Trembling Shadows
A romantic, psychological thriller
Kotra Siva Rama Krishna
“We shall see whether you can be helpful or not if that Ratnam takes his father in the evening to us. I doubt he may not take him here. It seems to me that he is not very much interested in getting his father cured.” Rajesh said.
“You are right. I also felt in the same way.” Vinod said and nodded his head.
“Now we may better think of what is the best time to hypnotise you” Vinod said.
“Have you not forgotten about that?” Rajesh laughed. “Now itself.” he said. “I am not feeling sleepy at all. It appears difficult passing time if there is nothing like that” There were encouraging words around “We all finished our lunch too. You need not delay it any more” Aravind said.
“If you are all thinking like that I am double ready to do that” Vinod said. “Just move upstairs. Only the upstairs middle room we are using is the best place for this”
“Oh, dad. Don’t delay. Move fast. It is appearing so thrilling to me” Sameera said and she looked at Sunanda then and continued “You will be certainly with us. It is going to be your father’s great performance. As a daughter of him, you will feel quite proud at the end of it.”
“No.” Sunanda nodded her head in negation. “If it is in the upstairs middle room I would not come there at all. I have got that terrific dream in that room itself. I am feeling a lot disappointed but I cannot dare to come into that room again”
“Alright then. It is quite disappointing your absence to us too but we are helpless.” Saying so Sameera looked at Vinod and asked “Uncle cannot we do that in the downstairs?”
“Upstairs middle room is the best place to do this. I don’t want to change the location at all.” Vinod said firmly.
“Anand you must be with us” Aravind noticed the changed expression on the face of Anand. “We can get a very good time-pass.”
“Sorry brother, don’t think otherwise. I am as well wanted to stay downstairs. Sunanda has got a bad dream and she is feeling fear very much. I am thinking that it would be quite better if I stay with her”
His saying so puzzled all the people there and Malathi and Vinod really felt very much happy on hearing that. They exchanged their glances with smiles on their lips. It appeared strongly to them that someone was behind the change in their son in law. Who caused this type of a change in their son in law they could not know but they gave that unknown person their gratification in their hearts.
“I can understand you. But….” Aravind tried to say something more.
“Don’t think very much about us. If I want I shall get my uncle hypnotise someone else or myself later and enjoy. But at present I want to stay downstairs with my wife. That is all” Anand firmly said.
“He is right. Under the circumstances Sunanda must not be left all alone. Let him be company with her.” Tanuja said.
“Alright then. We are moving upstairs. Don’t think otherwise.” Aravind said and walked forward. While walking he fell in thought. He thought that he need to put lot of effort to make Anand love his wife. What miracle had happened he did not know but it had created lot of love and affection in Anand’s heart towards Sunanda.
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When Sunanda and Anand felt sure that all the others went upstairs they went into the room allotted to them. Then Anand hugged Sunanda strongly and kissed on her lips. The kiss was so that he almost crushed her mouth but she enjoyed the kiss offering herself more to him. She slightly opened her mouth inviting his tongue into her mouth and it slid into it. The metallic touch of her teeth, her lukewarm tongue and her juicy lips created an ecstasy in him.
It surprised Sunanda that her body was once again with burning desire. She has forgotten completely the pain she suffered in the hands of that paranormal creature
He had suddenly withdrawn from her and said with a feeble voice “Sunanda please forgive me”
There was lot of surprise on her face. She could not understand what he was talking. “Why do I forgive you? What mistake you did?” there was surprise in her voice.
“It appears silly, foolishness. I myself cannot understand what really caused this change in me. But I cannot live in peace until you forgive me.” He looked into her eyes without blinking and said. “You did wrongs. But I am not that much pure to blame you. I did grave wrongs in the past. Why I am telling this in this way I cannot understand. It is all like something strange urging me to say like this to you”
She was surprised and felt very much happy. She could not understand anything at all. It was indeed a new side of her husband. Unto that moment he was never a sorry saying type.
“My whole family is a rotten family. My sisters did wrongs. I have caught my mother doing wrong with a person other than my dad. How can I have a right to blame you?” he did not know but tears were flowing down on his cheeks.
“Anand, please don’t weep” she wiped his tears and hugged him strongly. “It is the biggest weakness of the humankind and it need to be understood. Just don’t try to talk anything more.” She slowly led him on to the mat there and made him lie on his back. He was acting just like a doll in her hands.
“I should not have tortured you in such a way because of your affairs with boys before our marriage. It is wrong but not at all an unpardonable wrong. I blackmailed my sister’s friend and raped her. Because of me she committed suicide. I have no right to punish you”
Sunanda shocked and looked into his eyes. “Is it is true?” she asked. “A woman committed suicide because of you?” there was anger in her voice.
“Yes’ he explained what he did to her. “If you want to hate me hate. Want to punish me, punish. I deserve that” there were tears again on his cheeks.
“My God!” Sunanda taken him near and hugged him. “You must have to be punished. I must have to hate you. You have caused a woman’s death.” She paused a moment and said. “But now I am seeing real change in you. There is sorrow in your face. If you did not tell me, I could know nothing of this. If you have not really changed, you would not have said any of this”
“What should I do now?” he asked her. “What should I do to get rid of my burden? I cannot bear this guilty feeling. What must I do?” he fervently asked.
“Love me. Love me as much as you can do. Only that love provides the solution. Except that there is nothing to say or do now.” Kissing on his lips again she said.
This time her kiss did not go in vain. It was such a smooth kiss on his lips he savoured the rubbery touch of her lips and there was an instance response in him. He hugged her more strongly and started kissing on her whole face.
After that how long that sexual act last neither of them knew. But by the time he was finished with her, his body was full of sweat and she was almost in swooning condition. He separated his naked body from her and moved a little away. There was no movement in her. Every time after the act, there used to be some disgust in him. But this time there was no such feeling. There was satisfaction, full satisfaction as he did something great. Because it was the first time in the last six months that he did sex with his wife with love and affection.
He slowly got up and adjusted his dress. Sunanda changed herself from this side to that side but she did not bother to adjust her dressing. Her youthful parts were still available to look at under her disarrayed dressing. She was still under the delirium of what she had undergone until then. Her mouth fully dried and she was trying to make her lips wet with her tongue.
“May I bring some water for you?’ went near to her Anand asked. He thought that she was feeling thirsty seeing her wetting her lips with the tip of her tongue.
“No, but please be with me. That is enough” dragging him near to her holding his right arm with her right hand she said. He obliged and lied beside her again and taken her into him but smoothly this time.
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After entering into the upstairs middle room they were all engaged into talking almost forgetting why they had come into it. As they were talking like that Anand and Sunanda finished their job downstairs, spent sometime there and came into the upstairs room.
“Oh! You too have come!” Vinod happily said. “I feared that I may miss showing my great talent to my daughter and son in law.”
“So, you did not start it yet. I am so happy that I too can see everything.” Anand said.
“Dad. Start it fast. Don’t waste any more time.” Sunanda said.
“What about your feeling fear in this room? You said….” Vinod tried to say something more.
“Now I am not feeling fear like that to this room. Please start your hypnotism without much delay.” Sunanda said with fresh enthusiasm in her face.
“Alright. Alright.” Vinod nodded his head. Looking at his daughter’s face so, Vinod felt very much happy and the expression in his son-in-law’s face also was amicable then. Then he looked into Malathi’s face and there was a happy expression in her face also.
“What we are going to do now?’ confusingly looking around Rajesh asked.
“First be comfortable yourself in this chair.” Showing him a chair Vinod said.
“I think it would be a lot easier to hypnotise me if I lay myself on the bed. It may be a little uncomfortable in the chair.” looking at the chair Rajesh said.
“If you lay on the bed you will fall asleep very easily. If it is in the chair the possibility of falling asleep is quite little. So please don’t waste much time. Be seated yourself in that chair.” Vinod said.
“Alright then” Rajesh went near to the chair shown by Vinod and slumped himself into that. “Now start, I cannot wait longer”
“Don’t think that it can be done in haste. Patience is the important thing in it just like in so many other things. We are going to experiment in such a way that no hypnotist might have tried until now.” He paused a moment and said “Under hypnosis I shall take you more than fifty years back, into your childhood and make you remember what you have heard on that particular day then. Very carefully we have to perform it and your utmost co-operation is necessary here”
“As much co-operation as you want I shall extend. But it is difficult to me to sit in this chair like this for more than one hour or so. So you have to complete all this in one hour time” Rajesh said.
“Rajesh don’t put any time limits to it. If it takes time let it takes. What all we want is to see whether it would work or not.” Tanuja said. In fact she was not liking it much. But since all the others there were enjoying it she did not want to damp their spirits.
“As it is not you need to sit like this you are talking like that.” Rajesh angrily said.
“If it were me who need to recollect the matters going back into the past for fifty years or little more, I would have very happily agreed to whatever Vinod said” Tanuja said.
(I hope that you enjoyed upto here. I shall publish the next chapter as soon as possible. Please don’t forget to rate and review.)
