Authors POV:
"Happy Birthday Sona"
The voice echoed as she blew the candle on the cake
He picked up a piece and stuffed it into her mouth while the happiness in his heart was clearly reflected in his glistening black eyes..
As she was reluctantly swallowing the cake he held her cheeks into his palms and excitedly said "Happy Birthday Sona...I wish you get everything that you yearn for"
And she so wanted his wish to come true...
But unfortunately, it couldn't because the one her heart desired wasn't the one who wished her...
He was not her husband Arjun
He was Suhan...
His words were as pure as his heart that she couldn't stop her lips from curling up into a forced smile
"Thank...
Before she opened her mouth a rough and sarcastic voice came into her ear "Happy Birthday Mrs. Arjun"
She didn't expect them there
At first, she was stunned then her heart felt warm getting wishes from her classmates who always felt hostility towards her
"Thank...
Words died in her mouth and her smile dropped when their series of words began spreading the venom
"Oh Sorry...Happy Birthday Mrs. Arjun no. 2" as one of them displayed the picture of Arjun being dragged by a policeman from mobile
She was shocked and her eyes went wide so surprised that she couldn't speak for a moment...
Her feet seemed to be on the ground and refused to move...
Though she knew the reality of her marriage her heart wasn't prepared yet to withstand the sudden waves of the past...
"Want to know the good deeds of the person whose appreciation songs you were singing with so much pride...
Want to see the real face of your beloved guardian"
Her eyes are red but in front of them she can't cry...she must endure
The video began playing
"The renowned personality in the society Mr. Arjun subjected to prison under the case of domestic violence...
The curtains of fake innocence behind the deadly beast have finally ripped off"
Her head lowered that she almost looked like a lifeless statue while the lips of the girls showed a winning smile
The video continued with a pathetic lady crying "He used to beat me like an animal for dowry...He turned me into his sex slave for his never-ending lust...He is worse than a beast...please save me"
A few moments went by the scene was still so quiet with Suhan being helpless as he himself knew the reality of the videos and Sona sobbing in a low voice which was pitiful and all of sudden a hand roughly grabbed her cheeks and her eyes met the screen
The face of the lady penetrated her eyes and made her shiver from head to toe...
"This is your future" the hand left her cheeks and tears flowed down silently
She was guilty...she was ashamed...she wanted to hide or run far away from everyone...
Similar things have happened before, making her in the whirlpool of public opinion, in a difficult situation. However, in the past, it was others who maliciously calculated and framed her, and it was others who were wrong, so she had a clear conscience. But this time, it was her fault.
The fault of trusting HIM
Realizing her fault she felt her heart would stop at a moment
Destiny has forced her into this situation
She can't survive this...
She did not dare to look at anyone and quickly ran out of the place...
She kept running until she slumped on the bus stop bench...
Within no time Suhan reached there and found her in silent tears...
Just to confront her he said
"Sona don't cry...Arjun is not that kind of man"
"I know" she burst into loud tears "My Arjun is definitely not that kind of man"
She was blinded by his love he learned...
But listening to her friend's sobs he felt flustered...he did not know what he was hating...all he knew was his friend was so good that she didn't deserve to be treated like this
According to him, Sona was just an innocent passer-by who was kept in the dark from the beginning
Sighing finally in defeat he said in a soft voice "I'll drop you home"
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Sona sat on the sofa feeling extremely depressed...
She was not even in the mood to gulp a mouth full of water
A pale smile crinkled her dry lips as the tints of yesterday's dream flashed through her eyes...
Yes the moments she relished was her sweet fantasy and whatever had happened today was the bitter reality
If she had enough strength she would cut off all the relationship between the two and leave far away so that he would never find her again...however it was too late for her to escape now...she was bound by the trust her heart had built up for him
But...
She can't fall into yet another trap that easily...
So she decided to ask him the truth...if she kept sulking then there would be endless assumptions
She quickly grabbed her phone and dialed his number only to get disappointed as it again said "The number is currently switched off"
This is what she had been getting since early morning when he had left the house without even informing her...
Glaring at the mobile she bit her teeth refusing herself to call him again and threw it on the sofa...
But she was determined...
Although she didn't want to fight with him she had to...
To know the truth...
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The big blue sky was all dark and the ever-so-shining magnificent moon witnessing their cute moments was hidden somewhere behind those colliding clouds
The wild wind was blowing to the west and the clouds were breaking up making a high pitch. The lightning was striking the dark night and the thunder was roaring like a lion...
The clouds were bursting out continuously to pour heavy rain...
And by every passing second, the poor heart of a 20-year-old girl was speeding up its pace for a reason she didn't even know...
Fidgeting her fingers she was chanting some mantras trying to give some strength to her naive soul
A sudden loud thud on the door flinched her fragile body and her hand landed on her chest to calm down the racing heart...
Looking at the strong figure in front of her she gasped in fear and swallowed a thick lump while even in such cold weather a thick series of sweat rolled down her temple thinking about his actions
And there stood the 34-year-old beast himself in his favorite black clothes...
Fully drenched in the rain the black clothes hugged his muscular toned body perfectly...as always the top three buttons of his shirt kept open giving a sneak peek of his chiselled chest and sleeves rolled up to his elbows revealing his forearms coated with a manly subtle fur
The thick black lush messed on his forehead...his otherwise natural pink plump lips turned to a darker shade because of his excess drinking emphasized between the thick rugged beard that traced his sharp jaws
She kept looking at his tall figure gulping various lumps while his legs moved to step forward but then he trembled and his shoulder hit the door and immediately her legs moved towards his direction to hold him as always but then his hand waved in the air stopping her from doing so...
He was drunk as hell...
He couldn't even handle himself...
With those blurry black orbs, he looked at the lean figure standing in front of him in the corner of the room... though his vision was blurred the beauty of her soul was imprinted on his heart...
Wearing the red saree he bought for her with hairs left open as he likes...no makeup natural face with a small bindi between her thick brows and the vermillion in her hair partition and a black beaded nuptial chain adorning her sleek neck she looked an epitome of beauty
The beauty of this beast
The beauty who was a ray of sacred light in the venomous dark life of the beast
And the beast had to reach his beauty
He made one more attempt to balance himself and take baby steps towards her and finally succeeded in balancing on his legs...
With shaky legs, he slowly began pacing towards her while she was clouded by the fear of the beast in him...
Various voices hit her ears intensifying her nervousness to peaks
"He had beaten his EX-WIFE like hell and sexually tortured her for his never-ending hunger towards a female species"
"He had no mercy towards his ex-wife"
"He is a cruel animal whose hunger has no bounds"
"He is a heavy drunkard"
"He is a drug addict"
"He is a molester"
"All he needs is a girl with open legs"
Those words felt like someone pouring hot lava into her ears...for a second she thought of cutting her ears to get rid of venomous words
She closed her ears and eyes to run away from those tormenting statements...
Her breathing went irregular causing her chest to vigorously heave up and down while her mind kept assaulting her heart
"Will he treat me the same??"
"Will he molest me??"
"Will he beat me??"
"Will he hurt me??"
She kept nodding her head in a no attempting to console her heart while the strong smell of alcohol filled her nostrils and realizing his presence so close her palms landed on his chest to stop him from moving even close
And the moment her palms felt his heart beating under his toned chest a sudden rush of security engulfed her...
This is what she had faced with this beast...
Whenever her hand was on his chest or to be precise whenever she was close to him she felt his heart being at peace...extreme peace
The ever so disturbed hell-like heart of this beast would attain peaceful heaven when his beauty was with him...
Though she was surrounded by a strong sense of protection her poor heart didn't dare to face him and didn't let her open her eyes to experience the beast in him and her eyes pressed even more tight...
She felt wetness on her cheeks as tears were already flooding out while a croaked voice reached her ears
"Sona"
His never-so-soft voice melted the cage of her shielded heart and she slowly opened her eyes only to see the soul beauty of this beast...
His deep oceanic orbs...
His deep pitch black orbs that were the door to his hidden soul speaking volumes of his unsaid emotions turned even dark
Peeking straight into his soul through his dark hypnotic orbs she was mesmerized by the magic of this beast for yet another time...
Some beasts do have beauty and he was the epitome of it
This beast had black magic that would drizzle the beauty of his soul on her heart and she would surrender herself to the magic of his black orbs
Their eyes had their own conversation conveying the hidden pain of their bruised hearts
Both the bruised hearts were in desperate search of a healer
But then he was a mystery to her
At times he was a beast...
At times he was a baby...
He was destroying himself but would not let her stop him
He needs her but would not let her hold him
The broken him needs her but he would not let her heal him
But then there is a beauty called LOVE...
And any beast must bend his knees in front of this beauty...
Because every beast needs beauty to heal him...
What happens when Arjun who has turned into a beast as the petals of his delicate rose-like heart kept shedding with every ugly incident of his life meets the real beauty Sona who not only finds the actual beauty out of the ugliest aspects but also turns every ugliest aspect into a beautiful one...
So will the beast who was once BROKEN WITHOUT YOU meet his beauty and turn into a Prince confessing his love as
HEALED BY YOU❤