Heartstrings

~Chapter 63~ Last day in Paris

Next Day

Nandini woke up and found Manik sleeping, snuggling into her. This was the view that she wanted to wake up to always. Watching his peaceful face first thing in the morning is what gave her the energy she needed to get through her day.

Looking at his face gave her a different kind of peace so she lay there admiring his perfect features, loosing track of time.

So lost in her trance, she didn't notice Manik opening his eyes.

Manik woke up from his peaceful slumber and saw his wife, his jaan watching him with a different kind of glint in her eyes. The look on her face was enough to evoke an entire zoo in his stomach and before you ask, yes men also feel butterflies.

Not able to take it anymore, he just got up on his elbows and took Nandini's lips in for a hard kiss.

Nandini's eyes went wide as saucers when she felt something on her lips out of nowhere. Shocked but pleasantly, she responded back with equal intensity.

After breaking the kiss, both of them whispered an I love you to each other and left out a content sigh.

"This is how I want every single day of mine to begin." Manik sighed.

"Achha?" Nandini said.

"Haaan! You admiring me and m amazing face is what I live for." Manik said.

"So self-assured you are na?!" Nandini sighed.

"Umm hmmm. If god outdid himself with me, then who am I to question his perfection." Manik joked recalling Nandini's words yesterday.

"Remind me to never boost your ego ever again." Nandini shook her head making him laugh.

After an amazing yet hectic day, Manik and Nandini decided to spend their last day in Paris the lowkey way. They decided to stay in their room the entire day before leaving for India the next day.

They had their breakfast in bed and somehow ended up playing board games.

Currently in front of them was Monopoly where Manik was winning and it was Nandini's turn.

The moment she rolled the dice, Manik's phone rang so he gestured her to wait for a second and turned away.

Nandini started counting the boxes and noticed that she was landing on jail and taking advantage of Manik not looking she just flicked the dice,changing the number and landing on "pick a card" but too bad for her, Manik turned back at that very moment and saw her doing this.

"Ayee Nandini." Hearing Manik's voice she immediately pulled away her hands and her expressions resembled that of a deer caught in headlights.

"Ummm what?!" Nandini composed herself.

"Cheating karrhi ho tum! Yeh sab allowed nahi hai." Manik said.

"Cheating? Kaisi cheating? Maine kuch cheating nahi kiya." Nandini maintained a poker face.

"Stop lying haa. I saw you rolling the dice twice. You landed on jail na? Toh jaao."

"Arey aap toh phone main busy the. Aapka toh dhyaan bhi nahi thi idhar." Nandini reasoned.

"Kitni badi cheater ho tum. Main kaan se sunn raha tha, aankhein band nahi thi meri."