A/N: Thank you for being patient with my extended absence and coming back to this story. I do not send out PMs so extra thanks for scoping out the thread.
Explicit content. Also, some scenes can be interpreted more than one way. I am not going to tell you what the right way to think about them is. Whatever your opinion, it is valid for your reading experience and can perhaps tell us a little something about your personality. Have fun with it!
Anika stretched like a cat...who got all the cream and found her arms sprawled over a flaming mass of MAN. Shivaay Singh Oberoi was all man, in all the right places and she had the beard burns to prove it. How was she going to show her face to the in-laws who were clearly waiting to cackle and point at the n'er to do well daughter-in-law corrupting their biba boy.
She took a deep breath in and stared right into the eyes of an overly amused ringmaster. Shivaay was looking at her like she was a circus act ready to jump for his joy. "Done looking yet? Or should I flex some more?"
"G..good morning", she babbled.
"Hmmm. Time for a shower. You go in first". He rolled over and started on his mobile phone. His fingers already ticking away at whatever message was more important than his wife at the moment. That would be every message. The man could be obtuse without meaning to. Shouldn't he wait for her to finish her side of the conversation? Whatever! She huffed and rushed off to the bathroom.
The water hadn't even reached the scortching hot levels she liked where she felt the air around her change. She hadn't heard him enter in her tirade of curses at the cold spray so she startled enough to slip and fall..you guessed it! Right into his arms! Her bottom snug against his bare as god intended body. Mayday! Mayday! All systems shutting down!
"Oh my god, you scared me".
"God, Shivaay, I respond to both names, the louder the better".
"That is not what I meant and you know it", Anika said.
"I don't know anything of this sort. In fact, I think my wife is so infatuated with my impeccable pecs, she is ready to pray to my altar".
"More like ready to headbutt you".
"That was a weak comeback. I expected more of you", he answered, still full of good humor. Anika had had just about enough.
"We are not friends".
"Never said we were wifey. We are husband and wife".
"We are bed partners at best and I am here under coersion".
"You're gonna play that card? Really?" Shivaay had gone from zero to 100 quick. His temper was ready to burst.
"It's not a card. It's the truth!"
"Did I force you into my bed?" He stalked toward her.
"Yes!" she retreated.
"Did you like it?"
"Y.yes" Her answer was muffled. She couldn't deny him the truth. What happened, however dubius, was what she had wanted in the moment. Still, he held all the power and that bothered her. If she let the status go persist, she could say goodbye to any relationship. She would be relegated to the position of a trophy wife. And she'd had two lifetimes worth of being paraded around by men like a possession to allow another instance of it. Something had got to give.
"Say it again".
His arm wrapped around her waist, his fingers digging into her delicate flesh, leaving his mark like a memory. "Tell me you liked it".
"Shivaay".
"Do you want to leave me?"
It was a question so out of the left field she didn't know how to respond. They hadn't even been married a day and he was giving her an out?
"And if I say yes?" Anika tested the waters.
"Then I would make sure I held you so tight, you couldn't move; made you so mad, you couldn't think about anyone but me; loved you so hard, you would block out the world. I would make so mine, you wouldn't think about existing without me".
"Even more than I already am?"
"Even more", he agreed as his mouth descended on her lips. "Mine".
"Say it Anika".
"Yours".