"Atleast, we are under the same sky!"
- Ranata Suzuki

She gets up from her sleep just to hiss feeling pain in lower abdomen..with it her bones in every part of body are felt to be too weak to move. However, moving the duvet from her naked body she gets up and picks up the kuti and palazzo from the floor .. before going to bathroom, she takes her essentials and fresh cloth.

While closing the door, her eyes fall on the person sleeping at the right end of the bed with most innocent face. He's the most pure heart that she knows but it's for others .. except for hers! Because she's just a culprit to him.

However, with a long sigh she closes the door of washroom to get fresh.

As soon as she closes the door, he opens his eyes and looks around the room to think the life could have been easier if SHE has been with him. But alas! His fate is too cruel to tolerate his own happiness so God has snatched HER from him.

Suddenly the past memory flashes before his eyes and he fumes in anger - "No..it's not God rather someone else to snatch HER from me and I'll take revenge of HER DEATH!"

With that he picks up the trousers and vest to leave for morning work out. Only that place could give him peace .. other than that whenever he thinks of past a sudden wave of anger passes through his veins. But he's keeping cool for his family who are innocent to deserve his care.

After his leaving, she comes out of bathroom wearing a pink silk saree. Seeing the empty bed she sighs. It's not new to her..she's accustomed to his indifference each day. And she knows she deserves that only!

It's going to be one and half year of their 'marriage' but the wall of indifference is still same like before. And she believes it'll be their till the end of her life. It's not he doesn't give her attention..he gives! But that time he feels someone in her and what could be more painful for a wife when  her husband imagines someone else in her.

They've spent countless nights in passion and fire but those are not meant to be for hers! Irony of her life isn't it?

Each and every night when he comes close to her and nibbles her soft lips with his thin petals, she gets lost in him but in the next second, he's to remind her of the fact....by moaning someone else's name!

Weak..yes, that she is! Because she knows the fault in hers. When you're right and the whole world is wrong, you can fight against the outer society. But what will you do when you're guilty....guilty to be murderer of some innocent life!

Suddenly she comes out of thought feeling a slight pain in her tummy and sits down with a painful moan - "ouch .. ishh!". In this process, the sharp edge of the dressing table hits her forehead and there she gets a cut..and blood starts to blow in thin line.

Losing hold of the table, she places her left palm on the blood and gets no surprise to find it wet. Placing her fingers before face, she finds blood in it and looks on the front mirror to find that hit has made a permanent sign on her skin..just upon the left eyebrow of her face. Tainted .. she is indeed!

That's when a ting sound is made somewhere and she gets up by avoiding her pains. Quickly going to the corner table, she picks up her phone and closes the alarm. Seeing the time she hisses as she's getting late than her usual routine each morning.

Quickly going to dressing table, she brings out the cotton from the drawer and dips it in her blood and clears it with Dettol to disinfectant the wound. Placing a bandage on the cut, she combs her waist long black hair and leaves it free. Then taking the sindoor from vermillion box she colours her hairline.

That's when her eyes fall on the holy thread and a slight tear drops from her eyes. Only sindoor and the mangalsutra she's for her own otherwise this whole room and the man himself too belongs to HER.

Taking a long breath, she clears her tear drops and looks at the mirror to find a broken girl. Holding pain and guilt in her both eyes, she looks too weak .. but she can't feel weak also as she must have to bear all pains to pay for an innocent life.

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Coming out of room, he goes to the gym straight and starts to punch the punching bag unlimited. After a certain time, sweat starts to appear on his face and his whole body gets soaked with the sweat and the dress gets attached upon him like a second skin.

Suddenly he stops feeling drained out and holds the punching bag in his hold and closes his eyes for a moment. As soon as he opens the eyelids, the eyes appear to be red.

He too is a human being with full of emotions. He's no mafia to hold grudges against any other person..but the twists and turns of past one and half year of his life have changed him  in 360°.

He has been a happy person consisting those people whom he loves and adores much. But destiny has to smirk at him .. no, at his happiness and then snatched his life from him....and then she enters into his world to change him into a beast!

Each night he tries to avoid her but couldn't control the sexual urge and tension between them resulting him to bring close to her. Sometimes he feels guilty to cheat on HER by being close to her. So every time he tries to moan hers name loudly before his own wife so that she can't think of he's weak before her physical beauty!

His heart smirks as if whom he's trying to make fool? Deep down his heart he knows that he is just afraid to loss his own heart before hers so he takes her name to avoid the situation. He always tries to fool her and himself by faking a moan.

In these days of marriage, he's seen her and has tried a lot of time to think may be that was an accident but his inner mind is not ready to accept that..even the situations too don't support her.

Wiping his sweat on the towel, he goes to trade mill but like other days, today too he's had no interest and spends the time by placing his face in between his palms. He is clueless how to and whom to say of his heart.

Meanwhile, his wife comes out of the room to go downstairs and enter inside the exact right room of the staircase. Seeing the door not locked, she slightly smiles and opens the door carefully. Going inside the room, she couldn't control her lips from widening itself as two figures could be seen lying on the fluffy white bed at the center of the room .. but what attracts her eyes is the figures are lying opposite to each other. The duvet is covering their body but at one side someone's legs and someone's head could be found.

She laughs amusingly at her two grown up kids - they are her husband's younger brothers but kids for her love and attention ; she sits at one side and softly places her hand on one's head to murmur - "Aryan, baby get up! It's time for your exercise."

Meanwhile, another one complains from other side - "Bhabhi....today it was my quota to get your pampering first..but this Aryan gets winner! I'm angry with you..huhh!"

She smiles happily at them ; because whatever is the reason behind this unwanted marriage but she's got few real relations in it. Through this marriage only, she's entered in this house and found real love for the first time. May be none has loved her that much in her own house too....her heart questions - "Was that really a house for her?" .. And she controls hard to cry for this thought.

However, she comes to senses when both boys hug her from each side with a loud sequel - "We love you, bhabhi....you're the best....always remember you're God for us .. it's just we're hungry for your attention and nothing else!"

With that both kiss on her cheeks from each side. She closes her eyes with a smile to feel this unconditional love.

After that she gets up and kisses on their forehead with a murmur : "Good morning, my babies! Now get up and be ready..till then, I've many works."

With that she turns to go and smiles mischievously seeing their sulking face ; so she turns to cup their face with his palms - "I love you both .. no .. no .. it'll be I love you three or other one will be more cranky!"

With that the trio burst into laughter. Till now the boys have been in sleepy mood to notice the band aid on her forehead. So she gets out easily from their possessive nature.

After asking them she goes to the little temple present in the house and does her puja. Then she runs to kitchen and quickly making tea and toast, she goes inside the left side room of the staircase. Knowing the person well, she takes a long sigh to absorb the taunts .. however, she takes puja aarti and prasad too along with breakfast ; though the person thinks poison is better to take anything from her but then also she's accepting her in this house .. it's enough for her.

Going inside the room after a knock, she places the tray of breakfast on the table and meets a pair of venomous eyes of Mrs Indrani Rai Singhania - his dadi. She's already awake and sitting before the little temple of her room. She's chanting God's name with folding hands but as soon as she meets hers .. the eyes loss the calmness and anger gets visible.

Bending her head a little and placing the aarti plate before her, she comes out of the room to go another side of the house..it's the next room of Aryan and his twin brother's.

She doesn't feel bad for dadi's behaviour towards her. It's common now. Rather she believes life is too short so she's concentrating upon washing her sins and loving those persons who actually believe her.

After coming to this house, she's found relief in some persons and who are ironically siblings of her husband .. the same man who hates her the most. He hates the ground most she walks upon.

Each woman feel special when their husband makes love to her and worships their body....even she used to believe that only! But it seems her fate doesn't support it. No....he's NEVER forced himself upon her..rather she herself has accepted him as her man because he has been always in her heart and mind..she's always kept him in his prayers!

But the dream of hers to be loved by her husband gets destroyed the very first day when he's made love to her and after fulfilling their mutual needs, he's left her to lay on the furthest corner of the bed....away from her, like she has some disease. That moment she's felt to be cheap.

If you think that's the most painful moment of her life..then you're wrong. Because after a couple of months of their intimacy, he's taken hers name just while he's been kissing her hard. And then only she gets know they were never meant to be! SHE will be always there as a wall in between their marriage .. and the reason is she, HERSELF! If it was not for her mistake, then SHE must have been alive.

She is Mrs Riddhima Vansh Rai Singhania before this whole world but inside this four walls, she's just a replica to HIS LOVE as both have some facial similarities by God's cruelest irony!

And she believes it's her punishment!

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Her thought gets broken when she enters inside a room full of baby pink. She herself has been so in thought to notice when she's reached here.

With a smile she looks forward to find the youngest member of this house. She's still in her deepest slumber which makes Riddhima smile softly at the most innocent soul.

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