-RANVEER

"I don't care." Ranveer whispered breathlessly.

He crushed her against him as he again brought her mouth to his.

"Do you even know...?" he drew back for an instant, his eyebrows knit together.

"Do you know what it's like around you? I can't....." he ran one hand through his long and silky hair and stared at her.

"I can't breathe whenever you're around." He confessed cupping her cheeks with both his hands, joining their foreheads he closed his eyes.

"I don't deserve you." Ishika whispered, pushing his hairs from his eyes back.

"How dare you say that?" Ranveer replied breathlessly, not opening his deep brown eyes.

"I don't. You are so amazing and caring and someone like me doesn't deserve someone like you." She assure him, stroking his right cheek. His grip tightening around her waist.

"They are right, maybe I came in between you and her or maybe not. I don't know, and I don't want to know. Why? Because once you said that you never had any past relation with any one and I believe you coz you trusted me when I confessed that I don't love Rudra and anyone if that matters. I trust you." She whispered blinking her eyes so the tears won't fall out.

"But what I am saying that what if... what if Rudra didn't ran away from the wedding, then I will never be your wife right. Why don't you understand that I don't deserve you? We are not meant for each other. It's all because Rudra ran away, okay. If he didn't, you could have..... For me relationships are fun, you know that. I told you I was going to marry him for six months..... That girl whose own family never trusted her why are running behind her." She added with very difficulty, due to thick lump in her throat.

"In all these years I have learned a lot, like things don't always turn out the way I want them. There are things that go wrong that don't always get fixed or get put back the way they were before." Ishika continued;

"Ishika." Ranveer tried intervene but she didn't let him and nod her head in a 'no';

"I have learned that some broken things stay broken. Please don't try to fix me. Please understand I just get sad sometimes. Sometimes I just shut the world and when I feel better I let them in. I don-" she was stopped in between by Ranveer by placing his finger on his lips as his eyes go dark, extremely dark that the color of his eye changed completely from deep honey brown to darkest shade of brown;

"Shhhh." He grab her hair not so tightly in his fist, and make her move closer to his face. While with other hand he tighten his hold around her waist and took a deep breathe.

"Listen to my words and let them sink in. let them fade into you and rest in your bones. . You heard it, . And when I tell you that, it is not meant to lay on the surface with all the other words you collect or heard during the day or all these years, it is meant to live inside you." He confessed each word with intently looking in her eyes, which stare him back with wide eyes.

"I cannot remember exactly the first time your soul whispered to mine, but I know you woke it, and since then it never slept." He whispered touching his nose to her, but it seem like his soul is vowing to her soul, like the soul's finally found each other.

"I want you to remember one thing,... you are MINE, only mine. So don't let other corrupt your brain, because that is also mine to corrupt, you are mine to look, touch, wink, stare, flirt, hold, compliment, anything. That's my job. And I don't want to listen this bullshit the next time that you don't deserve me. In fact you deserve better person than me in your life. But being the selfish person I am, I will not let you go away from me."

"Understand Mrs. Ishika Ranveer Kapoor." He completed his sentence with complete dominance in his voice which let Ishika to nod her head slowly while gulping hard.

"Words biwi (wifey) words." He demanded still looking intently in her eyes.

"Yes." She responded in low but clear voice.

His eyes drifted to her soft pink plump lips which were moving, then again to her eyes, where he saw the same desire he have for her, he know she won't reply now to his confession because it's a lot for her to digest and he will wait for her to feel the same for him back, to realise that she also loves him back, and right now it's not the moment to think otherwise because when eyes meet, burning desires meet, everything is over.

His lips caught her in a hard kiss, driving them apart with the force of it. There was nothing gentle about the kiss. She felt the couch rattle beneath her as he shifted, pressing her against it, taking her face between his hands. Every thoughts in her head, exploded to a pure, pounding white, and she felt the dark curl of desire begin to twist inside her, blurring all her rules, snapping the last trembling bit of restrain. She tried one last time to pull away.

"no." he said, pulling her back, bringing her lips to his. She felt it was just like it had been before--. She slid her hand inside her jacket to press him closer. The low groan at the back of his throat, a small, pleading noise that set every inch of her body on fire, but at the same time pull her back from the desire to face the reality, and soon the words drawn upon her stinking her eyes, making tear ran down from her eye, which stops the action of Ranveer, and he broke down the kiss and look into the beautiful eyes of his Ishika which are glossy, before he could understand, she mumbled in low voice;

"I can't love you." She cried looking at him with glossy eyes.

"Why not." He asked in gentle voice controlling the hurt he felt because of her words.

"I am sacred." She whispered back looking so miserable, he never saw her this miserable in his life, not even when she confessed about her past life.

"Scared of what?" he asked cupping her cheeks wiping the tears.

"Of falling for you and then... then... You breaking my heart." She sang in lowest voice possible.

"You know, the fire can't touch me, I have burned too many times. The sea can't harm me, I have been drowning all my life. But you my dear have that thing in you, which can rip this heart apart. The soul I protect all my life will never find her peace again. And if that happen I will die." She cried out cupping his hands which were on her face.

"Don't say that fucking word Ishika." Ranveer growl.

"You are not understanding. No, you aren't." Ishika mumbled shaking her head, talking his hands in hers.

"All my life I have no fear, I live my life being a fearless person. But now I have, I have the biggest fear in me Ranveer."

"My biggest fear is not that you will lie to me one day or you will cheat on me." She softly confessed.

"My biggest fear is that you will wake up before me on Wednesday morning and instead of leaning in and kissing me on the cheeks, you'll look at my sleeping body and start to notice all my flaws. My crocked nose, my chapped lips and the stretch marks spread along my stomach and inner thighs like a road map. You'll think about my random spouts of jealousy and the fact that I talk too much. You'll remember how annoying it is that no matter what, I am always right and how selfish I can be sometimes. You'll walk into the kitchen, brew a cup of coffee, stare at the pale morning rays of sunlight entering the window frame, and come to the conclusion, that for no particular reason at all, you don't love me anymore. You just simply fall out of love with me Ranveer." She added with a shrug in end.

"What will I be doing then, I have no one. From childhood I am living alone, and I like being alone, and you entering my life is just misbalancing my life, everything Ranveer. You are the purest soul, and I am the darkest one." She said with a lot of difficulty and with a hard gulp she continued;

"You might be thinking of me as an insecure person, but I am not. I love my self, but when it comes to you, I do...." She didn't complete her sentence and broke in tears he tightly embraced her, rocking her on his lap in soothing manner to make her calm, but with time passes her cries become more aggressive.

"I am afraid of falling Ranveer." She whispers between her cries.

"I'll catch you." He vowed with a smile looking down at her.

questionAre they south Indian or Muslim? cause only south Indian and Muslims can marry their cousins?

answerthey are neither south Indian nor Muslims, they are from Haryana, belong to Haryanvi family. and about cousin marriage you all will know in upcoming updates that how they are betrothed in marriage.