Chapter-15
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Rita was telling the whole thing to Ravi.
"Richa and Rishabh never felt that we were not married at all. We kept this thing so secret. After I came to this house it was decided that we would get married in the temple.
But Harish refused to marry. After doing it, I was not been anywhere. He asking anyone to get married there. The children were not leaving me and how did I go to my house and why?
Dad also passed away during that time. God was going to take away all the happiness of my part from me slowly. God also vowed that he would not leave me till my end.
You only think what Ravi has got me till now? Neither my brother, nor my Mother, neither my father, nor husband, nor my own child nor my own will. What shall I do? What shall I do, Lord? I will go mad thinking this." Frustrated Rita started crying again.
For so long, Ravi sat silently asking, "So what did the family members of Harish uncle tell you?"
Hearing this, Rita said, "There was nothing easy in front of me. The one for whom I had left my house was now handicapped for me. When I told Harish about my problems, my grief, he said, What will society say? How will you stay with me without marriage?
Then I said comfortingly, I will be with you all my life, just give me this 'one pinch of vermilion' in my demand. I accept these children as my own I will keep you. I will accept you as my husband. Infidelity will not happen on my behalf.
I will not have my own children, what will happen to you, I will accept all of this. I will spend my whole life in your service, it will give a pinch of vermilion and my life. "
Rita was silent after saying this so Ravi was quietly listening to Rita's words very carefully and said, "What happened then, why are you silent?"
Seeing Ravi's eagerness, Rita again started to say, "But he refused to fill my demand. There was no other way left before me.
Either I would have stayed here or there was no option for me to commit suicide. If I had committed suicide, the world would have considered me weak. I chose the other way.
I told the Vermillion, placed in the temple of Goddess Ma, in front of Harish in my own hands, without telling anyone. All the family and relatives, I thought that Harish and I got married. At that time, Harish fell silent. Later he compromised on the circumstances. "
"Didn't you mind if you ever had a child? I mean that ... that. Ravi asked a little while giggling."
"Ravi, I understand what you mean. I have curbed my eagerness to make a physical connection and considering these children to be my own child, I did not let my mind fly in the air, I was satisfied.
Harish's children became my children and I became Harish's wife without getting married. All their things became mine at that time. I had become Harish's "Unmarried Wife" Richa and Rishabh's stepmother but "Unmarried Mother".
Rita comforted Ravi in a way and on the other side, she opened up all the truth between her and Harish to Ravi.
"I mean apart from this, you never felt like being young, living without a child? Has no one come to your life to decorate or live with your colorful dreams?" When Ravi asked again, Rita smilingly replied,
"You ask a lot of questions. I have already told that I have not yet made a place in this heart for anyone else. But one thing is that from my womb Also have a child, who can inherit my ancestral property. And my father wished that my family too could progress. "
"So you could have a baby in your womb with a test tube too. Now science has made so much progress." Ravi asked.
"You are right, Ravi, but at that time Richa and Rishabh were so young that so many years had passed while caring and serving them and when the same children grew up, it was not known.
A lot of time has passed. Now when I saw these people, I realized that I should have changed my way long ago. I had talked to Harish about this too, but he refused to give birth to a test tube.
I had given control of my own and his family's dignity in society, at that time. He did not want to get sperm transplanted either. Initially Harish realized that with me, It is being unfair, at that time once he told me that if you like someone, you can go with him and make a physical connection between someone.
But as his children got older, he started teasing me. But it became common to doubt, to guard me. After that, there used to be quarrels in the house the day after."
Rita put everything in front of Ravi about the relationships of her and Harish.
"If there was no justice, and you had supported this family for so many days, then they had a feeling, then why did they not marry you?
In a way, without marriage, He kept you as his mistresses. What is the use of a pinch of vermillion liars to fill in your demand?
The man for whom, the family for whom you sacrificed your life, do you think you deserve your equal for this? No.
Ravi counted Rita as Harish's shortcomings Granted.
"When Harish Uncle was feeling unjust about you, why did he not reveal the truth of you in front of his family?
Why did he hide the truth that he is not married to you for so long? Whether he is eligible or Not, if you were not, you would have got married to a boy yourself. Even if you are not ready, what happened? Would have forced you.
"But this person turned out to be a self-destructor, I am also a self-exterminator, every human being. But not so much."
Ravi was speaking and Rita was listening to him carefully and nodded with him.
Then Rita said, "You are absolutely right Ravi. I could understand the selfishness of this selfish person later. Realizing the helplessness of a human being, I sacrificed my life for him. But if I say something now, I will asking to stay in my status, the quarrel starts the fight. And Richa and Rishabh accompany him in this work."
Ravi was listening to Rita carefully and was nodding yes.
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