“LOVE” TRIANGLE
Story of a Possessive Husband, an Unfaithful Wife and her Shrewd Lover
Adult Short Fiction – A Love Story
By
VIKRAM KARVE
“LOVE” TRIANGLE – Love Story by Vikram Karve
“Elope? You want us to elope?” I ask.
“Yes. That’s why I have got my bag with me,” she says.
“But where do you want to go?”
“Take me to your place. I will stay with you.”
“How can you stay with me? You are married to someone else.”
“I don’t care. I cannot live with my husband any longer. I am moving in with you.”
“You can’t just move in with me. I told you that. You also know that my parents are coming to spend a week with me in Pune.”
“But you have told your parents about me – haven’t you?”
“Yes.”
“And your parents have agreed …”
“Yes. They have agreed to meet you. But only after you divorce your husband. And let me make one thing quite clear. My parents are quite orthodox. They will never accept a ‘live-in relationship’. According to them – living together without being married is called ‘living in sin’...”
“What are you saying? ‘Living in sin’...? ‘Sin’...? That’s funny. If we have a love affair in secret it is okay. But if we live openly together it becomes sin.”
“Let’s not argue about this. You know that you will first have to divorce your husband before you can even think of marrying me.”
“He refused point blank. My husband told me that he will never give me a divorce.”
“You asked him?”
“Yes.”
“When?”
“This morning. Before he left for Mumbai.”
“Mumbai?”
“He is catching the afternoon flight to Singapore
“Singapore Singapore
“I did not know till late last night. He said he got a call yesterday evening. It is about some good job offer in Singapore
“Oh? So – he will be moving to Singapore
“Not he alone – we will be moving to Singapore – he said that I was to go along with him to Singapore
“But what about your job?”
“He said that he will arrange with my company to transfer me to our Singapore Singapore
“Of course your husband has big clout in the industry – he is quite a big shot. That is why I am so scared. If he finds out about us – he will have me thrown out my job. He will ruin my career.”
“So you have chickened out?”
“No.”
“Oh, yes – you have chickened out. You are not the same any more. What happened to all that talk about how much you love me – your promises that you would do anything for me. You have had your fun with me – and now when the time has come to do something – you want to run away from a commitment.”
“I am not running away from my commitment. I promise I will marry you. I will convince my parents. But first – you will have to divorce your husband. You talk to him. I am sure everything will work out.”
“Nothing is going to work out. Do you know what he said when I asked him for a divorce this morning?”
“What happened?”
“He blew up into a terrible rage. He told me that I would get divorce over his dead body. And then …”
“And then?”
“He brutally raped me. Like always. He is so rough with me, so brutal. He is a filthy pervert, a cruel sadist. Nowadays he gets rough, very rough, he tries to …” – she starts crying, and then, she sobs, and she says – “… he did it this morning too. It is so disgusting, so painful, so terrible – I think I am still bleeding down there even now. I cannot bear it any longer. His violent sadism is getting worse and worse. I cannot live with him for a single moment longer. If you don’t take me with you – the only way I can get out of this hell is to kill myself – I will commit suicide.”
“Please. Don’t cry. Let’s go to a doctor first.”
“I don’t want to to a doctor. It is very embarrassing. It is easier for me to suffer the pain than bear the shame.”
“Listen. I know a lady doctor. You can tell her everything. She is very nice and she won’t tell anybody. I will take the day off. You ring up your office too. We will go to the doctor now. And then I will take you home.”
“I can stay with you?”
“Till the evening. Then you can go and live with your folks for a few days. Meanwhile we will think of something.”
“Folks? I have no folks, no family – I am a bloody orphan.”
“Don’t say that. I know that your parents are divorced. But you are not an orphan.”
“I don’t even know where my father is – he left 20 years ago, when I was just 5 years old. And my mother – she got married to this horrible man – my so-called stepfather. Lecherous bastard. He always had his eyes on me. He tried to … he did … so many times. And he kept threatening me … that he would throw us out of the house … I could not tell anyone … no one would believe me. Outwardly – my stepfather looked like a respectable gentleman – just like my husband. Those days were terrible. I just hate him. I am still so scared of him. It is to escape from him that I got so hurriedly married to the first boy I saw. I never imagined I would land up in a worse situation. I jumped from the frying pan into the fire. Now you listen – I am telling you for the last time – we have to elope today – if you ditch me I will commit suicide.”
“Don’t say that. Something will work out. We will find some solution to the problem.”
“Solution...? There is no solution to my problem. My husband won’t give me a divorce. You won’t take me into your home till I am divorced. For me – it is a dead end.”
Suddenly – someone turns up the volume on the TV in the Coffee Shop.
They all look at the TV screen.
There is a “Breaking News”.
There has been a terrible accident on the Pune Mumbai Expressway.
They show visuals of a mangled car smashed into a truck.
The news-reporter is saying excitedly: “… the speeding taxi lost control, jumped over the road divider and crashed into an oncoming truck. The driver of the taxi miraculously escaped with injuries – but the passenger – a renowned Software Engineer – was killed – and he died instantly. The name of the Software Engineer who lost his life in the accident is …”
“Hey. See the TV. It is your husband. That is your husband’s name. Your husband died in the accident. Your husband is dead…” I say, stunned.
“Yes,” she says, looking at the TV – her face expressionless.
Then – she lovingly takes my hand in hers – and she says to me: “It looks like the knotty problem has untangled itself – yes – ‘Love Triangle’ solved – QED.”
VIKRAM KARVE
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This story is a work of fiction. Events, Places, Settings and Incidents narrated in the story are a figment of my imagination. The characters do not exist and are purely imaginary. Any resemblance to persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
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