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' I am very SORRY '
                  - Siddarth

Those words were repeatedly running inside my mind because I couldn't decipher the fact that what he was actually trying to say through those words.

Was he heartedly meant what he had written on that piece of paper, or was he playing any game by hiding behind those syllables?

" What's running on my wife's mind?" Karthik slouched down on the sofa, beside me holding a beer tin and a packet of chips. Placing them on the coffee table, he started to change the channels on TV.

" Nothing." I'm still confused about whether to tell this note thing to Karthik or not.

Because I was not sure how he would react, and I didn't want him to end up in jail doing something wrong.

After that, there were no words shared between us, and he had a beer watching some football match while I was nagging about today's incident.

Around eleven, he was still watching the game, so I thought to call it a night since I was not interested in watching TV anymore and got up to leave for the bedroom.

" Where are you going?" Karthik asked suddenly like he woke up from the daze when all this time, he was mute and ignored my presence.

Oh.. This guy...I was exhausted mentally and physically...

" I am going to sleep ... Good night, Karthik!" Avoiding his nuisance behaviour, I took steps towards the room door.

I was yanked suddenly and fell into his lap.

What the hell!

" Karthik...." Before I could proceed with anything, I was turned into my stomach on his lap, and my butt cheeks met with a hard slap.

" Ahhhh.... Kar..Karthik, what are ..." Another spank cut off my words...

" When are you going to tell me that bastard Siddarth came to meet you today?" He gave me another spank.

Siddarth? How did he know about that?

' thud' another spank.

"Are you trying to save that fucker from me?" This time, his voice seemed cold and gave me another two firm spanks which stung painfully.

With that, I heard him tearing my panty, and suddenly I felt the intrusion of his fingers in my now semi-wet womanhood due to his spanks.

" Ahmmm." his fingers started to move faster, and my inner walls clenched around his fingers in immense pleasure with a little pain, which didn't matter at the moment.

" Fuck, your walls are sucking my fingers, Kayal." Like that in a few seconds, I came undone while he was fingering through my orgasm and I shivered due to the intensity of his speed.

"Hmmm... you taste more than my beer..." he moaned while I was trying to catch my breath. A shiver ran down my spine, hearing approval of his sinful comment, and my inner curled.

After the effect of a strong orgasm I couldn't stand up from his lap, so understanding my situation, Karthik brought me to our bed and placed me carefully.

Like nothing happened a few minutes before, he started to sleep hugging me by my side but I detached myself from him not caring about his displeasure mood and asked " How did you know about Siddarth's visit?"

He gave me a look and said, " My friend won't hide anything from me as my wife does." his words hit me hard, but that didn't stop me from questioning him.

Talking about his friend,  I requested that the jerk never disclose this matter to Karthik. But he had done the otherwise. I will deal with him tomorrow.

" He informed me about this matter because he was concerned about your safety.  Otherwise, he wouldn't have done it. So stop killing him inside your mind. ".saying he turned to the other side to sleep.

"Karthik, you can't sleep before answering my questions." I turned him by the shoulder.

" Okay, what do you want to know?"

"What else he said to you?"

He heaved a sigh before opening his mouth. " If it makes you relieved, Ryan informed the whole scenario, including Siddarth's note and what was written on it."

" So it was your reason to avoid me earlier?"

" I didn't want to avoid you for any reason, but I waited to see when you're going to enclose this matter, but unfortunately, it never occurred. " he sounded disappointed.

I heaved a sigh seeing his grumpy face. " Karthik, I didn't want to hide anything from you, but when it comes to Sidd...." he scowled at me, so I avoided mentioning that name. " ....that person, I'm afraid of your reactions.  Because I don't want you to get into trouble and make your family worry. "

He lifted his torso from the mattress and sat facing me " This is not about me Kayal; this is about your safety.  What if he had any bad intentions and would have hurt you? I don't have to say anything, but you know yourself how dangerous he is. Knowing him very well I didn't want to take any risk ." His voice lost its coldness and instead, I sensed the worriedness.

My heart melted understanding his concern and jumped into his lap to hug him tightly.

His hold tightened around me like I would be evaporated at any second if he loosened his grip on me. Through his actions, I could understand his emotions and a little amount of nervousness which he was trying hard not to show me like I was not showing mine.

" Karthik nothing will happen to me until you're here. So please don't worry unnecessarily. Ryan Anna was there at the bakery when Siddarth came. So he would have killed him if Siddarth had pulled any stunt.

Also, I don't think hereafter Siddarth will be a threat to us in future.  Maybe he could have changed or cured already. " I said raking my fingers through his hair and running my other hand on his bare shoulder to relax his tightened muscles.

It was so hard to see Karthik like this and I didn't want him to feel helpless in my matter. Also, it was so overwhelming to see someone love me unconditionally like this.

Holding his face I started to kiss his forehead, cheeks,  eyes, and nose next pressed a small kiss on his lips before descending my lips to his neck. Slowly I raked my fingers over his broad shoulders while my lips gradually rolled down to his chest sensually.

Karthik's breathing turned out irrational and his hold tightened around my wide waist.

' Kayal...' he groaned my name like he was warning about the repercussions of my actions and I felt his junior getting excited under my touch. Anyway, I was so adamant to unleash his beast at any cost though I wouldn't mind about me getting devoured by my beast.

Adrenaline rush seeped through me when unexpectedly he threw me on our marital bed and discarded my night dress in one pull before tying my hands on the bedpost and said " Today I'm going to fuck your brain out until you forget your name and going to feel me deep inside even when you're walking on tomorrow."  With that, he sealed the promise with a deep and hard kiss.

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Karthik stood by his promise and proved to me that he was a keeper. Because the next day, unfortunately to my embarrassment I couldn't walk properly and still I could feel him inside even when I was working in the bakery.  My dear coworkers' frowning looks and doubtful gazes made me to lie them that I had a cramp in my thigh for that reason, I couldn't walk properly.

However, Abishek's reaction told me otherwise that he didn't believe my bullshit reason and he stood there with a stoic face while others went to mind their own business accepting my lie.

In the evening Abi stopped by the bakery to have some coffee on the way to her home and for better progress she included me in her time.

We both made a conversation, even if it was not anything like before at least we were trying to overcome our bitter memories.

Especially Abi.

I was very grateful for her kindness towards this disloyal friend...

Later evening when I was waiting outside for Karthik I felt like someone was watching me but when I searched around there were no gazes at me and everyone was busy with their work.

Was I getting delusional or what???

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A few weeks later...

Bending my neck I looked at the electronic weight machine and it showed that I had lost around 2.5 kg this month. A frustrated sigh left my mouth with the sickening thought of why I couldn't lose at least 5 kg with my yoga workout and cut down on some fast foods from my routine.

" We are on a good note. I'm happy for this progression... If we continue like this, gradually we'll get what you want." Karthik's cheerful voice resonated beside me and for a minute I looked at him with blank expression.

He must have read my mind, so quickly that he said " Kayal everyone has different types of body and health conditions.  So the ability to weight loss will change people to people according to that. But you have burned 2kg of weight successfully. So let's take baby steps.

Anyways now come on let's get ready for the outing. Already we're late." Losing my thoughts I left for our room to get ready for our long drive outing.

Since, nowadays we were not able to spend some quality time alone, on the weekend Karthik planned the long drive outing to get relief from our constant work stress and mental stress. Certainly, Karthik needed it for his long shifts and overnight work schedule.

Once getting ready we settled on Karthik's car with essential things and my husband didn't forget to carry the snack basket where I stored his favourite salted caramel cupcakes and fudgy chocolate-chip brownies, which I baked for our outing.

Karthik chose a route towards the hill countryside and I embraced his idea wholeheartedly. We started with exploring scenic routes, visiting local attractions along the way, taking breaks to stretch, enjoying nature views, planning to stop at interesting restaurants, and making sure to have a good playlist of music depending on our interests.

The long drive went into full swing without any ounce of stress and overthinking of the life events.

For lunch, we stopped at the small cosy restaurant and went with a simple menu since couldn't consume more food while driving.

Getting back to the road I noticed a red colour car from the restaurant also coming behind us. I thought maybe they were also going to the place on our route until I saw the same car following us even after a long time, also and it was not moving past us like other vehicles but following us at the same safe distance where we couldn't identify the face of the stranger.

When I looked at Karthik to notify the matter he was already looking at the same car from our front mirror knitting his eyebrows.

" Karthik.... that red car, behind us..." he cut my words off  " Yeah, I am too looking at that only..." he sounded serious and he increased the speed of our car to check the motion of the red car.

A worrisome and tension clouded inside of the car atmosphere when we noticed the red car also had increased its speed and following us as before.

Alerting, Karthik ignited the engine and increased the speed of our car to get rid of the stranger who was looming behind us. Following us the red car's speed also roared but the unexpected thing was eventually the car drew passing us and vanished into thin air like we were hallucinating the turning of events.

After a few minutes when Karthik confirmed the absence of the mysterious car from our eyesight, he reduced the speed of the car and parked it near a small tea stall.

In literally I could hear my heart thumping sound. " Kayal,  are you okay?"

But I couldn't reciprocate a reply since my mind was struck with what happened earlier and hastily I felt a clipped sound. Karthik hugged me and uttered some soothing words.

Finally, when we thought ready to get down we reached the stall and had some coffee to get relief from some stress.

" Don't stress yourself,  I think that might be harmless and we have mistaken it for they're following us."

"Karthik,  but it followed us more than a usual one...."

" That's right but what did happen at the end? It drew past us and now we're free. If it was someone with the motive to harm us, they might have tried something. But still, here we are safe and sound.  That car driver might had any different circumstances and that's what would have happened. " he said in a convincing tone yet I had some nagging feelings.

" I agree but still I couldn't shake the feeling that something is odd with that car." He smiled lightly and brushed his lips on my forehead before pressing it firmly as he was assuring my fear.

He's my haven that I can't stop holding on it.

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Karthik's POV...

Holy shit...

For a minute I thought to block that red car and pull out that asshole who was driving the car before showing the way to hell.

If only Kayal was not with me at that time I would have sent him to the hospital for scaring her like that.

Before I could take any drastic steps, for his good time that fucker flew away like he realised what was gonna happen to him if I caught him.

I just acted cool with Kayal since I didn't want to frighten her too. Already she had
gone through a lot.

I had to find out who was the owner of the car and was actually a threat to us. Because still, I couldn't believe that bastard Siddarth in spite of Kayal's thoughts.

I turned to see my wife who was sleeping, leaning to the car seat. Just looking at her, a smile bloomed on my face and I felt peaceful in her mere presence.

She was the light during my darkness.

She spreaded the fragrance when I rotted in the pool of mud.

She was the missing puzzle piece in my life until my mom demanded the promise on her last breath.

For a long time, I was lost in my own puzzle, struggling to find my place and purpose in life. I was searching for something to fill the void after my mother's demise and my love's separation, to make my life feel complete. 

I tried various things, from pursuing my passions to boxing, travelling, and studying hard but nothing seemed to fit. It wasn’t until I met her again that everything fell into place when she became mine.

Only mine...

Until Forever...

And I wouldn't hesitate to bury them under six feet if anyone try to lay a finger on my KAYAL...

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