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Date: 02 .05. 2025
Title: The Mechanic’s Trap
Word Count: 19,677
Author: Novelist Casanova
The Breakdown
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The wind that afternoon had the scent of something unfinished — a longing curled inside the edges of the air, soft and untold.
I stood on my veranda in a faded sky-blue saree, loosely dbangd, the pallu barely resting on my shoulder. The sun was high, but a hush hung over the street, as if even time was pausing to breathe.
The boys were off at college, the house was swept and quiet, and my husband Ram, as usual, was somewhere between Mumbai and Singapore — chasing contracts, forgetting to call.
I had gotten used to the silence. I had learned to walk barefoot through it, like a shadow moving through another’s home. But there were days — like this — when the silence kissed my skin too closely, when it pressed into places that hadn’t been touched in years.
The old scooter — Ram's wedding gift — sputtered and wheezed the moment I turned the ignition. I kicked it again. No response.
Frustrated, I sighed and let the key hang. My saree clung to the small of my back. I could feel a thin thread of sweat tracing its way down my spine.
“Muthu,” I muttered without thinking. Everyone called him for quick fixes. Even the older ladies whispered his name with caution, sometimes hunger.
I shouldn’t.
But I did.
I dialed.
He arrived an hour later. On his bike. No helmet. No shame.
Shirt hanging open, revealing a chest streaked with grease and sunburn. Eyes too bold for his age — or maybe I was just too used to being invisible.
I stayed at the doorway, arms crossed. “Scooter’s dead again.”
He smirked. “Maybe it's jealous, Akka. You don’t ride it with love anymore.”
I didn’t reply. I watched him work — crouched over the scooter, arms tightening, back flexing, oil staining his palms. His fingers moved with such confidence. Dirty fingers. Skilled fingers.
The heat in the air wasn’t only from the sun.
“Can I get you water?” I asked, unsure why my voice trembled.
He looked up — and in that pause, his eyes dropped to my waist. My saree had slipped slightly, the knot at my hip showing bare skin.
“I’ll take filter water,” he said, gaze lingering a second too long.
Inside the kitchen, my hands trembled as I poured. I could hear the faint sound of him whistling outside. Confident. Careless. Dangerous.
When I returned, he took the glass from my hand — his fingers grazing mine. Just a brush. But it stayed. My skin tingled even after he had pulled away.
“Fixed it,” he said, wiping his hands on a rag. “But you should ride it more often, Amma. Machines need attention. So do people.”
That made me blink.
Before I could respond, he tucked something under the seat, closed it with a snap, and stepped back.
“Call me if it acts up again,” he said. “Or if you do.”
He left.
I stood in the middle of the street, the glass still in my hand, heart confused.
Later, I found the note under the seat.
"You're too beautiful to be ignored."
My cheeks flushed. I didn’t tear it. I didn’t burn it.
I hid it.
Not from my husband.
From myself.
The Window and the Man
The note stayed folded beneath my blouse stack in the wooden almirah, hidden like a guilty sigh in the middle of a temple chant. I would sometimes open the cupboard for no reason at all — just to see the edge of it. That edge felt like the edge of something else entirely. Something I couldn’t yet name.
That morning, I didn’t put on my usual nighty. I chose a pale pink saree with a thin golden border. I did not wear my Bra or Panties underneath my pale pink Saree. I didn’t know why.
I stood by the window near the kitchen, spoon in hand, idli batter still untouched. The soft lace curtain fluttered gently, revealing just enough of the street.
He was there.
Muthu, crouched low beside a green TVS moped. Sweat glistened at the base of his neck. He worked with intensity, wiping the engine clean, grease streaked up to his elbows. A cigarette dangled from his lips, forgotten, as his fingers danced like a musician’s.
I watched. Longer than I should have.
He wiped his forehead with the back of his hand and looked up — straight at my window. I ducked too quickly, knocking over the ladle.
My heart pounded. I told myself it was nothing. That he hadn’t seen me. That even if he had, it meant nothing. But my breath gave me away — shallow, uneven, alive.
Later that day, I found excuses to linger near the window again. He wasn’t there anymore. Just the echo of his smirk in my memory.
Over the next few days, I noticed him more. Or maybe, he made himself noticed.
He parked his bike closer to our gate. He laughed louder. And every evening, just before sunset, he would clean his hands with slow, deliberate care, making sure his movements faced the house — my window.
I began changing my routine. I folded clothes in the veranda. I swept the corridor slower. I watered the plants longer, bending more than necessary, pretending I didn’t notice the weight of his gaze.
I was not naïve. I was not bold.
But I was… restless.
One evening, while hanging the wet sarees on the line, I turned toward the garage.
Muthu was leaning against the wall, smoking, arms crossed — just watching.
He didn’t smile. He didn’t wave.
He waited.
And I... kept hanging the sarees. One. By. One.
My fingers trembled as I clipped the final one. The wind lifted the fabric, brushing it against my waist like an invisible hand, and in that fleeting second — I imagined it was his.
That night, I dreamt again. Not of kisses. Not of bedsheets.
But of fingers. On my wrist. On my shoulder. On my lips, just before they could part.
The next morning, I told myself I would stop. No more glances. No more games. I was a mother, a wife. A woman with a life.
But as I opened the front gate to fetch the milk packet, I found a matchbox lying by the steps.
Inside it — a single betel leaf folded with a note:
“If you watch me again today, wear the red saree.”
My fingers tightened around it. My breath caught in my throat.
I looked up at the sky — bright, indifferent.
And still, somewhere deep inside me, I knew what saree I would choose.
The Red Saree
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The red saree had always been too bold. It lived at the back of my cupboard, tucked behind old blouses and wedding silks. Ram once said it made me look “too young.” So I had worn it only once — years ago, on our fifth anniversary — and then folded it away like a memory too bright to keep in plain sight.
But that morning, I reached for it.
My fingers hesitated as I opened the cupboard, the scent of sandalwood and starch rising from the folds. The saree shimmered — not loud, not vulgar — but alive. Crimson with gold zari threads that traced the border like secrets whispered at midnight.
I held it against my body, staring at myself in the mirror. The pallu was light, airy. It slid across my shoulder as if it, too, wasn’t used to being worn. I chose a sleeveless blouse — something that clung, but didn’t confess. I did not wear my Bra and Panties again.
The moment I stepped into the sunlight of the veranda, I felt it — his gaze. I didn’t have to look. I knew.
Muthu was there.
Somewhere beyond the neem tree, behind the tin-sheet roof, standing just outside the shade of his garage.
Watching.
I pretended not to notice.
I bent over the tulsi pot, sprinkling water slowly, letting the saree shift with my movement, letting the breeze lift the fabric from my waist.
I was no longer hiding.
And still — I was terrified.
Not of him. Not even of being caught.
But of how much I wanted to be seen.
Later, as I stood at the gate, dusting the railing, he walked past.
Not on his bike. Not in a hurry.
He walked. Slowly. Deliberately.
Our eyes met.
His lips curved — not a smile. Something hungrier. Quieter. Like he already knew my answer before I had made the choice.
“Red suits you,” he said. Just that.
I didn’t reply.
But I didn’t look away.
And when he passed by, his fingers brushed against mine — just slightly, just enough to burn. Like the edge of a flame licking at the skin, asking if you would flinch or stay still.
I stood there, frozen.
That night, after the children had gone to sleep, I stood before the mirror again. I undbangd the saree slowly — not like undressing, but like remembering something forgotten. My skin still carried his glance, like invisible fingerprints.
I touched my wrist where he had brushed against me.
It tingled.
It throbbed.
I didn’t understand this new version of myself.
But I didn’t try to stop her, either.
She felt alive.
In the silence of the bedroom, with Ram’s side of the bed cold and empty, I pulled the red saree close to my face and inhaled.
It still carried the scent of dust, jasmine oil... and something else.
A secret.
And in that darkness, I whispered the truth out loud, for the first time — not to him, not to God, but to the woman in the mirror.
“I want to be wanted.”
The Saree Falls
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The house had never felt this quiet before.
The boys were at their cousin’s place for the weekend. Ram was in Coimbatore — delayed again. He didn’t even ask if I’d be okay alone. He trusted the locked gate, the security grill, the decency of the colony.
He didn’t know I had already unlocked something far more dangerous.
It was a little past 3 p.m. The Chennai sun was beginning to mellow, throwing long golden lines across the kitchen tiles. I moved slowly, barefoot, wrapped again in the same red saree.
Not for anyone.
At least, that’s what I told myself.
There was a knock at the gate.
Not urgent. Just a polite rhythm — like someone knocking on a memory.
I opened the curtain slightly.
It was him.
Muthu. In a clean white shirt, hair damp, carrying a small steel toolbox.
I didn’t call for repairs. But somehow, I knew this moment was going to arrive.
I walked to the door, pulse quickening.
He greeted me with a smile — not the boyish one he gave others, but the one he reserved only for me: slow, confident, knowing.
“Your husband said the ceiling fan in the back bedroom makes noise,” he lied smoothly.
We both knew he hadn’t spoken to Ram.
We both knew there was no fan problem.
But I let him in anyway.
He walked ahead of me, as if he belonged. I stood at the doorway of the small spare room as he pretended to inspect the fan.
The red saree clung to my back.
The blouse felt too tight.
The silence between us stretched — not awkward, not innocent. Just waiting.
He turned toward me, wiping his forehead. “Hot room,” he said.
“So is the hall,” I replied softly, before I could stop myself.
His eyes flicked down to my waist, where the saree was tucked low. Then to my shoulder. Then to my face.
And then he stepped closer. Slowly. Not touching. Just close enough that I could feel the heat of him.
“You wore it again,” he said, voice low.
I didn’t respond.
My breath had already betrayed me.
The fan above made a soft creaking sound — like even it had begun to tremble.
Then — it happened.
He reached to adjust my pallu. Gently. Reverently. Like touching prayer cloth.
But it slipped.
The saree loosened. Unraveled slightly at the waist. The pallu slid from my shoulder.
I gasped — not in fear. In surrender.
His fingers caught the fabric just in time, holding it delicately, as if it were a secret he’d promised not to speak out loud.
He didn’t look down.
He looked straight into my eyes.
“I can leave,” he whispered, “if you ask me to.”
My voice trembled. “Don’t.”
His fingers released the saree. It fell.
Not just the cloth. But the barrier between right and want. Between the woman I was told to be and the woman I had hidden for years.
He moved closer.
His hand brushed the side of my face — rough, stained with grease, yet soft in that moment. My breath hitched.
Then silence.
Long, aching silence.
He didn’t kiss me.
He just stood there — watching me breathe, watching me not cover up.
I could have pushed him away.
But I didn’t.
And he didn’t take more than I gave.
He stepped back.
“I’ll come tomorrow,” he said, voice husky. “To finish… the fan.”
He walked out, toolkit untouched.
I stood in the middle of that room, the red saree pooling around my ankles, heart thundering in my chest.
Not naked.
But no longer fully clothed in denial either.
The Second Knock
The red saree still lay dbangd over the back of the chair, untouched since yesterday.
I didn’t fold it.
Couldn’t.
It still carried the warmth of that moment, the weight of his stare, the invisible print of his fingers brushing my cheek. Every corner of the house now whispered something — the mirror where I’d watched it fall, the corridor where he’d stood without touching me, and the air... oh, the air still smelled of his aftershave and engine grease.
I told myself nothing had happened.
But something had.
Something that wouldn’t stop playing behind my closed eyes.
All morning, I moved like a ghost inside my own home — cleaning, washing, chopping vegetables — as if the motions would cleanse the ache beneath my skin.
But nothing worked.
And then, just past noon...
The second knock came.
Firm. Familiar. Less polite this time.
I stood frozen, hands wet with soap at the sink. My heart slammed against my ribs. I didn’t move for a whole minute.
The knock came again. Two slow, deep thuds.
I walked to the door with trembling legs, wiping my hands on the side of my nighty. My heart said don’t open it.
But my hand reached for the latch.
There he stood.
Muthu.
In a faded blue t-shirt, hair messy, eyes unreadable — like yesterday hadn’t happened. Or like he was still living inside it.
“I forgot my screwdriver,” he said.
It was a lie. I had checked. He hadn’t left anything behind.
Still, I nodded and stepped aside.
He entered, brushing past me — closer this time. His arm brushed my shoulder, and I felt that soft electric shiver again.
The back room was where he went. I followed, silently.
The saree was still there on the chair.
He noticed.
He didn’t comment.
But his eyes lingered.
“I’ll get you tea,” I said, trying to steady my voice.
“No need,” he replied. “I won’t stay long.”
Yet he didn’t leave.
He stood by the chair. Then touched the fabric — just a corner — running it slowly between his fingers.
“I didn’t sleep,” he said, not looking at me.
I didn’t reply.
“I kept thinking about yesterday. About how it felt… to be in the same room with you. And still not cross the line.”
The words pressed into my chest like warm hands.
I swallowed. “You didn’t do anything wrong.”
“I wanted to,” he said, eyes meeting mine now. Dark. Unflinching. “But not like that. Not rushed. Not confused.”
I backed slightly toward the doorframe, my hand clutching the edge of the curtain. “Then why are you here?”
He stepped closer. Close enough to feel his breath again.
“To ask you if you still want me to leave.”
Silence filled the space between us like a slow, dense cloud.
His eyes searched mine.
I could say yes.
I could close the door. Walk back. Be a mother. A wife. A woman with discipline.
But my lips wouldn’t open.
My silence spoke louder than consent.
He reached for my hand. Not forcefully. Gently. As though afraid I’d vanish.
And when our fingers touched, I didn’t pull away.
He leaned in — just close enough to brush his forehead to mine. Our lips didn’t meet.
But our hearts did.
Pounding.
Raw.
Undeniable.
“I’ll wait,” he whispered. “Till you ask me.”
Then — he let go.
Walked out. Without touching the saree again. Without looking back.
The door closed behind him.
And I collapsed to my knees, not out of shame — but out of confusion. Desire. Longing.
Because now I knew this was no longer just a trap.
It was a choice.
And one day… I might make it.
The Day I Asked
I didn't plan it.
There was no bold declaration in the mirror, no lipstick-stained letter of intent, no whispered confession to God as I lit the lamp in front of the tulsi.
There was only a strange calm inside me — as if a war had ended and the losing side had laid down its arms willingly.
The day began like any other.
The children had left for college, their lunchboxes packed with care, their uniform collars adjusted with motherly instinct. The maid had finished early and left, muttering about a power cut on the next street.
The house was quiet again.
But not lonely.
Not anymore.
I went into the shower and took my shower and came out. The water flowed over me like warm silk, streaming down my neck, my back, between my thighs. My fingers lingered along my skin longer than necessary. Not to clean. To feel. To remember.
I closed my eyes and let the stream kiss my collarbone—the same way Muthu’s lips had, just two days ago, in this very room, right against the wall. The echo of his breath, his rough hands, the way he looked at me like I was the only woman on Earth… it pulsed inside me like a secret.
I smiled to myself.
Today, I wasn’t going to wait for him passively.
Today, I was going to make sure he remembered me with every bolt he tightened and every screw he turned back at his garage.
After drying off, I stood before the mirror. Naked. Damp. Warm.
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Then I picked up the phone and sent just one message.
“Come. No one’s home. And this time, I won’t stop you.”
I didn't stare at the screen waiting for a reply.
I didn’t need to.
Because I knew he would come.
I reached first for my white bra—simple cotton, but snug against my skin. Then the maroon panties, smooth, soft, and just a little tight. My fingertips brushed the curve of my hips as I pulled them up. I didn’t rush. I savored it. The anticipation made my breath hitch.
The black petticoat followed, the drawstring pulling tight across my waist. Then came the green blouse—the same shade as mango leaves in April. I fastened the hooks slowly, feeling the fabric press over the rise of my chest, hugging me like a second skin.
And finally, the saree.
That soft moss green saree, with a golden border that shimmered in the light, and delicate threadwork near the pallu that reminded me of temple carvings. Not bold like red. But not shy either. It whispered seduction.
I dbangd it with care—pleat by pleat, pallu slung low over my left shoulder, falling just enough to tease. A dash of jasmine attar at my neck, a bindi, a tiny stroke of kajal.
I looked at myself one last time.
I wasn’t dressing for my husband.
I wasn’t dressing for society.
I was dressing for Muthu.
And I knew he would see it.
He would see the maroon beneath the black, the swell behind the silk, the desire behind the dbang.
My pulse quickened. I poured a cup of coffee, just to calm my hands.
The knock came twenty minutes later.
The clock struck 10:02.
And my doorbell rang.
I didn’t rush to open the door.
I made him wait.
Just long enough to feel the ache I had carried for days.
When I opened it, Muthu stood there — not as a mechanic, not as a boy from the colony — but as a man who had waited for permission to claim something forbidden.
His eyes scanned me. Slowly. Reverently.
And then he whispered, “You look like a storm today.”
I stepped aside. “Then close the door before I blow away.”
He walked in.
This time, I didn’t lead him to the spare room.
I led him to my bedroom.
Ram’s shirts hung in the corner. My son’s college bag leaned against the wall. Our world still lived here.
But I was no longer part of it.
Not in this moment.
I turned to face him.
There was no awkwardness.
No shame.
Only breath.
Only heat.
Only the sound of his feet slowly approaching behind me.
When he stood close, his hands didn’t grab. They hovered. As if asking — one last time — if this was real.
I reached for his hand and guided it to my bare waist.
He exhaled sharply, like he’d been holding it for days.
His hands trembled as he untucked the pallu from my waist. The silk fell between us like the last lie we ever told ourselves.
I looked up.
“I’m not afraid,” I whispered.
“I know,” he replied, his lips grazing mine.
As he began holding my face and began kissing my lips, I began kissing his lips back, signaling him how much my body needed him.
And we kissed — it wasn’t hungry.
It was holy.
His hands knew how to fix machines. But now, they moved with reverence over skin — over curves and softness no one had worshipped in years.
We didn’t speak.
“The Unwrapping”
I could feel the warmth of the morning sun on my back… but it was nothing compared to the heat coming from him.
Muthu’s fingers hovered just above my waist, not yet touching, only tempting. He stood in front of me—close, so close I could feel the energy of his breath, but still not making the first move.
“I can’t decide what to touch first,” he said, eyes drinking in every inch of me. “The silk… or the skin beneath it.”
“Then start where it hurts the most,” I whispered, already breathless. “Right here.” I guided his hand to where my pleats were tucked into the black petticoat—tight across my lower belly.
He didn’t rush. No, Muthu never rushed.
His fingers brushed the saree lightly, grazing over the golden border as if it were sacred. The friction made my skin ripple with anticipation.
“You wore this just for me?” he asked, pulling slightly at the pallu dbangd over my shoulder.
I nodded, lips parting. “Every thread. Every tuck. Every layer… I imagined your hands on it.”
That made him smile—dark, hungry, reverent.
“Then I’ll take my time,” he murmured.
“Where My Saree Ended, I Began”
His fingers brushed against the hooks of my blouse.
That tiny hesitation—that pause—it wasn’t because he didn’t know how. No, it was something else.
Something sacred.
I felt his breath at my ear. Steady. Warm.
“Say it,” he murmured.
“Say what?” I asked, heart pounding beneath the soft press of my white bra.
“That I can open this. That I can see you.”
“You already do,” I whispered.
The first hook came undone.
The second followed with a faint click. I could feel my blouse giving way—loosening its hold on my chest, releasing the heat trapped beneath.
When the last hook slipped, he peeled it off my shoulders—slowly—as if the blouse wasn’t cotton, but memory.
And there I stood, in just my bra and petticoat, arms wrapped loosely across myself—not from shame, but from the ache of anticipation.
He looked at me like he’d never seen skin before.
His voice was barely a breath:
“You’re not real.”
I swallowed hard. “Then touch me. Prove I am.”
His hands were rough. Greased from work. But gentle now. Reverent. They slid along my waist, to the drawstring of the petticoat. His eyes met mine before he pulled.
“If I undo this,” he said, “we can’t go back.”
“I don’t want to go back,” I said.
He untied the knot.
The black petticoat slipped slowly down my legs, brushing past my maroon panties like a secret grazing a secret. I stepped out of it silently, my bare feet brushing against the silk of my discarded saree on the floor.
Now there was nothing left between us except the white cotton of my bra, the maroon stretch of my underwear, and everything I had never said out loud.
And then he surprised me.
He didn’t touch me right away.
He sat down—right on the rug—and pulled me softly into his lap, holding me close, just holding me, like I wasn’t his fantasy but something more dangerous—
Someone who could break him.
I curled into him, my cheek against his bare chest. I could hear his heartbeat, heavy and uneven.
“You know what scares me?” he asked.
“What?”
“That this… isn’t just lust anymore.”
I didn’t answer. I didn’t need to.
Because the way I pressed myself into him, the way I let his fingers trace my spine beneath the strap of my bra—told him everything.
“I’m your sin, Sudha,” he said, almost like an apology.
“No,” I whispered. “You’re the only place I feel honest.”
He kissed my forehead—not my lips this time.
“When Our Mouths Finally Spoke the Truth”
I sat on his lap, dbangd in silence and sunlight—almost bare skin wrapped in little more than cotton and longing in only my Bra and Panties. My arms were around his neck. His hands cradled my waist, his fingers spread wide as if trying to memorize the curve of me.
The room was still.
The kind of stillness that comes right before something irreversible.
His eyes searched mine—not for permission, not anymore—but for presence.
And I gave it.
Not with words.
But with the way I leaned in—slowly, slowly—until our foreheads touched. Until his breath brushed against my lips like a secret about to be told.
Looking at my lips lifting my chin up as Muthu began kissing my lips, I began closing my eyes and began kissing his lips back passionately. We kissed.
It wasn’t hurried. It wasn’t shy.
It was deep. Deliberate. Desperate in the softest way.
His lips met mine like he had been thirsting—not just for the taste of me, but for the feeling of being allowed to.
The first touch was gentle.
Then deeper.
My mouth opened to him like I had no more secrets. His tongue met mine, slow at first, dancing in a rhythm that sent a shiver down my back. I pressed myself closer—my white bra catching slightly against his chest, my maroon panties warm where I sat on him, our bodies a perfect contradiction of clothed and exposed.
His hands cupped my face, thumbs brushing my cheeks, holding me like something fragile and on fire.
I moaned into his mouth—a soft, helpless sound that surprised even me.
He smiled against my lips. “That sound,” he whispered, breath hitching, “you don’t know what that does to me.”
I kissed him harder.
He leaned back, bringing me with him, until I lay atop him on the living room rug—half-dressed, fully seen. My hair spilled over his shoulder, his fingers tangled in it. Our mouths kept moving, as if stopping might break the spell. As if every breath we stole from each other tasted better than air.
And in that moment…
There was no morning.
No marriage.
No consequence.
There was only his mouth on mine,
his hands trailing the edge of my bare back,
and the feeling of being kissed like I was the last woman in the world.
“Where He Touched, I Bloomed”
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My breath caught when he looked down at me.
I was still on top of him, my skin flushed, lips swollen from our kiss, my body resting lightly on his chest. My saree lay forgotten on the floor. The black petticoat was gone. And now only two fragile layers separated me from being truly, fully bare with him—a white cotton bra and my maroon panties.
His hands slid slowly up my sides, fingertips grazing the edge of the bra’s strap. His eyes locked onto mine, silently asking.
I nodded.
His fingers moved behind me.
The metal hook gave way with a soft snap—gentle, respectful, like he knew this moment was bigger than the act itself.
As he eased the straps off my shoulders, the cool air touched my skin, but I didn’t shiver.
Because his gaze was warmer than anything I’d ever known.
The bra fell away.
I didn’t cover myself.
I didn’t look away.
He sat up slightly beneath me, cupping my waist with one hand, the other tracing slow circles along the base of my spine. His eyes didn’t just look—they lingered, like he was seeing more than my body.
Like he was seeing me.
“You’re beautiful,” he murmured. Not hungry. Not teasing.
Just honest.
I leaned into him, letting my bare chest press against his shirt. Skin to skin. Warmth to warmth. Our breaths mingled again, slower this time. Softer.
“You make me feel,” I whispered, “like I’m allowed to want… without shame.”
He rested his forehead against mine.
“Sudha,” he said, his voice breaking just a little, “I don’t know what this is anymore. But I can’t stop.”
“Then don’t,” I said, wrapping my arms around him. “Not today.”
In his arms, half-naked in the morning sun, I wasn’t just a housewife.
I wasn’t a secret. I wasn’t sin.
I was simply… his.
“The Moment We Stopped Pretending”
He kissed me again—but this time, not just on my lips.
His mouth moved softly, reverently, from the curve of my shoulder to the hollow of my collarbone, then lower. With each kiss, he wasn’t just learning my body—he was unlearning his silence, and I was unlearning my shame.
I closed my eyes and breathed him in—engine oil, heat, and something purely Muthu.
His hands cradled my back, grounding me. His lips worshipped the places no one had ever touched with such care. He wasn’t claiming me.
He was asking me.
And my body answered with every quiet arch, every trembling sigh, every moment I let go just a little more.
The last of my modesty—my maroon panties—still clung to me like a question waiting to be answered.
His fingers paused at the waistband.
He looked up.
One final silence passed between us.
Then, with a whisper of fabric and breath, I let it go.
Everything.
And still, the room didn’t feel naked.
It felt sacred.
“Where I Let Him In”
His breath moved lower—slow, reverent, unhurried.
It was the kind of silence where every inch of my skin felt like it was listening.
I lay back fully naked, my hair fanned across the rug, my chest rising and falling beneath the soft light pouring in from the window. The room still smelled like jasmine, engine oil, and something dangerously new.
He kissed the inside of my thigh—softly. Then again, a little higher. As he began kissing my Pussy lips passionately, “mmmmmmmmmmmmm mmmmmmmmmmm mmmmmmmmmmmm mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm,” I began to moan, my body tensed, then melted. I was open. And not just in the way flesh yields to flesh, but in the way a secret surrenders.
His hands gently coaxed my legs apart—not forcefully, not impatiently, but like he was asking my body for its deepest truth.
And I gave it.
I gave it with a breathless gasp, a trembling hand tangled in his hair, a heartbeat that pulsed against his touch.
No one had ever touched me like this.
No one had ever taken the time to listen to my silence this way.
He looked up once, eyes dark and filled with something more than desire.
Awe. Maybe even love.
As if seeing me like this—bare, open, trembling—was not something he could take for granted.
“You’re everything, Sudha,” he whispered, his voice thick.
I reached for his hand, holding it tightly against my stomach as he kissed me lower, slower, deeper—not just igniting heat, but undoing years of being unseen.
And in that moment, I wasn’t afraid.
Because he wasn’t just touching my body.
He was touching the woman I never knew I could be.
“When He Became Part of Me”
The world fell away.
There was only the quiet hum of the fan, the golden warmth of morning light pooling across the floor, and the weight of him—Muthu, holding himself above me, looking at me like I was something sacred.
Our eyes locked. His breath touched my cheek.
And then… he inserted his cock inside me and entered me.
Slowly. Completely.
A gasp escaped my lips—not from pain, but from the sheer intensity of being known in that way. As if my body had been waiting for this moment all its life, and now that it had come, it didn’t quite know how to hold it all.
He didn’t rush.
He just stayed there—inside me, forehead resting against mine, our breaths tangled.
I held him close, arms around his back, and in that stillness, my heart cracked open.
His lips moved to my chest, kissing the curve of my breast, then the center, as though he wanted to drink in every sigh, every heartbeat. His mouth was tender, not greedy. Worshipping. Reverent.
I arched into him, my fingers threading through his hair.
“Muthu…” I whispered.
He paused, lifting his face to mine. “Tell me.”
I closed my eyes. “Don’t stop.”
And he didn’t.
We moved in rhythm—sometimes slow and deep, other times like waves crashing at the edge of something we couldn’t name. It wasn’t just desire. It was recognition. Gratitude. A quiet explosion of years of silence, longing, and dreams locked behind doors neither of us had dared open.
In his arms, with his body joined to mine, I felt safe.
Beautiful.
Alive.
And for the first time in years, I wasn’t wondering who I was supposed to be.
My hands moved to his face, cupping it gently, pulling him close.
I looked into his eyes—stormy, soft, undone—and in them, I saw every version of myself I had ever silenced. Every longing I had swallowed. Every truth I had buried beneath folded laundry and empty rooms.
“Muthu,” I whispered, my voice barely sound. “Look at me.”
He did.
And I kissed him—not to tempt, not to tease, but to tell him something only my mouth could say. My lips met his in a desperate softness, a kind of passion that doesn’t shout—it trembles.
His body pressed deeper into mine, and I felt it.
That shift.
That moment when everything tightens, burns, then finally lets go.
As I began holding his face with all the love I had for him and began kissing his lips passionately. I could feel like I was about to cum, “mmmmmmm mmmmmmm mmmmmmmmm mmmmm,” as I was moaning and began kissing his lips nicely, “aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaah,” he moaned. He broke inside me.
As he broke inside me and began cumming all over my pussy, I hugged him tight and “aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah,” I moaned and came all over his cock.
His breath caught, his hands tightened at my waist, and for a suspended second—we weren’t two people anymore. We were one breath. One heartbeat. One shiver crashing through both our bodies.
I held him.
Tighter.
My legs curled around him, anchoring him to me.
His face buried in the crook of my neck as his whole body melted against mine, heavy with surrender. I could feel his heart racing against my chest—wild, unguarded, real.
And for the first time in my life, I felt chosen.
Not for duty.
Not for convenience.
But for who I was when no one was watching.
We didn’t speak. We just stayed like that.
Skin to skin.
Heart to heart.
The sound of the ceiling fan above. The scent of jasmine still clinging to my hair. The warmth of a man who had just poured himself into me—not just in body, but in everything he had left
To Be. Continued....!
Title: The Mechanic’s Trap
Word Count: 19,677
Author: Novelist Casanova
The Mechanic's Trap
The Breakdown
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The wind that afternoon had the scent of something unfinished — a longing curled inside the edges of the air, soft and untold.
I stood on my veranda in a faded sky-blue saree, loosely dbangd, the pallu barely resting on my shoulder. The sun was high, but a hush hung over the street, as if even time was pausing to breathe.
The boys were off at college, the house was swept and quiet, and my husband Ram, as usual, was somewhere between Mumbai and Singapore — chasing contracts, forgetting to call.
I had gotten used to the silence. I had learned to walk barefoot through it, like a shadow moving through another’s home. But there were days — like this — when the silence kissed my skin too closely, when it pressed into places that hadn’t been touched in years.
The old scooter — Ram's wedding gift — sputtered and wheezed the moment I turned the ignition. I kicked it again. No response.
Frustrated, I sighed and let the key hang. My saree clung to the small of my back. I could feel a thin thread of sweat tracing its way down my spine.
“Muthu,” I muttered without thinking. Everyone called him for quick fixes. Even the older ladies whispered his name with caution, sometimes hunger.
I shouldn’t.
But I did.
I dialed.
He arrived an hour later. On his bike. No helmet. No shame.
Shirt hanging open, revealing a chest streaked with grease and sunburn. Eyes too bold for his age — or maybe I was just too used to being invisible.
I stayed at the doorway, arms crossed. “Scooter’s dead again.”
He smirked. “Maybe it's jealous, Akka. You don’t ride it with love anymore.”
I didn’t reply. I watched him work — crouched over the scooter, arms tightening, back flexing, oil staining his palms. His fingers moved with such confidence. Dirty fingers. Skilled fingers.
The heat in the air wasn’t only from the sun.
“Can I get you water?” I asked, unsure why my voice trembled.
He looked up — and in that pause, his eyes dropped to my waist. My saree had slipped slightly, the knot at my hip showing bare skin.
“I’ll take filter water,” he said, gaze lingering a second too long.
Inside the kitchen, my hands trembled as I poured. I could hear the faint sound of him whistling outside. Confident. Careless. Dangerous.
When I returned, he took the glass from my hand — his fingers grazing mine. Just a brush. But it stayed. My skin tingled even after he had pulled away.
“Fixed it,” he said, wiping his hands on a rag. “But you should ride it more often, Amma. Machines need attention. So do people.”
That made me blink.
Before I could respond, he tucked something under the seat, closed it with a snap, and stepped back.
“Call me if it acts up again,” he said. “Or if you do.”
He left.
I stood in the middle of the street, the glass still in my hand, heart confused.
Later, I found the note under the seat.
"You're too beautiful to be ignored."
My cheeks flushed. I didn’t tear it. I didn’t burn it.
I hid it.
Not from my husband.
From myself.
The Window and the Man
The note stayed folded beneath my blouse stack in the wooden almirah, hidden like a guilty sigh in the middle of a temple chant. I would sometimes open the cupboard for no reason at all — just to see the edge of it. That edge felt like the edge of something else entirely. Something I couldn’t yet name.
That morning, I didn’t put on my usual nighty. I chose a pale pink saree with a thin golden border. I did not wear my Bra or Panties underneath my pale pink Saree. I didn’t know why.
I stood by the window near the kitchen, spoon in hand, idli batter still untouched. The soft lace curtain fluttered gently, revealing just enough of the street.
He was there.
Muthu, crouched low beside a green TVS moped. Sweat glistened at the base of his neck. He worked with intensity, wiping the engine clean, grease streaked up to his elbows. A cigarette dangled from his lips, forgotten, as his fingers danced like a musician’s.
I watched. Longer than I should have.
He wiped his forehead with the back of his hand and looked up — straight at my window. I ducked too quickly, knocking over the ladle.
My heart pounded. I told myself it was nothing. That he hadn’t seen me. That even if he had, it meant nothing. But my breath gave me away — shallow, uneven, alive.
Later that day, I found excuses to linger near the window again. He wasn’t there anymore. Just the echo of his smirk in my memory.
Over the next few days, I noticed him more. Or maybe, he made himself noticed.
He parked his bike closer to our gate. He laughed louder. And every evening, just before sunset, he would clean his hands with slow, deliberate care, making sure his movements faced the house — my window.
I began changing my routine. I folded clothes in the veranda. I swept the corridor slower. I watered the plants longer, bending more than necessary, pretending I didn’t notice the weight of his gaze.
I was not naïve. I was not bold.
But I was… restless.
One evening, while hanging the wet sarees on the line, I turned toward the garage.
Muthu was leaning against the wall, smoking, arms crossed — just watching.
He didn’t smile. He didn’t wave.
He waited.
And I... kept hanging the sarees. One. By. One.
My fingers trembled as I clipped the final one. The wind lifted the fabric, brushing it against my waist like an invisible hand, and in that fleeting second — I imagined it was his.
That night, I dreamt again. Not of kisses. Not of bedsheets.
But of fingers. On my wrist. On my shoulder. On my lips, just before they could part.
The next morning, I told myself I would stop. No more glances. No more games. I was a mother, a wife. A woman with a life.
But as I opened the front gate to fetch the milk packet, I found a matchbox lying by the steps.
Inside it — a single betel leaf folded with a note:
“If you watch me again today, wear the red saree.”
My fingers tightened around it. My breath caught in my throat.
I looked up at the sky — bright, indifferent.
And still, somewhere deep inside me, I knew what saree I would choose.
The Red Saree
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The red saree had always been too bold. It lived at the back of my cupboard, tucked behind old blouses and wedding silks. Ram once said it made me look “too young.” So I had worn it only once — years ago, on our fifth anniversary — and then folded it away like a memory too bright to keep in plain sight.
But that morning, I reached for it.
My fingers hesitated as I opened the cupboard, the scent of sandalwood and starch rising from the folds. The saree shimmered — not loud, not vulgar — but alive. Crimson with gold zari threads that traced the border like secrets whispered at midnight.
I held it against my body, staring at myself in the mirror. The pallu was light, airy. It slid across my shoulder as if it, too, wasn’t used to being worn. I chose a sleeveless blouse — something that clung, but didn’t confess. I did not wear my Bra and Panties again.
The moment I stepped into the sunlight of the veranda, I felt it — his gaze. I didn’t have to look. I knew.
Muthu was there.
Somewhere beyond the neem tree, behind the tin-sheet roof, standing just outside the shade of his garage.
Watching.
I pretended not to notice.
I bent over the tulsi pot, sprinkling water slowly, letting the saree shift with my movement, letting the breeze lift the fabric from my waist.
I was no longer hiding.
And still — I was terrified.
Not of him. Not even of being caught.
But of how much I wanted to be seen.
Later, as I stood at the gate, dusting the railing, he walked past.
Not on his bike. Not in a hurry.
He walked. Slowly. Deliberately.
Our eyes met.
His lips curved — not a smile. Something hungrier. Quieter. Like he already knew my answer before I had made the choice.
“Red suits you,” he said. Just that.
I didn’t reply.
But I didn’t look away.
And when he passed by, his fingers brushed against mine — just slightly, just enough to burn. Like the edge of a flame licking at the skin, asking if you would flinch or stay still.
I stood there, frozen.
That night, after the children had gone to sleep, I stood before the mirror again. I undbangd the saree slowly — not like undressing, but like remembering something forgotten. My skin still carried his glance, like invisible fingerprints.
I touched my wrist where he had brushed against me.
It tingled.
It throbbed.
I didn’t understand this new version of myself.
But I didn’t try to stop her, either.
She felt alive.
In the silence of the bedroom, with Ram’s side of the bed cold and empty, I pulled the red saree close to my face and inhaled.
It still carried the scent of dust, jasmine oil... and something else.
A secret.
And in that darkness, I whispered the truth out loud, for the first time — not to him, not to God, but to the woman in the mirror.
“I want to be wanted.”
The Saree Falls
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The house had never felt this quiet before.
The boys were at their cousin’s place for the weekend. Ram was in Coimbatore — delayed again. He didn’t even ask if I’d be okay alone. He trusted the locked gate, the security grill, the decency of the colony.
He didn’t know I had already unlocked something far more dangerous.
It was a little past 3 p.m. The Chennai sun was beginning to mellow, throwing long golden lines across the kitchen tiles. I moved slowly, barefoot, wrapped again in the same red saree.
Not for anyone.
At least, that’s what I told myself.
There was a knock at the gate.
Not urgent. Just a polite rhythm — like someone knocking on a memory.
I opened the curtain slightly.
It was him.
Muthu. In a clean white shirt, hair damp, carrying a small steel toolbox.
I didn’t call for repairs. But somehow, I knew this moment was going to arrive.
I walked to the door, pulse quickening.
He greeted me with a smile — not the boyish one he gave others, but the one he reserved only for me: slow, confident, knowing.
“Your husband said the ceiling fan in the back bedroom makes noise,” he lied smoothly.
We both knew he hadn’t spoken to Ram.
We both knew there was no fan problem.
But I let him in anyway.
He walked ahead of me, as if he belonged. I stood at the doorway of the small spare room as he pretended to inspect the fan.
The red saree clung to my back.
The blouse felt too tight.
The silence between us stretched — not awkward, not innocent. Just waiting.
He turned toward me, wiping his forehead. “Hot room,” he said.
“So is the hall,” I replied softly, before I could stop myself.
His eyes flicked down to my waist, where the saree was tucked low. Then to my shoulder. Then to my face.
And then he stepped closer. Slowly. Not touching. Just close enough that I could feel the heat of him.
“You wore it again,” he said, voice low.
I didn’t respond.
My breath had already betrayed me.
The fan above made a soft creaking sound — like even it had begun to tremble.
Then — it happened.
He reached to adjust my pallu. Gently. Reverently. Like touching prayer cloth.
But it slipped.
The saree loosened. Unraveled slightly at the waist. The pallu slid from my shoulder.
I gasped — not in fear. In surrender.
His fingers caught the fabric just in time, holding it delicately, as if it were a secret he’d promised not to speak out loud.
He didn’t look down.
He looked straight into my eyes.
“I can leave,” he whispered, “if you ask me to.”
My voice trembled. “Don’t.”
His fingers released the saree. It fell.
Not just the cloth. But the barrier between right and want. Between the woman I was told to be and the woman I had hidden for years.
He moved closer.
His hand brushed the side of my face — rough, stained with grease, yet soft in that moment. My breath hitched.
Then silence.
Long, aching silence.
He didn’t kiss me.
He just stood there — watching me breathe, watching me not cover up.
I could have pushed him away.
But I didn’t.
And he didn’t take more than I gave.
He stepped back.
“I’ll come tomorrow,” he said, voice husky. “To finish… the fan.”
He walked out, toolkit untouched.
I stood in the middle of that room, the red saree pooling around my ankles, heart thundering in my chest.
Not naked.
But no longer fully clothed in denial either.
The Second Knock
The red saree still lay dbangd over the back of the chair, untouched since yesterday.
I didn’t fold it.
Couldn’t.
It still carried the warmth of that moment, the weight of his stare, the invisible print of his fingers brushing my cheek. Every corner of the house now whispered something — the mirror where I’d watched it fall, the corridor where he’d stood without touching me, and the air... oh, the air still smelled of his aftershave and engine grease.
I told myself nothing had happened.
But something had.
Something that wouldn’t stop playing behind my closed eyes.
All morning, I moved like a ghost inside my own home — cleaning, washing, chopping vegetables — as if the motions would cleanse the ache beneath my skin.
But nothing worked.
And then, just past noon...
The second knock came.
Firm. Familiar. Less polite this time.
I stood frozen, hands wet with soap at the sink. My heart slammed against my ribs. I didn’t move for a whole minute.
The knock came again. Two slow, deep thuds.
I walked to the door with trembling legs, wiping my hands on the side of my nighty. My heart said don’t open it.
But my hand reached for the latch.
There he stood.
Muthu.
In a faded blue t-shirt, hair messy, eyes unreadable — like yesterday hadn’t happened. Or like he was still living inside it.
“I forgot my screwdriver,” he said.
It was a lie. I had checked. He hadn’t left anything behind.
Still, I nodded and stepped aside.
He entered, brushing past me — closer this time. His arm brushed my shoulder, and I felt that soft electric shiver again.
The back room was where he went. I followed, silently.
The saree was still there on the chair.
He noticed.
He didn’t comment.
But his eyes lingered.
“I’ll get you tea,” I said, trying to steady my voice.
“No need,” he replied. “I won’t stay long.”
Yet he didn’t leave.
He stood by the chair. Then touched the fabric — just a corner — running it slowly between his fingers.
“I didn’t sleep,” he said, not looking at me.
I didn’t reply.
“I kept thinking about yesterday. About how it felt… to be in the same room with you. And still not cross the line.”
The words pressed into my chest like warm hands.
I swallowed. “You didn’t do anything wrong.”
“I wanted to,” he said, eyes meeting mine now. Dark. Unflinching. “But not like that. Not rushed. Not confused.”
I backed slightly toward the doorframe, my hand clutching the edge of the curtain. “Then why are you here?”
He stepped closer. Close enough to feel his breath again.
“To ask you if you still want me to leave.”
Silence filled the space between us like a slow, dense cloud.
His eyes searched mine.
I could say yes.
I could close the door. Walk back. Be a mother. A wife. A woman with discipline.
But my lips wouldn’t open.
My silence spoke louder than consent.
He reached for my hand. Not forcefully. Gently. As though afraid I’d vanish.
And when our fingers touched, I didn’t pull away.
He leaned in — just close enough to brush his forehead to mine. Our lips didn’t meet.
But our hearts did.
Pounding.
Raw.
Undeniable.
“I’ll wait,” he whispered. “Till you ask me.”
Then — he let go.
Walked out. Without touching the saree again. Without looking back.
The door closed behind him.
And I collapsed to my knees, not out of shame — but out of confusion. Desire. Longing.
Because now I knew this was no longer just a trap.
It was a choice.
And one day… I might make it.
The Day I Asked
I didn't plan it.
There was no bold declaration in the mirror, no lipstick-stained letter of intent, no whispered confession to God as I lit the lamp in front of the tulsi.
There was only a strange calm inside me — as if a war had ended and the losing side had laid down its arms willingly.
The day began like any other.
The children had left for college, their lunchboxes packed with care, their uniform collars adjusted with motherly instinct. The maid had finished early and left, muttering about a power cut on the next street.
The house was quiet again.
But not lonely.
Not anymore.
I went into the shower and took my shower and came out. The water flowed over me like warm silk, streaming down my neck, my back, between my thighs. My fingers lingered along my skin longer than necessary. Not to clean. To feel. To remember.
I closed my eyes and let the stream kiss my collarbone—the same way Muthu’s lips had, just two days ago, in this very room, right against the wall. The echo of his breath, his rough hands, the way he looked at me like I was the only woman on Earth… it pulsed inside me like a secret.
I smiled to myself.
Today, I wasn’t going to wait for him passively.
Today, I was going to make sure he remembered me with every bolt he tightened and every screw he turned back at his garage.
After drying off, I stood before the mirror. Naked. Damp. Warm.
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Then I picked up the phone and sent just one message.
“Come. No one’s home. And this time, I won’t stop you.”
I didn't stare at the screen waiting for a reply.
I didn’t need to.
Because I knew he would come.
I reached first for my white bra—simple cotton, but snug against my skin. Then the maroon panties, smooth, soft, and just a little tight. My fingertips brushed the curve of my hips as I pulled them up. I didn’t rush. I savored it. The anticipation made my breath hitch.
The black petticoat followed, the drawstring pulling tight across my waist. Then came the green blouse—the same shade as mango leaves in April. I fastened the hooks slowly, feeling the fabric press over the rise of my chest, hugging me like a second skin.
And finally, the saree.
That soft moss green saree, with a golden border that shimmered in the light, and delicate threadwork near the pallu that reminded me of temple carvings. Not bold like red. But not shy either. It whispered seduction.
I dbangd it with care—pleat by pleat, pallu slung low over my left shoulder, falling just enough to tease. A dash of jasmine attar at my neck, a bindi, a tiny stroke of kajal.
I looked at myself one last time.
I wasn’t dressing for my husband.
I wasn’t dressing for society.
I was dressing for Muthu.
And I knew he would see it.
He would see the maroon beneath the black, the swell behind the silk, the desire behind the dbang.
My pulse quickened. I poured a cup of coffee, just to calm my hands.
The knock came twenty minutes later.
The clock struck 10:02.
And my doorbell rang.
I didn’t rush to open the door.
I made him wait.
Just long enough to feel the ache I had carried for days.
When I opened it, Muthu stood there — not as a mechanic, not as a boy from the colony — but as a man who had waited for permission to claim something forbidden.
His eyes scanned me. Slowly. Reverently.
And then he whispered, “You look like a storm today.”
I stepped aside. “Then close the door before I blow away.”
He walked in.
This time, I didn’t lead him to the spare room.
I led him to my bedroom.
Ram’s shirts hung in the corner. My son’s college bag leaned against the wall. Our world still lived here.
But I was no longer part of it.
Not in this moment.
I turned to face him.
There was no awkwardness.
No shame.
Only breath.
Only heat.
Only the sound of his feet slowly approaching behind me.
When he stood close, his hands didn’t grab. They hovered. As if asking — one last time — if this was real.
I reached for his hand and guided it to my bare waist.
He exhaled sharply, like he’d been holding it for days.
His hands trembled as he untucked the pallu from my waist. The silk fell between us like the last lie we ever told ourselves.
I looked up.
“I’m not afraid,” I whispered.
“I know,” he replied, his lips grazing mine.
As he began holding my face and began kissing my lips, I began kissing his lips back, signaling him how much my body needed him.
And we kissed — it wasn’t hungry.
It was holy.
His hands knew how to fix machines. But now, they moved with reverence over skin — over curves and softness no one had worshipped in years.
We didn’t speak.
“The Unwrapping”
I could feel the warmth of the morning sun on my back… but it was nothing compared to the heat coming from him.
Muthu’s fingers hovered just above my waist, not yet touching, only tempting. He stood in front of me—close, so close I could feel the energy of his breath, but still not making the first move.
“I can’t decide what to touch first,” he said, eyes drinking in every inch of me. “The silk… or the skin beneath it.”
“Then start where it hurts the most,” I whispered, already breathless. “Right here.” I guided his hand to where my pleats were tucked into the black petticoat—tight across my lower belly.
He didn’t rush. No, Muthu never rushed.
His fingers brushed the saree lightly, grazing over the golden border as if it were sacred. The friction made my skin ripple with anticipation.
“You wore this just for me?” he asked, pulling slightly at the pallu dbangd over my shoulder.
I nodded, lips parting. “Every thread. Every tuck. Every layer… I imagined your hands on it.”
That made him smile—dark, hungry, reverent.
“Then I’ll take my time,” he murmured.
“Where My Saree Ended, I Began”
His fingers brushed against the hooks of my blouse.
That tiny hesitation—that pause—it wasn’t because he didn’t know how. No, it was something else.
Something sacred.
I felt his breath at my ear. Steady. Warm.
“Say it,” he murmured.
“Say what?” I asked, heart pounding beneath the soft press of my white bra.
“That I can open this. That I can see you.”
“You already do,” I whispered.
The first hook came undone.
The second followed with a faint click. I could feel my blouse giving way—loosening its hold on my chest, releasing the heat trapped beneath.
When the last hook slipped, he peeled it off my shoulders—slowly—as if the blouse wasn’t cotton, but memory.
And there I stood, in just my bra and petticoat, arms wrapped loosely across myself—not from shame, but from the ache of anticipation.
He looked at me like he’d never seen skin before.
His voice was barely a breath:
“You’re not real.”
I swallowed hard. “Then touch me. Prove I am.”
His hands were rough. Greased from work. But gentle now. Reverent. They slid along my waist, to the drawstring of the petticoat. His eyes met mine before he pulled.
“If I undo this,” he said, “we can’t go back.”
“I don’t want to go back,” I said.
He untied the knot.
The black petticoat slipped slowly down my legs, brushing past my maroon panties like a secret grazing a secret. I stepped out of it silently, my bare feet brushing against the silk of my discarded saree on the floor.
Now there was nothing left between us except the white cotton of my bra, the maroon stretch of my underwear, and everything I had never said out loud.
And then he surprised me.
He didn’t touch me right away.
He sat down—right on the rug—and pulled me softly into his lap, holding me close, just holding me, like I wasn’t his fantasy but something more dangerous—
Someone who could break him.
I curled into him, my cheek against his bare chest. I could hear his heartbeat, heavy and uneven.
“You know what scares me?” he asked.
“What?”
“That this… isn’t just lust anymore.”
I didn’t answer. I didn’t need to.
Because the way I pressed myself into him, the way I let his fingers trace my spine beneath the strap of my bra—told him everything.
“I’m your sin, Sudha,” he said, almost like an apology.
“No,” I whispered. “You’re the only place I feel honest.”
He kissed my forehead—not my lips this time.
“When Our Mouths Finally Spoke the Truth”
I sat on his lap, dbangd in silence and sunlight—almost bare skin wrapped in little more than cotton and longing in only my Bra and Panties. My arms were around his neck. His hands cradled my waist, his fingers spread wide as if trying to memorize the curve of me.
The room was still.
The kind of stillness that comes right before something irreversible.
His eyes searched mine—not for permission, not anymore—but for presence.
And I gave it.
Not with words.
But with the way I leaned in—slowly, slowly—until our foreheads touched. Until his breath brushed against my lips like a secret about to be told.
Looking at my lips lifting my chin up as Muthu began kissing my lips, I began closing my eyes and began kissing his lips back passionately. We kissed.
It wasn’t hurried. It wasn’t shy.
It was deep. Deliberate. Desperate in the softest way.
His lips met mine like he had been thirsting—not just for the taste of me, but for the feeling of being allowed to.
The first touch was gentle.
Then deeper.
My mouth opened to him like I had no more secrets. His tongue met mine, slow at first, dancing in a rhythm that sent a shiver down my back. I pressed myself closer—my white bra catching slightly against his chest, my maroon panties warm where I sat on him, our bodies a perfect contradiction of clothed and exposed.
His hands cupped my face, thumbs brushing my cheeks, holding me like something fragile and on fire.
I moaned into his mouth—a soft, helpless sound that surprised even me.
He smiled against my lips. “That sound,” he whispered, breath hitching, “you don’t know what that does to me.”
I kissed him harder.
He leaned back, bringing me with him, until I lay atop him on the living room rug—half-dressed, fully seen. My hair spilled over his shoulder, his fingers tangled in it. Our mouths kept moving, as if stopping might break the spell. As if every breath we stole from each other tasted better than air.
And in that moment…
There was no morning.
No marriage.
No consequence.
There was only his mouth on mine,
his hands trailing the edge of my bare back,
and the feeling of being kissed like I was the last woman in the world.
“Where He Touched, I Bloomed”
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My breath caught when he looked down at me.
I was still on top of him, my skin flushed, lips swollen from our kiss, my body resting lightly on his chest. My saree lay forgotten on the floor. The black petticoat was gone. And now only two fragile layers separated me from being truly, fully bare with him—a white cotton bra and my maroon panties.
His hands slid slowly up my sides, fingertips grazing the edge of the bra’s strap. His eyes locked onto mine, silently asking.
I nodded.
His fingers moved behind me.
The metal hook gave way with a soft snap—gentle, respectful, like he knew this moment was bigger than the act itself.
As he eased the straps off my shoulders, the cool air touched my skin, but I didn’t shiver.
Because his gaze was warmer than anything I’d ever known.
The bra fell away.
I didn’t cover myself.
I didn’t look away.
He sat up slightly beneath me, cupping my waist with one hand, the other tracing slow circles along the base of my spine. His eyes didn’t just look—they lingered, like he was seeing more than my body.
Like he was seeing me.
“You’re beautiful,” he murmured. Not hungry. Not teasing.
Just honest.
I leaned into him, letting my bare chest press against his shirt. Skin to skin. Warmth to warmth. Our breaths mingled again, slower this time. Softer.
“You make me feel,” I whispered, “like I’m allowed to want… without shame.”
He rested his forehead against mine.
“Sudha,” he said, his voice breaking just a little, “I don’t know what this is anymore. But I can’t stop.”
“Then don’t,” I said, wrapping my arms around him. “Not today.”
In his arms, half-naked in the morning sun, I wasn’t just a housewife.
I wasn’t a secret. I wasn’t sin.
I was simply… his.
“The Moment We Stopped Pretending”
He kissed me again—but this time, not just on my lips.
His mouth moved softly, reverently, from the curve of my shoulder to the hollow of my collarbone, then lower. With each kiss, he wasn’t just learning my body—he was unlearning his silence, and I was unlearning my shame.
I closed my eyes and breathed him in—engine oil, heat, and something purely Muthu.
His hands cradled my back, grounding me. His lips worshipped the places no one had ever touched with such care. He wasn’t claiming me.
He was asking me.
And my body answered with every quiet arch, every trembling sigh, every moment I let go just a little more.
The last of my modesty—my maroon panties—still clung to me like a question waiting to be answered.
His fingers paused at the waistband.
He looked up.
One final silence passed between us.
Then, with a whisper of fabric and breath, I let it go.
Everything.
And still, the room didn’t feel naked.
It felt sacred.
“Where I Let Him In”
His breath moved lower—slow, reverent, unhurried.
It was the kind of silence where every inch of my skin felt like it was listening.
I lay back fully naked, my hair fanned across the rug, my chest rising and falling beneath the soft light pouring in from the window. The room still smelled like jasmine, engine oil, and something dangerously new.
He kissed the inside of my thigh—softly. Then again, a little higher. As he began kissing my Pussy lips passionately, “mmmmmmmmmmmmm mmmmmmmmmmm mmmmmmmmmmmm mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm,” I began to moan, my body tensed, then melted. I was open. And not just in the way flesh yields to flesh, but in the way a secret surrenders.
His hands gently coaxed my legs apart—not forcefully, not impatiently, but like he was asking my body for its deepest truth.
And I gave it.
I gave it with a breathless gasp, a trembling hand tangled in his hair, a heartbeat that pulsed against his touch.
No one had ever touched me like this.
No one had ever taken the time to listen to my silence this way.
He looked up once, eyes dark and filled with something more than desire.
Awe. Maybe even love.
As if seeing me like this—bare, open, trembling—was not something he could take for granted.
“You’re everything, Sudha,” he whispered, his voice thick.
I reached for his hand, holding it tightly against my stomach as he kissed me lower, slower, deeper—not just igniting heat, but undoing years of being unseen.
And in that moment, I wasn’t afraid.
Because he wasn’t just touching my body.
He was touching the woman I never knew I could be.
“When He Became Part of Me”
The world fell away.
There was only the quiet hum of the fan, the golden warmth of morning light pooling across the floor, and the weight of him—Muthu, holding himself above me, looking at me like I was something sacred.
Our eyes locked. His breath touched my cheek.
And then… he inserted his cock inside me and entered me.
Slowly. Completely.
A gasp escaped my lips—not from pain, but from the sheer intensity of being known in that way. As if my body had been waiting for this moment all its life, and now that it had come, it didn’t quite know how to hold it all.
He didn’t rush.
He just stayed there—inside me, forehead resting against mine, our breaths tangled.
I held him close, arms around his back, and in that stillness, my heart cracked open.
His lips moved to my chest, kissing the curve of my breast, then the center, as though he wanted to drink in every sigh, every heartbeat. His mouth was tender, not greedy. Worshipping. Reverent.
I arched into him, my fingers threading through his hair.
“Muthu…” I whispered.
He paused, lifting his face to mine. “Tell me.”
I closed my eyes. “Don’t stop.”
And he didn’t.
We moved in rhythm—sometimes slow and deep, other times like waves crashing at the edge of something we couldn’t name. It wasn’t just desire. It was recognition. Gratitude. A quiet explosion of years of silence, longing, and dreams locked behind doors neither of us had dared open.
In his arms, with his body joined to mine, I felt safe.
Beautiful.
Alive.
And for the first time in years, I wasn’t wondering who I was supposed to be.
My hands moved to his face, cupping it gently, pulling him close.
I looked into his eyes—stormy, soft, undone—and in them, I saw every version of myself I had ever silenced. Every longing I had swallowed. Every truth I had buried beneath folded laundry and empty rooms.
“Muthu,” I whispered, my voice barely sound. “Look at me.”
He did.
And I kissed him—not to tempt, not to tease, but to tell him something only my mouth could say. My lips met his in a desperate softness, a kind of passion that doesn’t shout—it trembles.
His body pressed deeper into mine, and I felt it.
That shift.
That moment when everything tightens, burns, then finally lets go.
As I began holding his face with all the love I had for him and began kissing his lips passionately. I could feel like I was about to cum, “mmmmmmm mmmmmmm mmmmmmmmm mmmmm,” as I was moaning and began kissing his lips nicely, “aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaah,” he moaned. He broke inside me.
As he broke inside me and began cumming all over my pussy, I hugged him tight and “aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah,” I moaned and came all over his cock.
His breath caught, his hands tightened at my waist, and for a suspended second—we weren’t two people anymore. We were one breath. One heartbeat. One shiver crashing through both our bodies.
I held him.
Tighter.
My legs curled around him, anchoring him to me.
His face buried in the crook of my neck as his whole body melted against mine, heavy with surrender. I could feel his heart racing against my chest—wild, unguarded, real.
And for the first time in my life, I felt chosen.
Not for duty.
Not for convenience.
But for who I was when no one was watching.
We didn’t speak. We just stayed like that.
Skin to skin.
Heart to heart.
The sound of the ceiling fan above. The scent of jasmine still clinging to my hair. The warmth of a man who had just poured himself into me—not just in body, but in everything he had left
To Be. Continued....!