"DO I DESERVE A SECOND CHANCE HIYA???... CAN I GET IT???"...

Coming out of his embrace, I looked at him... his eyes.. genuine.. like I always said previously.. whatever he does.. be it his taunts.. be it his love.. everything seemed pure.. devoid o any adulteration..!! yet.. I was not sure what to do..?? okay even if I give him a second chance could I really trust him again??? Like that blind trust??? Is it not that whatever I will be doing from now on, my subconscious mind won't be conscious whether I am being watched or not??? Will I not be careful before doing anything...?? can I be that carefree like before?? Yet... I found my hands wiping off his tears.. my lips kissing his eyelids... but my voice? They remained numb.

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Jetlagged... exhausted... I didn't know when I slept off again.. I was woken by him... the sun was showering its brightness t its fullest.. "Have this..." his soft, guilt-stricken voice touched my ears... I stretched.. grated chicken dipped in mozzarella cheese.. with ginger bread..

I looked at him.. he had already bathed... grey sweatpants... and that white inner... he never wore those hunk style inners... have always seen him in the most simple 'lux cosy' or 'rupa frontline'.. he didn't have those well toned set of abs.. no rippling muscles... but a perfect trimmed body.. not a layer of flesh extra or less... being almost six inches shorter than him.. I had to look pretty upwards to face or the other way round.. he had to look pretty downwards to look at me.. I looked up.. his eyes..yet had the tint of red... I looked away munching the bread...

"here you go... shower.. we are going to local market... we still have a day.." he handed me the towel... I left...

The shower indeed did good.. it calmed the storm inside me for at least sometimes.. a few more minutes... and then I wrapped my hairs with the towel, put on the bathrobe and exited the bathroom or entered the room... he was standing in balcony, looking at city..!! I went from my trolley but the view on bed surprised me..!! he had arranged my clothes for the day.. right from my jeans.. the ankle one.. a kurti, strap sleeved to be specific.. of deep pink and yellow colour combination. and what??? My bikini set!!! that too with deep pink straps..!!! ughh... Mayukh.. this guy..!! I could feel Goosebumps all over... shit..!! I suddenly blushed.. matching the colour of my inners!! He shouldn't have done this.. I smiled coyly.. anyways I dressed up... I saw myself in the mirror.. oh fish..!! now I know why the matching bikini set..??? the strap of the kurti and the bikini.. they camouflaged each other..!!! My protective husband...!!

The shoe rack had my heeled sandal too..!! "thank you.." I chipped as he was lacing his snickers.. after a few minutes I found us in the lift.. two young men were with us.. they smiled at us nodding a hello.. my palms crushed under his hold..!! my possessive husband..!!

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After coming out of the currency exchange centre, we directly walked to the local market..!!! beautiful... the market was so organised.. neat and tidy...!! low pitch yellings of the shopkeepers.. everything was so lovely...

Mayukh was trying to buy me almost everything that caught my eye! Though I wasn't in a mood to buy each and everything.!! Poor kid..!!! I knew , it was his way to say sorry...

We had lunch in a roadside restaurant.. the food...was yumm... some nonveg dish.. but please don't ask me its name... I could get it.. let alone spell it.!! After that we went for boating in the Nile.. the blue water shone as crystal... lovely.. "Mayukh.. bs... you have clicked more than a hundred pics by now.." I splashed some water on him.. he giggled.. I smiled...

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Tired of the day we jumped on the bed as soon as we had the dinner... just like before.. his arms wrapped around me.. my head tugged in his embrace..!!! no matter what.. this was always a bliss... we hushed a good night to each other.. and I closed my eyes only to be grabbed more into him..

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The hotel bus was taking our first destination... long with us, there were a Australian couple, a European couple.. and a group of American students..they were studying history.. and had a particular paper on Egyptian history this year.. so their college had sent the here... infact, they travel to different parts of the world like this.. wow man.. what a life..!!!

The bus stopped after a good 3 hours after it left from Cairo.. we came out.. VALLEY OF KINGS!!!! Wuhhooo.. my dream destination... I stretched my arms and breathed... but suddenly my brain flashed something...

OUR FAREWELL... JUNIORS HAD ARRANGED SOME GAMES FOR US.. I TOO WAS ASKED SOMETHING I DON'T REMMBER EXACTLY.SOMETHING RELATED TO 'OTHERTHAN ENGINEERING OTHER SUBJECTS OF INTEREST."BUT I HAD REPLIED.. "HISTORY HAS ALWAYS FASCINATED ME.. ESPECIALLY THOSE LOST CIVILISATIONS... UNFOLDED MYSTREIS... TUTENKHAMEN... IF I GET A CHANCE I WOULD LOVE TO VISIT THAT LAND MYSTRY LAND.. THE VALLEY KINGS"... MAYUKH WAS THERE WITH A DRINK..

Shit??? He brought me here for shit I had spoken some three and a half years back.!!! Holy cow... he remembered it..?? I looked at him... his eyes were twinkling... though I could read the satisfaction in his eyes..in his smile... and then I don't know what came upon me..!!! in a fraction of seconds.. I stood on my toe tips.. he was into arms.. his lips into mine..!!!