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“It’s cause… I love you Zoya. I was such a fool back then to have not realized it sooner… Zoya, DOVE. Do you still love me? I found everything you meant to give me but never got the chance to,” He was looking a little bit tearful now.?
It seemed like Zoya stopped breathing when she heard him. He just told her he loves her like he freaking loves her! Instead of that happy feeling that’s supposed to engulf her, it’s this hollow ache that replaced that spot.
For so many years, she yearned and hoped for his love but not once did he show her or tell her that he loved her. I know it must be such a suprise that she was even able to have Samir despite how cold he was in their marriage.
Let’s shed a little light to what I think is a mystery… Or am I the only one that curious to know how she got pregnant even though he was so cold in their marriage?
No… He wasn’t drvgged. Babies don’t always have to pop out as a result of a drvgged one night stand ? if that’s what you are thinking right now.
“Aamir…,” Zoya paused for a while and let those burning tears drizzle down slowly. Aamir wanted to walk forward and hold her. He wanted to reach out like he should have done those years and tell her those simple words – ‘IT’S OKAY’.
But he didn’t reach out those years so he surely has no guts to do so now. “Why are you saying this now? It… It isn’t that easy. Do you know how much I suffered in that miserable situation we called a marriage!? Do you even know how I felt!? How I am feeling!?,” She couldn’t help but raise her voice at him.
Aamir clenched his fists tightly not knowing what to do… Not knowing what to say.
Zoya suddenly let out a bitter laugh as she spoke slowly,”There was this one time you didn’t speak to me for a month… You loathed the sight of me! You wouldn’t even sleep in our bedroom. You even left the house cause…”
Aamir looked down as regret filled his eyes… Of course, he remembers. It was during that time that Samir had probably been conceived.
“All cause of false accusations that I had purposely gotten you drunk and sleep with you cause you wouldn’t even lay with me! Now that I think of it… The false accusations didn’t stop.. They never stopped and even progressed to the point of getting me thrown out,” Zoya gritted her teeth so hard that it begun to hurt.
“It isn’t what you think… I didn’t mean it that way,” Aamir tried to say. He looked up at her and could remember that morning. It was few weeks after their forced marriage and they have never even had their wedding night.
That morning when he had woken up completely naked with a throbbing head, he immediately sensed something was wrong. He’d looked around and the first thing that caught his sight was Zoya’s naked flawless back that had been tainted all over with hickeys.
He’d immediately sprang up and noticed the visible blood stain on the once beautiful light blue bed cover. The only thing he had felt that moment was rage and… Just immense rage.
He knew his father didn’t have much time left and he had been planning to get rid of Zoya as soon as his father died so he had resolved to not touching her… But now, he’d tainted her innocence.
How was he supposed to be free from her now? That was the only thought in his mind as he stared at Zoya angrily. He could only recollect having drinks with Neha and others the previous night at the house party his father had organized…
He couldn’t recollect what happened next. As he sat there on the bed, an image flashed through his mind and he could suddenly hear her pleas from last night… A dreadful feeling rose in his stomach as he thought of the fact that he might have r*ped his wife last night.
And the last thing was that he just knew right at that moment that he had to get out of there… It was so suffocating. That was why he never went back to that room for a month and ended up avoiding Zoya cause he couldn’t bear looking at her after knowing he had r*ped her.
He’d only been forced to go back when Zoya was discovered to be pregnant of their baby.
“What do you mean it’s not what I think? You know what? You don’t have to say a word to me… I know what you thought of me. Zeenat made sure to tell me everything,” Zoya’s words suddenly brought Aamir out of his reverie and he looked up with a frown.
“Zeenat? What did Zeenat say to you?,” This time he couldn’t resist walking towards her.
Zoya wrapped her hands round herself as she shivered even though the night wasn’t particularly cold. “Don’t come any closer… Just stay where you are,” She stopped him. She couldn’t help but shiver after remembering all that had transpired all those years.
She had woken up to an empty bed and didn’t even have strength to make a move with the way her whole body had been aching. It was like she had been hit by a truck.
But she’d struggled to sit up and look around for Aamir. She didn’t know how to face him considering how drunk he seemed to be the previous night.
She wrapped the duvet round her naked body and thought regretfully that she should have tried harder to resist him but he was just too strong for her to fight off and him being drunk seemed to have stimulated his segzual hormones.
She had been fidgety, worried that what if he blamed her. She had stayed in bed for a long time until she mustered courage and had enough strength to go to the bathroom.
She had blushed at the sight of the hickeys all over her body. When she finally walked out, she was suprised to see a maid packing some of Aamir’s luggages out.
Is he travelling? How come he didn’t mention anything to her? She rushed to the walk-in closet without a word and immediately got dressed before rushing out to confirm.
The first thing that welcomed her presence in the sitting room was a beautiful porcelain bowl that came flying in her direction but barely missed her.
It crashed to the wall and shattered. Zoya had frozen when she saw the sight the sitting room was in. Zeenat appeared to be struggling to hold her mother.
“You have to calm down. You know that son of yours has always been headstrong so why do you want to confront the innocent girl? I’m sure she’s done nothing wrong and it’s your son that’s at fault,” Mr Sharma had told Mrs Sharma gingerly.
Zoya was confused. What’s going on? “You are saying calm down!! Is it normal for my son to suddenly wake up and pack all his luggages out of this house? Did you see how angry he looked when you mentioned Zoya!? She must have done something to upset him or why will my dear son suddenly pack out of the house suddenly!,” Mrs Sharma had replied.