"Oops...sorry the pancakes are a bit burnt and...may be they're not cooked well, I guess! Don't worry try this hot latte coffee and meanwhile I'll order something for us", he replied scratching his nape while passing me an apologetic smile and immediately turned away to walk when I accidentally held his burnt hand...

"S-sorry! Your b-burn...I mean apply something on your burn and I'll cook the b-breakfast!",I replied stuttering while looking away from his captivating eyes and instantly removed my hand when I realised that I'd touched him...accidentally!!! Too habitual to his touches that didn't felt like a foreign touch or a touch that disgusts me??

"No I won't allow you to cook until you're completely recovered!!!",he replied straightly in an authorative tone like a king while glaring down at me!! Wait...glaring at me? Has he forgotten that he has to impress me, not to scare the hell out of me? He'll remain a jerk throughout his whole life and probably I've to endure this obnoxious hulk till I grow old...!

"But...",I tried to deny but as usual, he again cuts my sentence off in the mid air!!

"No! I'll order something for us...Or better let's go somewhere to eat!!!",he replied while walking away from the kitchen making me roll my eyes at his bossy tone!! Still showing me his arrogant attitude!! But he makes a good coffee...!,my mind praised after inhaling it's aroma and devouring it's bitter sweet taste on my taste buds...

And You're impressed by a mere coffee, hehe what an easy girl to impress!!!,my subconscious laughed at my naiveness!!

(×_×)!

Ding Dong...

Instantly I heard the doorbell ring abruptly breaking my train of thoughts...I twisted my bruised neck and looked around to see no trace of Akshat or the maid! Lifting my body up from the wooden chair, I clumsily walked towards the door but the moment I opened it, my eyes got widened in shock!!!

"Good to see you Mrs. Malhotra! You look so fine even after you went through alot? I must appreciate your guts to enter into this house after ruining yours as well as my son's image!!! With what relation you're here? As his mistress??",she spoke viciously in a very rough tone while glaring at me in fury...

"Jul...", before I could recover from the shock and pain, I heard a loud voice booming in the entire hall and she immediately stiffened hearing the source of the voice.

"Enough Mum!!! Don't try to say anything against my wife and why're you here in the first place??",Akshat yelled from the entrance of the kitchen and started striding towards us with heavy steps but the thing that shocked me the most was the use of word 'Wife'. Was it accidental?

"Why not son!! The world should know that ex Mrs. Malhotra is living with her ex husband after having god knows rape or affair with a stranger!!!",she shouted while gritting her teeth but her each words were like a sharp knife that started opening and scraping my each wound that was inflicted on my soul!! That was the end of it...I started shivering tremendously with pain and hurt and loads of tears started streaming down my cheeks. Before I could kiss the floor, a large hand Immediately drapes around my waist and pulls me into a protective embrace while hiding my teary face in the crook of his neck...

"Sorry mum but get out of my house, right now!!! If you can't respect my wife then sorry, I cannot live with you anymore!!!",he said almost in a whisper when I felt a tear dropping on my cheeks making me even more emotional and pathetic. I started crying hysterically while pushing my head into his chest with his musky scent calming my throbbing nerves when I felt his hold tightening around my waist, pulling me more into him.

"Exactly son your wife...",she replied smiling mischievously while looking at me with an evil glint in her eyes as if she was upto something evil and immediately a frown crosses my face and my heart started picking up it's speed..."Your wife!!!",these are her words if I'm not deaf!!

I lifted my head to look at him but before I could utter something, her next words make my whole world crash...

"You know dear Aranya Agrawal...oops Aranya Malhotra, Lord Akshat Malhotra has never divorced you! He made you to sign a fake divorce papers that he never submitted in court so you're legally still his wife...", she replied with a proud smirk plastering on her wrinkled face but very soon that smirk disappears in thin air as soon as she looks at Akshat's red teary yet scary eyes that were blazing with some kind of hatred that he was showing towards his mother now...

"Y-You de-deceived me?? You t-took the ad-advantage of my n...naiveness!!!",I couldn't help but yell at him while poking my fingers into his chest with my mind going dizzy and numb from receiving shock after shocks!!

Everyone in my life deceived me...Me thinking that everyone loves me was a web of lies!! Everyone tried to use me for their own benefits but no one even thought about me? Even when I thought to give this worthless man a chance, he again backstabbed me and played with my trust, crumbling my broken soul further into million pieces!!! Is my life a joke to him???

Pushing myself away from his hold with a jerk, I replied calmly while wiping away my tears and promising to myself mentally to never see the face of this imposter ever in my life again ,"I'm divorcing you now Mr. Malhotra and th-thank you for keeping this poor ra...raped and pathetic beggar inside your house and giving her meds and food on a daily basis! I'll never forget your this act of sympathy towards a helpless and rui...ruined girl like me who's disgraced by the society for being in sex-sexual contact with a s-stranger...",I choked on my last words with a spearing pain shooting through my chest!!

"ENOUGH NOW!!! YES IT WAS ME WHO DIDN'T WANTED TO LET YOU GO BECAUSE I WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO SURVIVE WITHOUT YOU!!! I, for the first time in my life felt what it actually feels like to have a life with your loved ones...what it feels to hold them closer to your chest and sniffle their soothing smell and also what it feels like to live without your loved ones, wriggling in pain like a fish without water!!! I was selfish who didn't wanted to let you go because you've eventually became an integral part of my life in a very less time. So what big crime have I committed Aranya?? Even God also gives a chance to his culprits then you're just a mere human? Wasn't I deserving a chance atleast to prove myself? But now no more crying and no more pleading before a selfish women like you!!! Be assured Ms. Aranya Agrawal that from now onwards I won't have any kind of relationship with you and don't come even to attend my funeral!!! And you my worst enemy of a mother, never again dare to use the word son for me because you've lost your son today...AND LISTEN YOU BOTH ONCE AGAIN THAT THERE IS NO AKSHAT MALHOTRA FROM NOW ONWARDS BECAUSE THE TIME OF HIS DESTRUCTION HAS STARTED AND VERY SOON HE'LL BE NO MORE... DON'T TRY TO EVEN APPROACH HIS DEAD BODY!!!

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"I'm feeling lost

and I don't know where to go now;

I don't really have a place

to call my home now;

Everybody heating

and I feel so cold now:

Why do everybody

make me feel alone now?"

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