“I don’t want any more of this. I am fully satisfied and contented. There is no vacuum at all in me to be filled up.” She could sense his complete satisfaction and contentment in his laughter then.
“May I dress myself up then?” she knitted her brows together.
“Absolutely.” He also got off from the bed quickly and started dressing himself up as if he noticed only then that he was naked. While he was dressing, she also completely dressed.
“Thank you, thank you very much my best friend!” he came near to her, put his both hands around her shoulders and kissed on her right cheek. “You just don’t know what a great help you did to me. I am a fully satisfied and contented person now. Only now I understood how a man feels if all his sexual fantasies are not satisfied fully.”
“But you have to remember your promise.” She also held him gently with both her hands and kissed on his lips straight. “You are not going to pay anything to me if you are thinking that I am your best friend.”
Then the parting between them both was painful and she came to the same supermarket and got into an auto there. When the auto was travelling towards the destination she told to the driver of the auto, she remembered she just have unprotected sex and she needed to take a tab as soon as she went into her home. She remembered her sister’s suggestion but did not feel too much bad for that. Every time she was going to have it with another guy from now on, she sure would follow that suggestion unless it was with her husband and for children. She indeed wanted to bear the child of this Anurag but its not possible, she could not do that.
While she was in thinking like that she heard some ‘ting’ sound making her noticed that she received some notification. When she opened the notification she was stunned! It was a paytm payment notification with a message. The payment was two lakhs rupees.
“Don’t think its a payment to your service. Its a close friend’s gift to a close friend. I hope and wish you continue your friendship with me just like that all the time.”
Slowly a small smile crossed on her lips and she gave the reply message. ‘It certainly be so. I shall always be your best friend. We both shall remain friends till our death.’
After that it was just automatic on her part that she alighted from the auto when it reached her home, entered into her house and put herself into other work.
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“You really cannot find time to read my mother’s book along with me.” Williams accusingly said “For the last four days we did not read that book.”
“Williams you don’t know how much busy I have become in the hospital for the last few days and I just could not manage to wake up once I got into the bedroom.” Rose adjusted more besides Williams on the bed. “Anyhow you yourself also can read that book.”
“You asked me not to read the book without you beside me.” The accusing expression was just so in his face. “The reputed psychiatrist has got problem with her mind it seems, you have forgotten it.”
“I really forgot it, sorry” her charming smile then indeed has its affect on Williams even he saw quite often. “Now we try to read that book more than we used to read and if possible we complete it. May I go and get it then?” she has become ready to get off from the bed.
“Not necessary, I already got it.” when he proffered it towards her she took it with her both hands “Reading it whether sitting or lying on the bed is your choice but I hear it lying like this.” Williams laid gently on the bed “Just go on. I am ready to hear.”
‘Anyhow I have to follow what Stuart dictated to me even I did not like it much. I did not see much wrong in earning money joining in that office but I could not understand why Stuart asked me not to say about our relationship with anyone there. I still can remember the first day I went to that office and met Raja Prathap. If there was any other person that I have got good feeling by looking at, it was only that Raja Prathap. His interviewing me was just namesake and formality and it appeared to me that Stuart has beautiful hold on him. Moreover, just like anyone, I could see the appreciative look in the face of Raja Prathap as soon as he found me. I knew for sure that he was impressed by me just like anyone and that was what troubling me a lot.
Working with Raja Prathap was so smooth and enjoyable. He was so much respectable person and enjoyable but all the time I have been foreseeing a danger. On one day it really has taken place.
“I want to talk one thing with you. You just say ‘yes’ or ‘no’ to me after hearing that and there would be no coercion on you. But I so much wish to hear only ‘yes’ from you and nothing else.”
My heart filled with horror anticipating what he was going to ask. I was trying my level best to keep my feeling only in me and not to show that either in my voice or face. “Please go on sir. I am very much curious to hear.” I forced a smile onto my lips.
“So far I came to know that you are not married yet. I am also not married and the only reason why I remain unmarried even I am thirty two years aged is; I have not got someone who impressed me a lot. Now I am feeling that I not only got someone who impressed me a lot but who I can love a lot also. If you have no objection, I want to marry you.”
However much I have expected this, I felt like that I received a shock when I heard that from him and I have to use all my strength not to show that shock in my face. “Sir, the difference between you and me. You related to a royal family, having this much of wealth and famous......” I was trying to say something more but he cut me off.
“None of that does matter once I have chosen to marry you.” his voice was firm.
“You are Hindu and I am a Christian.”
“Nothing does matter once I firmly decided to make you my wife.” His voice was with the same firmness. “Religion is the last thing in fact.”
“What about your parents, relatives? None of them ever would agree with our relationship.” I was just trying to make him realise the point. Even there were no such dangers at all, how could I agree once I was in relationship with another man? I must say if I were not with the relationsip of Stuart, I would have considered his proposal wholeheartedly.
“I said nothing does matter” now he was with little irritation. “Just tell me whether it is agreeable to you or not?”
“Not agreeable to me” in fact I was feeling lot of discomfort and uneasiness to talk like that with him. “I am already in love with someone and we are going to marry very soon.” Stuart asked me only not to say about our relationship but he did not ask me not to say like this.
The disappointment in the face of Raja Prathap was very much profound and it troubled me also to the maximum. He just nodded his head and went away from that place. However much I expected his disappointment like that I too could not feel normal and came away from there.
But what I did not expect at all was such reaction from Stuart. I have not seen him that much angry and furious at anytime in the past.
“Why, why you have said like that to him? I have waited for that golden chance all these days.” He was yelling loudly.
“What that you have waited for it all these days? What really you do mean?” I too could not remain silent. “Stuart I never have thought that you do become this much forgetful! We both are in relationship and we are going to marry very soon, how can I marry another man?”
Suddenly there came surprising change in Williams as if he realised that point suddenly then. I also thought my saying like that has put some sense in him but what he has said coming near to me then made me shocked even more.
“Margaret dear! Try to understand. Our relationship just remains so forever. Nothing is going to happen either to our relationship or our love just by your becoming wife to that Raja Prathap.”
“Certainly you have lost your mind, you became mad.” I was vehement. “How can I become wife of him while I am in relationship with you?”
“Never mind that. No one knows about our relationship and you can happily become the wife of Raja Prathap.”
“What the bloody hell you are talking?” I was shocked to the maximum. “Anyhow put all that aside and tell one thing straight. Why do you want me to become the wife of that Raja Prathap?”
“Your becoming wife to that man is the golden key to our richness and prosperity.” I already came to know about the dark side of Stuart but I never have felt that much disgust on anyone while I was listening to him. “To get access to his business and wealth would be quite easy a task to you as his wife. With perfect planning all his would be ours.”
“Of course, I can get access everything of his but it would be as his wife, not yours.” I just could not keep my disgust and hate in me anymore and it was quite evident in my voice and face. “I cannot know how you are thinking that you can be benefited by it.”
“It is just because our relationship just remains like that. You became the wife of Raja Prathap and we continue to be lovers. I already told you that our relationship remains intact forever.” he was trying to be meaningful which was making me feel even more disgust and hate o him. “You just do that in the way I ask. I shall see that there will be no problem either to you or to me or to anyone else.”
“I never can do that. It is just impossible to me.” even I was expecting a harsh reaction from him I could not remain calm “Never dream like that!”
But the reaction from him was not as I expected. There was a sudden peaceful and calm expression on his face. “I can understand you. If I were in your place, I would have behaved in the same way you did. It is just because of the love you have on me and what you need to understand is I do also love you in the equal measure.” When he took me into his hands and kissed on my right cheek, I felt as if a cobra was curling around my body. “I am doing this for both of our sake. You just don’t know for how long I have been planning for this! I have got this gem of idea the moment I got my eyes on you. That was why I did not prefer to marry you yet. I know I can take lot of advantage because of the confidence and trust that Raja Prathap on me. I have been with him from my childhood and he believes me than he believes anyone else in the entire world. To be frank I am the only close friend to him in the entire world.”
(……….to be continued)
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