ARANYAM

Chapter 25: Enchant

Valli's PoV

My skin probed up for piloerection when he placed his hand on my shoulder along with the thunder, that cracked the night sky.

"It's foggy, you'll catch cold," He said in a cold yet low tone

I just kept on staring into his orbs, with my red ones.

He lifted me into his arms, to take in I thought.

But, taking me into his lap, he settled in the chair, in which I was previously seated.

I had to hold his bicep, for the swift reaction.

However, the scratch marks on the arms and back, which are not due to his profession but rather a maiden, repelled by palms off.

And that didn't go unnoticed by him.

I pulled my feet away when he touched them.

But, he held them back tightly and placed them on his thighs.

Slowly, he slid on the left foot and reached out the toes adorned with silver toe rings.

"Why did you cry, that night ?" He asked while cracking the knuckles of my toes with one hand and tightening his grip on my waist with another.

I didn't answer and just kept quiet staring into the void while feeling his hand on my toes and gasped when he cracked the 2nd finger.

The moment was just like my feelings for him.

It was painful, yet euphoric and addictive.

Am I a Masochist?

Yet another question to already prevailed ones?

"Mmmm ?" He asked again when reached the 3rd finger.

 Yet no response, other than a convulsive breath.

"I want your answer,... Ammu" 

I couldn't hold back and dug my face into his chest and poured out my tears gripping his vest.

He gently started stroking my hair and asked again in his most gentle tone

"Why did you cry that day?"

I kept on weeping

"Was that hurting?" He placed his palm on my lower abdomen above the fabric.

"Mmm ?"

He only heard my weeps in response.

"Ammu... I want the answer?" He subtly applied pressure on the lower abdomen.

I nodded no, while still, I kept on weeping.

He kissed me on the shoulder, obligating me to lose my senses, and asked, "Then ?"

"You...You scolded me that day and left me as a prisoner in this house, amid these cops" 

And before, I dare to say another reason, his acupuncture intoxicating touch on my bare navel enchanted me completely.

Vikram's PoV

Oh!

How can I forget the social anxiety of this introvert?

And her fear when she comes sees, new people.

She just freaks me out without sharing the things!

"Ok, I'll call them off. 

Now, don't cry" I assured her, as I felt she was safe from Arasan until Nila was in our clutches.

"Sure ?" She looked up into my eyes for assurance, killing off my plan to arrange security in disguise.

I can't behold myself, from upholding her trust in me.

"Sure !" I kissed her eye and completely beguiled her.

Feeling her unspoken content, we stayed back on the balcony feeling the drizzle of southwest monsoons.

"Olage hogana ?" I whispered in her ears, befuddling her.

(Let's go inside?)

I smirked looking at my wife, with closed eyes, whom I bought back to me myself... like my wife... the ideal wife, I want.

The stormy monsoons again witnessed the monsoon of our night along with the screams and yelps ... of Arasan

"Anna, there is no doctor" Murugan concernly says he failed to perceive a doctor or at least compoundor from the hospital.

"If not this village, then any nearby ones... Get them" Arasan speaks amidst the nerve-wracking pain in his thighs due to an intentional shot of Vikram.

"I searched them and even asked our men, to search Anna... But"

"But...?" 

"Anna, that DG... has vacated whole the medical departments from all the forest villagers. Not even workers from medical shops are available" 

"AGGGGGHHHHHHHH!

DGGGGGGGGG!!" Arasan roared out of agony and anger.

An irresistible smirk crept on my face relishing my achievements...

"I know how to trigger the snake hiding in the hole to come out, Arasan. I know.."

"No.." I heard her meek voice and concentrated on the exploration, I was carrying out.

Sneering, I engrossed myself in unleashing the dimensions of the world, which always seem to be new, every time I explore.

I gazed at her face, gleaming with the shine of post-euphoria, and took out what, I wanted before I lay beside her, caressing her palms, which had lost half of the shade of henna.

I smelled her palms while pecking them.

They aren't giving that strong intoxicating and alluring scent of henna anymore.

"Why don't you apply henna again?" I asked while I sensually kissed the tips of her fingers.

She opened her eyes, shut with tiredness.

"Tomorrow, I'll " She could possibly give only lip movement.

I pecked her palms, "Sleep"

I asked her to drift into sleep, and I got up from bed after I confirmed she slept off, to eat the curd, she brought to the room for me, not before I safely sealed the samples collected.

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