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"Why aren't you telling Rynah? Or you can't tell your dark deeds?" Ravi's mother sarcastically voiced her opinion.
"For god's sake, don't inculpate my daughter erroneously!" my mother stood beside me pulling me into her side.
"Don't be so proud of your daughter's upbringing. The apple has rotten a long time ago just didn't smell yet," she added with a snark before throwing a poisonous look at me while I just stared at her dumbstruck. What was she even talking about?
She had been so sweet the other day and even after that. It was utterly shocking to see the ugly side of hers.
"What is wrong with you, Aunty? Why are you talking like I've committed some sin?" I couldn't just control my mouth as I asked her in shock.
"Rynah, adults are talking. Let us handle this," my father warned me before turning towards Anjali, "take her to your room, Anjali."
Anjali nodded wordlessly before moving towards me but Ravi's mother had others thoughts, "why? So that you can hide all her immoralities from the world?"
"Don't you dare accuse my daughter like that! I know her better than others!" My dad shouted glaring at Ravi's mother. Anjali tried to take me away from there but I pulled myself away from her hold, wanting to hear what more Ravi and his mother had to tell.
"If you know your daughter that well, then you must also know that she is nothing but a slut! Who just warms the bed of different men every night!"
Her poisonous words shocked me to the core. I froze in my place, my mouth ajar. The first tear rolled down, followed by another and another. How much hate did she harbor towards me?
A slut, really? Was that how they saw me as, a slut?
I had never imagined that the mother of the man I was going to marry in a few months saw me as something that low.
Was she the same woman who had been so sweet to me when they came with their proposal? Was she the same soon-to-be mother-in-law that smiled at me when blessing me during the unofficial engagement? I couldn't believe my eyes or ears.
"Mrs. Saluja!" My dad screamed in warning but what actually broke my heart was Ravi who shouted in counter, "Mr. Kundra!"
He had been looking bitter the entire time like he had swallowed a ton of Indian lilac leaves.
"Ravi..." My shocked whisper didn't go unnoticed by him. He walked up to me, holding my upper arms as he shook me roughly and shouted on my face, "why don't you tell them, Rynah? Why don't you tell me? Why does your entire office speak about you being in a relationship withMr. Aaryan RaivardhantheRock star?How many people can lie Rynah? One? Two? Or an entire office? And why would they lie? Why did you leave a rich man like him to marry me? Why doesn't he marry you? And how many others do you go out with? Men must be swarming around you whenever you go out! Tell me I'm lying when I say that you were in the Raivardhan mansion for the three days? Tell me, that you aren't coming here from there! Tell me, go on, tell me!"
"I..." I opened my mouth to justify but couldn't continue. The shock was too great to overcome.
"Is that true Rynah? Is it true that you were in the Raivardhan mansion all this time?" The stern voice of my father made me look at him. His face was serious but his eyes held fear. I had no idea about how to answer their question, what to answer in fact. Was I to tell the truth or lie to them?
For the second time that night, all eyes were focused solely on me, waiting for me to accept or deny the claim.
"Answer me!?!" My father shouted making me blurt out the first thing on my mind, which was truth, "Y-yes..."
The realization hit me later on when my mother's hands slipped off my shoulder and she fell on the floor, weeping loudly.
Mrs. Saluja looked smug like she had just won a war and Ravi stepped away from me, looking like a stranger on the side of the road. My dad had frozen in his place as hurt reflected on his face.
Ravi's mother, Mrs. Saluja eyed me disgustedly, "we officially break this engagement right here. You can do whatever you want with your daughter but we don't want to do anything with her. No wonder nobody wanted to marry her even when she is so beautiful and at a good position. Everyone in the city knew about her reputation."
My world stopped at her words.They were breaking the engagement? The only man who I had thought of spending the rest of my life with, who I had considered to be that someone that would have kept me happy for the rest of my life, was breaking up with me?
My father turned around slapping me, "why did I have to have you like my daughter? Why did you have to do this to us? What did we lack in your upbringing that you put our name to shame like this?" He hit me once more as he cried. Luv and Kush pulled him away from me to prevent him from hitting me anymore.
"Mrs. Saluja, I am sorry on my daughter's behalf, she is still a child. Please don't make hasty decisions and ruin her life," my father literally joined his hands before her begging her to reconsider. I cried harder losing all the control.
Mrs. Saluja raised her hand stopping my father's pleading, "reconsider to takeheras my daughter-in-law? Are you mad? Thank goodness, we found out about this before it was too late. Nobody who knows what she is will ever marry her in entire India. It would be better if you threw her into the ocean and forget that you had a daughter like her. Maybe then someone may consider marrying your second daughter, else both of them will be sitting in your house for the rest of their lives."
With that, she and Ravi walked out of the house without a glimpse of regret. I felt like dying, it left like my life was over. I wanted to follow her advice and jump into the ocean so that my family doesn't face any more humiliation.
My dad stepped back, his hand on his chest and pain on his face, "ah..." we saw him slowly falling making us freeze in our places with shock for a brief second before we rushed to his side!
"Daddy!"
