Episode : 19
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The next morning was extremely awkward to say the least. As usual, Indrani was the first to wake up. She noticed that her daughter had rolled off at some point during the night. But she was still sleeping peacefully by her husband’s side, snuggled up against his side to keep themselves warm.
She had hoped it had all been a bizarre dream, but seeing his naked daughter next to her husband where her husband was still sleeping with his head resting on their daughter’s chest, she had to face the realisation that it all really had happened.
They had been forced at gunpoint to do the unthinkable. Those bastards had forced them to do things to each other that no right-minded sophisticated family would ever consider. Her husband had been forced to have sex with their daughter, and she herself had been forced to have sex with the two antisocials.
Although they had come to rob their possessions, they ended up robbing them of so much more. Their lives would never be the same. Even then, she knew it. What had been done could never be undone. There was no going back to the way things were before. Her heart was broken and she felt sick to her stomach.
She rushed out of the bed and ran to the bathroom where she threw up as the details of the previous night replayed in her head. At last she flushed the toilet and washed her face in the sink. That’s when she heard her daughter shriek. “Oh my God! Daddy, get off of me!”
She shut off the water and rushed back into their bedroom to see her husband standing naked beside the bed. Their daughter had grabbed the sheets and covered herself. Everyone looked dazed and confused.
“Oh my God. Oh my God,” was all their daughter could say over and over again. She had a horrified look on her face as the memories of the previous night played through her head. The realisation of what had happened was almost too much for the young actress to take.
Indrani told her daughter to go to her room, get dressed and wait for her to come get them. She then asked her husband to wear clothes while she checked out the house to see what all had been stolen and make sure the house was secured.
To her shock, only their basement TV and computer were gone. The intruders must have just grabbed what they could carry of value and ran off. Otherwise, the house was just as it had been. If only the same could have been said about her family.
She headed back upstairs to their bedroom to see what her husband was doing. He had managed to get herself dressed and he seemed to have gotten over the initial shock. She began to tell him about the stolen items, but he cut her off.
“Get Nandini meet me in the kitchen. We all need to talk.” He said with a tone that made it clear that this wasn’t to be debated.
Saying that Nandan himself walked to his daughter’s door and hesitated as he reached for the door and thought about the incident. ‘Although I had cherished a dream for a long time about my daughter, but in practical I can’t believe it still now. How was I going to look my daughter in the face? I was so ashamed about what had happened the night before. It wasn’t so much what I had been forced to do that I was ashamed about, but rather it was the fact I had allowed myself to enjoy it so thoroughly and completely.’
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