The Royal Deal

27.

Boundaries make a difference.
Even if they're unnoticed,
either in you or them.
-Unknown

*****

Shaina Singh Shekhawat.

The seatbelt sign went off and four of us took it as our queue to remove it, Kyna stretched her limbs while I felt suffocated in my space which was being unintentionally invaded by my own husband.

It was his private jet and only four passengers were there apart from the crew but the only seat in the whole flight he finds is next to mine.

Aryaman offered me a small smile when our eyes met and quietly left his seat and Kyna sank more into the space Aryaman occupied previously.

"I think I need to sleep." She mumbled before she left as well and I suddenly felt so out of place and strange that I had to shift in my place to shake these uncomfortable feelings out of me.

"It's an one and half hour flight. Get some sleep." Yuvraaj spoke but I didn't look up at him instead I tightened my shawl around my shoulders trying to hide in it's warmth

"No, I'm good." I said and turned my face to the other side to look out of the window in the beautiful blue sky.

"Suit yourself." I heard him say and felt his shoulder brushing against mine before cold air brushed against my side where he occupied the seat making me aware that he also left.

He also went somewhere in the back where his siblings went and I turned my head to look into the empty space of this huge jet.

A feeling of strangeness with no known companion occupied me and I felt a dramatic dip in my stomach which made my heart beat faster while my eyes burned with moisture slowly coating their rim and anxiety raised my body temperature.

What am I supposed to do here alone?

I like my company. Why am I acting so pathetic? Maybe it's just a lot. Going to another city to find a home in a place I didn't even see apart from the pictures Maitreyi and I browsed through on Google. It's vague, stupid. Delhi is my home. And now I am... Just gonna leave it, temporarily, but still leave it. For a man I barely know, a man I would leave in a few years.

I left my seat to look around to kill the boredom and out of that four seater cabin, it was beautiful. The theme of this jet is cream white, the sofas attached to the walls of the jet and the table a stark contrast of white and beige giving it a look of modern royalty like these people are.

I looked at the corridor leading to where I believe the three siblings left and decided to take a look. The first two doors at the left showed me the sign of being locked so I assumed his siblings occupied this and one door was left ajar. I peeked in and my husband's intimidating stature met my eyes, his back faced me while he spoke to someone through his earphone before I could drool over this man's back, I decided to check the last two doors and not embarrass myself. I was just thinking about the seconds before I could get out of the relationship binding us together. I am becoming pathetic and I don't like it.

The one at the end of the corridor was the washroom and when I pushed the other one, it was a bedroom with a bed by the windows and a bedside table placed adjacent to it and a single seater sofa was kept opposite to the two. There was another door in this room which I was going to see but before I could even take a step towards it, it was pulled open from the other side and I noticed Yuvraaj scanning the room with alarmed eyes when his eyes met mine, they softened and he visibly relaxed.

"What are you doing here?" He asked me and pulled his earphone out of his right ear. I blinked at him and my hold on my shawl tightened

"I was looking around. I didn't know that it was your room. I'll-"