Arjun's POV

I stared deep into those beautiful almond shaped eyes and I feel this magnetic pull between us again. We are so perfect together, aren't we?! I know I said I will kill you if you think about betraying me but I have nothing to worry about. Radhika is a righteous woman and the most dignified being. She will never stray or cheat. I know I said a lot of wrong things in my anger but I couldn't think of her with some other man. She is mine, all mine. We will always be together.

I tuck a wisp of her hair and tuck it behind her ear," You are so beautiful, Radhika." You are not just a body to me but I know you mean so much more to me. More?! For the lack of better word, I am using this word more but I know you are priceless.

She is staring at me blankly. Yeah I get it I scared you away and you are angry at me. She just looks like an angry kitten with those puffed cheeks and cute pout. Cute?! Have I called any woman cute?! No I don't think so. Women were sexy, hot and in crass words, a piece of meat! Radhika is so flipping adorable.

"Arjun..."

Her voice breaks my trance.

"Huh?!"

She nestled in my arms with her head on my chest and her arm looped around my torso firmly, possessively I might add!

"Lily said I am stupid and gullible to trust you. She said I can't keep you happy and satisfied. You will get bored of me." Her lip quivered and I know she is close to crying.

Fuck! That fucking cunt! How fucking dare she?!

"Baby she is jealous of you. She is just trying to crop up problems between us. I am not going anywhere to anyone." I assure her calmly but I am bristling from inside. I need to have a word with Lily soon. She has no fucking right to feed my Radhika all this shit. What the fuck does she think of herself?! That was last straw! I will send her away sooner than later.

"But she said you need...."

I cut her off," What does that bitch know about my needs?! I need you to have a healthy pregnancy and not think about all this." I continue,"Can't you think about the baby and just be happy?!" I chide her.

That fucking bitch, couldn't get what she wanted despite trying her whole life and Radhika got what I didn't give to any other woman. She is jealous of Radhika and now I worry if my wife is really safe in our own mansion.

"I am happy, very happy but I am scared.."

You have no reason to be scared when I am there to take care of you.

"Scared?! You are scared of what?!" I ask her anxiously.

"That you will leave me or sideline me once your interest in me ceases." She says in a quiet whisper.

Holy fuck! My interest in her will cease?! She is gotta be kidding! Like seriously even now I want to take her rough and hard but I am not doing it because she is sore. She thinks, I will be bored of her. She is stupid to even think such a thing.

I raised her chin,"Baby listen to me clearly, I don't have interest in any women for that matter. For years I have done this shit. It was a stroke to my ego to have  women warming my bed and it was all about pure raw fucking nothing else. I never slept next to any woman after I had fucked her into weariness not even Lily. With you, I can't sleep without you next to me. I can't get enough of you. Even now I want to fuc....make love to you." I said the last line in a huskier tone. I said as I caressed her bare arms sensously.

She is quite as she can be but the curve of her tempting lips shift upward, as a languid smile breaks in on her pretty face.

I stroke her cheek," Did you ever think how the baby will look like?!" I will try to distract Radhika to the best of my ability.

"I wish he looks like you." She gives me a sweet smile.

"You do?!" Even after what I have done?!

"Yeah I want the baby to have your looks and height." She tells me more.

"Yeah but I want him to have your eyes. They are so beautiful." So innocent, I might add.

"They are just plain brown. I don't have sapphire eyes." She pouts.

"No you have hazel brown eyes. I could tell from your eyes that you had a big heart." I still remember when she fell into my arms that day, I couldn't have looked anywhere but in those soft eyes. They were so kind, so warm in the first sight itself and I couldn't help myself from delving into the depths of those eyes. You could tell a lot about a person from his eyes and I could tell she was as innocent as a dove.

"I didn't know you had put so much into thought that day." She says.

Ah, Things I don't tell you, Radhika! I don't actually open up to anyone but I am a judgemental person if I were to be honest. I actually can tell about a person's intentions, good or bad by the way they look at me, talk to me, body language and other shit. I trust my instinct the most and it rarely has proved me wrong. When I first saw Radhika, she was just a little firefly, a fiery creature who had a spat with me and I was amused by the fact that she wasn't scared of me. Later when I got to know her lineage, I was filled with pure rage to avenge my mother's humiliation and death. I married her to prison her in my hellhole but I did not realise it was actually Radhika who was prisoning me, casting an irrevocable spell on me, so much so that I couldn't touch another women although I tried to do it. We did not have a good start but I guess we made up for that with all these moments.

"Baby there are many things I did not tell you." I say in a serious tone.

"Will you tell me someday?!"

"Why don't you sleep darling?! It's been a stressful day." I say softly in an attempt to divert her attention.

"Arjun, I really want to know." She insisted.

"You won't be able to take it baby." I say in a suggestive tone.

"Let's do one thing. You tell me one thing today and another thing some other day." Oh Yeah! So this is her bait of whiddling the truth out of me.

"Okay so before that you must promise me that you won't be mad at me." I ask her in a tone laced with fear and desperation. We have come so far now and I don't want anything to go wrong between us now.

"Okay." She gives me her word.

"So when I started off after my dad's death, I wasn't taken seriously by anyone other than Mark. I was just a nineteen year old orphaned kid who had inherited an empire. I was a young boy filled with so much rage that I could kill without even blinking my eyes. I knew I had to do something big to imbibe fear in hearts of people so whoever tried to challenge or even question my rule, I had them stripped naked in front of many. No traitor was spared be it a man or a woman, I tortured them mercilessly and don't ask me to go into the gory details now." I end my story with a sign. She shouldn't even ask me details. When I had to wipe off an enemy from the face of earth, I wiped off even the young offspring of that enemy so that they won't raise their heads in future. I broke in cold sweat when I held my gun to a six year old after killing all the members of his family who had deceived me. Mark told me that this six year old little  boy will tomorrow grow up into a man who will be after your life.

Flashback

I had infiltrated the enemy camps along with my few men and Mark to give the traitors a good licking. We had killed all of them even their women.but one six year old child was the only survivor who was brought to me.

"Arjun, you must kill him." Mark said as he eyed the child sitting on the ground smeared with dirt.

"It's a child, Mark." I said as I looked away from the child.

"So? Have you forgotten how a two month old baby of our man was killed by overdose of drugs?!"

What he said was absolutely true. Shabhir's baby boy was killed and the dreadful sight was so heart breaking and for someone who claimed to not have a heart even Arjun's was moved. 

"Mark, I..."

He breaks in on me,"Just do it or make someone do it."

"What harm can a child do to us?!"

Mark wrapped his arm around me and took me away from the child as he knew that I won't budge if I stay near the child. I had killed a few since  I took up my role as a Mafia king but now killing a child was something I didn't know if I could be able to pull off. I knew that more than anything else, Mark wanted me to avenge what happened to Shabir. He can never be wrong, can he?

He looked in the eye,"Listen Arjun an enemy is an enemy be it a child or not. He might grow up and plan to avenge the massacre of his family and community. There is always a possibility of him causing us a problem in future. Our dream is to make you a king that is feared so much so that if someone even invites your wrath, they rather prefer dying than being your prisoners. If you kill this one now then they will think hundred times before backstabbing us for the safety of their family. Don't look at him as if he were a child, look at him as a next step of our ladder. We have a long way to go, my boy." He placed the gun in my hand and wrapped my fist around it. He had been with me at every step when my life right from my birth to now when I was all alone. My hand shook as I felt pure tremor but my mind revolved around his words and I knew I must do it to kill that jitters down my spine forever. I wasn't allowed to feel anything but only thirst for my revenge and supreme power so that nothing will come between me and my revenge. Wine becomes costly with time and Revenge becomes colder with time and so did I. I kept the revenge alive and in return it killed my humanity.

I did what I was expected to do. I killed him and I didn't even flinch! After that day there was no stopping and I rose to became the most feared, ruthless, cruel King who had no heart!

"Arjun, where are you lost?!"

Her alarming tone pulled me out of my flashback. My eyes travelled to her small baby bump and I felt a lump in my throat. Oh God! My own baby, my own flesh and blood who is my pride and my joy. That child must have also been someone's pride and joy but I killed him. I bloody killed him!
I wrapped my arms protectively around her baby bump.

"What's wrong, Arjun?!" She asked me in tone laced with worry and concern.

What's wrong with me?! I think it's just my overwhelming and overconsuming love for my baby that is playing havoc with my mind. I placed sloppy kisses on her baby bump as I tried to be as close as I can be to my baby. I will always be there for you and you will always get the best of both the worlds. I will love you not more but as much as I loved my mom.

I rose up, "You know you think that I will be done with you some day but I swear over my baby that I don't have any interest in any other woman and I will never stray or cheat. I love this baby and I love how our relationship is blooming. Trust me when I say this you are the naive, compliant and goody two shoes little wife that I wanted. You make me happy, really." I said as I stared at her earnestly. So I have finally striped my male ego and my pride to open up to her. What more will it take to make her happy?! I have never done anything like this ever.

"Okay." She smiled.

That's it! Just okay! This is what I get! I am not pleased with her reaction. Where women use to salivate just to get me to talk to them even if it's just a cold hi and here my own wife doesn't give two shit about me. I feel irked and a funny ache fills my chest.

"Just okay?!"

"So what you want me to say Mr Mehra that I am honoured with this great honour to have your exclusive attention. I don't know what would have happened to me had you not blackmailed me to marry you." She said dramatically with pure  sarcasm in her fiesty tone.

I glared at her," Don't talk to me in that tone."

"Really what will you do if I talk to you in this tone?!"

What will I even do to bring you to heel in this condition?! I asked myself and I felt frustrated with her disrespect towards me. A good wife doesn't ever talk to a husband in that manner.

Out of blue she laid her head on my chest," I was just kidding. You don't know what you said means to me and I can't express how happy I am at this moment." She said softly without even looking at me. With that, she again won over me. Fuck! She is so good for me! I cradled her face and planted a kiss on her forehead.

To be continued.....