An eon later Sameer moved from her and gathered her in his arms. Raashi felt boneless as he held her close. She wrapped her arms around him to keep him from moving away. She laid her head on his chest and listened to the thud of his heart under her ear. As his heart rate slowed and steadied, she felt herself drift off to sleep.
Sameer kissed the top of her head and pulled the sheet around them, hugging her close and fell asleep himself.
Sameer wokeup to the smell of coffee. He opened his eyes and found Raashi standing beside the bed, watching him, a mug in her hand.
“Hey, beautiful,” he said, rising up and leaning against the headboard. “You’re up early.”
He ran his eyes over her. She was freshly showered and dressed in yoga pants and a loose t-shirt.
Her eyes roamed over his bare chest and arms, taking him in. He looked so good in her bed, all tousled up, jaw darkened with an overnight shadow and his hair a ruffled mess. She ran her hand through his hair, arranging it. She leaned forward and pressed a kiss to his lips.
“Good morning,” she said, placing the steaming mug of coffee on the nightstand next to him. Sameer tugged her hand and she fell onto his lap. She put her arms around him and snuggled closer to him.
“Now, it’s a great morning indeed,” he said.
Raashi rested her head on his shoulder as he drank a sip of the hot liquid, sighing in bliss.
Sameer finished the coffee and picked up his phone, checking the time. “Shoot, it’s eight thirty. I need to go home.”
“Not yet,” Raashi said burrowing into him further. “This feels good right now. You and me finally like this.”
She straddled him and kissed his cheek. Her hands skimmed down his chest as she peppered kisses from below his ear to his neck, down to his shoulder, lingering there. His head fell back and his eyes closed as she proceeded to slowly destroy his mind. And then she moved lower and kissed the center of his chest. Sameer dragged her mouth to his. Their lips met and her tongue played with his. His hands moved under her t-shirt, pulling her closer to him. He was lost in the heat of her desire and his. She moved over him, rubbing against him.
“God, Raashi! You drive me crazy,” Sameer told her as he pinned her down, shifting on top of her. Her clothes came off quickly and then he slid deep inside her driving them both to pure ecstasy.
23
Sameer opened the door to his home and walked straight into his mom, dad and sisters at the dining table, eating breakfast. There was a sudden hush in their conversation as they saw him. He looked at his watch and groaned. It was eleven in the morning on a Sunday. Obviously, his family would be at the breakfast table and here he was in last night’s clothes, his jacket swung over his arm and Raashi’s soft scent draped over him.
His sisters assessed him from top to bottom before they exchanged a very meaningful look with one another. Bloody Hell! He never did stuff like this in front of them. He had never stayed the whole night with any woman prior to this. He would always return home no matter how late in the night it was. But now he wanted to spend all his days and nights with Raashi. Leaving her this morning had been so hard. In the end, he had stayed for breakfast with a promise to meet her after an hour.
During breakfast they had discussed how to tackle their friends and family. Raashi had missed calls from both Keya and Sheena, but she hadn’t returned their calls. Both Sameer and Raashi wanted to keep themselves a secret for a while. They hadfound each other after so long that they wanted to simply be alone without the need to answer questions posed by anyone.
Sameer brought his mind back to the present where four pairs of eyes were watching him carefully.
He walked up to his sisters and kissed the tops of their heads before grabbing an apple from the fruit bowl.
“Are you just returning home?” his mom finally asked him.
He nodded taking a bite of the apple.
His father raised his eyebrows and gave him a knowing smile, no doubt understanding the situation for what it was. He then picked up the newspaper in front of him and got busy reading it.
“You partying so late these days?” His mom asked him looking up at the clock.
“Where were you last night?” Shauna probed before he could reply to his mother.
“Yeah,” Rhea piped in. “You came late to Sheena’s party. We saw you. And then you disappeared and no one knew...”
Shauna interrupted her twin. “Correction! Kabier and Rishi obviously knew but they spoke over and around the topic as usual when we asked them.”
Sameer remained silent, biting into the apple again, refusing to reply.
“See,” Shauna said, “they only answer us with silence when they don’t want to tell us something.”
“Exactly,” Rhea continued, “I so hate it when they behave like that. ”
Sameer waved at them nonchalantly and turned to leave.
