Chapter Thirteen
~Khushi~
I wanted to close my eyes or look other side when he opened his shirt. But I couldn't. The girly parts of mine were in riots. Arnav Singh Raizada is sizzling hot when he is undressed. The way he flexed his back muscles I had to press my legs together and suddenly I was aware of my heartbeat down there. Thanks
He is the biggest example of perfection. The contouring of his muscles were just perfect. There wasn't an inch of flesh in his body. I must say that the man definitely spends a lot of time on himself working out. The two dimples at his back winked at me and he expended and contacted his chest.
His strong legs oozed power and strength. No wonder he was walking that fast. What caught my eyes was a scar that ran along his nape and continued towards his front. It was pretty deep because I could see it from where I was standing and it was almost more than 20 feet away from where he was undressing.
My assumption of him being a Greek God is correct. A painter would definitely want to paint a subject like him. Without giving me a glance when he knew that I was oogling him from a distance he ran towards the lake bare foot and in one fluid motion jumped into it.
Without a second thought I quickly got out of my clothes leaving behind my under garments and jumped inside the lake to catch him up.
I happen to be a good swimmer so it didn't take much time to detect him underwater and reach as fast as I could. I pushed myself up towards the surface right beside him.
I could make out he was surprised to see me. He looked at me and then towards the shore maybe to catch a glimpse of my discarded dress beside his. Umm! Interesting. So he is kind off affected by me it looks like. Not bad Khushi Kumari Gupta, I mentally yipped.
"Care to swim?" I ask him gulping down my nervousness.
He narrowed his eyes and then without uttering a single thing he started swimming away from me. Whats, with this man? Why is he ignoring me since morning?
I swan towards him again and this time stopped right in front of him. "Are you scared to loosing to a girl?" I challenge him because I know that's how I am going to get his attention. He is a capo after all and he will never back off if someone challenges him.
"You tiny creature, you think you can beat me in swimming with those chicken wings of yours?"
"How infuriating of a man you are. This is how you talk to a woman?", I splashed some water on his face. He moved his face sideways closing his eyes clearly not liking my playfulness.
"For me you are a hostage and not a woman whom I want to impress. So ya, I talk like this", he took of the opposite direction again.
"Argh!", I took off behind him then swan under-water to reach him again in front. He stopped sensing my closeness again.
"You know what you are just making excuses so that you don't have to compete me".
"I really don't have time for all these bullshit. I am getting out of this lake right now and if you want suggestion, I would ask you to get out of it since the water is too cold and you might catch cold".
"I am your hostage right? Then why do you care what happens to me?", I glared at him like a kid.
He moved towards me then and I refused to back away this time. "I challenge you Arnav Singh Raziada. Ten Laps. Whoever wins..."
"What if I win? What will you do?"
I moved closed to him, I don't know from where I am getting this bravery. We were almost nose-to-nose and if I am not wrong I could hear his breath hitch due to our closeness. His eyes were penetrating mine and I could see the fight in his obs. I could sense that he wanted to look down and he was controlling himself from doing so.
"If you win, you can ask anything from me", I wanted to touch his wet hair and remove it from his forehead because it was obstructing his eyes.
"Anything?", he raised his eyebrows in challenge then controlled his behavior.
"Yes anything. But if you lose..."
"Woh ho hi nahi sakta hai, princess", he said gritting his teeth.
"If you lose Mr. Arnav Singh Raizada then I can ask anything from you".
He narrowed his eyes to speculate and gauge something. He is after all a man in control. He wont let this happen so easily.
"Apart from releasing you, anything".
I smiled then. So there was a tiny doubt inside his head that I might win. Well 2 points to you Khushi. He doesn't underestimate you.
"Done", I said, flipping myself underwater and surfacing once I touch the shore otherside. I gained momentum as I saw him lagging behind me for couple of feet.
After five rounds he was still behind me. Was he doing it purposely? I stopped midway to check and then suddenly he caught my foot and dragged me underwater. I tried to kick but his hold was firm. We both surfaced together and our chest brushed with each other sending tingling sensation all over my body.
"This is not fair", I said catching up my breath.
"I never said I play fair honey", then he was gone in one fluid motion.
"Son of a ..." I giggled like a kid and applied full force on my muscles. This is so much fun. He is fun whether he accepts it or not. And challenging him is exhilarating. Some how I managed to catch up with him in the night lap and this time I I swan under him and held his neck to pull him down along with me. I have a thing with under water. I love swimming under-water. I dodged him and swam ahead. I surfaced to check how far is the shore and to my relief it was just few feet away. I powered my shoulder and stroke forwards.
He held my waist and pulled me back. My back collided with is front and his hand fastened my looping tightly against his body.
"Not so easily princess", he breathes against my ears. I spun around to face him. He was looking at me with his penetrating gaze and his fingers dig on my skin at my waist.
"You don't play fair", I protested.
He shushed me with his callous index finger. My lips part against his skin as his gaze fell on mine. I couldn't help but to look at his firm ones. It glittered as the sun ray fell on his wet lips.
His hand that rested on my waist now guided me towards him slowly making me flush with his body. I flexed my finger to touch his soulders. Upon touching I felt a current ran through my spine. Even he felt the same because he looked at my hand where it touched him then look back at me.
His lips parted and he leaned onto mine. His hand held my nape and jerked towards him. I froze. No this cant be happening. I touch his chest with both of my palm and pushed him. He didn't move.
He just leaned back to look at me. I was panting heavily. Something switched across his eyes. But he didn't release me. And then I saw his face. My father's face.
"Arnav!", I mumbled not wanting to let him go. No no no this cant be happening.
He realized my nape and held his hand up in surrender gesture. "Its me Khushi. Don't panic. I am not going to do anything to you".
Oh my God. What is he talking about? How did he possibly know that I am scared".
"I am not your father. Calm down".
He knows. Stunned, confused I looked at him. How does he know about it? What does he know?
My gut churned and I held my stomach. He helped me swim towards the shore and held my hair as I gagged.
"You have nothing in your stomach. Nothing will come out of your mouth".
I looked at him with my teary eyes. Nothing but shame clouding my brain. "How..how do you know?"
He looked at me deeply. "You zoned out thrice in front of me which I guess you don't remember.".
"I zoned out?", I was astonished. Did this happen in my house also? Why didn't Payel say anything to me? Why am I kept in dark about it?
"What did I say?" I ask him moving close to him. I don't know I felt protected when he was near. I have to know what exactly I do when I am zone out.
He was clearly debating whether to tell me or not. After few seconds he chose to say, "you didn't say much. Just that your father used to force himself on you and your sister"
"Oh my god", I closed my mouth and everything flashed in front of my eyes. I leaned on the shore and tried to control my shivering form. I don't know what has gotten into me I just blurted out.
"I am not a virgin", my eyes go blurry as I said those words to him. I could see nothing but his blurry image coming towards me and settling himself beside me. He crossed his hands against his chest and looked at me as if silently asking me to proceed.
"I was very young when my mother passed away. I was very close to my mother. She was a nice woman. But my father used her for sex and babies. He didn't love her back. I have seen new woman everyday in his harem when my mother was alive and it increased when she died. One night he had a fight with a s**t. She left him high. He came to my room". I chocked. I cant do this. I started crying bitterly.
A comforting hand gripped my shoulders. "I cant do this Arnav. I cant say".
"Take it out. I am listening", he urged me.
"He came to my room that night and started kissing my cheeks. The way he was kissing me I didn't like and I told him that I hate him. He slapped me and dumped me on the bed. He was furious. I started kicking him but he was stronger than me. He ripped my panties".
I couldn't help but to hug Arnav. He didn't stop me. I clutched him with all my might. It wasn't easy for me to explain this. I didn't even tell this to my doctor. It is like relieving those torturous moments.
"He forced himself on me and the pain that caused I fainted immediately. I don't know whether he continued to do things because I don't remember after that"
Arnav tightened his hold on me almost cutting off my blood circulation. I let him because it was not as painful as my past.
"The more I resisted him the more animalistic behavior I got from him. I realized painfully that he used to get a kick out of it. So I submitted myself to him for god. Atleast the pain was less. I don't remember how many times he f**ked me it was almost everyday. When I felt ill and the our family doctor was called, the doctor warned him that I might die if he kept on doing those things to me. Thankfully he stopped touching me after that and got himself more number of s**ts. He tried to touch Payel".
"Payel?"
"My younger sister. But I held the knife and warned him. I would have almost killed him if my brother didn't intervene.
"Your brother knows?", he asked astonished.
"No he doesn't. He was a baby. He just came in-between us and I had to stop".
We both stood in silence as I cried on his chest. His heartbeat that was fanatic few minutes before seems to lessen as he held me against him.
"Boss! The car will arrive in ten minutes".
We both looked towards the voice. Kero was standing near where we kept our clothes. His eyes were hooded.
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