To Love Again !!!

Chapter - 82

Amrit hadn't expected Abhay to kiss her. But she had felt what he had felt at her departure. He must have come back immediately for him to follow her and reach Chandigarh and be back by this time. Poor thing. But he had deserved it and though she had changed a bit she wasn't all that changed to forgive easily. But she couldn't fault herself if she felt all mushy inside. She loved the guy. And while he had kissed her she had felt the kiss all the way from her heart to her tingly toes. Though her sprained foot which had gotten a bit better under his tender care had started throbbing again she wouldn't let him get the last word or in this case kiss.

"What did you do?" she asked sternly.

"Kiss you," he replied with a grin.

"Why?" she asked with her hands in fists on her waist.

"Because I had promised myself that the minute I got my hands around your neck I would kiss you," he told her nonchalantly, "but majorly because I wanted to kiss you," he said seriously.

"You call that a kiss," she asked amused.

Abhay didn't know what to say. Well it was a kiss only not the most romantic ones maybe.

"What would you call it?" he asked.

"I don't call it anything," she said and then smiled mischievously.

Abhay narrowed his gaze at her and before he could figure out what her intentions were she went on tiptoe, put her hands behind his neck, and angling her face kissed him right on his lips. Abhay was so surprised that for a second he forgot to breathe as he registered her soft lips on his mouth. She poured all her love and passion for him in that one kiss and Abhay couldn't help but kiss her back with everything he felt for her. He held her close. It was as if stars burst over his head or maybe it was just his heart pumping loudly in his ears. For her. How had he ever thought that he could never fall in love with her? He had never known she was the only one he could ever fall and be in love with. And trust her to do something that was different.

They held each other and after some time he felt her shift her weight on her feet. He gently pushed her head back to look into her face and saw her wince. He didn't need to ask what was bothering her. He picked her up and took her to the sitting area then lay her down on the sofa.

"Now that was a kiss," Amrit said proudly as she saw worry on his face.

Abhay smiled. How could he not? She was his sunshine. Light, golden and warm.

"Does it hurt?" he asked her.

"Nope," she said with a smile.

"I meant your foot," he said and shook his head.

"Oh," Amrit said and blushed.

He had to laugh. She was so full of surprises how the hell had he ever thought he could live without her.

"I am sorry Amrit," Abhay said sincerely, "I hurt you last night. I was such a fool to believe you would be better off without me. If you can believe me I went through hell when I thought you had left me. It was as if my world had ended and like an idiot I had thought I could never love you," he said then gazed into her eyes as he saw the trust she had in him, "I love you Amrit. I don't know when or how it happened and it isn't important but I never want you to leave my side again. I want to wake up to every morning with you next to me. I want to sleep every single night holding you. There is nothing more I want than you to be with me for now and for always," he told her and at the tears he saw in her eyes he said, "will you be able to live with someone who was once broken."

Amrit shook her head. These were the very words she had wanted him to say last night to her. How much she had wanted him to tell her he loved her? But instead he had tried to break her heart. He had tried to send her away. What if she had gone away? Would he have realized and come after her? Did she need to ask? He did come after her. What he had just told her, he had made her world rock. It may not be the most romantic love confession ever but the sincerity, the resolve, the emotion she had heard had staggered her. This was why she loved him. His simplicity and beauty were what she had fallen in love with. And still the bugger called himself broken. She ought to kick him for that.

"You are not broken Abhay," Amrit said as she let her feelings show, "you never were. Don't let her make you think otherwise. I love you. I love the honest, beautiful, caring person that resides inside you. I love the friend you have become to me. There is nothing more important to me than you and I will not let anybody make you think otherwise," she said firmly, "and this time I have been kind enough to let you off the hook easily next time I won't show you such leniency," she warned.

"There won't be a next time," Abhay replied, "Because I don't intend to let you go anywhere again," he told her.

Abhay gathered Amrit in his arms. Everything was going to be fine. He would make sure of it. She was right. Why should anybody's opinions matter to them? If they were together everything will be sorted out. He wouldn't let his past or his unwanted guilt overshadow their relationship anymore. There was a beautiful future ahead of them, so many things to explore and do and this was exactly what they were going to do. There were so many dreams they had yet to realize where was the time to pay heed to what people thought or believed. He was sure if Amrit was with him he could do anything.

For this alone he was grateful to destiny and of course his mother and beeji. Had they not been insistent he would never have met Amrit and vice versa. He was going to treasure the woman he had married and make sure she had the best adventure she had ever had. With him.

And he proceeded to do just that.

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