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Chapter 9

He stood still in the same place she left him , silent tears soaked his cheeks . Her each word pricked his heart like a thorn .

How could You think Zoya I would reject you sexually ? What are you to me? You are my wife not a living creature to please me , How could She think that she is not worth enough to be loved? She deserved all the love and care in the world but I made her feel that She was worthless !

Aditya swallows the lump which was forming as he turns his head slowly to look at the direction She went , Aditya sees through the slight opening of the door , Seeing her curled up in the floor crying her out , Aditya pushes his foot towards their room .

Her muffled sobs hits his eardrums as his hands involuntarily pushes open the door . She knew he was here , Sitting up Zoya wipes her tears quickly cupping her cheeks trying to rub of the angry pained tears off .

Aditya moves his head to aside painfully seeing her trying her best not to show her vulnerability . Aditya eyes wells up as He sits beside her . Zoya looks to her front hugging herself .

"I—did—not—reject—you" Aditya whispers slowly turning his head towards her . Zoya closes her eyes as tears leaked out . She bites her lower lip

"I—walked away before I could do anything bad which we would regret later " He whispers slowly holding her forearm making her turn towards him

Zoya opens her eyes painfully as She sees him to reflecting the same , Both eyes welling up .

Aditya cups her face in his palms "Trust me You are too good the way you are – You deserve all the love and care Zoya –You do!"

"Then Why does My OWN HUSBAND doesn't give me then?" She asks slowly placing her hands over his which was in her cheeks , Tears rolls down falling on his palms

Aditya's heart shattered the way she asked him painfully "I am not good enough for you" he mumbles and tries to pull his palms back from her cheeks but Zoya holds it firmly against her cheeks leaning only his palms . She needs an answer today as always He cannot walk away from her .

"Why?" She cries asking him again "Why?" She repeats leaving his palms as She sobs hiding her face between her hands .

Aditya as on instinct pulls her close wrapping his arms around her as She sobs onto his chest hugging him tightly

"I ---You are too good Zoya" He whispers subconsciously kissing her hairs .

Zoya cries harder leaning herself more into him , The pain was too much for her to take in.

"Give me a reason" Zoya whispers painfully pulling away as She understands the position they were in .

Aditya missed the warmth in his arms as She moved away "I—can't " He mumbles standing up and walks away as always .

Zoya holds his wrist stopping him still sitting in the floor as she pleads through her eyes wanting him to answer

"I—am—Sorry" He chokes removing his fingers from his wrist as he takes steps backward as She stares at him with a hurt expression .

He turns giving her back to him as he leaves closing the door between him .

Zoya smiles sadly as the door shuts . It felt as if the door to his heart was shut!

***

Randhir stood at the corner with his arms wrapped around his chest as he saw his friend breakdown front of him . He felt wrenched seeing Aditya drinking and sobbing himself muttering curses for himself for hurting Zoya .

Randhir wanted to reach out but he stood as a rock wanting Aditya learn to chin up and work on his relationship. He wanted Aditya understand just like he was the best in business he needs to best in Relationships too as at the end of the ay whatever he earns Family is what stands first in line who would welcome him home happily .

"Divorce her" Randhir replies sitting on his bed pulling the bottle away from Aditya

"Okay" Aditya whispers after a minute shocking Randhir . Randhir shakes his head in defeat Let her go at least then this tough nut will understand He needs her like his breath to live !

Aditya walks out of the room and leans onto the closed door after as he falls on his knees as her heart-wrenching look comes past the curtains of his eyelids.

He needs a break , Pulling out his phone from his pocket he rings up Randhir asking him to immediately get to his house as he would be there in a half an hour.

Aditya opening the cap of the alcohol bottle gobbles down his throat now in Randhir's house.

His heart had shattered into bits as her words of hurt and pain repeats in his head . He couldn't but keep chanting "I am Sorry –I am a B*std! I am a bloody –I am sorry" He cries hugging the bottle close to his body.

Aditya hears Randhir who has not spoken a word since Aditya came to his place or neither stopped him from drinking say 'Divorce her',

"Okay" Aditya mumbles surprised of himself

Taking another gulp Aditya lets out a sad chuckle "She is so pure ---Do you know Ron She held me close to her during the nights when I muttered cold continuously –She patted me to sleep hugging me close to her giving me all the warmth – I Felt her care Ron—I hurt her and She was nothing but good to a man like me!"

Randhir hugs Aditya close to him "Adi it will be fine –calm down –Even you could love her more than anyone –You could be the best husband " He pauses cupping Aditya's cheeks making him look at Randhir blurrily due to the all crying since hours "Just because someone we love leaves us alone that does not mean Our life too ends in this world Aditya – Move on One Day your life would become beautiful just the way you wanted ! –Let go off your past and hold your present in your arms "

"She left Ron and I was the reason " Aditya weeps pushing Randhir's hands away "That day If I agreed to her then today I will not be here crying over Pooja and Destroying Zoya's life too –I am a Killer Ron—I deserved to die –Yes—I –should Die—I should have died with Pooja –yes" Aditya keeps mumbling

Randhir ends up slapping Aditya hardly , Aditya jerks back as he did not see it coming He sees Randhir look at him upset . Randhir's eyes pools up as he pulls Aditya hugging him tightly "Don't You go there!" He warns . Aditya nods against his shoulder sobbing clearly remembering it had tormented his best friend than him whenever he spoke about Death as It was Randhir who had clearly seen Aditya fighting for his life in that damn hospital bed with tubes attached around his body.

"I hurt her Ron" Aditya cries whispering

"I am repeating Aditya –She is my little Sister who I never had Let her ago or Give her What She deserves –Next time a tear drops from her eyes trust me I will not leave you !" Randhir threatens making Aditya break out into a chuckle

"She has that aura in her you know –anyone who talks to her within minutes starts liking her ! ",

"Then Why don't You?" Randhir questions back

"You know she asked me the same" he whispers softly remembering him holding her protectively in his embrace

"I Like her Ron ---I like her so much but I can't give her what She deserves –Trust me I swear on myself I never wanted to hurt her Ron—The moment I placed vermillion on her parting I saw how serene she looked I took a vow I will never let that peace and smile fade away but see I am doing it ---" Aditya cries taking another gulp

"Let her heal you" Randhir says pulling the bottle away

"She is My wife Randhir not some medicine to heal me ! Why does always a woman needs to change a man? "He tells sneering starting on his feet only to fall on the bed behind him

"I am going to divorce her –She needs to live her life happily not with a coward like me" He whispers before darkness consumes him .

***

Zoya looks at her broken self in the mirror while applying light make up after she hears the calling ball.

Opening the door Zoya is pulled in a bone crushing hug making her lips curve up

"Teddy" She calls him pulling back

Pulling from the hug Arjun notices her eyes swollen "Doll were you crying?"

Zoya pulls Arjun in nervously as she fumbles "No"

"Zoya stop lying!" Arjun says raising his tone this time as they stop by the living room . He had come happily to see his Doll and Share about his adventures of America and all the crazy fantasies he fulfilled finally but seen her look broken even though she pretending to put up the fake smile he wants to break all the things around .

"Did He hurt you?" Arjun asks worriedly cupping her cheeks .

Zoya shakes her head negatively "You are putting too much into that head off yours "

"Ohh , I see my baby sister is all grown up that She hides everything from her Bhai – Her best Friend "

"Bhai please" Zoya moves to hold him seeing him hurt by her words "I am fine –He is good" She tells holding his palm in hers .

"I am not—" , Zoya closes her eyes for a splitting second hearing his voice

He had sobered up yet she could see how shattered and broken he looked . Seeing him trying to open his mouth Zoya shakes her head negatively but Aditya smiles sadly at her .

Arjun looks at him questionably "What does that mean?"

"That means She is not happy with me ! I made her cry" Aditya whispers

Arjun feels anger bottling up within him his baby sister who never cried in her life is crying because of him , this B**std ,– all the Old anger bottling up Arjun he ends pulling Aditya by his collar "How dare You ? My Doll never cried in her life She is My baby princess and You made her cry"

Zoya pulls Arjun back pushing his hands away from Aditya's collar as She places herself between them "We had a small fight in the morning –He left without consoling that's Why I cried –That's it !"

"That's it? Go on tell this to someone who is blind and deaf –Do you think Zoya I was blind to see how indifferently you both behaved in the train? He pushed you away in the berth and left and That day he left you alone in a new place and today I see you broken –This is not My Zoya here , it is His Wife speaking to me – My baby sister who never lied to me is lying today because of her husband !"

"Arjun —I—" Aditya tries to speak seeing the hurt look in his face It is because of my doings this sister and brother are in pain and Yet after so much she speaks for me –Why Zoya? I do not deserve you and this goodness !

"You Shut-up" Arjun replies furiously

"Bhai He is my husband !" Zoya replies shocked seeing the anger in Arjun 's eyes for Aditya

"That's why I do not like him—He makes you cry!"

Aditya's lip curve dejectedly I give her only pain even a third person can see that clearly

"He is Good and makes me happy –it is just today we had a difference – It is between us please do not intervene or talk bad about My husband !"

"I'll leave before I do something —" Arjun says and pauses and walks away upset leaving them alone .

"It is because of You He is upset!" Zoya tells frustrated looking at Aditya soon after Arjun leaves

"I am—

Zoya glares at him making him pause knowing what he is going to repeat .

"I'll talk to him" Aditya says instead

"No Thank you!" Zoya snorts and paces towards her room . She knows her bhai will come around in a while . She is frustrated as Aditya chose to walk away than answering her . If he lets out what is disturbing him and this relation at least She could make peace but this habit of walking away hurts her in thousand times. She has the courage to face the truth than being clueless and suffering in pain .

***

Arjun kicks the tire of his car in frustration . His Zoya, His baby sister, has started hiding things from him . Why?

"Let that poor thing live! " , Arjun angles his head to see a Pretty girl looking at him amused

"Who are You?" Arjun asks frowning

"They call me 'Noor '" She tells cheekily air-quoting her name making Arjun smile

"Are You smiling?" Noor grins

"I was feeling down" Arjun tells after a while

"Do—you wanna share?" Noor asks hesitating

"Why would I?"

"Sharing helps to reduce burden and—", Arjun raises his brow 'I am a stranger after all—So—I could—"

"Can we sit?" Arjun cuts her off

Noor looks surprised at him and nods as they have a walk towards the nearby park and take a seat.

Arjun sits thoughtfully , He could not understand Zoya since the day she married –She had stopped updating about her life –before Even the smallest thing She would share—It was Arjun who she would call up to rant about the day she had –let it be about her old—annoying bald lecturer or the bad coffee her mumma makes every day then Why can't she share about her husband?"

"Mister !" Noor taps Arjun annoyed seeing him sitting silent for the past few minutes

"Ahh!" Arjun breaks from his daze and clears his throat to share "There is my friend-!"

Noor shows her palm stopping him "My friend has this problem blah blah blah –Why lie –When you and me know very well it is about You!"

Arjun lets out a troubled sigh "Smart woman ! "

Noor grins cheekily making him smile back at her , "It is that I feel my sister is not happy with her husband—I went to see her today only to find her swollen eyes and then I got angry and pulled her husband's collar but she ended up defending him—" Arjun proceeds to tell all the details what happened there .

"You were Wrong!" Noor replies after a minute

"Why ?" Arjun asks calmly wanting to hear her side

"Mister—"

"Arjun "

"Arjun You did not try to know what really happened rather reacted as Your sister said it would have been a small issue or let me say even if it is a big one She would never tell you that her husband was wrong !"

"Why?"

"That's a wife thing Arjun –A Wife would endure love ,care and Pain given by her husband but never would say the bad side of her husband to her family because She does not want to let him down him down in her Family's eyes –let's say Truly she was hurt and she says you whatever her husband did to her--What will you do?"

"I will kill that B**std with my own hands!" He sneers fisting his hands

"There it goes –Even if he changes after a while and starts loving his wife –You, her Family , Would always see him as the bad guy who broke their little girl's heart once –Do you get it –A Woman always values her husband's pride in the eyes of her family above everything !"

Arjun nods thoughtfully remembering Zoya defending him then and now.

"You did Wrong ! You cannot just pull him by his collar just because he accepted he did wrong ! – He accepting in front of you knowing you would kill him knowing he hurt your sister shows how good he is ! , as far as understood from what you shared Your sister and her husband look out for each other – they are a compatible pair Arjun –Just let them alone for few days –they will sort out their issues –If more people move in it will make the problem more wider than smaller –You get it ? Talk to her husband and apologize or maybe get to know him well" Noor advices

Arjun nods with a small smile "Thank you !"

Noor nods acknowledging

"Seems like this pretty lady is taken" Arjun teases seeing the way she spoke about relationships

"Yes" Noor says winking while swinging the bag over her shoulder "by My Future Charming!"

Arjun 's lips curve up as he flirts back "I am waiting for my Cinderella !"

"Ohh Bad luck there is no glass slippers in Mussoorie!"

Arjun chuckles back seeing her retreating figure .

***

"Hello" Aditya answers the call now sitting on the couch in the living room while she was in their room thinking about how his life had taken 360 degrees at once

"I am Arjun "

"Oh" Aditya manages only to answer that "let me pass the phone to Zoya"

"No wait –I need to talk to you—alone" Arjun adds after a while

Aditya runs his two fingers around his temple getting into thinking and mutters Ok. Arjun messages the place .

Aditya looking at the locked room gets into thinking as he pulls his phone out he cannot leave Zoya alone and they have been famished since morning and now it is evening " Hello Anju maa "

***

"I am sorry" Arjun says after few minutes as they look to their front seeing small kids playing in the park

"Don't Be " Aditya replies with a smile "You have all the right to even kill me if I hurt your baby sister "

Arjun looks at him surprised as Noor words rings in his ear drums ,

He accepting in front of you knowing you would kill him knowing he hurt your sister shows how good he is

"She was right indeed You are good Aditya" Arjun mutters with a smile

Aditya smiles sadly I wish I could be for her ,

"Zoya and me were the only children from Our mother's side from cousins we were the ones who were too close – We grew up together Aditya –Overtime I became So protective off her that no guy had the nerve to cross me and go propose her " he says chuckling

Aditya hears at him intently seeing the love he has for Zoya in his words ,

"After I lost my parents in an accident it was Zoya and her Parents were my only family "

"I am Sorry for the loss" Aditya says feeling bad

"Don't be I am over it I guess Aditya –Overtime we need to let go off the people we loved after they leave the world and look at Our present !"

Aditya gets into deep thinking hearing Arjun 's words as Randhir words of 'Moving on' comes in his mind

"Zoya helped me come out of the sorrow – I was against this marriage !" Arjun tells after a full minute

Aditya looks at his surprised and shocked 'Why?" was only he could ask

"Zoya Had dreams –She wanted to make her career first and then settle down –She did her undergraduate degree BBA in the idea of doing MBA later but this horoscope –"

"MBA and Horoscope?" Aditya asks quickly with the new piece of information

Arjun looks at him suspiciously "Zoya never told you ?"

Aditya stutters nervously "That—We—never got time to talk to each other!"

Arjun finds the answer out of place , Will it take hours to speak about this? And time What do they do the whole day then? , He decides not to ask remembering Noor saying never poke your nose into the matters of husband and wife

"If She does not get married before 24 She needs to wait for 12 years !"

Aditya's face falls seeing that She was bound to be tied although her wish was something else ,

"Aditya I know I should not have pulled you by your collar whatever the reasons are but She is my little girl—I have never seen her cry even during the vulnerable conditions but seeing her today I couldn't –I do not know what's the problem between you both and I am no one to come in between poking my nose but please I beg Don't make her cry –She deserves all the love and care !"

Aditya smiles sadly "She deserves everything in the world Arjun –She is so pure –She needs happiness , love and care –Do not worry soon You would see her smiling !" Aditya tells assuring but his voice falls at the end as He gives a hug to Arjun and stands up wearing his goggles .

Arjun looks at Aditya walking away unsure "Why do I feel He sounded too sad?" but his words and the determination in his eyes gives Arjun hope , His little girl would be happy .

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