He ignored her

1 months ago

Happyfreedom

@MidnightLibrary

He ignored her

Sanyogita's soft flesh of her right forearms was squeezing against a strong grip of his hands . She shut and squeezed her eyes frequently, fighting with the pain. 

His voice got softer followed by guilt when his eyes on realising what he was doing in his frustration . He left her arm. Saw her to hold her bandage wrapped right forearm by her left hand. 

As soon as he turned back to the wall and punched the wall, aware of it she was hurt and this harsh behaviour of him would break her tonight further . He cursed his hand so he punched his fist on the wall , trying to remove his outrage, and frustration from the wall. He was guilty,angry and hurt for misbehaving with the girl he loved beyond anything in his life. 

She holds some breath and gathers the courage to let out this time

" … I .. I… I ha.. have.. have no other option… " Sanyogita's voice tangled up in a knot of guilty

" I know I hurt you a lot. I lied to you..but trust me I haven't other options. If I told you the truth you would never help me. You would never agree with me… Mein Manti hoon Mera tarika galat tha lekin Mera irada galat nahi tha …mein jo kuch bhi kiya hai  ek beh gunha ladki to insaaf dilana ke liye hai.aur sach kiye ladhana koi gunah nahi hai.. trust me.. please "

Prithvi heard her then smirked at her words, he turned back to her, looked at her, read her, how much her condition was piercing his chest but he ignored her tonight . 

" Tumhe logo itni fikar hai… apne bache ki nahi hai .. tum janti bhi aaj kya ho sakta tha ""He proceeds with frustration"   …Kya zarurat thi tumhe us forest side ka area choose karne kiiii?????? … . Tum janti bhi hoo Aaj kya shakta thah … agar mein wahan thik time. Pe nahi pouch pata toh kuch bhi ho sakta tha… Do you Have any ideas !!!! "" Prithvi raised his voice

"Listen to me carefully!!!" He flexed his left arm and showed his index to her, with clenched teeth , he was looking dangerous. His eyes were bloodshot . green veins were throbbing against his temple . 

Sanyogita's breathing almost stopped for a moment . But in reality her heart was pumping faster in fear , hurt. She had never encountered that angier side of him like before. She felt a heaviness Below her chest , a cold Shiver approaching downward gradually spreading in her lower limbs making entire body stiff and frozen. 

"If anything bad happens to my would-be child I won't spare you.. !!! …in the future and I'll make sure of how to deal with this too  " He glared at her dangerously. 

His words seemed to be more like a deadly threat than a warning.

Sanyogita shivered. She shut her eyes imagining the horrible. A chilling shiver spread down her spine imagining the horrible . Sanyogita was gulping deep heavy breathing. Her heart was racing in her chest. She felt sore in her throat. 

Salty water started gathering in the corner of Prithvi's eyes. Before those tiny droplets flooded over his cheeks,he picked the files and laptop up in his hands and stepped out of the room. He slammed the door shut behind. 

Sanyogita brought her left arm closer to her chest and spun around completely to the other side. Taking slow deep breaths, Sanyogita dropped to the floor. A stream of tears travelled down her cheeks, and her neck then fell on the furnished floor. She kept her hands over her stomach, to feel her child's rhythm.

Prithvi's every allegation feels like a beat of a scourge in the heart of Sanyogita. She never had any fit of clue that her one lie would lead like ghee on a flame. That flame would turn her caring husband into a volcano. 

He steps out of the room and slams the door shut behind 

" Baby … your Daddy is angry with your Mamma. She now becomes dishonest to your Daddy. He thinks that I don't care for you but trust me, baby Mamma loves you.. she loves you a lot. Mamma will not let any harm come to you. I promise Baby… promise… " Sanyogita's words break down in slow motion. She burst out crying. 

… … … 

*****"" 

When he returned to their bedroom, Prithvi saw Sanyogita sleeping on the cold floor. Her condition was killing him. He bent down and picked her up in his arms, like a new bride on her wedding night. He put her on the bed and kept her head above the soft pillow and covered her underneath the duvet. 

He took a seat near the edge of the bed, sitting closer to her, and noticed her cheeks, those dried tear marks soaked in water on her skin. 

He extended his right hand, kept on her right cheek, and motioned his moistened eyes over the bandage on her forehead.  He took her right hand in affection and kissed her knuckle. 

Although he had a work issue, and deep down he was aware of the fact he couldn't face her tonight. He needed some space to deal with his emotions, His fear which he anticipated but never realised could be more dangerous beyond his presumption. No doubt his Cold, harsh behaviour would hurt her. But he had to tough this time to protect his wife and upcoming child .For the sake of their safety he had to become cold hearted. Although he told her he only cared for his baby, he only knew how much he loved her. 

" . I love you so much you could hardly imagine Jaan.  Breathing will become impossible for me if the day comes if I have to think you aren't part of my life ..minor scratches on you feel like dragger in my chest " His voice became raspy.  The emotions which he had been hiding so long from her came out of nowhere. One tiny drop of tear came out from his left eye and rolled down his cheeks and fell on the duvet covering her chest. 

He took her right hand in his left hand and his eyes fell on the white bandage near her wrist. He began to rub it gently to make sure his touch didn't wake her up . He kissed both sides of the soft skin of her palm. 

" Don't go anywhere like this Jaan . Please don't go ". Prithvi's voice choked, 

He stroked her head, bent a little, and moved closer to her, gazing at her adorable face. She was snuffling. He noticed her slightly open mouth.

Prithvi smiled and found her like an innocent newborn sleeping peacefully in the blanket of clouds. He brought his mouth closer to her face and kissed her forehead. 

....

The next day in the morning, When Sanyogita opened her eyes found herself lying on the bed, Covered with a duvet. She spun around but couldn't find Prithvi on the other side of the bed. 

It took her a few minutes to recall the fight last night between her and her husband . She remembers she goes off to sleep on the floor. It didn't take her a fraction of a second to realise other than Prithvi nobody made her lay on the bed. 

She felt a slight relief in her heavy chest thinking that a little hope was still there , she still had a chance to remove his alfoness towards her. She was determined in the morning she would clear up all the misunderstandings. She got up from the bed immediately and called for Prithvi, searching for him in the bedroom, and bathroom, but  he wasn't there . Then thought he might be downstairs.

When she reached the living hall was surprised to hear Shambhavi who asked her 

" How are you beta?? Prithvi said you had a fever last night .. he alerted me to take extra care of you. "

Sanyogita didn't reply, rather asked " Dadima where is Prithvi ?" 

"Sanyo Beta said he had an urgent meeting at the office so he left earlier in the morning. And he told me to say to you don't go to office today, you should take rest at home  "

Sanyogita's heart twisted. Her little rays of hope were put out. Sanyogita Fighting with her emotions . She felt the weight beneath her chest heavier than last night. 

Shambhavi  spoke lots of things but none of them reached Sanyogita's ears.

She turned back and took the path of her bedroom, closed the door and dropped on the cold floor, sliding down against the door . Her shoulders were going up and down as she started to sob .

During the day she dialled his mobile number umpteenth times but neither he received her calls nor he replied to any messages of her texts, or WhatsApp.

She called Arjun who informed her Prithvi was Busy in a meeting.

Despite of Thousands deny of Shambhavi ,  

Sanyogita couldn't listen. She cooked one of Prithvi's favourite dishes. In the afternoon, she decided to go to the office and meet him during the lunch break. 

Her happy face faded away when the bodyguards prohibited her from leaving the house .

" Sorry Ma'am you can't leave the house. Prithviraj Sir has commanded us not to let you leave the house " 

Sanyogita's heart was torn out in pain. She couldn't say among the family members the reason behind his strict action. Unless it would lead to a huge blunder.

She was wondering how much he was upset with her as he was trying to keep her away from him. He wanted to maintain distance from her. 

But she was too adamant to remove his anger. 

The large wall clock's bigger hand was at 5 and the small needle was at 11. The whole day had passed and neither she had a talk with Prithvi nor did she know about his whereabouts.

In the last call, Arjun informed her his boss had left the office at 8:34 "O'clock. 

Sanyogita peeked outside to the main door of the Malhotra mansion, then waited for him in the living room. But Shambhavi  assured her to wait for him in their master bedroom. Unless Prithvi will be angry at her. 

She was sitting in their bedroom. Dejected, tried, broken.

11.40 when she heard footsteps in the corridor. Sanyogita became conscious and got up from the bed.

She saw Prithvi standing on the doorstep. He stepped into the room. 

Sanyogita jumped into him with bombardment of questions

" Where have you been so long?? Have you ever imagined how much I was worried about you ??? Why didn't you answer my calls???"

Prithvi didn't respond. He simply kept the bag on the couch and opened a wooden cupboard.

Sanyogita saw him take out a file and then close the cupboard. He returned to his bag and collected the laptop. Then he turned around to come out of the room. 

Sanyogita stopped him in the doorway.

" What happened?? Where are you going?? "

" I had so many… 

Work to do "... Sanyogita completed his sentence with heat. 

Prithvi didn't make eye contact with her. He stepped back and showed his back to her.

She came inside and shut the door behind her.

" Where are you avoiding me ?? Do you have any idea how much I was worried about you? The entire day neither you received my phone calls nor replied to my WhatsApp messages. "

She pulled his hand within a jerk and flipped him towards her .

Now he was facing to her 

" Yes , you were so busy that you could think about your wife in fever, you can talk to the bodyguards not to let your wife leave the house, you can collect details about what your wife is doing from time to time, whether she has her breakfast, lunch, medicines, multivitamins or not . But you didn't have time to talk to your wife direct for just a moment " she gritted her teeth 

Prithvi didn't respond to her. As if none of her words reached his ear. He was stubborn in his decision to avoid her. 

Sanyogita couldn't stop herself and burst out of her inquietude   " I was so scared….na jane Kaise Kaise khayal Maan mein. Arjun ne jab kahan you left the office 3 hours ago but you arrived late. You said that you care about your baby , you are worried for your Princess then why did you give tension to your child.. Prithvi Answered me…???

" I'm… I'm… sorry Ja… '' Prithvi stopped and continued " I was a little disturbed and busy at work. I hadn't any idea … " He portrayed himself as casual as nothing mattered to him in front of his work 

Sanyogita had a knot in her chest. Even though he had difficulties addressing her as "Jaan " , the romantic name with which he called her from morning to end of the day. 

She said with a dejected heart "  If  you are angry at me then shout at me  But why are you avoiding me … this behaviour of you eating me from inside out… " Sanyogita broke down in tears, she held him tight and about to hug him but Prithvi removed her hands and pulled his hand back 

" Sanyo mujhe bahut kaam hai … you go to sleep now. You don't need to wait for me. I'll be busy. I have to attend 2 important meetings tomorrow including that two new clients from Germany will come in the evening I need to talk to them too "

Sanyogita glared at him. Her heart was pumping faster. Prithvi's repeated cold demeanour towards her makes her hollow from the inside. She saw him walk out of the gate.

She wiped the tears on her cheeks and said with a sore voice " Don't worry Mr. Malhotra I won't hamper your work. Just because of my presence increases even difficulty in taking the breathing of you here in this room,"

Prithvi was about to clutch the laptop and file in his right hand ,he clenched both his hands. He shut his eyes, he choked back the lump in his throat , fighting with his inner chaos. 

Sanyogita continued " Okay fine I'm going away from this room. Not only this room if you want me to leave this house too …I'll do that for the sake of your happiness. Then you don't need to make excuses..  ..….

He turned around like a Storm, held her right upper arm and pulled her closer to him by his left hand and glared at her with furious

Sanyogita swallowed rapid heavy breaths, she stared at his bloodshot eyes. 

He dragged her inside the room and cautioned " Chup chap sidha kamre mein baitho.. aur khabardar Jo ish room se ek kadam bhi bahar nikalne ki koshish ki toh… nahi toh mujhse bura koi nahi hoga '' He raised his right index to her as a warning and gritted with a gravity voice , 

Tears started to form in the corner of her eyes . Salty water got the shape of tiny droplets falling on her cheeks. 

Prithvi freed her hand and looked once at the wall in frustration. He kept both his hands on his waist. 

" Aur yeh ansoo poncho.. kuch bhi kahon Madam se Rona dhona suru . " He let out a fit of disgust 

Sanyogita seemed frightened. She wiped her tears herself.  

" Aur Dobara aisa waisa koi bhi kadam uthaya toh tumhe bahut pachtana padega…Samjhi" He snarled with clenched teeth. 

He collected his laptop, and files and stepped out of the room at the speed of Storm, slamming the door shut behind him. He couldn't stay there much longer because he knew very well that his harsh behaviour would tear her apart from the inside.  She would burst out into tears.  And he couldn't see her crying.

**********

Albeit Prithvi came to the study room but couldn't concentrate on work. His heart was aching, twisting. He felt hatred towards himself, broken, hurt, disappointed .  He regretted shouting like a grumpy person to his wife. One day the girl who he promised not to let a drop of tears occupy the corners of those innocent  eyes,those eyes which he kissed all the time,  how could he make her cry so much today??.  His eyes were moistened, red . He felt heaviness beneath his ribcage. His lips were trembling in silence . 

" What are you doing here beta ?? 

Prithvi became conscious so he normalised his expression and sat properly on the chair as soon as Shambhavi 's voice fell on his ear. He wiped his eyes before she could catch the whereabouts of his disappointed heart. 

He turned back and found Shambhavi  was coming to him .

" Grandma, have you done with your packing?? Is there anything else you want  ?? " He tried to portray his tone casually as if nothing occurred to him.

Shambhavi kept her left hand on the shoulder of Prithvi and right hand rested on his head  and looked at him with a fake angry expression “ No beta. I am done with it. I was waiting to meet you as in the morning I will have  my flight . But look here my grandson looks busier than the prime minister of India. As soon as he returned from office Babu set down with work. Come and have food first. "

Prithvi true to avoid the matter" Grandma I have urgent work for tomorrow " he averrt his gaze 

"Woh toh dikhi raha hai kitna important kaam hai tujhe.. office se Aane ke baad kapre bhi change nahi Kiya .. file, laptop bandh padha hua hai..mobile , Tera earbuds bhi nahi hai . Gopal (worker) said to me he saw you enter this room half an hour ago .But look, I saw you looking upset. What happened , beta ?? Sanyo se jhagda hua hai kya??  " Shambhavi Came closer to Prithvi and started creasing his head in maternal affection. 

Prithvi goes startled on the last relevance of Shambhavi .

She continued with with a soft tone 

" Kya baat hai beta?? .. on the day I saw Sanyo upset. Right now you are looking disturbed too . I won't ask you whatever happens between you two. It's a matter of you two husband-wife. "

Prithvi was relaxed that what he was presuming wasn't true . 

" Beta tum dono ke beech Jo kuch bhi ho insab main usmein becchare us masum kya dosh . Tum jab tak office se na loute chehra utra hua tha Sanyo ka . She didn't drink a single drop of water till then  . Sanyo nahi Pani Tak bhi nahi Piya, I saw how she was waiting for you at the main gate . I suggested that she stay in her room, perhaps because you were busy at work.... "

Prithvi's heart was getting heavy. 

" In the day I somehow managed to feed her but in the night she was stubborn. Main manti hoon thodi ziddi hai .. magar tu bhi toh kaam nahi hai na. If she repeatedly keeps skipping meals like this . Then weakness will develop in her body .And that will not be good for the mother as well as for the Baby.Tu hi tha Jo sabko baar baar alert Kar raha make sure regarding Sanyogita's health,her meal, keep her happy always . Be aware that no stress comes to her. Now if you behave like this, what will happen to her?? 

Prithvi's fist automatically closed into fist . He cursed himself from inside for her pathetic condition. His heart was pounding, aching , twisting and sinking down thinking about yesterday night's incident. He was fighting with his emotions. How much he was pretending to be stronger and controlling his inner chaos.

Shambhavi Caught him with something fishy.  

To be continued… .. 

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