After sobbing for so long in her husband's arms, Anusha was currently much calm and composed and was sitting on her bed, waiting patiently for Abhay. The incident which had happened with her earlier today had left her in a terrified state. She didn't had the courage to confess what she had faced with Abhay however she was thankful that Abhay's persistence had made her utter the words which she was dreading to speak.

Times like these make Anusha feel so elated to have a partner like Abhay for herself. His selfless behaviour and strong urge to protect his family had always won Anusha's heart.

"Hey! I am back with your favourite hot coffee." Abhay mumbled while making his way towards the bed. He placed the two cup of coffees on the side table and encouraged Anusha to taste it.

"Tell me how is it?" Abhay questioned smilingly making Anusha feel giddy all over.

"It's delicious." Anusha replied genuinely while drinking the hot coffee.

"I am glad you liked it." Abhay said and both of them continued to drink their coffee's. There was a peaceful silence surrounding them which made them feel contended with each other's presence.

"Tomorrow I'll accompany you to your office." Abhay said suddenly making Anusha flinch.

"Why---?" Anusha mumbled silently.

Abhay sighed and reduced the space between them, he shifted a little closer towards his wife and cupped her face delicately.

"We can't sit and allow people like your assistant to harass and assualt other's. What he did is a punishable act, that's a crime which he has committed. I can't see you being terrified because of those disturbing memories. We have to teach him a lesson." Abhay said firmly while looking in his wife's doe eyes.

"No!" Anusha uttered feeling frightened.

"No! No--No, We can't, we won't do anything. I can't go against him, or else he'll keep on tormenting me." Anusha yelled while tears started flowing through her eyes.

"Look at me Anusha, look at me baby." Abhay whispered slowly while trying to embrace Anusha in his arms who was continuously mumbling something incoherently.

"Anusha even if he has blackmailed you, he won't be able to do anything to you. I assure you that. I won't let him breathe in the same space as of yours. People like him deliberately threaten women to keep quiet about the harrassment they have faced because men like him, know that many women keep quiet or chose to be quiet because of numerous fear in their hearts." Abhay said gently trying to make Anusha understand his perspective.

"But--but Abhay what will people say? They'll laugh at me if they find out that my junior had harassed me, they'll laugh at me that I was not able to fight against someone who is younger than me. This society will only blame me, that I was probably not behaving appropriately or I might have provoked him to act like that towards me--" Anusha started rambling and to say Abhay was extremely hurt would be an understatement. Abhay Knows and understands what sort of pain his wife is going through. The society is such that they have forced women to think in a particular way. Abhay exhaled heavily, and warpped his arms around Anusha's fragile body trying to calm her down.

"I don't care what society thinks or will think, neither should you care about their conservative opinions. Age doesn't matter Anusha, harrassment is a crime and age cannot prevent this henious crime. I trust you and I know that you are nowhere to be blamed for this, rather it's that man who has to be punished.

Don't allow your fears to overpower your senses, and stop questioning yourself. Whatever happened is none of your fault and I understand that many women often try to keep quiet or avoid such incidents because the society thinks that it was and will always be a women's fault. Stop giving this society the rights to make decisions for you. I can understand that just like other females, you are also feeling scared that what if people will think you are just overreacting, or being oversensitive, or trying to act weak or probably playing a victim card. From centuries women have heard these sort of disturbing words against themselves.

However, Anusha if you think that being silent will sort things out then it's absolutely wrong, because you have me with you and our family who'll support you throughout. You have to stand up not only for yourself but also for all those women who let their fear overpower them.

Once who face wrongdoings often remain silent because they are scared of the repercussions, they are afraid that they might be judged for an act which they have not comitted and if you remain silent then you will always have a regret in your heart that you should have stood up for yourself but you couldn't because of your fears.

Don't feel scared or don't think that you are alone because I am there for you, Always!" Abhay said while trying to depict his emotions.

After hearing Abhay's little impactful speech, Anusha felt courage and strength spreading through her body, she knew Abhay was right and she had to teach that man a lesson.

She flushed her body more against Abhay's chest and started sobbing loudly.

"You can cry all you want but you are only allowed to cry today, because tomorrow we are going to be strong and fight together against everyone. Tomorrow I am going to teach that jerk a lesson, so that he will never ever think to come in a close vicinity of a women again." Abhay said while gritting his teeths. A sudden urge to kill that man was overpowering his senses but he knew that he had to handle this matter delicately.

Anusha clutched Abhay's shirt tightly and continued to cry her heart out feeling a protective embrace around her. Abhay continued to calm his wife down and held her closely by her waist.

------------------------------------------------------------

Anusha was sitting inside her cabin, she was fidgeting in her place. It was the next day and Abhay had advised her to carry her day with a positive approach.

It was half an hour later she heard someone Knocking at the door loudly. Anusha allowed the unknown person to came inside and to her extreme displeasure it was her junior assistant who had made her felt horrible yesterday.

"What are you doing here? Get out of here!" Anusha ordered trying her hard not to feel scared by his presence.

"But Ma'am I have came here to take your signatures on these important documents." The junior assistant said innocently.

"You can leave those documents here, I'll sign them on my own." Anusha stated and continued to type on her laptop.

"As you say Ma'am." The assistant said and slowly and gradually ambled towards Anusha's chair. He stood in her close vicinity and slightly bent down, looking at Anusha's frightened expression. He kept the documents on the table and instead of walking out he started tracing Anusha's finger making her flinch at the unknown touch.

"What the hell are you doing? Don't you dare come close to me. Get lost from here or else I'll shout and attract everyone's attention over here. I'll reveal your dirty identity in from of everyone. You are a sick minded person who likes to tease and hurt other women." Anusha yelled furiously and stood afar from him.

"What will you do huh? You can't do anything and even if you gather a crowd over here no one would trust you because you don't have any evidence against me. Yesterday I couldn't have a taste of you but today I'll make sure to teach you a lesson so that you would never be able to raise your voice against me." The assistant yelled with a dirty smirk on his face.

"In my presence you won't be able to lay a hand on my wife." Came a loud voice which was enough to astonish the assistant while Anusha felt a strong wave of relief wash over her.

"Abhay--" Anusha whispered and was on the verge of breaking down.

"Who are you? From where did you came? Were you hiding Inside the cabin?" The assistant started shouting and sweat was dripping from his forehead.

"I am the husband of the woman whom you have caused deep hurt and anguish. How dare you touch my wife and you even had the guts to blackmail her?" Abhay roared while shielding his wife from the disgusting man.

Abhay was standing in front of Anusha and was glaring at the assistant.

"What will you do huh? You don't have any evidence against me and about your wife, I'll tell everyone that your wife was trying to attract me towards her." The assistant said and before he could say anything more he felt a strong punch against his jaw making a loud sound. Abhay yanked the man from his collar and started throwing punches at him. Within a minute there was a huge crowd which had gathered in Anusha's cabin.

"What is happening over here?" Anusha's boss said ambling towards Anusha's cabin. He stood in centre of the room and was waiting for an explanation.

"Sir, please help me. This man is behaving like a maniac. Without everyone's knowledge he was hiding inside Anusha Ma'am's cabin and when I told him that his wife was deliberately throwing herself at me then he started throwing his hands at me." The assistant said trying to manipulate everyone.

"Really but this man told me that you have tried to harass his wife and my hardworking and sincere employee." The boss said making everyone surprise.

"What?" The assistant mumbled in daze.

"Today Morning, I met this gentleman he told me how you have caused so much uncomfort and hurt to our prominent employee. As we didn't had any evidence against you that's why Abhay proposed me a plan. To execute that plan I allowed Abhay to accompany his wife inside her cabin." Anusha's boss told his part of story and then it was Abhay who continued further.

"I was hiding inside the washroom of Anusha's cabin, once I felt your presence inside this room, I started recording a video and in that video, you are youself confessing your actions." Abhay said with a victorious smirk.

"Mr Suraj, despite being offered a great opportunity to you to learn and grow you decided to harass our female employees and hurt them which is extremely against our work culture and against our morals. You have been fired from this job also I have already informed the police against your actions. They'll be coming over here soon." The boss said feeling ashamed that one of his employee could stoop so low.

"I am really sorry boss, please don't call the cops, I'll resign from this organisation and I assure you that I'll never show my face to Mrs Anusha again but please don't call the police." The assistant whose name was Suraj, pleaded desperately in front of everyone while joining his hands together.

"Do you really think your pleas would change our decision Suraj? Don't you think it's very convenient for you to first harass someone and then apologie later in fear of losing your job and respect. If you are afraid of losing your self respect in the society then what about my wife? Because of a jerk like you she was devastated and paranoid. My major motive behind the act which I had pulled today was to make you realise that teasing someone, mocking someone, and harrassing them is not alright. It's not something on which you should be proud of. People like you can't even imagine the pain females feel when they face harrassment. We have to make a place in which all are female co-workers or female friends feel safe and not terrified." Abhay said earning a huge applause from the crowd. He turned around and saw Anusha was clapping her hands together and there was a bright smile evident on her face.

"Thank You Abhay." Anusha mumbled and snuggled closer towards Abhay's chest. Her arms were against Abhay's neck while he was holding Anusha firmly by her waist.

"Whatever I did was my responsibility Anusha. I love you so much my cute little wife and I'll always stand besides you, that's my promise." Abhay mumbled with a smile.

"I know but I was thanking you for something else." Anusha giggled while gazing at her husband with adoration.

"For what?" Abhay questioned curiously.

"For Falling in love with me, because I am thankful that I had fallen in love with my Husband." Anusha whispered back with a loving gaze towards her husband.

------------------------------------------------------------

Hey Guys 🌸

•How was the chapter? How was the plan which Abhay had executed?

•I hope I was able to convey Anusha's emotions throughly. Through her I wanted to explain what sort of insecurities and crimes women feel and face. It's hard to put in words but let's not remain silent and fight against the odds.

•Also I need a help from all my Telugu readers and friend's, there is a platform named - Prathillip where someone has plaigarised my work.

Precisely my book Love After Marriage is being copied on this platform but I am not aware about the author so far who is copying my work. Please help me find out that author. As I am not proficient in reading and writing Telugu, therefore kindly help me if anyone of you can.

Till Then
See Ya!!