The glass shattered and blood gushed out from her palm but she did not even felt it as the searing pain which she felt in her heart was nothing compared to the pain caused by some shards of glass stuck in her palm. The pain in her palm almost soothed her, it felt good. She has been drinking since last 2 hours and finally broke the glass in her hand.
She has never touched alcohol in her whole life before tonight but today she couldn't stop herself. Images of her husband and Sheena from the party were engraved in her mind. No matter how much she tried to remove it, but those scenes kept playing in her mind. She even tried drinking but nothing happened. The image of him and her standing so close, dancing together, laughing together, talking together and then walking out of the party together still burned in her mind.
She was crying and then suddenly she looked at her injured hand and started laughing hysterically but the tears still flowed. In a span of less than 1 month her life has taken such a drastic turn. She has been married to the man she loved since child hood, her best friend, her first love, the same man who now loathed her so much that he cannot even stand being in the same room with her for 5 minutes. Her Sharavan was no more hers, he is her husband but his heart now belonged to someone else.
It all started when he started his own firm. He started coming late and his drinking lessened so she took it as a positive sign assuming that maybe he was his work was the reason. One day Preeta informed her that she has seen a very beautiful woman going in his office in the morning and coming out in the evening maybe she worked with him and she should be cautious but she dismissed her thought completely. She knew that Shravan detested women in general and the thought that he will have an affair with any women was absurd to her.
But then things changed further, he stopped arguing with her and avoided her altogether. One night when he did not came back till 4 am; she finally called on his cell after being worried sick about him. To her utter shock her call was answered by a female who introduced herself as Sheena, his assistant and cut the call in a few seconds curtly telling her that he is very busy and cannot talk to her. Then she called on to the reception of his office and got to know that he was not in his office since evening and left with Sheena mam. After a few minutes when the shock subsided jealousy overtook her, she felt betrayed and the fear of losing him forever shook her to the core.
Since that day she started noticing his behaviour more and with every change she felt a dagger twisting in her heart but tonight's party broke her down. The party was organised by Pushkar in celebration of the first case won by Sharavan independently in India. All of his colleagues were invited; he came to the party with her assistant who was clinging to him all the time. Dressed in a red colour bodycon dress, high heels and not even an ounce of fat on her body she looked like a model. Whereas she opted for a simple blue gown, his favourite colour hoping that he will notice her. She has been trying to get his attention since the night she got to know about Sheena but all her events went down the drain. A few days ago she even tried to irk him so that he will look at her once and stay with her for just a few minutes but he ignored her and went away. Not even sparing a single glance her way.
The same thing happened a few hours ago in the party, he ignored her as if she was not even in the room, whole time she felt as if he was watching her but whenever she looked in his direction he was turned away from her talking to someone else and most of the time it was his secretary Sheena.
Every time Sheena looked at her Shravan she wanted to claw her eyes out, she wanted to punch her, drag her away from Shravan and lock herself and Shravan in a room so that no one else can come between them so that finally he will look at her. But all these thoughts remained in her mind only and after some time Shravan left with Sheena.
Now she actually understood what Shravan must have gone through when she was with Aditya, how much it must have hurt him when every time she ignored him and talked to Aditya, took his help and then finally decided to marry him.
Her body shook with sobs; she imagined what they must be doing right now and the thought of her Shravan touching someone else, kissing someone else and loving someone else devastated her.
To say that he was feeling extremely tired would be an understatement, he was working non - stop since last 1 month to establish his own law firm in India and simultaneously handling the one he had in London, in daylight he worked for the 1st case he got to fight here independently and at night he talked to Eric in London. A sudden emergency has occurred in one of the cases his law firm in London was handling which required his immediate attention. Since, he was setting up his own firm here he could not go to London and had to manage all his work from here only.
Today he has won his 1st case and now he finally took some time off from his work to sleep. After the party he has gone to office again to discuss another case from a new client who has called just then after that he worked on it for some time and finally he has reached home hoping to catch some sleep as he has taken a day off tomorrow.
He was hoping that Sumo must have changed her dress and will be sleeping. She looked breath-taking today and took every ounce of effort he could muster to stay away from her. All the time he kept stealing glances of her. He wanted to celebrate his success with her but he could not let his guard down or else it will be the same story of heart break again.
He slowly opened the door of his bedroom and found that the lights were open and there was a very strong smell of alcohol in the room which confused him. When he came further in the room, he saw Sumo still in the same blue gown sitting in the centre of the bed looking somewhere in the distance. Her hair was a mess, eyes puffy as if she had been crying. Then he saw the empty alcohol bottles near her, he took a step closer to understand what was going on when he saw crimson red spots on her dress and bedcover and then his heart jolted out of him and fear gripped him tight in its clutched when he saw the source of the crimson red spots, that was blood his Sumo's blood which was still gushing out of her bloodied palm.