VOWS OF MARRIAGE | ✔ [Under Editing]

51 | New Beginnings

📜 SIDDHARTH 📜

The sharp pain in my head grew intense but I forced myself to ignore it and focused on the screen of my laptop. My fingers moved non-stop over the keyboard, producing a continuous tip-tap sound that echoed in my silent office. I had been staring at these numbers and charts for hours now and my eyes had also started straining against the harsh glow of the screen.

Finally, when I was frustrated enough to work any longer, I gave in and switched off the laptop. I leaned back in my chair and rested my head against the headrest. A loud grunt escaped my lips.

Unknowingly, my gaze drifted to the window that was on the left side of the room and offered a view that was nothing short of breathtaking. Serene.

The lake outside the window sparkled in the moonlight and its surface glitzed as the moonlight hit the water waves. Unknowingly, my lips curled into a smile, a tiny, helpless smile at the sheer beauty of the breathtaking view.

What muse could be more powerful than the moon in all her glory? For a poet, there was no greater inspiration, no purer vision of beauty and tranquility.

But then, my eyes were drawn by something far more divine than the moon's beauty. Something akin to being too natural, too enchanting.

I sucked in a big lungful of air and my heart swelled to twice its usual size as my gaze worshipped her.

Mira.

She looked exquisite and so lost in her thoughts as she rested her hand tenderly on her swollen belly. The sight did something to my heart as it started to overflow with the emotions I could barely name.

And the thought of how I could waste another moment in front of a screen when she was just a few steps away, disturbed me! So, without a second thought, I pushed my laptop aside as a powerful pull in my chest drew me back to her.

I made my way out of the office but  before I could make my way to the lake, I turned towards the kitchen and grabbed some of her favorite chocolates and cookies along with a steaming cup of hot chocolate to warm her hands in the cold night.

Since Mira had become pregnant, her love for chocolates had blossomed into obsession. It was as though these sweet morsels had become her only reason to keep on surviving, and I would not even be surprised if she chose these sinful, sweet treats over me. How could she love something more than me?

With an irritated scowl, I looked down at the chocolates. How about I start giving her dark and bitter chocolates? Would she start hating them?

The thought was so ridiculous it made me chuckle under my breath.  Goodness, I sound like a freaking psycho and if I ever dared to do anything to her chocolates, she would make me see the seven hells in just a second.

By the time I reached the lake, the sight before me stole the very breath from my lungs and my heart started to leap wildly against my chest.

Mira was drenched in the silvery light of the moon and had a beautiful shine on her face. She was glowing, not just with the light of the moon but with an inner brightness that made her look like something out of a dream. For a moment, I almost believed that motherhood was doing some kind of magic on her features. Her brown eyes, those eyes that had always driven me to the edge of madness, glitz like stars, loaded with secrets and promises. During the day, her skin drank in the golden sunlight, and her brown orbs used to resemble the setting sun, making her appear like a Goddess born from the earth. But here, in the night, under the blanket of the stars, she was something else entirely. Otherworldly, almost too perfect to be real.  What I could have possibly done in this life or any life before to deserve her!