Chapter 4
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Chapter 4 : Face Off
Arnav was strolling around the garden early in the morning he woke up very early today, rather if you say he didn't sleep at all. His mind went back to the night when he was returning back to his chamber after dinner he saw unknown figure near Akash's room he approached and pulled the person harshly towards him and once again he missed his beat because it was her those Aqua Marine eyes girl who had covered her face with cloth, before he could do anything she thrust a letter for Akash from Payal and ran away.
He was very very disturb wanted to find out her and knows nothing about her. Deep in his thought was not aware where he was going and suddenly crashed on something very soft and smooth unknowingly his had went around to hold the things before it land on the ground.
Today was Payal's wedding Khushi had came early to the Palace to be with her so that she can spend more time with her after today God knows when she will see her. She was in hurry running suddenly crashed on something solid, closed her eyes and waited for fall but it didn't happen rather she was hanging in air.
She opened her eyes and found those two golden brown eyes looking at her. She got confused because he was holding her without even blinking and was not ready to leave her as well. She tried to bring him to reality she coughed a little no response then said ," Hmmm actually thanks for saving me but you can leave me now I am fine."
After listing to her voice he left her she tried to run away again but got pulled back to the solid chest and heard him saying "not so soon Angel"
When Aranv hold the that soft thing he was not expecting those Aqua Marine eyes. If he had lost his beat by seeing those eyes then now surely he is dead and reached heaven because Angel found there only.
There stood a girl with of those beautiful eyes whose pearl white skin is buttery soft and smooth he wanted to feel it. The cheeks adorned with pink shade of sky at dawn in horizon. the little nose between those doe eyes. A very cute small chin and those full coral pink colored lips inviting him to taste with his own lips. That carved figure which was perfect fit with him.
He lost in her got so mesmerized didn't realized how long he was standing like that holding her in the air, he heard her saying something and came back to reality. When again she tried to run away he hold her wrist and pulled her towards his chest. He wont let her go this time not before knowing about her.
" Where are going Angel, Why are you running from me all the time? You hate me rite"
Khushi was not expecting this from him. 'How he found out that I am running from him and about my thoughts' wondered Khushi.
"I can see in your eyes why you hate Me" Arnav asked.
" I dont hate you but hate Danes"
" Because of what you have heard about us?"
" No, because of what I have seen."
It was his turn to be surprised. " Alfred is inland, well away from where most of the raiding occurred. The Danes raided along it when I was a child."
He remembered now. The Danes had managed to claim full half of what had been the kingdom of Alfred. " What Happened?"
" They came up the river. They did what they usually did. They left. That's all. May I go now?"
" In a bit, How old were you?"
" About six...I was six Khushi closed her eyes as the memories came rushing to her mind. He was closer to her. His arm around her shoulders. His voice was deep and gentle, unrelenting. " You saw people die"
It was not a question. He knew what she must have seen, what anyone would have seen who survived a raid. Silently he gave fierce thanks that she had been spared , but not without injury, as he now realized. " someone you cared for?"
"I have lost everything then in that raid and my best friend Aelflynne."
"She was your age?"
Another nod. It was hard to breathe. She was shaking. " They cut my parents and her throat open. They bled to death in my arms.
His own arms were very tight around her and his voice was very hard. " How did you escape?"
I" I don't know. I've never knows. They were all around me after I ran to my family and her,killing,burning...raping...but somehow they overlooked me. I don't know why I lived and they don't. They were better than I, sweeter and kinder. It should have been me"
"No!" He held her fiercely, stroking away the tears that trickled down her ashen cheeks. " do not say that! Does not your own faith teach that we are always in the hands of God?"
They were standing very close together. He could smell the perfume of her skin,fresh grass mingling with hints of honeysuckle. His gaze drifted to the fullness of her mouth. White teeth worried her lower lip. He raised a finger, touching lightly," Don't"
He felt her sigh,saw he uncertainty,knew what he was about to do was wrong.Worse yet,mad. Yet nothing could have stopped him save the girl herself. He bent his head,dark against the brightness of hers,and lightly,tentatively touched his mouth to hers.
Khushi stood utterly still,too stunned by sensation for so paltry a thing as breathing. Pleasure jelled her joints. Her reason,poor thing that it was,whirled away forgotten and she became again woman who had fallen for him in their first meeting.
She swayed closer...seeking...His lips were smooth,warm,hard...careful. She had never seen men kiss women like this, they brought to gorging themselves on haunch of venison,greedy mouths slobbering and devouring. It so repulsed her that she had thought herself cold. Fool's fool! She was on fire,trembling with the dual shocks of discovery and need...God's blood,such need! How was it possible to yearn so suddenly and so much?
She had to touch him,press her palms against the solid wall of his chest,had to taste him with little flick of her tongue and oh,the delight when she felt the shudder that ran through him. His hands were big and hard on her back,drawing her closer. He deepened the kiss,parting her lips,his tongue penetrating swift and sure. Had she breath, she would have cried out in sheer,exultant delight. That the world held such marvels and she all unknowings all these years!
She raised arms,sliding her palms up his chest to stroke the breadth of his shoulders before twining around his neck. His hair was pulled back at the nape; it brushed over her fingers like thick silk. Beneath her cloths her nipples ached. Helpless,she yielded to the need to move her hips against his.
He held a column of fire in his arms, Aranv thought dazedly. Pure, incandescent flame leaping from her body to his. He was an ardent man well schooled in the amorous arts but never had he felt such a raw hunger as overtook him now. His warrior woman, for so he had come to think of her, had a sensual nature to match his own.
Yet was she an innocent,of that he was certain in the way man who knows women. It was the realization of that piercing the haze of desire that finally made him draw back. Even so,he should bring himself only to break off the kiss not let her go. He pressed her head to his chest, stroking her hair gently,as he struggled to control the near-overwhelming urge to lay her down on the soft grass and give them both what they so obviously wished.
He wanted her to come with him. He wanted her to trust him for her life.
" I am a Danes." He said it sorrowfully, as though he would change it if he could.
" I do not think you are like the others." She said and gave a heart warming smile to him and ran into the palace leaving very content and happy Arnav behind with satisfied smile on his lips.
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