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"But he still loved you," she said.

My heart stopped beating for a moment but then I regained my pace and thought about Arjun for a while.
All that he did is just so unforgivable and unforgettable. If he still loved me, he should have tried to find where I was. He should have tried to know what was wrong with me. That sweet fairytale love stories that I read were all plain lies. He never heard my side. He kept on falling into Disha's trap. I mean, what kind of a relationship was that where my husband trusted everyone else but me.

"Then?" I asked.

She seemed to have been reminiscing those days. She was all lost. While still dreaming about wherever she was, she continued.

"I was frustrated. You know Amaya, he realised his mistake the next morning, tried to find you at every place he could. He knew this time you wouldn't return. He'll have to bring you back. You know, we had a fight over this. I told him to leave you on your own. I tried to persuade him in dropping the idea of finding you and bringing you back but he didn't stop. He visited Kabir's place," and there she dropped the bomb.

I knew he had come to Kabir's place. When he was standing at the entrance enquiring about where I was, I strictly told Kabir not to utter a single word and just say he had no fucking clue about it. I didn't know he was going crazy about finding me.

Don't get swayed.

"Today, since I've promised myself that I'll be honest with you, I'll tell you something. I knew you were at Kabir and Zara's place. I knew your condition. I knew you were pregnant but all I wanted then was Arjun and I somehow had this gut feeling that you won't come back on your own. I just had to prevent Arjun from reaching you. When you settled in another country, I even got to know about it. I shared this with Diya but you know what Diya told me? She told me that she'll tell Arjun every fucking single thing. To shut her mouth, I created such a havoc in her life that till date she hasn't gotten out of it. Problem solved-this is what I thought but no...Arjun realised you weren't living in India anymore. He met your mother, he tried every possible thing he could to know where you were," the way she was talking, I felt like I'll slap her. Not because of what she did to me. Okay fine, she wanted to have Arjun in her life forever. It was because she ruined an innocent girl's life...her own sister, Diya. How could she?

"How could you Disha?" I felt disgusted.

"How could I what?"

"Everything, especially what you did to Diya? How? She's your own blood," my blood was boiling. I don't know how I controlled myself.

"I don't know. I didn't want to hurt her but she was comin' in my way. I just wanted her to not become another hurdle in my bumpy path,"

I kept on looking at her in utter shock. She's worse than an animal. She's so selfish. She has literally no feelings.

And Arjun? That man could have talked to me atleast once before I left.

"I'm sorry Amaya. I suspect Arjun got to know about your whereabouts six months back. Till then he was all good with me because somehow he knew I had a hint about where you were. Poor man tried all his luck but couldn't succeed and one night, when I was chatting with Neil, he sensed something fishy and checked my phone when I slept and then all of it was out in the open. That Neil tried all his luck to have you but I didn't let him reach you. You should be thankful to me for that,"

I had my ears heating up because anger and pure dissent of the person standing in front of me and talking all rubbish.

"See, another truth that I want to tell you. I kept Neil away from you for my own selfish reasons. You know if she would have got to know about you, obviously Arjun must have known and then all this drama would have followed," that guilt was gone from her eyes. All that was indeed a show.

Suhana firmly held my hand and signalled me to not slap her for all that she was saying. Maybe she was right. She deserved a slap, no doubt but after she was done revealing the kind of trash she had stored in her heart for so long. I didn't take the name of the heart because this girl is heartless. Like totally.

"Then that Arjun played me Amaya. He played me by convincing me to marry him. Ofcourse he didn't have to beg me or even kneel down. I immediately said yes and then he planned to bring you back. He contacted Shreyasi, created a wonderful scene and brought you into his house. Then he got another shock of his life...his children. That man believed they weren't his but again I know he found the truth to be in your favour and he was all cursing himself for doubting you even a bit. He literally suffered a lot because of you. I could see that because I loved him. Had you not come into his life, he would have been a happy man today-"

And there I heard the crack sound, no sooner realising that my palms had crashed with her cheek. I had slapped her finally. The way my palms were itching to get it's finger marks on her cheek, I cannot describe that emotion. I had this urge since the time she had changed her tone and this time I just couldn't hold back.

I wanted to slap her again but Suhana held me back.

She covered her slapped face with one palm and looked at me with raging eyes.

"How dare you?" She had the audacity to continue talking. What kind of a bitch she was!

"How dare I Disha? You're asking that? The woman who didn't spare anyone to fulfil her obsession for Arjun? Not even her own sister? Not even that man you claim to love so dearly? Whom you had deceived in the very beginning, if you  remember," I had started raising my pitch steadily.

"How can you term my love for Arjun as obsession?" I must say that she didn't need a jail or law to punish her but this poor woman needed immediate medical help.

"Because that is what it is! OBSESSION," I roared through my cries.

Suhana held me by my shoulders but I jerked her away. I was experiencing overpowering emotions and I was going insane. This was just too much for me to take in.

"Is there anything else that's left?" Suhana asked to Disha.

I shook my head negatively. I didn't want to listen to anything else that she wanted to say. I was considering to accept her apology after seeing her sad eyes but after all that she confessed, I felt like throwing her in front of one of the cars passing at a speed of 100kmph minimum.

"That man still loves you and I hate you for that. But the best part is that I've created so much of differences between the two of you that it will take a lifetime to resolve each one of them. The entire relationship is a mess now which is nearly impossible to clear. You hate Arjun after all that happened and I know it," she said through her shaking voice. She was on the verge of bursting into tears too.

"Pl-please ask her to shut up Suhana," I requested as I averted my eyes from her face.

"I always thought Arjun loved me...shit...he loves no one. He doesn't love me...why Arjun? Why..." she started muttering things like this all to herself and I kept on thinking about how things wouldn't have gone this bad if we would have had a simple conversation.

No sooner, I heard sirens from a distance. I don't know if Disha heard that because she was sitting on the ground crying, I don't know why, and she was lost somewhere, maybe thinking how badly she lost, Suhana and I heard that.

We got no reaction from Disha and we somehow knew she was somewhere dying mentally in her own pool of disappointments and regrets.

Before these sirens could become clearer, I bent down to her level, keeled on the ground using both my knees and held her shoulders firmly.

"Disha, you know what, your last days will be spent pondering over the bad things you did which destroyed not just one or two but many lives. You will spend your entire life from today on, each and every breath will be filled with the air of guilt. You will pay Disha and you will die all alone. You'll have no one on your side, ever," when I said the last line, she raised her eyes and those tear-filled eyes met mine.

DON'T.GET.SWAYED.
I warned myself.

"Just fuck off you sick piece of shit," I whispered and kept on looking at her until I heard the sirens blowing right behind my back.

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Hey everyone! This chapter is finally up. It was a difficult one to write tbh. Like I had to go thought the entire book again and then write this. I hope I didn't miss out anything! Please let me know if there's anything more left to clarify between Arjun and Amaya.

But but but...this isn't the end, as you know. A few more things are left. Remember Amaya and her mother's toxic relation? Next chapter probably would deal with that.

Also, what do you think about Disha now? And what about Arjun? And Amaya?

Let me know what you think about the chapter, the book and the characters through your wonderful votes and comments. Please do vote and comment.