Ragini gadodia X Nikhil khoda FF Broken but beautiful

Chapter Nine

Ragini was awestruck, her eyes twinkled with delight as she witnesses the magnificent bridge and their boat was sailing under it. Her friends had been right, kolkata looked ravishing at the evening time. She missed all  those years. She was snapped out of her marvelling session when she heard the sound of something clicking, she turned around to see Nikhil holding his phone and clicking her photos.
" What are you doing?!" Ragini asks him almost frowning.
" Taking your pictures" Nikhil says and continues holding the phone.
" Par kyun!" Ragini asks
Nikhil lowers his phone and looks at her, " why not? This view is aesthetic and you look beautiful and it makes up such a perfect picture. I want to keep this as a memory of our first outing together"
Ragini feels pleasant hearing it.
" Okay you can take my photo only if you allow me to take me yours" Ragini says. Nikhil complains and protests at first but Finally he lets ragini take his pictures.
"Damn he is so handsome!" Ragini mutters under her breath while clicking his picture and was openly drooling over her husband.
" Is it done" Nikhil's voice disturbed her drooling session and she jolts back to reality. She nods at him quickly gathering herself and acting normal without a hint that she was checking him out few minutes ago.
Ragini and Nikhil sits back on the boat seat enjoying the view and the fresh air mostly the calmness.
" Nikhil can I ask you something?" Ragini asks him suddenly.
" You can ask me anything ragini" Nikhil says to her putting up his all time charming smile on his face.
" Why did you marry me? I know this is not the time to ask but why me? You could have married anyone in this world" Ragini asks him looking at him intently, her eyes demanding answers from him.
" But I have never wanted anyone else and I have only wanted you ever since I have seen you in mumbai four years before" Nikhil reveals he ignores ragini's gasps and continues " I don't know if  it was first sight love or attraction but all this years I still could not forget your face and when I got hold of your photograph while the marriage broker had come to my house, I felt I have finally got everything I have always wanted"
Ragini opens her mouth to say something but nothing comes out, Nikhil was still not looking at her.
" I have tried to kill my own sister for the man who was not worth anything, I have done terrible things" Ragini reveals to him, her heart was thumping away in her chest.
" I know" he says to her looking at her intently, " I know everything". Ragini was baffled hearing it.
" You think people would not tell me anything, your own neighbours and your own realtives came behind your family's back and informed me about all the terrible things you have done. My own mom had done a background checkup on you and warned me against this marriage" Nikhil tells his face hardening remembering the fight he had to put up to marry ragini.
" But you still married me overlooking my past" Ragini whispers.
" I listened to my heart ragini" Nikhil tells her softly," and trust me whenever I have listened to my heart, nothing has gone wrong"
He finally looks up to her, ragini found herself entralled by his gaze. She could not look anywhere else, the intensity of his gaze unnerved her because this time she could not choose to look away from his eyes with confusion. He was clear about his feelings but sadly she was not. She was clear with the part that she did not have any twinge of feelings for laksh anymore but she still has not started loving Nikhil. She admits that she has started liking her new married life, she has started to respect and trust Nikhil but love was still a faraway ocean.
" I don't love you" she says to him bluntly.
" I know" Nikhil tells her, his eyes overcast with hurt by her words.
" But I will give a fair chance to this marriage" Ragini says making Nikhil look at her with some hope.
" You will never regret this" Nikhil tells  her in his assuring tone tapping her hand.
" I know" she smiles lightly. They had to cut short their talk as their ride came to an end.
" Dinner?!" Nikhil asks her as they walked away from the shore. She nods and walks with him to some resturant which seemed decent from outside. Nikhil had called up the driver to pick them up.
" So" Nikhil hummed hoping to continue their conversation.
Ragini raises her eyebrows but doesn't speak a world. Nikhil looks around bored.
" Tell me something, if I could have rejected your proposal! What would have you done?" Ragini asks him curiously. Since the time he had confessed that he had liked her from four years she had this question arising in her mind.
" What if I was still married?" She adds another question looking at him.
Nikhil tilted his head towards her, " if you had rejected the proposal, I could have wooed you in a proper way still you could have said me a yes and about you being married already that would have put a tradegy ending to our story"
Satisfied with his answers,Ragini took a glance at menu and orders the food. The waiter notes down the order and goes to get their order.
Ragini turns her attention towards Nikhil who was still staring at her looking thoughtful for a moment.
"Tell me something Ragini! Were you forced into this marriage?" He asks her.
Ragini was tensed up by his question but she answers him sincerely by nodding her head.
" Why did you not tell me then? I could not have married you without your free will" Nikhil said little upset, " I asked you one time and plus I even gave a letter to you to know about your opinion about the marriage"
" I know but here was nothing I could tell, I was being emotionally blackmailed by my dadima" she explains " and here was no way I could have stopped this marriage admist dadima's stern watch on me"
Nikhil looks at her understandingly. He was about to tell her that it was okay and he understands but the waiter interrupted their conversation by bringing their orders. Seeing food, ragini forgot their conversation and got engrossed in eating the food. Nikhil had his food as well. The driver was already waiting out of the restaurant for them and soon enough Nikhil and ragini were being driven back to the mansion after exhausting day. Both of them drifted off to sleep, ragini had put her head on Nikhil's shoulder, Nikhil had clasped her hand with his and put his head weight on hers and slept off peacefully.