After driving a little further in the town, he looked at his angry wife and asked

"Would you like to have a strawberry milkshake?" Ragini hummed as usual to get a chuckle from her husband which angered her more.

In the snack bar, Ragini kept her bag on her lap and waited for her husband to arrive with the milkshake that he promised her.

Swarag kept the tray with the snacks and looked at her who was looking sideways. He smiled at her little antics and told her to have her snacks.

Ragini drank the milkshakes and slightly widened her eyes enjoying the drink. As it was the first time that she had a refreshing new flavour touch her mouth. She licked her lips at the sweet taste making a certain husband look at her with a certain lusty gaze.

He looked away to avoid awkwardness but looked back to see her repeat her actions.

He couldn't control himself and licked his own lips unknowingly.

He was feeling uneasiness and thought to end his torture. He told her that they would be getting late. Hearing that she kept the drink and looked at him wiping her rosy lips with her floral handkerchief, which turned a darker shade of pink.

He looked at her lips and huffed getting up. She walked behind him to their car.

The entire ride he kept looking at her lips which she was biting in between looking outside the window.

He couldn't believe the angel sitting just a few inches away from him. Various unwanted thoughts were lingering in his mind at that time after seeing his wife in the snack bar doing those unholy acts without her knowledge.

He steered the wheels with his one hand and the other he kept on his forehead rubbing it to erase the scene from his head.

"Listen," he got startled and looked at her. She blinked at her eyes and spoke

"Can we stop near the book store? I wanted to buy some books," Swarag nodded his head and went back to his driving.

At the bookstore

Ragini went to the college section and searched for her Bioanalytical Chemistry textbook in the rack.

Swarag went to the mechanical section and searched for something that he would usually read in his spare time.

While moving ahead, he had to cross the novel section. He stopped to look at some books just to see the store collection.

Moving ahead, he found a romance novel picturing the love story evolving in an arranged marriage. He chuckled at the title and kept it back. He then found an apt book featuring the latest models of sparking machines and molding machines explaining their structural anatomy. He took it and went near the cash counter.

He searched for his wife who was taking her own sweet time.

After waiting for some time, he went in search of her.

He heard her giggling sound and saw that she was talking to a stranger much more freely than she had ever tried to talk to him.

He went near them and smiled earning the usual scared look from his wife.

"I am Sumesh. I met your wife in her university. I am her senior you know. So, she asked about the project work that she had taken up for her finals. You must be her husband, um..." Sumesh tried to remember his name which Ragini had told him a few minutes.

Swarag looked at her and said "Swarag," Both of them shaked their hands in a friendly manner.

After reaching their home, late in the evening. Ragini went to the washroom to change her attire into her regular clothes. She then rushed to the kitchen to help her mother-in-law.

Swarag saw her rush and thought to talk to her at night when both of them are free.

After the dinner, Swarag waited for his wife while taking notes from his laptop.

He kept looking at the room door hoping that she would come before he felt sleepy.

At 10 she came inside her room, to see her husband already asleep on his side of the bed.

She washed herself changing into her night dress and went to sleep on her side of the bed.

Suddenly she felt a strong arm grab her thin waist pulling her towards him.

Swarag snuggled in her hair trying to take her scent.

Ragini got scared at his actions. She wiggled in his grip which angered him. He then turned her facing him and kissed her forehead, cheeks and tried snuggling in her neck, without warning.

Ragini felt her world turn upside down. She tried to move him by pushing his shoulders but she was fragile for his strong self.

He grabbed her waist trying to keep her still with his strong hold. While his other hand softly rubbed her waist trying to move inside her kurta.

Suddenly he heard her whimpers, he backed a little and looked at her closed eyes which were flowing with tears.

"What!!" Swarag spoke in a low stern voice.

Ragini just cried making him angrier. Swarag backed more removing the stray hairs from her face.

Ragini opened her eyes and whimpered making her lips to quiver.

"We are husband and wife. We are supposed to do this," saying so he bend down to kiss her lips but she moved away from him.

"No!" Ragini low screamed at him pushing him away in a disgusted manner.

Swarag suddenly realised his behaviour and got up remorseful taking his pillow and duvet.

"I am sorry. You can stay in this room and I will just..." Ragini looked at him with a saddened face when he signalled to the adjacent room.

Ragini slowly got up clutching her legs and bend her head on her legs crying badly.

Swarag rested his head on the door of the guest room and thought 'What is wrong with me?! I should have not done that! God!'

The next morning, Ragini was silently doing her work with her mother-in-law who was chattering as usual.

Swarag called his mother out for his breakfast and told her he would be late than the usual time.

Ragini looked at him to meet his eyes which he was avoiding, out of repentance.

She felt sad but she couldn't understand his strange behaviour the other night.

She thought to ask her bestie when she reached in the university.

In the afternoon, Ragini and Shanti were waiting for their bus. After seeing that the bus stop was vacant enough for her to talk, Ragini told her bestie everything that happened between her and her husband the previous night.

Shanti was very angry at Swarag. She started cursing him for hurting her friend and told Ragini to stay away from him for good.

In the evening, Ragini sat near the front porch waiting for her husband. She thought about what Shanti had told her but she was half satisfied.

She knew that her husband was a gem of a person. As, if a person loves and respects his mother so much will not be that bad. Then why did he try to...

She heard the bike sound of her husband and smiled getting up. Swarag parked his bike and moved into the house ignoring her completely.

He removed his jacket keeping it on the usual rack. He saw his wife bringing him the glass tumbler filled with water. He looked at her and moved to the room adjacent to their.

After refreshing, he came to have his dinner. He saw that his wife was diligently helping his mother.

She poured him the curry in his plate that she had especially made for him. He tasted it not knowing the fact and hummed in satisfaction.

Ragini smiled at his acts and poured him more. He understood that she must have made it. He moved the curry across the plate and tasted the ones made by his mother.

Ragini was upset by that and moved to the kitchen confusing Kaushalya.

Swarag was clueless on how to approach her after his behaviour which would have angered her. So, he got up from his seat and went to the guest room disheartened. 

Ragini was looking up the ceiling of her room trying to sleep lonely in that bed missing someone.

She turned and turned to get her sleep which was long gone.

She went to her suitcase and took out her diary. She wrote her emotions in the diary while crying, remembering all that had happened in the last few days.

Swarag was looking outside the window and feeling somewhat lonely in the guest room. He shrugged his thoughts and went back to sleep trying to forget her rejection towards him.

Days turned to weeks, with both the lovely couple avoiding each other in that big house of the small family.

Swarag told his mother that he would be gone to Bangalore for work purposes and return only the day after tomorrow. Ragini heard the news from the kitchen but kept her stance thinking that it would at least avoid the awkwardness between them for some days.

Swarag was packing his bag and heard the door opening sound. He thought that maybe his mother would have come demanding some sarees from the city.

Ragini went near him offering him the warm clothes for the travel. As it was chilly in the city during the rainy season. Swarag took it looking into her eyes which were filled with tears.

He turned his back holding his tears and zipped his bag.

He told her to take care of herself and his mother. She hummed and clutched her hands waiting for him.

He moved out of the room without touching her or bidding her bye. She felt completely shattered at his reaction to her behaviour.

She couldn't understand why he was so upset with her. 

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