months

i's

y completed and after two d

the process of handing over th

business. He is now in his 50's and enjoying his life with my mother and my little sister.

ne and I am going to slee

ow much y

s si

our father's friend. I hope you will try this time. Look if you don't like her, we will not force you but my so

ight

screamed deaf

excitingly asked me like a chi

don't scream otherwise I

ou my son...come quickly" I h

ild. I walked in my room and sat o

her. I was 10 when my father remarried to my mom. I was angry at that

hat a stepmother can never be a mother. She would definitely do something to strangle me. But she didn't. On the contrary, she used her own means to

my world took a

ually used to spend time away from home. I hea

o need damn it." My father ang

ather like this angry

him to live in fear that his stepmother

omewhat sure that they

you did is a solution" my

r and held his hands. She then softly said, "Aniruddh, I kn

at her but didn

ave the reason to hate me. I took his mother's place. No child would want that. But I want t

nse of security. That is what I could provide him. If he didn't have fear that his sib

d yourself" my father sai

side their room. I don

your own child?" My father asked

ishi to be my

who is actually scheming and vicious. I was in terror all those years wh

can never be a mother. I don't get the love, pampering, care, security i

. When I look at him I find myself in him. Those eyes of hatred, filled with insecurity. He becomes conscious infront of me as if I would hurt him. I can understan

that's why I don't want Rishi to feel that he is cursed. I just wan

nding outside the door. I d

hugged her. Bot

e me Aniruddh, you won

tted me at the door. He then said, "pr

time I realized my mother never hurt me. She never did anything that could harm

y door. I washed my face and went to

et her know that you knew" I nodd

t. I listened her many times. She was mor

knot between us. I never called her 'mom'. I called her 'aunt'. I know she expe

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