MaNan- Alpha's Love✔

9. I don't need promises.. I just need you

N A N D I N I

"I know Nandini you are elemental. You are strong and all you need is a little guidance and I promise I will help you out." He whispered softly while embracing me tighter. I raised my head slightly to look at him through my teary eyes and all I could see was love.

"I don't deserve this love Manik...I don't." Tears threatened to slip out of my eyes but I blinked them away.

"You deserve every bit of it...actually much more than this." His voice calm and soothing. "I don't know what is stopping you from opening your heart to me but I know you will open up one day."

"For god sake Nandini tell him your insecurities. Tell him what the priest had said. Spill the bean please." Niti said in a pleading tone.

"But what if he leaves me."

"Trust him Nandini. I know he won't."

Taking a deep breath I finally decided what I needed to do. "Manik." I called out while he was busy patting my head.

"Hmm." He responded.

"My past is not dark or something so complex but I am afraid...afraid of losing you. All my lifetime I have been losing every important person in my life. First I lost mum." Manik flinched at the mention of mum and I could feel it.

"I shifted into my wolf form when I was ten years old.. This news spread in the whole pack and even in the nearby pack. The nearby pack somehow figured out that I was elemental and they attacked us. My mum too was involved in the war and she died in the war. All because of me." Tears strained out of my eyes and his hold tightened around me, giving me the feeling that he was there for me all the while.

I continued gulping the lump that arose in my throat,"Then I lost my granny. We were walking in the forest and all of a sudden wolves attacked us. She fought with all her might and protected me but she died. After that incident my dad decided to keep me locked up in a room to keep me safe. I was provided with every necessary good except for freedom."

"Then at my 18th birthday, I lost my dad. He died while saving me." I felt something warm drop in my head and I looked up to find him in tears. "Manik." I called and he immediately wiped his tears.

He cried for me.

How did I get so lucky?

I neared towards his face and gently kissed both his eyes while tears still flowed down mine. I could feel his thumb wiping my tears.

M A N I K

I wanted  to know her every insecurities. I wanted to be there beside her but when she was opening up, I was scared to listen further. She lost her mum and who knows better than me the feeling of losing your mother. Tears made it's way to my eyes and I didn't even realize when I started shedding tears. She had lost so much.

She gently kissed my eyes and it felt heavenly while I wiped away her tears.
"I promise I will be there beside you till my last breath. I promise you Nandini..." She covered my mouth with her hand.

"I don't need promises Manik.. I just need you." She hugged me tight and I held her tight too.

"I will be there for you hamesha and forever."

"Manik the priest said that I am a danger, wherever I will go, I will only bring danger with me. Am I really a Danger?" She asked embracing me tighter.

"You can never be a danger. You are my happiness. You are all that I need." I caressed her head slightly and I could feel her relaxing under my touch.

"Manik you were hurt right due to the fire." She asked raising her head to look at me.

"I am fine now." I assured her.

"Sorry for.." I cut her in between.

"Sshhhh I am okay now." I gently raked her hair. "I am really okay."

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You might think Nandini was over reacting for such a small thing but let me tell you she was insecure. She was afraid of losing him. You might not feel her pain but once you do. You will know how painful it is to lose your loved once and to be tagged as danger.

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