Dusky Moonlight

Chapter- 13(1)

"Don't run," Aadhiyan warned with a smile across his face.

"You're walking too slow, come fast," Rathi urged running into the woods. The jiggling sound of her anklet was pleasing to hear. The smell of the muddy wind filled his nostrils as he moved closer to the cascade. The place was colorful with all the flowers and trees. Butterflies were chasing one another and making it the most beautiful and serene place in the entire world.

"Be careful, you will hurt your feet," he advised and his eyes studying her every move.

"I won't," she giggled and went near to the cascade. She watched Aadhiyan sauntering to her taking small steps. She can't help but fall in love with everything. Even that ugly beard that growing fast on his face. Once he came closer she encircling her hand around his neck and kissed his lips passionately.

"Your lips taste like sweet," he told.

"Is it?" she shrinked her eyebrows and thought whether she ate anything sweet today.

Aadhiyan chuckled, "You're still a child," he shook his head seeing her innocent face.

Rathi blushed to understand that he just complimented her lips.

"No, I am not a child. I took me some time to understand," she shrugged. Aadhiyan sniggered and started removing his clothes. He dived inside the water and swam to the middle of the pond. Rathi stripped and wearing Aadhiyan's shirt entered inside the water.

"It's so cold," she exclaimed.

"Yeah, come near," he reached out his hand. Rathi just as Aadhiyan taught swam to him. For the last three days, he has been teaching her how to swim.

It's going to be more than a week since they married. Rathi has completely fallen for him but she didn't say hoping that he knew her and Aadhiyan never said that he's in love with her. But he never failed to show his love to her. These days Rathi is entirely depend and living following whatever that he says. It feels so easy and she likes the reward for doing that; it's his tremendous love he showers all day and night. Everything around her is changing so rapidly. The entire place is embracing her as she belongs here and Rathi never wanted to leave from this place or Aadhiyan.

He pulled her closer and started kissing her sensually. She giggled as his beard tickled her and her senses started trembling by his filthy touches on her skin.

"Leave me, we shouldn't do here," she whined and pushed him.

He again pulled her close to him, "Why not?" he leaned to kiss her neck and Rathi moaned closing her eyes with those rushing sensations. She opened her eyes and saw a dark figure more like a dog standing at the far end and watching them. Before she could grasp a proper look Aadhiyan nibbled her skin and making her close her eyes in pleasure.

The figure vanished out of her sight when she looked at the place again and then she stopped Aadhiyan. "I saw something there," she pointed the woods.

Aadhiyan narrowed his eyes and turned to see nothing. "Don't fool me," he glared.

"I swore, I saw a black dog there, it was looking at us. I saw it in my dreams too," she told as she's thinking that the last time she saw it near the temple was her dream. Hearing that Aadhiyan's face grimaced. His eyes told his fright. His hands kind of shivered as the whispers slightly touched his ears.

"It's nothing." He lurched his shoulders.

"What?"

"Rathi, you should leave soon," he told.

"Why?"

"Because look at the sky, it will rain anytime," he didn't say the actual reason.

Rathi covered her body in the saree and Aadhiyan was kept staring into the woods. Seeing that Rathi starts to feel nervous.
"Shall we go?" she gripped his shoulders.