Page 16 of Twisted Deceit
He didn’t respond immediately. “As per last week's legal marriage, I’m your husband.”
His response only triggered her. “You are a cheat and a fraud.” She was livid.
Something sparked in his eyes, but he stayed rooted to his spot. He did not react or respond to her words.
“You-you deceived me into this marriage.” Her eyes flared.
The intensity in his eyes softened as a smile appeared on his handsome face. “Remind yourself who proposed this marriage, wife.”
“You set me up and…” she lost her words as her anger peaked, remembering how much she had put in to convince him to marry her, unaware of his identity.
“You are a liar and a cheat.” She wanted to scream. “Why am I surprised? You are a Thakvar.”
His eyes narrowed as his hand made it into her hair. “Take it back.”
“No. I won’t.” She met his glare even as his fingers tightened in her hair.
“Take. It. Back.” His words made her shiver as a sliver of fear passed through her. Confident she was safe in her home, she tilted her chin up, boldly looking into his eyes, and shook her head.
“No.” She was pissed and felt like a fool to have believed him in such a short time.
Just from how he looked at her and his fingers fisted, she knew he was livid, but she would not let him intimidate her. He glared at her for a long moment. “The next time, if you want to callmea cheater, you’ll have to explain the contract to your aunt.”
He was blackmailing her, and that made her body shiver. She could not let her aunt find out about the charade. “My aunt will support me, no matter what.” It was the truth, but she knew she would bring her aunt a lot of sadness when she found out she had lied. She could never put her aunt through that. “I’m an heiress to the Kanwar clan and have rights. My word is all it takes to annul this marriage.”
“Really? And then what do you think would happen?” He sounded too calm and it angered her further.
Not willing to let him break her spirit. “My aunt will get the marriage annulled. I will tell her I was deceived into this marriage.”
The smirk on his face made a strange sensation ripple through her. “I dare you to. Tonight.” He took a step closer, lowered his voice, and added, “And you’ll need to do it before we consummate our marriage, and then, there is no possibility of annulment, is there, Mrs. Nakul Thakvar.”
She was taken aback that he knew the rules of the land. “Yes, I will do it right after.”
“And?” His tone was so calm, and all she could think about was to reach out and slap the smirk off his stunning face. “What do you plan to do?”
“Why do you care what I do after?” she snapped.
“Because,” he ran his eyes over her face and added, “I intend to exercise the contract the moment you leave the Singoor region.”
“No.” She shook her head. “I made a contract with Nakul Thakur, who clearly doesn’t exist. You cannot hold that over my head. That contract is void.”
“Are you sure about that?” The confidence in his voice somewhat stumped her.
“Yes,” she said, confident about the contract that she meticulously wrote. “The contract is no good, and neither is the legal marriage because it was all set up with a Thakur, not a Thakvar.” He remained silent as she glared at him.
“I never told you my last name was Thakur.” His tone was ice cold, sending a shiver down her spine. She ignored his comment and reached for the contract document from inside her computer bag. Because she swore she saw the last name as Thakur when she reviewed it.
“Who told you my last name was Thakur?” He insisted, and she could not remember why she thought his last name was Thakur. She could not have made that up unless someone told her.
She blinked when she saw the name on the contract. Her stomach dropped, and she felt dizzy when she realized she had a legally binding agreement with a Thakvar. She slowly looked up at him only to find him looking at her, one end of his twisted. He looked like he was drinking in her misery and enjoying every bit of it.
She could not believe that she was legally married to a Thakvar, with a contract she wrote. She walked right into a trap he set up.
“How could you do this to me?” her voice shook. “I don’t want to be your wife. Not now, not ever.”
He raised a curious eyebrow. “Are you planning to get into a legal battle with me?”
She shook her head and looked at him in silence. She had barely processed the fact that she was tricked into marrying a Thakvar heir. And to find out she had no way out of it, even if she got an annulment in the region. Her only choice was to come clean with her aunt to break the marriage, then be stuck in the region and eventually marry another heir that came along.
