Adultery Priya Didi

[shailu4ever]

A Conflict of Desire and Duty


Neetu sat still on the couch, her fingers still grazing her lips,

The sensation of Ravi’s kiss lingering like a sweet ache.

She could still feel the burn of his touch on her skin,

And it made her pulse quicken again, even as her mind spun with guilt.

“What have I done?” she thought,

Her head swirling with confusion. “I kissed him. I actually kissed Ravi.”

Her fingers trembled slightly as they traced the outline of her lips.

The taste of him, sweet and warm, lingered, like a phantom she couldn’t chase away.

The kiss had been intense, yes—but the need it had awakened inside her was even more unsettling.

"It was just a kiss",  she tried to convince herself.

“Just a kiss.”  But that didn’t make the heat between them any less real.

That didn’t take away the fact that her body still burned, still longed for more.

Her mind jumped to Vamsi, to her husband, the man she loved, the man she had promised to be faithful to.

"I love him, don’t I?", she asked herself,

But the answer felt less certain now.

Vamsi was everything she had thought she needed, yet something had been missing.

A part of her that she had hidden away for so long, buried beneath the weight of her marriage, now demanded to be heard.

“But this?” The guilt swirled, but so did something else.

Something darker. “I’ve been pretending for so long that I don’t want this. But I do. I do want it.”

Her thoughts ran wild, each one crashing into the next.

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