Brewing the essence of love

Chapter 18

Vardhaan's POV

My life completely changed in this one month. Marrying someone was nowhere in my to do list as for now, and here I am married. It's been five days, these 5 days passed very peacefully. We still haven't talked properly, and these never ending rituals are responsible for it. My family has been over the moon ever since the wedding.

Amu and Sameer seem to have gotten an elder sister they never had. Abhinav also gets along with her. Everyone is very happy in total but my dadaji and mum are the one who are in the most ecstatic mood. I swear I have never seen mom this happy ever in her life until now. And dadaji in my wedding he was as excited as a child. I was initially angry with him but man looking at his happiness that grudge vanished somewhere.

Koyal also seems happy, she has blended pretty well with my family. She has this lavender perfume which is spread all over my... no our room. I have been taking a few glances of her here and there. The other day I asked her if she needed my help in something and she told she did but I could not help her. Mann... I so wanted to know that what she wanted that I couldn't do and she did not even consider me to help her. I asked her the same in a challenging tone and she was right, she needed to fix her saree. I was so embarrassed that I left right away. That was the last time we had a talk. Now I am heading towards our room.

When I entered the room, she stood up and the awkwardness filled the room. For some minutes both of us were unable to speak anything. Like how are we supposed to talk to each other? Till a few days back we were strangers to each other. Unaware to the fact that we are getting married to each other, I had my own plans and I am sure she also must have had some plans. Our parents did not even give us some time to talk and know each other. Its like today they took a yes from our mouth and tomorrow we got married. All of this happened at such a fast pace, its scaring me of our future. These thoughts were running in my mind, looking at her I realized she also has a series of thoughts running in her mind.

I broke the ice between us and told her to have a seat. I went and changed. We talked for a few minutes when my phone started ringing. I saw the caller id, it was my assistant Alok. I asked her if I could pick it up and she said yes. I talked to him for a few minutes. He had called me to tell me there was this file that I needed to check immediately. I wanted to say no.

It was the first time I was alone with her. I did not want to do any office work but it was one real big project so I said ok. But that file was not opening in my phone. That's when I remembered I left my laptop with Abhinav. I can get it now but I am sure it would upset him to no limit if I disturb his talking time with his girlfriend now. I remember how difficult it was for him to talk to his darling in my presence. I smiled remembering his previous night's expression. I don't want to disturb him but then how will I check this.

I was tensed about this when she came and asked what was wrong. I sighed and told her. I even said I am sorry for doing work right now. She smiled and gave me hers. I hesitantly took it, she gave me her email where I forwarded mine. My work was done in 10 minutes.

I was deleting my mail as it was a very confidential file when my eyes got stuck on a particular mail. I did not want to be nosy and check her things. However my heart was telling me that I could maybe know her reason for sadness. I looked at her she was busy in her phone. So I opened that mail and what I read in it blew my mind.

It was an offer letter for residency in a reputed hospital in New York offering her a residency program and that she had cleared her USMLE in her very first attempt. I got very happy but then as I read further and saw the date it was sent on everything became crystal clear in my mind. Her sadness her hesitation everything.

I was always scared to marry her, cause I never wanted to be the reason she or any other woman would be unable to pursue her dream. And the exact thing has happened. Why would she marry me after reading this? Does my grandfather know this and he hid from us? Did her uncle and aunt tell her to marry me instead of going to New York? I had way too many questions. I don't know why I felt some anger towards her for marrying me now.