Tainted Love by Maniah (best contemporary novels txt) 📗

After she left, I called my mother on her mobile and told her that I had reached safety. 

It's been two weeks since I arrived in Mumbai and I am trying to find a job here.  Sangeeta said that there is no vacancy in her office yet so she couldn't help me. One thing I came to know about is the education gap between small villages and big cities. Here all they care about is how well one can speak in English and how good he is at the computers.

And I understand English but couldn't speak fluently like them. My computer education is limited to basics only. Today after two weeks I came to know how useless my first-class degree with Ninety-six per cent marks is.  I wanted to give up and return to my life back in the village but couldn't do that. My family's happiness depends on me. I have to be successful for them. 

One day when I got late for home, I was scared it was nine in the evening and I was not able to find any conveyance. I gave my hand to the upcoming Auto rickshaw and it stopped. I was about to sit but my eyes fell on a car. A big lavish car and I saw Sangeeta inside it with a man who was kissing her.

Appalled at the scene, I sat down and the auto started moving. That night when Sangeeta came back home. I asked her about the man.

"He was your boss, Sangeeta," I whispered astounded.

And then she told me the reality of her life. "I had to choose Vani. Life in that village where there is nothing or I can live life like this. My family depends on me. When I came here I was like you, a good girl with morals but those morals didn't pay the bills, my values didn't bring joy on the faces of my family. Money did. I even worked as a maid in houses. And at that time I saw the reality how it works here. Every man is a vulture in this world. I choose to feed those harpies for my benefit. And I'll do it thousands of times if that brings happiness on my family's faces."

I was stunned at her confession. Still not able to accept what I hear. "You could have done anything Sangeeta. Wrong is wrong. It is immoral."

"Oh please! Preach me about immorality when you have to sleep on the footpath and empty stomach without food for a week. When men lust after you when you ask them for the job. I choose to trap the predators in their own manner. But at least it's my choice now." She murmured bitterly.

"I can't live here anymore." I said and she nodded "where will you go. Do you have enough money to live in a hotel? Stop being absurd and stay." 

I was about to tell her no but my phone started ringing and it was my mother. I frowned seeing the time. Mother never calls me this late. I picked the call immediately.

"Mother."

"Sister.." I heard Mihi's voice. She was crying.

Alarmed, I asked, " Mihi, what happened?"

"Father fell from the rooftop. He is in hospital. He needed an operation and the doctor said that he needed it immediately. Village hospital is not specified with the technology to do such an operation."

I was numbed. Father. Oh, God.

"Sister, mother asked to call you and ask if you have managed to get the job. We are in a city hospital and they are asking two hundred thousand rupees for the surgery." 

I don't know what to say, I have no job and no money. Two hundred thousand rupees. It's such a huge amount where I should bring that much money.

Sangeeta was listening to every word and she helped me with money. Because of her, my father was alive. I thought she did it for me as a friend. But how wrong I was.

Because one day she asked my help and I said Yes. 

And that day changed my life...that day I met Mrityunjay Sehgal.

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