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Chapter 2: The Weight of Secrets - Nikitha Wife of Jay
The sharp echo of the slap still hung heavy in the air like the thunder outside.
Jay touched his burning cheek, eyes wide with shock and a flicker of anger.
“Fuck, Nikitha… that was too hard,” he muttered, wincing as he rubbed the red imprint of her fingers.
Nikitha stood her ground, breathing heavily. Her full breasts rose and fell rapidly beneath the thin black nighty, the silky fabric doing little to hide how worked up she was. Her eyes still blazed with raw emotion.
“Yes, it was hard,” she shot back, voice trembling. “Just like how hard it felt watching you drag Anjali into that storage room right in front of the entire floor… right in front of the new manager. Tharun is the manager now, Jay. What if someone escalates this? What if HR starts digging? Have you forgotten why we’re forced to live like this — hiding our marriage, pretending to be strangers every single day, stealing moments like thieves?”
Jay sighed deeply and sat on the edge of the bed, still wearing his crumpled office shirt. The rain continued to pour relentlessly outside, matching the storm inside their bedroom.
Nikitha’s fiery gaze softened just a little, but the pain lingered. She sat beside him, the short nighty riding high up her smooth thighs. For a long moment, silence stretched between them, broken only by the sound of rain. Then, memories flooded her mind, pulling her back to the day that had bound their fates together.
Three and a half years ago…
Nikitha had grown up hating the life forced upon her.
After her mother’s death, her father’s remarriage had turned their home into a prison. Her stepmother was vicious, daily taunts about her looks, her education, her “useless” existence. The woman constantly reminded her that she was a burden. The final blow came when they arranged her marriage to a wealthy, overweight man in his late 50s, someone who already had two grown children and wanted a young, “fertile” wife to look after him and his household.
The very thought made Nikitha’s skin crawl with disgust and rage. She pictured a lifetime of being nothing more than a caretaker, a trophy, and a baby-making machine for a man old enough to be her father. No love. No respect. No freedom. Just endless emotional torture disguised as marriage.
On the wedding day, dressed in a heavy silk saree and gold jewelry that felt like chains, Nikitha reached her breaking point. As the muhurtham time approached and relatives cheered, she slipped away, ran through the back corridors, and escaped the marriage hall. Her stepmother’s relatives chased her through the streets like a criminal. Heart pounding in terror, she ducked into a small, quiet temple for shelter.
There, behind a small shed near the temple’s back, she found Jay.
She instantly recognized him — her college senior whom she had quietly admired from afar. Jay sat dejectedly near the altar, holding a sacred thread, surrounded by a couple of his close friends. His face was a mask of pain and betrayal.
For several minutes, Nikitha hid and listened as Jay’s friends ranted about his situation. Jay had hated his own destiny just as fiercely. His maternal uncle had been pressuring him for years to marry his cousin — a domineering, narrow-minded girl who represented everything Jay despised: a lifetime trapped in a conservative joint family with zero personal freedom. Jay had tried to escape by planning a simple temple marriage with a girl he genuinely loved, but she had abandoned him at the last moment, choosing the “safer” arranged match her father forced upon her.
He felt broken, humiliated, and completely trapped. The thought of returning home and eventually being forced into that unwanted marriage filled him with suffocating dread.
When the chasing crowd reached the temple steps, shouting threats and demanding Nikitha be handed over, she had no choice. In pure panic, she ran to Jay, grabbed his hand tightly, and begged with tears streaming down her face:
“Please… save me. Don’t let them take me back. I can’t live that life. I’d rather die.”
The crowd, seeing her half-wedding attire and Jay holding the sacred thread, immediately assumed she was his secret lover who had run away to marry him.
One aggressive man from the crowd shouted, “She is supposed to marry my brother! Hand her over before we beat all of you!”
Tension exploded. Jay’s friends, thinking fast, saw a way to protect both of them.
They realised, Nikitha needed to be saved from them and Jay too need a quick solution to avoid his maternal uncle's daughter.
One of them shouted loudly, “She is with him! They’re getting married today!”
If you dare come near us..
In that moment of pure desperation, Nikitha looked into Jay’s eyes with surprising conviction and declared:
“Yes… he is my lover. I don’t want to marry that old man. Jay is my only life.”
Jay stared at her, stunned. But in her eyes, he saw the same burning hatred for the miserable future waiting for them — the same suffocating fear he felt. In that split second, they both understood: they could save each other.
The temple priest, the arriving Co ps (called by the old man’s family), and the chaotic situation pushed events forward. Amid the commotion, on that very day, Jay and Nikitha were married in a hurried but legally binding ceremony.
It was never meant to be real love. It was supposed to be a temporary escape — a mutual shield against the horrible futures they both despised.
But as they stood side by side, hands tied together with the sacred thread, something unexpected happened. For the first time in years, both of them felt a strange, deep sense of solace.
In each other’s eyes, they didn’t just see a partner in crime. They saw someone who truly understood their pain. Someone who had chosen rebellion over a miserable, suffocating life. In that moment, two broken souls found unexpected comfort in one another.
The sharp echo of the slap still hung heavy in the air like the thunder outside.
Jay touched his burning cheek, eyes wide with shock and a flicker of anger.
“Fuck, Nikitha… that was too hard,” he muttered, wincing as he rubbed the red imprint of her fingers.
Nikitha stood her ground, breathing heavily. Her full breasts rose and fell rapidly beneath the thin black nighty, the silky fabric doing little to hide how worked up she was. Her eyes still blazed with raw emotion.
“Yes, it was hard,” she shot back, voice trembling. “Just like how hard it felt watching you drag Anjali into that storage room right in front of the entire floor… right in front of the new manager. Tharun is the manager now, Jay. What if someone escalates this? What if HR starts digging? Have you forgotten why we’re forced to live like this — hiding our marriage, pretending to be strangers every single day, stealing moments like thieves?”
Jay sighed deeply and sat on the edge of the bed, still wearing his crumpled office shirt. The rain continued to pour relentlessly outside, matching the storm inside their bedroom.
Nikitha’s fiery gaze softened just a little, but the pain lingered. She sat beside him, the short nighty riding high up her smooth thighs. For a long moment, silence stretched between them, broken only by the sound of rain. Then, memories flooded her mind, pulling her back to the day that had bound their fates together.
Three and a half years ago…
Nikitha had grown up hating the life forced upon her.
After her mother’s death, her father’s remarriage had turned their home into a prison. Her stepmother was vicious, daily taunts about her looks, her education, her “useless” existence. The woman constantly reminded her that she was a burden. The final blow came when they arranged her marriage to a wealthy, overweight man in his late 50s, someone who already had two grown children and wanted a young, “fertile” wife to look after him and his household.
The very thought made Nikitha’s skin crawl with disgust and rage. She pictured a lifetime of being nothing more than a caretaker, a trophy, and a baby-making machine for a man old enough to be her father. No love. No respect. No freedom. Just endless emotional torture disguised as marriage.
On the wedding day, dressed in a heavy silk saree and gold jewelry that felt like chains, Nikitha reached her breaking point. As the muhurtham time approached and relatives cheered, she slipped away, ran through the back corridors, and escaped the marriage hall. Her stepmother’s relatives chased her through the streets like a criminal. Heart pounding in terror, she ducked into a small, quiet temple for shelter.
There, behind a small shed near the temple’s back, she found Jay.
She instantly recognized him — her college senior whom she had quietly admired from afar. Jay sat dejectedly near the altar, holding a sacred thread, surrounded by a couple of his close friends. His face was a mask of pain and betrayal.
For several minutes, Nikitha hid and listened as Jay’s friends ranted about his situation. Jay had hated his own destiny just as fiercely. His maternal uncle had been pressuring him for years to marry his cousin — a domineering, narrow-minded girl who represented everything Jay despised: a lifetime trapped in a conservative joint family with zero personal freedom. Jay had tried to escape by planning a simple temple marriage with a girl he genuinely loved, but she had abandoned him at the last moment, choosing the “safer” arranged match her father forced upon her.
He felt broken, humiliated, and completely trapped. The thought of returning home and eventually being forced into that unwanted marriage filled him with suffocating dread.
When the chasing crowd reached the temple steps, shouting threats and demanding Nikitha be handed over, she had no choice. In pure panic, she ran to Jay, grabbed his hand tightly, and begged with tears streaming down her face:
“Please… save me. Don’t let them take me back. I can’t live that life. I’d rather die.”
The crowd, seeing her half-wedding attire and Jay holding the sacred thread, immediately assumed she was his secret lover who had run away to marry him.
One aggressive man from the crowd shouted, “She is supposed to marry my brother! Hand her over before we beat all of you!”
Tension exploded. Jay’s friends, thinking fast, saw a way to protect both of them.
They realised, Nikitha needed to be saved from them and Jay too need a quick solution to avoid his maternal uncle's daughter.
One of them shouted loudly, “She is with him! They’re getting married today!”
If you dare come near us..
In that moment of pure desperation, Nikitha looked into Jay’s eyes with surprising conviction and declared:
“Yes… he is my lover. I don’t want to marry that old man. Jay is my only life.”
Jay stared at her, stunned. But in her eyes, he saw the same burning hatred for the miserable future waiting for them — the same suffocating fear he felt. In that split second, they both understood: they could save each other.
The temple priest, the arriving Co ps (called by the old man’s family), and the chaotic situation pushed events forward. Amid the commotion, on that very day, Jay and Nikitha were married in a hurried but legally binding ceremony.
It was never meant to be real love. It was supposed to be a temporary escape — a mutual shield against the horrible futures they both despised.
But as they stood side by side, hands tied together with the sacred thread, something unexpected happened. For the first time in years, both of them felt a strange, deep sense of solace.
In each other’s eyes, they didn’t just see a partner in crime. They saw someone who truly understood their pain. Someone who had chosen rebellion over a miserable, suffocating life. In that moment, two broken souls found unexpected comfort in one another.
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