Mafia's Vengeful Wife

Chapter 17

RUDRANEEL

One month passed by and I haven't seen Kiara since then. I kept my promise that no matter what happens, I will stay away from Kiara, I won't meet her or see her again but damn, this is so tough.

I have no idea why that girl has affected me so much and I keep thinking about her. Is it love? Am I in love with her? Is that even possible? No. This isn't possible, Rudraneel Rane can't fall in love.
I kept on thinking about Kiara and it gave me an empty feeling inside me.

"Stop staring at me, Avni," I scoffed as I could feel Avni's intense gaze at me.
"How do you know I am staring at you?" She asked, pissing me more.
"Come on. Won't I know?" I rolled my eyes.
"Yeah, yeah. Fine," she scoffed.

I looked at her as she got up and was getting dressed up. I took out a cigarette, lit it and started smoking while resting myself in the bed.

"Are you in love?"
Her sudden question shocked me as I looked at her.
"What?" I made a shocked expression.

"Yeah, are you in love, Kaal?" She asked again as she fixed her hairs.
"Why would you think that?" I asked her.
"Because I am noticing you for a month. You're indifferent," she responded.

What does she means that I am indifferent? And how am I indifferent? She walked towards me and sat beside me and looked into my eyes.

"I am noticing you. You look so lost that you have lost focus from our business. You seem worried and empty, and you're behaving weird," she spoke while looking straight into my eyes like she was peering into my soul.
"You're saying rubbish," I tried to shrug it off as turned the other side while smoking.

"Am I? What's her name, Kiara?" She asked with a serious face.
"No. I don't love her, in fact, she doesn't love me," I answered, as I looked away.

I don't know, but the moment I said that she doesn't love me, it pinched me bad. And I had to admit that it was painful.

"Then whom she loves?" Avni asked.
I looked at Avni, she looked really concerned about me, and that's why, I have to confine into her, or else I won't be able to take it anymore. She has been there for me for so long ko, she deserves to know.

"Her dead husband. She loves him way too much. As much as I have known about her, to date, she imagines her dead husband and talks to him and feels good about him. I see her smiling whenever she talks to herself and looking at her dead husband's picture and everything. Like, I have never seen someone love someone in that way even after that person is no more," I tell her as I thought about the moments I have seen Kiara doing that.

Yeah, I admit the fact that I have been keeping an eye on Kiara. I watch her from a distance whenever I find her alone. Whenever she sits in a park, looking at the photo album of her and her dead husband, talking to herself or maybe imagining the guy and talking. And to be honest, it makes me feel good that she is smiling but it makes me feel bad that I wish I could have been the reason for her smile, yet I couldn't. That pinched me more.

"You know, sometimes love is so simple and pure that it does make you think that is it even possible? That kind of pure and true love is rare to find. She loves that guy so much that she decides to be like that even after her husband's death," Avni tells me and I look at her.
"Yeah," I nodded.
"But this never means that she can't create someone else's space in her heart and fall in love once more. Maybe she can, she just needs time," she tapped my shoulders.

I looked at Avni, her words gave me a glimmer of hope. Can Kiara fall in love with me? Can she be mine? If yes, then how beautiful would it be. She would fall in love with me and we would have a happy future.