AUTHOR POV
THE DAY SAVITRI LEFT
Aaditya just stood at the door for hours and hours looking at the way from where she and his baby left, his heart felt empty and hollow the pain of seperation wss slowly seeping in his entire body.
His mother let her son be, giving him the space she went back to her room crying with blood tears of seeing her lineage getting destroyed the grandson she waited to have for so long was now gone away from her.
The grief the, the pain wasn't letting the woman feel normal even at once, the whole haveli felt the unwanted silence, the once cheerful haveli of thakurs was slowly been consumed by the darkness that loomed around it.
Aaditya stood there for ever, the sky felt dark he just stood there feeling at loss, at midnight he finally felt like moving to his room, looking at each and every thing he was reminded of her, he touched each corner of his room to feel her presence that gave his heart some peace and solace he wanted badly.
Slowly the thoughts when were accepted to the depth of his heart and mind, tears fell out of his eyes slowly, soon he balled his eyes out like a child, his mouth started producing the voice of broken hiccups and sobs, he felt difficult to breath.
Lying on his bed, he tried to take the smell and feel of his wife, he sobbed loudly like a child, the voice of his agony could be heard to the entire haveli making each and every person present there feel the pain he was going through.
The week chandini was lying on her bed downstairs, she felt was extreme happiness, the unwanted child was gone, she did felt a lot of pain while going to miscarriage but she felt it was all worth it, the only thing she felt worried about was of savitri and her child with aaditya, she knew now there was no reason for her to stay in this haveli.
But as if God was finally bestowing her with goodness, and love which she obviously deserves, savitri own her own went away from the haveli, with her son, though she felt bad that aaditya was going through such pain but she wanted him yo let it out, so that his heart can be empty and with time her love and care will fill the emptiness of his heart.
Now she was determined to get what she actually deserves, she is person who believe in destiny she knew and had hope that someday her time will change too, and now was the time that gave her opportunity to loote all the desires she had to her heart contents.
Days passed like that in the haveli, the depressed aaditya stayed mostly in his room barely coming out of it his doors, window were all closed not letting a single light enter his room, darkness was becoming the friend that made him feel comfortable and human again, he didn't wanted to see the disgusting man he was and darkness helped him to hide to face the reality he started denying.
The mother of aaditya felt weaker and sad as the days passed the poor woman in grief an d guilt of breaking her sons home with her own hand was killing her slowly each day, looking at her son behaving so abnormally, she felt too much worry, seperation from her grandson and tension of whereabouts of savitri were slowly eating her, making her weak and sick day by day.
Both the masters of haveli were going too weak and in absence of them, made the servants weak and confuse to the bright and Almighty haveli was slowly turning dull and Diminishing. The servants too needed one master to lead them, the business an d the politics were all slipping from the hands of thakur's, the place looked like a curse which people started to avoid as much they can.
Weak chandini started getting back in her health and normal, she was getting stronger, in absence of the right sense of aaditya and his mother nade her grab the hold on powers of haveli in her hands.
She started to dress like savitri and ordered the maids like she use to do, taking over the inner politics of house she started making changes slowly according to her need.
She made her way to aaditya's room opening the doors and windows she took him out of his isolation by using the tactics to exactly behave and talk like savitri, she was becoming a sick replica of savitri, that churned the stomach of her loyal maids chandrika and maitri, they both hated her and wanted either maji Or aaditya to throw her out from where she came from.
But chandini used savitri and her dead child against him that made aaditya never misbehave with her in the guilt and regret, he never stopped her from dressing like her because it gave him some assurance of savitri's presence near him, even if he knew it is fake and being the murderer of her child that aaditya belived and chandini never corrected him made her stay and behave her like the new thakurien.
His mother looking at her son slowly getting involves in his normal routine because of chandini behavior, the greedy and selfish heart of a mother never corrected chandini, she became too weak and sick after savitri departure that made her quite too quite to even stop the wrong in her own house.
