The Second Bloom • 18+ [Completed ✓]

3. Unexpected reaction (Malini's POV)

I rushed to his room and tears fell down freely from my eyes. I threw myself upon the mattress of the bed and broke down into hard sobs.

I don't want him to care for me.

I don't want him to ask me whether I had my lunch, dinner or breakfast.

I don't want him to be near me, anywhere near my vicinity.

It kills me. I feel awkward, different, my skin burns when I think that I was married to his elder brother a month ago.

I feel hurt. My heart aches. My head aches. My eyes aches. My entire existence hurts me.

I don't know why am I even alive? To be his wife?

No.

Forget what destiny did to me, but he deserved better, didn't he?

What do I have to give him? No love. No care. Nothing. Sometimes I think I'll end up being a maid in this house. An unpaid maid providing twenty-hour service.

But to h—

“Suniye.”

I immediately wiped my tears away and sat up on the bed correcting my saree properly and draping it over my head.

He inhaled deeply.

Slowly, he came forward and sat down beside me with a plate in his hands. I shifted farther away. He shifted more towards me. It continued until I was at the edge of the bed and there was no space to shift more.

“Aap...Aap ...nazdik... Nai aaiye na.” I mumbled feeling a little uncomfortable.

He shook his head, “Hum nazdik nahi aa rahe. Aap door Jaa rahin hai, humare paas aur koi rashta nahin.”

“A-aap... Aapko rashta.. chahiye hi kyu?”

He forwarded the plate towards me, “Khana kha lijiye.”

I shook my head, “Humne kaha na... Hume bhook nahi.”

He repeated again, “Kha lijiye na, bimar ho jayengi.”

“Koi jabardasti kare .... Hume pasand nahi.”

He didn't say anything, he just placed the plate on the table and silently started walking outside.

I interrupted, “Aapka khana hai. Le jaiye. Hume nahi bhook hai.”

He turned around and this time his face had a different kind of expression — anger maybe,

“Khana hai khaiye, nahi khana hai fek dijiye. Humari jimmedari thi aapko puchna, aap pe nirbhar karta hai aap kya karti hai aage.”

I felt like crying again. He walked outside leaving me alone. I waited. I waited for half an hour thinking what to do. Finally I ate it, because I understand the value of food. I can't just throw it anyway.

But something changed.

He didn't return that night to his bedroom. Well, I waited. Today, I lay down on the floor waiting for him, thinking I cannot be a burden. It's his room. He should sleep comfortably on bed.

The bed remained empty the entire night in the wait for someone to come and sleep on it.

─── ⋆⋅♡⋅⋆ ──

My eyes opened when I felt that I was up in air.

Forcing my eyes to open wide, I came face to face with him and my hands suddenly flew away to encircle his neck.