Page 133 of Lawfully Yours
“So now what?” she asked. “What happensifI ask you to choose? If I tell you that you can only haveone. Me… or Verma & Associates. What would you pick, Kushal?”
That was it.
That’s when he lost his remaining cool.
He stared at her, stunned for a second, like he didn’t know whether to laugh or scream.
“You want me to choose?” he muttered, stepping back completely, arms dropping to his sides. “After everything I’ve done to prove how much I regret losing you, how much I still want us, you still ask me to choose?”
He laughed bitterly, eyes burning. “You know what? I’m done.”
Her breath caught, but she said nothing.
“Afterthis… I am seriously done.”
He stepped back.
“I’ve put my pride aside, my self-respect, hell, even my damn logic. I’ve tried, Aru. But if you’re not even willing tofightfor this… if I’m the only one still bleeding to make this work…”
He took a step closer to her again before venting out. “Then f*ck this. F*ck Verma & Associates. And f*ck this marriage. Now, I don’t give a damn about both.”
He picked up the papers from the floor. Held them up one last time.
“You want a divorce? You’ll get it.”
And with that, he walked out. Leaving behind only the sound of her breath and a silence that neither law nor love could put into words.
Chapter 24
Verma & Associates Office
Arundhati froze as Kushal stormed out of the library, his footsteps vanishing down the hallway like the tail end of a storm, but his last words still thundered in her head, deafening and brutal.
“You want a divorce? You’ll get it.”
She stumbled, her back colliding with the edge of a metal rack. A few books crashed to the ground around her, but she was too dazed to notice. Her fingers gripped the shelf behind for support as her vision instantly blurred.
Tears welled up in her eyes.
One sentence after another echoed through her head, all spoken minutes ago by the man who hadn’t just walked out of the room, but this time had even agreed to walk out of her life for good.
“Kamya and I? There was nothing.”
“There were no rings, no proposal. Not even intimacy.”
“I was already in love with you, Aru, long before I even realised it.”
“I love you.”
A violent tremor passed through her body as she recalled the last words he said before leaving…
“After this… I am seriously done.”
“F*ck Verma & Associates. And f*ck this marriage. Now, I don’t give a damn about both.”
“You want a divorce? You’ll get it.”
Her balance faltered, and she had to clutch the rack again to keep from collapsing.
