Chapter 32

Tara pov

" What is going on here!?" She yelled at us angrily as she realised that we are now newly wedded couple.

My eyes teared up and a little hope emerges in my heart when I realised that she could save me from my doom.

I was stilled. Despite of my pity face, devil did not leave my hand. My heart was thundering as each passing second was weigh down on me. I realised I am the one who ran away from here. She must have known my escapade.

I was looking at her with my fearful yet hopeful gaze. My emotions were mixed up. I myself was not sure if I should fear her or not. But at this moment, the chance of her being my only escape route was high. I did not want to lose this moment.

"Please Aunty, He forcefully----"

" SHUT UP TARA!" Abhinay shouted, cutting my words off and making me flinched.

My timid gaze lowered at the ground. My bravery was thrown out of the window. I was hopeless.

" I told you Abhi. Forget this girl. And you! What the hell did you do? You married her !? I don't want her as my daughter-in-law. Do you know how much reputation we have in our society. But what did your girl do? Ran away like a coward. " She shouted angrily, glaring at him.

His hold tighted making me wince in pain. I was shocked that even this lady is behaving like Sheela Aunty.

What she would do now? Beat me up like Sheela aunty used to do?

" I married her Mom. Now she is my wife." Devil said calmly, even though his eyes hold anger and resentment.

" You married her. An unwilling woman. I am not able to understand what's so special about this foolish girl? She is dumb. She have no brains. Inspite of her foolish talks I agreed for your marriage with her. But what she did? She ran away." She yelled.

Tears flowed down my eyes as I heard all the bad words from aunty for me.

My gaze lowered, as I don't know what to say. I was the victim here. But aunty was accusing like it was my fault.

"I don't want her as my daughter- in- law. Take her away. She will not live here. I don't want this unfortunate girl in my home." She stated sternly with her cold gaze.

My fearful gaze looked at her but she did not want to look at me.

All the maids and servents came in the living room as a spectator to watch the drama going on.

" Tara is my wife. She will live here. Your consent whether she lives here or not does not matter because she is the new member of this family mom." He told her calmly.

" Oh so you will go against your mom Abhinay?" She glared at him.

" I don't want too. But I don't have other options. You wanted me to marry soon. And I did. Now please mom. Leave all this. I am tired. I have my own business to look after. Tara will not go away from here. That is final."

My widen eyes turned to look at him. My quivering lips wanted to let out few words in protest but I did not have enough courage.

Abhinay did not look at me anyway.

" Meera, Come here." He called one maid present over here and watching us all.

" Yes Sir"

" Take her to my room. And lock the door from the outside."

I gasped.

" No." With courage I said seriously. There was no way I was going to be locked.

" You will Tara. Either go to my room or I could send you away to my basement. Choice is yours."

My mouth was open wide as I looked at him shocked. He was the real devil. He wants to keep me locked. Just like what I faced in my orphanage.

" This was not expected from you Abhinay. You married her forcefully and now you want her to follow your every command. This is the way you treat girls? And no shame that you are threatening her in front of me. In front of your mother!!" With this said, she turned around and left the living room angrily.

Maids and servents went away and busied themselves in their own work they were doing before.

Without anymore exchange of words, Abhinay too left, leaving me alone with the maid.

Seeing that I was having no other option left. I sighed and followed her to his room.

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Abhinay Pov

"So finally you married her. Congratulations Abhi. But I think you deserve better than her." Vijay said, as he was immersed in checking out the presentations that he have to give in conference hall some hours later.

"Tara just frustrates me. I don't know what to do." I said, looking outside the window of my office, and enjoying the beautiful view from my office.

My mother wanted me to marry anyhow and I did. There is nothing wrong if I married a girl forcefully or willingly. It did not matter to me.

Knock knock

My head turned towards the door and looked at Vinay holding few files and entering my office through the door after knocking.

" Abhi, I just looked into the files and studied about the growth statistics of Mehta Company. The company could provide us some benefit, but I guess we have to apply some good tactics to grab their projects from the rival companies." Vinay said casually as he sat down and started to pick up the files showing me some data taken from previous years, showing growth statistics of the company in which I was thinking to invest.

" Hmm its nice. I will study about it later. Thanks Vinay." I said in an appreciative manner.

" You gave me quite a huge work. It took me more time than I thought. But I am saying you this project is worth crores. We would get huge profit in return." He stated.

"Okay I will also look into it. If you are saying so then you might be correct." Viraj said, giving the glance to the files on the desk and then busied himself in whatever work he was doing.

" By the way where were you, I thought you will come to attend Abhi's marriage" Viraj enquired.

" Huh.. what.. marriage." A surprised voice of Vinay made me to look at him weirdly.

" You didn't know I was going to marry today." I rolled my eyes at him in annoyance and again busied myself in the files again.

" What are you saying dude. You married but to whom? Tara?" He was definitely shocked.

" Ofcourse her. Mother wanted me to marry soon and that's what I did but it seems like she was not happy with my decision." I spoke casually.

" You married Tara. But Tara was unwilling to marry you. Then how come she married you?"

" Forcefully." I replied.

" Are you out of your mind Abhinay. Why the hell would you want to marry Tara? She was unwilling and just so so naive. She was not ready for this marriage. You didn't do good Abhinay." Vinay was shocked.

" Can you calm down bro. Its not a big deal anyway." Viraj said, as he turned to look at him with bored expression.

" Huh.. well what can I say anymore. I told you to leave her. But you are such a devil as what people say. You ruined her life bro." Vinay accused me. With gritted teeth, I looked at him, " Vinay, Her life is not ruined. Stop acting like you are her big brother or something."

" Well, there was no need also to inform me. Isn't it?" He accused looking at me and Viraj both.

" You are just overwhelmed with the news. Well I tried to inform you but I guess you were not available to pick up my phone calls. That's why you missed the wedding. It was a sudden planned marriage. There was no such grand wedding, infact marriage was held in temple and it was just a simple wedding." Viraj said in calm manner and again busied himself in reading files.

"Come on now, we have to look for presentation as well. Today's meeting is very important." I stated and stood up, collecting my laptops and files.

And with that we all went out towards our conference hall.

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At the orphanage

Vimla POV

" What happened here when I went to Varanasi in these few days." I asked the workers here at the orphanage. My questioning gaze looked one after the other face, who were showing sympathy and neutral looks.

" Tara ran away as far as I am aware. Then she got herself entrapped with some influential man." One of the worker answered.

I was shocked. Tara ran away? But why? Why did she ran away?

" Tara ran away and you didn't do anything to find her?" I glared at all.

I was shocked and angry. How come Tara ran away. There might be a reason behind it. Tara could never do this anyway.

" That I don't know but we didn't do anything because we were threatened. Tara is with some influential men. We could do nothing to stand against them. They are rich and we are poor. He is so rich that he could even bought up this whole orphanage. He was the man not to be messed up." That same worker replied.

" Yes mam. That man was kind of influential person." One lady worker confirmed.

"Did you not go to the police station?" I asked them angrily. Tara is a naive girl. I could never let her go. She was always kept away from this cruel world. She don't know what exists outside this orphanage. How come they be so lenient!? She is our child.

" Sheela Aunty never took any initaiative. So we also did not bothered. No one bothered for her."

" I was gone just for a few days and all this happened!! Do you know what could happen to Tara. She is our child. She is our responsibility. Even though she is twenty-two years old, but still we never treated her as any burden. How come you let her go that easily?" I questioned in a sharp voice and stern gaze. I am afraid where is our Tara.

Tara's responsibility was given to me. She was my responsibility. How come I believed them all ! Where is my Tara? I should have known these people would never care for Tara.

Especially Sheela, she might be the reason why she ran away. She never liked her. That is why she is still not bothered about her.

I am angry at all. All of them are so irresponsible.

" Get out now." I ordered.

" Yes mam." With that they went away.

I was bothered about her. I have to take this matter into my own hands. I have to search for her. I have to search for my Tara.

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Night

*Abhinay's Mansion*

Tara Pov

" Tara, when you will marry your prince, your all problems will go away. Your prince will fulfill your every wish."

Vimla Maasi said this to me, when I was twelve years old. That time I was dreaming about my future, but now I don't find the escape from this hell.

With pouting lips, I roamed my eyes around the room. It was a luxurious room. The room which one could see in the movies. A big room, a big bed, soft curtains covering the window.

But its beauty do not enchant me for a bit. I want to go to my Vimla Maasi. I miss her.

Suddenly a trance break my trance and anxiety filled my mind. I looked up and saw the maid, bowing her head slightly and politely saying,

" Mam, its time for dinner, Master has arrived and asked for you. Please follow me to the hall." She requested.

" No" I stubbornly said, even though I was hungry. But I don't want the company of anyone living in this big house.

" Please Ma'am. Sir will punish us, if you don't follow the order." She pleading looked at me.

I huffed.

Already I am hungry, why to show anger to the food. With that thought, I agreed with myself and stood up from the bed to follow her quietly.

On reaching the dining table, I saw everyone on the table.

And everyone, means everyone. Viraj, Vinay, Abhinay The devil and devil's mother.

I thought his mother is good, but she also did not stop to help me when I was locked away in the room.

Their gazes whipped at me. Abhinay looked at me strangely, but stayed quiet. Vinay passed me a small encouraging smile, while Viraj just rolled his eyes at me.

Devil's mother just ignored me.

"Sit here Tara" Abhinay commanded and turned to look at his plate.

I quietly made my way to the chair and sat on it, glancing at all of them timidly and immediately looking at the table, looking at the dishes in front of me spread out at the table.

"So finally you are married Tara, congratulations.!" Vinay broke the silence, as he tried to brighten up the dense atmosphere.

"I am sorry I was caught up in the work that I missed the wedding." He said warmly.

"Vinay, could you pass me the chapatis over there." Aunty suddenly asked and completely ignored the presence of mine.

" Sure Aunty ji" Vinay smiled at her and passed her the plate.

Even though Vinay was trying to make a small talk, the atmosphere at the dining table was dense. It was suffocating for me. Sitting beside devil, was not easy. He simply avoided my presence as he busied himself in devouring his food.

" Tara, I think you should eat something." Vinay smiled at me and gestured for the maid to serve me my food.

Dinner was silent.

Too much silence was making me anxious and a shiver to run down my spine as I looked at all of them, busy in devouring their food on their plate. Only the sounds of plate, fork and knives filled the atmosphere as all continued to eat silently.

" Uhh- Can I speak?" I asked timidly with low soft voice and my puppy gaze.

Everyone's eyes turned to look at me, even the devil himself. His eyes were emotionless, as he looked at me strangely.

"Can I?" I asked again with same low voice.

"Yes you can my daughter in law." Aunty smiled tightly at me. I turned around and found Vinay giving me a comforting smile.

Viraj was also looking at me with his bored and tired gaze.

"Aunty" I hesitantly said, "I want ice cream." I blurted out.

Vinay bit his lip to stop himself from smiling. Devil looked at me weirdly as a scowl formed at his face.

"Oh come on Tara, I don't think you would like to eat ice cream tonight. Beside, you need energy for tonight, why don't you drink some warm milk, huh!?" Viraj mockingly said to me, although I couldn't understand his words.

I looked at him strangely. What does he wants to say?

"Yuck! Who drinks milk? I will not drink milk. I want ice-cream." I stubbornly said with my frowned face.

"But, don't you need energy for tonight?" He teased.

Why he is teasing me?

" Why do I need energy? And for what?" I asked him irritatingly. His words were confusing me.

"Don't worry Tara, Abhinay here will tell you tonight." He winked at Abhinay and smirked at me.

Abhinay was only glaring at him, whereas Aunty interrupted his crazy talks,

"Viraj, stop your stupid talks and do your dinner. Tara, there is no ice-cream for tonight. I am sure Abhinay will bring it to you tomorrow. Now stop talking and focus on the dishes served before you."

Suddenly Vinay laughed out loud. Aunty frowned at him.

"Vinay !" She warned.

"Sorry Aunty! She is just so cute. I just couldn't stop myself from laughing out loud." Vinay said with his continued small laugh.

I got confused. Was there anything funny?

" Eat your dinner." This time Abhinay glared down at both of them and turned to look at his plate.

He was serious, and not in the mood to mess around. Well he was always like that.

After dinner, everyone left the dining table one by one. Vinay passed me a smile before walking away.

The maid standing beside me escorted me to the same room where I was kept locked. I silently followed her and sat on my previous place as before.

She turned to walk away without taking a glance at me and closed the door from outside.

I gulped. Now what? For how long I have to stay here.

After waiting for about fifteen minutes, the door opened, and entered "the devil."

His cold gaze directly landed on me with that scowl on his face. I gulped. With a slight open mouth and anxiousness running in my veins, I scaredly raised my one eyebrow, indicating him that what he wants now.

He had an irritated look on his face as he looked at me, then roamed his eyes all over the room, then again looked at me with that cold gaze.

Crossing his arms over his chest, and flexing his biceps, he said one dreaded word that made my eyes widen and mouth agaped.

"Strip"

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