Bride of Sheesh Mahal - Season 3 - Part 14

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Chapter 14


Arnav’s POV


I lean closer to Khushi, who shuts her eyes giving me the go ahead to kiss her. Her innocence and her step-by-step acceptance to me and our newly budding relationship is what attracts me to her. I peck her left cheek first and her lips quiver in surprise. I want to take this slow because I’m well aware it’s hard for a touch-me-not types woman like Khushi to match up my standards of romance. She keeps her eyes shut tight when I peck her right cheek with the same laziness. I carefully observe her expressions. These sensations her body is undergoing today by our closeness and my kisses are new to her and she is reeling into them. For a woman who had believed a few kisses is what physical intimacy between a man and a woman is, this step is still huge. She giving me these little rights to mark her as mine is what makes the moment even more memorable. My lower body stiffens as my lips touch her forehead to place a kiss there and then this time I graze my lips over to her nose, without losing the touch of her skin. She gently grabs both my wrists when I shift my focus lower, aiming finally for her lips. She’s breathing hard and I can’t wait to breathe in sync with her when our lips meet. I quickly glance at her once, to see if she’s still willing to go beyond this or wants to stop here. But seeing her so lost in the moment like I am, I suck in a breath before claiming her lips. She tastes like sweet strawberries. I hold back the voracious hunger in me from ravaging her mouth or touching her beyond her liking for this moment. This is Bliss..

Khushi’s POV

If this is what a kiss feels like I think I did the right thing by agreeing to give my life a chance to explore the other blessings from Devi Maiyaa which every woman has a right on. The blessings of being loved by a man and bear the fruits of a happy married life. I never thought I would like a man ever getting this close to me. And here I am, learning to kiss and getting one from my partner like I am his favorite fruit to taste. So far, I had held Arnav’s wrists to stop my body from shuddering at the effects of his onslaught but now as he deepens the kiss, my arms slide around his neck, into his hair while he circles my waist and pushes me to the wall for supporting our bodies. Even with my eyes shut, I can almost imagine what he must be looking like as he possesses me with his mouth. And then I see his blue eyes opening and my heart skips a beat.


I push Arnav away with all my force.


“Khushi?” He gasps at the sudden reaction from me.


His eyes.. they are not blue but black. Then why did I see his blue eyes just a second back? Was I imagining? Was that my hallucination?



“Tum theek ho?” Arnav asks in a worry and I exhale in a rush feeling utterly mortified that I pushed him away when we both were equally lost in that passionate moment.

“I … I Am sorry.. I felt as if..”


Words choke in my throat and I bite my lip to hold my embarrassment. He reaches closer to me again but doesn't touch me.


“Did I cross the line? I thought we were on the same page while we kissed. It didn’t look like I was forcing you for it, did it?”


Concern is laced on his face which I know is all because of my foolishness.

“No.. You didn’t cross the line. I am sorry for pushing you away like that but..”


We hear the voices of Akash and Payal calling us out and I immediately panic. I don’t want the family to know we were sneaking for private moments.

“We should go..” I grab his arm and pull him to the other side from where we can enter the temple again.


We blend with the family and guests but every time I glance at Arnav, I see his concerned filled eyes as if he is worried if he did a mistake by kissing me. Poor him. How should I tell him that he didn’t do anything to hurt me but my own fear ruined this moment. But I really felt like I saw him with blue eyes upclose to me when we kissed. Could that seriously be only my imagination? Am I that stressed that I have started hallucinating things?


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It’s almost night when the guests start to depart and it’s just me and Babuji left to start for our home. Daadi reaches us to speak to Babuji.

“Shashiji, now your daughter is officially a part of our family. She is with you only for a brief period.”

I turn to Babuji who nods feeling low. I press his hand and he hugs me tight. Arnav reaches us that moment and stands next to his Daadi.


“I had a proposition for you,” he says smiling at Babuji. “I want you to move with us to London.”


I stare at my Babuji who looks bemused at the offer. It’s hard for him to even accept something like this.

“No No Arnav Bitwa. The mere thought of it that you are thinking so much about me is enough for me. I can’t shift from this place. What will I even do there? And .. it’s not good to stay with your daughter once she is married.”

“Says who?” Arnav argues. “I don’t believe in all these social norms. Our family is more than willing to accept you in between us. And that’s fine if you don’t want to stay close to your daughter after she is married but you can stay close to you son, can’t you?”


My jaw drops as Arnav continues the conversation.


“If Khushi is now a part of our Raizada family, am I not a part of the Gupta family as their son?”


My father’s eyes welled up with more tears. I don’t think I have ever seen him so emotional and happy at the same time. He joins his palms again at Arnav, words hardly audible from his mouth as he tries to thank Arnav for being so kind. Arnav gives Babuji a tight hug and strokes his back while I stand there all dazed watching these two men. One.. who has given me life.. and the other.. who has started becoming an integral part of my life and no matter what, I would never any danger cross his way.. definitely not the one I know is lurking around him, oblivious to us. I will find a way to save him from these mysterious happenings which he is yet to believe in.


To be Continued.

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Note: Very short part, I know but couldn’t draft more today. Friends and family keeping me busy.. New Year is just round the corner so getting engrossed in celebrations with them. Hope you all don’t mind and enjoy these updates even if they are shorter. Will post My New Boss – Season 3 tomorrow.

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I push him away with a strong force, breaking the kiss, the moment and everything else he was doing to me, or rather I allowed him to do it with me.

I should better leave. I push him and hurry to the door, but a second later, he runs to me and hauls me to the door again.

“Who said I am done?”

And then Aarav kisses me again. I shouldn’t have tested him. He’s everything that I need right now, but also the one I want to run away from. With his hands on my hip, his grip tight and pleasant, Aarav draws me for yet another searing hot kiss. It’s hard to even attempt describing this powerful magnetism between us, with his hardness nudging my stomach. I let out a squeal of surprise when he nibbles my lower lip, which tempts me to explore his mouth I wouldn’t dare to do otherwise. His finger is still drawing circles on my naval, which has stopped sensing anything and everything except his finger. Soon his fingers notch up to the underline of my bosom and I gasp when he drags his palm around there, rubbing the skin. Need fills me. Aarav draws his mouth back giving us a few seconds to breathe, then rolls a thumb over my lips and kisses me again. If it wasn’t for the large frame of his body keeping me up, I would have dropped down long ago. He sucks the life out of me, an ultimate pleasurable sin I cannot explain. And then he stops. He just stops making me curse the fact that I had just started needing more. I could do anything to finish what we started. All he had to do was demand. I don’t care how thoughtless my behavior might seem, but that’s what Aarav Raichand does to me. He’s a hot mess I don’t think I can ever figure out.

His hooded eyes turn darker, nostrils flare as reality hits us both. Then his lips trail the curve of my ear and I give in again.


“If we don’t stop now, you might end up with a swollen belly in the coming weeks, Jaan.” He completes that declaration with a flick of his tongue over my earlobe.

Swollen belly? Why would he say that? Oh wait!! Does he mean a baby? Aarav Raichand and my baby? Heck No!!

He pulls back from me and cups my face.

“You asked me what I can offer you to convince you to stay back, right? This is what I offer you, Jaan. A real marriage, a lifetime commitment, and this maddening chemistry between us. If you stay, I promise to give you a life you always desired. I know you wanted to be chosen for and by love, and I promise to give you all that and in abundance. I choose you, Jaan, over every pain, happiness and motives I have had so far. Don’t leave me.”

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