You’ll force him into marrying me?’
If I have to.’
You know he won’t refuse you,’ Priyam said, looking straight at him. Abhi knew what she meant.
‘I won’t let that stop me,’ he said, after a long and painful pause. ‘I can’t let him leave you. I’ll stop him at any cost.’
‘And make Sid wretched and ashamed of himself? You’ll do no such thing, Abhi. I won’t let you.’
‘But, Priyam…’
Yes, Abhi,’ she said, wiping her face dry, ‘he can marry Tina if he wants to. I can bear that, I think. But I won’t suffer him to remain tied to me with a broken conscience. He can survive a broken heart, Abhi. He won’t survive broken self-esteem.’
Abhi stared at her, feeling helpless as he had never felt before. There was his little sister whose happiness he valued more than anything in the world. Now her w
