With passing days Freya became psychologically weaker. Tony warned Eden not to beat his daughter and if he does he would go the cops and file charges against him. But Eden cared a shit about Tony's warnings.

On the contrary his abuse upon Freya increased. One day he brought his cousin home and coerced  Freya for the threesome copulation. When Freya disagreed she was beaten black and blue by Eden.

Since the day after her work Freya used to go secretly to the bar and have a drink or two. Coming home she was almost sedated, forgot everything about her distressed life and dropped to slumber.

The abuse by Eden only increased with the days and Freya depended more on numbing her feelings to sedation.  She got into drugs too.

One day Eden came home drunk without a whore beside him. He saw Freya doing drugs and went wild upon her. Freya was already high. She pushed him away from her violently and Eden was startled by the action. His brother Daniel accompanied him home and both of them began to force themselves on her.

Freya by then was sloshed. Rushing to the fridge she shattered the wine bottle and pierced it into the middle of Eden. He tried to move his wounded body to attack her but Freya was faster. She pierced once again inside him.

Eden went dead on the spot and Daniel sprinted to her in an attempt to immobilize her but Freya had a mark of drugs on her. When she was about to kill him too, he fled from the house

For a moment Freya became motionless. Her mind clogged seeing her husband bleed on the ground. She faltered on her steps in her drunken state and began to shake Eden but he was dead long ago.

With shivering hands Freya took the telephone and dialed her dad. She informed Tony about everything.

He hurried to the spot. It was then he noted the cataclysmic state of Freya. The ritualistic and obedient daughter of Tony Stiller who doesn't even raise her eyes to see a male, now goes to the bar everyday drinking with different men around and is also a drug addict.

Who knows what more she did with those men?

Tony felt culpable of himself for his daughter's doomed fate. He was the one who destroyed her life by pulling her into the shammed wedlock she did not want to brace.

He held Freya to his chest and silently took the bottle away from her which was still resting in her hands. Tony marked his finger prints on it against his daughter's to save her from prosecution and other possible legal procedure.

If she is destined to stay behind the bars for murdering her husband who was her abuser then Tony better take the crime on his head. After all she suffered all this because of his cretinous decision.

Freya was too besotted under the influence of alcohol that she couldn't note the taciturned actions of her father in saving her.

He placed the bottle on the floor beside the lifeless form of Eden and carried Freya to his car.

"Linda, be Freya's mother for once in her lifetime. She had served you her entire life from performing household duties to being the bread winner. But today she needs you." Tony requested his wife as soon as he went home with his fuddled daughter.

Linda snorted with a scorn on her face. Unmindful of her rigidity Tony continued. "I want her back in her senses right now." He stressed his last two words to Linda. "She drank too much. Give her a shower and help her speak to me sober as early as possible."

Tony sat on the sofa leaning forward with his head resting in his hands. Guessing by the tired stature of her husband Linda knew better not to argue with him.

Unlovingly she dragged Freya into the washroom and dumped a bucket of cold water on her head followed by a coldest shower running directly on her head.

Freya shivered and sneezed, finally opened her eyes to see her stepmother Linda. "You bloody bitch. You spit upon me from your sneezes?"  Linda shouted.

Freya shivered more with the cold breeze coming from the window on the late winter night. "Why am I here?" She trembled in her tone while chattering her teeth followed by another series of sneezes.

Linda threw a towel upon her and replied disinterestedly not even sparing her a glance."Who knows?" 

"Where is Eden?" Freya asked her still shuddering with cold. Linda remains unspoken. She simply pulls her to the bed like she was some commodity and throws a shirt and night pants upon her to dress.

Dressed in a fresh night wear Freya towel dried her hair and came out to meet her dad. "Dad where is Eden? Who brought me here? I do not remember anything." Freya panicked.

Linda was standing at the corner of the room listening to their conversation. Tony glared at his wife sending her a silent message to give them privacy but Linda was a shameless and stubborn witch.

Having no option, Tony took Freya out to speak. When she started quivering he pulled her into the car and switched on the car air-conditioning for warmth.

He hugged Freya and asked her tenderly. "Princess you were always my pride. My daughter was invariably ethical and religious. Why did you tune yourself to self-destruction?"

"Dad?" Freya asked him alarmed. Tony was already dying of self-reproach. He was the one who was responsible for destruction of Freya's life. He nodded shamefully. "I know about everything princess. You are now an alcoholic and drug addict too when you did not know the taste of alcohol till a few months ago."

"Daddy" Freya broke to sobs in his arms. "Eden is not the same man I got wedded. He now beats me everyday and molests me whenever he wants."

"I know...I know princess.." Tony patted her back to console.