Smriti's POV-

" Christian!! Stop." I shouted and got inside the covers immediately.

" Stop shying away from me and show me." He ordered.

" This is complete invasion of my privacy." I exclaimed.

" I am your husband. I am entitled to see much more than you are offering right now." He said huskily.

" Stop talking this way!!" I said.

He smirked and got rid of the covers. I was again left shield less in front of him.

He was gently touching my scars. I closed my eyes, giving into his feathery touches.

" You are ridiculously injured Mrs. Grey. We need you to get attended by a doctor." He said.

I opened my eyes.

" I did go to a doctor. He removed the bullet and cleaned my wounds." I said.

" He?" He said, raising his eyebrow.

" Yeahh." I said, confused so as to what he was trying to ask.

" That means, you have no problem with a doctor seeing you and dressing your wounds up. But when it comes to me, you are all shy and conscious." Christian said.

I looked down in embarrassment.

" Look at me when I am talking to you." He said.

Here comes in his jerkiness.

" I am tired." I said.

" Let's have dinner and then you can go to bed." He said.

" But I am not hungry." I said, genuinely not being hungry.

" Smriti, you need to eat." He said.

" No I don't." I argued, closing my eyes.

" You walk or you know I can very easily carry you." He threatened.

" Fine." I huffed and wore my Tshirt back.

" Who did the dinner?" I asked.

" The housekeeper." He replied.

I nodded.

Dinner was a silent affair.

After that we went back to the room.

Christian took his shirt off.

" What are you doing? Put your shirt back!" I exclaimed as I turned the other way.

" I can't sleep with the shirt on." He said casually.

" Mr. Grey, then I am going to sleep in some other room." I said firmly.

I heard him chuckle. Without saying anything, he pulled me inside the covers too.

" Now sleep." He said, kissing my forehead.

I snuggled closer to him, without realizing what I was doing.

Suddenly getting conscious of my move, I tried to distance away myself from him.

He pulled me back closer.

" Mrs. Grey, get used to this because tomorrow when I claim you all mine, you will need to get used to this closeness." He whispered in my ears.

" What!??" I exclaimed.

" You very well know what." He said.

Then I blushed.

" Stop blushing so much Mrs. Grey." He said.

Wait a minute, he can't even see my face properly in this darkness, so I can very well fake it.

" And who says I'm blushing?" I asked.

" I can practically feel it Smriti." He said.

I closed my eyes without replying.

" Good night wife." He said.

" Good night husband." I replied back and then let sleep engulf me.

The next morning when I opened my eyes, Christian was gone. It was 11 am and I was still asleep!!

Jet lag is a bitch.

The housekeeper, Mrs. Jones was in the kitchen as I entered there.

" Good morning Mrs. Grey." She greeted.

" Good Morning Mrs. Jones and please call me Smriti. Where is Christian?" I asked.

" Mr. Grey left for work sometime back." She replied.

I gave her a smile and went back to the room to freshen up.

My cell was ringing, my personal one. It was mumma.

" Good morning Mumma. I am so sorry that I could not inform you about my arrival yesterday. I am really tired." I said.

" Its okay Smriti, Christian had called to inform yesterday." She said.

" He did?" I questioned.

" Yes....you went to freshen up." She replied.

I nodded my head absent mindedly.

" Where are you?" I asked.

" In Chicago with Mr. and Mrs. Grey along with grandma and Mia." She replied.

" Why? I wanted to meet you." I said.

" We will come back tomorrow. Just came here for change of environment." She said.

" Okay. I'll come to meet you tomorrow." I said.

" Okay." She said, sounding hesitant.

I let it go.

" Bye." I said and she hung up.

I quickly took a long, relaxing bath and wrapped myself into a towel and came out to the room.

I wore comfortable clothes and got out. Mrs. Jones was done with all her work and had left. I was all alone in the house.....err...sorry, penthouse.

" Now what to do??" I questioned myself.

" Go and pack." I heard a voice.

Looking at the elevator, I saw Christian.

" You are back so soon." I remarked.

" Because my dear love, we are leaving for our honeymoon in about 4 hours." He said.

" What! No! Why!" I said all of it.

He raised an eyebrow.

" You should have informed me earlier. Now I can't pack so soon. So cancel the plan." I said, trying to act smart.

" It's okay Mrs. Grey, you don't need to pack, I'm sure you'll get whatever you require there." He said.

" Excuse me?" I said. He gave his half crooked smirk.

" Clock is ticking.....go and pack if you want or else we will leave without your bags." He said.

I really wish to smack his face. I closed my eyes and got some personal anger management solutions from within.

" Fine." I said, giving him the fakest smile possible and stormed off to the room.

Now it was time for my work phone to ring. I just hope I am sent to Iran or Iraq or Nairobi or anywhere else in the world for a mission.

It was Sanjay sir. I picked the call.

" Good morning sir." I said.

" Good evening Smriti. I just called up to inform that you need to go on 'Raksha' mission next month for 4 days in Riyadh. The rest of the details will be intimated to you soon. Your team remains the same." He said.

" Sir, no work this month?" I asked, disappointed.

" Smriti, today is 1st October and we are giving some teams rest as a part of work load management. Moreover, didn't you just get married? Give some time to your husband also." Sir said.

" Okay sir." I said grumpily.

" Jai Hind Officer." He said.

" Jai Hind sir." I replied and he hung up.

Here goes all my plans of escaping this honeymoon in the drain.

This thing, intimacy scares me the most. No incident as such has happened with me, thank god but still I have some sort of unknown fear.

I entered my closet.

" What should I pack?? He did not even tell me where are we going!" I talked to myself as I walked out to find my darling husband.

" Where are we going? I need to pack accordingly." I asked him. He was in his study, doing something on his laptop.

" Good try but I am still not telling you where we are going. Pack casuals. There is going to be ocean." He said.

" Fine." I said.

" Smriti, why are so pissed off?" He asked, getting up and walking towards me.

" I don't know." I said and was about to walk away when he held my wrist and pulled me towards him.

" Smriti, you need to talk to me. Don't just store everything inside of you. It is not good." He said, putting a lock of my hair behind my ears.

" Honestly Christian, it's really nothing. Just the jet lag and tiredness." I said.

" I'm not taking this crap." I said.

" But...." I started but he put his finger on my lips and made me sit on his chair, then kneeled down at me.

" Speak." He said.

I sighed.

" Mr. Tarun Dutta, he lost his life in the attacks. He had a two year old daughter Christian and when I saw her face that day in his funeral, I....I...." I sobbed.

" Shhh..love. Calm down. He died for his country." Christian said.

" But his daughter, her face pops into my mind every now and then." I said.

" You are so emotional and yet you keep it all of it inside. You'll burst one day Smriti." Christian said.

" She had no idea what was happening Christian, yet she was crying there." I sobbed again.

" She will be taken care of. I promise." He said.

" I know that, our department is not so heartless." I said.

" You seriously need a change love. You have been going on so long without a break that now it is taking toll on you." He said.

I nodded.

He took me to his room and called Mrs. Jones to help me. The packing was done soon.

" Thank you so much Mrs. Jones." I said.

" No problem Smriti. Now go and enjoy." She said and went away after we bid good bye.

I changed into a dress.

Smriti's look-

" I am done Christian." I said as I walked into the living room. He was already ready.

" Let's go." He said and I nodded.

" Now please tell me where are we going??" I asked.

" That's a surprise darling." He said.

I blushed.

At this rate, I am going to get converted into a cherry soon.!!

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