I stood under the hot spray of the shower, letting the water cascade over my shoulders and down my heavy breasts, trying to wash away the guilt that clung to me like a second skin.

Raghav had become relentless. Every day, multiple times, he cornered me—once in the morning before Yash woke, again in the afternoon while Kavya napped, and sometimes even at night when Yash stepped out for a call.