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Days passed soon turning into two weeks but Trayaksh's infatuation with Aarunya remained the same. In fact it was starting to take a deep turn where he could no longer go back to the man he used to be.

He was smitten.

Enchanted by the hazel and honey eyed orphic beauty.

Everyday he would try to find a new reason to keep her close. Whether it was asking for her help with the excuse of his injuries or wanting to know more about their marriage life which she usually shrugged off making him more curious each passing day.

He would notice her every moment. The way her lush lips would move while talking, the way her petite body moved, she was an epitome of elegance yet messy and cute. A deadly blend of everything which made his heart race with a foreign feeling and his eyes darkened with darkest inky desires.

Aarunya, his arcane.

Truth to be told the she is a mystery to him.

So near yet so far.

In these weeks many things changed in Trayaksh's life. His heart thumped fast when Azad informed him about Aranya. For Trayaksh that little name changed his whole world in a second.

He was a father.

He had a child.

A part of him and the woman he was enchanted with.

The fact that he didn't remember his own flesh and blood made his heart ache with agony. But soon the burning inside his chest turned into a calm as he held the Toddler in his arms.

With shaky hands, Trayaksh held a sleeping Aranya in his arms. Feeling the baby's soft little head touching his hard and muscular chest spreaded a warmth inside his heart which he himself couldn't decipher into words.

It felt like an eternity as he kept keeping the sleeping child close to him. Kissing his forehead, Trayaksh settled the baby down into its crib. He turned to leave but immediately froze in his tracks as he heard the soft little giggles of little Aranya who was finally awake.

A smile crept on his lips itself as he looked at those mesmerizing hazel eyes which the tiny creature was adorned with.

Aarunya

Those eyes.

Ocean.

"magnificent"

He couldn't help but speak. His son had the same eyes of Aarunya.

His wife.

That Ethereal woman who has him captivated in her oceanic hazel eyes.

He stepped forward as his fingers brushed the soft apple cheeks grazing at those cuts features of his son. He could clearly see Aranya's resemblance with him. His son was a spitting image of Trayaksh, blessed with those hazel eyes and the enchanting smile of Aarunya.

"You'll be a heartbreaker once you grow up, little one"

Trayaksh couldn't help but speak softly as the baby giggled softly, his smile as captivating as his mother's, making Trayalsh's heart swell with affection towards the little bundle of joy. He couldn't believe this ball of sunshine was his son, his flesh and blood.

Little Aranya held his father's Pinky finger with his own tiny baby hand making Trayaksh chuckle in amusement as he kept looking at his son's mischievous and cute antics.

Trayaksh couldn't help thinking of the difference between both of them. Where he was gloomy as the darkness itself there was his own little one who was the total opposite of his father. Aranya, a sunshine who could light up the whole world with just his captivating smile and affectionate glance. That smile, same as his mother Aarunya's precious smile. She has truly bestowed him the most beautiful gift anyone could have ever given to him.

She had given him his own sunshine, a part of him he never knew would ever exist and Trayaksh knew he would be forever grateful to that lovely woman for everything she had bestowed him. For everything she has ever been.

And from that moment Trayaksh Rajput knew that Aarunya Agarwal was irreplaceable.

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Time kept passing as Trayaksh couldn't deny his growing affection towards his child and its mother any longer. He wanted to make them smile. To be the reason for their happiness. To be the cause of their contagious laugh and giggles all together. He wanted them. He needed them to be his forever.

Every day Trayaksh noticed how Aarunya looked outside the window as if a captive bird looking at the sky with her eyes full of hopes as if trying to find a sense of freedom. She was a woman who didn't talk much but he knew that her actions spoke volumes which her words couldn't.

Holding their son on her arms protectively, she hugged Aranya close to her heart as her hazel orbs kept looking outside the huge window, her eyes speaking a sad story on its own, her gaze possessing a longing of something while her tongue was sealed. She looked like a siren craving and dying each second to sing it's melody

A Siren with sealed lips and a shattered soul.

Only if he knew that the reason behind her agony was none other than he himself.



Did she want to go out?

He wondered every day.

He couldn't help but think about her past before their marriage.

What was her past like before she met him?

How did they even meet?

Did she used to be a bubbly girl? A girl who dreamt of fairy tales?or a girl who used to love silence. Yet under her Silent facade he could notice a flicker of stubborness, a resilience inside, a phoenix fire which could burn anything including a whole empire into ashes.

"Ocean"

She froze hearing his gruff voice, his tone gruff yet not unkind. It was nothing new for her anymore nowadays as in these two weeks, Aarunya was habitual of him calling her with this name. Earlier it indeed used to make her feel disgusted but it's not like she could do anything for it. And now she's habitual just like she was habitual of the torture he had put her through in the past.

"Yes?"

She asked, her voice holding slight suspicion.

What did he want right now? A new drama to torment her.

Will he tell her to change his dressing or maybe he would bark in front of her to feed him.

Aarunya raised her brows in bewilderment with thoughts swirled inside her mind but his unexpected words made her eyes widen in shock and her heart thud in surprise yet a bit of happiness.

"Let's go out today, along with Aranya"

His unexpected words made her freeze as she looked at him in surprise.

He would take her outside?

After so many years?

She indeed went on events with him as his perfect little wife in the past but everytime he would keep his hawk-like eyes at her, noticing her movements like a predator keeping an eye on its prey.

In the past, Aarunya was free, free as a caged bird.

A bird who couldn't fly.

A bird who would talk on the whim of her master.

Her master, her husband, the monster named Trayaksh.

"Will you really take me out?"

The words automatically fell out of her tongue as she tasted the sourness of the prompt she was speaking of.

He nodded, his sincere eyes meeting hers in a delicate war of his fondness and her suspicion.

"Can't I take my wife out, hm?"

Hearing his words, she shook her head off. She wouldn't let him be suspicious of their relationship after all. She didn't wanted to fill in his curiosities.

It had already been weeks since Azad had put on his best act, fabricating his lies and made Trayaksh believe into his deceitful lies about how Taksh, Gargi and his siblings were out of the country since a month.

Lying to Trayaksh Rajput without making him suspecious was the most dangerous thing a person could ever do and Azad was one of the only rare people who could do it smoothy without waking up the sleeping beast inside Trayskh. As for Aarunya then she had no intention to fill his curiosity and get into a more deep trouble as one question would arise another thus knitting the web of lies deeper and deeper until she would end up trapping herself into Trayaksh's caliginous clutches yet again.

"I mean why so suddenly?"

She asked forcing a smile on her lips though her curious eyes looked at him, wanting the answers of this sudden change

What changed?

She couldn't help but think.

Why is he doing this?

The thoughts kept dancing inside her mind making it difficult for her to think about anything else.

"I just wish to spend some time with my family. With my wife and our son, together as a family."

His words sent a shiver down her spine.

A family?

He Called her a family?

Why is he trying to be the perfect Husband he never was?

What's with this sudden change in his demeanor?

Or is this memory loss Just another plan to destroy her in the worst way possible?

He wants to be a family with her? After ruining her, he wants to be her family?

This man has always been beyond infuriating.

ludicrous.

She thought, chuckling bitterly, feeling sick with apprehension and the bitterness inside of her.

Trayaksh wished to give her the freedom which she was longing for since an eternity but only if he knew that the blurred lines of their past were still chaining them with the tragic thread of destruction which was bound to be the eternal truth of their story.

And love between them was beyond impossible as his past sins had already broken the bonny fantasy which she once had woven inside her sterling heart.

But here she was, still chained in the blurred and dark past. Chained inside those blurred yet tormenting nine years during which the darkness seeped inside the deepest of her parts making her hollow.

Nothing was left for her except the blurred chains of past holding her down and captivating her inside their callignous web of pain and torment everyday till she couldn't breath, reducing her into nothing but a shell of her former self.

A dust crumbled under the shoes of her own husband.

He had truly bestowed her with the most lavish gifts in this universe. She thought bitterly.

His gifts. Her torment.

Humiliation, her clothing.

Tears, her jewellery.

Pain, her mirth of a happiness.

And a luxurious life, her cage.

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So what are your thoughts about Trayaksh?

Any thoughts on Aarunya?

Ps: Little Aranya is my favourite.