Ruthless (Revenge or Love?) (The Revenge Games Book 2) by MV Kasi

Author:MV Kasi [Kasi, MV]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-06-15T18:30:00+00:00

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Much later, after he satisfied her in ways only he could ever do, they lay next to each other facing one another. He held her hand, and slowly pulled it towards him to kiss her wrist.

“Can I ask you something?” he said.

“Sure.”

“Why did you try to kill yourself?” he asked, tracing the faint silver lines where she had slashed her wrist when she was young.

She had been too young. Maybe thirteen or fourteen, and she wasn’t into drugs at that time. So she tried to end her misery by doing a half-assed job of slashing her wrist. She didn’t try again because all she got was a long lecture from her aunt about how disappointed she was with her action, and that it was an extremely ungrateful act.

She contemplated whether to tell him the truth or not. Then she decided to answer him truthfully. “I was tired of feeling helpless due to my recurring nightmares and depression along with extreme paranoia. I tried to end it the only way I knew at that time.”

“Do you still feel that way?” he asked.

“Sometimes,” she replied honestly to him. “But I can control those thoughts and urges better than before. And now, with Anika and you in my life, I don’t feel the same kind of hopelessness as before.”

He squeezed her arm reassuringly.

They had been intimate in every possible way, but they still held a lot of secrets from one another. It wasn’t very fair, but she wanted him to bare all his secrets to her, even though she wasn’t willing to do the same with him.

“Can I ask you something?” she said.

“Anything,” he replied.

“Do you still blame me for your mother’s death?” she asked. She knew that for the longest time he did. And that feeling couldn’t have magically disappeared within a few months.

He was quiet for a couple of seconds before he answered. “No. I don’t blame you anymore,” he said.

“Why not? Even if I had been speaking the truth at that time, the primary reason for your mother’s death is still me.”

“No,” he said immediately. “The reason for my mother’s death was her own decision.”

There was anger in his voice as he said that. But she realized that the anger was not directed towards her. It was at his mother.

“Are you still angry with your mother for having taken that decision?” she asked softly.

His jaw was clenched tight, until she placed a comforting hand on his cheek.

“I know it’s stupid to be angry with her for so long, but I feel justified,” he said.

She didn’t say anything. She offered comfort through her silence and encouraged him to speak his heart.

“Unlike your parents, my mother left me by choice. She knew I had no one apart from her, but she left me all the same. She left me with nothing but this anger for her.”

“No, you rose above it, Ajay. You made your own relationships with people who are now your friends and family.”

The tension on his face slowly faded, until he smiled.

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