Hi, Friends!. Love You All. I hope you enjoyed your weekend and now looking forward to a new week. How about starting the new week by reading some romantic short stories. This week’s love short deals with the complex emotion of Lust. Perhaps Love. Perhaps both. You decide 🙂
Title: Primal Desires
“Are you nuts?” Shikha pushed all the stray hairs off her face back into a tight bun. “No way, he’s going to stay with us. Not when you’ll be not home.” She then looked away, glancing at the fresh lilies blooming in the green lawns of their house.
“He’s my childhood buddy. I can’t say no. It’s just a matter of a few days. Once the paperwork is done, he will be off.”
“Can’t you cancel your trip or can’t you book a hotel room for him?”
“Try to understand babes. Raghav is not just a friend. He’s much more than that.”
“I know. He was your emotional support pillar, but things are different now.” She arched her eyebrows as she flipped through the pages of the women’s magazine. “Fine. If you can’t understand, let’s get this straight—I’m not going to stay with a stranger especially when my husband is away.”
“Please sweetheart. I really need this favor from you. Raghav is a cool guy, and he’s not a stranger. You have seen his photographs and even talked to him. Remember, when he called me on the wedding night.” Vikas crawled closer to her on the couch.
“Yeah, I remember, but that was just a formal call. He just congratulated us. That’s all. The truth is that I don’t know him. I mean if he’s going to stay with me, he will definitely eat, sleep, and do all the things that he does.”
“Of course. How can you stop the person of not doing his daily activities of living?” Vikas cocked a brow.
“So, what does he eat?”
“He’s not that picky. Anything with chicken will do. I will fill the refrigerator with an extra supply of chicken and beer for you two.”
Vikas’ gentle persuasion was flawless, and he finally succeeded in melting the ice of Shikha’s heart. She agreed to let Vikas’ childhood friend Raghav stay at their house for a week while Vikas was off to the US.
***
“Coming…” The doorbell ranged the third time. Shikha ran to the door, wrapping her wet hair in a towel.
“I’m sorry…was in the shower…Please come in,” she said, her faint smile vanishing. Her eyes fixed on a 6 feet tall hunk, an owner of a sculpted body that he hid underneath a white creased shirt and khaki pants, standing next to Vikas.
Raghav never looked that sexy in the snaps. Perhaps, that were the entire old ones I saw. He’s a grown up man now. A man with bulging biceps and tattoos. No wonder why he didn’t marry until now. Perhaps, he is a player. A man who always plays with women takes them to his bed but never gets involved in a relationship.
Anyways, who the fuck cares. He’s not going to stay here for any longer. It’s just a matter of seven days. All I need is to feed him good food, take him around the city, talk to him politely while he finishes his work in the town, and finally leaves the house.
Shikha assured herself that Raghav’s visit was not going to make any difference to her life as she arranged the table for lunch. However, she couldn’t stop herself looking at Raghav, devouring his intoxicating appeal.
That evening, Vikas left for the US leaving his wife alone in the company of his old childhood friend for a complete one week.
***
One evening…
“So what do you do?”
“Me. nothing. Just cooking, sleeping, watching TV that’s all.”
“You don’t have any hobby?”
“I never thought about it.”
“Never thought about it?” He chuckled. The sound of his snicker sent shivers of excitement all through her spine. And, boy, those vivid brown eyes, sexy enough to disturb all the sleeping butterflies in her stomach.
“I mean…Yeah…I used to make soft toys for kids when I was young. I mean it was long before getting married.”
“For kids?”
“For kids of the maids who would work in our society.”
“I see, and you used to gift them?”
“Yeah. Right.”
“That’s pretty adorable. I mean who the damn cares about these things.” His lips set in a grim line as he looked down the carpet of the living room. The air was heavy. There was this constant sound of raindrops falling on the tin roofing of the backyard. He looked sad, vulnerable, almost on the edge of shedding tears.
Vikas told her that Raghav was the son of a woman who used to work as a housemaid in their palatial residence. It was Vikas’s parents who helped Raghav’s mom to get him educated.
For a moment, she thought of going close to him and putting her hand on his, but she restrained. Restrained her from looking at him. Teardrops slid from the corner of her eyes. She couldn’t understand why she felt that way. A few days with this man and her world had changed. She never felt the intense magnetism towards any man she felt for Raghav.
“What do you do?” She broke the ensuing stillness of the rainy evening.
“I make sculptures?”
“Sculptures? You’re a sculptor?”
“Yeah…You guessed it right.”
“Interesting. So what do you sculpt?”
“Anything. I mean anything that fascinates me.”
“And, things that don’t fascinate you. Do you still sculpt them?”
“It depends. If I have to do it for a client. I once sculpted a fat businessman with fairly big mustaches, and I got sixty thousand bucks for that.”
“OK. Deal. You will make my sculpture, and because I’m not that fascinating, I’ll pay you for that.” She smiled.
“Who says you’re not fascinating?” He chortled.
His words electrified Shikha’s entire being. Hot desires grew from inside, making her cheeks blush. She cast her eyes downward, no words escaping from her mouth.
***
“Can’t you sit still…I’m shaping the features. And, please brush that hair away from your face.” Raghav’s voice was soft yet commanding enough to make Shikha’s heart race.
“No, no, not that…Oh, okay, just let me do it for you.”
As he came close, his body warmth floated around her. The brush of his fingers, all clay on them, on his forehead, and a shiver ran down her spine. Butterflies fluttered harder. Almost ready to tear her stomach. Her heart thumped even harder making it difficult for her to breathe. A choking feeling couldn’t let her inhale oxygen. All, she could inhale was the musky fragrance of his cologne as he stood just an inch away from her. His broad chest exposed in a blue vest, sweat drops traveling from his temple to his Adam’s apples before touching down the chisels of his gorgeous chest.
Oh! God! I want to breathe, and this man is not letting me do that. I will die if he doesn’t go away in another 10 seconds.
“I’m sorry. I can’t do this.” She pushed Raghav in his chest and scurried past him, darting out of the outhouse.
“What’s wrong with you? It’s half done. Just a matter of few more hours.”
“I can’t sit still for that long. It’s okay. Just leave me alone. Just go.”
She could sense his presence behind her.
“Can’t sit for long or you can’t have me near you?”
His words pounded her heart, shattering it into pieces with each piece saying – yes you’re the one I ever longed for.
“Why are you here? Finish your damn paperwork and leave. Please go away.” She smoldered as she wiped her tears.
“Shikha…”
His low husky voice. Her name on his tongue worked like an aphrodisiac, igniting the fire more intense than ever before.
“Are you falling for me?”
She didn’t reply, tears making her vision blurry, her heart sinking, her lungs laboring for air.
“Aw, shucks, I can’t believe this.”
With that, he turned his back. And the next moment, he was gone out of her room.
20 minutes passed by
Perhaps, 30
Probably, an hour
“Raghav…” She cried like a kid as she searched for him everywhere in the house.
“Raghav. Where are you?”
“I’m here.” He came out of the guestroom, hauling his suitcase behind him.
“You can’t go away. Can’t leave me like this.”
“What do you want from me?” He came closer and looked in her eyes. “It’s lust Shikha, nothing else.”
“It’s not lust. If it were, I would not have wept that night when I saw tears in your eyes. Your presence, your nearness, your touch bring a hurricane of feelings. Feeling unknown to me. Feelings I’ve never had before. Feelings I want to melt into, fade into, dissolve into finishing my entire being. Being with you is like putting me on fire and asking you to leave is like letting that fire burn me.”
“You’re my friend’s wife Shikha, and I can’t break that trust. You understand. I can’t break that trust.” His grip hardened on her shoulders as he tried not to reveal his vulnerable side. The side he kept hidden from her, feelings that were burning him too, inside out.
“Don’t hurt me if you can’t love me.” She shoved his hands off her shoulders and turned around. “You should be gone when I come out.” And, she rushed to her bedroom, not wanting to see him leave.
Again, she could sense him standing behind her. His hand on her waist made its way under her shirt, pleasure bubbles forming inside her skin. His touch on her flat belly sparked thousands of volts of electric current. She closed her eyes to dissolve, to melt, to finish in the heat that dissipated from his body. Her head tilted backward, her lips parting in anticipation.
The touch of their lips kindled a fire. A fire that ignited both the bodies. Flames ready to burn them alive, turn them into ashes, a heap of slag, had they not extinguished them, doused them, smothered them succumbing to their primal desires. Love, Lust, Whatever.
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