| They say, 'A moment in love is equal to a hundred of lifetimes.'
But,
is it enough to forget the bitter licit relationship? |

~*~*~*~

'Get out!!!!', a raged Shivaay held the upper arm of a bitterly crying Anika, and threw her out of their bedroom.. Scratch that, his bedroom.

'Shivaay', Anika tried to put some reason through the thick skull of the angry beast, but he was too blinded in loathe to notice his nails painfully digging in her soft skin peeking through the slit of her sleeve. The moment he jerked her away from him, she couldn't help herself from darting towards a table and hit it with all the gravitational pull her head could get affected of.

It produced a loud bang along with the door of Shivaay's bedroom, which was slammed shut behind her, making her flinch.

'You bloody money hungry gold digger', Shivaay barked behind the door, venom dripping from his every utterance, 'Your actual place is the footpath outside of the Oberoi Mansion!! So, be thankful that you are allowed inside and be in your limits!!'

He kicked the door angrily, making it rattle. But Anika knew, the kick was meant to land upon her and she flinched again while imagining its intensity.

She wiped her incessant tears to clear her sight. Promiscuous cold wind howled past her, like an insatiate spirit, crying for justice. She hugged herself to save her exposed skin from the chill and chap, as a deafening thunder struck the sky. Its intense roar scared the dark purple clouds to tears. Shocked by the dreadful cracking sound, she scooted towards the wall of the dark passage more, plastering herself to it.

But another lightening made her jump on her feet when she was trying to get up from the floor and to stop the world from spinning around her head. Within a quick flash she could find a very expensive all white statue scattered on the shining marble floor.

She gulped. It was one of the many statues made by her first brother in-law Omkara, the second brother after Shivaay. She only saw him standing submissively beside Shivaay during the various rituals of his pre-wedding. He seemed more intimidating than Shivaay to her. He talked less, smiled less and had a I don't give it a damn attitude. But she feared him more when she saw him glaring and baulking to his father, over his infidelity towards his mother. She kept her path far away from him since Shivaay married her forcefully.

Now, cold sweat ran down her forehead just by imagining how much angry he would be if he found out about the sad fate of his statue. Yet, she had no way but to confess her actions to him. May be it would anger him less if she herself told the matter than using the servants to vent the news out.

Continuous drops of blood, detaching themselves from her forehead, gathered on the floor making a blotch of blackish red, but she ignored the pounding ache numbing her head and collected the broken pieces of the statue upon a tray.

-*-*-*-

Omkara was reading a book lighting the topic, How did the intermingling of masonry and sculpting of Indian and Greek civilizations benefitted them both. But, a light click on the door of his bedroom made him snap out of the prehistoric la la land of Maurya and Gupta Period.

A thunder struck again, making Anika yelp a little. And she badly wished to run away through the same passage using which she came in.

At the girly gasp Omkara snapped up his head from his book after clicking the table lamp off. There stood his sister in-law, Anika, holding a tray, bits and pieces of a broken statue on them.

Anika took a deep breath to calm her racing heart and marched right in front of the green curvy recliner he was leaned upon, holding the tray in a white knuckle grip. Clenching her eyes shut tightly, she started ranting sorry-s and please forgive me-s.

Swooshing sound of wind ruffling the thin curtains of the large window and occasional thunderstruck hid the deep chuckle that reverberated from his chest.

He stood up from his recliner and pulled away the the tray from her grips, startling her. Without letting her contemplate the whole ordeal he reached the trash bin in quick strides and poured the broken pieces in it. A clinking cacophony rippled through the shuffling air as the pieces hit the base of the metal bucket.

Coming back after discarding the tray at a corner he held her wrist and pulled her towards the open window. She got mortified. His face was unreadable due to the darkness constricting the room. But the outside was lighter and ghostlier. The numerous lights in the garden gave the ruffled droplets of rain an eerie glow, as if thick dust of diamonds was flying randomly.

'O.. Om..', she tried to stop him from taking her further towards the window, but he stopped at the ledge, letting the Desultory wind sweep splashes of drizzles on them.

She could vaguely make out his loose locks swaying wildly and his black irises as turbid as the thunderstorm howling outside, bearing themselves into her soul.

Without a word, he slowly traced his fingers over the cuts on her hand, and she hissed in pain.

His face twitched in an apologetic look as he immediately pulled his hand away, making her greedy of the caress by his long, callous fingers.

His slender fingers slowly traced her neck and forked her hairs between them, leaving a trail of tingly goosebumps behind. His luscious curtain of lashes drooped down in anticipation, and she got more terrified of his intentions. He lightly caressed her scalp and brushed his lips like a feather upon hers, letting her know of his desire. The small voice that was built in her throat to warn him, got lost in their mingling breath, heavy in heat, just as vapor dissolves in thin air.

Jeene bhi de duniyaa humein
Ilzaam naa lagaa
Ekbaar toh karte hain sab
Koi haseen khataa
Warna koi kaise bhala
Chaahe kisiko bepnah
Aye zindagi tu hi bataa
Kyun ishq hai gunaah..

She felt a violent pull and repulse together towards him when his lips started pressing on hers. Her heart screamed in ecstasy when he parted her lips a bit and started moulding her lower lip between his lips. His approach was smooth, flawless, just as his fingers did wonders on muddy clay models. Soon he approached more, his teeth cautiously grazed over her tender flesh. But her mind kept on kicking her for being infidel to Shivaay and their relationship. As soon as reality sank in her brain, fogged of lust and illicit intimacy, she let out a muffled groan, pushing him by her palms. He didn't stagger an inch, as he stepped closer, making her lower back hit the window ledge and bent her upper body out under the heavy downpour.

She gripped his shoulder in fear as he leaned over her still attaching his lips to hers, and one of his arms went beneath her lower back, padding her over the hard cemented window ledge.

As soon as she was bent outside, a cold wind hit the crown of her head, her hairs ruffled and entangled themselves in numerous humid knots. She inhaled deeply his scent along with the intoxicating smell of the wet soil coming from the garden outside, her eyes drooped down in numbing ecstasy. She hummed inaudibly as some warm trails of water ran down his locks to her cold neck, sliding down its cleaves, just as warm as his touch. One of her hands snaked in his long black locks, after tracing her long fingers over his neck, making the hairs stand up in there under her caress. Her another hand started drawing pattern on his collarbone and he gave her a groan still nibbling her lower lip. This made her move her stiffened, hesitating lips and she started synching the movements of his lips with hers, speaking him all her miseries, her burdens, her wretch, all the ignorance she had to bear, all the hatred that scarred her lonely soul. Maybe as an comforting sign, he ran his heated tongue over the meeting line of her lips, again and again.

She squinted her eyebrows when he parted back a bit. But, before she could ask him anything, he spoke up in a deep, hypnotic voice,

'Let me in Anika',

And with that her lips were sucked in his mouth again, as he wetted them tenderly. She opened her mouth hesitantly and felt his hot tongue enter her. As he started licking the insides of her mouth, caressing every cell in there, as if their souls united along with their lips and he was caressing her wounds and scars to soothe her soul, like the soft touch of a feather. Her toes curled in a tingling sensation and butterflies fluttered in her stomach.

She felt as if she would slip out of the window any moment because she could feel her legs no more. Her hands started snaking around his neck on their own as she tangled her fingers in his silky black locks tighter.

A silent flash of lightening illuminated his face for a moment and her vision went dizzy as she envisioned his concentrated, dangerous yet alluring pair of black bottomless oceans sinking her deeper in their silent storm of deadly sins. Unable to bear the drugging torture by his tongue, she moved her paralyzed one sluggishly, caressing his tongue back in the process. He let out a muffled growl of satisfaction rippling from his chest.

He perhaps sensed her lungs scorching in urgent need of oxygen, for he reluctantly pulled back, straightening themselves inside the room.

Her first kiss. An unforgettable moment, yet she was scared. Both of them gasped for air standing a bit away from each other. Her yellow chiffon top with slitted sleeve stuck to her skin along with her wet waves of hair. He was looking deeply in her eyes, heaving as wetness crept from his black lower neck length locks and the back of his t shirt. Tears brimmed at the corners of her already wet eyes, glistening as pure white pearls. But, those pearls bursted in streams of tiny rivers as his hypnotic voice cut through the solidified silence,

'I love you Anika'.

A deafening thunder struck again. She collapsed on the ground sobbing and he ran towards her, cradling her wrecking body in his arms and her tears in his lips.

'Why?', she croaked, 'Why me?'

'Shh Anika', he caressed her hair, 'Its not your fault that I love you. I'm the terrible man here who couldn't control himself from falling for you.'

She sobbed harder.

Khud se hi karke guft gu
Koi kaise jeeye
Ishq toh laazmi sa hai
Zindagi ke liye
Dil kya kare
Dil ko agar
Achchha lage koi
Jhoota sahi dil ko magar
Sachchha lage koi

Jeene bhi de, Duniya humein..
Ilzaam na lagaa..

'And Shivaay? My marriage? Your brotherhood?', Anika croaked again.

'I'm not asking you to marry me or warm my bed Anika', he held her chin upwards, making her look at his eyes directly, 'Is it too bad to have a man who loves you unconditionally, without expecting anything in return?'

'How long? How long will you just love me? You have to start your family, I also have Shivaay to remain commited to', Anika clawed at his palm.

He left her on the ground and walked away.

'Omkara! Answer me!!', Anika screamed, forgetting that they could be caught at any moment.

He came back and silently dabbed a ball of cotton soaked in antiseptic liquid upon the bruises on her forehead and her upper arm. She hissed at the burning pain.

'Like this ointment, I want to heal your every wound of humiliation, injustice. It would burn your soul, for its a sin to the world, the society,' Omkara caressed her tear stained cheeks, 'but tell me Anika, what do you think, is it wrong to love someone unconditionally?'

'It is wrong Omkara, it is wrong', Anika let out heart wrenching sobs again.

'Then I leave you here Anika. We will forever be the in-laws to the world, but I will never stop loving you. Remember, whatever happens in future, if you need a sanctuary to rest and cry in, my arms will always be open for you, even when I will have to be committed to someone.'

He was almost at the door of his room when a howling storm hit the papers of his sketchbooks, ruffling them in a mess, with a mighty roar of heavy clouds, droplets of rain kissed the earth as two long detached lovers, passionately uniting, and he felt a broad, yet soft pad thumped on his back and two hands snaked from behind to rest upon his chest.

Anika could feel his heart thundering wildly beneath her left palm, matching the erratic beats of hers and she softly mumbled,

'I will take the risk Omkara. Throughout my life, I've only given away my love and craved for it to come back. I know it hurts. And I cannot let you suffer the same pain I bore all my life. Yes, I cannot say I love you too to you, but I will love you a way I had never, have never loved and will never love anyone.'

Omkara slowly traced his fingers up to her knuckles, and slid them through the gaps of her ones, tangling them, as he inched closer to her left palm and kissed it, sealing their deal, and Anika slid her forehead along the dip in the midriff of his back, slightly pressing her head to him.

A howling blow of cold wind caressed the statued couple, congratulating them.

Dil ko bhi udne ke liye
Aasma chaahiye
Khulti ho jinme khidkian
Won makaan chaahiye

Darwaze se, nikle zara
Bahaar ko reh guzar
Had mod pe, Jo saath ho
Aisa ho humsafar..

Jeene bhi de, duniya humein
Ilzaam na lagaa
Ekbaar toh karte hain sab
Koi haseen khata

Warna koi kaise bhala
Chaahe kisiko bepnah
Aye zindagi tu hi bataa
Kyun ishq hai gunaah..

~*~ The end ~*~

Okay.. So all whoever bump in here, please let me know how is it. I haven't decided any ShivRi or RuRi story for the series. And I don't find any chemistry between ShiVya and AniRu.. Honestly.. At least not for a guilty love. Feel free to share your ideas related to ShiVya and AniRu.. I will surely make a story out of it.. And of course, I'll share the credit to you.

Happy reading!
With love,
Sarani.

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