Mysterious Oberoi

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"Wait," I requested him. "I will get you water," I was on the verge of getting up from the floor but he shook his head.

"I am not sure how long I can pull this off," he groaned in pain. "I need to confess my sins before you." He muttered, "I married you because of a mission. The mission of destroying the criminal. Mr Shlok Oberoi who was rulling the world. He had hidden behind the facade of a businessman. I wanted to unfold his truth before the world. I was dying, struggling to find a weakness. Every single criminal made a mistake and I was planning and plotting to force him to commit one. He was clever! The cleverest I had found till date but he had weakness," he paused, his orbs glancing into mine.

"You were his weakness and to destroy him I had to reach you," he completed. I stared at him in horror. What was he uttering? I was a mission that he wanted to accomplish! That care, concern were it fake? How I couldn't ever read it? Was I that dumb?

"So the entire thing was planned. Meeting your parents, impressing them, convincing you for the wedding. But falling for you wasn't in the plan!" He sighed in exhaustion. "Your care, your love, your kindness manipulated my heart. No matter at times how hostile I behaved with you, you never gave-up, never walked away. My career, my work had being my life. I never thought I needed love and you proved me that I was carving for it. My closeness with you was bringing me closer to the mission. Mr Oberoi was slowly loosing his patience, he would have come before the world."

"Until I got the orders of harming you, killing you. I couldn't have done that! I had to convince the higher authorities that you weren't involved with Mr Oberoi. You had no clue of his existence, you weren't related to him. And it wasn't difficult to convince them as you had forgotten your past in the orphanage. And if I wanted you safe I needed to pull myself away from the relationship. I had to divorce you!" He paused, sighing at his past events. "And so I did! I pulled you out of my life."

I kept staring at him, processing those information. I wasn't sure what I was feeling at the moment. Betrayed! Sure, I did! Upset? Furious? I was feeling a mixture of every emotion. I was used as a toy and I was still treated as a toy.

"I had no plans interrupting in your life until you showed up in Mr Oberoi's pre-wedding venue. My assumptions were questioned and I was asked to complete the unfinished business."

"So, those attacks were planned." I completed it for him. Some pieces fitted well into the puzzle.

"I never intended to harm you," he was pleading, his orbs descending to my stomach. "I wish, I could offer a better life for you and our child but due to me you're pulled into the mess." He sounded defeated. "I always thought that I could overpower him. I would overshadow him. I wanted you here so they won't keep urging me to harm you. They would believe that you weren't working against them but with them."

I could feel he was speaking the truth, his concern was real yet my heart wasn't in a position to believe him. I wanted to slide it off!

"I am sorry for the mess I have created for you."

"Your apology aren't going to change my situation." I stood from the ground, "it's not going to change our future." I touched my raising bump. "Maybe all these months I had waited for a closeure. I needed a reason for our ending." I passed a sad smile, "it never started to end." I concluded, "atleast not from your side. I can be relieved that I wasn't to blame. I hadn't done something wrong, I hadn't failed as a wife." I looked straight in his orbs, "and I will assure you. I won't allow myself to fail as a mother. I will offer my child with the best life possible." With that determination I walked out of the room.

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I attempted a lot! Tears weren't ready to stop. I had locked myself in the room, convincing the staff that I was sick and in need of rest. Diya had walked into the room and I faked of being fast asleep. I wasn't in a position to have a conversation with anyone.