Scarred Love - Chapter 72

Ishani couldn’t do anything but stare in awe and wonder at the tiger.

Rudra looked at her gaping mouth and smiled. The guide was about to say something but he stopped him. Somehow he didn’t want to spoil this moment for her.

But she was oblivious to everything around her. As the tiger yawned wider, she gasped audibly at its flashing sharp teeth. But the stripes took her breath away. She kept on looking at them trying to figure whether the almighty had actually painted them on it with an artist’s brush.

Suddenly it moved and stood up on its leg, and she gripped Rudra’s arm in excitement.

It started to walk on the street but then suddenly it looked behind, its eyes zeroing on their jeep.

However, its eyes just stopped at her and she felt it gripping her soul completely. She forgot where she was and even forgot that Rudra was sitting next to her. The only thing she could register was the piercing eyes of the Royal Bengal.

As if done with its surveying, it turned again and started to walk off to the other side of the forest.

Her eyes kept on following the tiger till it disappeared in the huge foliage.

Suddenly she felt lost.

“Where did it go?” she asked almost standing up on her feet to follow its movement.

“To the waterhole,” Gaurang answered.

“Can we go there?”

“Let’s go, Gaurang,” Rudra ordered softly.

They stopped near a clearing close to the waterhole. Ishani stared ahead in awe looking at the same tiger taking a drink. Just as it was about to take off again, a cub nudged it from behind making it fall in the water.

Her face split into a smile as she watched two more cubs follow the first one and playfully throw themselves on the big one. As they played in the water, she bit her lip trying to control the emotion rising in her. She was so mesmerised by what she saw that tears of joys slipped down her cheeks.

“Ishani?” she heard Rudra call her.

“Yeah!” she answered without taking her eyes off the Tigers in the waterhole.

“Why are you crying?”

Startled, she placed her fingers on her cheeks and found the wetness. But she didn’t care at all. Standing up on her feet, she fetched her phone and focused on the playing tigers and started to click.

They stayed there for another hour and then decided to head back as it was getting dark.

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Ishani was sitting on her bed looking at the pictures that she had taken. She selected one of them and sent it to Annie. And as expected, her phone screen lit up instantly. As she swiped to answer the video call, Annie’s face lit up on the screen followed by a shriek.

“Jezz! Annie, stop screaming. I’ll go deaf,” Ishani retorted smiling widely.

The two friends started to talk and shared everything that had happened since the last time they had spoken.

After thirty minutes, she disconnected the call and kept the phone on the bedside table. Then she walked off to the balcony and looked beyond at the trees and hills. This place had taken on her senses more than anything else. She closed her eyes and breathed in the air around her. It felt so soothing that everything calmed inside her. A wind started to blow and she raised her face to feel it against her.

Suddenly her senses came alive with a different scent other than the forest one. A pair of arms snaked around her waist and pulled her close. As her back collided with a hard chest, she tilted her head and rested it on his shoulder.

“You smell so good,” Rudra said nuzzling his nose below her ear.

Shivers ran down her spine as his hot breath fanned her cheek and his mouth went lower to her exposed shoulder and neck. As he placed small kisses on her shoulder, she shivered a little and instantly felt his arms tightening around her.

“You. Are. Beautiful,” he said between the kisses making her heart swell up with love.

“I love you.”

The moment she uttered those words, she was whirled around by him and shoved against the wall. His mouth landed on her and tongue caressed her lips. Her body erupted with passion as his hand clutched her hair hard and pushed her mouth more into him.

Ishani bit his lower lip and felt him moan inaudibly. Encouraged, she took his upper lip between her teeth and pulled it a little.

Rudra went mad with desire as the sensation of the bite slithered through his veins. He was trying to hold onto his senses but then she weaved her fingers into his hair and gripped it, tugging his head towards her. Her other hand gripped the front of his shirt and pulled hard, and he knew she wanted him.

He kissed her hard tugging her lips, again and again, sucking her mouth with everything he got. Her passionate moans kept fuelling his blood with nothing but pure and overpowering lust.

“Ishani!” he whimpered against her mouth.

“Hmm?” she hooked her head in a question but did not open her eyes.

Trying to savour the taste of his mouth on her, she glided her tongue out and licked her lips.

As his eyes followed the movement, he placed his thumb on her lower lip and caressed it slowly.

“You know you are driving me crazy.”

In response, she opened her eyes and snaked out her tongue a little and licked the tip of his thumb. His eyes darkened as her touch bombed his mind. He was about to withdraw his hand but she gripped his wrist.

Rudra watched as she opened her mouth and took the thumb inside her mouth. The moment she started to suck, he closed his eyes enjoying the bite and flick of her tongue against his skin. But his mind beckoned him to open his eyes and watch her.

As he looked at her, his insides just fired up with passion and pleasure. She released his thumb but not before giving it a thorough lick. Just as she bit on the skin again and scraped her teeth softly on his flesh, he lost all control.

“Fuck, Ishani,” he moaned and his hot mouth again landed on hers.

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