"Tell him the Truth Shivi, I am standing here! No one will say anything! You don't have to hold yourself anymore! Tell everything, not only to him, but to your parents also! How you felt and still feeling! Just say it! You didn't only snatch his rights but also yours! Say it all! You promised me, right? You told me that you would tell him everything at the right time! and this is the right time!" Yash encouraged her to speak while his family stood like a mannequin in the fear but Arjun tried to voice out.

"Stop it, Yash!! You are emotionally manipulating her with your words!" He told him, his anger was at its peak. Shivalika looked at her father at the same time Aditya looked at Arjun in disbelief, Emotionally Manipulating? For real? What drama this family is up to now?

"Isn't it what you have been doing for the past eight years?" Yash snapped back at him for the first time.

"We didn't! We have taken care of her! We have always wanted her good! Whatever we say is good for her! That's not called manipulation! She brought shame on our family, and still, we accepted her and sheltered her! treated her like we used to! Never spoke about her dirty past with this man ever in those 8 years! We kept her happy. And you are saying we manipulated her? If we wouldn't have did that then people would have called her names! They would have lured Varti---"

"ENOUGH DAD!!!" Shivalika shouted out of nowhere, She was silently taking all the allegation until her father involved Vartika, She was not surprised by her father's tone, He has always been like that after he got to know about Shivalika's pregnancy, She can tolerate anything but something bad about her daughter, it triggers her. Even Aditya's jaw clenched in anger, he was disgusted how her own father saying such things about his own daughter, he would have punched his face if Shivalika hadn't stopped him.

"FOR GOD SAKE, DAD!!! STOP THIS!! STOP IT PLEASE!! I can't take it anymore... You and mom are so disgusted from me as if I did a sin! Why can't you forgive us?" Shivalika cried, and her tears flowed uncontrollably. it would be a lie if I said Aditya's heart didn't pained seeing her so helpless in front of her own father. The man who should take a stand for her is standing with the society and judging his own daughter's character just because of one mistake.

"SHIVALIKA!!! This is how you speak to your father! Don't you feel ashamed? We gave you everything, and still you are being so ungrateful!! Now you are explaining your mistake! Are you normalising having a kid before marriage? You are normalising what you did!" Chandrika scoffed.

Shivalika almost clutched her hairs, Why they always misunderstand her? Can't once they think in her shoe? 

"I am not normalising anything, Mom!! But can't we just forget what happened? Can't you forgive me? How long you gonna drag it? I didn't kill someone! Whatever happened was our wish! I and Aditya both had no problem! Stop looking at me as if I was whoring around!!" Her words were very harsh, Aditya and Yash both felt disgusted by the thinking of her parents that made her use such language.

"You and Dad have always been like this! You kept me happy! Do you even realise that I have been visiting a Psychologist after coming here! Because no one is here to listen to me, to pat my back and say I am with you! You guys don't even know that I still get panic attacks! My mental health is f*cked up, I still get anxiety, You don't know about my health issues, You don't know what meds I am taking and yet you say this, Mom? You call it support, dad?" Shivalika took a step near her father.

"I am grateful for everything you and mom gave me but all this was after Manipulating me! giving me a threat to not tell Aditya about his daughter! Stop emotionally manipulating me please! Do you call it support? then what's the difference between you and the other people? Just because you gave me shelter and food doesn't count in support! I could have taken care of myself and my daughter alone but I looked at you! I am here, not because I can't afford anything! I am here because I respect you, I feel guilty when you can't tell people about me! I know you wished I was never you daughter, I feel disgusted from Myself when you look at me in disgust,"

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