Chapter 88 - Just Two Of Us (5) (1/2)

|Eshan|

The next morning was one of the sweetest mornings of my life. After the painfully exhausting two months that fell among the most nightmarish months in my life, I had finally got this blissful time with Innaya... these blissful moments with Innaya and I couldn't be more grateful to god for the same.

In those two months, I had almost lost the hope to be with her again. Scratch that - not almost - I had entirely lost the hope to even see her let aside having her sleeping peacefully beside me. The more I tried forgetting those months and getting over things, the more those thoughts came running to haunt me.

If I were to write a book on our life together, the readers would get bored, and throw rotten tomatoes at me for saying the same thing for the annoying several times, but I couldn't help it.

My life wasn't a daily soap drama or some insane novel where the protagonists forget even the messiest time and incidents in life and cuddle each other the next moment as if their life had always been a fairy tale. No, it wasn't the case with me.

'No offense to any of those writers, but I am sorry - real life does not work that way -and I know that everyone knows this. It is not as easy to forget as it is, to forgive.'

You try your best to let go of the unpleasant things, and you even succeed to some extent but one moment, one happening and you stand back to where you stood at the beginning. That's how life is.

It is messy, complicated, and at times, brings an indecipherable form of yourself in front of you.

The first thing I saw after opening my eyes was the beautiful sight of my wife sleeping contently with a mesmerizing smile on her face.

I wanted to know what she was thinking to have that bliss on her face. I did not have the heart to leave the bed because that would mean missing on this picturesque scene. 'Oh, I should take a picture as a memory.'

I left the bed after sneakily taking a photo of Innaya, planning to make breakfast for us. I wanted to make the most of our break. Who knew what life had in store for us in the future?

In the deepest corner of my heart, all I prayed and wished for was - this break to never end, so that we could always have the peacefulness and serenity in our lives.

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”Eshan.”

I heard Innaya's voice when I was setting the plates on the dining table. I involuntarily smiled at her petite figure clad in a blue Saree.

I wished I could say it aloud and compliment her openly about how ethereal she looked but I swallowed my words and just returned a smile to her.

I never mentioned to her but I silently envied her gorgeous smile. The way her lips curled up, the way her face acquired that beautiful glow when she smiled, the way her eyes twinkled - wasn't something a human was capable of - at least I believed it to be that way.