IshRa FF Beginning Again

Part 13

After purchasing a gold bracelet set with pretty blue stones , they started back to the car hand in hand. Raman decided to bring up the issue of the money. "Why didn't you tell me money was tight for you ? You know I would have sent you anything needed"

"I know you would have." Ishita said. "But I was trying to put my life back together and that meant being able to stand on my own two feet.
"And don't get me wrong,  It's just after everything that happened I needed to know that I was capable of taking care of myself."

Raman asked the question that he didn't really want to know the answer to.
"Did your uncle try to convince you to divorce so that this time he would choose a better husband."?

Since this was a day for honesty Ishita knew the best answer was the truth. "That family dinner I had gone to the night you showed up was supposed to be just that "a family dinner". When I got there and discovered my cousins were also there I began to suspect that there was more to it than just dinner."

"Which it was?" Raman asked as they reached the car.

"Yes, as soon as the main course was served my Uncle started in on this great plan that he had. He would give a party and invite his best friend and son Rahul. Of course we were all going to be fabulously wealthy from it. By the time dessert was about to be served I could hear your voice in my head ... so I left. I figured I was doing ok staying with Paatti . She didn't seem to mind my being there. And BTW Mr.Bhalla I have the best husband."

"I have to tell you." Raman said. "I am very proud of you." Then he leaned down took Ishita 's face in his hands and kissed her. He intended it to be a simple kiss but almost immediately it deepened into something more. Those feelings of desire for Ishita that had first surfaced in the morning came rushing to the surface again. Raman knew that they had never gone away,but he had pushed them down to a place deep inside. It was the only way he could deal with them and keep his sanity.
Ishita wasn't surprised by the kiss especially after what happened in the morning. What she was most surprised about once again was her reaction. She had spent the last 3 months trying to kill any feelings she had for Raman . And now in less than eight hours every feeling of desire and need had rushed back to the point that she wanted to find the nearest bed, let Raman strip off all her clothes and then let him do whatever he wanted.

Both pulled back at the same time. "I think we'd better get in the car and go back. " Ishita whispered her hands trembling a little.
"Yeah, that might be a good idea." Raman took a deep breath to try and clear his mind of the images swirling there of Ishita and a comfortable bed somewhere and held the door for her while she got into the car. "I hope that Ishita settles everything in her mind in the next couple of hours" he thought. Otherwise Raman knew the only option he had was to sleep on that blasted couch again.

Meanwhile neither one knew before they could deal with the last remaining issue standing between them or find that comfortable bed they would have to deal with an unexpected and unpleasant surprise.

To be continued ...