Before I could get back to my senses and understand anything she just grabbed his collar and put her mouth into his...

Kissing with so much lust that her hands kept grabbing his collar tightly and pulling his hair while his hand reached the zip of her dress at her back and I just shut the screen with a thud

My whole body went stiff...

Not only my mind went black but also the heart seemed to be empty...

I pressed my chest but it seemed as if my heart had passed away

I wished whatever I saw was just a nightmare and nothing else...

I wasn't into this world until I felt a strong push on my shoulder and a voice pulled me back "Dada"

Unconsciously I stood up from the chair but my legs staggered unable to support my body

My dead heart suddenly felt a burst of pain...hand reached the nape of my neck taking deep breaths and forcing myself to calm down...

What I felt was something I can't put in words...

It was miserable

It was terrible

Somehow I came back to my mind and the darkness in front of me dispersed...an intense gush of anger just like the eruption of a volcano instantly engulfed my soul

Running out of the cafe I kicked up the gear and was about to drive to her house but then the  phone fell off my shirt pocket

I was about to pick it up and throw it back in my pocket but the screen got unlocked with my touch displaying a WhatsApp message from her...

"Me and Teddy missing you...come soon we are waiting for you at our favorite place"

Lying on our bed with the teddy close to her cheek she had her lips pouted and that's it...the already burning flames in the depth of my body fumed a notch higher...

With that fuming blood I drove to my house and found Baba watching TV...his words went unheard by me as like a raged bull I was marching towards my prey...

The moment I stepped inside an abrupt feeling tugged my back

It took me a second to realize that her  body was hugging someone else and was now glued to my back while those filthy hands that were passionately pulling someone else hair were locked at my abdomen 

That very instant I felt like my body was full of thorns

I just jerked out her hands with a twirl and within a flash of a second a tight slap was pierced on her cheek and with that force, her body was slumped on the floor

The slap was very hard very heavy just like the magma that has been burning and surging for years and has finally erupted or gushed out breaking through the top of the mountain and instantly melting everything on the mountain into ashes...

With those ugly bleeding lips, she cried "What's wrong with you??"

I bend down to her and showing one of the wedding photos from my phone I roared "Who is he??"

"You know him already..he is my cousin" she groaned 

"Cousin or your s*x partner in the oyo room" my teeth gritted with those words

"Wha...Wha...whatt are you saying...I...I didn't understand" She acted innocent but I was done

I just caught hold of her hair and was pulling her out of the room meanwhile Baba came horrified "Arjun what happened"

I pulled her to the hall and she was quick enough to get rid of my hold and hide behind Baba "Baba save me"

"Arjun listen to me..."

I pushed him aside and dragged her to the verandah but she willingly threw herself on the ground while her cries went louder gathering all the people around

With her forehead bleeding a little she joined her hands and began begging "I am sorry...Please forgive me"

Gripping  her forearm I roared such that the whole house began shaking faintly  "Everything has a limit and  what you have done has exceeded the bottom line...so just get lost of my life" and this time I straight away pushed her on the road

Random voices began murmuring

"Look she is bleeding"

"How can he behave like this"

"I thought he was good man"

And much more but I didn't care

I had nothing to do with anyone so I was just getting inside my home but all of sudden she screamed out her lungs "You have no right to say this...you beast

And when I turned to her the nearby ladies were helping her get up while she cried out hysterically "Do you think that if I am a woman, I will never resist you"

"If you hit me again...I'll call the police"

She began crying very loudly

I was bewildered by her sudden brawl, abuse and crying.

Letting her die I held Baba's hand and walked into the house...

I made him sit on the sofa and crouched myself next to him on the floor while she went on crying loudly and fighting fiercely

This bastard has no human nature, no morality, no feelings, cold-blooded cold heart, I'm fed up with him! If I don't have a complete feud with him today, I won't be named Asha, I won't be a woman

Do you think you can harass me, and I dare not sue you?

I will sue you and let you lose everything..."

After more than ten minutes of fighting, she had enough of scolding me and persuading the people and tired

We couldn't hear her anymore

"Speak something Arjun...explain the matter to me"

I opened my lips wanted to cry wanted to roar but could not utter a single word

I did not have the courage to look into his eyes as I knew I would break down in his arms

I didn't want to drag Baba's heart to death so I just swallowed everything and before he could react anything I just left the house...

I immersed myself in the most addictive thing that could only help me at that moment to forget everything

I drank and drank and drank with closed eyes and heart flustered feeling that something terrible had happened so terrible that I could not even think of and like a whisp of a wandering soul I kept wandering the whole night with a bleeding heart full of hurt

******

The next morning when my eyes opened the only person flashed was Baba...

He was all alone...

and the very next second my head went all blurry only to remind me that I was still not fully conscious but somehow I managed and in no time ran back to the house and was relieved to see Raghav with Baba

"Where the hell were you??" Rashad caught my collar and when he got no response he hit me in the face with a heavy blow, which almost flew out.

I fell heavily on the ground and bumped into the corner of the table.

"Speak up" he yelled while holding the table I tried to get up. However, my shoulder blades were pushed up by the corner of the table, and head was beaten a little dizzy, so I straightened up and fell a little.

Raghav turned all red

But at the same time, he felt so anxious that he came to help me "Don't be so impulsive... If you continue like this, you will have a big deal! Listen to me and uncle, calm down...

"Don't do this... You're so terrible. Uncle is going to be scared to cry... If she is wrong,  have a good talk, OK?

He successfully helped me sit down on the sofa.

He poured me a glass of lime water "Drink first and explain this matter well"

"She cheated on me" I said and gulped the drink in one go and was about to speak further but then loud noises echoing my name surrounded the air...

"Jail for Arjun..

Jail for Arjun...

Justice for Asha

Justice for Asha"

We walked out only to see her with a huge number of ladies supporting her who were probably a part of Mahila Mandal

Seeing the crowd in front of our house the neighborhood ran out their doors only to see the upcoming drama

"It's always like this, everything is for the sake of the man, everything has to be paid and sacrificed by a woman...Why??" one of the ladies declared openly while Raghav stepped forward to talk but was stopped by them

Another lady placed a hand on her shoulder and said "We are all with you...you don't need to get scared of anyone"

And that's when her filthy mouth spit disgusting words

"Ever since I am married to him every night, I was stripped of my clothes, molested, and taken indecent photos...when opposed he would blackmail me over posting all pictures over the Internet...but yesterday I could not bear his hell...I was done being his sex slave and refused then he hit me and threw me out of the house"

Three of us were numb by her statement

"Inspector note down her statement" a lady said and that's when we noticed the police who had been in the frame since the beginning

Baba was scared to death when he saw them and instantly he began defending

"No...No I think there must be some misunderstanding about this matter...How can your husband be such characterless? Calm down first...We are all family...We have something to discuss...Don't you misunderstand this matter...Let's just forget it...There's no need to make a big deal of it...and take your statement back"

"You are always like this...What your son does is right... Even if your son hurts me or assaults me, it's no big deal... Am I born to be calculated and bullied by your son!!" she cried loud

"In your eyes, men are superior to women, and men's life and life are more important than women's

You can think that she is a woman, so she is born worthless but she is a priceless treasure... in fact, every woman is...and that's why we are named as Laxmi..

But people like you never respected her"a lady said

"Look..." I stepped in but Baba held my hand stopping me "Do you have to do this to us beta...you are my daughter too"

She looked around the people, as if under oath, and told them"I do not forgive Arjun for taking me as his slave that can be used by him, bullied by him, played with by him!

I've already filed a complaint this morning"

Her eyes shifted to me

"Do you know what the crime is? I asked the lawyer I hired, including indecency, invasion of privacy and damage to reputation. These years will be enough for you to go to jail for several years!!

Her eyes, tone and attitude were so terrible that she really wanted to kill me

She needed revenge and I strode forward to answer her but before I could contemplate anything a group of hands wiped off my face

I touched my face and then looked at my hands everything went blank at that instant

The onlookers, who were talking about it, suddenly became quiet

It was soot

I could not help but shudder and almost wanted to give up and did so when Baba's painful cry poured into my ear

"If you have to be so this cruel to my son , I can only kneel here"

He knelt in front of her joining his hands

"I beg you, please don't do this to my son...If you don't let go of my son I will kneel here all the time, kneeling until I die..

Countless people looked at us, sympathizing, pitying, shocked, disdainful, mocking...I did not dare to look back, to speak, to do anything

Everyone looks at us, with that kind of eyes I can't forget it all my life.

My dignity, my principles and my bottom line were doomed to be sacrificed from the moment Baba knelt with her.

I just wanted to disappear