Chapter 106

In the middle of the night, some madness came over me and I grabbed my phone and kept calling Aryan's number, not once but several times. The phone kept ringing but there was no response. I collapsed on my bed and cried with abandon, cursing my fate and hating myself for still caring for the man who had forgotten all about me. I woke up quite late and at first I hoped, quite childishly, that all that happened last night was a bad dream and I wouldn't be bundled off to marry a stranger, because I was a "burden" to my parents.

But reality crashed soon enough and I began to cry again. I checked my mobile desperately for any missed calls from Aryan, but of course there were none.

I kept myself almost locked up in my room the whole day and only spoke to Nargis Chachi who forced me to eat.

That night Vikram called me,