Chapter 188 - Threatened (2/2)

'Pretend to be okay, Innaya. Pretend to be okay. For how many more hours would she be here anyway? Two? Maximum, four. That's about it. Then she is out of your home and your and your husband's space.' I mentally chanted, pulling a fake smile on my lips.

”Oh damn.”

The silence was once again broken by her.

”What's wrong?” Eshan asked. He looked so sincerely worried that for a second, it filled me with jealousy. I had nothing to justify myself for it but all it did was make me feel jealous. Period.

”My hotel booking got canceled. They are saying they have some issues so they aren't allowing anyone today. Damn it.”

And, all of a sudden, I was finding it awfully similar to a daily soap scene. The villain woman finding cliché ways to stay with the man she loved.

The man she loved? What the heck was I even thinking? She did not love Eshan. I tried pacifying myself. But why couldn't she? Eshan was so good that anyone could fall for him.

”What is there to get worked up over? You can stay here with us.”

”Really? I mean, no. I can't. I don't want to disturb, you people.”

”It's no disturbance.” Eshan looked at me for my confirmation and I had to nod. Did I have the option of getting up and telling her that no, I was not okay with her staying with us?

”That's it, then. You are staying with us.”

The moment he uttered that… the moment they shared a high-five… the moment she excitedly jumped on to him and he held her in a hug… the moment... he brought his best smile for her... was the moment… I felt threatened. I knew I was being ridiculous, but I felt threatened.

Sitting there was becoming difficult. I quietly got up with my plate and moved to the kitchen. Eshan didn't even bother stopping me. Had we really grown this distant?

I failed to contain my tears in my eyes. Why life had to turn this way? We were so happy. How things changed so drastically?

I did not understand what the arrival of Ayesha was going to do to our relationship. I could already see her claws pointed out towards Eshan. She wanted him.

And, Eshan, he did not seem to be noticing this. He did not seem to be noticing how cunning she was. He was smiling, talking freely to her.

I never wanted him to distance himself from his friends. But, she was not his friend. She wanted something else. She wanted a place in his heart. She wanted a place in his life. She wanted my position in his life.

How could he not notice it? He was not that naive, then was he doing it deliberately to punish me? Was he putting this front?

Then why did it hurt so much? Why did his ignorance was hurting me?

I never wanted stars from the sky, but his attention and love. Now, that his attention was not reserved only for me that I felt threatened. I did not know how to handle myself.

I could not stay there and watch them talking happily about the memories they shared. Ayesha had her unique way of connecting to Eshan. Their childhood memories. She knew his family as well. As for me after marriage, I had the least contact with my in-laws. So occasionally I heard them chatting about my in-laws, I could not help but feel more depressed.

In some ways, she was more close to him.

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