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Ryan moves in his sleep and groans. He moved his right arm beside and let out an irritating sigh not feeling his wife's presence beside him.

Opening his eyes slowly, he looked around the room. He sat up on the bed and looked down to find him in his suit from last night. He frowned and got off the bed and walked to the washroom.

“Ruhi, are yo-" suddenly he stopped as the door opened with his knock.

He looks inside and finds it empty.

“Where did she go?" He whispered to himself.

Even her phone is not in the room which she always left on the bedside table.

Sighing, he brushed back his hair with his fingers and walked out of the room to find his wife.

On the other hand,

Aaruhi blinks her eyes before opening them slowly. She shut her eyes again and covered her face with her palm as the sun rays fell on her face.

Turning her face to the side, her eyes fell on the bare back man. She blinked her eyes still in daze and looked at herself to find her blouse loose around her chest and one of the sleeves slipped down from her shoulder, showing her cleavage. Her saree is almost undrapped around her.

She smiles thinking about Ryan but next frowns as she doesn't remember what happened last night after she left the party.

At the same time, the man turned on his back making her turn her head towards him.

Seeing the face of the person, her smile dropped instantly and her world crashed down in that very moment.

Her palm covered her mouth and her whole body got paralyzed as she looked at the man sleeping beside her bare with terrified look in her glossy eyes.

She instantly gets down from the bed in a hurry, stumbling over her saree.

Her breathing turned heavy in panic and shock. Every breath felt a gulp of poison. Her chest is feeling heavy, and it's painful for her. She wanted to die at that moment, she wanted to kill that monster in front of her eyes.

Her whole body is trembling, she is trying to hook her blouse but her hand couldn't stop shivering. She is crying silently. Tears drench her whole face and try to cover herself while murmuring,

“What have I done?? I ..I no..no…I didn't do anything, I swear ... .I …" she trembles like a leaf and makes her way towards the door with heavy unstable steps.

Before she could reach the door, the door opened from outside, making her halt instantly in the middle with panic and fear on her pale face.

Placing her hand on her chest, she took a few steps back but her back touched something behind.

Before she could sense anything, the door fully opened revealing her husband.

Ryan looked in front with a shock expression on his face and disbelief in his eyes, finding his wife in scandalous condition and in the arms of a half naked man.

Aaruhi was still, looking at her husband, panicked and vulnerable. Her eyes shining with helpless tears silently screaming her unspoken misery to him.

She saw his eyes moving behind her and suddenly they turned dark in rage.

That's when she realizes, an arm wrapped around her waist. She turns back, taking a hurried step away as if she is burning under the touch of a man who is not her husband.

She then snapped her head to Ryan, shaking her head hurriedly.

“Rya..Ryan ... .I… he…please," she tried to explain to him but failed miserably as her voice gave up.

Tears of frustration left from her tears making her look at her husband as she is begging him to understand her agony, her pain, her heart.

Samrat look at her and then Aaruhi before saying,

“Aaruhi, tell him about us, babygirl," as he said this, she screamed at him in anger.

"No….” She then runs to Ryan and holds his forearm.

“Ryan…lie….he-" She cries like a baby while saying in between her cry which is hardly understandable by anyone.

Seeing Ryan look at Samrat with red eyes, she makes him face her. She cup his face softly with her trembling hand,

“I am sorry…I…"  she burst into tears seeing him looking at her with a blank face.

"Aaruhi, just tell him about us. That we lov-"

"SHUT UP, SAMRAT!!!” She roared in anger, glaring at him with fire in her tear filled eyes.

Everyone came running there hearing her screams and commotion.

Trisha was already standing there enjoying the downfall of Aaruhi with a satisfactory smile on her face.

Sheetal stops near the doorstep and her heart clenches seeing Aaruhi's condition. She is looking so broken and miserable.

She took a step in guilt for being the reason behind her state. If only she didn't support Trisha in her disgusting game and stop her and Samrat from ruining the innocent girl. What has she done in her selfishness?

“You know him??" Suddenly Ryan asked in a low blank voice looking straight into her eyes..

Aaruhi gulped looking at him with tearful eyes and nodded her head before looking down and touching her forehead to his chin.

“Are you with him the whole night??" As he asks this, she sobs loudly, choking on her breathing.

She again nodded, closing her eyes tightly in shame and disgust.

He stepped back, making her hand fall on her side and she looked up at him in panic. Her eyes screaming her sufferings.

Ryan stops a little away, in front of her and stares at her moving his eyes all her body with unknown emotions in his eyes.

Then he again steps closer to her and holds her chin raising her face. His eyes stared into her teary one for a few seconds before it fell on her lips with smudge lipstick on the corner of her lips.

His thumb rubs the smudge lipstick mark, very softly and tenderly. Aaruhi bit her trembling lips and tightly shut her eyes as a sob broke out from her throat.

“I am sor-"

"Shhh….” he whispered, placing his thumb on her lips which were quivering unstop.

Her cry now turned into a bad hiccups making her breathless. She was never a crybaby but the situation she is in, making her cry her heart out.

His hand slid down and rested on her neck when his eyes caught a reddish blue bruise on the side of her neck. He caresses it with his thumb.

Feeling a sting sensation, Aaruhi sucked a long breath but choked before biting her lower lip hard, stopping herself from breaking down in a loud cry..

Ryan noticed her eyes squeeze in pain. He removed his hand from her neck and slid his palms along her arms and held her wrists. She let out a hiss as he unknowingly touched the cuts on her wrist. Ryan looked down at her hands and saw cuts with dry blood adoring her delicate wrist, which were filled with beautiful bangles last night.

Sheetal closed her eyes, letting her tears flow down as her heart now filled with guilt and hatred for herself.

Everyone is looking at them in confusion. Ryan is silent, only Aaruhi's sob and hiccups echoing in the room.

“What is happening here?? Samrat, what happened??" Tejraj finally asked him, giving him a hard look.

“I think you should ask this Aaruhi. It's better she answer all your questions,” He said looking at Aaruhi who just shook her head looking at Ryan.

"Ryan…” she cried now, holding his hand tightly for strength and assurance. She didn't hear Samrat, just looking for some warmth and trust in the eyes of the man standing in front of her with a blank face.

“Fine, you don't want to…then I will, love, " As he said, Aaruhi felt her chest clench in disgust hearing the endearment from his mouth for her.

She looks at him and feels her heart pounding inside her chest in fear and anxiety seeing Samrat looking at her with an evil smile.

Taking his phone from the nightstand, he touches the screen a few times before coming near her. She shifts closer to Ryan not wanting his filthy presence near her.

“Here is the proof, Mr. Roy. We love each other and last night is proof of it. We were together last night in this room. And I think you are smart enough to know what might have happen between us,"

Tejraj's eyes widened in shock hearing him. Sheetal fist her hands tightly.

Samrat forwards his phone to Ryan who just stands there looking at him. Aaruhi flinches in fear when Ryan removes her hands from his hand and takes the phone in his hand.

“Nothing happened between us!! " She refused to believe him. But her voice betrayed her and broke in the end.

Suddenly Ryan's blank eyes turn dark in rage as he looks at the picture with fire in his eyes. His whole body is burning and trembling in anger bubbling inside him.

Not wanting to see hatred and disgust in his eyes, Aaruhi snatched the phone from his hand and about to slam it against the wall but stopped when her gaze fell on the picture where she is holding Samrat's shoulders while he has his face in her neck. She swipes and her heart drops in her stomach seeing Samrat hovering over her.

The phone slips from her hand and her senses and body become numb in shock.

Trisha smiles seeing her and silently enjoying her state. The satisfaction she is feeling right now!

Her cry ceased but tears kept flowing down her cheeks. Holding her Saree on her chest to cover herself from everyone's eyes, she fist her hand before taking a few steps back away from Ryan. Her blouse sleeves barely cover her shoulders, showing red marks of fingers there. If not for her long hair, her whole back would be on full display.

Samrat looks at her and internally smirks at his plan. But instantly makes a sad and concerned face before taking a step towards Aaruhi who is now slowly slipping in the dark Abyss of negative thoughts.

“Aaruhi, I am here for you, babyg-" before he could complete his sentence, a hard slap landed on his face making him stumble back before falling on the floor near bed.

Samrat touched his face, feeling a burning sensation on his right cheek. With another hand, he touches his bursted lips before looking up to see Ryan glaring at him with a burning gaze.

Aaruhi flinches, badly looking at furious Ryan. Her breath stops for a moment seeing his hard breaths.

"Samrat!!” Sheetal exclaimed seeing him on the floor holding his now cheek red with fingerprints. She was about to go inside but Tejraj stopped her holding her hand.

Trisha gasps in fear and covers her mouth with her palm.

“How dare you touch my wife!!??"  Ryan roared before making him stand harshly, holding his neck.

Samrat almost shivers, seeing his eyes blood red looking into him with rage.

“It’s mutua-" the next his jaw met with a strong punch making his inner cheek burst and bleed.

“I love her!!" Samrat shouted, pushing Ryan back making him take a step back.

Ryan again slapped him with the back of his hand with such a force that his ring left a long cut on his cheek.

“Blood Bast**d!!" He yelled angrily, kicking his stomach hard.

Samrat fell on the floor after stumbling on the table.

Suddenly Samrat started laughing, wiping the blood from the corner of his lips.

“I must say, Mr. Ryan Roy, your wife is too sexy. I just couldn't control myself from tasting her. She is hot and wild in the b-" his head hit the ground with a kick on his face.

"I will kill you!!!” Ryan screaming and holding his throat made him stand on his feet and slam hard on the wall, choking.

"Tej, stop him. He will kill him..” Sheetal pleads with her husband in urgency, seeing Samrat's face turning red as he is struggling against the iron grip of Ryan.

Aaruhi started feeling anxious, panic. Her breathing turns laborious as she looks at the Ryan turn into Beast. He is looking so furious and dangerous. She is feeling scared. She started sweating profusely and feeling suffocated at the thought of his reaction for her. She commited a crime. No! A sin.

“Ryan, stop. He will die, son!" Tejraj said, trying to make him understand but he turned blind and deaf in his anger.

How dare he use his wife? His innocent Ruhi. How dare he touch her with his filthy hand and hurt her!!

Samrat starts losing unconsciousness and his eyes roll back when Tejraj lightly pushes Ryan from him.

"Don't lose your sense, Ryan. You would have killed him. Calm down,” Tejraj sternly said as the consequences of his anger would have put him in trouble.

“Calm down!? Mr. Rathore, here this monster harass my wife, and you are talking about calming down. He don't deserve to live after touching her with his dirty hands," he angrily said looking Tejraj who look at him as if understanding his anger and fear.

Samrat looks at him with half open eyes while breathing heavily.

“I understand you, son..but now Aaruhi needs you, Ryan. You can punish him later but now your priority should be Aaruhi," Tejraj calmly said, making Ryan look at Aaruhi who flinched back as his enraged eyes met her feared ones.

Misunderstanding his look, her body started trembling badly. Her vision turned blurry due to tears.

Ryan regretted instantly seeing her so scared and his expression softened. He took a step towards making her step back instantly while shaking her head slowly.

“I do..n't k..kno..w," she stammered and cried at the same time making everyone's heart clench at her state.

Ryan halts, seeing her crowding back from him and his heart breaks into a million pieces. Tears filled his eyes seeing her stepping back.

Aaruhi stops as her back touches the wall beside the door. Her eyes fell on Sheetal and Trisha who was looking at her but all she could see was disgust in their eyes.

She gives a glance to everyone present there before she turns swiftly and runs out of the room.

Ryan panicked seeing her run out of the room and run after her.

“Ruhi!!" He called her, seeing her stumbling in her way, bumping into showpieces placed in the hallways.

He walked into the room after her and stopped in his, seeing her removing her saree hurriedly. She is crying loudly while undrapping her saree from her waist.

Standing in her loosely hanging blouse on her shoulders and her underskirt, she looks at herself in the mirror.

Ryan felt like dying seeing her waist and back filled with red marks. His blood boiling and the amount of rage he is feeling right now is unimaginable.

He slowly steps towards her, seeing her sobbing as her eyes are moving all over her body feeling disgust.

Her fingers touch those filthy marks on her body.

She startled and almost forgot to breathe when two hands placed on the side of her waist. She saw Ryan standing behind her in the mirror and break down in his arms yet again.

Closing his eyes, he let his tears flow down and place his forehead on her shoulder feeling ashamed for not being able to protect her.

“D..don’t t..ouch m..e…." She cried out in pain, wiggling in his arms.

But instead of leaving her, he wraps his arms around her and kisses her shoulder gently.

His little act of affection made her weak and she instantly melted in his protective arms and placed her shaking hand over his.

“Ryan!!…" suddenly she let out a loud and heart-shattering cry and hugged him with all the strength that she was left with, not knowing how to tell him her pain, her sufferings. Not knowing how to meet his eyes.

Her legs gave up making her shrink down, Ryan sat on the floor with her and let her cry in his arms, embracing her every pain.

Hugging her back, he caresses her back and hair all ng with placing kisses on her head giving her warmth and comfort as much as he can.

Her every single sob feels like a stab on his heart making it bleed seeing her so miserable, broken and in pain.

What kind of husband is he?? He is ashamed and disgusted with himself. He failed her. He failed their family, for not being able to protect their Aaru.

He cries silently and pulls her close to himself, hiding her in embrace. So that no one can ever hurt his innocent wife again.

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