Chapter 30 - Childish Argument

|Eshan|

If I ever had the slightest inkling that things would turn out this way, I would have never left in the first place. Leaving Innaya alone was a very bad idea and now, I was regretting it.

Witnessing her going through something painful, that I had no clue about was something I couldn't describe. It made me feel helpless. I shuddered as I remembered her withering figure, with tears streaming down her face through her closed eyelids. It was tormenting.

Holding her in my arms was somewhat assuring. 'Innaya might not be aware of how much I needs her, but she has become my solace. I would not put her through same turmoil once again by asking her about why it happened, what had happened. She is already emotionally exhausted and again recalling everything could be triggering.'

"Innaya, as much as I would like to know it, I think we should have this discussion some other time. Today's events are more than enough for you and I don't want you falling sick with so much of stress," I voiced out my thoughts.

As I looked down at her face, I noticed she appeared tired and had dark circles. "I can see that you have been having trouble sleeping... if I consider these dark circles," I added, while with my thumb I traced the one beneath her right eye.

Innaya closed her eyes and her fingers curled into a fist on my chest, clutching my shirt in the process. She may not realize what her little actions meant to me, but every time she did something like this, it warmed my heart knowing she was getting comfortable with me.

"Innaya," I called softly, running my fingers gently through her hair. Innaya just hummed in response. I felt her body relaxing slowly.

"I missed you," I confessed once again. 'It is true though, and I am not ashamed to admit. There are people who would not accept that, to their spouses but I am not one of them. She is my better half and she deserves to know everything. Even when I know, she wouldn't reciprocate.'

Innaya surprised me as after a silence when I thought she wouldn't reply, she answered, "Me too."

Her lips curled into a smile.

Her smile was so infectious, that I found myself smiling. I stroked her cheek with my fingers while I continued, "Next time, I am not going anywhere unless you are accompanying me. I can't seem to sleep alone now. You have become my habit, a beautiful habit." Those three nights were very bad, owing to the lack of sleep I got. I do not intend to go through the same restlessness ever again. No matter what it would take, I would not spend one more night without having her beside me.

"Stop flirting," Innaya admonished, softly slapping on my chest. However, with every passing second, the blush covering her face only grew more.

"I am saying the truth. Believe me or not but you are my fairy, who puts me to sleep every night. I missed my fairy," I added in a flirtatious tone.

Both the times I told her the truth, but this time I was in a flirting mood. The red shade on her looked good, besides that gave my heart a strange satisfaction of being the reason behind it. If a little bit of teasing could take her mind off the things then who was I to mind?

"Stop being cheesy Eshan," Innaya chided playfully.

I cupped her face before bringing it upwards as I added looking into her eyes, "I am being romantic, Innu." I was rewarded with the gasp of surprise and widening of her eyes in astonishment. Why would she not be taken aback, this was the first time I was openly flirting with her. I chuckled at her bewildered expressions and at how adorable she looked.

"Stop it, Eshuuuuu." Innaya tried pulling back once she realized I was just messing.

'Eshuu? Not bad Mrs. Innaya Eshan Sighaniya. Definitely, no one would like being called as Eshu at all the time by everyone who deemed fit to do so just for the sake of entertainment.' I did not like it too. Nevertheless, having her use that childhood name, I tried so hard to avoid then, somehow felt sweet to my ears. Well, everything coming from her lips sounds sweet as honey to my ears.

Innaya managed to get away from me; or rather, I would say I let her have her way, not wishing to make her feel uncomfortable. She sat straight with her back towards me, keeping some distance between us.

"Aha, you seem to be learning that from my dumb friend," I remarked, hoping to divert her attention from her current shyness. Moreover, Arjun would get his share of punishment for revealing that to my wife.

"He is not dumb, ok? He is sweet," Innaya retorted while folding her hands across her chest. She turned her head and glared.

'Adorable!'

"Sweet?" I scoffed before I added, "He is a flirt and dumb." 'Certainly, Arjun Arya is anything but sweet.'

"No, he is not."

Innaya turned fully towards me and stood on her ground.

'Okay.' I should trade carefully, apparently, Arjun's charms seem to have worked on my dear little wife.

"Yes, he is," I adamantly argued back.

"No, he is not." Innaya faced me while emphasizing on every word. Her eyebrows arched up and her lips formed the thin line of disapproval as she glared at me.

We were arguing over something so trivial, but Innaya looked like protecting something precious.

Somewhere, her being protective for Arjun irked me. "You are saying this because you don't know what he did."

"Tell me,"

she demanded righteously.

"He called you 'beautiful'." In addition, he was going to call you hot and assumed we were only sleeping around. 'Off course, I am not telling you that.'

"What? So according to you, I am ugly?" Innaya asked irritated.

"Where that came from?" Astonished I replied. Why would I think such a bad thing about her? 'You are not ugly and I can explain the whole night how beautiful you are.' I muttered in a low voice making sure to not let her hear.

Innaya held her ground and looked at me with her eyes expecting a proper explanation. She didn't realize how beautifully fierce she was looking.

I gave up infront of her steely resolve of knowing things. It was embarrassing to tell my wife that I was accused of sleeping around, even though it was with her but still. Which man would want his wife to know something like that when they haven't even kissed?

"I'm waiting."

"He accused me of sleeping around."