Chapter 23: chapter 23

Jogya was listening to her story with rapt attention as he did not want to miss out anything.He asked her,"So, what happened next? Why there is so much confusion in his mind about the father of your child when he was himself a part of the process!""He wants to torture me as he doesn't want to accept his mistakes. He started making plans for us when one day, I received a call from Jiten. I told Neelesh that I had some work at Jiten's place and I will return as soon as possible! I thought that since we were not married I could stay at Jiten's place till next morning," Jamuni told him."You didn't tell me the reason behind staying at Jiten's place when you were already in the process of patching up things and smoothing out the rough patches in your relationship with Neelesh," Jogya asked her inquisitively."You know Jogya, men are truly possessive about their women even more than women themselves but they never show their feelings of insecurity till someone succeeds in scratching up the calm surface of their projected image in front of others.Neelesh tried to be friendly and warm with me but he never said even a single word against Maya in front of me.Whenever we came closer, he would say her name instead of me because he truly loved her. I was his ex-wife and she was his dream woman and let me tell you one thing about men, that they worship their dream woman throughout their lives. There is one woman in every man's life, who never stays with him but makes him nostalgic whenever he remembers her or he is sad and feels lonely in this whole world. Men are like oceans of love in which salt of tears shed by them outweighs the sweet nectar of love they ever receive from their partners throughout their lives.Neelesh was also one of those kind, who remembered his ex-girlfriend with warmth and love but hated his ex-wife because she chose to leave him and did not turn a blind eye towards his affair with a married woman.When Jiten called me urgently to his place as he wanted to spend some precious moments with me then I first told him that I could not meet him as I was busy taking care of my ex-husband. He told me that his true love Megha had got married to a billionaire in a foreign country and he was sad and in pain due to his heartbreak and he threatened me that if I will not meet him then he will kill himself right now!I was too shocked to say anything. I asked him to take sometime and think properly before taking any drastic measure in his life.He was not ready to listen to me and he seemed to be very distressed as he loved me and didn't want to lose me to the man who was once my sworn enemy and I was the one who had asked Jiten to help me in getting divorce from Neelesh.I decided to meet him in person before telling him not to call me again!I went to see him, he was pacing the room like an injured lion. When we were together he pounced on me like a hungry predator. I asked him not to be violent but he didn't listen to me and made love to me forcefully against my wishes.I tried to make him understand that I wanted to give Neelesh one more chance to be a good partner if not a good husband by becoming a loving father of my future child.Jiten started crying after he realised that I was already in love with Neelesh. He told me that I never hated Neelesh and I had used him in settling scores with my ex-husband and his girlfriend Maya.He cursed me that I will never be loved by my ex-husband Neelesh as I had never loved Jiten from the bottom of my heart.I told him that I hated him because he behaved like an animal and I told him that I wish I was dead before I had decided to be his partner in love and life!After some months I received the news of his death due to cardiac arrest and I was told that during his last days he was physically unwell and suffered from amnesia and insomnia as if he was fighting with his own demons and had even stopped talking to his own friends.When I told Neelesh about Jiten's mental state which was disturbed as he was suffering from jealousy paranoia which resulted in a physical intimacy between both of us, he got angry and verbally abused me with cuss words.He told me that I was worse than Maya as she was at least with only two men in her life and was loyal to him but in my case the number went to three and I was not loyal to him in his eyes!" Jamuni shared her painful memories of her life with Jogya."It's horrible, dear! I can't imagine someone saying such things about his ex-wife when he was responsible for her fate. You should have told him to mind his own business as well as his own life before passing judgements on others!" Jogya was shocked as he felt like punching the face of Neelesh for saying such mean things to his Jamuni."Yes, Jog I was clueless about my future as I pleaded with him for not accusing me of cheating on my partner as it was hardly my fault and I only went there to help an old friend who had helped me earlier. I never thought that one thing would lead to another and he would become so jealous and possessive after coming to know that I was trying to patch things up with my ex-husband by helping him in recuperating from his illness. He didn't listen to me and when I got admitted to the hospital, he left me saying that he can't take responsibility of someone else's child!" Jamuni told him while crying her heart out.