Torment-1

May 2011, India.

According to science, when a person looks at their new love, the neural circuits normally associated with social judgement are suppressed. This is what happens with women all around the world and is probably the reason why so many are betrayed, deceived, abandoned and divorced. Anya's mind reminded her of these lines as she held her stinging cheek and looked at the man standing in front of him with burning eyes. She couldn't believe it was the same Rahul that she met the first time, the same man who swept her off her feet or whatever that meant because none of it made sense now as everything was beginning to shatter right in front of her eyes. All the good aspects about Rahul that she had struggled to remind herself of, slowly disintegrated in front of the figure that stood before her. He wasn't the same man anymore, he looked different, far different from the Rahul she knew or she thought she knew.

" How dare you?" He screamed at the top of his voice. " How dare you s