"Karthik" Likitha looked at him with moist eyes and a pale face.

The sight crushed Karthik's heart, He raised his hand to wipe away the unshed tears.

He felt like hugging her and kissing her passionately.

His wife could see his love in his eyes but she is so particular to hear those words from him again.

Today she wants to break that invisible wall, the barrier between them.

She took a step back moving away from him, her gesture hurt him.

"Sona," Not paying much attention to her reluctance to his touch, He spoke her name heaving a sigh of relief.

Likitha shed a few more tears and took a few more steps back.

He rejected her and until he confesses his love and acceptance, She won't allow him to touch her, She made his mind.

"Sona..." He came to her in a single stride and cupped her face.

"You came here without saying a word to me"

"Why do you look so upset?"

"Are you angry with me?" He asked looking into her eyes straight.

She didn't say anything but kept looking down avoiding his gaze.

"Tell me," He lifted her head gently and pecked her forehead.

"Don't touch me Karthik." She shook away his hands and walked away from there towards her room without saying a word.

How can she allow him to touch her?! She left glaring at him for the stunt he pulled.

Karthik became reckless and walked behind her with a grumpy face.

"Sona..."

"Sona...."

"What are you saying? Why can't I touch you? What did I do?"He followed her shouting behind her.

She didn't want to stop, She went straight to her room and shut the door on his face without any pity.

"What are you doing Sona?"

"Open the door, please" He shouted standing in front of the door, trying to control his feelings.

He is angry, reckless and deeply hurt by her behaviour.

Likitha stood laughing behind the door with a mixed feeling.

She is smiling happily shedding tears copiously.

Her heart is filled with overwhelming love, affection and possession.

This man is her husband and he is standing on the other side of the door for her.

It time break this barrier forever and ever.

She took a deep breath and mustered all her courage.

"No, I won't Karthik." She shouted with the same intensity.

Karthik stood like a rock for a second.

He didn't expect her to shout back at him.

"What?"

"What the hell?"

"I know you are angry with me but at least give me a chance to explain, please." He banged the door recklessly with his strong fist in rage.

"Don't do that Karthik, Please"She shouted back, closing her ears.

"Sorry..."

"I am sorry, Sona, Let's talk and end this."He said gently leaning on the door a bit.

"Okay, but I won't open the door until you answer my questions?"She said opening the window.

He smiled a bit and reached the window hastily.

"Don't try to trick me and leave me in the middle of the conversation like last time," Likitha warned Karthik showing her finger.

Her words amused him.

He got surprised how cutely his wife is warning him.

"No.." He nodded like a kid hiding his chuckle.

He wondered how her presence calmed his anger.

Her mere presence took away all the rage.

"Promise me, you will tell me the truth.." She said forwarding her hand through the window.

He caught her hand quickly and kissed her knuckles.

"You said, you don't want me to touch you." He smirked kissing them again.

She faked anger and tried to take away her hand from his grip.

"Please.." He blinked her eyes with a small sad smile.

She smiled back and looked at his eyes for a second.

They didn't talk for a second but they kept looking at each other intently.

"Karthik, Do you love me?" Likitha asked out of the blue breaking their eye lock.

"What kind of question it is Sona, Everyone except you knows how much I love you, I can't live without you Sona."

"Maybe I sound so dramatic to say that I fell in love with you at the first sight. You were and are the only one in my life."

"Whoever or whatever the reason may be, maybe it's destiny or grandma, It doesn't matter much. I strongly believe you are the only for me." He said trying to cup her face.

Likitha quickly turned around hiding her emotions from her husband.

She knows she can't speak a single word further if she turns around and looks at his face.

She felt a lump in her throat and cried profusely with utmost happiness.

Karthik shouted his name trying to reach out her shoulder.

She took a step ahead and stood turned around and hiding her face.

"If you love me that much why did you reject me?"

"Why did you just push me aside naked on the bed...."

"Why?Karthik?Why, ?"

She stopped and squeezed her eyes shut in pain, shame.

Karthik got shocked with her words and he doesn't know what to say, he instantly became speechless and his eyes became moist.

Epiphany hit so hard and he realised how his actions hurt her deeply.

It was his mistake for which his wife is paying.

He has to clear this misunderstanding and break this wall before it eats away their relationship alive.

"I know I was so naive and committed a few grave sins in my past but never thought it will stand as a hurdle in my marital life."

"I know it's hard to accept my past but I am helpless Karthik, I have no chance to go back and correct it."

"If you truly love me then you have to accept my past Karthik and I am sorry for it." She turned around and slumped on the floor closing her face with her hands.

"Likitha, what are you thinking?"

"I rejected you? pushed you away because of your past?"

"Are you mad Likitha?"He shouted asking her attention.

She stood up from there and walked to the window

"I love you and get the hell with your past, Who cares it when you are here standing beside me as my wife at this moment." He looked at her in disbelief.

"How could you think such? How could you think so low about me?"

"I can't reject you, I will just die before I get this thought."He said slumping his shoulder in despair.

She looked at him giving a faint smile.

"I was worried Sona, I was worried about hurting you."

"I thought I felt like rushing to take this relationship a new level..." He said at a stretch and stopped to see her looking at him with a pale face.

"New level..."She chuckled wiping her tears.

"We are a wife and husband Karthik."

"We have all rights on each other in all ways, I am prepared for it."She said without beating the bush.

Karthik didn't open his mouth for a second, he is lost in his thoughts.

He thought she was forced, compelled to get met married to him but her confession filled his heart with utmost happiness.

"What made you think such Karthik?"

"My past?"

"Do you still feel I love John.?"

"Haven't you see the love in my eyes?" She asked him catching his collar through the window.

"No...."

"Shut up Sona.."

"I know he will be always a memory in your life, a bitter memory."

"And I always felt blessed to see love and care in your beautiful eyes, but I am a fool to not to accept it." He said sincerely, holding her throat.

"You were always a dream to me, it took some time for me to see the real you, I am sorry."

"I thought you were forced to marry me, I thought you married me for the sake of your father, his happiness." He said looking down, avoiding her gaze.

"What?"She looked at him with grumpy face, faking anger.

"Sorry..."He said trying to release her grip over his collar.

"I can't believe it Karthik..."

"I can't..."

"You are impossible."

"You imagined everything and ruined our wedding night." she tugged his collar asking him to look at her face.

He closed his eyes tightly biting his lip.

"You hurt me Karthik, you killed a beautiful memory of our life."

"Go to hell..." She stomped her foot and walked away from there and sat on her bed trying to calm down.

A few more seconds passed in silence.

Both of them took their time to think about what just had happened?

She smiled remembering his words.

He too chuckled at her confession.

"Sona."

"I think you got your answers."

"Open the door now, otherwise I will break it."He warned her banging the door with a goofy smile.

"I won't..." Likitha said chuckling.

"Come on be a good girl, Open the door dear..." He begged.

She walked to the door and tried to open it giggling like a kid.

"What's taking you long to open the lame door Sona?"Karthik asked after a few seconds.

"I think...I think...I messed it up..."She cooed.

"What?"Karthik ran to the window to catch a glance of her.

"There is some problem with the door, I forgot about it and locked up myself."She pouted at him blinking her cute eyes.

One more chapter to go.
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