𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝕮𝖗𝖎𝖒𝖘𝖔𝖓 𝕮𝖗𝖔𝖜𝖓.

19. 𝕻𝖗𝖔𝖌𝖗𝖊𝖘𝖘.

Progress.

Arjun ~

Siya who still hadn't let go of my hand was sleeping while I sat next to her. I could see dried up tears on her cheeks under the candles and her flushed face but unlike a few hours earlier, she had peace written all over her face as she slept and it was only my hand in hers which had stopped me from going back to those assholes and put a bullet in their already empty heads but I had a feeling that this woman, my wife, will not like that and so instead of thinking about them, I turned my eyes to look at her as she stirred a bit and shifted closer to me in her sleep, seeking comfort.

The minute my eyes had landed on her in my shirt this evening, I wanted nothing more than to just look at her and keep doing it for the rest of my life. Had it been upon me, I'd never let her wear anything else other than my clothes. The way it clenched to her waist and fell just below her mid-thigh left nothing at all and everything at the same time to my imagination and I couldn't help but smirk at the thought about her reaction if she finds out my utterly unholy thoughts about her, my little fireball.

I leaned back to rest my head on the headboard behind the bed and closed my eyes when I went back to her troubled face in the Queen's Courtyard as she ran over and threw her arms on me, clutching me as if her life depended on it and my heart raced like nobody's business. She was making me feel emotions nobody else ever had. Her every touch, physical or by way of words never failed to rise an unsaid feeling out of me, as if only she could unleash them and even surprising myself, I let her, despite the fact that I had decided not to let anyone affect me anymore.

" You will be the death of me Siya Arjun Singh Rajvanshi. You are delusional if you still think that I have it in me to let you go. I don't think I can breathe without you now, letting you go is out of any thought." I opened my eyes once again to look at her and a smile made it's way to my lips.

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The next morning, I woke up to Siya who was trying to take her hand out of mine and when I opened my eyes to find hers, her cheeks had a beautiful shade of red as she bit her lip and I decided to make the most of her embarrassed state.

" Trying to sneak away, are we Siya?" I asked, letting her know that I was up and she immediately looked at me, her eyes widening in the most adorable way.

" Why will I sneak away? Purely out of the goodness of my heart I was trying not to wake you up." She scrunched up her nose and threw me a dirty look, her cheeks still flushed.

" Why does this tell me a different story?" I asked, touching her cheeks with the back of my hand, tracing the hair lock which had made its way to her face before pushing it behind her ear.

" I need to go and get ready. Cockroach will be here to pick me up soon." She said, confusing me for a second before I realised that she was talking about Karan.

" Do you have to go?" The words slipped out before I could stop myself.

" Of course! We have been planning this trip for so long now and before I start with my internal exams, I need this break." She said as I let her hand go and she got up from the bed and I followed.

" Turn around." I asked her and she narrowed her eyes at me.

" What? No." Of course she would refuse.

" Turn around, Little Flower." I couldn't help but mock her.

" Why?" She shot back.

" Because I am asking you to." I could not tell her. I had been meaning to give the necklace to her yesterday and was had reached near the Courtyard for the same purpose when I heard her scream.