*Tajwar Pov*

"I thought you were angry yesterday." I mumbled frowning when I saw her smiling normally and even giving me the carriage.

"Yes! I shouldn't have talked like that, but I don't know why I did. And I was not angry, but just a little hurt." She said smiling while rubbing her hands to the Saree end.

"Like I said you will not get anything in this marriage, and it is better if you don't expect from me anything." I commented before taking a step to leave the room.

"You are being kinder than I thought you would be after the first day of marriage. So, it will be fine." Her words made me still in my stance to shout at her asking what should I exactly say to make her understand, but I calmly left the room without saying a word.

"Are you still going to go to the office and return by the same timings like everyday, even after all these days of marriage?" I heard Mom's voice when I reached the main door.

"What did you expect, Mom? That I will magically change my timings just because I got married to some girl you chose?" I asked using a sarcastic tone.

"She is a good person." She said, moving towards me while I gripped the briefcase.

"So was Lavanya." I retorted fuming, and she stopped in mid step hearing my words.

"When will you forget her and move on?" she asked weakly, but I didn't feel any moment inside.

"How about never." I replied, walking away and got inside my car.

"Sir, you said there are still two days to finish this work." One of the managers said when I questioned him why the work is still not finished.

"So? Can't you just finish it before two days?" I shouted to which he stepped back but didn't look away.

"Leave the room." I said, waving and he left holding the file while I pressed my forehead.

"You are early!" I heard the words when I entered my room but didn't react to them feeling the headache increased even more from the morning time.

"I mean I know you are just half an hour early, but it is still an early time, right?" she asked, taking the briefcase smiling and then handed over a towel.

"While you freshen up, I will bring the food." She added when I remained silent walking near to the washroom.

"I am not hungry." I stated through my gritted teeth to which she immediately walked near to me.

"But I didn't have dinner with others today like yesterday thinking I will have food along with you." she said frowning, and that seemed to be the last thread.

"So? Do you think I really care when you have your food and when you don't? I don't care what you do and where you stay, but just stay away from my life." I shouted and stepped inside before slamming the door on her face.

I stayed under the shower for nearly an hour and then stepped outside to see a plate on the table while she is lying on the bed.

I took few tablets and then laid on the bed, ignoring the food and her before switching off the lights. After some time, I felt like there is a whole jungle inside my stomach, and then I remembered of not having the lunch too.

I sighed and stood up before walking near to the food and served myself. When I was about to take a bite, I remember her mentioning not having the food with other just to have it with me.

Yesterday when I got to know that I am going to eat alone just like the days before the wedding, I felt uneasy because of which I just uttered and acted whatever that came into my head.

"Mridula!" I called her to which she didn't reply, but did after a few minutes rubbing her eyes.

"What?" she asked not meeting my eyes.

"Did you have your food?" I asked, ignoring that to which she nodded in a positive reply.

"Ok! Go to sleep." I said before turning towards the food and started having it while she laid back down drifting off into sleep.

I should have just had the food when she asked me to! I thought, shaking my head and finished the food before lying on the bed letting the sleep consume me.

"Here!" I heard a voice when I was about to step outside the room and turned to see her holding the carriage but is still not looking at me.

"I shouldn't have shouted at you." I simply said not wanting to see this abnormal behavior from her like the past one week which is making me get more irritated.

"Ok!" She simply mumbled before walking inside the room while I walked away shaking my head thinking I don't need to say anything else.

"You ate with them even today?" I asked in a surprised tone that night when I returned from the office.

"Yes!" she replied before arranging the bed when I heard a knock to see a maid entering while holding the plate like the past week.

When the maid left, I turned towards her to see that she is already sleeping. I shrugged to myself not caring what she does and walked inside the washroom to freshen up.

After coming back from the bath, I directly moved towards the bed and tapped her shoulder, feeling which she immediately woke up.

"What is it?" she asked, not looking at me again.

"What do you want to prove?" I asked back hearing which she turned towards me frowning.

"I don't understand!" she replied, frowning and I took a deep breathe, remembering that she never plays anyone and just do what she feels to but not to teach someone anything.

"Why are you behaving like this for the past one week?" I asked, folding my arms and her frown increased.

"You asked me to stay away from your life, and I am trying to do it." she replied literally with confused expressions, and I immediately held my forehead.

"Look, anyone says anything in anger or irritation on that person or for someone else. They actually don't mean it. I mean they do, but they don't." I stopped myself feeling more than confused by my own words, and she seems to be feeling the same.

"Ok! I will tell you one thing, but don't say about it to anyone." I added and she slowly nodded.

"I want you to have dinner with me." I said and waited for her to smirk or even laugh at my request, but she slowly nodded.

"Really? I thought I was coming between your privacy." she said after a few seconds.

"I don't feel like to stay for dinner alone anymore. And I want you to give me company. Will you do it?" I asked again and she suddenly grinned.

"Will you use the magic word?" She asked using a teasing tone.

"Will you do it only if I use it?" I asked, frowning to which she shook her head immediately.

"No! But it will cover your harsh words." she replied, and I stared at her wishing all this is not real, and I am not having this conversation.

"Will you have dinner with me? Please?" I asked, sighing and she nodded before getting up from the bed.

"You said you had your dinner, right? Or were you lying everyday?" I asked her frowning.

"I never skip the food for any reason by disrespecting it. I am going to sit near you until you have your food." She replied, smiling and walked near to the coffee table.

"Ok!" I mumbled before sitting before her and started having my food while she stayed there in silence.

"I am glad." She suddenly commented when I washed my hands after finishing the food.

"For what?" I asked, taking my tablets.

"That you want to have dinner with me everyday. I too missed it like you for the past one week." She replied smiling.

"I didn't miss it." I mumbled frowning, but she didn't seem like she is listening to me and just walked near to the bed before lying on it.

"You are weird! Do you know that?" I asked out loud remembering her behavior for everything.

"I don't think so! But Dileep too says the same thing for most of the time." she replied when I lay beside her.

"Dileep?" I asked her when I heard my brother's name.

"Yes! He is my best friend." she replied more than smiling with a full happy look.

"I didn't know!" I said, shrugging and she nodded before closing her eyes.

"Why don't you stop using those tablets?" she suddenly questioned after a few weeks, and I stared at her in shock looking away from the tablets in my hand.

"Why are you asking me that?" I asked her back, frowning.

"I will never mock you before anyone, and I will be here if you get any type of nightmares. So, you can stop the tablets which may harm your body if you take them like this." She explained.

"I don't think so." I said, gritting my teeth.

"Please! I promise that I will never tell about these to anyone, and no one even knows about them." she said pleadingly, and I sighed before glancing at the tablets in my hand.

"We will see." I said before dropping them into the box and then moved to lay on the bed but got attacked by somebody hugging me.

"Thank you so much for trusting me." she said hugging me tightly, and I patted her shoulder for which she immediately moved away.

"I am sorry! But I am really glad." She added, and we both lay down before drifting off into sleep.

In the middle of night, I heard the whispers, of 'I am here!' which caused me to lose the distress I felt suddenly and again let the sleep consume me.

"See? It wasn't hard right?" I heard the first words when I woke up and saw her getting ready.

"I didn't feel anything." I lied and stepped inside the washroom only to stop near to the mirror.

I slowly opened my shirt and saw the body to which I got disgusted with myself. I shook my head and then remember forgetting about the towel.

I stepped outside and took the towel, but before I could step back to walk inside the washroom. I heard a gasp and turned to see Mridula stepping inside the room holding a coffee cup like everyday.

Then I glanced down to see my shirt is still open, making me fume at myself and at her for showing the difference upon her face regarding them, and now she will show the disgust soon.

"Oh god! What happened?" she asked, rushing near to me and then saw all of them.

"Shall I bring some ointment or something? What happened?" she added frenetically making me frown at her in shock and confusion.

"Mridula! They happened more than two years back." I said when she literally started sweating and asking again and again whether should we go to the hospital.

"Oh!" she mumbled finally calmed down.

"By your kidnappers right? They should be killed for doing this." She said, shaking her head, but traced the wounds near my heart and even at the shoulder blades.

"How can someone kidnap anyone just for some ransom money? Can't they earn their own money?" She continued to babble, but her words made me frown.

"Money?" I asked her frowning.

"Yeah! I know that you got kidnapped for money, and they could at least not hurt you right." she replied holding my hands.

"They didn't kidnap me for money and who told you this?" I asked staring at her face.

"Some maid was gossiping, but I stopped her though." She replied, still looking at me with worry.

"There was someone else with me, Mridula." I slowly started, but stopped when she gasped.

"They kidnapped another person as well? I am glad they are arrested now." She said, sighing and I immediately held her shoulders tightly making her stop the babbling.

"The other person was a girl and my girlfriend. They kidnapped both of us to make her marry the leader of them, and in the middle tortured me with the knives. Then they killed her before me when she didn't accept to marry her. I love that girl and wanted to marry her too, but my Mom rejected the idea. Don't you know anything about it?" I asked her when she already got stilled in my hold when I was halfway through the words.

"Mridula!" I shouted, shaking her when she didn't move or said anything for the past few minutes.

"I didn't know!" She slowly whispered and then glanced at me.

"What did she threaten you with?" she asked in a low tone.

"Whether I marry you with which I can get the room sound proofed or join the hospital until my nightmares get cured." I replied honestly hearing which she stepped back, and I didn't stop her.

"You are getting late." she whispered, stepping back more.

"What?" I asked her frowning to which she repeated and left the room without glancing at me again while I stepped inside the washroom after a few minutes to leave for office still feeling anger on my mom for keeping this information from her like this.

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so, she finally got to know and that too from tajwar itself... now what will she do and how will she take in the information? will be known in the next chap...

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