The Billionaire's Bride

Part 54 | Drowning on Ice

NAIRA

I was floating.

As light as a feather. I couldn't feel the weight of my body nor the heaviness of human emotions.

I already love this place. I call it the realm of dreams.

There are no monsters here.

" Naira!!! " Came his alarmed voice.

The next thing I knew I was brutally pulled out of my serene place. Choking and gasping.

" Have you lost your mind!"  His restless gaze collide with mine.

I blink my wet lashes regaining the sense of my surrounding. Lying in a bathtub, wet from head to toe.

As he picked me up from the bathtub, my hands involuntarily wrapped around his neck for support. I was ruining his hoodie but he seemed to care about it the least. Soon I was out of the bathroom and found myself seated on the bed.

A fluffy woolen towel was draped around my shivering cold body. Kartik rubbed my shoulder to heat up my skin. 

" What was that!? " He exclaimed, hastily grabbing an oversized t shirt of his. It came till my knee providing me with some warmth.

" I was just talking a bath. " I mutter while he squeezed excess water from my dripping strands with a soft towel.

His brows scrunched up and sarcasm laced his deep voice, " Oh really ! "

I stood on my feet, pulling away from him.

" Yes. Now, Stop hovering around me like I need rescuing. Because I don't. " I stretch out my arms to the sides,
" See! I'm perfectly fine. "

A painful hiss escaped his lips,
" You would have drowned in the bathtub had I not been there! "

Rolling my eyes at him, I mumble annoyed, " You are just thinking too much. Go to work. I'll be fine. "

The moment I try to walk away, he grabbed me by wrist, Pulling me into him. His eyes drew darker in anger,
" You don't get to walk away from me, Naira. "

Exhaling a visible breath, he spoke trying to contain his frustration.
" For the past two days, I gave you space cause you weren't ready to talk. But we can't keep pretending like everything is fine when we clearly know it isn't!"

Kartik palmed my face. Keeping his voice gentle, he pleads, " what is it Naira. Talk to me, babe. "

" You are safe now and Everything is normal- "

" Normal!?? " I slip away from his hold with a dry chuckle.

" Being held captive in a warehouse by the man you despise, knowing he killed your parents, threatened with a constant fear of your family getting hurt or losing them.
Seeing your husband held hostage at knife point. Firing a gun and almost killing a man!
And finally Waking up groggily in a hospital bed after almost a day to know you are carrying a tiny human within you!

And you are telling me this is a everyday thing!?  Nothing about this is freaking normal Kartik! " I yelled.

" That's not what I meant and you know that Naira. " I could feel tension building up in the air.

" I could have lost you! Do you even know how it feels! " I screamed.
Dread filling my blood as I relive the memory in my head.

" Na-"

" No! You have no idea what it feels like because if you did, you would have understood me. But no! all you are worried about is having some random, stupid conversation."