"Oh I pity her......." Mary whispered as she peeked inside the half ajar door finding madhushree softly crying.
"Ye python mujhe heart attack dilwa ke hi dum lega......tum dekhna ek din madhu ka naam japte japte ye Kshatriya se pandit ho jaayega......." Raghu spoke up in disdain. Mary glared at him.
"Stop with that already you duck head, Sir loves her so much!!!! She's here since last night and Sir has stayed within his limits.......don't you think it's adorable!!!!" Mary defended python. Raghu gaped at her.
"Adorable!!!! My Goodness........it's ghastly Mrs. Mary Garcia.......just look, she's crying since morning!!!! And where the hell is python.......I can't find him in the bungalow!!!!" raghu stated. Mary rolled her eyes.
"He's outside I believe......" she said casually.
"Outside where???? In the golf course.......I don't think, I saw the course empty when I came in!!! Is he touring the orchards????" raghu asked. Mary shook her head lightly.
"I don't know.......but why are you so antsy......" asked she.
"Am not I his PA!!!! Besides, I have to discuss with him regarding the new Vayu model, I believe he has wrapped up quite a lot of work in it.......Last time when I asked him, he was working on fixing some AI stuff in it!!!! Said it was going to be the most safest car in the world.......I don't know what he's upto usually!!!!" raghu muttered tiredly. Mary sighed.
"I know.......Raghu why don't you go and ask her what she would fancy in lunch....." suggested Mary. Raghu was reluctant at first but then he agreed. He rapped at the door and entered.
"Um Good Afternoon, I'm Raghu.......Mr. Python's PA!!!" raghu tried hard to not sound awkward. Madhushree peeked at him through her wet eyelashes. She sniffed.
"Yes....." she said still sniffling. Raghu cleared his throat.
"What would you like for lunch today.........." he asked politely.
"I don't want anything......I'm not hungry!!!!" she told him. Raghu shook his head.
"Ok if you aren't hungry now but I believe you'll be in the next few hours certainly.......besides skipping meals isn't a good thing, you need energy after all!!!" raghu explained to her.
"Keeping somebody immured is also not a good thing......why don't you tell this to your boss!!!!" she cried. Raghu chuckled.
"Goodness!!! Um, perhaps you're a little more upset with python than I supposed you were!!! Anyways, do you know even I'm chagrined with python!!!!" he tried to build up a conversation. She innocently stepped into his non-detrimental trap.
"Why????" she asked wiping her tears.
"Oh Lord!!!! Where should I start from........you know he has this bad habit of eating on bed, and leaving damp towels on the duvets!!!!" raghu told her, she scrunched her nose in disgust and that's when raghu noticed that her nose was slightly longer than usual noses but it gave an exceptionally beautiful appearance to her visage. Besides, raghu had heard somewhere regarding the religious meaning behind long and sharp noses, people with immense self-esteem and self-respect have long noses. Now back to the present.
"That's horrible......." she exclaimed. Raghu sighed.
"Yes and he roams in the entire edifice in mere boxers.......tell me, should any cultivated man do this!!!! He's shameless, I'm telling you!!!!" raghu's voice was surprisingly so convincing that madhushree bought everything he sold. Besides, he wasn't lying, python might be a billionaire but his daily habits are just like any common man, simple and sometimes strongly unhygienic.
"Hawww!!!! That's so bad......He should put some clothes on while he's moving around!!!!" she said and raghu nodded.
"Ah!!! He's just so brazen most of the times!!!! He even has a funny dressing style......"
"I DO NOT!!!!" wasn't this voice familiar. The gossiping heads fearfully turned towards the door to find python glaring daggers at raghu. Raghu had his breath hitched as python entered inside.
"Ok.......so that's how you belittle me infront of my wife!!!!" python yelled at Raghu. Madhushree glared at him.
"But he wasn't lying.......you do have unhygienic habits, if not a bad dressing style!!!!" she defended raghu. Raghu grinned as he knew python would certainly won't go against her.
"Baby please.......I don't have unhygienic habits.......Tell me, eating food on bed is unhygienic.......no!!! It's not!!!!!! And I leave damp towels on the bed because it's easy to find it there........what's wrong in that!!!!" python sulkily said. Madhushree gave him a gross look.
"Eww......this is all so unhygienic!!!! Eating on bed is bad manners and so is leaving towels on the bed!!!!" she stated with a sense of superiority. Python whined.
"Why all easy and better things are counted in bad manners????? Can't a man eat on bed.......it's so convenient to me!!!" he mumbled under his breath.
"And he even wipes his hands on his shirt......" raghu came up with one more with a smirk and python glared at him badly.
"Ewwwww........gross!!!! I thought old man are hygienic!!!!" madhushree chuckled and raghu burst out into laughter while python gaped at her.
"I am not old........." he was sulking.
"What do you call a man who has crossed 4 decades......." raghu said in between his laughter. Madhushree laughed along with him as they both made fun of the sulking hulk. Python wrapped his arm around raghu's neck and started dragging him out.
"I'll see you later baby........I need to take care of a foul mouth first......" he hissed as raghu yelped under his grip as he dragged him out. Madhushree who was laughing all the while found it hard to stop herself.
"Oh God!!!! I have never laughed so much in my entire life!!!!" she laughed holding her stomach. But then suddenly tears came into her eyes though she still laughed as she remembered the days with her family. There weren't many occasions when she was gifted with laughters, sometimes she laughed a little with her brother or with deepali but never with anybody else. But that's what scared her. The laughter which her family couldn't afford to give her in 18 years, this man gave it in just an hour. And she feared if her heart starts softening for him.

The cuckoo clock stuck 10:00 in the night. Her brother had rang up in the bungalow's land-line and threatened python's staff of drastic measures if their master didn't return her back to him. Mohan had also came twice on the python's territory but because python had strictly denied his entry and also because you need a signed NOC from Mr. Python himself to enter his territory no matter if you're a Chief Justice or a cheif minister, Mohan couldn't succeed in taking her back. He hadn't given up hope though, he still was planning ways to take her back. Madhushree sat on the bed, despondent and lost. She wanted to go back to her place badly. It wasn't that she was treated badly here or she was being harassed in any way, but home is home. She longed to get back soon.
"Umeed karte hai ki khwaab mei tumhare hum hi honge, kyunki kisi aur ko hum bardasht kar nhi payenge....." she gasped as she heard his voice coming from the door. She turned to the door to find him standing obliquely on the door. He was smiling evily.
"Kaisi ho jaan......" his voice was naturally very husky and sensuous but if he hadn't been a psychopath than perhaps she would've liked that voice. She averted her eyes in disdain.
"How can a person be when he's forcibly kept in an unknown place....." she said trying not to make any eye contact with him. He came inside and gently closed the door shut.
"I care less about that person, I'm asking how are you my love!!!!" said he as he sat on the far end of the room, on the couch which sticked to the big windows. She wiped her tears as she looked at him.
"I'm not good.......happy now!!!!!" she said before turning her face away.
"Meri khushi to tumhari hasi mei hai madhu, tumhari khushi ke liye to mai apni jaan bhi de sakta hu......" there was an ardent honesty in his voice which somehow evoked an inscrutable remorse in her as if she was committing a heinous sin by breaking his heart. But then she thought it was good to deal with matters through her brain although even her brain replied her with same stuff as her heart.
"And my happiness lies in my family.......just let me go!!!!" she whispered with scanty tears in her eyes.
"Family!!!!! A family who traded you just for their freedom and well being.........C'mon madhu, can't you see it!!!! Lata and malini don't love you!!! They don't care about you.......Yes, Mohan loves you I know that but.....but......I can ask him to live with us.......will that be ok???? But please, don't say you wanna leave!!!" the last words were more of a heartfelt plea.
"That's my lookout.......I want to go back to my family that's all I want!!!" she insisted. Python was silent for a moment and she didn't dare look at him in the course of his confound silence.
"Mai tumhe nahi jaane de sakta madhu.......tum meri duniya ho, tumhare bina mere paas jeene ki koi wajah hi nhi hai!!!! Maine apni zindagi mei sabse zyada pyaar tumse hi kiya hai.........Mai sabkuch bardasht kar lunga madhu par jiss din tum meri zindagi se chali gayi na, uss din meri maut ki khabar milegi tumhe....." he was extremely soft while he said these words. Madhushree couldn't muster the courage to look into his eyes. Did he really loved her that much???? Was she being unnecessarily rude and difficult???? Was she doing wrong by turning him down???? He didn't say anything after that, just sat quietly in the corner. Madhushree also didn't utter anything. For few minutes or so, they both sat silently in the same room like strangers. Silent and bewildered. But then, for some reason madhushree turned to look at him and gasped. His eyes were brazenly staring at her but not in a despondent manner but in a more creepy way, just like he stares at her usually. His head was cocked and he was staring at her without blinking which was obviously creepy for her.
"Stop staring at me like that.......you look creepy!!!" she whispered as her eyes started clouding with fear.
"Tujhe banane waala bhi sochta hoga ki kyu hi maine ise iss rakshas ke hawaale kar diya........" he could be a very good shayar. Just saying!!!! Anyways, she looked at him with those innocent eyes of hers which melted his stone cold heart. He rose up from his chair and strode towards her.
"Stay away please......" she whispered with fear as he sat beside her. He stared at her beautiful face before starting.
"Mohabbat nahi to kam se kam bharosa hi kar lo janaab, tumhe tumhari marzi ke bina haath lagaaye.....meri jaan pyaar mei pagal zarur hai par haiwaan nhi hai....." his words provided some sort of uncanny safety to her but yet she was well aware of his psychotic behavior, he loses his sanity just in a moment.
"Please I want to go......" she whispered with tears. He wiped those tears of her with his thumb before lifting her face up by nestling his finger under her chin.
"Ek baar.....bas ek baar kah do ki tum sirf meri ho......!!!" he had tears in his eyes as he insisted her. She turned her face away quickly to not fall for those eyes.
"No I'm not.......I'll never be yours!!!" she stated before scooting away from him on the bed. His eyes showed the agony her rejection gave him but than it quickly vanished with a single chuckle from him. Madhushree knew that this was the beginning of his psychotic behaviour, when he underwents pain chiefly after her constant rejections than his inner demon sets itself free. He grabbed her fringed dupatta gently in his fingers, carefully so as to not let the garment slip out from her shoulder, madhushree gaped at him in horror. He smelt the garment and she hugged her knees in fear, trembling badly. She felt like a fool after provoking him, she should've just lied but than lying to a psychopath can be even more perilous.
"Jaan, meri mohabbat mere khud ke kaabu mei nahi hai aur tumhara yu har baar mere pyaar ko thukrana, pta hai kya karta hai......" his eyes were dangerous as he asked her. She shook her head in fear. He stamped his hands on either side of her body, confining her between his arms and the bed frame.
"Mera dimaag kharab kar deta hai.......aur pata hai jaan, sabse achi baat btau tumhe!!!! Mai na psycho aadmi hu, agar ek baar kisi ke pyaar mei pad jaaun to use hassil kar ke hi rehta hu!!! Tumhe to.......tumhe to maine apni Rani banake rakha hai, phir bhi tum mujhe pyaar nhi karti......kyu.....kyu nhi karti tum mujhe pyaar!!!! Dekho tumhara favourite colour lavender hai na, tumhe pata hai.......maine apni gaadi......apne kapde sab.....sab usi rang ke karwa diye hai!!!!! Ab.......pyaar karogi na mujhe...." there wasn't any connection between his sentences but his psychoness was out certainly. Poor madhushree softly cried as she didn't knew what her single word might do.
"Hum........Hum shaadi kar lete hai madhu!!!! Mai bhi dekho kya baat kar rha hu.......shaadi to humaari hogi hi!!!!  Pata hai Maine humaare liye ek alag kamra banwaya hai......shaadi ke baad hum vahi rahenge......baccho ke liye bhi alag kamre hai vaha........Maine to tumhare liye shaadi ka joda bhi select kar liya hai......tum.....tum vohi pehnna!!!! Bas tum.....tum....shaadi ke liye haan kar do!!!! Karogi na mujhse shaadi....." he stated cupping her cheeks. She sobbed while shaking her head in a no. His eyes darkened as he left her cheek but grabbed her waist instead, his nails digging into her soft flesh making her wince in pain.
"Shaadi to hogi jaan.......ya to tumhari marzi se nahi to zabardasti se.....lekin hogi zarur!!!! Tumhare paas do choice hai madhu, ya to khushi khushi mandap mei chalke aao nahi to mai uthake tumhe mandap mei laaunga.......aise ya vaise, banogi meri hi!!!!" his dark eyes scared the crap out of her, to the extent that she sobbed badly in his arms.
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