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Livid. Fury. 

These were understatements. 

Even Batuk could feel the way that Bondita's aura suddenly heated up. The way that her body shook, not our of fear, but out of wrath.

Fire, his Boudi was. 

If he wasn't so angry himself, he would have enjoyed this show very much. But Batuk was also furious. 

How dare this idiot Chandrachur pull him away from his nephew, and then on top of that lash out at his Boudi as if she allowed men to touch her? Did he have a death wish, because he was about to get it twice over -- once from his Boudi, and once from Batuk!

When Chandrachur gripped Bondita's hand tightly, Bondita clasped her hand around his even more tightly, shocking Chandrachur. Her eyes held fury and he could almost see the flames in them. 

The man gulped nervously, when he felt her nails dig into the palm of his hand very hard, causing him to yelp. He tried to remove his hand out of pain, but she didn't let go. She held on even more tightly, digging her nails further, hurting him even more.  

"W - what are you doing?" Chandrachur yelled. "My hand hurts! Your nails are sharp!" 

"You dared to touch my hand right?" Bondita hissed at him darkly, "Then can't you take the consequence? If you touch a woman's hand without her permission, then don't expect you won't suffer from the results! You held my hand, and therefore I held on more tightly. Why, only you have the right to touch me? I can't touch you... Jamai Babu?"

Chandrachur could feel blood oozing out of the palm of his hand, and he was shaking from the pain. 

"I - I held your hand out of c - concern Bondita! And you? You're only hurting me!" Chandrachur cried out, "What is this? Let go of me!" 

He brought his other hand to their joined hands, trying to yank Bondita's hand off, but she refused to budge. 

"You wanted to hold my hand out of concern?" Bondita yelled, still not letting go of Chandrachur's hand. "That's great, because I'm also holding yours out of concern. If my brother goes around holding people's hands like this without their permission, then as his very concerned sister, I should teach him a lesson so he knows not to. Otherwise he will only destroy his own character!" 

Chandrachur didn't know what was more painful. The fact that Bondita was calling him brother again, or the fact that she was digging her nails into his skin in such a way that he was bleeding!

Batuk wanted to whistle, his anger dying a little bit. Not completely, just a little bit. He would love to get popcorn to enjoy the show. 

"Chandrachur Dada," Batuk snarled at him, "My Boudi is fire. You don't want to touch fire. You'll get burned so badly." 

"Not just fire Batuk, my Pati Babu has moulded me in such a way, that I have become the raging sun in the sky. If you come near the sun and can't handle its heat then you will inevitably get burnt... to ashes,"  Bondita's tone was sharp and searing. Chandrachur could feel the burn just from her words! 

"The core of the sun, she is!" Batuk said proudly. "The hottest part!" 

"Hot... yes... I see..." Chandrachur was wincing, still trying to struggle and remove his hand. "B - Bondita is v - very hot! But... this is too much, hotness. P - please keep your f - flame to yourself... Bondita!" 

Bondita finally let go of his hand, the blood oozing down the palm of his hand. 

"Next time think a million times before you touch any girl like that!" Bondita said darkly to Chandrachur. 

Chandrachur swallowed the lump in his throat and said, "Y - your own Devar was hugging you... like that... I m - merely held your hand! He hugged you! He did worse! And you do this treatment with me!" 

An angry look appeared in Bondita's eyes again, and Chandrachur quickly said, not wanting to face her wrath any longer, "I was confused! Stupid me! I was just confused! Forgive me, Bondita! Oh please, with the kindness of your heart, forgive this... Jamai Babu... of yours!" 

Bondita took a deep breath to calm herself down. 

"Oye, Chandrachur Dada, you fool! You really are stupid" Batuk huffed, "I wasn't hugging Boudi, I was hugging my nephew! And even if I hugged my Boudi, what's the big deal! We even sleep on the same bed!" 

The colour drained from Chandrachur's face when he heard this. 

"W - what?" Chandrachur gasped, eyes widening. Bondita and Batuk shared the same bed? What the hell? And Bondita had a problem with him just holding her hand!

"Don't try and spread rumours now, because nobody will believe you. You'll just look stupid, which you are anyways!" Batuk went on. "But just to let you know, if you even lay a hand on my Boudi, or cause danger to my nephew, then I may not be fire like my Boudi, but I can still take up a superhero form to protect them!" 

"Superhero?" Chandrachur scoffed. "And you called me stupid." 

Bondita glared at Chandrachur and said, "Even if a lot of men touch me, like you so claimed, Jamai Babu, then that still doesn't mean that you can touch me. Who a woman allows to touch her, is her choice! You are nobody to analyze her situation, and decide for her!" 

 "Exactly!" Batuk huffed. "Next time I'll beat you up. Like Big D did! I still can't believe he did that!" 

Chandrachur glared at the Little Brat! 

Bondita just took Batuk's hand, causing Chandrachur to furrow his eyebrows and glare at their joined hands. 

"Let's get out of here Batuk." 

Chandrachur watched the two of them go, a very irritated feeling in his system. 

All I ever wanted was good things for you Bondita, but you... you always insult me! You never understood my love! First you stay with that Barrister Babu and are psychotically crazy about him, and now you have that Devil in your womb! On top of that, with that Barrister Babu's brother, what things are you two cooking? It hurts me to even think about it! 

-- 

Tapur had taken Somnath by a bucket of water that was placed outside. 

Somnath's hand was incredibly sweaty in Tapur's, and he was very frightened by this whole situation. 

He didn't know what he found more appalling! The fact that a bird pooped on his head? Disgusting! Or the fact that this girl was holding his hand... what if she hadn't washed her hand before touching him? Gross!

"Sit down!" Tapur ordered, finally letting go of his hand. 

"W - where? On this floor?" Somnath gasped. 

There was only a paved cement floor here, and who knew what kind of insects were crawling on here? And germs... did they even wash their floor? 

"Where else?" Tapur asked, almost in a tone of wonder. 

"B - but my h - hair!" Somnath gasped. 

"I'll take care of it. I told you!" Tapur said. "You just sit!" 

She then pressed on his shoulder quite hard. Somnath didn't know whether to jump out of the way, or listen, because if he ran away, then he would need to figure out another way to get rid of the disgusting bird poop on his head! 

So he just plopped to the ground, a traumatized expression on his face, his eyes wide, like a child who was lost and scared. 

Tapur took some soap, which had conveniently been there too, and started to lightly rub his hair, making Somnath shudder. 

Her fingers worked on his hair as if she was an expert on this matter. Finally, she very carefully rinsed his hair, so that his kurta top wouldn't get wet. 

"I - is it done?" Somnath stammered. 

"Yes," Tapur said. "The poop is all gone now!" 

Somnath nodded, and stood up, as Tapur used the soap and water to clean her own hands. 

"Let me get you a towel," she said. 

Somnath nodded, and Tapur ran inside to bring a towel for him. After returning, she handed the towel over to him and he very awkwardly rubbed his hair with it.

"Why is it that you have soap and water ready out here?" Somnath questioned, as he finished drying his hair. 

She took the towel from him and non-chalantly said, "Oh, we use this soap and water for washing clothes!"

"WHAT?" Somnath yelped, his eyes widening. 

Did he just get his hair washed by soap and water used to clean dirty clothes?

"Yes... and it cleaned the poop really well!" Tapur said brightly. 

Somnath glared at her, a very angry expression on his face.

"Leave me alone! Don't ever come near me again!" he yelled at her, making Tapur frown. 

"Did I do something wrong?" she asked. 

"YES, you... you... little kid! You... are disgusting!" he just snarled. 

"W - what?" Tapur asked, not expecting that. 

"Totally dirty... disgusting... uncouthly!" 

She was Bondita's sister. He should not have expected any better than the sister of a girl who lived in a village!

Tapur's eyes started to water, and her lips trembled. 

"W - why?" she asked, feeling hurt. 

"Using dirty water to wash my hair!" 

"The w - water is clean of course!" Tapur said, her lips still trembling, "I w - wouldn't use dirty water to wash your hair! I learn under my Vaid Thakumaa. I know very well how proper sanitation is important! B - but I'm s - sorry if you feel t - that way. I d - didn't mean to!" 

Somnath just shook his head, not interested in hearing a word of what she was saying. 

"Don't follow me again!" he just hissed, and stormed away from Tapur, leaving the young girl in tears. 

"B - Bondita Didi's brother in law is s - so mean!" Tapur sobbed, tears trickling down her cheeks. "I o - only wanted to help!" 

-- 

Everyone was socializing in the living room, when Bondita was feeling dizzy all of a sudden. She had already gotten a checkup from Thakumaa, who told her that everything was fine with her pregnancy. Bondita was relieved, because after the nightmare from last night, she was worried that something was wrong. 

"Are you okay?" Thakumaa asked Bondita softly. The two of them were together in the living room.  

"Just a little dizzy." 

"Go upstairs to your old room and rest. I had it arranged for you, just in case," Thakumaa informed. 

Bondita nodded and went upstairs. 

Anirudh, who was speaking to Sumati Maa, noticed her going up and frowned. 

"I'll be back Sumati Maa," he said, but Thakumaa came to him, gently placing her hand on Anirudh's arm. 

"She's just going upstairs to rest," Thakumaa said with a soft smile. "Nothing will happen to your Bondita." 

Anirudh smiled, "Thank you Thakumaa, that you got her to rest." He was very glad to hear this... he was worried that with so many people and the commotion here, it was not a suitable environment for her.

Upstairs, inside her old bedroom, Bondita saw a box wrapped in a red cloth on the bed. 

"What's this?" she wondered, and left the room to find someone to ask. 

Tapur happened to be passing the hallway at that moment, a sad look in her eyes. 

"Tapur, is everything okay?" Bondita asked. 

Tapur nodded and said, "Yes Bondita Didi." 

How could she speak ill of Bondita's brother-in-law to her anyways? 

"There's a box in my room, that's wrapped. Is it yours?" Bondita asked. 

"Oh, right, I forgot to tell you!" Tapur said, smacking her forehead. "It's yours!" 

"Mine?" 

"Yes, Jamai Babu got it for you!" 

A blush reached her cheeks. Pati Babu got her this gift?

"Oh... thanks Tapur!" Bondita said with happiness, and rushed back inside to see what it was. 

Tapur left from there, a smile on her lips too now, as she recalled a moment from earlier. 

Chandrachur was with Tapur in the hallway, and he handed her the wrapped gift. 

"What is this Jamai Babu?" Tapur asked. 

"This is Bondita's," Chandrachur said, "A gift for her." 

"You got a gift for Bondita Didi? But why?" she asked. 

"Just like I got a gift for you, sweet Tapur," Chandrachur said with a smile, and took out an imported chocolate bar from the pocket of his Kurta top. 

"Wow!" Tapur gasped, eyes wide, as she took the chocolate from him. "Thank you Jamai Babu!"

"So you'll give this to your Bondita Didi right?" Chandrachur questioned. 

"Yes, sure! But why won't you give it yourself?" 

"Well, I want her to be surprised when she opens it! She's pregnant, so it's a very very special gift!" Chandrachur explained. "Oh, don't tell her it's from me! And give it to her when she's alone!" 

"Why?" Tapur asked, looking at him with a confused expression. 

Chandrachur took a deep breath. This girl asked a lot of questions! 

"Just vaguely tell her it's from your Jamai Babu. I want her to be surprised!" 

Tapur just shrugged and said, "Alright, Jamai Babu." 

She had heard from Thakumaa, that Chandrachur had been a lot of help in stopping Bondita from aborting her baby. So perhaps they had grown close in that process, and that was why he was giving her a gift. From what she knew, Chandrachur Jamai Babu was very sweet, and also close to Thakumaa, so there was no reason for Tapur to suspect him. 

-- 

When Bondita unwrapped the gift, she saw it was a perfume. 

"Perfume? Pati Babu, you got me perfume?" Bondita asked herself, as she sat on the bed and gazed at it, with a smile. "And you didn't gift it to me yourself. It seems like we are dating secretly! All these secret gifts!" 

Bondita placed her hand on her belly and with a blush said, "See, your Baba is even giving me gifts now! Secretly! Should we get him something too?"  

She uncapped the perfume, which had a sponge-like circular tassel to squeeze the fragrance out. She leaned close to it and smelled the aroma. 

Oh, it was intoxicating. 

She pressed on the tassel and sprayed some onto her wrist. Bringing her wrist up to her nose, she took a whiff. 

It smelled... sweet and seductive... wow! 

"Pati Babu, you won't stop smelling me if I come in front of you with this," she murmured, as she took another whiff. "I can't stop smelling this either!" 

She sprayed more on her neck, the scent taking over her senses now. 

"This is so good..." she said, with a grin. Her Pati Babu had surely put a lot of thought into getting such a flirty scent! "This scent! It's definitely an aphrodisiac, because it is making me..." A blush reached her cheeks, as she whispered. "Wet." 

Outside the bedroom, Chandrachur was peering inside. He had come upstairs to see if she received the perfume, when he noticed Bondita going upstairs alone.

A victorious grin reached his lips when he noticed that Bondita was spraying the perfume all over herself, because this had been the plan all along! 

Now that Bondita was bathing in the aroma of this perfume, Chandrachur could easily put on a show and make her so-called Pati Babu believe that she was wearing another man's love gift! It would cause a rift between the two of them, and a heartbroken Bondita would sob and cry, at which point Chandrachur would give Bondita his own shoulder to lean on. Then when she cried enough, he would give her the abortion medication (which he had stolen again from Thakumaa's medical room), and ask her to rest. It was the perfect plan!

The fragrance of the perfume was so strong, that it was even invading Chandrachur's nose from out here, and it was stimulating him in many ways. So he just went downstairs for now, otherwise who knew if he could keep a control over himself! The scent of an intoxicating Bondita, was intoxicating him too! He had done one whole year of tapasya for her anyways, so surely he could do a little more tapasya! 

See Bondita, everything I do for you! I wish you would notice the love I have for you, Chandrachur thought in his head. Don't worry, when you cry your heart out because Barrister Babu left you, I will make you smile again. I will give you all the comfort and happiness you need. And I will forgive you for all the sins you did with Barrister Babu and your Devar! Because when you become mine, you will only be mine!

Now Chandrachur would have to find Barrister Babu and start his show! 

-- 

Downstairs, when Tupur noticed that Chandrachur was nowhere in sight, and everyone else was busy in their own conversations, she went close to Batuk and whispered, "Follow me." 

"Where?" Batuk asked, his throat getting dry. 

"Please," she whispered, sounding desperate. 

Batuk swallowed the lump in his throat and gave her a nod, following her upstairs, where she first checked to see if the coast was clear, before entering a bedroom. 

"I - in here?" Batuk stammered, his face turning red. 

Tupur nodded, and he stepped inside a little awkwardly. She quickly shut the door behind them, before turning to face Batuk. 

"Why did y - you call me here Tupur?" Batuk asked. 

"I can't talk to you downstairs. There are too many eyes," Tupur answered, and she stepped towards him slowly, tears entering her eyes. "There's actually something... something I wish to tell you. And I have nobody to speak to... and y - you're the only one who... I have." 

Batuk looked at her, nervously... a part of him wanting to open the door and run out of there because he didn't trust himself, and a part of him wanting to stay right here, because he still cared a lot about the girl in front of him. 

"What do you want to tell me?" he asked her softly. 

"It's about my husband..." Tupur said to him, "He... he..." 

"What did he do?" Batuk asked, his eyes turning dark and concerned. "Did that asshole raise a hand on you? Did he hit you anywhere Tupur? Did he hurt you?" 

Tupur shook her head and she said, "No... not y - yet... he doesn't even look at me. I don't exist for him to raise his hand on me." 

"Then?" Batuk questioned, his heart aching for her. 

He had already heard about this side of their marriage, and Batuk believed that it took another level of weirdness to not touch such a pretty wife. He seriously wondered how Chandrachur did it? 

"Batuk, his mother yelled at me f - for not getting pregnant yet," Tupur told him, tears trickling down her cheeks. "And when my h - husband was questioned about it, he just told his mom that there's probably something wrong with me, and she should send me back to my Maayka. And, my Sashuri Maa said that if I d - don't get p - pregnant in another two months, then they'll make me a chhodi hui aurat. T - Thakumaa doesn't know of this yet, but it'll cause a big tension here... and I don't know what to do... or who else to share this with."

Batuk felt his heart get heavy as he realized the predicament that Tupur was in... one that he desperately wished she wasn't in. And one that no matter which angle he thought in, seemed to have no solution. 

--

Anirudh was getting restless downstairs. His youngest brother was missing somewhere, and so was Tupur. He was a little concerned, because he knew about their history. He hoped that Batuk didn't do something that he shouldn't do because of his hormones and old love. 

He knew he should trust his younger brother... but Anirudh very well knew what hormones could do to someone, especially in their teenage years. 

Thankfully, it seemed like nobody else had noticed them missing. 

On top of that,  he wanted to check in on Bondita as well. So he decided to go upstairs, just to see if anything was alarming. 

Perhaps he would see at least one of the three upstairs, and be a little relieved about everything that was going on. And maybe he was overthinking the Batuk and Tupur situation anyways. Maybe Batuk was with his wife, trying to become Super Chachu again. 

Anirudh would have to make sure that in Batuk's hyper state of being super, he didn't accidentally hurt her or their...

He snapped himself out of his thoughts, and headed to the staircase. 

Chandrachur came down the stairs at the moment that Anirudh was on his way up. 

"Barrister Babu," Chandrachur said, a happy look in his eyes. "I was just with your wife... in her room." 

Anirudh turned to gaze at Chandrachur, furrowing his brows, and not answering him. 

"Who knew that she would..." a smirk appeared on his lips, "It makes me shy to even talk about!" 

"Is she okay?" Anirudh just asked, sounding concerned. 

"Very okay," Chandrachur replied, his eyes showing Anirudh that there was more that he was wishing to say. "When she was with me --" 

Before he could finish his sentence and rile up Barrister Babu though, Anirudh ignored him and rushed up the stairs to Bondita. 

Chandrachur's words clearly didn't even cause the least of suspicions in him towards Bondita. 

"Argh! He didn't even let me finish saying how I gifted Bondita a perfume and she happily wore it for me!" Chandrachur said irritably. "But regardless, he will go and yell at her for sure! Where else would she suddenly get a perfume, if not from another man!"

Then he went back upstairs as well, to spy on what was happening. 

Upon entering Bondita's room, Anirudh saw that Bondita was sitting on the bed, a grin on her lips, a blush on her cheeks. 

"Bondita," Anirudh called out, looking at her -- the pleasure in her eyes, and the glow on her skin, as if she was the happiest woman on Earth. 

Bondita stood up and went over to him, grinning with even more happiness now that he was here himself. She threw her arms around his neck and hugged her Pati Babu tightly. 

The scent that she was wearing invaded Anirudh's nostrils.

"Pati Babu..." she whispered, her fingers caressing the nape of his neck, making sweat form on Anirudh's brow. "You're the best." 

"B - Bondita," Anirudh just gasped, and he pulled away from her hug, looking into her eyes sternly. "What is this sce --" 

Before he could finish asking her though, he looked around the room, and remembered that this was the same room, he used to stay with her in. As Roopa. They had many memories here. Many, many memories where they had spent so many intimate moments. In fact, this was the room that aided their discovery in intimacy. 

These memories, along with the scent of the perfume, were drawing Anirudh closer to Bondita... acting as aphrodisiacs between him and his wife who had put walls of physical barriers up between them. 

He suddenly leaned closer to her, causing Bondita to look at him, surprised. 

Chandrachur on the other hand was peering from the side of the doorway, trying to see when Barrister Babu would explode on his wife and leave her crying here!

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