The darkness of the long night was fading gradually as the sun painted the eastern sky with a new ray of positivity.

"Shona... sit here!" Anirudh unrolled a string mat and lay it down on the floor of the tiny mud hut.
Bondita fumbled on her steps before dropping her body down on the mat.
Anirudh latched the knitted bamboo door carefully before crashing down beside her, exhaling a large breath.

"You're looking like a goddess, Bondita... I could spend my entire life just by staring at you like this." Anirudh spoke slowly making Bondita blush in a bright shade of red. His eyes were fixated on her face. However, he made no attempts to touch her... not yet.

"What are you looking at?" Bondita asked bashfully in almost an inaudible voice.

"You... " Anirudh took a deep breath as his hands automatically moved up to her forehead, as he tugged a loose strand of her hair behind her ears.

"Barrister Babu... Who do you think might have paid those...."

"Sshhhh.... " Anirudh hushed her by touching her parted lips with his long fingers. "Not now Bondita..."

Bondita looked up at his words, but almost immediately she looked away blushing profusely under his seductive gaze.
There was an unrestrained wild passion that was written all over Anirudh's body, that ran a chill through Bondita's spine.

Her heart started to beat faster at the impending thought of Anirudh's muscular body pressed with hers.

"Will you sleep..."

Anirudh didn't let her complete the sentence, and neither did his eyes shift it's gaze from her face.

"I'll do anything you want me to do, as long as you keep looking at me like that."

The words barely escaped from his mouth as Anirudh almost pounced on Bondita with an immediate urgency.
His hands slide at the back of her neck, supporting her and pulling her closer while his lips searched for the warmth inside her mouth hungrily.
Bondita felt another electric jolt surging through her veins as his tongue danced inside her mouth, guiding her own tongue to follow his suit.
Their eyes were closed as their lips were locked in a sensuous encounter. Bondita could feel how heated up their bodies were as pleasure sparks started to radiate through their body, transferring their love heat to each other.

The need to breathe made them unlock their lips as they both panted hard, gasping for the much needed oxygen.

"I can do this all day..."
Anirudh groaned seductively with a naughty smirk on his face.

Bondita looked at him coyly as her lips too, parted to speak.

"I can't...I ...." She fumbled.

"You can't what tigress?" Anirudh asked as his finger touched her forehead, tracing a line down, along the bridge of her nose.

"I can't get enough of you touching me."

Bondita blurted the words out as her hands automatically raised up covering her face in them.

"Ahh..." Anirudh groaned again as her words made his heart skip a bit.
"You are every man's living, breathing fantasy, Bondita!"

He cupped her face again with both his hands as he pulled her even closer to him.
"Say something...." He urged. "What do you feel when I touch you."

"I... I love the way you make me feel." She hushed the words as her eyes moved away from his face bashfully. "Your touch makes me melt!"

Anirudh's right hand immediately glide down her body as he grabbed her waist tightly. He pumped her soft skin with a hard press as his lips bend forward brushing against her cheek.

"And now?" He whispered in her face.

"Ahh.."
Bondita couldn't speak, instead she moaned loudly in response to his touch, encouraging him more in the action.
His hands moved a little further as it slide down south of her waistline, tucking his fingers inside her tied up saree.

"I love how you lose control under my touch."
He growled softly raising his body up on his knees. He grabbed Bondita's soft round back from underneath her clothes and pulled her up to his face, making her stand of her knees as well.

"I never knew that I could want someone this badly tigress!"
Anirudh hushed as his face neared her ears, inhaling her aroma in deep breaths.
"I could get drunk off your scent." He breathed the words as his tongue started to roll into her ears making her body quiver and squirm in ecstasy.
His left hand continued to hold her neck, pressing her closer to his body while he pulled his right hand out from underneath her saree and started ministrations on her lower body over her clothing. He pressed her soft thighs as his hands moved further down to her calf.

"Ouch... "
Bondita shrieked a little, as if in pain, as Anirudh withdrew his mouth from her ears.

"What happened tigress?" He asked with a clear lace of concern in his voice.

"My legs... They are hurting a lot... the calves."
She sat down on her back stretching her legs infront.
Anirudh lift the lower hem of her saree upto her knees as his eyes furrowed up in worry.

"Bondita your ankles have swollen up!"

"The long walk I guess..." Bondita muttered the words softly, trying to hide the pain.

"Lie down Bondita, I'll be back."
Anirudh made her lie down on the mat gently before heading out of the door.

"Where are you going?" Bondita asked softly.

"Kitchen"

The thatched hut, although small, was organised in a comfortable arrangement. The mucked up front porch lead to a rectangular raised platform overlooking two cane doors... the first on the right was the room where Bondita lay, whereas the comparatively smaller one was the kitchen. Anirudh stepped out into the rectangular platform as the nascent rays of the new sun fell on his eyes. He slowly opened the kitchen door and stood there for a while examining the small, yet neat arrangements.

Bondita's eyes were closed, her consciousness slowly drifting into a slumber, as she felt a soft warm compression on her tired sore legs.

"Barrister Babu..." She slowly opened her eyes to find Anirudh sitting on the mat with her legs on his lap, and his hands held a warm soft cotton cloth.

"What are..."

"Sshh... Don't talk." Anirudh hushed. " Just close your eyes and try to sleep."

"What time is it?" Bondita asked lazily.

"4:35 am."

She closed her eyes again with a warm feeling engulfing her weary senses. And, the last thing her mind registered was the small kerosene glass lamp, and Anirudh's strong hands drawing the warmth from it, as he pressed the tepid cloth on her legs transferring a feeling of inexplicable comfort, making her whole body relax into a tranquil equanimity.

"Sleep... my little tigress."

Bondita smiled in her sleep as she heard him murmur the words to himself.