"He loves you"Grandma cupped Likitha's face and kissed her forehead.

"Really?Now you want me to believe your words." Likitha asked whining like a kid.

Her grandma pinched Likitha's cheek and asked her to take her to Karthik's room, their room once.

Likitha looked at the old woman with a sulky face following her order.

"I want to show you a few interesting things, they will answer all your questions."She smiled at her assuringly.

Likitha took her to their room and quickly locked it as instructed by her grandma.

"You will find a box below the bed, take it out and open it."Grandma tugged Likitha's hand and smiled at her mischievously.

Likitha widened her eyes and looked at her a bit pouting.

What is her grandma up to now?

"So many surprises are waiting for you Sona, So many, "Grandma whispered making Likitha blush.

"Oh my God!your cheeks turned so red as apples." Grandma teased her.

Hearing to those words Likitha quickly bent down and dragged the box out curiously avoiding her gaze.

Sometimes her grandma behaves like a naughty teenager.

"Open it." Grandma looked at Likitha asking her

"what are you waiting for?"

Likitha hastily opened the box nodding at her asking her to stay calm.

She fluttered her lashes looking at the things in it with a gleam in her eyes.

Her eyes startled to see the medium-sized cardboard box full of photographs and many more pretty things.

"My pictures."

"My photographs."She squealed like a kid in front of the old lady.

She grinned at them madly and looked at her grandma.

"These are all my things!" Likitha took all of them again, taking the photographs into her hands.

"Who took all these pictures grandma? Did Karthik take them all?"She looked at her grandma hiding her smile.

"Who else? Your husband" Her grandma laughed pinching her cheek again.

"Karthik."Likitha kissed those pictures and hugged her grandma from the side, rubbing her cheek.

"When did he took all those pictures?"

"I can't believe he took all those pictures, I look so young" Likitha ran out of words and looked at her grandma eagerly for answers.

"I think you were hardly 15 at that time, that was the first time we saw you at a marriage. I was there with him at that time."She looked at Likitha remembering those days.

"I am sorry, I am the one who spoiled his mind from his teenage. It was my dream to see you both together, "

"See....now you both to get married."

"I thought it will be the only way to get my daughter back into my life."

"I am sorry, I am so selfish." She looked at her granddaughter apologetically.

Likitha looked at her with a sad face and wiped her tears.

"Never."

"Please don't apologize to me."

"Karthik is a nice guy."

She gently placed a kiss on her grandma's wrinkled forehead rubbing her back to calm down.

"Finally, my dream came true."

"Both of you are wife and husband now," Grandma spoke slowly looking at those pictures again.

"I can't believe he took them." Likitha gasped audibly and looked away.

"Yes, your husband Karthik, He took all those pictures secretly hiding from you"

"You don't know how much he loves you Sona?"

"He used to follow you everywhere and tell every single detail about you with a smile."

"Your name is enough to bring a pleasant smile on his face"

"You don't have any idea how broken he saw you with John." She blurted out and looked at Likitha with a pale face.

Likitha gave a wan smile and nodded her head asking her to relax.

Indeed she wants to listen to everything single thing about him today, even if it hurts her, She won't mind.

She wants to feel what he feels for her and so eager to erase this invisible thin line between them.

Grandma gulped down in pain and squeezed her eyes shut.

"You know I never saw him shed a single tear in my life, He didn't shed a single tear at the time of when your grandpa passed away."Grandma stopped for a second and saw Likitha embracing her shoulders and patting it gently.

"Don't get stressed, Grandma." Likitha. he insisted to stop if she is not comfortable but she didn't stop.

"But he cried like a kid for you, he didn't eat anything for two days when you were at the hospital."

"He loves you, trust me he can't hurt you."Grandma caught her chin and said in a pleading tone.

"He is a big stalker rather than a police officer."Likitha playfully accused chuckling at her grandmother.

"Stalker...!"She caught her granddaughter's ear with her fragile hand for mocking her grandson.

"Yes!Stalker!"

"Surely a stalker."Likitha nodded teasing her grandma.

"Hide all these before he catches us," Grandma said worriedly keeping those pictures back into the box.

Likitha smiled at them for a second and hugged them for once before keeping it back into its place.

"Likitha..." Grandma looked at Likitha tugging her hand making her sit on the bed.

"He is a nice guy and loves you with all his heart."

"I tell you again, He can't hurt you dearly, he can't ."She looked at her granddaughter with a pale face.

"Hm. ...." Likitha hummed and looked at her with teary eyes.

"I want to tell you one thing....."Grandma spoke slowly whispering in her ear.

"What?"Likitha asked sniffing and chuckling.

"Do you know what is the problem with your husband? He doesn't know how to show his love through wordssically lacks communicative skills."

"He doesn't know how to express his love, his feelings."

"He didn't reject you but took a strep back in the fear of rejection." She explained.

Likitha's heart sank just listening to her grandma's words.

"Think maybe doesn't want to hurt you." She almost begged Likitha.

"Hurt me?!" Likitha stammered.

"But his reluctance is hurting me more." She admitted and looked at her in pain.

"Sometimes he is so naive and behaves like an innocent."

"But my grandson is a gem of a man." She stated proudly.

"Naive.....innocent......" Likitha laughed at her grandma's words.

"He is not that naive you think Grandma, definitely not."

"Don't you know what's he is?"

"DCP...."

"He is so smart and dangerous." She said fluttering her eyelashes in utter disbelief.

Grandma kept grumpy and turned her head away faking anger.

"I know he loves me but he has to talk to me and express his feelings to me. He has to Grandma."Likitha quickly caught her hand and said seriously.

"Otherwise I have my plans, grandma."She blinked her eyes and laughed richly.

To be continued

Thank you.