beside me.
I cried more seeing him and pushed myself off Naina to hide in his embrace.
"Bhaiya," I choked on my tears. He wrapped his shield like arms around me, providing me a sense of safety.
Ever since I became friends with Naina, he has seen me as his own sister. He helped me through the difficulties of life and guided me like a brother. Whenever I doubted myself he showed his trust in me. To be honest, he was more family to me than my actual family.
He was the first person, I opened up to. He does not speak or express much, but still he managed to understand me like my brother used to.
"Bacche, calm down." He tried to help me but I was floating in my own sorrows. I cannot calm down after whatever happened outside this room.
My name, my reputation, my dignity, my self respect, all were crumbled under the foot of a man. The same man in whom I put my trust, reluctantly. I was hesitant to trust him, to open up to him but he made me feel safe and comfortable. He understood me and made me feel valued, that same man abandoned me and left me humiliated in front of the whole world.
He did not change his decision when I desperately wanted him to. He did not look back, not even once. He did not think once about what disaster it would cause in my life, what I would have to go through after his shocking revelation that he did not want to this engagement.
Why did not called it off before? Why did he acted like he wanted to be with me? Why did he toy me like this? Why did he had to be so cruel to me? What did I ever do to him?
What did I ever do to anyone?
I had always minded my own business, never interfered in anyone's life. But still my life goes in the wrong direction. And the people who actually do wrong, they roam around all happy and content.
"Bhaiya, mujhe yaha se le chalo, please. Mera dam ghut raha hai, main mar jaungi yaha."
"Brother, please take me away from here. I can't breathe; I will die here."
I begged, through my ragged hiccups, holding onto him and he let out a shaky breath before making me stand along with him.
"Try to calm down, Prerna, please. Everything will be fine. Trust me." He said and I took a deep breath to calm myself down.
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