<p data-p-id="1b2510df3f0c4f7ceda00be8a1b98625"><strong>EAK</strong>

<p data-p-id="d28a569c2a2280c4701891ffe3b6d6da">&quot;Abhimanyu....&quot; I took measured and calculate steps to eliminate the distance between us, &quot;Why have you been so distant to me?&quot;

<p data-p-id="69a4b2c9e796ae948f8751ddb468e47b">&quot;Shree....&quot; He exhaled laboriously, his words left me wondering about the depth of pain he was in. It hindered my progress towards him. His back was facing me; he had his fist curled over the iron railing. &quot;This marriage happened only because of my parents.&quot;

<p data-p-id="aba84376897ba6f1533f796bfd50c477">&quot;How can you say that? I am your wife.&quot;

<p data-p-id="b4fe91640b937f11b297b18ebc854070">&quot;You are my wife for the whole world to see. I wish to keep &lsquo;no-strings-attached&quot; to it. I hold no responsibility for you.&quot; His lips were uttering what was in his mind and now I didn&quot;t want a glimpse of his profaned brain.

<p data-p-id="53bbcaf07d0f845145a1634e036c94a2">&quot;What?&quot; A mere whisper slipped past my lips, my eyes brimmed with tears, I wanted to shout, clamor and hurt him with my actions but I was fixing the broken pieces of my heart that were being crumpled under his feet.

<p data-p-id="3c1384abcda34ba57fdc701dd17dfbd3">&quot;No strings attached? What do you think you&quot;ve done? We are married for god sake; you do hold responsibilities towards me.&quot; I forced him to see eye to eye but his eyes were shut long back. If not, then we wouldn&quot;t be here.

<p data-p-id="c2859069edc7aead7e3c10da8ce9ead6">&quot;Do not force yourself on me. I have done it for our families.&quot; He exasperatedly snapped, &quot;I should&quot;ve told this to you in the beginning itself.&quot;

<p data-p-id="467521a577d456462cafd8e9e52fb76d">He didn&quot;t want me whereas I had already accepted him, he didn&quot;t even want to share his heart with me and I was ready to present my soul bare to him. I believed there was no point of persuading him to accept me when he clearly didn&quot;t look abreast at me.

<p data-p-id="5f472d273cddb1144f7646ad1cb06f14">&quot;I want an answer now.&quot; I bit back a whimper that was choking my throat and looked straight at his back. &quot;Will we ever find love in this?&quot;

<p data-p-id="e64db815a296ef806af27a89730c9fbf">Tears spilled down on my cheeks and I had this clenching pain in my heart. My hopes, my dreams all of them could be shattered by his answer and still hoping against the hope, I expected him to not disappoint me.

<p data-p-id="ba642a4728aa8e9caca0b283548a3fc8">I opened my mouth to say something but his words were the final nail in the coffin.

<p data-p-id="375db04062182789418b398fef13969a">&quot;I don&quot;t know.&quot; With that, he left leaving me shattered and heartbroken, I kept zooming in at the space where he was standing a few seconds ago. I sunk down to my knees and sobbed for the way my life had turned up.

<p data-p-id="20a8dfd4f4b24ca9a6cc71f0acdc8a15">A question kept rebounding in my psyche; <em>will we ever going to find love in this relation or will it end up before the commencement?</em>

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