Page 79 of The Unwanted Husband
She tightened her fists as three men moved toward her, their eyes on her as they moved toward her cautiously. The men didn’t seem to have any weapons on them as they probably did not expect anyone to fight back.
When they got closer, she looked at Ashok and nodded, hoping he would get a signal that she was going to do something. She saw the somewhat confused look on his face but she went with her plan. When the men got closer, she held her breath, pressed her lips together and closed her eyes.
She waved her partially opened fists letting out the sand to seep through it. The annoyed groans of the men confirmed she did her part and she took a couple of steps toward Ashok and opened her eyes.
She was about to call out to Ashok to duck or close his eyes when he said something in a commanding tone. One that made the men holding him freeze and step away like it was anorder. She watched in shock as Ashok went to assist the three men who she had sprayed sand on.
“Ashok, what are you doing?” she was utterly confused.
He didn’t respond to her or look in her direction. He was speaking a different language with them and a few seconds later, the men disappeared just like they had shown up.
“Ashok?” She was livid.
He walked to where she stood, her fists still holding the sand. He slowly reached for her hands and made her loosen her hold making the sand flow to the ground. He slowly cupped her face with his hands and said, “I’m sorry.”
She pushed his hands away from her face. “What the fuck, Ashok?”
“It was a part of the post marriage rituals.”
“What?” She was so stunned, she didn’t know how to react.
His voice lowered further. “It is a requirement that my wife be put through the test and I–”
She pushed him away and started walking away, not bothering in which direction. “I don’t want to do anything with you.”
Instead of walking to the beach where she should be taking the boat and leaving the island, she realized she was walking deeper into the woods. She fought angry tears as he kept pleading with her to stop.
When she finally did, she turned to look at him. “I just can’t believe it. You didn’t think to tell me? Or did you think I wasn’t equipped to play along? Isn’t that what I’ve been doing all along?”
“Isha, I had to–” His voice was lost in the sound of her palm striking his cheek.
It was a moment of anger and frustration for her but the next moment, it was something else as Ashok’s lips descended on hers, hard and hungry. His fingers gripped her hair, angling her head to deepen the kiss and all thoughts left her mind.
She clung to him, kissing him back, raging mixed emotions fueling the moment. Every emotion had morphed into something else, something too dangerous but she wasn’t going to back down. She dug her nails into his flesh as he pushed her back against the big tree trunk.
She let out a gasp, when he let go of her mouth, gently biting down on her jawline before taking his mouth to her neck. Her pulse beat hard and fast against his lips as he kissed her there. She pulled on his hair not wanting his mouth to move too far away from hers but when she knew where he was headed, her core clenched in anticipation.
His hand cuddled the flesh on her chest before he went down on his knees in front of her. She had a knee length shirt dress on and with every button he opened, he planted a kiss on the exposed skin. She moaned, thrills erupting with every graze of his lips over her heated skin.
“Ashok,” she hissed like she could not contain herself anymore.Where did all the anger go?
When he finally pulled her undergarment down and took a long whiff of her throbbing core, like she was a delicate flower, she thought she would collapse to the ground. She hugged his head closer to her, his mouth closing in on the peak at the apex of her thighs.
She let out a cry of pleasure when he gently bit down on her nib, setting her being ablaze. His tongue took in every nook and cranny of her folds and he devoured her, like she was the sweetest thing.
The heat of the moment, the feel of his mouth over her folds and the roughness of the tree bark on her back, it was all she wanted. Like that wasn’t enough a raging peak was starting to build and she clenched her core bracing for the outburst of sensations and when she came undone, she let out a cry of sheer pleasure, calling out his name.
She didn’t care where they were, it was just him she was aware of. His breathing was ragged just like hers as he came up to claim her mouth.
“So hot,” he mumbled against her lips as he drove his thick shaft into her.
She gasped into his mouth, unable to handle the threateningly strong peak that was building up. She was confused and existed at the same time. She had never had this feeling of an impending peak when she had just peaked from him tasting her.
Just when she thought she could not handle it anymore, she imploded, every nerve ending flaring within sensations. She gasped against his lips, her breath coming fast as waves of overwhelming emotion crashed through her. The intensity of the moment wasn’t just physical, it was everything she had been holding back, every wall she had built around her, came crumbling in his arms. She felt exposed, vulnerable in a way that terrified and excited her simultaneously.
“I never thought…” she whispered, still catching her breath.
His hands found her face, thumbs gently brushing over her heated cheeks as he looked into her eyes with an intensity that made her stomach clench.
