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The sixth chapter of the story.

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"Forgive me. I know, I will hurt you doing this but I am doing this as a wife. My last duty as a wife." Anika whispers a the end.

Before turning to look at her side. People turned to a surprising sight.

There stood Hardik Rajbanshi, the youngest and the most handsome looking young man, with a girl at his side. Not any girl, there stood Tia Oberoi.

"I hope you both have a happily married life." Anika says before taking a step back.

"ANIKA!!" Three voices yelled at the same time, in utter surprise.

Karan and Kabir rushed forward as they unfroze realizing what that one step could cause their Bhabhi. They poured water over the Havan, the one kept for the puja, but it only strengthened the fire.

Now you may say it obviously happens, but if you paid a little attention in your chemistry or perhaps physics class you would know that fire needs three things to sustain it. Which is fuel, oxygen, heat; taking one away would result in the fire going off. And water takes away heat.
Still it was a wrong thing to do because water turns to vapor and often settles down at the bottom of the fire. Which may result in the fire blowing up.

The fire which before also had started to burn high, had now reached new levels. Looking at the fire, you would say that it wasn't a Havan fire. It was the fire the burnt in the heart of that pure girl. The fire that consumed her.

Somebody in their right mind had rushed an brought fire extinguisher and they tried to extinguish the fire while a couple of doctors stepped ahead and started to talk to Mrs. Rajbanshi. Made her calm and talked about the results that could occur.
As one of them called for an ambulance.

Once Anika was pulled out of the fire, she was stabilized a bit, by the doctors. People were waiting for the ambulance as they all tried to console the family.

Abruptly, Mrs. Rajbanshi stood from where she was sitting and headed to where her son stood. A deep silence once again fell in the amphitheater as she went to stand in front of Hardik.

*Slap*

"You disappoint me to no end, Hardik Rajbanshi. I feel mortified to even call you my son. Never did I expect you to do some thing that would break her like this." Mrs. Rajbanshi started to scold.
"She tried to commit suicide. She tried to kill herself. And do you know the reason? It was you, you, and you. No one else and nothing else."

"She was the best girl you could ever find and what did you leave her for? This nincompoop? This blasted blimp? You left my daughter- in- law for an whore? For a daft bimbo like her?"
Mrs. Rajbanshi was on a roll it seems. "I did not speak before and I am at fault. I am suffering because of it today. Do you even know which medicine I eat? When I have them?"

Receiving no reply from her wide eyed son she continued, "That girl did not even take two days to remember the time table of the whole house. Cared for everyone, from your own mother to your cousins. She scolded me when I told her that I am employing people to work in her place. She said, what would be her work, if I employed people. She convinced me with every thing, you wanted. I silently agreed and it was my fault, I should have protested then on."

"Mrs. Rajbanshi!" A voice called. Breaking her from further scolding her son.

"Yes, Doctor?" Mrs. Rajbanshi turned towards the voice. It was the doctor.

The doctor was sitting there kneeling beside Anika's body as few instruments were connected to her. The Doctors had decided to step up a temporary camp there. Anika had been in a critical condition and it could turn out fatal to take her to the hospital.

"I am Sorry, Mrs. Rajbanshi but she is not there with us anymore." Doctor whispered, the silence amplifying his soft words. "We could not save her."

"W ..... What ...?" Mrs. Rajbanshi stumbled over her words.

"We are sorry." the doctors bow their head before covering Anika's half burnt face with the white sheet that had been covering her body, up till now.

"No!" Karan and Mrs. Rajbanshi, exclaim in surprise.

"She ... she can not .... leave ... leave us. Not ... me" Karan mumbles, almost wailing.

Kabir has silently since the start. It hit him hard, he was not able to believe it. He could not came to terms with it. What? How? When? Why?
His cousin brother was responsible for his Bhabhi's death. Kabir's Bhabhi committed suicide because of her own husband. What did his brother do? Why did he do whatever he did?

Kabir turned to look at her elder brother, who was conversing with his supposedly girl friend Tia Oberoi. Kabir could not stop cursing that stupid girl. After all these years, once again he had found a motherly aura in a lady and she had stole her from him.

Kabir did not know how his feet moved but it just did and suddenly he was standing in front of his cousin. Hardik stared back at him, until Kabir punched his cousin.

"You are a murderer." Are the only four words that Kabir says.

"She committed a suicide." Tia says, in her irritating high pitched voice. And the soft whispers that were going on till now silence.

"And you are the reason."

Tia snorts, "She is middle class girl. You really think she has a standard? She just got what she deserved. She was a slut, an whore."

"Tia!" Karan screamed. "Remember who you are talking about."

"Stop it Karan!" Hardik spoke up.

All eyes turned to him surprised, is he insane?

"You can defend her but not your wife." Karan questioned incredulously.

"She was not my wife." Hardik scoffs.

"Did you not sign on the Wedding Papers? Did you not take the vows of husband and wife with her? Did you not fill her Maang with Sindoor? Did you not put the Mangal Sutra around her neck?" Kabir questioned his cousin, angrily.

"I do not believe in the marriage." Hardik simply shrugged.

"You are hopeless. But remember you will always remain a murderer, even though Bhabhi took the path of suicide."

Mrs. Rajbanshi voice makes everyone turn to her. "Yes, Mr. Chhabra."

Mr. Chhabra was a famous lawyer. The best in his field. Why did Mrs. Rajbanshi call him?

"As soon as possible, yes." Mrs. Rajbanshi said in the phone.

"To Kabir, everything. Yes."

"No, under no circumstance do I plan to change my decision." Mrs. Rajbanshi had a hard face expression on.

Once she pulled away her phone, Kabir spoke up, "What did you do, Chachi?" (Aunt)

"You are now the CEO of the company in place of Hardik." Mrs. Rajbanshi says.

"Mom!?" Hardik exclaimed surprised.

"Do not call me that. You are not my son." Mrs. Rajbanshi snaps. "Just like Anika said, today you died in my eyes. Especially when you became the cause of my daughter's death."

"You can not to do it." He cried.

"Watch me!" 

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What do you think?

She died. Will it change him?

(1280 words.)

--Sxxxxx