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Aishwarya POV

"You should go and take a bath before I end up kissing you harshly,"

I shuddered at his words and my smile vanished.

I blinked and looked at his eyes gazing at me intensely. It was neither soft nor it was dangerous instead it was more like he was seeing through me. Like, his gaze was penetrating me. Deeper.

I immediately lowered my gaze to break the tensing eye contact and stood up.

"Ji,"

I managed to say and walked inside my old bathing room. The place where I had grown up, the place I wished I could stay forever.

But, things change.

And, rather rapidly than one could imagine.

A slight smile appeared on my face realising how things had changed for me. There was a time when I did not want to get married and now all I wanted was to return to my new home and new family.

Well, I was feeling that the blood relations didn't need to work best for you. Someone with non-related blood could also make you feel at home.

Like Hukum, like Jiji and Devarsa.

They felt like home and strangely I was missing them already.

Once there was a time when I craved for my sisters and my family. I lied to wait for them to come to visit the Empire, so I could talk, feel or move.

But, now, it was not feeling the same.

And, I was feeling slightly guilty about it that my feelings were shifting from my sisters to my other family.

I undressed and sat on the stool to take a bath.

Unlike Suryagarh, we did not have huge pools to take and enjoy the bath rather we had stone stools and vessels to get one.

Well, only my father's chamber had the pool facility here.

Because we could not afford so much water. Songarh was away from the river and built on a hill. It was pretty difficult to access water from the rivers. There were wells and a pond in the Empire but it required a lot of hard work of attendees to pull out the water.

I pushed the metallic vessel into the bigger take a portion of water and emptied it over my shoulder. It was cold and made me shiver a little.

The winter was arriving.

I finished my bath quickly and changed into a fresh and comfortable pair of clothes. Only the weight of maroon attire got off my body replaced with the yellow light one. The weight of heavy pieces of jewellery was intact.

I could not take them off during the first visit home after the marriage. It was a kind of status symbol and power more than comfort. Though, no one had asked me to precisely but all my sisters used to wear heavy pieces of jewellery when they used to come home. Showing off their richness and power and glory.

My curls were tied up in a bun and I walked out of the bathing room into the bedroom only to find him still sitting on the bed.

He lifted his gaze from the floor to me and gulped while silently walking towards the mirror.

I looked at myself in the mirror and lifted the vermillion bottle to add to the partition of my hair and in the middle of my brows.

I could feel his slow and silent bare footsteps approaching me and I inhaled a deep breath when I felt him wrapping his arms around me from behind.

My heartbeats raced to look at him leaning into my neck lazily and I stood silent. My face tilted to one side a little and I felt his breaths fanning over my shoulder and the base of my neck.

He did not say anything and I could see his eyes closed as if he was just inhaling me, resting lazily.

"It will be alright, Hukum,"

I managed to say in a slow voice and I felt his hold tightening around my waist.

He pulled me back to make my back press against his chest and I felt his lips almost reaching to the front of my neck.

His hot breath tickling against my skin was making me feel slight shivers bubbling up from the base of the nape of my neck and settling down into my core, eventually affecting my knees.

"Have you talked to your sisters?"

He asked in a slow voice and I breathily nodded.

"Ji,"

I felt him brushing his lips on my neck lazily that were making me blink rapidly and oozing my brain with the feeling of bliss running into my nerves.

"Did you say what I asked you to?"

He asked and I nodded.

"Ji,"

I inhaled a deep breath when he parted his lips and pressed against my neck. I felt as if he suddenly pulled the air off me and I tried to say.

"But, they did not believe me. They said that I am your toy and you do not love me,"

My voice was slow and he immediately pulled back.

"What?"

He asked turning me to face him and I nodded.

"Ji,"

The laziness and dizziness washed off his face in a fraction of a moment and were replaced with shock and anger.

"How dare they?"

He asked and I smiled a little.

"I do not think it's their fault,"

I tried to say and he looked at me with the thinned brows.

"Why so?"

He asked and I turned to look at myself in the mirror while draping my dupatta around my waist and chest.

"They were saying because maybe they have not felt that. People mostly say what they are going through,"

I tried to say and looked at him.

"But, you are my toy or anything disgusting, Aishwarya. You are my wife,"

He said and I smiled.

"I know, I told them but they did not believe me. They could not believe the fact that I am not beautiful and you are the most handsome they have ever seen. So, it's like they cannot believe that I am your first and only wife and only woman in your life,"

I said and he kissed the side of my head.

"You are, Aishwarya, you are the first and the last woman in my life,"

He said and I smiled.

"I know,"

"Did it hurt you when they said that? I mean are you okay if they do not believe you?"

He asked and I nodded while inhaling a deep breath. I turned to look at him and he looked back into my eyes.

"No, it did not hurt me because I know the truth. And, somewhere in my heart, I know that no matter what happens, what I do, or what you do, they will always say something because they always have something to say. And, strangely, I am feeling tired now. I am feeling so tired to think what they are thinking about me, about us. I am so tired of it, Hukum. For the first time in my life, I am feeling like I am worth something, worth someone. The time I have spent with you in these days made me detach from the world what I had before and it unclouded my mind in so many ways. If I would believe what they are saying then I might end up questioning myself and us. And, I do not want that. I do not know what exactly I want yet but I know what I do not want right now. I do not want to stay away from you, I do not want to listen to anyone but you, I do not want anyone's eyes on me except yours. I do not want to care about anything else. I want to listen to what you have to say, Only,"

I said and I mean each and every word I uttered. I only wanted to be near him. I feel safe around him, I feel comfortable around him. Whenever I stay close to him I feel like he would not judge how loudly I laugh, how I look, how I behave, how I mess things up, however I am.

I felt him cupping my cheeks and his lips spreading a little into a slight smile.

"Now, you are becoming the feather inked with my colour, Aishwarya,"

He said and I felt him pulling me closer to him and his lips touched mine. Gently and slowly.

He featherly kissed my lips and said.

"You are not my toy,"

He kissed me again. Only for a moment, lightly, gently and muttered.

"And, you are so beautiful, Aishwarya, inside and out,"

A slight smile appeared on my lips and I said in a slow voice.

"They must be waiting for us in the dining hall,"

He kissed me again, longer this time and said.

"And, I do love you,"

His words sent a shiver down my spine and I lifted my gaze to look at him. 

"You do?"

A soft voice escaped my lips and he kissed my cheek.

"I do,"

His words suddenly made me feel hot in my cheeks and suddenly.

*thud*

The loud voice of a vessel falling on the ground startled me and I jumped with fear.

We both looked towards the direction of the window and the voice seemed to come from the other side of the window and then a faded noise of anklets followed like someone was running away.

"Someone was watching us,"

He said and I gulped.

"It could be one of my sisters. They seem to be planning something as they did not believe me earlier. So, maybe they came to see us,"

I tried to say in a slow voice and he looked at me with shocked and thinned brows.

"What?"

The confusion and shock were clearly available on his face and he said.

"Who does that? Are they stupid or what?"

I could feel the irritation in his voice and I laughed.

"You are laughing? Aishwarya,"

He looked at me with shock and I could not help but laugh more.

His gaze and shock softened while seeing my laughing and seeing him coming closer made my laughter vanish and I blinked nervously looking into his eyes.

I took a step back and he took a step forward. I took a few steps away from him and laughed a little. But, before I could get too far from him, he grabbed my wrist and pulled me closer to him.

"I think you need more laughter and they need more show,"

He said and wrapped his arms around my waist. My heart bears slowed and I blinked nervously looking at him.

"What do you mean?"

I managed to ask and he smiled.

"You will know,"

He said and took a step away from me.

"Let's go,"

He said and I nodded.

We both walked out of the chamber and headed towards the dining hall. 

I had kept the dupatta over my head properly and felt him holding my hand firmly yet gently. I could feel the eyes of attendees and staff on us while we were walking through the path towards the dining hall.

I inhaled a deep breath before taking a step forward into the dining hall. Despite the fact that it was my home, I was feeling nervous and anxious while entering the dining hall with my husband.

"Calm down,"

He said in a slow voice and I slowly tried to take my hand back from his hold but he kept his hold tight on my hand while we walked inside.

The chaos and noise came to a halt while all eyes turned intensely on us. With my flickering gaze between the people and the ground, I noticed that only men were sitting on the couches while the women were standing on a side with the servers and attendees.

We walked towards an empty space of the couch and I saw him sitting and settling. He lifted his gaze to look at me as if waiting for me to take the space with him but I looked around and walked to the side.

"Aap nahi bethengi? Aishwarya,"

"You are not sitting? Aishwarya,"

He asked all of a sudden and I felt a strange kind of knot in my stomach. I looked at him nervously and shook my head.

"Ji nahi, Aapke Bhojan ke baad hum kha lenge,"

"No, we will have dinner after yours,"

I tried to say and he chuckled.

"Kyu hume aapse jyada bhook lagti hai,"

"Do we feel hungrier than you,"

I looked at everyone staring at him with shameful smiles and a kind of not-so-good teasing smile.

"Hamare yaha Aurtein pehle nahi khati,"

"Women do not eat before us,"

One of my sister's husband said and I looked at Hukum lifting his eyes to him and chuckling.

"Kya baat hai! Jo Annapurna hai usse hi pehle khane ki manahi hai,"

"Whats that! The one who is the Goddess of Food herself is not allowed to eat before us,"

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