I went immeditaley and pulled rahul away from her by holding his collar...
I punched him straight in his face. How dare they do this in the name of brother and sister!

" ji! don't don't " she said shivering and tried to free him from me...

This bitch face pretending innocent and untouched but fucking ppl that too my friend in my house, right under my nose! I will break her bones and cripple her , make her stay out side the house and let people know how much of a slut she is...

I felt her hands on me and i pushed rahul out of the room and locked the door from inside. She took a step back and ran to her bathroom, I shut the door before she entered and pulled her by her hair.... All I could see was Red and my blood boiling with anger... I pulled her hair more down and she bent backwards with pain and crying out loud ,yelling ME to leave her.... I fisted her hair and hit her head to the wall.

I dragged her around the room and she started hitting on my arms, I punched her hard in the stomach and threw her across the floor.... I was about to catch hold of her body lying across the floor near bed but someone barged into the room...

" Man! Listen ! it wasn't what it is! It was just a lizard that crawled on her and she jumped up on me! " rahul yelled holding me from back side...

I stood still for a moment.

I looked at him and he looked around for a second and pointed at her couch which had a lizard on the pillow corner ... I kept quite... I controlled my breath.... I pulled my hair in frustration and turned around to look at her body lying near the bed.... She groaned and I went near her only to be pushed back....

I looked at rahul lifting her and putting her on the bed... He pushed her hair strands behind and I grunted seeing him touching her... He called the doctor and sat beside her on the bed.... I stared at her unconscious body on the bed...

" sir " I heard a voice and looked behind to see a lady doctor. I moved a side and we both went outside as she had to inspect lakshmi.

I leaned on the wall and looked at rahul typing something furiously on his phone... He crushed the phone in his hand and sighed in frustration, smashing it on the ground.

I heard the door opening and looked at the old white haired lady doctor...
" mister, I suggest you to handle the lady the way they should be... They are not rag dolls or punching bag " she said look straight in my eyes... I fisted my hands in anger but controlled myself...

She put the prescription in my hand and left...
We both entered inside to see her forehead aided... I looked at the tray with bloodied cotton balls on the table...

I heard door slamming shut.

I looked at her for sometime and went away from there...

I sat on my chair in my dark room and laughed out.... No one
No one can be spared from me nor my darkness that withers the essence of life of the beings around me...
How cruel is this... But this is what makes me what I am...

I woke up in the morning and changed into gym clothes... After sweating out for an hour, I went down the hall and aroma hit my nostrils... I looked in the kitchen to see her cooking breakfast... I went away from there.

The hot water relaxed my tensed muscles... I pushed my hair back and wrapped a towel around me..
Checking my phone, I wore clothes and went down to the dining... As soon as I sat down she put the plate infront of me and served breakfast. I wanted to look at her but I don't want to at the same time....

I did my breakfast and left from there. I went in my study and completed all the pending work...

It has been 2 days since that incident, neither she nor I talked about it... She cooks food, stands behind me while I eat and leave from there after I was done... It has become a routine... This silence is a reminder of what I have done... The results of my anger that blinded my senses....

I pushed everything behind, she must be okay...otherwise she wouldn't have come down from her room and do all these work... I banged on my table in frustration with her thoughts...

" bro " I heard a voice and looked up from my file to see Vihaan with Rahul behind him...
" hmm " I said and looked back continuing to assess the lines on the paper...

" let's go down, have lunch " he said and I nodded putting down my glasses... There were all in their informals...

" when did u people come " I asked us soon as I saw Kaira sitting on couch in hall room...

" an hour back " he said .

We sat down on the dinning table and my little wife came and placed the plates infront of us... " baby, why don't we go and eat outside " Kaira said from beside me...

" it's quarantine " I said and she nodded telling how much she miss us going out together... I can understand her intentions of hurting someone indirectly, but it doesn't matter...

" yuck, do u call this food! This is gross " Kaira yelled and pushed her plate away on the table...

" what do you want to eat " lakshmi asked quitely... Somewhere in the back of my mind, I was expecting a comeback...

" do you even know how to cook? Didn't your mom teach you better or oh I forgot that middle class people eat shit like this... Even the dog in my home would hate it " she said and my temper rose... How dare she... Is she saying that I was eating shit all these days... This girl in home cooks edible food and tastes good too... I fisted my hand in rage and frustration...

" you have a problem,  then don't eat it " Lakshmi said quitely and sat down on the chair at the end of the table...

" shit " Vihaan hissed and got up from the table... Curd spilled on his pants...

" are there any servants in your home arjun? " Vihaan asked trying to removed the curd with tissues...
" no none " I said and looked at lakshmi who was eating quitely...

" lakshmi, can you help me with this " Vihaan asked looking at lakshmi and I felt like throwing him out of my mansion.... She stood up and came near him, looked at the table and then at his plate and then at the bowl...

" what do you want me to do? Remove your pants? That I guess you can do it yourself... Leave the pants near the Bin, I'll get it washed and sent to your home " she said looking at him straight in eyes...

" what happened? Why are you talking like this lakshmi... I thought we were friends " Vihaan said with hurt in his voice... The tone lakshmi has used is still lingering in my mind.. Why is she against him....

" actually... I connected a few dots...
Do u want me to tell?
Ofcource you wanted me to tell na...

Yesterday, Kaira came....
She gave an envelope to my dearest husband...

And by mistake I saw the photos or should I say I wantedly saw them out of curiosity... I'll  accept the later...

There were pictures of me in kitchen along with you... I remember very clearly that day in those pics, no one came home including my husband except for Kaira who said that she needed some urgent files that he asked her to get from home...

I being a good girl said 'okay'...

But that girl took pics of me and now see the end results of them being morphed with yours in the end... 'Very intimate positions' I should add...

So today u wanted it to make it look real so u asked me to come help you in the washroom so that my husband could clearly misunderstand me again? " she said and the spoon in my hand broke into two halves thinking what's going on here....

" lakshmi!  That's absurd! Maybe she has done it to get arjun! How can you pull me into this! " he exclaimed loudly at her and she smirked at him...

" you are in the middle of eating dal Vihaan, why would you need curd now?..... Make it look more realistic next time " she said and moved away..

" bitch!  How dare you! I saw you that day with him! Shameless slut! I don't know how many people you have e Fucked behind his back ! U must have seduced vihaan too that day! I saw it with my own eyes. " Kaira yelled and lakshmi stopped in her tracks...

" shut up " she said turning to Kaira with her red eyes and anger in them..

Kaira dashed out pushing her away... She slipped and fell down hitting the corner of the table... Rahul immediately went to help her and I stood up and went near her...

There was blood near her mouth and rahul yelled at me to call doctor... My hands shivered for the first time but I controlled them and called the doctor.

He lifted her up and walked all the way to her room , placed her on her bed...
The doctor raised her shirt and I saw a bluish bruise on her stomach...

I went back to my study,
I looked at the plain dark wooden wall in front of me with a wooden wall clock... It's ticking... every second.
Passing my fingers through my hair, I sighed...
She always gets hurt
When she is with you
It's what she has bought upon herself by marrying me...
Your anger will destroy you...
" Shut up!  Shut up! " I screamed in frustration, it's throbbing in my head of how wrong I was... She shouldn't have married me....

I heard sounds outside and got down the stairs to look at my wife with a bag in her hand...
Wait... Where is she going....

" wait , what's going on here " I asked slowly going to them...

" I'm taking her to my home " rahul said taking her bags from her hand...

" what ? She is My wife!!... " I stressed on my words and held her hand , pulling her towards me...

" only in the name sake " he said glaring into my eyes... How dare he show his rights on  my wife! How dare of him to meddle in our relation!

" rahul bhaiya... Go out , I will come back " words rolled out of her mouth softly....

She turned towards me and looked right in my eyes

" you did it right? " she asked and I stayed quite...

" you were the one who asked Kaira to take pics of me and send her to Vihaan, you know that Vihaan will take advantage of this situation so that he can break our realation....

How pityful you are...  " she said and turned away....

" what are you talking lakshmi ?
I don't get it " I said turning her to me and looking into her eyes...

She started laughing and clutched her stomach, I remembered that I punched her there and a pinch of guilt waved through my heart...

" stop the act Mr. Arjun.
U would have beat me to pulp the moment you got those pics from Kaira... But rather you were quite...

Don't you think it's too unlikely of u?
U have anger issues, suck it up, u know it and as well as I...

U thought of playing a victim by catching us in the set-up which actually Kaira might have planned with Vihaan that ME and Vihaan would get caught in the washroom..

U showing up like a innocent husband who had a backstabbing wife having affair with his best friend....

Tsk.... Tsk....
U don't even leave your best friend...
Poor fellow thought that he is the master planner of all this but didn't know that he is a doll played by my husband in his game....

Poor Kaira, I know that u are using her for your games... I can see it clearly....

U thought of double benefit from this by throwing me out of home and you would have demanded something from Vihaan... Or should I say , you would have threatened him with his reputation of fucking me behind your back ha!! " she said looking into my eyes with tears rolling down her cheeks, holding my shirt collar.....
She went away without another word....

" impressive " I said smirking at her retreating figure....