Chapter Nine

Jwala:

"I love someone else" I lied to make him cancel the marriage.

Agni turned red with fury. My heart was beating fast with fear. What if he hurts me now? Why will he do that? He doesn't love me. Does it matter to him if I love someone?

"Did you stop only at love or did you sleep with that someone else?" He asked, and the uninvited guest, i.e., tears arrived immediately.

How can he talk like that? It may be easy for him but not for me.

"Is it my child or someone else's or don't you know the father of the child?" Agni said holding my hairs.

"Shut up, Agni" I shouted for the first time at him.

Agni is killing me with his words. He sat on the bed beside me. I tried to get up from the bed, but he held my wrist tightly which made me feel that blood circulation may stop to my hand at any time.

"Agni, leave me," I said, but he didn't listen.

With another hand, he touched my belly.

"Is it my child or not?" He said and started tightening the grip on my stomach.

I was scared of his tight grip on my stomach. What if something happens to my child? I slapped Agni. He looked at me and left hold on my wrist and stomach.

"Are you insane? Are you trying to kill my Baby?" I fumed at Agni.

Agni smiled seeing me touching my stomach as if trying to soothe the unborn kid.

"I know you love our child. This child is precious to you too as for me."

I didn't say anything. Till now, I too didn't know that I love child of this beast, but it's quite obvious because a mother can never stop herself from loving her child.

"Till now I tortured you so much, but you never dared to slap me. Today just for tightening grip a bit on your stomach, you hit me. It means you are ready to do anything for our child."

Really? Am I that attached to my child? I touched my stomach with my hand to feel my Baby. If it's my kid, why do I think that she/he may become like Agni? My child may become like her/his mother when I raise my child in the absence of this beast.

"Look Jwala; I am not a fool. Do you think without knowing about you, I decided to marry you? No way, Baby. I know everything about you. You are never in love with anyone. Though you have friends in boys and few guys in your college proposed you, you never cared for them as you have deep respect towards your family. I don't like you befriending men at your college. However, I will take care of it after marriage. I am the only person in your life from now, keep this in your mind, or I will make you remember it in my harsh way," he said kissing my lips softly which I never felt until today.

He used to kiss me harshly all the time as if he wants to show his hatred towards me, though I never knew, the reason for his hatred. Does Agni inquiry about me? But why? Why is he interested in me when I am nothing but a whore to him?

"Honey, the only thing I didn't understand is why did you forget the respect towards your family when you slept with me before marriage? Is it just for a girl who is not less than a sl*t who sell her sincerity and honesty for money or for those old people and orphans who have no relationship with you? What will you get in return for this Jwala? If that sl*t Vigna or those orphanage people know about our relationship, they won't understand your sacrifice rather they blame your character. Why can't you understand this?"

"I don't care. I just did what I felt right. If sacrificing my life can make more people happy, then I am ready to do it."

"Sweetheart, being selfless will be your biggest mistake in life if I leave you with a child without marrying you. Anyways I am not saying that I am saving you from humiliation or something like that by marrying you. Because only to marry you, I impregnated you," he said.

What does he mean? Did he impregnate me intentionally? When I asked him after knowing that I am pregnant, he lied to me saying that he always used protection but somehow it was broken and I became pregnant.

"Didn't you use protection?" I asked hesitantly.

"Now you got it, not bad. You are smart. Yes, I never tried to take precaution. I want to make you as my wife, but I know you will surely reject me. So, I impregnated you through which I can marry you easily."

Disgusting! How can he be that cunning? What a man he is? No, he is not human, he is a beast. He betrayed me in every way possible.

"I am not going to marry you at any cost. Instead, I will kill myself along with our child," I shouted at him with tears.

"You must marry me, Jwala. Sacrifice your life for our child and me, Baby" he said sarcastically.

"I hate you. You are a jerk. You are a beast. You have no right to live."

"Aww my Baby, are these the mood swings during pregnancy which was told by the doctor?"

"You never opened your mouth before me except to moan when I give pleasure and plead when I give pain. Today, you are scolding me, but I love you opening your mouth only on those two occasions."

He said and came close to me pushing me to bed. He came on top of me. He started kissing my cheeks and forehead.

"I want to give pain which makes you plead for scolding me. But, now I can't-do that because of my child. So, let me make you moan the whole night by giving you unbearable pleasure which is a pain too," he said.

No, I didn't want him to touch me. I hate him. I tried my best to speak, but no words came out of my mouth due to fear and his kisses.

"By the way, I asked the doctor. He said as you are in early stage of pregnancy, I can take you," he said and moved his fingers around my neck and bosoms.

He started playing with my breasts.

"Agniiii," I said closing my eyes and biting my teeth to control myself.

He kissed my bosoms and stomach in a different manner making me moan. He stopped and left me.

"These are the sounds which you should make when you open your mouth or better shut it up," he said.

"I am not going to make love to you until you accept me. This is just a small punishment for scolding me and lying to me that you love someone else. Now take rest," he said while leaving the room.

"What if I had a crush on someone but never revealed? What if I want to marry someone and melt in his love forever? What if I have already dreamt my love and married life with the one whom I love?" I asked to see his reaction.

Does he change? Does he love his child or is he trying to trap me for that property of twenty-five crores? What if he blackmails me saying he will kill the child if I didn't give up on that orphanage?