Aarti slowly opened her eyes to scan around...he wasn't there. She yawned and stretched herself. Then closed her eyes again... she had all problems with getting up early.

Just after sometime her ears heard footsteps in the room... she lifted the blanket a little to have a glimpse of him striding around the room...

Taking deep breathe while gazing at him for a while, her senses always give up when it comes to him she thought, why does he have to look that handsome all the time.

This was the first time she saw him in his uniform. Her heart skipped several beats. No matter what he thought about her but she was all lost in him...

He kept his cap on the dressing table and picked up some papers from the wardrobe then looked at her... she immediately closed her eyes pretending to still asleep...

Without saying anything he left the room... she took off the blanket and stood up from the bed... drowsed while looking outside the window... "Beautiful" she said to herself looking at the mountains outside. She thought of going for a long walk towards the mountains...

Veer finished with his breakfast, when he saw his lazy wife coming out of the room. She was still in her night dress but this time she covered herself with the silk gown not revealing her skin anymore. He was still thinking to ask if she was comfortable but something stopped him.

She picked up a cup of coffee and sat next to him reading the newspaper. He watched her adjusting her long hair making a ponytail and started reading the newspaper... "What is this?" she said aloud

He frowned a little while she looked embarrassed... "Sorry, this news...have you read?"

He didn't say anything and she understood he doesn't want to talk at all...how boring she thought.

He was about to leave but stopped at her words "I am going for a long walk shortly"

Veer totally unheeded and sauntered away...

Feeling completely down about his merciless behaviour she kept the cup on the table and speculated why he was like this all the time. "Moron" she murmured

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After sometime strolling here and there Aarti picked up her towel and ambled towards the bathroom... it was really small but was kept very tidy. She turned on the shower "oh no..." the water was damn cold.

She couldn't believe the water was ice cold and she no clue how to get the warm water ... "what the hell" she shouted.

She definitely can't have shower in this cold water... she wrapped the towel around her and peeked out of the room trying to search for him "where are you?" she murmured then heard some noise outside.

Veer was giving commands to his cadets when he heard her shouting for him.

"Veer....Veer"

Veer very well heard her screaming but he knew it would be out rightly baseless or something cracking up in her silly brains or she must have ended up doing something utterly stupid...

One of the kitchen hand person heard her shouting and ran to call his commando officer.

"Sir"

Veer turned around "Is it important Yashpal?"

"Sir, I hope ma'am is alright..."

"You all carry on" he ordered and walked inside the quarter...

Wholly calamitous of this kind of expected behaviour he walked straight towards the point from where the noise was coming...

"What happened?" he stood annoyingly outside the bathroom

She opened the door "I need warm water to have bath. But this shower has ice cold water"

Veer angrily glared at her then stepped inside the bathroom... she watched him turning a switch on the geezer "oh...I didn't see that"

"Nothing new" he said

"You won't leave a chance? Isn't it.?" she stood in front of him crossing her arms

He irately saw her half wet hair.... "No. I won't and I don't want to talk to someone who's without her brains" he tried stepping outside but she angrily closed the door behind her.

"You can't leave unless you take your words back" she raised her brow

He nodded his head "don't even think about this" then observed her from top to bottom standing in a towel.

"What are you looking at?" she snapped

He stepped closer towards the door "get aside" angrily he blasted at her.

"No"

Indignantly he lifted her in his arms marched towards the bedroom. Another instance he threw her on the bed "enough Aarti...don't you play these games with me" he warned her and walked out of the room closing the door behind.

Feeling stranded as to what he had been doing she sat on the bed. He was earnestly not anxious about her.

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After few hours

Veer finished his training...it was late evening. He changed his clothes and went for dinner. He looked around the whole house but couldn't locate her anywhere.

Wrathfully shook his head since he knew she must be up to something puerile again. Least alarmed he finished his dinner and headed off to his room.

Few hours later he opened his eyes to check if she was back but she still wasn't in the house anywhere. It was 2.am. Little anxious about her behaviour he presumed her either leaving for Mumbai which is good or she must be hiding someplace to pest him.

Whatever the reason be he had to still find her. He was just not happy and was terribly regretting the moment he did the awful thing with her in college because of which he had to let her enter his life.

He punched his fist on the wall then picked up his jacket and walked out of the house.

He thought of checking around the quarters first. A gush of resentment ran down his blood the moment he saw her sitting on the stairs at the back of the quarters...she was too much to handle. Will he do his job or look after her grumpiness.

He was fed up of her this time... she won't let him sleep in peace at all...without asking her anything he pulled her arm and dragged her inside the room...

"What are you doing Veer?" she said

He closed the door and stepped heatedly towards her "don't you utter a word. You have made my life hell...do you understand?"

"What are you saying Veer..." she tried to calm him down

But he didn't listen and yelled at her "I swear if I hadn't done that contemptible thing with you that night....I wouldn't have allowed you in my life"

Aarti was now stunned... she didn't say anything. Her married life was already on cessation and this time she could see that in bits and pieces everywhere, so he was still thinking about that incident she just made up at the time thinking Veer will fall for her one day.

Even the slightest occurrence didn't come in her mind about this...

One single lie has created havoc in her life and here Veer was lamenting about something he never did.

She couldn't take it anymore... this time she was not scared even if he threw her out of his life. Nonetheless he never accepted her....but she won't let him swallow this guiltiness anymore...

"Then don't allow me" she said

"What" he ran his hand in his hair disarrayed at her words

Aarti didn't look at him, instead watched the windstorm outside the window...she felt the same tornado inside her heart and mind...

"You never did anything Veer... I lied to you" she admitted closing her eyes

Veer sceptically look daggers at her, how can a girl lie about such thing.

So she lied about something that any girl wouldn't even think of doing...he couldn't believe she ensnared him with this lie else he wouldn't have even looked at her.

He recalled everything what happened that night in college...she made him drink something that made him unconscious after that...so she made up a fake story to make him feel remorseful about what he never did...

The more he thought the angrier he got... he felt like breaking everything in front of him...

He closed his fist in fury, unable to control the wrath building inside him he tightly slapped her across the face.

"Shameless" he said aloud

The slap came too raw for her that she fell on her knees

"I am sorry Veer..." she said

Without saying anything he left the room ... there was silence all around as if some thunderstorm came and stopped. Everything was hushed...

Finally she felt relieved ...better to say the truth than to build up the weak relation... though she knew very well that Veer would not talk to her or even look up at her for what she did but she was ready to face his annoyance.

Her hands touched the side of her cheek that was now red with his fingerprints...but at the same time she was relaxed. This lie had to fall of her shoulders one day...

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