Tainted Love by Maniah (best contemporary novels txt) 📗

Chapter 2.

Vanya POV :-

 

Everything just stopped for me, frozen inside me, that's how I am feeling right now, only breathing, dead inside. 

I touched my stomach subconsciously, "am sorry...am so sorry that you are suffering because of my sins." I whispered brokenly. Tears rolling down my cheeks, the happiness I was feeling sometime ago has disappeared leaving me in the ashes of pain and agony. 

I closed my eyes and sobbed silently, trying hard, really hard not to cry and scream. My hand is still on my stomach. The betrayal I was feeling was worse but I can't just cry, I have to be strong for my baby, for this child I have to.

"your mother won't let you suffer anymore. Not for my sins darling." I took a deep breath and wiped my tears. I went to our room...our room.

Our room, not anymore. I was lost for some time thinking that here in this house everything is our, belonging to mrityunjay and I, but not anymore, there is nothing that was mine, nothing. I entered inside the walk in closet to pack my things but stopped looking at the clothes and accessories. Everything here is branded and was especially designed for me, I never felt at ease in these clothes because it's not me these clothes are not me. They belong to vanya not vani.

 Vanya was the mistress of  billionaire mrityunjay sehgal, one of world's top ten eligible bachelors.  Vani was from a small village in madhya pradesh who came to mumbai, the big city to earn money, to make a career but was unaware of the reality of big cities. 

She was unaware of the real world and she was trapped in this work to save her family. To save her father and her house in the village. Vani was lost to vanya and today even vanya was defeated by reality. 

I looked at the clothes one more time and gulped down again trying hard to cry again. Vanya is dead today. With this baby inside me I will start my life again as vani kashyap a small town tution teacher. 

I picked my purse and looked inside, picking the cards and cash that belong to mrityunjay and laid them down on his counter. What I have left is 20 thousand ₹ that belongs to me. Even as a mistress that was my money which I earned. I removed everything else from my purse that belonged to him, only taking that was mine. 

I went out of the room and looked around again hoping for one last second that he would stop me, but he didn't come out. My hope was shattered "goodbye mrityunjay, hope you find love and happiness in your life" 

I prayed for him silently and wiped the treacherous tears which pooled in my eyes again. 

Getting a grip on my emotions I turned towards the elevator and pressed the button, after a minute the elevator opened and I entered  inside glancing one last time at the house which was my home for the past 4 months. My vision blurred again and I gulped down wiping the tears and then the elevator closed with that I closed my eyes from this life. From mrityunjay sehgal. From vanya, the mistress of mrityunjay sehgal.

I stopped the taxi once I reached outside "where to madam." 

"andheri." I replied.

After 25 minutes I was standing outside the building where my friend sangeeta lived, paying my fare charges to taxi driver I went inside the building, security guard nodded recognizing me "good evening madam." 

I smiled at him in response and went towards the elevator, when it opened I entered and pressed the 6th floor button. 

'a whore remains a whore no Matter how much respect you give her.." mrityunjay's words roaming in my mind.

After some minutes the elevator stopped and binged, telling me that it reached the 6th floor, I went outside as the door opened and went to flat no . 18 where Sangeeta lives.

I rang the doorbell of her flat and after sometime she opened it "vani.." she asked, shocked seeing me there at two in the night but then getting over the shock she nodded and stepped aside "come" 

"Are my clothes still in that room where I stayed sangeeta?" 

"Yes…" she answered and after a long sigh she asked me "it's okay you know, it's the first time with you that's why it's affecting you that much. You will get habitual after a while." 

I looked at her in anger and pain "I will not, never again sangeeta. I am leaving from here. This life is not for me anymore. I did this work because I had no other option left, I had to save my family but now that I know they are safe and had enough to live….i quit this work. I quit being an unknown girl named vanya." 

She shook her head, her eyes widened hearing me "vani…" she whispered slowly "are you sure, I can find you a new client better than mr. Sehgal and…" she was speaking but I raised my hand to stop her.

"Don't. You have helped me enough and am thankful but not anymore. I wish you happiness sangeeta but I request you not to take advantage of girls like me again. I was naive and in need of money. I trusted you with my heart but you never deserve that trust. I just wish that no one gets a friend like you." I said and she looked ashamed but her shame meant nothing to me. Not anymore being in this world has taught me alot about people how good actors they can be when it's about money. How they use emotions and weaknesses of other people for their own benefit.

I went towards the room I stayed in when I came here. I packed my clothes four years ago but then they were not suited for a mistress. So I left them here, and went to live the life which I never wanted. 

Picking up my luggage bag I went out and saw sangeeta standing there with her purse "I am leaving." I said once I reached near her.

"Vani….um! This is for you."  she said giving me a cheque of 2 lakh rupee ( two hundred thousand ₹) 

I looked at the cheque and then at her "I don't want this." saying that I started walking towards the door.

"Vani please stop." she said and then came to me "I….i know what I asked you to do four months ago was wrong. I apologize but this is your money. The money I gave for your father's surgery….you paid me more than that. Take this cheque please, I am not a good girl and have many flaws but I know one reality that life is not easy to live without money, you know it too. Please take this as my apology. One last token of my friendship vani" 

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