Chapter 19

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Atharv quickly woke up and went to the washroom side and quickly took a shower. He walked downstairs, all other family members were standing there.

Abhinav and Om were having some conversation between them while even Aarushi and Riddhima seemed a little shocked. Atharv was studying the expressions of all the people there.

Aditya walked to him and passed him a photo in which there was a photo of suicide letter of Meera Chauhan.
Content of the letter:
I never expected at any cost, that I would be at such a point. Even while having such a happy married life, I don't know what made me do it. Till then, this letter
would have been found.I would have
moved so far. The mistake I have committed there exists no punishment for it.But today. I am finding enough courage to confess it.I want to voice it out today, I cheated on you, Dev and now it feels so suffocating for me to be happy with you again. I don't know what made me compromise about my self respect over anything and I end up being a sinner who cheated on her husband even after fighting for him even against my own family. I don't know how life turned out to be that much complex to me, but please forgive me and I would be leaving your life for forever, cause this guilt will suffocate me to death.
                                             Meera Chauhan

The letter was not surprising for him, but more shocking. He took a deep breath and moment to process all what happened within a single night with the most unpredictable time.

Atharv headed towards Abhinav and Om asked, " How did all this happen? ". Abhinav spoke, " All this is happening because of the revelation both of you made last week and mark my words. This is the beginning of destruction. Part ways with her, otherwise being together both of you will be ruined at worst ".

Atharv just turned silent this time. He has no words to reply to anyone. He was so confused. He just walked away from there ignoring all the questioning and gaze of his family members.
His head was bursting out with stress.

Atharv's P.O.V.
I want to know the answer to my doubt last night. But never in this way. If it is true, then it is the most bitter truth of her life and now when is with me. It will affect our life too. But after collecting all the clues and joining them together it means that her mother killed that baby along with her because maybe its father was not Dev Chauhan But maybe the reason could be anything else. Maybe my father was right the mystery of the Chauhan family turns more darker, the deeper we dive into it. But what twist this incident is going to give our life.

Soon, Kritika also woke up from sleep and when she picked up her phone, one by one hundreds of notifications lined up  from several platforms and when he noticed the cause of it. Her heart sunk down deeper.

Her fingers started to tremble reminding her of the memory when the same letter was shown to her to the teenager version of her, the horrible memories were enough to vanish even the last ounce of hope from her heart.

Flashback starts........

Kritika was hardly 14 years old when she got to know about this letter while fighting with her step mom explaining the fact that she hates her to the core. That day Shikha lost her temper and told her the truth that it was not her father who forgot her mother within months. But it was her own mother, who first cheated on her father. Kritika refused to believe her as she trusted her mother, but that day Shikha showed him the letter that her mother had left before her suicide. That young girl was not able to think that she had spent years to blame her father and now the situation is asking her to doubt her own mother's character. She confronted Dev if it is true then why was it hidden from her. He said he didn't want her mother's image to get ruined in front of her and the outer world. So only a few people know about it . But she yelled at every one refusing to believe that her mother couldn't do it. She was her idol and idols can never be wrong, right. From that day, she refused to return to her home even during break time. She would spend time at the hostel even at festivals. All that she got into her own family was taunts by her grandmother and step mother and gave several names to her late mother while Dev spared no efforts to make her feel better. She stopped relying on anyone from the night she was left alone at the time of death of her mother. The little girl who didn't even know the meaning of grief had to go through the worst part of it. She has to understand that she has no shoulder left to place her head and cry. This letter was the second worst thing that happened to her, the first one always remained losing Meera.

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