92. Destroyed!

Author's POV

Flashback continued...

"Mira, where the hell is my breakfast?..."

Kabir said irritated while getting ready for the office.

Mira placed the plate on the table and went back to the kitchen.

"I don't want this, what is this thing?"

He looked at the breakfast irritated, he doesn't like sprouts.

Mira sighed and looked at him while taking a deep breath to control her anger.

"I told you yesterday that the gas pipe is leaking and we can't use it until it gets fixed... You were supposed to get it fixed yesterday!"

He groaned annoyed.

"Couldn't you just remind me last night, but no! you were busy fighting with me..."

Mira just ignored him while grabbing her purse.

"What is this smell?"

Arundhati asked when she came out of her room.

"The gas pipe is leaking, I have turned off the main switch... I'll get it fixed tonight. I can't smell shit because of this cold and people just can't stop getting on my nerves."

Kabir complained.

"You need to eat out today"

"Yeah, I am going to my brother's house anyways... I'll be back tomorrow."

She shrugged.

Mira ignored both of them and walked out, Arundhati followed her out.

"Mira!"

Mira stopped and frowned at her.

"Are you okay?"

She asked.

Mira noticed the fake sadness.

"Even if I am not, you should be... You were so happy last night... I don't understand what's your problem with me?.. aren't you feeling anything that you are destroying your son's marriage?"

Arundhati rolled her eyes.

"He is a man, he knows what he is doing and why are you so pressed that he is giving importance to his mother rather than the girl who has just entered his life..."

"I am not just any girl, I am his wife!"

Mira frowned at her.

"I am his mother, I have more right on him."

She replied arrogantly.

"You never let him go anyway... Your love for your son is so blind that you both are living in the darkness. I understand the mother's love for her son but you don't want to see that your son is turning into your husband... But remember one thing! you suffered abuse, I am not going to tolerate it!"

She warned.

"I used to feel bad for you but now I think your husband did the right thing by divorcing you... Your son is soon going to end up like you."

Arundhati glared at her hatefully.

"I have my son to take care of me, Mira... Where are you going to take shelter if my son leaves you, you should be grateful that he pitied you and married you... Your family has abandoned you, you will be on the streets if my son throws you out. You should be grateful to him.. don't forget that you don't have anyone and you no longer hold the inheritance."

Mira shook her head amused.

"So stupid of you to think that I need my family's power and inheritance to fight back. You have underestimated me if you think that I was tolerating his behaviour because I was helpless, I was quiet because I loved him but last night was my last stroke. Enough is enough!"

"You can't do anything, Mira... You have no one!"

Arundhati challenged.

"You are nothing but just an abandoned orphan girl."

"I can make you shade tears of blood if I show you my real face, Arundhati... Don't challenge me!..."

Mira warned her.

"Don't forget who my father is and his blood runs in my veins... There is a reason why people fear him. Be careful of what you do while I am leaving peacefully, because if I start fighting back then I'll turn your life into dust."

Mira left for the office that day and when she was done for the day, she met Neel who was going to give her divorce papers.

"Sign it now, I don't believe you. If that bastard cries in front of you then you will change your mind."

Neel forced her to sign papers. Mira's eyes watered when she grabbed the pen, she never wanted this to happen. All she wished for was a happy and peaceful life with her love but life took a different turn.

"Mira, just do it!"

Neel grew impatient.

She took a deep breath and signed it.

"Bravo, you did it"

He praised, finally sighing in relief.

"Let me treat you with your favourite ice cream for this"

Mira shook her head.

"Is this something worth celebrating? I am getting divorced, Neel."

"Why are you taking it as a negative thing? You broke the toxic cycle, Mira... You should be proud of yourself..."

He assured her.

"I have already vacated my other house, you can stay there until you settle down properly... I know it's a hard time for you."

Mira stayed silent as he dragged her towards the ice cream shop and she couldn't even eat it. She placed hand on her belly and tears escaped her eyes.

Neel smiled at her and wiped the ice cream from her lips, Mira turned her head away from him and wiped it by herself.

"Sorry, I was just trying to help."

He smiled awkwardly.

She didn't realise that Kabir was watching them while boiling in anger. He came there to pick her but saw her with Neel and misunderstood the normal situation.

Mira was nervous when she went home with divorce papers. She was relieved that Arundhati was not home to fuel the situation.

Kabir was walking back and forth like a caged animal when she came back home.

"Where were you?"

He gritted while looking at her disgusted.

Mira was trying to stay calm.

"Office!"

"Office?"

He growled at her.

"Office or you were fucking your so called childhood friend?"

Mira scowled at him madly.

"You have gone crazy with your assumptions and illusions... I can't do this anymore, Kabir... I am done!"

She threw papers on the table.

"I want divorce!"

Kabir looked at her stunned when she did that.

"Divorce?"

"Yes, I can't tolerate your shitty behaviour anymore."

She stated.

He laughed like a maniac and she looked at him scared by the sudden change in his behaviour.

"Where will you go after divorcing me? You don't have anyone, remember. And if you think that Neel will take you, he will marry you, then let me give you a reality check that men don't marry used women..."

"Kabir!"

She growled at him.

"You fucking slut... You destroyed my life."

He slapped her hard and she fell on the floor. Mira cried when she felt dizzy due to impact.

"I gave you shelter and you went behind my back to fuck any man you find... Your father didn't give you money so you found a new way to get success... And now when you get the job then you are here to throw divorce papers on my face?"

Tears pricked her eyes.

"How can you think so low of me, I left my family for you!"

He grabbed her hair harshly and she screamed in pain.

"If you can't become your family's, then how can you become mine?"

"Leave me!"

She pushed him away and he grabbed her harshly by the throat and jaw.

"You are a fucking coward and psychopath... I curse the day I fell for you... Leave me!"

She cried when he slapped her again making her fall on the floor and her bangles shattered and covered her hand in blood.

Kabir slapped her again and she fell on the ground with a cry. She saw the vase nearby and when he tried to grab her again, she smashed it on his face, leaving her blood on the broken piece of the vase.

He fell on the coffee table, making the glass shattered with his weight. It left his blood on the table.

"You fucking whore!"

He got up madly and she looked at him in horror. He wasn't the man she fell in love with.

Mira pushed him back again and tried to run upstairs but he grabbed her by her long hair and pulled her back. She gasped when he snatched her mangalsutra in a fight and it shattered on the floor.

"Kabir, leave me. I am preg____"

She screamed when he pushed her on the stairs and the back of her head hit hard on the corner of the stair.

Mira felt the darkness consuming her as her ribs bruised when she rolled down the stairs.

Everything went dark after that.

When she woke up, it was midnight and her body was numb. She cried in pain when she felt red liquid around her head and bruises all over her body.

Her injured body was still laying at the bottom of stairs and she burst out in tears when she noticed that her torn clothes were scattered around her naked body. Her heart shattered into pieces when she realised what he did to her when she was unconscious and was bleeding.

She looked around but no one was there to help her. She screamed in pain when she tried to get up and somehow reached her bedroom. Her chest and stomach were badly bruised.

Her hands trembled as she turned on the shower and blood drained down from her body. She touched her head and felt the wound which made her unconscious.

Mira waited for the blood to drain with water but it didn't stop and she started screaming while shaking her head.

"No!"

She clutched on her belly.

"My baby!"

She shook her head furiously and tried to grab the blood which was flowing out of her body, like she was trying to catch the dead soul of her unborn child.

Her stomach twisted in pain and she let out an agonising scream when she had a miscarriage under the shower.

"Why?"

She cried her heart out.

She was feeling broken from within when she somehow managed herself and wrapped her in clothes to hide her nakedness.

Her body was screaming in pain but she didn't do anything to stop it.

"I promise you, you will feel the same agonising pain which my body and heart are feeling now... You will scream louder than I did... You will pay for killing my innocent baby."

She pledged as hot tears escaped her bloodshot red eyes.

"I promise, Kabir..."

Her body gave up at that time but she woke up when strong sunlight hit her face. She groaned in pain when it hurt when she moved.

It was late morning and she struggled to stand but she did. She walked downstairs to look for Kabir but then she heard him and his mother talking. She quickly hid behind the wall to hear them.

"Are you fucking out of your mind, Kabir? What the hell did you do?"

Arundhati scolded him.

Kabir was in panic.

"I don't know how that happened, Mom... I just lost it when I saw those divorce papers... Fuck, I messed up really bad... What do I do now? She is not going to leave me... You don't know her, Mira will kill me..."

Arundhati was in panic too.

"That's why I told you to trap that innocent cow Durga but no, you were fascinated by this wild tigress... I told you, you can't handle Mira but you liked her beauty... We could have easily manipulated Durga but what are you going to do with Mira now... She is going to be difficult to handle. Fuck!"

"You don't get to blame me for anything... You said that we will get the money if I marry a Thakur girl, where is the money?..."

He accused.

"I shouldn't have listened to you at all, Dad was right!"

Arundhati slapped him.

"How dare you say that? Haven't you seen how much I have struggled to give you a better life. I risked my life for you... Do you have any idea how difficult it was to get rid of Pratap when he finds out about our intentions with Mira. He knew that we wanted the money and not his daughter... I risked my life and planned his accident, thankfully the blame was on their enemies... Do you have any idea what they will do to us?"

"Her father is not waking up again but how to manage her?"

Kabir growled frustrated.

"She wasn't in her place when I came back, it means she is fine..."

"Where is she now?"

She asked impatiently.

"Sleeping in her room."

He rubbed his face while shaking in fear.

"If she complained to the police then I am gone, my career will be destroyed... I'll be doomed... She can't tell this to anyone, we have to do anything... Let's just kill her. No one cares about her anyway, there is no one to come for her... She is not going to leave me if she stays alive..."

"Don't talk shit, Kabir... We can't hide a murder..."

She was trembling in panic too.

"She loves you, you always manipulate her... Try to do it once again, go to her, grab her feet, rub your nose at her feet if you can but make her believe that it was a huge mistake and you regret it... Do anything you want, you throw me out of the house in front of her. She hates me, it will make her believe you..."

"But what if she doesn't believe me?"

He asked scared.

"Then we have to kill her... I'll think something, first you see if she is believing you or not..."

She encouraged.

Mira was stunned after listening to them. She quickly limped towards the stairs to make him believe that she just came downstairs and didn't hear them. Her tears dried when she realised that he never loved her, her father is in hospital, her baby died and her soul got dirty because of him. She was shattered from within and was completely numb.

Now there was only one way to calm down the fire of anger inside her and she embraced herself for it.

Kabir saw her at the stairs and quickly grabbed her broken mangalsutra and smiled at her nervously, she just stared at him blankly.

"You are up?"

As Mira heard, he did all the dramas to make her believe that it was a mistake. He touched her feet, he begged, he cried and he also faked throwing his mother out of the house.

"Please forgive me, Mira... You know I can't live without you."

She smirked, this man was planning her murder few minutes ago.

"It's okay, Kabir... We have survived many things, we will survive this too."

She said calmly and he smiled in relief.

"You know how much I love you and you also know that I can do anything to prove it... Today I'll show you how much I love you by setting you free from this guilt..."

Stupid man couldn't understand the meaning behind her cunning words.

"I love you so much.... I promise, I'll never act like that again."

He promised.

"You sit here... I'll make something for you to eat, you must be hungry."

Mira sat on the couch silently and dangerously calm while watching his fake drama.

"Oh, shit... I forgot to fix the gas pipe... Is it still smelling? I have a cold, I can't smell... Do you think it's smelling?"

He asked her, trying to act normal like he didn't do anything to her.

"It will!"

She stated when she saw the opportunity.

"I'll order something for you!"

He grabbed his phone quickly.

Mira got up and grabbed her broken piece of vase from the dustbin and threw it at the corner of the couch in the living room. She dropped her broken mangalsutra near the staircase which Kabir had placed on the dining table. She could see that they had tried to hide all the evidence of assault.

She noticed the blood on the corner of the coffee table and turned it around with her feet easily towards the side where the blood stains will be hidden from obvious eyes but if someone who will investigate then they will find it.

She checked drawers and placed the divorce papers on the counter and was visible to everyone.

After that she went to the kitchen and turned on the gas.

Kabir came back and smiled.

"The breakfast will be here in a few minutes!"

Mira sat there calmly and watched him eating breakfast when it arrived, he didn't even notice that she wasn't eating.

She was just staring at him like a wounded tigress look at her prey.

"I have a final exam today, I need to go out."

She declared.

"Of course, go and do your best!"

He had no choice but to do as she pleased.

"Mira, but please hide bruises on your face with makeup, it's not looking good..."

He brought her makeup from her room and forced her to hide her bruises.

Mira got up and grabbed her bag which was still laying on the floor since last night. She opened the drawer and placed his lighter and cigarette on the counter, knowing he will use it sooner or later.

She also sprayed room freshner strongly in the living room and he looked at her confused.

"I don't like gas smell!"

She answered him.

Mira left the house after that and went to Neel's house. He opened the door and looked at her confused.