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From the author's desk: You guys are the best! Kushi once said that the longer you wait, the more ripe and sweet the fruit becomes- and you all deserve this update for your wonderful display of patience- for sticking with this FF for this long! Thanks for all your likes and comments!
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Part 59
"If you think I am angry at your stupid lie on the night of my return- then save your speech- Because unfortunately I know too much about you to catch your lie even in the dark" she told him not caring anymore about her streaming tears as she walked over to the bed.
If Kushi's revelation about her knowledge of his lie baffled him, Arnav didnt show it.
"So you think it is a lie"
"No, I know it is a lie"
"Impressive- but you are bluffing"
"No I am not- You are the one who is bluffing- - no man who had seeked other women to satisfy his needs in his wife's absence would clutch his wife's duppata to sleep- nor will he continuously hunt for her location- nor will he talk to the winds about how much he missed her"
Arnav was liking her argument so much that he decided to rile her up a little and get her to talk- Her silence and quiet disapprovals were much painful that her direct fight- and he knew her well- she wouldnt give him direct answer if he asked why she was angry with him if she knew he lied to her that night- It was much easier to get her to talk this way.
"Oh yeah I forgot that you have been keeping close tabs on me... and thats why you knew" Arnav told her, his tongue firmly on his cheek.
"What?" Kushi asked a little confused and then her eyes grew wide as she understood it her way "Oh you mean that I dont know you enough to catch that lie? Even if I had not been closely watching you, I would have still found it out- I know too much about you to fall for that kind of lie- you might be talented and all- but you can never get to cheat on me... I would not believe it- even if it is from your own mouth "
Arnav raised his eyebrow at Kushi's heated argument. A surge of possesive pride filled him. He again took a few steps getting near her. Though she looked a little apprehensive, she didnt move back.
"No-" Arnav shook his head a little amused.
"No? What do you mean no?" Kushi was getting more angry with his adamant refusal to believe her capability to trust him
"I still think you are bluffing and I didnt mean the lie.. I meant the part where you said that you caught my lie"
"I dont get it..." Kushi seemed really baffled
"You sobbed that night.. you wouldnt if you really knew that I was telling you a white lie- That night you believed my words- later maybe you realised it was all a fib"
His mean calmness was undoing her. She made one last effort to control her anger and show him that she was equally unperturbed by the way the talks were taking turn.
"So you knew I was sobbing that night- but still you didnt come to console me did you?- considering that you knew very well you were lying" Kushi asked him
"You are diverting from what we were discussing. You cried that night thinking that I had been sleeping with other women"
Kushi's control snapped
"No I didnt cry because of that-" Kushi screamed at him, momentarily forgetting that Arush was asleep in his crib "I was only upset that after all that it took me to - to comfort you that day- it was a very cruel thing to say even if it was a lie- very mean way to treat one's wife as if she was a -a -a " She stopped abruptly
she had been watching Arnav's face which had shown a hint that he had been waiting for this outlet. He had known right at the point that she knew all along when she let him know that she knew that he had lied. But all he was trying to do was to rile her up and then get her to speak
"Forget it" She told him and as she turned back to get into the bed
But she was spiraled back right into his arms
"Not that soon sweetheart" he said in a rasping tone as he secured her promptly inside his arms.
"Leave me Arnavji"
"Not before I know what I want to know"
She tried shoving him, ignoring his blazing eyes on her own pair which to her great discomfort travelled across her slightly quivering lips, down the depth of her neck and stopped right at the point where the neckline of her night shirt obscured his further peek into her curves.
"What is it" she whispered helplessly as she realised that he wont release her until he got what he wanted and his proximity was not helping her remain sane.
"Did you cry because you thought that I was not anymore attracted to you? did you feel that I made you feel cheap by ignoring your advances after that commendable audaity that you displayed that night? did you think that your proximity didnt affect me anymore because of the almost two year seperation? because you thought that I kissed you that day, without feeling the need to? That your naked glory didnt even turn me on anymore? Did I make you feel like you have lost me already? - literally?"
Kushi didnt answer him but her eyes deceived her hurt, and Arnav knew immediately that he had hit the spot. Kushi tried to release herself once again but in vain.
"Did I hurt your feminine ego sweetheart? Did I bruise your womanly pride? " he asked her huskily as her chest heaved up and down, as she made herculean effort to control her tears which had started to fill her doe like eyes.
She couldnt trust herself to talk, so she just shook her head in negative, radidly blinking back tears.
"no?" he asked her amused
She shook her head again
"I see" he said lightly shifting his hands that he had wound around her and she squirmed against him
"You know what kushi? we both are so weird-" He told her "We know the other would catch our lie without even battling an eyelid, but still we try lying just for the heck of it- isnt it?"
She chanced a look at his eyes, he was steadily looking into hers, with a smirk playing on his lips.
"You were beautiful that night...just like you always was- are and will be ever in future- for me. I felt mesmerised that night - the same way I felt the first time when you fell into my arms and had ever since been- your scent was creating havoc in my mind that night the same way the same way I feel right now - when you are standing this close to me- not having a clue of how torturous I feel, That daring feat that you did that night, turned me on like no other time- and it took me enormous amount of self
control to keep my hands off you"
The night had turned astoundingly beautiful all of sudden as they kept staring into the depths of eachother's eyes- filled with love. Kushi broke the spell as she realised Arnav's hand removing her hairband from her hair, letting down her hair.
"you have'nt apologised yet"
"Do I have to? yeah ok- I am sorry"
"that- that didnt work- I am still angry with you- madly angry with you"
"Oh I see" he said pulling her still more closer to him "may be this might work" he said as he lowered his lips to hers, capturing it in a tantalizing tender kiss.
"did this work now?" he asked her after they surfaced from the kiss.
"nope it didnt" she told him with a pout "But I was under the impression that my man is tough to tame types- soft and tender doesnt suit you- not atleast now - this is simply not your style- dont you think?"
Arnav raised his eyebrows in surprise
"Do women get bolder and shameless after childbirth?" he asked her smirking "Not that I complian though" he added further, raising his smirk on his lips by a notch.
"Shutup" she said smiling before she tangled her fingers inside his locks near the neck once more, pulling his closer to her.
They started kissing once again- wildly, and not caring about bruising eachother, relishing the feel of eachother like they have never done before. Then all of a sudden they were scratching, groping, kissing, biting and squeezing where ever they could lay their hands on - and very soon their wilderness ventured into ripping eachother's dress, in a hurry to undress eachother, impatiently making to the bed- coursing to get caught once more into the depths of the most mysterical pleasure known to mankind.
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It was almost 8 in the morning when Arnav woke up sensing a ticklish feeling on his right foot, He raised up his head to find Arush sitting next to his right foot which was peeping out of his blanket. Arush giggled again as he again tickled Arnav.
Arnav felt disoriented for a little while and then he slumped back to his previous position
"Arush.." he mumbled "how did you get out of your crib little champ?"
He pulled his foot inside, and that was when he sensed his leg move on top of Kushi's bare legs. He noticed that almost half of his body was on top of hers and his head had been resting on the crook on her neck and even now, when he called out Arush, his lips were moving against her slender skin. He raised himself off her, taking note of the visible signs on her body bearing proof of a wild night.
He had been reckless last night and she had buoyed him up to go ahead, she herself had not been any less, the scratches, nail marks and bites on his body were enough proof of that... He knew he would have to pay later for all those marks that would not sty concealed by her dress- She would be mad when she finds out- he thought as he cleared her face off a estranged lock of hair.
If this is what they would get if they started off a love making section with the level of egositic anger that they both harboured last night, he owed to make sure that he would rile her up everytime they would make love in future. He was surprised, he never knew that his little wife as much a lioness at bed when riled up as she was when she would fight with him for everything else that she believed in and he did not-
This was not ofcourse the first of their wildest nights, they have had a fair share of it in the past, but Kushi would always behave like a perfectly blushing new bride at bed during all those times, there had been times when she initiated too, but when things got ignited, she would shy away and always leave it up to him to take it forward. Never had she been this open minded or this bold, he chuckled as he remembered last night
and the night of her return when she layed herself bare just to appease him.
"It should be Child birth which brought in this change in her, he decided - or was it the seperation that has to be credited for this welcome boldness in her? he mentally made a note to do a research on this later.
He shifted himself from his position half on top of her and rolled to his side, She felt cold air hit her as his warmth was no longer covering her, and she tried pulling her blanket to cover herself, grumbling in her sleep. He helped her cover herself properly, as he hoisted himself up on his elbow, still watching her sleep.
She opened her eyes slowly adjusting herself to the brilliant light filling the room. Arnav came into her view first, his blazing look making her uncomfortable, she cluctched her blanket closer to her, her cheeks flushing red.
"Maammaa" Arush let out a babble at that moment. He had managed to get down from the bed.
"Arush.." Kushi called as she realised he was already up. She raised her head up a little to see beyond Arnav's head inside the crib "Where are you beta?" she asked as she noticed the crib empty.
"He is sitting beside the bed over there on the carpet" Arnav told her
"You let him down from the crib?"
"Nope" Arnav told her as he slumped his head back into the pillow on that side of the bed "seems like he learned to get down from the crib by himself - in only 3 days- My son doesnt like barriers- just like me"
Kushi looked at him as he glanced the white sheet covering her as he mentioned about barrier and pulled the sheet further to her neck
"Haa.. now that he displays something clever- he becomes your son immediately- that was selfish"
"cant help being a little selfish" he said as he leaned forward on to her to reach for his pant which was lying on the floor on her other side.
"Arnav.." Kushi stammered "its late already.. and Arush is awake and"
She stopped as she realised that he was only reaching for his pant
"Oh I thought.. you were.." She told awkwardly blushing red again.
"Too generous of you to think this highly of your husband"
He smirked as he quickly put on his pants and got down, picked up his shirt and pulled it over his head.. He collected her clothes which were strewn around the room and passed it to her.
"My night shirt" she asked as she checked what he gave her.
"eh? oh your tops... " he asked as he looked around and then noticed that Arush was playing with it.
"Hey Little champ has got it" Arnav informed her as he moved towards the corner where Arush was sitting on his heels. He bent down to take Kushi's dress from his hand
"maammaa Kapppda" Arush told looking at his dad with large eyes.
"yes kiddo its hers, look at her - very irresposible na- she drops it at odd places and then make us pick it up for her isnt it? quiet a slave driver she is " he told him as he picked him up too and threw her shirt to her.
"What? what did you tell him just now?" She asked him, but he ignored her
"How long have you been you up Little Champ?" he asked his son " you have a lazy mom ..dont you? Is it always like this? are you the one to wake her up?" he asked as Kushi opened her mouth wide ...
"did you call me Lazy mom? " She asked but he shruged his shoulders nonchalently
"and Shameless too.. " he added with a smirk
Kushi decided to ignore his comments and get on with her day and as she took her shirt in her hand she let out a audible gasp
"What is this? this one is ruined" she screamed as she showed Arnav the shirt " you tore it! you tore it such a way that it cannot be mended again! "
Arnav looked at the shirt which was ripped along the front, the fabric royally spoiled.
"May be Arush-" Arnav started to say when Kushi cut him off
"Dont blame my son" Kushi warned him "I know it was you"
"Yeah.. I was meaning to say that May be Arush's parents got a little wild yesterday and its totally unfair to blame only his dad- Isnt it Kiddo?" he smirked at her as she threw the shirt towards him
He caught it with an unerring nonchalance and flung it on the recliner.
"Ok Kiddo, lets act gentlemanly now and give Momma her personal space" he told Arush playfully with a little stress on the word personal space as he caught her eyes for a moment and winked at her. With a sigh Kushi winded herself with the white sheet and got out of the bed.
Smirking amicably he moved forward to open the door to the pool side and moved out, closing the door behind him, giving Kushi the much needed time and privacy.
To be continued.
Edited by abavi - 12 years ago
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