Chapter 16
[A/N: alright, I have had enough of Non-Kria chapters.. I thought I would stop teasing you now. I have two more things to write today, So please just keep an eye out on my FB page.. In case, I still can't PM you guys.. ]
He continued shivering, even under two layers of thick blankets. He was having that dream again, the one where he was 17, broken, and still pretty much a kid at heart.
He remembered the distinctly cold atmosphere this place had that night, as if everything had changed in a matter of minutes.
He had been keeping sick, his adolescent life felt constricted in this Haveli, where there were zero friends, yet 50 servants. Where there were rules, regulations, manners, etiquettes... yet zero life whatsoever.
But yet, even despite of this, he never wanted to leave. He had loved Maa, why would he leave her?
Maa had always been fragile, and it wasn't as if she could help it. And Maa used to love him, or so he had thought.
Cause all doubt of the flimsy feeling called love had vanished from his mind, wiped clean from what she had said that night.
She had screamed... Shouted... For hours that Reyaansh was the reason she was unwell. That he sucked the life force out of her. That she couldn't breathe with him in her vicinity.
How he had cried... And how he had left wordlessly.
What option did he have back then? He shivered more, tossed and turned more in his bed. Just when he thought he was losing air, he heard her.
Ohhh the voice. His sleep laden form recognized the voice effortlessly, and he fell into a deep slumber just like that.