Chapter 23

Vikram's POV



She was sleeping on the chair, looking extremely tired but excessively beautiful. I could look at her angelic face for the whole night. Correction... I could look at her, for the rest of my life...

I was really happy that she became normal with me. I felt so light after that, I felt as if the weight of guilt has been lifted off me.

I loved the time we spent together while eating dinner. Thank God !! she brought the extra food. I would have died of hunger otherwise. The food provided by guesthouse was so spicy and those Laddoos... Out of this world. I swear I wanted to kiss her...

We went to our rooms. Though I was a bit reluctant to end the dinner it was the proper thing to do. After just 10 mins, I heard a frantic knock on my room's door. I was in the washroom and was about to take a bath. But again, I heard that someone was banging on the door.

I opened the door hastily. I was shocked to see Sandhya standing there. She looked absolutely terrified.

" What happened Sandhya?? Why are you so scared? Say something?"

But she could not utter a word and just pointing towards her phone.

" What ?? Sandhya ?? Please say something?? Did anything happened,?? " She still was too shocked to say anything. I shook her shoulders.

" Phone... Message. " That was all she could utter and her eyes were swirled with tears.

I told her to calm down and took the phone from her. She had started shaking a bit.

I read the message and for the first time in my life, I wanted to kill someone. I clenched my fist and if he was here, I would have killed him. But when I saw that she was shaking out of fear, my face softened. I took her in my arms to comfort her and hugged her tightly. Even in such a condition, my body was aware of the fact that she was in my arms. She buried her face in my chest and I was lost. Her face was touching my bare chest and I was loving the feeling of having her in my arms. She was so soft, her skin was even silkier, then it looked like.

I could really spend my life standing like this with her in my arms but that was dangerous.

No, I was not scared of the person who sent the message. I could handle that very easily. I was scared of myself, I would not be able to handle the reaction my body was having by having her in my arms for very long.

We were still standing on the door of my room so I led her inside my room and shut the door.

I tried to calm her down.

" Hushhh don't worry, I am here. Nothing will happen to you. I won't even let this man touch you. It seems that it is that bastard. Sumeet, Shubh's friend. Is it his number? "

" I d-don't know. Shall we call Shubh?"

But I told her that he could not help us at this hour. I assured that we all were here if anything happens.

She was a bit calm now. She must have realised that she was still holding me tight, she loosened her grip and I also removed my arms from her body.

I was affected by our closeness. I just grabbed my shirt and wore it. She was blushing and so was I.

Again, there was a knock on the door, She got really scared again.

I walked towards the door to open it but she caught my arm.

She was holding my arms. But I still kept walking. She hugged me from the backside to stop me. Her front was touching my back.

Oh, God !! She is so innocent and petrified that she did not even realise, what she was doing to me. I would not be able to stay sane. I could feel her softness against my hard back. I stopped then and there.

I looked at her and said, " Trust me Sandhya, if it is him, I will beat him like anything... Now please leave me... I need to see who is on the door."

" But " She was not convinced.

" Sandhya... " she loosened her arms around me and I took a long breath. I didn't even realise that I was holding one.

I opened the door a bit and saw Ajay and Chirag standing there. I went out. They were worried about her as they had heard someone banging on their door and when they checked Sandhya was nowhere.

I told them everything and asked them to come inside. They were so concerned about her. Chirag read the message and hugged her, I knew he was just a friend to her.

But I was very uncomfortable just by looking at them. I wanted to remove his arms from her body.

I cleared my throat and Chirag loosened his arms around her, he looked at me apologetically.

Oh, God! I needed to control my emotions as I was being very obvious.

I told them to go and sleep while I was watching over her. I am getting obsessed with her. I wanted her all by myself.

She must have been very tired as she slept while talking. She looked so beautiful sleeping there. I picked her up and laid her on my bed. I wanted to have her in my arms again, but I crushed my urge as it was not proper.

I sat next to her and kept looking at her. I held her hand in mine and kissed it very lightly.

I wanted her in my life. She would be mine very soon. I will make her love me. I would beat the hell out of that bastard Sumeet. How dared he wrote those things to my Sandhya.

My Sandhya ???

She is not yours till now. Said my logical mind.

She is... or she would be very soon. My stubborn side of mind reasoned.

I also dozed off.

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The chirping of the birds and the fresh, cool breeze of the village woke me up as the window of my room was open. I opened my eyes and was shocked to see that someone was cuddled into me.

What? How? But then I recalled everything. I must have slept on the bed accidentally.

She was sleeping like a child, totally oblivious of the world around her. Her head was resting on my shoulder, her face was buried in the crook of my neck and her leg was touching mine. One of her hand was resting on my chest right above my heart.

I was loving every single second of it. I wished I could start my every morning just like that for the rest of my life.

I knew, I had no right to be with her like this, but couldn't deprive myself of this pleasure.

The fresh fruity fragrance of her hair was filling my nostrils. And her warm breath was caressing my neck. I just closed my eyes to savour each and every second of these moments.

I placed one of my hand on hers which was lying on my heart. And snaked my arm around her waist and cuddled her.

She stirred a bit and I closed my eyes. I didn't want her to know that I was awake. And I wanted to hold her till I could. She stirred again and her lips brushed against my neck.

Oh, God !! I felt a jolt kind of thing, but I kept pretending that I was sleeping.

She took a deep breath and raised her head from my shoulder. She gasped at what she saw.

She uttered, Oh God !! And then she tried to get up without me realising that we slept in the same bed. She slid her hand carefully from under my hand. Then she got out of my arms and finally my bed.

Oh! Why did she have to get up so early?