"What?"
Inaya hardly paid any heed to her words as her brain was still in the new terms. She just woke up don't know after how many days and the first thing that she got to pick up the sad news of her in-laws demise.
Her pupils popped out of their frames staring her cousin with mixed emotions. It was not believable. Inaya can't help but grimace her cousin who unnecessarily grinned.
"Yep! Isn't that a good news though." Shikha clung on her powerless arm and whispered. "You got the property as well as his bank balance. But I feel so bad, that charming son of your dead in-laws is not yours any more! He have had made me c*m right at the first meet!" She irrationally moaned locking her lips.
Inaya tried to breath normally. The air was becoming heavy.
She moved her gaze again at the surrounding, "Mummy! Daddy! Inaya is awake." Inaya touched the bandage on her left arm at the elbow, she gave a glance to Shikha who scurried out of the door of her room at once.
It was sore and the skin around the bandage was red. Mayhap the gauze was put up long time ago! She can't feel any pain, her skin seemed normal to herself nevertheless, when she craned her neck in the left, there was a table which was occupied with a kind of file.
She reached for it and opened the covers. No sooner the heading of the papers, that were in the file caught her sight, she gasped breathing heavily.
DIVORCE PAPERS
She was not anticipating to see them. Yep, she was being taken to her uncle by her in-laws. They have seen Riyan slapping her! But just on the main road few minutes away from their house— their vehicle crashed into a big lorry therefore turning upside down.
She remembered her in-laws screaming a last scream of their lives and closed their eyes as the blood gushing out of their heads and neck blanketed their faces completely.
And the last thing she recalled was his face nearing her amidst his cries whilst he tried getting her up.
The machine next to her began beeping, her blood pressure was rising. Sooner than expected, her breaths turned into panting. "Inaya!" She was about to fall back on the bed when her uncle Mohit, held her shoulders and pressed her skull in his chest hugging her tight.
Unfortunately, she had passed out!
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Distant sound of continuous chattering resonated in the air. Inaya, who was on the bed unconscious, shook her fingers between her clasped lashes. She felt another level of pain in her left hand like she was beaten there with an iron rod.
Her lips twisted in agony, she was trying to open her eyes once again. "Mummy, look she is waking up again" Her ears caught someone's voice and it did not take her much time to register who the speaker was. That was her cousin Shikha.
Inaya's mind was working even when her body was paralysed. She motioned her legs in an attempt to pull herself up when another voice hit her, "God! Hope she won't faint again. If she did then how will we withdraw the money her husband left her!" that was another familiar voice that shook Inaya in shock, and she sat straight on the bed inhaling deeply.
Face dripping wet with sweat beads Inaya curled her finders in the sheets of her hospital bed, one look at her aunt's face and all the old memories reverted back in her mind. She was severely sweating whereas Vrushika, her monstrous aunt approached her bed with a fake smile. "Offo Inaya! Calm down, your husband is not here. He is long gone from your life. You need not fret anyone from now on as I will take good care of you" told Vrushika.
Was she mad?
Or did she crash her brainless skull against a wall that she was talking like that?
Inaya was sure something was wrong with her aunt otherwise she would never talk so nice to her. All she had always done to Inaya was— torture and pain.
In Fact, it was not her husband why she trembled but Vrushika.
She was the reason why she let Riyan take control over her and marry. Inaya wanted to go away from here. From the hold of Vrushika as this woman was capable of anything.
If she had not married Riyan then this woman would have made sure that she Married that old man for money.
"I had known that that guy was a living devil on the earth. When he can get me slapped by your uncle for something I didn't even, I was ascertained that he can do anything! I knew that already." Inaya blinked her eyes seeing how her aunt served her soup in a bowl from a storing tiffin.
Inaya was shocked when she discerned that her aunt filled the bowl with soup for her! She cannot bring herself to the position and react. "Come on honey, take this. You must be hungry. You have been in coma for five months" Informed Vrushika.
What the f**k! She kept sleeping in the hospital bed for five months.
Gasps escaped Inaya's mouth. No matter how much she disliked her aunt and did not trust her words but here she had to take her seriously. She will not lie about that certainly.
"I have been here— for five months?" She repeated her Vrushika's words so as to be sure whether what she heard was correct and not a void info she picked up!
Much to her dismay, Vrushika nodded her head in a Yes. She faked a look of concern as her fingers sunk in Inaya's hair. She was stroking her hair like she was her own daughter! That was too much to experience within a day.
Even Shikha did not seem minding her mother loving Inaya. She sat on the uncomfortable couch of her ward with her eyes fixed on them only. "Yes my baby, you were in come since five months and I can't tell you how depressed did I feel getting to know that you met with an accident. I though... I thought I would lose you, sweetheart!" Her extra ordinarily sugar coated sentence made Inaya to look away.
She would go back to coma if she was doing this out of any greed.
Her aunt was a born b***h who can do anything for money. Inaya can only go more and more in her thoughts to find for the cause as to why was her aunt being so nice to her.
She stressed her mind, recollected her memories from the time when she was not married alas nothing good came out of it. It only ached her body and spun her head.
"Ohh Inaya, look at the soup it's still kept untouched in your lap! Alright, let me feed you." Vrushika really grab the bowl of partially hot soup and dipped the spoon in it. She placed it across Inaya's lips and urged her to open her mouth. "That is like my princess!" Vrushika bust into big heart smile as Inaya sucked the soul.
Now she was definitely sure, there was something going on in her aunt's head.
Tbc...