It was late by the time I reached home... I reached the dinning room and I have listened to something which amused me as much as I didn't want to....

She demanded ayi to sit and she sat beside her to have her meal...

I let the cool water seep down my body to get frustration away...

One side my empire and the other side is this little wife.... little wife....

It sounded sweet and foreign rolling on my tongue.....

I was going down the stairs and I observed a silhouette of someone...

I took few steps near to the glass window and saw her playing in the garden...twirling around....'childish'

I gritted... I wanted someone who is strong , independent and can stand beside me but......

I huffed in exhaustion and had my dinner.... I went back to my room after dinner to complete left over paper works.

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Next day

" Ms. Harika get me a black coffee" I ordered my assistant and sat back reading the files for the deal with Mr. Shubham gosh. Though this deal ain't a bigger one but their company roots have been in construction for since ages that can gain us public interests and trust as well...

I was sipping the coffee analyzing the contract.I felt sudden pain shooting up from my stomach which I held back and after a couple of minutes I threw up blood from my mouth and I fell down with immense pain that radiated all over my stomach... I called up my assistant and ordered her to bring the company doctor to my cabin....

Slowly my vision turned dark....

I felt someone pressing my legs gently and I looked at my little wife through my half shut eyes... She has tear stains on her face laced with concern.

Concern......but why?...... Her little hands were pressing my from my ankles to thighs....very little hands....

I smiled.... I don't know why...

Her nose turned out Red but cute in her......

I opened my eyes and Kaira stood beside my head near the bedpost with her fake concern... I have kept an eye on her since I got back my consciousness and saw what she was doing... I know her all too well to ignore....

I looked at my little wife who stood with my best friends at the corner of the room and turned back to Kaira when she served me meals....

I felt a slight irritation in my stomach but I managed to eat atleast half of it as I was in dire requirement of energy.

Suddenly my little wife came and pulled the plate away scolding Kaira for feeding me with meat....and she spilled the whole plate on her !

I couldn't control myself when she badmouthed my girl friend infront of me... The nerve of this girl who is utterly penniless is raising a finger at my girl!? I didn't let her leave....

I was fuming with anger and raised my hand on her....... I pushed her on to Kaira's feet and she looked back at me with tears rolling down her eyes...

There was blood at the corner of her lips....

She ran away.......

Rahul and Vihaan left with disappointed faces.....

I asked Kaira to leave but she pestered me that she would look after me to which one hard glare from me was more than enough to keep her in her place.... I slept in my rest room...

And later shifted my work onto the bed as my stomach still pains and I'm weak....

" sir , your nutritionist has send the diet plan for one month and after which you have a check up with our company doctor to check out improvement or alterations that should be made... " Ms. Harika said and I said a 'ok' to which she nodded and left.

I was done with my work and left to home by 2:00pm....home... It always had been a mansion for me....when did it turn out to be a home?....

I reached my mansion and entered my room, asked ayi to prepare vegetable soup......

I took out few important files that are to be reviewed and sat down on the couch... After sometime I went down the hall to the back yard....

" Arjun Sir " ayi called me placing bowl on the table and I sat on the chair.... She was about to leave

" did lakshmi come? " I asked her and she said 'no'...

Where must she have gone?

I called rahul as I observed him being protective of her....so she must be with him....but I didn't expect that Vihaan has taken her out.... This is not his behaviour..... I flipped my phone and put it on the table.....

I had my soup....with disturbed mind.

I went back into the hall and there she entered my wife....instructing my Butler to keep them in her room...

Oh.... So the lowly life started swiping the black cards.....

As soon as I questioned her about her where abouts, she started shivering like a leaf.....good that she is scared of me and she knows her place...

But how dare she uses the money of other men when her husband is still there! Is she trying to show the world that I can't afford her expenses or that I don't care about her or is she searching for a rich brat to settle down as she couldn't get what she wants from me......

Leech

Money sucking leech...

I controlled my anger and went back to my room....

I called Vihaan and he lifted after 2 rings....

" how much was the bill? " I asked, after seeing those many bags, I don't expect anything less than a 100,000$

" not much bro, don't care about the bill " he said and I hummed in response as I know that he wouldn't be taking back his money that he spent on that gold digger bitch...

I am surely going to make her repent for this.....

I went down for dinner after few hours of my disturbed work due to her thoughts consumed with rage filled in my mind.... The dare of this girl to make my friends pay for needs and pleasure.... How can anyone be soo damn shameless... she even care about my presitage...she must have played her pity card infront of him....

Characterless

She didn't come for dinner....

I had my dinner and went to her room... I knocked on her door but she didn't respond... I twisted the door knob and it was unlocked..

I entered inside her room and looked at the stuff which occupied 1/4th the small room...Rage was all my eyes could see...... I looked at her bed.... Sleeping peacefully....

I fisted my hands and went towards her.... I caught grip on her hair and yanked her up.... She screamed in fear.....

" shu shu shu " I said turning her to me and she relaxed a little seeing that it was me... Her eyes reflected innocence but I know it's not what it seems... This is a facade that she uses to fool people but not me....

" you want money wife!? U want money? Cmmon take it.... TAKE IT!! "

I screamed at her throwing the bundle of cash on her face.... She started crying and I didn't want to listen to those cries....

" you want money right? You took from vihaan right? Have these too! "

I took out another stack of notes and stuffed them into her mouth , forcefully with my hand....her muffled cries can be still heard.... I groaned in frustration.... I don't want to hear them ! ...... I slapped her continously with anger pented up in me and after a few seconds I saw her eyes closing to which I have slapped her again to bring her back into conscious but she fainted.... I groaned in frustration at my unquenched anger.....

I took a few steps back and held the bridge of my nose sighing loudly and inhaling deep breaths to control the rage with in me....

I looked at my little wife

In her battered unconscious state...

Half lying on the bed and half on the floor with her hand twisted in a different angle.....

I left the room shutting the door behind me.....

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As soon as I came to know that arjun fell sick, I reached his company immediately....

He always ignores his health as far as I have observed him.

I reached his cabin and I saw his assistant and doctor taking him to his private room in his cabin with kaira tailing behind them... I changed his blood stained shirt and asked doc about his condition to which he responded that it ain't serious and proper diet could reside his condition to normal...

Suddenly the door banged open with a loud noise and I looked at lakshmi followed by rahul... My breath hitched seeing her tear stained face , biting her lips on frustration and tension for the person who is lying on the bed...

She looked looked simple with her blue and white Kurthi, her presence is enough to make me feel homely but it overcome with my anger when she was pressing his legs to make him feel comfortable.....

Why the hell is she touching the legs of arjun!? Even though I know that they are husband and wife but I can't see her doing these degrading stuff...

She has to do it if it's only for me beacuse I know how to care of her, adore her and protect her from the world of evil.... She can pay me back with those simple gestures that would surely melt my heart with those small little hands putting little effort on my legs.... It would feel magical....

I came out of my daze as soon as I saw her fighting with Kaira..A tigress.

The way she held herself strong infront of someone who is richer than her and older than her , with her confidence made me smirk.....

That's my girl.....

But when arjun hit her and yanked her on to Kaira's legs... I felt like my rib cage throbbing with pain... But I sat quitely... The blood she splured out burned my fists with anger but I sat back looking at them....

When she ran off the room I followed her and went to the garage , drove my car to the entrance of the company where she was crying continously.....helplessly......

I guided her into my car and she sat down quitely beside me....

She must be feeling alone in the whole new place to call no one of her own....

Wait....how am I even able to think or feel about this little girls feelings......

this isn't me..

But she attracts me to her.... At the end of the day my thoughts always drift back to how would it be if she would be with me......

I took her to a decor store , one of the fanciest ones that belongs to my client as this was constructed by my company for a top notch French designer...

I asked her to pick up the stuff she would like and she roamed around the store like a lost pup.... I smiled looking at her back... Only if she knew what I had in my mind for her.....

She came to me suddenly and said animatedly that the stuff here is too costly.... I kept looking at her cute gestures....

and I waved it off saying that I'm gonna pay for it...but she took me out of there by holding my hand which sent tingles down my body.... That small warm hand on my large ones....

I lost the touch as soon as we reached the car and I felt holding her to me tightly....in my arms forever.....

We went into the small decor store that she Googled out.... It was small...

I don't even give a glance at places like this....but if she wants to , then I would adjust for only this once.... She took a big trolley and kept on looking at the stuff carefully even the texture of a frame before she bought... I would have bought tonnes of those cheap stuff if she wanted.... But the way she told me that she would spend her little amount of money did make me feel happy for unknown reasons...not every girl I met is like her....they all pulled out the cards from my pocket which I didn't mind until I get what I want from them and the next day they are no less than a trashcan....

She bought whole bunch of stuff for only 400$ which was quite a bargain..

She was about to pay when the cashier called us both husband and wife..... Only if that could be real.....

I dropped her back in his mansion only I wouldn't if she was mine....

I drove back out of gates and looked at the rear view mirror one last time to see the smile that imprinted on her face looking at my car......

~~ Only if I could leave everyday seeing that beautiful smile on her face

It would be a bliss ~~

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I woke when the sun was blazing on me , and my skin burned with pain at certain spots on my face.... I lifted my hand and touched them but soon I felt a lot more pain...

So it wasn't a dream.....

I sat up on the bed immediately looking all around my room and my eyes fell on the phone beside me... I looked at my self in my phone's screen to see my face badly bruised...with Red and purple bruises.... It wasn't a dream.... tears fell down my eyes realizing that it wasn't a dream....

He really beat me more horrible than a street dog.... I couldn't even open my mouth to cry out loud.... It pained all over.... I went inside the washroom and didn't dare to look at the mirror...

I entered the cubicle and let the cold water run through my body.... It still pains but I couldn't help thinking why he beat me or why he said that I took money from Vihaan bhaiya.... There must be a misunderstanding for him to take such a step but that dosen't mean that he would handle the stitaution in such a way and treat me more worse than an animal! He could have listened to me! For god's sake he is beating a girl!

But I still doubt what Vihaan bhaiya must have said him.... Is it some kind of a game that all these 4 are playing with me.... To torture me until I loose my self.... Am I some kind of plaything for them!?

My ego, dignity and what not...even my body hurts soo badly with these allegations and the torture they put me through.... It's better to stick myself to a corner and never indulge myself into their matters...

I don't have any other option than this in this unknown place with unknown people..... What had my parents even thought before getting me married to such a man......