Tainted Love by Maniah (i love reading TXT) 📖

Indrani shook her head, her eyes full of angry determination, "I will not let some random girl and her son snatch the fruit of my 25 years of patience. His priority is Y&S petrochemicals and anything else has to wait."

 "Don't get involved in this Mrityunjay knows what to do, he will handle it. You just need to remind him that for whom he was fighting this war." Triveni advised her sister who nodded in affirmation.  "And it's time she comes back, Indrani."

Indrani Sehgal agreed, "Yes,  it's the right time to call her back."

In the meantime, Gayatri Sehgal reached Vani's home. She frowned at the place, disgusted with the surrounding area. She sighed and stepped out of the car, she came with one bodyguard, and her assistant or one could say the only person she trusted with her matters. 

Kareem rang the doorbell while the other man stood behind Gayatri Sehgal, who stood with her chin held high in pride. When no one opened the door, Kareem rang it again and they waited.

Vani jumped when she heard the doorbell, she gulped and glanced at the wall clock, midnight. She has been staring at the Prenuptial agreement in her hand for the past one hour. She kept thinking about Mrityunjay's words, he said to her before giving her the agreement. 

She shook her head in contempt at his words which had been ringing in her ears for the past four years. The words were carved in her memory which she wanted to erase but couldn't. 

A whore remains a whore, no matter how much respect you give her.

She took a long shuddering breath and threw the agreement on the table.  I will not marry you, Mrityunjay Sehgal, not in this lifetime. I won't step on my pride again. Not this time, My son and I are happy in our world and there is no place for you in it. 

She decided, wiping her tears. She completely forgot about the doorbell but she frowned when the doorbell rang again, for a moment fear engulfed her mind. The recent events had imprinted the bad memories on her, fisting her hand to gain courage, she picked the pepper spray and a small knife hid it in her dupatta (scarf ) as she walked forward and opened the door of her home. 

Vani's eyes widened and her breath stopped when she saw the person who had slapped her reality to her face for the first time while she was with Mrityunjay, she was shocked to see Gayatri Sehgal standing on her doorstep.

"What are you doing here?" She asked, not even caring about the rudeness in her words. She had suffered enough to give respect to people who didn't deserve that. But not anymore! 

Gayatri Sehgal raised her gaze and looked at Vani. Her face scrunched in disgust, "Watch your tone when you speak to me," she ordered Vani and sighed "I want to talk to you, get in." 

Vani fisted her hand, " But I do not want to talk to you, Mrs Sehgal. You may leave…" Vani said and tried to close the door but Kareem stopped her. He held the door and forced the door open, Vani gasped at the sudden use of force, the small knife she was holding in her hand fell on the floor. Kareem eyed the knife, the other man snatched it before Vani could pick it up while Kareem snatched the paper spray from her hand. 

Vani's heart was beating fast in fear, "I wasted twenty-four hours of my life on a girl like you and you are giving me attitude. Now, because I don't want to waste any more of my time, listen to me carefully you filthy whore. You will stay away from my Grandson. I have handled many low-class gold-digging whores like you in the past. Here, take it." Gayatri Sehgal said, showing Vani a cheque. A blank cheque!

Vani looked at the Cheque in Gayatri Sehgal's hand.

"Fill your price in it," Gayatri Sehgal said in her aristocratic voice. "Girls like you have a price for everything, so fill your amount and get the hell away from my Grandson and My Great-Grandson's life."

Vani's eyes widened in horror when Gayatri Sehgal mentioned Granth. Now it was not about Mrityunjay only, it was about Granth. Her son! 

Gayatri Sehgal's eyes went to the folder on the table, she recognised the initials of SGC's lawyer and picked the folder, when she opened and read it her eyes burned in anger.

"So, you finally succeed in your plan to trap Mrityunjay and for that, you give birth to a child who has the Sehgal family's blood in his veins. But you forgot who is standing in your way. Mrityunjay's son is our blood, he is our legacy. In a way, you gave me what I always wanted." Her eyes went to a picture on the fireplace, a picture of Granth. 

Gayatri felt as if her son Yash had come back to life. Granth had the same eyes her son once had.  Now her determination to have Granth increased a million times more. 

Vani was silently listening to Gayatri Sehgal. Her mind was almost frozen. She wanted to tell the woman where she could take her money and cheque but something stopped her from doing so. Her intuition told her to listen to the woman, there was something cruel in her eyes. Something she couldn't put her finger to. 

"Here, take this cheque and leave from here. I will raise my Great grandson like a Sehgal should be raised. Without your dirty shadow on him. Useless Whore!" Gayatri Sehgal said looking at Vani disgustingly. 

Vani had enough, "please leave from here and take your filthy money with you as well. I don't want to do anything with your Grandson. Just leave me and my son alone. No one has any right over my son, not Mrityunjay and Certainly not you Mrs Sehgal." 

Gayatri Sehgal glared at Vani, "You worthless whore, You think I would let you steal my legacy from me. Now listen to me because I won't repeat it, you disgraceful creature, you have two options. First, take this money and leave Mrityunjay and my Great Grandson forever or, I will make you leave them alone, Permanently,"  Gayatri Sehgal let out in a malicious tone. She gripped Vani's Jaw in a painful grip.