Adultery Priya Didi

[shailu4ever]

Thursday Morning: The Crack Beneath the Calm


The morning was too quiet.

Ravi sat on the edge of the bed in the spare bedroom

The pale slants of sunlight on the floor doing little to warm the heaviness inside him.

He hadn’t slept. Not really.


His eyes had closed, but his mind had been replaying that moment in the auto again and again.

Her silence afterward. The look she didn’t give him.

And the part that haunted him most?

He had felt her.

And for a second, she hadn't moved away.

That was the line.

He got up, pulled a T-shirt over his shoulders, and walked out.

The apartment was gently awake. Birds outside.

Pressure cooker whistling from the neighbor’s flat.

A distant bell ringing from a home pooja.

But inside their home, just the rhythmic clink of a spoon against ceramic.

He stepped into the kitchen.

She was there, back to him, gently stirring tea, her hair loosely pinned up,

Long earrings swaying just slightly.

She wore a soft beige top and dark blue track pants.



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