The more I am seeing Zoya with Advay together, the more I am wondering, is blood relation so strong that the baby who refused to be with anyone else other than me and Akash is now extremely comfortable with Zoya Siddiqui. From the distance from where I am standing I cant make out with Zoya is blabbering with him but whatever she is doing Advay seems to enjoy a lot because I have never seen him giggle so much in her life.
She seems so natural with kids that if I didn't know her background I would have thought that she is a mother. But I know she isn't. But she is natural I must give that to her. It isn't at easy to handle Advay but she is doing it like a pro.
Zoya wrapped him in a fluffy white towel from head to toe and picked him up. "Lets go and get you some fresh dress", she chirped and walked towards me.
"Hello daddy, care to show us the cupboard please?",Zoya made a cute face looking at my son and my heart swelled looking at him. His head drooped against Zoya's neck in tiredness. He put his thumb in his mouth which is an old habit yet to change. I felt the urge to kiss him but refrained because he was in her lap and the scene would have been too intimate.
Zoya kissed him instead and I wonder how come she felt what I felt? "You can give him to me I can dress him up".
"Nope, Adu is going to choose what he wants to wear today".
Did she just gave a nickname to him? "What's the pointZoya, you know he cant..."
She stopped me holding her hand up. Then walked out of the room haughtily holding Advay in her arms. I followed behind.
Upon entering Advay's room she turned to look at me. I walked straight towards the cupboard and opened it for her. She came and pushed me with her elbow. "Will you please hold him for a moment and before I could comment anything she put the bundle in my arms. Advay sighed in my arms sucking his thumb happily. I looked at him and smiled then kissed him on his forehead on the same spot whereZoya kissed.
Call me crazy but Advay smelled just like her. Don't look at me like that; yes I did smell her during the night when she slept on my chest.
"Adu, we have three dresses which one would you like to wear?"
"I don't know, ask daddy", he reply settling comfortably in my arms. His temperature seems to have reduced a bit.
She looked at me then. "Get him his favourite night dress. The one in blue and which has cow prints in it".
She took out the navy blue tshirt and a matching white cotton full pant while I place him on his cot. Probably the bath has given him desired comfort because his eyes seem droopy and he was suckling on his thumb.
Zoya closed the shutter of the cupboard soundly and walked towards us. "Do you wanna change or shall I?"
"I will do that. Thank you", I tell her taking the clothes from her hand and making Advay wear them. By the time I was finished with him he was sound asleep. I bend to kiss him on his forehead.
"You know its not good to kiss a sleeping baby. I have heard that they become very stubborn".
"He is my son and I fully intend to make him stubborn. He is Aditya Hooda's Son".
"When you said he is my own blood, what do you mean?" I knew this was coming. And I think she should know about him.
"He is your brother's son".
"What?"
"That's true", I tell her.
"But how is that possible? And what is he doing here? Why is he not with my brother?"
"Your bloody brother rejected him because he is blind", I hate that man for rejecting this innocent being.
"And let me make it very clear to you. He is my son".
She stops me then. "He is your son Aditya. I can't believe that my brother can be so inhuman. He is his own blood and he rejected him because of something, which is not in this baby's control".
She looks at me then, and it was intense. For a moment I thought of looking somewhere else. But then I being myself I held her stare. Slowly her lips broke into a smile. She came towards me and my breath hitched. She looked towards my hand and debated whether to hold it or not. And then she did it. She touched my hand, that hand that took so many lives and someone innocent ones too.
"I don't know what have you done in past but for him..." she pointed towards my son, "you are a hero. You saved this little boy's life", she held my hand with her both palm.
"Don't be a fool Miss Siddiqui", I snatched my hand from her. It was too much. I am not good and since morning she is trying to paint me something, which I am not. "Don't hero worship me. I am not the one.
She smiled and looked at me. Then came and stood infront of me almost chest to chest. "Whether you accept it or not Hooda, you are." Then she did the most unexpected thing. She tiptoed towards me, held my cheeks with her left hand and kissed my other check. We both stood there for sometime. I am sure not only for Advay but the kiss was for herself. And to confirm my feelings she spoke. "And thank you for listening to me in the pond. It really means a lot. I have never discussed that chapter of my life with anyone. But I felt comfortable sharing with you Aditya.
She once again tiptoed and kissed my other check that she was holding. I had a sudden urge to hold her waist and kiss her senseless. Feeling shocked about my own feelings I held her hand and pushed her back. This cant be happening. I can't have feelings for anybody. That's what I have been taught. In my world there is no scope weakness. And I had a strong feeling that she can be my only weakness and I cant let this happen. Weakness means defeat and weakness means danger. My enemies take advantage of her and destroy me.
I thought I would see shock in her eyes, but there was none as if she could read my thoughts. Yet she surprised me with her smile and composure. That's it. Something inside me snapped and all I wanted to prove her is i am a big bad wolf and not someone she should worship.
I advanced towards her and pulled her along with me holding her wrist. I stormed out of the room holding her captive in my grip then entered my room and closed the door. I pinned her against the door then and before she could gauge my reaction my lips were on her.
She mildly protested in the beginning as an oomphed escaped her mouth but I didn't stop despite of knowing she might she shit scared and uncomfortable. I dominated her mouth holding both her hands behind her back so that she could touch me or push me away. I desperately wanted to show her that I am someone who gives pain and not shelter. She deserved this after she has pushed all my wrong buttons.
I kissed her like no tomorrow. I kissed her like I have never kissed someone before. I kissed her to take all what she has in offer. I kiss her because I started liking her. I kiss her because of the strength she has shown I kiss her to take wash all my pain. I kiss her because I want her. And the realization is sweet and addictive. She is addictive. Her presence in my life is addictive. Somewhere in the middle of all these, there is a tiny belief which I tried to bury that somewhere there is a tiny bit of compassion inside me and today she has opened the flood gate when I tried to stop for so long.
I held her hand not letting her move and kissed her. Initially it was punishing but then it changed. It was as if I am punishing myself with her sweetness. She kissed me back sighing against my mouth. Her vibration hit all the wrong places of my body. I managed to keep our lower part at a distance so that she is unaware of my need of her.
The tightness inside my trouser is unbearable and I was shocked to realize how much I want her. I released her hand to cup her face. She was still sweet kissing my nibbling my lips. Her sweet torture was unbearable. I mapped her waist with my hands and itched to touch her breast by I refrained myself. She glided her hand against my chest pushing herself further towards me so that now our upper body is touching.
I spun taking her along with me so that now I am against the door and her back is touching my front. She gasped as she felt me against her bottom. Her chest halved heavily. I removed her hair from the nape and lightly bit her. She leaned back on my and closed her eyes.
"Dear Princess, you better stay away from me or else you are responsible for the consequences. You are not going to get saved from this big bad beast".
"I don't need saving from this big bad beast. Because I know this is not a big bad beast but a prince under this beastly image".