Chapter 47 He woke up before her the next morning and found her fast asleep cuddling onto him as she held his shirt tightly. He moved her hair away from her face as she stirred in her sleep clutching onto his shirt tighter than before...
"She walks away when she's awake and won't let go when sleeping!" he chuckled to himself as he tried to remove her hand of his shirt. After a few tries he managed to slip out of bed only to come back and lay down by her stomach. He caressed her stomach gently looking up to see if he was waking her up as he talked to his baby...
"Hey...listen. You're my good baby right? So please no nausea for mom and if you don't tire out your mom like you have been these days, then I'll bring a surprise for you soon. So please help your Papa today otherwise your mom won't talk to me." He finished off as she turned in her sleep and he rushed to the bathroom so he could be ready before she woke up...
He came out as Ruhi woke up and was whimpering in her crib. Quickly picking her up, he took her out before she could wail and wake Ishita.
"Ru you also help me like the baby! Don't cry much today, or else mumma will wake up and then Papa's gone!" Putting her in her chair and handing her a small plush to play with, he went into the kitchen for his first attempt to cool down his wife's anger...
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She woke up an hour later and looked around the peaceful room for him. Stretching her arms out after a long relaxed sleep, she looked at the time and found it odd that Ruhi was still asleep. She was about to get up and check on her when Raman walked in with Ruhi in arm and holding a tray in the other. Helping him by taking the tray while he sat down on the edge of them, she looked at Ruhi. He handed their smiling daughter to her while she took in everything that was happening. She looked at him confused while he started to explain...
"Good morning! See I did everything for you today. Ruhi is all bathed though she gave a second shower too, and she's dressed in your favourite white shirt and orange skirt. But I couldn't do her hair. I tried and it was bad! So you do that, and put on those little clips. I like them...but before for that your breakfast is all ready for you. Eat that and then get busy with Ruhi..." he talked to her while he made her tea for her.
She kept on looking at him the whole time. First she had wondered why he was acting like this when she realized it was because of her anger yesterday. Though she had melted the moment he came in and wished her a good morning and handed her a freshened up Ruhi, she saw all he was doing and decided to tease him for a while. After all he wasn't everyday she got to see him so cute trying to win her over.
"What is this for?" she asked as he handed her a cup of tea and forward a tray full of her favourite breakfast foods. Her mouth watered as she saw the food, but pretended to not be affected by it.
"For you...it's your favourite right?" he looked at her hopefully.
"So? I don't want it today. I'm not like you that food with make me happy."
"I thought the way to a woman's heart would also be through her stomach...especially if she's my pregnant madrasan..." he said to himself while she looked at him curiously and he looked back at her.
"But I made it myself." He made puppy eyes while she wanted to engulf him into a hug right them, but stopped herself and put the tray on the night table and handed him Ruhi.
"Then I definitely don't want it!" she came out of the duvet and saw her slippers by her feet as she looked at Raman who faintly smiled at her. She rushed to the cupboard to avoid him and opened it up to find a red saree hanging in the middle with something stuck on it. She pulled out her saree and found a sticky note with a smile drawn on it next to his sorry. She looked back at him while he was busy ticking Ruhi who was kicking her leg to make him stop. He stole a glance at her to see what she was doing and she saw him do so. She always wanted to dress according to his choice and the saree was one of her favourites, but she was enjoying this fake anger, so she carefully took off the sticky note and stuck it on the wardrobe as if it fell off and she never saw it. Taking her towel in a hurry, she went to the bathroom while he sulked as he walked to the cupboard and found the note still there. But a smile crept up on his face as he thought she would come out of the bathroom without her anger.
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She walked in to the aroma of jasmine filling the entire bathroom. She walked over to the shower and found a note stuck on the shower door. Shaking her head at his craziness, she read the note that said...
"Still mad? Maybe a relaxing bath will change your mood. It's all set for you. Take your time...I'll manage Ruhi. Just forgive me. Sorry..."
How would she forgive him if she wasn't mad? It was one small argument and he was doing all this. She wish he was here so she could pinch his cheeks and imagine him ruffling his hair again. Smiling to herself, she walked away to take the bath he had set up for her while he waited outside anxiously for her to come out hopefully happy with him now.
And when she did come out half an hour later, he was left staring at her. She was checking her saree's pleats and watching her step while he could only be mesmerized by her. He knew this saree would look gorgeous on her and make her look more beautiful than he had ever seen, but this was something else. The color suited her creamy skin perfectly while it fit her curves and complimented them in just the right way. He always thought she had looked the prettiest on their wedding day, but today she had amazed him with her beauty again. He watched her walk over to the vanity throwing her towel aside letting her wet hair loose and he looked on as her hair covered her partially covered back that he wanted to get a glimpse of. But he was still too lost in his trance to be too upset and was completely distracted by her as she put on her mangalstura and sindoor with a smile on her face as she did so. As she reached for her foundation, he couldn't stop himself...
"Leave it...you look fine like this." He smiled at her while she blushed once again biting her lower lip.
Trying to ignore the effect his mere words had on her, she continued to get ready while he had his full attention on her. His smile grew wider as she left the bottle of makeup and slipped on a few plain red bangles & put on a long silver earring. He got up putting Ruhi on the bed and walked over to her. Standing behind and looked at her, he stopped her from putting on the other one and picked up a pair of smaller stud handing them to her. She didn't say anything, but shyly took off her earring and tried to avoid his gaze while she put in the silver studs. She was about to get up unable to tolerate his burning gaze when he held her shoulders making her sit back down. Looking at corner of the mirror where she had placed small bindis, he took off the small red dot matching her saree and kept his eyes on her through the mirror as he placed it on her forehead.
"Looking red hot huh?!" he huskily whispered to her while she pretended to ignore his comment and rushed out of the room only to have her cheeks turn the same color as her saree. While she enjoyed the compliments, her husband sat in their room sulking thinking she was still angry. He thought she would have forgotten her anger, but now but maybe he had hurt her too much. Maybe what seemed like a white lie was way too much for her.
"Looking red hot...with anger of course..." he muttered to himself and tried to think of something else to make his angry wife calmer and apologize for his one lie.
"Ru! Your mom is so stubborn!" he complained to his daughter who was busy trying to reach for the toys hanging above her head as she walked back into the room. She asked him if he was planning on going to work today or not and he got up to leave like an obedient child being scolded by his mother while he gave Ruhi a cheek kiss and handed her over to Ishita who was waiting to see if he would give a kiss to her as well. But to her disappointment he walked away sadly thinking it would anger her further as everything he did seemed to be doing just that...
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He sat down in between his meeting watching his manager talk to the investors while he was lost in his own thoughts. He couldn't believe she was so mad. He knew he made a mistake by lying, but this much anger from her was so unexpected especially when she was the one who always tried to understand what reasons people had for certain actions. Then why couldn't she understand he was doing this for her and only had good intentions. Why was she so mad? It was driving him insane that she was running away and ignoring. It didn't seem right that she didn't wish him good morning or say anything about all he was doing. He knew he needed to try harder and secretly pulled out his phone to text her...
"Hey..." She saw it and no reply.
"Listen, I need to talk to you. Will you meet me during lunch?😃" Same response again.
"Sorry..." and only silence again.
"I don't like you ignoring me.😔"
"Say something...even if it's in capital letters!😭" he rapidly typed away.
"Sorry again...😭" he slowly typed as he saw his manager looking at him and quickly sent the message as he returned to the meeting embarrassed...
Little did he know his wife was busy responding to emails and fixing his meetings and appointments while his daughter had been the one fiddling with the phone and making it seem like Ishita had read the message while she was completely unaware and was waiting for his one message or call to tell him she wasn't upset at all as she started to worry he would pull himself back if she kept her fake anger on.
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He rushed into their home to find her busy in the kitchen with Mihika. He watched her still in the same attire as this morning instead of being changed into her night clothes and a grin appeared on his face as he watched her trying to move away strand of hair away from her face while checking on something in a pot. Mihika saw him and was about to call out to him when he signaled her to be quiet and with a goofy smile on her face, Mihika walked away carrying Ruhi to her room leaving them both alone. Taking a deep breath he walked inside and looked at her as he placed a bouquet of her favourite white lilies as Mihika told him on the kitchen counter getting her attention. As she looked up at her, he reached over and tucked in the strand of hair while she lowered her lashes and turned the other way. He didn't know what her reaction meant and quietly walked away hoping she would be pleased with this last effort of his. She looked at the flowers & picked them up and was about to call out to him when he had already walked away. She pulled out the small card in the bouquet...
"I'll say sorry as much as you want! But please stop ignoring me...I just don't like it." It read and she rushed to their bedroom to find him in the bathroom. She picked up his coat that he threw on the bed and sat down waiting for him to come back. When he came back out drying his hair to find her folding some of Ruhi's clothes on the bed silently. He thought she would have been somewhat moved by his efforts, but she was so stubborn and he knew he would never mess with her again...
"Yaar I give up! I'm sorry! How many more times do I say it?! Now you tell me what to do..." he threw his towel as a smile crept on her face knowing he was back and knew it was time to end her act...
"Awww, so cute! Raman Bhalla begging his wife for a sorry." She burst out giggling at his helpless face.
"What's so funny?" he looked back angrily sitting down next to her..
"You! Bhuddu, I forgave you last night when you apologized...I was angry because you put me before your pain once again. And then I was just so worried that what if I hadn't been able to show Mihir how much I love Ruhi." Her laughter faded away as she became serious.
"I always put you before me and I'll continue doing that no matter how angry you are. But the Mihir thing...I told you I would never let you two be separated and remember Mihir can't take her away anyways. She's yours and always will be." He declared bringing grateful tears to her eyes.
"Don't hide things Raman..." she brought herself closer to him as he put wiped her tears and his arm around her shoulder.
"I thought it would be better if I did."
"Clearly it wasn't. You turned into an apologizing machine." She looked at him with a smile on her face.
"Yep. Seriously I won't mess with you. Because of your anger, I looked so crazy at the store buying flowers for you while on call with Mihika trying to get the perfect one, had to wake up early, go caught texting in my meeting-"
"Hold on! You said got caught texting in your meeting?! Raman you sound like a child who got their phone taken away in class."
"I probably looked like one too! But it was better than burning my fingers for your breakfast that you threw away, I put my blood and sweat into trying to make you chuck out that anger." He chuckled while her expressions changed completely. She took his hand into hers as she rambled in checking his hand...
"You burnt yourself?! Are you mad? Who asked you to cook if you can't?! How bad is it and why didn't you tell me...why do you think you can do everything when you can't and what if it was worse than now. Do you realize how horrible it could have gotten, and-"
"Hold your horses! It just one finger and it's perfectly fine now! Like you care, you didn't even eat the food" he pouted as he pointed to a small burn mark at the tip of his finger.
"You're crazy Raman! And I did eat everything you made! How could I not, it was made by Chef Raman especially for me."
"Like you're not! You made me go from the scary CEO RKB to a chef like you said."
"That's why wives are for."
"Oh really? You want to know I can do as a husband?" He came closer to her leaning over while she thought she had an idea of what would happen next and could only whisper his name...
"Raman..." And that was enough for him as she called out his name as a whisper...
"I do have another way to drive away my wife's anger..." he whispered into her ear and she dared to nervously ask...
"W...Wha...What?"
He held one hand of her in his while the other gently pushed her shoulder down making her lay back on the bed as he bend over her from the side. Her breath hitched as he came closer to her and she could feel his breath on her neck now. She would immediately resist when anyone coming near her in this manner, but found herself trying to let loose for him as he nuzzled her neck and she moved her head giving him space. He noticed her fast breathing as she allowed him to do with he wanted. But it wasn't supposed to be like this he knew from her stiffness. He looked up at her a bit and found her with eyes shut tight almost scared with his behavior and so he knew it wasn't time yet either. So slowly he moved closer to her face again and bringing his lips by her ear, he slowly whispered in his deep voice...
"We'll leave it as a secret for another day..."
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Edited by smilesforever98 - 10 years ago
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