09-11-2025, 05:12 AM
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“Yes, Didi?” His voice was steady, but a tremor of hope and longing quivered beneath it, impossible to disguise.
She looked up, her big eyes filled with anger and hurt, yet beneath it, a flicker of something softer, something tender and vulnerable, a quiet ache she wasn’t ready to acknowledge aloud.
“I…” She paused, chest rising and falling in slow, almost hypnotic breaths. “I don’t know what to do with all this. With you, with me, with… everything that’s happened.” Her words were raw, unfiltered, fragile, hanging in the air like a thread about to snap, electric with unspoken tension.
Ravi could feel his heart pounding in his chest, each beat a thrum of desire and longing. He took another step forward, then paused, giving her the space she needed, yet the energy between them crackled, undeniable, intimate.
“I don’t expect you to know right now,” he said softly, his voice gentle, almost reverent. “I just… I just wanted you to know that I’m here. For whatever you need. I’ll wait, Priya Didi. I’ll wait for you to decide what comes next. I’m not going anywhere.”
Her eyes softened slightly, yet the flicker of uncertainty remained, a delicate, tantalizing tension that made the air hum. And then, as if drawn by an invisible thread, she stepped toward him, closing the space just a fraction, their breaths brushing, mingling, the heat between them palpable.
Her hand brushed lightly against his arm, a gesture so simple, so fleeting, yet charged with intimacy, sending a ripple of sensation straight to his core.
To Ravi, it was everything, the smallest sign, the faintest touch, yet enough to make his heart race, enough to make him believe in possibility again.
He didn’t reach for her, didn’t crowd her. The closeness itself was intoxicating, the warmth, the tension, the unspoken charge between them enough to make the world fall away.
And as the room settled into an unfamiliar, sensuous quiet, they stood there, caught in the delicate aftermath of everything that had been and everything that might come, each heartbeat laced with longing, with the promise of what might be.
There was much to untangle, yet for now, in this fragile space of time, it was enough.
“I’ll wait,” Ravi thought, watching her closely, heart thrumming with hope. “I’ll wait for the day she lets me in again… because she’s always been worth it.”
Priya Didi didn’t speak again, but the soft touch on his arm lingered, heavy with promise, fragile with desire, a quiet, intimate bond charged with potential, a connection that could grow, heal, and change everything.
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