Chapter - 29

"Were you awake?" Neil's trance broke when he heard a surprised, perplexed voice in their room.

Earlier, he was busy ogling at his wife's photo gallery on his phone. He, himself never knew he had a wide collection of her photos.

Today, after every scroll he was finding a new Myra in those photos. Picture where she was laughing wholeheartedly along with her son replicated the same smile on his lips. Some pictures where she was making Neev sleep filled his heart with peace. Her solo pictures are either holding a coffee cup looking from afar, working in the kitchen while shifting her hair strand behind her ear or pictures where she was sleeping soundly with a small smile. Her innocence filled smile led his fingertips to caress her cheeks.

"Yes I was." He replied, raising his eyes to the voice. She was standing in front of him with mouth open ajar.

Her hairs were wet, water was dripping from them indicating she had finished her shower just a moment back. She was wearing a plain white t-shirt with light grey tracks with no makeup or any accessories.

When Myra came out from the shower panel, she wore her t-shirt and track pants. She was about to pull the towel to wipe her hair but her phone beeped with notification. On any other day, she would have ignored it but the notification title said it was from her husband.

The moment she opened it, her eyes popped out looking at her own picture with her husband. It was a simple picture where she was wrapped in his embrace, he was holding her possessively, he had kept his lips on her hairline. She zoomed to see his stretched lips. Her fingers automatically touched her hairline where he had planted his kiss, with a thumping heart.

Her eyes went to the caption given for the photo.

'Our first picture towards us forever and ever and ever...'

For a moment, she could feel his warmth in those words but the next moment, she remembered her confession to his sleepy figure. Her feet automatically turned and led her out of the washroom whereas her vocal cords asked the dumbest question with their own accord.

She was still at her place, she gaped like a fish trying to find words. But his intense eyes made her have some chemical imbalance in her vocal cords and they stopped working. She licked her lower lip as it turned dry all of a sudden. Unable to find an equilibrium between her mental, physical and psychological state she turned, shaking her own head in denial.

Neil had a hard time suppressing his chuckle looking at his innocent wife. The moment she turned, he got up and with quick steps he reached her.

Myra felt his hold over wrist. She could not gather courage to face him.

Neil pulled her back, encircling his hands around her stomach from back. He was quick to reduce any distance between them. When her back crashed with his front, his nostrils were filled with rose vanilla fragrance. His shirt started soaking water dripping from her hairs. He ran his nose tip over her silky wet hairs.

"Ne... Neil" She could hardly mumble his name.

But today his name in her raspy voice made him breathless, he pulled her closer to his body not leaving a space to even air to pass by. He bent to rub his nose over her slender neck.

His strong, possessive hold, his manly scent, his sweet torcher over her neckline and hot breath over her ears compelled her to leave a deep sigh.

"Neil" She kept on mumbling his name, she held his hands which were on her stomach in a tight clutch.

Every time she took his name, he tightened his hold over her.

"Neil please no." she could hardly gasp as she felt his lips over her neck instead of his nose tip.

His lips started peppering briefe kisses.

"Neil"

He tightened his hold with one hand and with another he pushed all her hairs on her left shoulder to give free access to his lips over the back of her neck.

"Neil... Neil... please...I cannot stand." Her legs were wobbling, thanks to his firm hold else she would have fallen down long back.

"Say you love me." He mumbled on her skin, before leaving a wet kiss.

"Neil... no...please."

"Say you love me." his ears were dying to hear those three words from her.

"Stop please."

Finally when she did not give up to his demands and torcher. He gave a light bite over her earlobes, pushing his hands under her t-shirt circling his thumb around her belly button.

"I love you Neil." Finally she confessed, puffing heavily.

He smiled, she could feel his lips stretched over her skin.

"Thank you for loving me all these years." He kept his chin on her shoulder blade still holding her in his embrace.

His words made her glance at him from the corner eye. Both stayed in each other's embrace for a long time to gather themselves from recent intimate moments.

"I am sorry Myra." He kissed her hair, his voice changed from husky to guilty.

She scrunched her eyebrows.

"I don't know if I should be holding you like this when I have not reciprocated your pious love for me. But I... I cannot control myself."

She turned fully to him with a perplexed look.

"Please please don't misunderstand me." He cupped her face. "I want to have a normal marriage with you Myra. I want to keep you close to me. I want you by my side as my heartbeat. I want to touch you where nobody has ever touched you. I want to kiss you, I want to see the real you. I want to hear my name in your voice when I am crossing every barrier between us. I want to make sweet love to you for the entire night for the rest of my life. But... But...." tears started welling up in his eyes.

"Neil?" She was flabbergasted with his remorseful yet sensual confession.

"But I don't want to disrespect you Myra. You are too precious for me."

"You never disrespected me Neil." She tried to console me.

"I don't want to disrespect you, your love for me, your years of waiting  when I have an insecure heart and soul. Trust me Myra... this is not my lust or any physical attraction. I can't even think about you like it but these days... I can't control my emotions.. I just want you but... but I don't know what I should do?" Tears started streaming over his cheeks. His mind and heart were fighting their own battle.

"I love you Neil." She held his face in both of her palms. She tiptoed to match his height, she made him bent to kiss his forehead. "I am all yours. You don't need to think so much."

"Aren't you expecting me to reciprocate your confession?" He dropped his shoulder staring in her eyes peeping inside her soul.

"I am waiting for your confession from the day I didn't even know what love is altogether."

"I was waiting for you from that day of the musical concert. When you did not come, I had lost my hope to see you again. I didn't even know your full name. But still somewhere in my heart I kept those memories alive for all those years."

"When we met officially for the first time... I thought, I am not destined to be with you. But see us today, Neil. We are together. Over these last 9 months of our marriage we had walked a long way. And just see where we are? We used to avoid each other in the initial days and now... We can't stay away even for a day. Don't be so harsh on yourself."

"So I can touch you... I can kiss you... I can hold you in my embrace whenever I want."

"After kissing and torturing me with sweet love you are asking me this Mr. Singhania?"

"No... I am just telling you."

"Mumma..." they both heard mumblings from the one who was still sleeping peacefully on their bed.

Neil gave a quick glance at his son.

"To inform the same to your son. He better keep his hands in pockets and better not try anything on my wife." Saying he gave a quick peck on her lips before rushing inside the washroom for his routine.

'This father-son duo are going to bring world war 3 to my home.' She shook her head with a light laugh.

Weekend passed within a blur, and the trio returned back to their home. Myra went to her room for a change when she saw father and son were playing around in the living hall.

She opened her cupboard to get her night clothes, but it was empty. Infact, Neev's essentials were also missing from the closet.

"Julia Aunty" She called but her eyes captured Neil, he was in her room.

"What happened? Why are you calling Julia?" He asked, pressing his lips in a thin line looking at her question marked face.

"I think servants took all my and Neev's clothes for washing... but this never happened and..." She could not complete as in a moment Neil had lifted her in bridal style.

"Neil what are you doing? I will fall down." She clutched his collar with tightly closed eyes.

"I will never let that happen." He rubbed his nose tip with hers. It has become his favourite act to tease her. The way she giggled every time feeling ticklish resulted in her melodious laugh, which he loved to hear all the time.

"Neil put me down." She cribbed. "I am not Neev." she started throwing her legs and arms when Neil took steps out of her room. "Put me down Neil."

"What are you doing?"

"I am taking you to your rightful place, my dear wifey" He entered his room.

His statement and her surroundings made her speechless. Her mind started wondering about the connection between his words and his actions.

"This is your rightful place Myra." He kept her on the bed like a delicate doll. She gawked at him without a blink.

"I have asked Julia to shift all your stuff in this room... in our room." He scratched the back of his head with a flustered smile.

"Our room?" she asked absentmindedly.

"Our room." He repeated honestly. "Hold on... just our room." He showed his finger pointing at both of them. "Neev will be in his..."

"Ohh no way. I cannot sleep without holding Neev." She completed it.

"You can hold me." He spoke childishly.

"Where did you leave my son?" She ignored and started trying to get down from bed frantically.

"Your son is sleeping in a crib." He pointed out at the crib where she reached in two steps.

She saw her baby sleeping peacefully. Over the weekend, he played a lot with all Singhania's, he was tired, he slipped in deep slumber immediately when Neil took him in his arms.

She started to gather him, when Neil held her hand. "Let him sleep."

Myra knew with her actions she would disturb his sleep but her motherly heart wanted to hold her baby.

"You can make me sleep." Neil whispered in her ears. "Myra, he is turning into a toddler. He needs his own bed. His crib is in our room only. We are just beside him." He tried to make her understand.

"Come let's sleep." He pulled her.

"I need a change." She thought to ask him about her clothes.

"Do you need my help?" He asked with intensity.

"Shut up."

He laughed when she put a finger on her lips, shushing him pointing at their sleeping son.

Days started passing within a blink, by each passing day, Neil and Myra fell into the shoes of a perfect married couple. Though they did not consummate their marriage as Neil decided to take the plunge only after his confession but morning romance, his flirtings, his teasing were used to leave Myra in breathless state most of the time.

Thanks to her bodyguard son who gave a perfect competition to his father every day.

'Romance can be challenging.'

'I will take my revenge. Just wait for the day when you will find your girl.'

'Dare you try your hands on my wife.'

'My own son is my romance breaker.' Neil's everyday's innovative one liners left Myra in a frenzied state.

"Neil, can you please taste this?" Myra called from the kitchen.

He entered and immediately a delicious smell hit his nostrils.

"Can you please try this?" She forwarded a spoonful of Almond Halwa infront of him.

"Wow, this is amazing. What is this?" He asked when the sweet yet nutty taste hit his taste buds.

"It's almond halwa. I tried it for the first time. Dad said he liked it so I made it for today." Today, rest other Singhania's were invited at their house for dinner resulting in Myra's cooking experiments.

"You try it." He made her eat from the same spoon.

"Hmm this is good." she licked her lips, closing her eyes relishing the taste. She jumped in her place over her accomplishments. She wiped her lips with her tongue but her simple gesture ignited fire in Neil.

He pulled her closer and in the next moment his lips crashed on her.

Over the last few weeks they shared quick peck on lips but today it was different.

"You are so irresistible." He mumbled against her lips before pushing his tongue inside her mouth.

Myra was shocked, in one moment she was feeling an outburst of sweet nutty taste and the next she felt a warm, hot sensation inside her mouth. Neil kept it slow initially giving time for Myra to push back but when she held his shirt in her fist, he knew she was responding and equally needed this next step of their intimacy.

Neil pulled her and lifted her slightly to make her stand on his feet. His hands were playing with her messy bun and in the next moment he released her hair to fall on her back, with another hand he held her cheek and tilted slightly to reach the farthest corner of her mouth.

Myra did not oppose him but let me do whatever he wanted, she kept on melting under his sweet yet sensual teasing. She herself did not understand when her body started reacting to his advances. Her fingers were roaming in his jet black hair.

"STOP....My Mumma" loud shriek broke their moment, and both of them stumbled. They held each other trying to gaspe air, control their crazily thumping hearts, widely running breaths and idle minds. For a moment they could not realise the little bundle standing in front of them with wide teary eyes was their own son.

"Monster Dadda." He ran to his father and started hitting his legs with his tiny fist.

"Dadda Bad, My Mumma." Neev started crying, taking out his lower lip. Neil tried to pick him up when his mind registered that his son had witnessed one of their most intimate moments.

"No." His son ignored and ran back to his mother.

Myra drank a glassful of water to gain her senses. She could not match her eyes with her husband. She picked up her son left outside with a cherry red face.

'Wow now I need permission from my son to kiss my own wife.' He sulked and followed his wife outside.

She was trying her best to make Neev understand but he was Neev, Neil Singhania's duplicate copy in possessiveness.

"What happened?" Nandini entered when she saw all three were settled in the family room and Neev was crying his heart out.

"Ahh... nothing Mom." Neil welcomed all.

"Ohh my buddy. What happened?" Niren went on his knees in front of his nephew.

"Daddaa... Dadda bad" Neev complained, pointing at his father.

"What did he do? I am his Mumma, tell me my baby. I will punish him." Nandini caressed his face.

"Nothing Mom, he is just overreacting." Neil shrugged, ofcourse he did not want his parents and brother to know about their private moments.

"Shut up Neil. My baby is crying. There has to be some reason." Nandini scolded in fake anger.

"Dadda bad. Dadda eats Mumma." He said sobbingly.

"What?" Niren scrunched his forehead along with the other two. Whereas Neil and Myra left in an embarrassed state.

"Dadda eats Mumma." This time it was a little louder from Neev.

"Neev stop crying." Myra tried to convince her baby by kissing him and clutching him in her arms but her eyes were fixed on Neil asking for their escape ways silently.

"No Mumma. Dadda Monster."

"Dadda eat Mumma." Niren repeated his words trying to understand. And the moment his brain chords started working he started laughing like a maniac.

"Your Dadda did not eat your Mumma. But your Dadda kissed your Mumma." Niren put it in exact words earning more embarrassment for the couple.

"No Dadda kissey. I kissey." Neev replied with authority.

"Excuse me! What do you mean I cannot kiss your Mumma. I can kiss her whenever I want. You stay away from my wife." Neil was annoyed, embarrassed, flustered and what not.

"Seriously, Neil, you have tough competition." Niren was stilm laughing.

"My Mumma. Dadda is bad."

Nandini and Dev were laughing looking at them fighting like pigs whereas Myra was a blushing mess.

Dinner went well but Myra could not match her eyes with any of them, continuous teasing from Niren left her cheeks competing with cherries.

Myra was winding up in the kitchen when Nandini found a perfect opportunity. "Finally, you were able to seduce my son." Nandini was not less when it came to teasing. "I am proud of you, my girl."

"Mom you too?"

"I am happy for both of you." She kissed Myra's cheeks.

"Sorry I have no intentions of eating you." Nandini teased. "But looks like my son for sure have."

Both came outside when they saw Neil and Dev were engrossed in deep discussions.

With their discussions, Myra understood there was some issue in the business and Neil needed to leave for Los Angeles within a day or two.

"Why don't you take Myra and Neev?" Nandini asked.

"He will be totally buried in work, Nandini. I will suggest that Myra, you and Neev shift to our house for two days. It's just a matter of two days, he will be back." Dev suggested.

Myra stared at him for an answer. He blinked in assurance.

"Myra it will be hectic for you two. Else I would have taken you two with me." Myra was packing his bags for the next two days.

"I know Neil. I will miss you." It was for the first time he was leaving her alone after their marriage.

"I will miss you too." He kissed her forehead. "If this had not escalated to this stage... I would not have left like this. I will be worried about you two."

"Don't worry, Niren said he will come to pick up. We will be in Singhania house. But the moment you are back you should message me I will be back to our house." She needed to keep her sanity.

Both slept in each other's embrace unknown to the storm going to hit them hard.

Next day, Neil went on a business trip promising Myra to return back in two days. Niren came to pick up Myra and Neev.

Dev and Nandini were waiting for the duo to spend some family time.

'Missing you.' Myra blushed when her phone beeped with notification during lunch.

'Me too.'

'Just need to hold you. I badly need a kiss now.' his question.

She sent him a kissing smiley.

'Just wait for my surprise, my wifey. You won't even guess what am I planning'

Their message exchanges were caught by rest Singhania's which again led to another teasing session.

Two days passed, but Neil did not return. It was the third day, for the last few hours his phone was unreachable which panicked everyone a little bit.

Myra sent him numerous messages which were not even delivered to him. When Dev inquired about Neil's whereabouts to his assistant at night.

'Sir had gone out yesterday night and from then he did not return.' This sounded alarming to them but when Neil replied to Myra's message about his late return to the hotel room gave some relief to all.

Both talked over a call, but for the first time Myra could feel something was wrong with Neil. He sounded tired, upset and overall he was in  a bad mood. He was not himself, they hardly talked for five minutes before Neil disconnected the call.

"I will be back in a couple of days. You stay at Mom's place." It was his ask before cutting the short call.

Sleep was far away from Myra's eyes, her mind kept on wandering around Neil's thoughts. She prayed to the almighty for his well being and safe return.

Next morning, Myra thought about giving a call to her husband, when she saw there was a notification on her home monitoring app. She opened camera recordings, it showed someone parked the car in the driveway early this morning. When the person came out of the driver seat, she immediately recognised it was her husband.

'Neil is back.'

'Yesterday, he said he will be back in a couple of days.'

'Maybe he is planning for my surprise.'

"Neev, come here let's surprise your Dadda." Saying she immediately packed her things and left for her home after bidding bye to others.

She asked the driver to leave back to Singhania house. She ran inside where she saw Neil sitting in the living room's armchair rubbing his forehead.

"Neil" He turned to look at the voice which he wanted to hear for the last 3-4 days.

"Myra." He took her name but he could not suppress his astonishment.

She was standing in front of him with a bright smile. She ran to him holding Neev in her hands, she threw herself on him. His arms went to encircle his two precious in his embrace.

"I missed you a lot." She kissed his cheeks. He was staring at her without a blink.

"Dadda '' Neev was also meeting his father after a long time. He jumped in his father's embrace.

Neil kissed his cheeks before putting him down.

"How do you know I am back?" He asked. Myra starred in his eyes, there were dark circles and had turned red.

"Did you work at night? You did not sleep well?" she touched his jaw line.

He nodded his head in negative but his eyes were filled with unknown emotions. "You did not answer me," he asked.

"That's a secret. I am spying on you." She held his jacket in her fist, taking a step near him, staring in his eyes.

"Neil can I..."

Myra heard another voice from his back. She tilted her head to see her own reflection.

"Meera"

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