NOW THAT I FULFILLED ALL PROMISES I MADE TO YOU, PRINCESS,I'LL PUNISH YOU!

Chapter 6

Swara is barely aware of the menace his husky voice was hiding behind another emotion... feelings fighting with all his self control ordering to just hug her tightly and wash away whatever happened the past months...

In his embrace, at inches from him, goose bumps covers her neck's bare skin under his subtly caressing fingertips, she feels warmness emanating from her chilled heart to wrap all her being giving her that so missed feeling of being loved... being safe... being simply home.

A deep sigh of relief escapes her opened lips making him gape... closing his eyes, he takes her hair ordering its silky curls in her back, not resisting to a discreet kiss on their end. His hands on her shoulders were aching with repressed envies... how can she have this power on him after all what happened?... he lived with this woman in the same room for months in fake marriage... for months in forced marriage... for months in real marriage without daring touch her even deeply in love with her and now... at this dramatic moment in their life... he just...

Memories of the last time they were together submerge him again; he takes off his hands closing his fists for a moment trying to compose himself.

When Swara opens her eyes, she discovers his extended arm under her chin, his opened palm was handing a golden sculptured box, tears fill her eyes guessing its contains.

He faces her, his defying look daring her to argue with him when he takes off the covert discovering the lightening red proof of their relation, her words the day she walked out echoing in his ears:

"- Until Ragini's husband returns... I'll not fill my maang with sindoor..."

He makes step closer to her and says:

"- so... now that I fulfilled my promise... it's your turn princess..."

Sustaining his gaze, she surprises him plunging her fingers in the box without any hesitation, just like he does ages ago when they were strangers for each other and protecting her, he forced the passage for her maang to fill it againt her own wish... she remembers how she has been shocked by his act, how she was angry with him... "silly me..." is what she treats herself of every time he did it when he won her heart finally...

All those times he stands behind her in front of their room's mirror devouring her with his eyes and helping her preparing herself, or not... making her lost more time...

Her waving chest can't hide her anticipation, as much as his accelerated heart beats were pounding in his ears following her hand with his eyes... is it so important to him? Kyu?... just some vermillion could really prove anything? His mind is invaded by all those moments he was happy to just bend over her watching her beautiful face smiling to him in the mirror while he puts on her earrings, mangal sutra, maag tika... sindoor... some are sometimes taken off... some never... never until she made that promise... he remembers her hand at his face stopping his attempts to explain himself ... that same hand he sees reaching her front at this moment, his mind recalling him this same hand that had tried to stop him the first time he filled her maang forcefully...

Suddenly... he grabs her hand stopping her!

Her widen eyes looks in his shocked, she looks up to his hand pressing on her forearm trying to suppress the panic wining all her senses... for a moment, she thinks he's backing off, quitting her, she opens her mouth to argue but he just presses his finger on her opened lips silencing them before he passes by her without a word, his hand dragging her behind him until they reach his car side.

Tears pearl in her eyes again... frowning, she sees him bending on his car's opened window to take a prayer plate, his other hand not letting go of her hand. He seems absorbed by his task barely aware of her presence, her wondering gaze looking to his eyes searching an eye contact to reassure her.