This was supposed to be my bon voyage gift for my India trip. I couldn't comment that time and then later I kept forgetting about it.
Now I'll take it as a bon voyage gift for my this trip 🤗
Edited...
Read it again from start till the end and I think this has been added to the list of my favorite stories from your collection. ⭐️
The first part was so about me (yes I know you wrote it keeping me in mind). But some scenes were as if you also live in my house and have seen me and then have shown few things in this OS 😲
I was so enjoying their love . I was so lost in their romance when you did a 180* and turned the whole story from romance and passion into pain and misery 😭
I'm sure Yash must've punished himself so hard for listening to Aarti and making and then keeping that promise. He saw all the signs. But this girl was always laughing and smiling that he could not see the pain behind those smiles and laughter.
I can only imagine his condition when he learned the kind of a life she had with those monsters 😔. He was generous enough to spare them, I would have taken them to the police 😡. But then that would have added to Aarti's wounds with all the police cases and all.
So he did the right and the most mature thing that he warned those monsters to never even think about Aarti much less try to see her or talk to her.
It is understandable why Aarti was not ready to accept his proposal but once again he took the right decision and didn't force her. He wanted her to come to him willingly and that is what she did.
Tess, trust me, I'm speaking from my own personal experience that saying the words "I love you!" Are sometimes mere words. Real feeling comes when I see my husband (who isn't expressive much) does something for me which I can't even imagine. Like the other day I craved to eat ice-cream and we didn't had any at home. It was almost midnight (yes I'm not exaggerating), he told me "let's go and see if any store is open where we will get ice-cream". I said I won't go as it was late at night. Can you believe it that he went alone. Luckily a local ice-cream shop was open and he came home with my favorite flavor 😲
I told him so many times that I can't believe that he actually went to bring it for me at midnight. All he did was smile.
Those gestures are enough for me to know what I mean to him.
This is what I felt in AarYa's relationship in this story and for me my friend is the real love. Yash knows his wife so well. And does everything in his power to do things as per her likings to give her the happiness she deserves. No matter how big or small those things are, they are what makes her happy.
Example is he knows she can't sleep without him, hence he sends a big teddy bear for his wife. When she was expecting his call and he didn't call, she was angry. This one gesture from Yash told Aarti that saying I love you on phone was nothing in front of this lovely gesture from Yash.
So yes as per my POV, sometimes actions do speak louder than words and this is one of the most important things you have shown in this story. Hats off to you ⭐️
Once again I would like to say that I'm lucky to have friends like you and my CCCians and other PVians who are so precious to me. Bless you sweetie ❤️