CHAPTER 52

Ch 52, ID 53:

Kavi’s [Layla's] POV:

I straddled his lap and looked—no, stared—at his face. My soul could feel his feelings. He was so happy, and at the same time, there was a huge pain attached to that happiness. He had developed the strange habit of visiting Sun or Moon's realm. That wasn't strange, but Maayan visiting their realms daily and returning late bothered me. And I felt a little distant from him, physically and emotionally. I wanted to know why he was doing this. I had been trying to talk to him about it for a week, but he would come up with some excuse. But I didn't allow him to go to Moon's realm today and trapped him here in our room.

"Why are you looking at me like this, Layla?" he asked me with a gorgeous smile, displaying his perfectly pearly teeth. My heart fluttered with happiness at seeing his smile. There wasn't a bit of change in our feelings for each other. We grew to understand each other more with time, and our love had grown stronger.

I continued staring at him. I want him to spill the truth. I could look into his mind, but I DIDN'T want to. Honesty was one of the very important keys to a successful relationship.

"Are you going to keep staring at me? If I have known this, I would have at least gone to see Chandran," he said with a sigh. I raised an eyebrow at him.

"Are you bored with me already?" I asked directly, looking into his eyes. His heart skipped a beat before he looked up at me with narrowed eyes.

"What are you talking about, Layla? I…Where did that idea even come from?" he asked seriously.

I cupped his cheek and made him look into my eyes. He was trying to mask his emotions, but he forgot that our souls were connected. My purple eyes bored into his crimson pearls, searching for the answers to his strange behavior.

"You can trust me and tell me anything. I will do anything for you. You know that, right? I can feel a pain in your heart, Maayan. We aren't like other couples we see around our realm or the people on the earth. Our souls beat for each other, and our hearts yearn for us. I can feel you are frustrated, but also you are happy. Tell me what is bothering you. I am here for you, darling. You don't have to carry that pain alone. You haven't touched me for the past month, and you haven’t even hugged or kissed me for the past two days..."

"Me not being intimate is your problem?" he questioned suddenly with a hint of annoyance. He also completely omitted everything I said before the intimacy. And the meaning of his words hurt me more. I contained my bubbled-up anger and took in a deep breath to calm myself. He still had that look of annoyance on his face. I removed myself from him.

"You can go wherever you want. I just wanted you to know that you don't need to bear any pain alone. I am here for you…I always will be! But…after you said those words, I am not talking about it anymore." I stormed out of the room but ran into Kathir.

"Oh, Goddess! Sorry…Are you okay? What happened, Goddess?" His tone rose with anger as he noticed my teary eyes. I avoided his eyes and nodded my head, quickly walking past him without answering him.

I locked myself in the library for the rest of the day, meditating. At night, I walked to my room but stopped when I saw Maayan sleeping in the room next to ours. My heart ached for his love. My body craved his touch and warmth. I went into the room, sat gently on the bed, and caressed his hair softly. My fingers stilled midway when a sweet scent hit my nostril.

My nose flared at the realization. It was a woman's scent, and it surely wasn't mine. I knew it wasn't the scent of his mother or sisters or anyone I knew from his tribe. His face was normal as always while he slept. He was my Maayan. He wouldn't do anything wrong. Even if something happened, I would have felt it from our connected souls. I sighed in frustration while stroking his hair. He leaned his head into my touch, and it warmed my heart to see that even his sleepy mind could recognize my touch.

What are you up to, Maayan?

Was he trying to make me believe that he was with another woman?

But why? I knew he would never hurt me.

I sucked in a deep breath as the thought of him visiting Chandran crossed my mind. I thought that dustball had changed for good. But I think he did not. He would be behind whatever sick game this was. I intertwined my fingers with Maayan and teleported us to my bathroom. I made him sit in the bathtub. I wanted to wash off the smell of the other woman on him. He woke up with a yelp, startled when the bathtub started to fill with the warm water. I snapped my fingers to make our clothes disappear, and a fragrant herb paste appeared on the slab. He sucked in a deep breath on seeing me bare before him. I sat on his lap and started applying the mixture to his body. I secretly enjoyed the goosebumps rising on his skin.

He just stayed still with his hands clenched into a fist, making the muscles on his hand hard and tight. Ah! I missed the feel of his skin under my fingers. I scooted closer to rub the mixture on his back, which made my naked body rub against him, and I smirked when I felt a poke in my abdomen. He hissed at the contact, and whatever barrier that had been stopping him broke inside him. He caught my hip and aligned his hot erection with my dripping core to feed his desire and entered me with one hard thrust. My slippery hands hugged his neck when he powerfully made love to my body. Like a stormy rain cooling burning lava, the knots in me untied, and I erupted into a huge, blissful orgasm. My body was in a fervor. It had been a month since I had him in me. He wasn't done yet and continued thrusting gloriously, soothing the ache within us.

I couldn't believe I had let him stay away from me for all those days. I should have jumped on him after a day when he started distancing himself from me. The warm water only increased the sensation. It wasn't new for us to make love in different places. I shakingly managed to pull my head away from the crook of his neck and pressed my lips on his. He groaned and growled in pure primal desire and increased his pace, making my eyes roll back. I pressed my palm onto his shoulder, digging my nails into his perfect skin. The sweet sensation of orgasm quickly aroused within me. My eyes met his, and the dark rubies showed all the desire that he had been hiding these past days.

I caught his hands on my hips and pressed his hip into mine slowing him down from thrusting hard. He gave me a tortured look, understanding that I wanted him to pause, and complied. I pulled away slightly, washed our bodies with the water, and replaced the dirty water with fresh water while still connected with him. He closed his eyes and enjoyed my fingers roaming over his body and moaned with a shiver when I touched his sweet spots. He looked so hot, taking the pleasure I gave him. I leaned forward, kissed his lips passionately, and started moving my hips in a circular motion creating delicious friction between our skin.

His hand came up to my breast, finally showing some mercy to my hardened nipples. He leaned his face down, taking my tight buds in his mouth, and pacifying the ache in my breasts with his kisses and bites. I missed him so much. The emotions were affecting me so much. He caressed my cheek and soothingly whispered to me not to cry. I opened my eyes to see some purple lotuses around us. I smiled and nodded at him while clenching my inner muscles over his hard member, reminding him we still weren't done.

He moaned, and soon one of his hands caressed my tummy and dipped down to my clit. I moaned out his name, and he started rubbing me at the right pace to bring me to an orgasm. He knew all my soft spots and my weaknesses. His lips latched onto my throat, and he bit me softly before taking my breast in his mouth again. I was so close to cumming all over his hardness, but that sweet rascal pulled his hand and mouth away. I opened my eyes and groaned in frustration. He chuckled like his old self and turned me around.

The next second, I was kneeling on all fours, and he started pounding into me hard and fast. I was screaming incoherent words of pleasure and feeling ecstatic. His hand clutched my hair, pulling me up to his body, and his mouth kissed my neck and shoulder in a fervor. His other hand found my clit, and he started rubbing me in fast circles while we relished in the passion we both missed. We screamed and orgasmed together. He sat down in the water, pulling me onto his lap. I was completely shattered and just laid on him.

"That's the passion I missed from you, darling! Wow…Don't listen to Chandran because he would do anything to see me fall. And without you, I will surely fall. And the other woman's scent on you was the worst idea." I said while panting and laughing at his idiotic act. His body stiffened upon hearing me, but he hugged me tighter, and we stayed like that till our breathing and heartbeat normalized. We cleaned ourselves, and he carried me to our bed, and after a long time, I slept peacefully in his arms.

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I woke up with great pain in my heart, and a scream escaped my mouth, which echoed throughout my realm and shook the place like a dangerous earthquake. I writhed and thrashed around on the bed when Kathir, Aadhira, and three other people tried to calm me down. My body felt like it was trapped in the depths of a volcano, and my heart had frozen like an ice glacier. The pain continued to travel through my nerves, and my screams awoke the darkness within me, which was released like a broken dam and covered me to soothe the cruel pain. The darkness that had been holding seventy percent of my powers had been unleashed as the pain was risking my life.

My purple eyes dangerously turned a shade darker, and the crimson blood in my body turned to a color similar to my dark nature. The darkness suppressed the pain, but a part of my soul and heart were missing, giving the darkness an advantage to take over the void. Realization dawned on me, but it was too late and too painful to accept.

My man was gone! He had broken the connection between our souls, causing this unbearable pain in me!

A lot of questions flooded my mind, and my heart wept. But I stopped at one word: Why?

The anger boiling within me was hotter than the highest temperature that Sun had ever known and the pain in my heart was vaster than the universe. My broken soul was trying to understand how her half had left her. The darkness communicated with my soul.

'An evil magic combined with an envious divinity and performed an act of sin—breaking the connection of two loving souls with lies! A God known for justice and integrity didn’t stop the brutal act. A Goddess's half was ripped away to make her weak, to hunt her down and burn her into ashes, erasing all traces of her from the place that she created and cherished!'

Who would dare to do such an act? Did I even need to ask?

I stood up and saw my cowering people who were looking at me, scared and horrified. I realized my unleashed darkness had been dispersing from my body. I watched Kathir inch towards me, checking my patience. Something within me didn't like him standing like that in front of me and forced him to fall to his knees.

He looked up at me with closed eyes and wide-open hands, baring his neck and submitting to me. That dominant part was satisfied!

"Please, Goddess! Calm down…We need you. Command us on what to do. Please don't do anything that you’ll regret later. Don't let the Darkness dominate the Goodness in you!" His tears did something within me. Part of me wanted to listen to him.

I closed my eyes and absorbed the darkness emitting from me and kept it within my control…for now. The restraints were broken, and I needed more time to control the darkness, which would feed off all wrong things. The darkness would grow by consuming the evil things, and it would keep the solar system clean of sins. My darkness had no mercy or sympathy. The humans had been going the wrong way, which would attract my darkness toward them. I needed to focus, at least to keep myself sane for Maayan.

"Search for Maayan! I want him to be here within an hour! Use any powers and go to any place you want. But I WANT HIM HERE IN ONE DAMN HOUR!" The voice of darkness intertwined with mine, showing how powerful it was. The threads of darkness entered the five bodies before me, making their eyes turn black. They nodded in unison and left.

I had to calm down! I should calm down now!

I went to the library and connected instantly with the cosmic. The soothing place felt like a graveyard with dead silence. My spiritual body screamed his name, yearning for the love that man had shown me for eternity. Maybe that's why he left me—he thought he had given me enough. But how could he not realize that I was not a lone soul anymore? That's why I connected my soul to his soul—to show him how much he meant to me! Still, he left me. A part of me knew he had been tricked, despite his sharpness and intelligence, or had been blackmailed into obeying their order. But he could have discussed that with me.

I was going crazy. The ignited blaze wanted to destroy the whole Solar System to find the man for whom my heart beat! I knew this was Chandran’s plan. Maayan had been visiting him recently often. And I didn't trust Aadhavan either. The disease of arrogance and envy had infected him too. The good friend in him died long before.

I opened my eyes in frustration. I couldn't meditate. I felt so helpless. He was everything to me. I couldn't even feel a bit of anger at him for doing this to me. My heart and soul didn't want to think anything negative about him. I just loved him so much. Why did he leave me? I wanted him back. The darkness wanted to be let out to destroy everything that caused me pain.

The five people I sent to search for Maayan walked back in with bowed heads and kneeled before me. The scent of fear emanating from them made me angrier.

"I gave you one simple duty, but you weren't able to do that?" My voice boomed and echoed across the library. The darkness wanted me to punish these inefficient people. I took a step forward, and Kathir spoke urgently.

"We found him, Goddess! But he refused to come with us. He is in Moon's realm right now!"

I halted, taking in the words he said. The darkness licked its lips, wanting to satisfy its hunger with the sinful minds in Moon's realm, and slowly covered my form, giving me the strength to bring my soulmate back.

'Let's show him what we are really made of!' the darkness whispered to my weeping heart, giving me a ray of hope. You will pay, Chandran!

'I am coming for you, Maayan! I won't break our promise, despite the fact that you have broken the connection! You are MINE and ONLY MINE!'