The Corporate Monster ✅

R E B I R T H

Aniket watched as his wife adjusted the baby carrier on her back, then promptly slipping it off off her shoulder. She seated the conjoined twins on the chair, as they babbled until her ears had bled.

She had vomit, blood and other unidentified articles of liquid splattered onto the front of her scrubs. The sight of her struggling with the twins made Aniket's heart break.

He should've been there to help her. They were his children too.

The Sunday evening radiated a sense of dread for the patients surrounding him in the hospital. Aniket wiped his clammy palms on his sweats, gulping every so often with the fear of meeting his wife again.

After Aniket had the shower, his sister-in-law had covered up his visible scars on his face and torso. He knew Krithi was a brainiac from day one, and he had to be more smarter if he had to pose as another man.

The twins now clutched onto their mother's clothes, intent on making her life miserable. Aniket did not know what they were requesting their mother hat made her seem edgy. She had tears floating in her eyes as she picked the both of them up again.

"Not now, not now, not now." She murmured frantically trying to adjust the screaming babies.

The twins' clothes had a slit in the side of torso in order to let the conjoined twins move more freely with their flexible stretch of flesh. Aniket had to remind himself not to stare, since Krithi had noticed him.

She suddenly gasped, and started making her way towards him. His heart quickened, racing like a horse's before the starting line.

Since the last time Aniket saw Krithi, she had gained weight. Her curves were more pronounced, and her voluptuous hair was haphazardly braided, hitting the back of her thighs as she walked.

A stir in his prick told him he was way too excited for the common occurrence that was their reunion.

"Could you hold them for a minute?" Krithi asked, handing the twins over to him. Aniket started at her, shocked to the core.

"I—

Why was she asking him of all people?

He then realized that everyone around him was either a patient or a person accompanying a patient. He was the lone wolf, sitting off to the side of the chairs, with a clam look on his face.

"I know you volunteer here. I've seen you around. I-I have to go to the washroom, and it's urgent." She said, biting her luscious lips with force. "I'll be back in three minutes." When Aniket opened his mouth to jump at the opportunity, she stopped him. "Please?" She begged. "I haven't had a single moment to myself and—

Krithi stopped herself, biting her tongue. Why was she begging a random person?

"Never mind." She said with venom, turning around.

Aniket jumped out of his chair, putting his hand on her shoulder to stop her. Krithi flew a few steps away from, scared from his touch.

"Oh, sorry!" Aniket apologized, retrieving his hand. He had forgotten about her phobia to be touched—of hands. He hid his hands in the pockets of his sweats. Krithi was smart enough to recognize his hand, for all he knew. "I can hold them." He proposed.

Krithi was reluctant for a moment, then she nodded curtly. She tried to hand the twins over to him, but they both grabbed onto her scrubs, protesting with their mother. Aniket chuckled. "Are they always this fussy?"

"They hate me." She murmured, chuckling with tears in her eyes. Finally, she got their precious hands off her clothes and handed them gently over to him.

He had no idea how to hold them.

"Doesn't look like that to me." Aniket refuted, adjusting the twins over his shoulders.

"They make my life miserable. I mean, I already have a million things to do, and they want me to carry them around all day. It's exhausting." She bit her lip again, blinking as if she forgot something. "Oh, shut! I have to go! Three minutes, alright? I'll be back in three minutes."

She puts three of her fingers up, gradually backing up. She turns and that's when Aniket notices the red blotch on her pants.

He looks down at the twins in his arms, and chuckles. "No wonder she was so intent on getting rid of you guys." They were grabbing his shirt in their fists.

It was easy to tell that they wanted to be fed. "Have you been mean to your mother?" Aniket asked the twins, lifting their chins up.

He felt so content to have them in his arms. The identical boys turned to one another, blabbering something in their own language.

The one to the right nodded, and they both looked up at their father with toothless grins. "Bah Baja bah ba ba ba." One of them blabbers. As if continuing the conversation for his brother, the other twin starts to speak, nodding at their father like they're trying to complain about their mother.

Aniket smiled, shaking his head. They were the most precious, adorable beings in the universe to him at that moment.

Exactly three minutes later, their mother ran from around the corner, halting when she saw them. She pressed down her new pants, sighing as she realized that they were still there.

"Thank god." She gasped, putting a hand to her heart. "You are a life saver." She said to him.

"It was my pleasure," He said, as he smiled down at her.

She grabbed the twins from his arms. "They weren't too much trouble?"

"They were absolute angels." He said, the grin corrupting his whole face.

"I'll see you later?"

"Yeah, I'm, uh, volunteering here tomorrow." He lied.

"Alright, then. See you around." She backed away from him, turning. Then she halted in her steps, turned halfway, and said, "thank you."

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