The calm night had finally been able to subside the busy clamour of the day. The puja was done with utmost perfection, instead of Anirudh, Batuk had sat beside his sister-in-law to conduct the rituals. Trilochan couldn't be happier, and at around ten thirty, when Rudhi had finally slept off in Manimala's arms, Bondita rushed inside their temporary ground floor bedroom letting out a loud sigh of relief.

"Finally...! Finally all over, done and dusted!" She closed the door, and pulled the latch up.

Anirudh was reading a few of his case studies, re arranging his presentation for the upcoming Court hearing.
He looked up and smiled brightly at his wife.

"You did well Bondita... You were brilliant."

Bondita smiled back at him and sat down on the bed, by his feet and began to remove her gold jewelleries.

Anirudh had kept the papers aside.
"Come, let me help you." He had sat upright at once, and took her hand in his, pulling the bangles out gently from her wrist.

"Beena had called." Bondita remarked unmindfuly.

"And?"

"Was asking if I'm still alive... That girl." She chuckled softly and Anirudh picked up the bunch of bangles and kept them on her lap, his hands were working on the clip of her necklace now.

"You have missed quite some classes Bondita... How do you plan to catch up?"

"I'll see."
Bondita sighed.
"Whatever I learn, at times I find them so irreverent..."

Anirudh had pulled out the necklace as it joined the heap as well.

"You wanted to do this... You chose Women Studies... Didn't I tell you it's mostly theory... Think once Bondita, what is the point in doing something where there won't be any practical utility."

Bondita frowned at his words and turned around.
"What do you mean? I'm gaining knowledge from it."

"Yes. You are... It's a personal gain... What are you doing for the society in turn? How is your vast knowledge going to benefit the society? You just don't learn so that you can keep it to yourself, do you?"

His words were pretty harsh, a reality check, but in a way Bondita found them wise, although a little annoyed at this sudden untimely lecture.

"Why didn't you stop me before then? When I applied for it?"

"Because I wanted you to find it out yourself, why should I impose my ideas on you?"

"But you are imposing now!"
Bondita had gotten up from the bed, as she neared the mirror and pulled her earrings out.

"I'm... I'm not! How can you say it? I have never imposed anything on you Bondita!"

Bondita had kept the jewelleries inside a velvet covered wooden box.
"Really? You don't?"

"I don't."
Anirudh was smiling.

"And, what if I give you examples?"
Bondita was smiling too, mischievously, rolling her eyes at him.

"Sure... Go ahead ma'am... I'm all ears."

His words made her raise her eyebrow in a tease.
"Sure, I'll... But in due time." She grinned.
"Tonight, I'm tired!"

Anirudh smiled and stretched his arms at her, invitingly.
"Then come to me, in my arms, and let me fix you up."

"And your ribs?"

"They won't mind, I'm sure!" He winked at her playfully as Bondita almost ran towards him, and let herself lose in his arms.

"Hug me properly." Anirudh had snaked around her body with his right hand, as he nuzzled cozily on the crook of her neck.

"No... No proper hugs tonight, only once you heal."

Anirudh looks at her with pouty lips.
"I've healed... And, I want to love you Bondita, it's like I am not able to breath, not being able to love you properly as like a death punishment... I would have preferred death instead!"

Bondita had gasped at his last words, her hand had covered her mouth instinctively, as she murmured a quick prayer to the goddess.

"You are just... just bad... Barrister Babu! Who says these things!"

Anirudh had realised his mistake at once.
"Sorry... I didn't mean to..." He kept his chin on her shoulder once again.
"I didn't mean to upset you." He placed a soft kiss on her skin and looked at her eyes with an apology.
"Sorry... Please."

Bondita nodded.

"So when are you planning to resume your classes?"
He asked softly trying to avert the topic.

"I'm still thinking." Bondita muttered, making Anirudh narrow his eyes.

"You stay a lot unmindful these days... I know me being in bed had doubled your responsibility, but you can share your burdens with me you know... Thoughts don't require physical movements."
He tried to smiled as she sighed deeply and leaned against his shoulder.

"I'm a little worried... A lot actually!"

Anirudh had moved back on the bed, resting his back on the bed-rest, his legs stretched a little apart, as he gently pulled Bondita up with his right arm, making her lean on his body in the middle, entrapped between his legs. His left leg still had the white cast, but his left hand wasn't hanging on a sling anymore. Bondita leaned on his chest tenderly, as he wrapped his arm around her from behind and kept it rested on her belly.

"Tell me... Tell me what's worrying my little tigress?"
Anirudh was caressing the nape of her neck, his fingers circling around her belly button in feather-touches.

"Barrister babu, I'm worried about you... You had fever last night, you were speaking in your sleep."
Bondita sighed, as Anirudh slowly removed his hand from her stomach and touched her shoulder instead, gently pressing her muscles, massaging her into comfort.

"And, I'm worried about Batuk, he came home at four in the morning, on Wednesday, limping, his feet was swollen, when I asked him, he just avoided." Bondita paused, as Anirudh let out a soft sigh.
"He is a little too occupied with that lady, the Governor's wife... She had telephoned today, looking for him, and when I answered, she simply disconnected the first two times... Very childish?"
Her face had a frown and Anirudh massaged his hand down her spine in hope to make her relax a bit.

"Satya came back too, that night, severely injured, but like you, your assistants are also invincible. He just laughed off his wounds."

"Satya has been taking care of himself for a long time now Bondita, he is too smart to be held down."

"I know, but that doesn't make him invincible... Infact you aren't invincible either Barrister Babu... What if they attack you again... when you would go to the Court?" Her voice had quivered a little as Anirudh sat still for a moment, before touching her chin, and turning her head slightly towards him.

"My god! When did my baby bride grew up so much?" Anirudh was gasping, in amazement, as his eyes travelled across Bondita's beautiful face.
"It feels only yesterday when you were standing on my bed, jumping on the mattress, with that red Benarasi almost falling off your shoulder, and you made that jingling sound with all those tiny jewelleries... Bondita...when did this happen? How did you grow up so much?"

Bondita smiled bashfully at his words.
"Time happened. And love too!"

Anirudh smirked slightly.
"And my baby wife had learnt her way with words too, Bondita... I can't tell you... I mean, my entire life..." Anirudh couldn't articulate his feelings in words, as Bondita leaned back on his body again, placing her head gently on his chest.
"Bondita, I love you."

Bondita smiled.
"I know..."

"And, don't worry so much, I'm there, I won't let anything bad happen... Not to you, not to Batuk, and not to Satya as well."

"And you?"

"Well, about me... I know I don't need to take care of myself as you'll protect me as always."
Anirudh smiled a smile of pride, as his hands slowly wrapped around Bondita's body, brushing through her bosom gently in the act.

"You are... You're poking me?"
Bondita had suddenly blushed profusely, lowering her gaze, as she wiggled a little, trapped in between his legs.

"But my hands are here." Anirudh replied plainly, making her turn into a darker shade of scarlet.

"Not your hands." She hushed, as her hands automatically raised up to cover her face.

Anirudh realised the context at once and laughed out loud.
"My baby bride had learnt to blush as well...!" He tightened his grip around her body from behind, and moved his lips a little closer to her ears, his words were suddenly a seductive whisper.

"Tell me more... How did the poke feel? Did you like it?"

"Dhaat!" Bondita bit her tongue.

"Where is it poking Bondita?" His hands moved a little behind, touching the small of her back, as she arched her body instantly giving his fingers the much needed space.
"Here?"
He trailed his fingers down a little, right above the waistband of her tugged saree.
"Here?"

"Ishh!" Bondita moaned softly.

Anirudh's fingers hadn't seized their ministrations, trailing south inside the band of her saree, touching her bare buttock gently.
"Here?"

Bondita shivered.
"Don't do this... It would be difficult for both of us to control!"

Anirudh grabbed the softness of her buttock and started to squeeze them tenderly.
"Who wants to control tigress? Not me... Not tonight."

"But..."

Anirudh bit her left earlobe, making a hushing sound from his mouth.
"Shh... I've healed... Trust me!"

Bondita felt her heart pounding like a wild deer, running for its life. His touch were making her feel all the suppressed sensuous tension that had been building inside her core since weeks now.

"What if..."

Anirudh hushed her again, this time by squeezing her back a bit firmly.
"We'll take care of that." His mouth had left her earlobe, moving down to her neck, as he ran his tongue all the way to her collarbone.
"You remember out first time?"

Bondita gulped, feeling his hand move up to her front now, as he pulled open the tugged saree and untied the strings of her petticoat.

"Tehri Garhwal?"
Bondita gasped, feeling his hands on her soft moist feminity now.

"Yes." Anirudh whispered.
"Do you remember how we did it the first time?"

Bondita swallowed and nodded her head.

"Explain it to me." He demanded.

Bondita gasped as his fingers pressed the outside of her folds, massaging their way inside the slit of her honeypot.

"I... You... You were sitting, and I... I was on top, umm... saddling you... And..."

"And, I had pushed inside you slowly."
Anirudh completed her words, his face smirking at the sensuous helplessness that his wife was in, enjoying their teasing session like old times.

"We'll do that tonight..." He paused.
"You'll sit on me... And you'll move your body, pleasing us both."

His words were sending all kinds of shivers down her body, gathering at her core and dripping down as her love juices.
Anirudh's fingers had already found their way inside her love tunnel, as one of them slowly pushed inside, making her gasp and whimper at the same time.

"It's been so longgg..." Bondita let out an inaudible moan, encouraging Anirudh to insert a second finger inside her.

"I know tigress... I'm starving too!"
His voice was a seductive whisper, making her release more juices in between her legs.
"You are so damn wet, Bondita... My intent is slipping!"

Bondita smiled.
"Intent?"

"Intent, and conscience, and restraints."
His mouth was on her shoulder, kissing her over the blouse.

"Open your blouse for me tigress, will you?"

Bondita gulped at his command. He wasn't able to move his left hand much, and Bondita wanted him to stay that way, without trying to be too brave in his actions. Without any objection, Bondita quietly pulled down the saree from her shoulder and started to unhook the blouse, as she quivered in betweens feeling the movement of his fingers inside her tight muscles.

"Oh you have tightened up so much tigress, I'll have to stretch you again!"
Anirudh words were like a moan, as it make Bondita tremble in ecstasy and arousal.
"Pull the sleeves down, I want to see your breasts."
Bondita gasped again, complying to his commands, as she felt his eyes feasting on her naked bosoms hungrily.
She too had starved for him!

Anirudh had now increased the pace of his fingers, moving in and out of her entrance in a constant rhythm, and Bondita curled her toes in the sexual excitement that he was feeding her with.

"You... You're poking... a lot!"
Bondita moaned out loud, as he felt a stream of juice flowing from inside her love tunnel, flooding his fingers with its sweetness.

"And you just came!"
Anirudh smirked, and pulled his hands out of her entrance, before running them once along her moistened slit.

"Aaahh" Bondita moaned again, arching her back and the sudden void created by his finger made her acutely aware of her aching need to be filled again.
She sat upright at once and freed Anirudh's entrapped masculinity from the confinement of his cotton trousers.

Anirudh grinned shamelessly at his proud erection, inviting her to sit on it with his eyes.

"Slowly, don't hurt yourself!"
He winked at her, as he saw her gasp at the sheer size of his hardened length.

Bondita was smiling too, nervously, as she slowly got up on the bed, the way he had remembered her a little while ago, but this time, she didn't jump, instead, she got rid of her clothes completely and sat on him, saddling around his waist, positioning herself in alignment of his throbbing monster.
Anirudh's hand was on his length, stroking himself slowly, as he started to rub himself gently on her slit, making her mad with its effects.

"Bondita... Just remember one thing."

"Wha.." Bondita's head was held back, as she too moved her body to and fro to match up with the intensity of the erotic massage.

"I won't have much control in this position. So, once I tell you to get up, you have to do so immediately, I don't want to release inside you."
His voice was seductively calm, and Bondita couldn't help but feel a little jealous at his level of composure.

"Why?" Bondita was moaning, " I want you to... to release yourself... Inside me..", her words were staggered and intoxicating.

"You know I can't, not now... Please Shona..."

Bondita wasn't in a mood to listen, she reached down, holding his length, as she shoved it's hardened tip inside her soaked entrance with a mild push.

Anirudh moaned out loud.
"Shona... Don't force it... I won't cum insi... aaahh..!"

Bondita was dancing an erotic love dance in a slow rhythm infront of his eyes, moving her body on his manhood, juggling her round beautiful breasts as she cupped them in her hands and looked intensely into his eyes.

"Bondita... Move..."
Anirudh arched his back and groaned.
"Stop... "

"No!! I need you..." Bondita continued her seductive movements on him, filling his entire body with a surge of divine pleasure with every stroke.

"I'm about to... Bondita..."
His breath was getting hitched, his heart had moved up to his mouth, and he rolled his head back once gathering his messed up thoughts before he looked up at her, straight into her eyes.

"Stop Bondita... Stop now!"
The intensity of the sexual tension was at its peak now, Bondita was moaning loudly, her body filled with the erotic tremors that his hard penetration was causing to her, and she definately wasn't in the mood to stop in anyway.

"I want you to fill me up... Please!" She moaned again, but this time her words had sent a sharp sweep of cold sweat down his spine.
He felt flushed... He felt helpless for a moment, and right at the moment of extreme ecstasy, he almost shouted her name and pushed her off his body with all his might.
Bondita couldn't fathom the situation for a moment, but the push was probably a little too violent, and she had landed up on the side of the bed, her eyes filled with an incomprehensible vexation at the sudden lose.

"How dare..."

"How dare you?"
Anirudh had sat up on the bed, he hadn't released himself, not inside her, not outside either, his heart filled with a strange fear at this sudden stubbornness of his wife. Despite urging her repeatedly, how could she not see the implications of her actions.
"How could you do this Bondita? I asked you to stop... Repeatedly! How could you be so careless?"

Bondita felt a dryness in her throat, her eyes were suddenly burning, the heat radiating from her core had suddenly fumed up her head, making her glare at her husband.

"Careless? Expecting my husband to love me completely, without any inhibitions is carelessness?" Her words were sharp as needles.

"Inhibitions? Do you think I love you with inhibitions? With baggage?"
Anirudh too had pulled his shield up, he won't let her win this battle, he can't!

"Then what big difference would it be if you release inside me?" Bondita was almost shouting.

"Difference? Are you even listening?"
Anirudh turned his eyes away.
"Alright, if you want me to repeat myself... I Don't Want you to get Pregnant! Am I clear?"

"No... You are not!" Jets of tears were rolling down her cheeks.
"How can you do this to me? How can you not let me be a mother?"

"You are a mother! For god's sake Bondita, you wanted to be a mother, I got you Rudhita... What else do you want?"

"You Got me Rudhita... Like you got me toys and dolls from the market... I haven't given birth to her Barrister Babu... Why don't you understand??"

"Bondita... You need to understand. You have barely figured out what you want to do with you life... You wanted to do Women Studies, and now you aren't even sure. Your assessments starts in two weeks, you aren't even studying."
Anirudh's voice had raised up as well, beyond the level of control.

Bondita was crying. She had picked up her saree and wrapped it loosely around her naked body.
"No... You need to understand, my studies has nothing to do with me wishing to be a mother... Motherhood is something which I want to experience, I want to..."

Anirudh chuckled loudly at her words.
"And, here I thought I raised her to be better, greater than this...!"

"What do you mean?"
Bondita was sobbing uncontrollably.

"What I mean is Bondita that you have failed me, I thought you would be someone who would do something extraordinary, who would make a difference in the society... When I saw you for the first time in Tulsipur talking and explaining things to those village women with such maturity, I had cried that day." Anirudh huffed the words.
"You were just ten Bondita, and I knew you were meant to bigger things."

Bondita didn't respond. She had turned her eyes away as Anirudh continued to speak in a lament.
"I could have just consumated my marriage to you the moment you hit your puberty, like everyone else... Don't you think I had sexual urges too? But, I didn't! You had almost made me... You had even seduced me back then Bondita!"

"How could you say this!" Bondita sank down on the floor, covering her face with her hands.

"It's the truth. I love you, but that doesn't mean I'm going to comply to all your miss demands... I waited for the right time to make you mine, it was a torture for me too! How can you not see it?"

"But?"

"There is no but... I never said I don't want to have children with you... It's just that this is not the right time... I mean, I need you to fight with me Bondita, stand up in the court, help me with my cause, make a difference in the society..." He exhaled sharply, "and here you are planning to sit inside with a pregnant belly... Bravo Bondita... Bravo! I can't imagine what would have happened to our country if people like Satyakirth starts to think like you... Family, children, motherhood!"
His words were piercing her heart with a poison spear, and he too, felt the severity of that wounds in his heart, but he had to do it... He had to make his Bondita understand that her life meant bigger than just arranging Grahashanti pujas in their household.
"I trusted you Bondita, I trusted you with my vulnerability, but you have let me down today. But I won't let you be, I will be by you side till the time you won't realise your true potential."

Bondita had wiped her tears away. She slowly got up from the floor and moved towards the door, unlatching it slowly.

"Where are you going?"

Bondita swallowed.
"To our... To my bedroom upstairs. I'll sleep with you again only when you feel it's safe to trust me. Or, only when I realise my potential." She breathed. "And, it hurts to be this incomplete, empty... Barrister Babu... It really hurts."

Bondita had left, and Anirudh looked down, a silent drop of tear had escaped his eye, sheathed from the world by the darkness of the night, a tear that had bade a reluctant goodbye to his love that night, whose broken heart had in turn shattered his soul beyond repair.
But at the same time, he knew too, that the only recluse for his pain would be her, only her!

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