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Krishna's POV

She left the house after giving me everything. I saw hatred and disgust in her eyes for me. I only wanted to divorce her but not abandon her. I knew that I hurt her very badly but it still hurts me to see hatred in her eyes. Maybe I shouldn't have starved her. But I don't think she would have agreed for the divorce if I didn't starve her.

But I knew one thing for sure that I would never let her go. She was born to be mine and I would never let that change. I knew that it was not difficult to manipulate her. It was always just a matter of a hug and few sweet words. But what scared me this time was that she removed the nuptial chain which she never did before. As soon as she left, I opened the suitcase which has all the gifts that I given her including the letters I have written for her. I just gave her the gifts and forgot about them and didn't expect her to still have them.

I quickly closed the suitcase as I didn't want Ramya to see everything which was in the suitcase. I took the suitcase to the storeroom and locked the room.

I hurriedly left the home as I didn't want to talk to anyone about anything. I knew that whatever I did may seem very selfish to others but who is not selfish. I truly loved Kaveri from our childhood and married her and like every other couple expected to live a life like a fairytale but everything went upside down because of our children. I just wanted to have healthy children. How is that unfair?

At a point of time, I only wanted Kaveri and abandoned the idea of having  children but seeing my younger brother becoming a father of healthy children made me realise the importance of becoming a father. I just wanted to be a father. But no one would want to marry an already married man with a son which made me unknowingly hate my wife and son. I started to feel irritated with their presence and would verbally abuse them. Our fights in the bedroom got out of our bedroom and everyone knew about our fights.

After learning about Shiva's death, I felt relieved but as soon as I saw his lifeless body, I felt lost. I hugged his body and cried. He didn't deserve to die. Kaveri was completely broken by his death. Before Shiva's death, there were alteast fights between us but after his death, there was only silence.

I tried to mend our broken relationship but nothing seemed to work. As days passed, we drifted away from each other.

As days were passing, my friends and family insisted me to marry again and unknown to my father and my wife, we started searching for brides again. Ramya is a distant relative of my brother's wife. Even though, her father didn't want his daughter to become my second wife, he agreed as his financial condition was not good and also has another two unmarried daughters.

Ramya hated being the second wife. She hated her father for forcing her to marry but she accepted me as her husband as she had no other choice. Everything was going fine in my life. But as I decided to get involved in politics actively, my lawyer suggested that I should divorce my first wife as it may impact my public image. I know Kaveri has nowhere to go. I felt confident knowing that she can never leave me. She may be angry on me for time being but she loves me.

Kaveri's POV

I felt numb after coming back from his house. I didn't understand whether I was right or wrong. I didn't know how I would live a life as a divorcee. Atleast I expected him to stop me but he didn't.

In the night, I opened the door due to continuous knocks only to see Krishna standing there. I didn't know what to say and just stood there without saying anything. But suddenly he hugged me which shocked me and I pushed him back. I tried to close the door but he pushed the door and entered the house.

I realised that he was drunk which scared me. I remember how he once violated me when he was drunk. I didn't want that to happen again. I tried to hide in a room but he was faster than me and caged me in his arms which angered me. How dare he touch me without my consent when he wanted to divorce me. I pushed him but he was not leaving me.

I was disgusted when he tried to kiss me. I didn't know what got into me but I took a flower vase and hit hard on his head. I felt relieved when he left me and caught his head in pain but was terrified seeing blood. I didn't know what to do and tried to stop the blood flow but the blood flow didn't stop and he fell unconscious.

I was terrified and quickly went to his house and knocked the door. Ramya opened the door and seeing me sweating and panicking she said, "Akka! Are you fine? What happened to you?" I tried to talk but no words were coming out of my mouth and started crying.

Seeing me crying like that Ramya called everyone and seeing my aunt, I rushed to her and gestured her to come to my house. Everyone followed me to my house and were shocked seeing an unconcious Krishna covered in his own pool of blood.
Everyone started crying seeing him and his brother decided to take him to the hospital where we all accompanied him.

I didn't know when I started behaving like a monster. I had no intention of hurting anyone but I did. What am I supposed to do when my soon to be ex husband touches me without my consent?

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