Veiled Affection: Secrets Of Heart.

Chapter-14. (for readers)

Radha.

I gasped at what he said, did he say he loved me, we were panting beside each other and trying to hold our breath, our bodies were full of sweat even in the chilly atmosphere. I turned to look at him, his eyes were closed with a smile tugged on his lips.

"Mama, what did you say?" I asked and he turned towards me and Looked at me leaving a sigh, he turned towards me.

"Radha, I want to say something which I had kept hidden in my heart for a very long time. Do you remember the day after Ramasamy was born." Ramasamy also know as Ramu Gayatri's son two years younger than Gauthami Ramu's sister.

It was few months after Kalyani and Mani mama's marriage. Everything in his family was sorted so they were preparing for Mama's wedding they were sending proposals to everyone they knew who can be eligible for being Mama's partner.

"I talked with my parents and we decided that we will come to your house with the proposal." He said and I gasped at it. This was new information.

"But before we can, Bhavana the girl I was about to marry her father Lingam was a real estate agent and he also gave loans to people in the village." I didn't like where it was leading.

"My father had bought a loan amount before he fell ill when there no yield in the farms. He came to know that his daughter was loving a man who was from another religion and he forced her to marry me instead of paying the loan I was threatened to marry Bhavana. Nobody in our family knew about his threats and I made my parents believe that I love her and not you. I accepted my fate. The day of our marriage Bhavana eloped with the man she loved." He said and I gasped at this information this was overwhelming. I gulped looking at him thinking about what had to go through to be there for everyone.

"After that he didn't disturb me and now he is happy with her daughter and son son in law that was what I heard when I met him last during the market bid." He said and I kept my hands on his face to give him some support.

"Then the night you came and proposed to me, I was really happy about us but also felt sad and pained at the situation we were struck in. I had always love you Radha though it took me sometime to realise it. I actually do love you. I had to speak harshly so I don't face you and develop more feelings and to break your heart." He said and tears flowed freely down my eyes.

"But do you still love me?" He hesitantly asked. I was digesting everything he said now. "I understand if you don't because who would love a man who played a coward way to hide his family's secrets."  He was saying but I kissed before he can finish. He was surprised at first because this is the first time I initiated the kiss, but reciprocateed it.

"Mama, I don't see man who is coward, I see a man who took responsibility for his family when nobody could. A man who had to bear the burnt for his family's happiness despite sacrificing his own. I see the man Who I fell in love with mama. A man Who I am still in love with and hold dearly in my heart not anyone." I said and his tears poured out from his waterlong and I wiped it with my hands.

"So now tell me what did you like about me?" I changed the topic.

"Let me think about it." He said and I pinched him on the shoulder and he hissed. He smirked later and pulled my naked body towards him which was covered only with a white silk blanket from under the covers.

"I loved you for being my saving grace from my loneliness, for being the person who I relied on when I needed to without an judgement. A person who loves me unconditionally and was never sorry for that. A woman who boldly confessed her love." He said and I smiled at him.