Chapter 201 - How Things Fell Apart (5)

(Flashback Continues)

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|Innaya|

Under the blazing sun, I did not know how I dragged my lifeless body out of the mansion. After almost being thrown out of my place, I did not know what to do. The people I knew in Mumbai were almost countable on my fingers, and at the moment there was not a single one whom I could ask for help.

My first option was Arjun, but sadly he was not in the city. And, I did not know where he lived. Even if I knew it, I would not have gone to his place after what I had just heard.

My mother-in-law and that woman, both of them were not ready to listen to me. After the accusation and hurtful words they threw out, I had no desire to explain. I even failed to understand when and how I left the house and found myself sitting on the bench by the roadside.

I did not have my mobile or purse with me. It was all inside the house. The main door was locked by them before they left slapping the divorce paper on my face. Well, it looked like the tales they tell of how vicious in-laws could be, were not exaggerated. 

Hiding my face in my palms, I wondered what went wrong. Tears in my eyes were long dried as my heart had gone cold. The dread of being separated from Eshan was too scary. It had been only with his presence in my life that I had started dreaming about our happy and peaceful future. I had dared to love him and trust relationsh.i.p.s. I had dared to dream. But, now things looked uncertain.

"Eshan."

The feeling of endless despair and agony filled my heart, and I could not help but tremble with the grief. Just yesterday everything was so good. We were happy. And, in just one night, things changed to this extent. I did not even understand what the future held for me.

I was not that strong to bear this blow. If I had to leave Eshan, then it was certain that I would not be able to sustain it. I was going to end up miserable and without any hope for my life. My childhood sufferings had already weakened my personality, and if I were to receive this, I did not know what would happen.

"Ah! Why me? Why me?" I cried in my palms. I thought I had no tears to shed as the shock of the situation was too huge to bear. "What do I do?" I helplessly muttered. 

I missed Eshan terribly. Only if he was by my side, I would not be called such names. If only he was by my side, then no one could humiliate me in this way. It was as of dangers followed only when he was missing from my side.

I was not in a stable mental state to perceive the words of those two women. Half of the words thrown later went unheard. 

"You better leave our Eshan. He deserves someone far better than a disgraceful and madwoman like you. Who knows what you do behind his back. Hurry and get lost. We don't want your shadow to fall on our Eshan. Prerna, you shouldn't have agreed for this marriage. Why didn't you investigate her background and character before? It's such a pity that six months of Eshan's life were wasted because of such kind of a woman."

The accusation of having an extramarital affair with Arjun and being a madwoman echoed in my mind.

How they got this information remained a mystery. How they appeared at our house was again a mystery. I was thrown out of my house without zero belongings. They did not care what would happen to me. They did not care if I lived or died. They just wanted me to get out of Eshan's life. 

Would they have dared to do so if Eshan was around? What kind of reaction would Eshan have if he were to know what his mother did? What would he do? Would he choose his mother?

Thinking about those questions hurt my head. There seemed no way out of the situation. Suddenly, I felt my head getting dizzy. I had little to no opening to support myself before I felt my word going blank, and my body lost all the strength.

The last thing I remembered was the sharp pain shooting in my head before I went unconscious. 

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I woke up to the sound of someone's talking. However, the moment I opened my eyes with a bit of difficult the voice stopped. For some very odd reasons, my eyelids felt too heavy. Even moving my body was a huge task.

And, why the hell my head felt so heavy?

"Careful." A male voice rang out from my left side. 

Startled, I struggled more when I heard that concerned foreign male voice. At the same moment how my mother-in-law locked me out of my house appeared before my closed eyes. 

My shoulders were held by someone, and the pain shooting in my head only worsened. I opened my eyes a little forcefully. The face of the man looming over mine made me cower back reflexively as my vision got clear. I never wanted to be in the company of this unpredicatable man. Why was he here?

"You've hurt your head. Don't move around hastily," he said, stepping back while his eyes were filled with concern.

I kept my guard up as his words registered in my mind. 

"What are you doing here?" I asked him.

"What you were doing outside on your own? How could you be so careless to ignore your safety? Do you know what could have happened? How can you be so careless? Don't you care about yourself? Don't you know how dangerous it is out there? You—"

Ignoring his ranting I looked around to find a way to leave. I did not want to stay in his company. How did I end up with him? When my eyes fell upon the area beside me, I failed to recognize the room.

I found myself in an extremely unfamiliar room. I was lying on the queen-sized bed, and there was a drip attached to my left arm. The interior of the room was simple as the blue and cream color walls held nothing but the paintings of nature. The beautiful paintings of mountains, rivers, lakeside, and whatnot, gave the room a calming atmosphere. However, I felt the storm rising inside me.

I did not know how I ended up in this place. All I remembered was the spell of dizziness that had washed over me before I had lost my consciousness. 

"Why am I here?" I asked him, interrupting whatever he was speaking. Right at the moment, I did not wish to indulge in any sort of wordplay with him. I wanted to know why I was here, and how could I leave from here.

My head did not cease hurting.

"Stop stressing."

"Karan, did you kidnap me again? Why won't you let me be?" I cried out in frustration. The last time when I had been kidnapped, Eshan had found me in the end. This time, I could not even wish for the same. 

"NO." He yelled before he toned down his voice, "I found you unconscious on the ground, and all alone. I don't know how long you were there. I took you back to your house but it was locked. I could not get in contact with your husband. So, I had no other option but to bring you back with me. You have hurt your head. It looked like you have hurt it badly as the corner of your forehead was bleeding." He finished as he sat down in the chair by my bedside. "The doctor said, the wound is superficial it would heal in a couple of days. You need plenty of rest and food. You can't starve yourself."

I looked down at the IV needle in my skin. Karan's explanation did not have anything suspicious because when I connected the dots, what he said was quite possible. I was locked out. Eshan must be in the meeting, and after what had happened last time, it was most likely that he would not answer Karan's call. 

"What happened? Where's Eshan?" He asked.

Once he asked that question, I could not help but look away to the far corner.

Eshan was not here, and his mother wanted me to leave him for forever. Recalling about the incident from the morning, I ended up tearing again. The people who were family refused to show humanity, and the man whom I did not know that well ended up helping me big time.

He was right. Anything could have happened when I was unconscious. Then again, those two women would have been happy that they got rid of me easily. I should not have left the mansion. At most I could have stayed in the garden… 

Garden.

Thinking about garden, I suddenly realised that I had left Fortune there...