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Mythili's POV ~

His punishments were exactly what he called them, punishments. He edged me all evening, kept me turned on and then refused to let me come. We cooked ourselves lunch and there, in the kitchen, he made love with me and I was so eager to let him that I can't even recognise myself anymore.

I wasn't always like this, was I?

Currently, I was thinking of getting ready to go for dinner and Shivaay was busy attending a call when my phone went off too.

" Hi Baba. How are you?" I asked him, picking up. It seemed like it had been so long since I had talked to him when in reality, I spoke to him just the day before.

" Mythili beta your parents came here sometime ago. They found out that you have found me and now they are going to file an FIR that you all have kept me captive against my wish. You need to do something." He told me with panic in his voice and I sighed.

I was just beginning to suspect that they had been quiet for a while.

" Baba please don't tell this to Shivaay and ask the others not to either. He already has a lot on his plate here. I don't want to give him any trouble. I am going to talk to one of my friends to deal with this and get a lawyer or something. Please baba?" I asked him but before he could reply, I heard another voice behind me.

" What is it that you do not want me to know Mythili?" He asked and I immediately closed my eyes shut.

Why does he have the worst timing everrr?

" Baba, I will call you back. Please ta...." I was just winding up when I felt the phone taken away from me.

" Baba? Are you okay?" I heard Shivaay ask him and I desperately tried to think of a lie but there was only a little part of the story I could frame before he was done talking to baba and now glaring at me and I looked away.

" I didn't want you to know about it right away Shivaay. I would have eventually told you. There's a lot you are dealing with right now and I am worried about you." I said, coming closer to him and keeping my hand on his right shoulder.

" Don't worry about me Mythili. I am fine. I cannot sidetrack my responsibilities to my family for work now, can I?" He asked as his eyes softened towards me and I sighed.

" I cannot not worry about you, husband. You clearly don't worry about yourself." I replied, trying to put some distance between us but he kept his hand on my hand which was still on his shoulder and pulled me into him even more.

" Stop trying to hide things from me Love." He said and then, in a jiffy, scooped me into his arms and I let a short yelp.

" Shivaay! what are you doing?" I asked as he started to walk out of the bedroom with me in his arms.

" Shivaay let me go and change. See, you're already dressed." I tried once again but he didn't put me back on my feet, instead, just carried me to the living room and placed me on the couch and then, he gave me a small peck before walking back inside the bedroom, leaving me sitting there shocked.

" Ummm what?" I looked around, completely confused before I made my way back to the room but found the door locked.

" Shivaay?" I knocked at the door a few times but he didn't open it.

" Shivaay? What is going on?" I asked again and this time, he replied.

" Give me sometime, love. I need to talk to our lawyers and sort this out." Was what he told me.

" But let me in too then!" I exclaimed, exasperated. He practically threw me out, politely!

" That is something I cannot do. The less you know, the better it is for you right now with your finals coming. I know the sort of over-thinker you are Mythili." Were his words exactly and I couldn't believe my ears! He was keeping me out of this.

" No Shivaay, I deserve to know. This is not fair!" I said, knocking again.

" I know that, Love but you'll just have to trust me here. At least for the next two months till you graduate." He replied and I sighed.

" I really don't want to talk to you." I almost shouted and then stormed back into the living room and switched the television on, playing Red, White and Royal Blue.

I was almost in the middle of the movie, eating that huge milk chocolate all by myself when I heard the bedroom door open but there was no chance in hell that I was going to pay absolutely any attention to him right now. He literally outcasted me like that.

" Get ready love. You must be hungry." He said, trying to get my attention but I didn't spare him any look and curled into the couch even further, glaring at the screen in front of me.

I heard him sigh and sit on the opposite end of the couch but I dared not to look at him.

Without a word, he gently took hold of my feet and, with surprising strength, slowly pulled me toward himself, pulling me on his lap and I kept both my palms on his shoulders, stabling myself.

" Leave me alone Mr. Rathore." I demanded, squirming under him but he had locked me with himself with him snaking his right hand around my waist and his other hand rubbing patterns at the small of my back.

" Never Mrs. Rathore." He said, burrowing his lips at the nape of my neck and then eventually moved to my earlobe, slightly biting it as a gasp escaped me and I tightened my hold on his shoulders.

" No no no. You cannot do this to me when I am so mad at you. This is so...." I moaned, I let a moan out in the middle of objecting to his touch and closed my eyes when he found the spot he was so desperately looking for, my sweet spot.

" You were saying, love?" He asked with such a smug voice before getting back to sucking on my neck that I was so temped to push him away and leave but damn he was good at making me feel good!

" Shivaay." I let my mind win once again but entwined my fingers in his soft locks of hair, pulling them unconsciously but squirmed again to get away.

" Mythili stop squirming under me if you don't feel like taking care of my situation once you are done straddling me." He stopped and then I looked at him, waiting for an explanation. What situation?

Then, as I felt something poke me down there, my eyes widened in realisation and I threw myself off him and back on my feet while Shivaay let out a silent groan and I turned, beet red.

I know we had technically done it all but it still didn't mean that his little touches and gestures did not have the same effect on me as earlier!

I cleared my throat and looked away from him and took a seat where I was sitting earlier, trying to ignore him once again but it was getting difficult for me, umm, considering his state.

" I am going to go and order pizza." I said, standing up after he did and making my way to the kitchen where I earlier saw some delivery menus.

" He pulled me on his lap. Not my fault." I muttered to myself as I was scanning the papers and then decided upon Margarita with mushrooms and onion since that was the only option for us in vegetarian and then called up to order. They said it would take then thirty minutes to get here.

" Mythili, let's get going for dinner. You haven't eaten well since last night." I heard Shivaay walk back to me and I rolled my eyes.

" Did you not listen when I said that I am going to order pizza?" I asked, turning my head and raised a brow at him.

" Love, the state you left me with, I was in no position to hear anything." He replied with such a straight face that I had to bite my lip to stop a laugh.

" You pulled me on your lap!" I denied to his accusing tone.

" You squirmed." He shot back, raising his brow.

" You weren't leaving me." I said, folding my arms.

" Because you didn't want to be left." He spat the truth out and I visibly gasped, trying to make himself and me believe the next set of words which were going to leave me.

" That's not true. I did ask you to leave me." I tried to copy his straight face.

" I would believe those words if you did believe them yourself." He replied with a slight smirk playing on his lips and my eyes widened before I just as immediately turned around to hide my blush and embarrassment from him.

Shivaay's POV -

My wife is the most incredible woman. Just as much made for me as I was, for her.

And yet, so blissfully unaware about every little hold she had on me.

In sheer pleasure when those three words left her mouth, I found it difficult to breathe and when I wanted to tell her that I love her with everything I have, I was interrupted.

My heart must have broken into a million pieces as I saw that vulnerability on her face when she assumed that I left her because she told me what I had been waiting to hear ever since I married her.

One of my principles were to save myself for my wife and Mythili was worth every bit and so much more. I'd willingly choose to remain celibate for another ten years if she wouldn't want me to touch her, not that I would let something like that happen between us.

She was my drug, every part of her existed to draw me to her and I was ever more happy to be drawn to her.

Every time she smiles for me, looks at me, then looks away when I find her looking, kisses me, blushes for me, hesitates to touch me, withers with pleasure under me, moans my name when she comes all over my cock, fingers and tongue and then hides her face in my chest, too shy to look at me is every time I fall in love a little more than I ever found myself capable of.

Just moments earlier when I pulled her on my lap and found her sensitive spot on her neck, she moaned for me, squirmed under me and gave me the hardest boner like a goddamn teenager and when she realised her effect on me with that look in her eye, I won the most difficult battle of control I have ever fought when I let her get away from my arms because she was mad at me.

I only found myself getting harder when her cheeks turned crimson red as she resisted the urge to look at me, look at my state which she had caused and then took the first opportunity to run away muttering something under her breath which I was too distracted to hear.

I took care of myself, thinking about earlier today, how Mythili felt on me and an unholy grunt feeling like my wife's name let itself out.

All I could think about was how she was one room away from me and I could fuck her there, on the couch or the kitchen counter or anywhere in the house and yet, couldn't.

" She is mad at me." I had to remind myself which caused me to calm my situation down.

She refused to go out for dinner when I later got back to the living room and she then had the comical audacity to argue with me about my boner which was just as arousing as it was surprising, coming from her and when I caught her lying, she turned herself away from me as I let a laugh out.

" Mythili, I am not trying to keep you away from anything but right now, my priority for you is that you concentrate on your finals without thinking of anything else. In face, once we return next week, you are going on a leave till your last exam. Why do you want to be burdened with something that I can easily take care of?" I tried to make her see my perspective, taking a seat next to her once again.

" But that's not how a marriage works Shivaay. We are partners and like partners, we have equal parts in each others problems. It's a fifty-fifty thing." She finally let it out before turning herself to face towards me, crossing her legs on the couch.

" No my love, that's never how a marriage works because it's not a deal, it's a relationship which requires so much more than just equal partnership. Do you find me asking you to let me be a part of every decision you make at home or your college?" I tried to ask her in the most patient words I could find.

She shook her head in a no.

" That is because I trust you to take care of it. I know you would do what is best for yourself, for me and for every other member of our home. Now all I ask of you is to let me fulfil my share of responsibility and care towards you and trust me when I take some decisions for us. Can you do that for me? Apart from this, you need to focus on your college right now. It's a crucial time for you." I asked her, hoping that she would understand.

" But Shivaay it's because of my parents that you are facing so much trouble. If it weren't for me....." She started and I found my finger on her lips, stopping her from finishing what she was going to say.

" There is no world will I let myself be without you Mrs. Rathore. Besides, when you can make my family as your own, why would you stop me from taking care of our problems? You are not someone separate my love, you are family." I took her hands in my own, kissing her knuckles and saw her closing her eyes.

" I know this now Shivaay but sometimes I just feel so burdened with the actions of my parents that I can't help but feel like a burden on you." She replied as tears escaped her eyes and once again, I found my heart clenching at my wife's sight.

Mythili's POV -

" Don't cry Mythili. It does something so mad to me when I see tears in your eyes." I heard Shivaay's voice and felt his fingers on my cheeks, wiping my tears away and found him pecking my forehead just a little, pulling me into his arms as I wrapped my arm around his torso.

" You won't let Baba go away from me? He's family." I heard myself pleading him.

" Never, love. He is family." He replied and his words sent soothing waves to me and his hand gently stroked my hair.

" I love you with all my heart and more." I confessed to him again in a slow voice and hummed.

" I would never get tired to listen these words from you Mythili." He said and I could hear a smile on his voice.

We sat like that for a while until the receiver went off with the information that the pizza was here.

" I'll get it." Shivaay said, getting up and I stood too, to grab some folks for us. I also ordered pasta.

" You promise to tell me if there is something I could help with?" I asked him in regard to my parents as I looked at him hopefully.

" I promise Mythili." He replied and I gave him a smile as he sat together to eat and I resumed the movie.

" Alex is so so hot." I sighed, taking the first bite of the pizza and all of a sudden, found Shivaay coughing for life while sipping on his soda.

" What happened?" I sat straight and rubbed his back to help him but he held my hands, his coughs almost stopping.

" Who is Alex?" He asked with a straight face and voice and this time, I let myself laugh my heart out, holding my stomach.

" Shivaay......are you jealous of Alex?" I asked in between my hysteria.

" I wouldn't laugh this much if I were you Mrs. Rathore." His eyes narrowed at me but the threat in his voice was nonexistent.

" I can't help it Mr. Rathore." I replied, dropping on the couch again and saw him picking the pizza box kept between us and keeping it on the table before dragging me to himself and placing his lips on mine, shutting me up and just as I was about to kiss him back, he moved his lips from mine to the gap between my neck and the collarbone, sucking it.

" Oh." Was all I could say and wrapped my arms around his neck as he pushed me down, lying on top of me on the couch.

" Who.is.Alex?" He asked in between kissing my neck, collarbone, earlobe and then moving towards my chest and in a flick of seconds, he had managed to pull my top up! That's where I held his head to stop him.

" Look at the TV." I replied, knowing that if I'd let him escalate any further, we'd never be able to get to eating that pizza and I was hungry!

" I'd rather look at this." He said, glaring hungrily at my boobs which made me laugh and I planted a kiss on his nose.

" Alex is the Gay son of the American President in this movie which you didn't let me watch properly." I turned his head towards the T.V as we sat down and I kept the pizza box back between us before taking a slice in my hands and extending it towards him.

" Oh." Was his response to looking at the T.V and I laughed again before controlling myself.

" See, he's cute na?" I asked, swooning over Alex with my eyes as dreamy as that heart-eye emoticon.

" He is not." He replied with a grumpy tone and I closed some distance between us.

" Don't worry husband, I still have eyes for you, you know." I patted his bicep and fed him pizza before taking another bite for myself.

He didn't give me a reply but I still find him so so cute, Shivaay I mean.

Once we were done with pizza, I forced Shivaay to go out of ice-cream and when I say force, I mean ask him nicely once before he caved in.

" I'll quickly go and change." I jumped out of the sofa as the movie credits rolled and made a mental note to rewatch the movie since a certain someone distracted me a lot more times I'd care to admit.

Mythili's Look ~

" Let's go!" I got out of the washroom and put my shoes on. He was going in his pyjamas and I wasn't going to force him to change because he's probably just wear one of his suits which would be funny considering we were going for ice-cream.

As we walked, I entwined my hands with his. He had promised me to take sightseeing tomorrow and the day-after and we were then leaving for Scotland.

" By the way, how do you know this city so well?" I asked him while he ordered us ice-creams.

" Because I have lived here a few years." He replied and I was surprised.

" You have lived here? When? For college?" I asked him but before he could answer, we heard a voice call out of him.

" Shivaay beta. I was hoping to bump into you here in London this time around. Congratulations on the launch of your company." The voice sounded suspiciously similar to my husband's and when I turned my head to Shivaay, he looked like he had seen a ghost with his eyes turning into an emotion of anger I had never seen and his fists closing in so tightly that he would hurt himself if he continued to hold them like that.

" Shivaay....." I wanted to ask him what happened but the man cut me.

" And this must be my daughter-in-law. Mythili, is it?" He asked as I turned around to look at the source of this voice.

" Mr. Gaurav Malhotra, my wife is your nobody, just like all the other members of my family." Shivaay took two steps ahead of me, glaring at the man.

Daughter-in-Law?

That's when my slow brain processed it completely, this man was Shivaay's father and I was shocked by this as I found them staring at each other with completely different emotions towards each other.

Oh this couldn't be good.

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