An Estranged Wife

Chapter 10- The Shocking Step!

24 hours later

Confused and worked up, Pari sat on the living room couch waiting for Sameer the other day night. He'd been out since morning, and after that there has not been even a single message or call from him. Several odd thoughts of him returning to his alcohol addiction crossed her head; as much as she wanted to dismiss them away, she couldn't because he was a depressed man who was dealing with his troubles of years; in that the addition of his new sins was surely to get to him.

A man could handle only certain amount of tragedies on his head; and for that he did more than enough of a job. She had made him feel guilty to an extent where he was on a thin line of going back to his old ways or accepting the line of retribution to walk on a new path.

She checked her phone now and then while her eyes shifted to the wall clock again, as she was ready to burst on him the minute he enters the door.

"For how long you are going to wait, Pari?" Her father's voice broke her trance from the entrance.

"Until he doesn't return, and I take his class. He has to live alone after me, how is he going to take care of himself if this is the way he is going to be so irresponsible?" She replied rising to her feet and dialling his cell phone.

"You're worried about how he would live after you, why?" Her mother asked unable to understand her mind and heart. She knew her daughter didn't harboured any feelings for him that would make her forgive him, then why was she worried for someone who ruined her life?

Turning around she gave a small smile to her mother, and replied, "Even you can't understand my decision today; is that so?"

"We're not. So, tell us why all this when you've to part ways from him whether he redeems or not." Her father probed her further.

"The relationship between Sameer and I ended the day he first raised his hand on me that is the first night itself, but it took me a while to understand that he wasn't the man I needed. But then I realized that even I wasn't the woman he needed. I expected so much from him that I forgot that no one in this world comes without a baggage; then why does a girl think that the man she is marrying would have no share of his troubles. On that aspect, I'm the wrong one here because I never asked him verbally of what was troubling him. So somewhere as much as he is wrong for being the ignorant one, I'm wrong too. I thought of only I wanted from this marriage, not what he would have hoped for."

"But now what I'm doing is for the father of my deceased child. For a few months only, I felt someone was there who loved me unconditionally; someone who was only mine to cherish; my baby, my pride. And I felt that way because of Sameer. Even though it was done in the heat of the moment, but my baby was the best thing I felt, and it was because of its father. A father who didn't understand the meaning of love and marriage, but he understood the meaning of inflicting pain upon the ones who were his to cherish."

"I'm giving us a chance to connect as my lost baby's parents so that his soul won't cry that his parents never even connected as humans; I'm giving us a chance to be the others for these days so that when we part forever, we won't have any regrets that we never did anything to save our marriage. We won't feel like two losers who only became the reason for the others hurt or pain. Moreover, I won't feel like I did so much for my husband, but he didn't even move his one limb to make me feel better. I'm giving him the chance to be a better man in my eyes so that I could live without these bitter feelings escalating every second in my heart for him, because he doesn't deserve a place in my life, and he knows it well."

"Some relationships are meant to be with us for life; ours was meant to be broken but at the same time it's complicated for both of us to leave the other hanging with nowhere to go."

"He might've not made me feel like a woman that was loved, but he made me feel like a mother, and for that reason alone, I'm listening to him, and allowing him to listen to me."

She finished with her tears cascading down her cheeks, and dumbstruck, her parents watched her. They never knew she could think with such intensity where no amount of words they say to her would be enough to console her. They can never say enough to her to get over the loss of her first baby because it's like a dream for a girl to bring new life into her world and losing it the first time, she haves it is something one can never forget easily.

They were interrupted by the knock on the door, and Pari instantly rushed hoping it was Sameer only to find the inspector standing there, with a tired look.

Sweat beads formed on Pari's head seeing the tall man in front of her making a check in the paper.

"Mrs Pari Sameer Malhotra?"

"Yes."

"We feel delighted to inform you that your husband Sameer Malhotra has surrendered himself today in the cases of demanding dowry from your parents and continuously putting you through domestic violence for a year............,

The rest of the words went blank in her head as she only focussed on Sameer surrendering himself to the confinements of the prison.

Suddenly everything stopped making sense, and all that she remembered were her words to him last night.

"I wanted you to be punished."

It's a short chapter because I'm ill but still I know my duties to not keep people waiting, so here it is.

The talk they'd be revealed in the next part. 

What do you think will happen now? So the reason why Pari was allowing him near is revealed; i hope it make senses to everyone. She is not trying to be a goddess on the mission to change people, she is doing it for herself and the baby she lost because for a mother, nothing is above than that one pain. And to get over it, she needs Sameer because he was the one who gave that part to her.