What Dreams Are Made Of: Episode 53

#EPISODE_53

 

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Chrissy raised her head and looked up to his eyes questioningly.

 

“My heart recognized you. I think even my body knew this much before I understood it. It took me so long because I never believed love could happen to me. I fell for you the first time I saw you outside your old shop. I felt my heart strings pulling me up strangely.”

 

“Really?”

 

“Yes, really! Why do you think I planned this whole thing to propose you here in Regiment Estate, where it all started! ”

 

“You were so rude and mean. You didn’t even wait to listen to me then.”

 

“Yes, because I couldn’t understand what was happening to me? I felt strange. Hell, I thought I had fallen sick! I had to run away from you. But you wouldn’t give up

 

 

so easily. Before I know it I saw you again in my conference room, waiting like a young fairy, my angel sent to save me from this bloody world.”

 

“Is that how you treat an angel? The way you treated me. You kissed me to avoid meeting Susan that day.”

 

“Blame it to my ignorance, sweetheart. I didn’t know any of this then. You were standing there and I knew Susan would step in any moment. I needed to give her the message that I had no interest in having a relationship with her. So I used you to my advantage, quite literally”, he said rubbing his thumb against her lower lip. “But now I know, it was just an excuse. I wanted to feel those lips without having to explain anything to anyone, including myself. So, yeah I thought it to be a wonderful idea then.”

 

Chrissy hit him hard against his chest. “You heartless brute! Do you have any idea what that kiss did to me?

 

“It made you fall in love with me?” Nikloi asked playfully.

 

“I hated you then!”

 

“But you don’t hate me now?”

 

She lowered her eyes instead of replying.

 

“Answer me”, Nikloi urged again.

 

“No, you know. I love you”, Chrissy finally replied, her eyes spilling with her love for Nikloi.

 

“I love you Christina! I love you with all my heart and soul. I love you with every inch and every breath in my body.”

 

With the endearing declaration, his lips came down to her lips and gave her a heart-stopping kiss in which the time stood still.

 

“You know, this is the first time you said those words to me”, Chrissy said shyly when he finally released her lips.

 

 

“Yes, and I’ll never tire of saying them. I love you”, Nikloi said and placed a warm kiss against her pouted lips again

 

“But there is still so much I don’t know, don’t understand.”

 

“Ask me, Darling.”

 

“When did you know you loved me?”

 

“Greedy, are we? You want the details.”

 

“Yes”, Chrissy said basking in the happiness and confidence his love was generating in her.

 

“Hmmm…I realized I was in love with you the night your drink was spiked. I sat there that night watching you suffer. My heart constricted seeing you in pain. That night I knew I could never live on if anything happened to you. I wanted to kill the person who had done that to you and yes, I also wanted to kill Henry that night. Seeing his arms around you, had precipitated my acceptance of my real feelings for you. I could no longer ignore them.”

 

Tears spilling over her cheeks, Chrissy asked, “Why didn’t you ever tell me? Instead you had told me you were not concerned with what I do.”

 

“How could I? I didn’t know how you felt. Though there was this undeniable chemistry every time I was with you but I wasn’t sure if you experienced it too.”

 

Listening him talk about that night triggered an unhappy memory in Chrissy’s mind. She struggled, “You know, I had seen you that night.. with Susan. You were both standing close to each other near the French doors.And you were… kissing her..” It was difficult for her to acknowledge what she had seen back then and even now.

 

“Oh Christina, I was a fool to bring Susan with me for the party but believe me, I never kissed her”, Nikloi said looking earnestly in her eyes. “I tried my best to get out of that party invitation but Aunt Martha was hell bent I came. I had an inkling she was looking forward to some kind of formal arrangeme

 

 

nt between you and Henry that night. So the only way I could safeguard my own stupid heart against the pain expected in that party, I decided to get Susan along. I thought I could ignore you and also hoped I could make you a little jealous, if you had any real feelings towards me.”

 

“Oh you made me jealous that night. The image of two of you together hurt me badly then and so many times in my dreams, much more than it had hurt when Susan had hit me in that secluded house”, she had said with her head bowed.

 

“Christina, my darling, my plan had completely backfired. You were looking angelic, the colour of your dress matching with your eyes and I couldn’t help but turn jealous myself watching you with Henry. With each passing second, I was having a bad time sticking to my plan.”

 

“Susan had got an idea of my intentions and she decided to stick herself more closely with me. During the night she got drunk and was openly throwing herself at me. You must have seen one such attempt.” Chrissy stiffened at his words but Nikloi took hold of her hands softly.

 

“I had wanted to throw her out myself but, stupidly at that time, I had felt responsible for her, considering that I had only got her to the party as my partner. So I was partly to be blamed if she decided there was more to our relationship. But the truth is I never kissed her. I was interested in only one unique girl”, he said stealing a quick kiss on her lips.

 

He continued, “You were like no one I had ever met before. You didn’t cling on to me, didn’t swoon to my commands and though you were afraid of me, you wouldn’t bow down to me so easily. You would question me. When every other girl I met was trying to get in my bed, you were the only one pushing me away. But all this was pulling me further closer to you.”

 

“And while I loved all that about you I didn’t like that this was making me less sure of myself. I wasn’t used to not being confident. I had learned it very early in life that I could not depend on anyone else. Only self-reliant men could be successful and happy. And that is what I made myself into. I was always fully confident of

 

 

what I wanted and when I wanted. So this feeling of uncertainty when around you was too much for me.”

 

“I thought I should move away and let you be. I wanted you to be sure of your feelings too. More importantly, I was worried if I didn’t go, I would not be able to control and will take you against my better judgement. Your innocence, your beauty, your soulful and intoxicating eyes were driving me crazy the whole night. They still do”, he placed two small pecks on both her eyes.

 

In response, Chrissy wrapped both her hands around his body and embraced him tightly.

 

“Now my turn. You said yesterday, you were in love with me since our kiss at Stonehedge. How did you know it was there you had fallen in love with me?” Nikloi asked wanting to know as much as Chrissy did.

 

“Oh I think had been in love with you before that but it was at Stonehedge that I fully accepted my own feelings. When I had not been able to hold myself any longer and had kissed you back”, Chrissy replied softly.

 

“You know you looked irresistibly gorgeous against those stones. And I had been dying to kiss you since that morning when I met you at your Granny’s place. Meeting you at Bath was kind of a sign to me. I thought someone up their wanted us to be together and that’s why we met in the most unexpected places of all. I had spent the entire night awake thinking of being with you again. I couldn’t keep myself away and when your mother mentioned about Stonehenge, I had this full plan made up right there during the tea.”

 

Chrissy looked at him amazed at his words. He had spent the night awake for her.

 

She was not the only one suffering from sleepless nights, she smiled to herself.

 

Nikloi was continuing, “Sarsen stones were the perfect setting to express my desires, to kiss you with all my heart. And my happiness knew no bounds when you kissed me back. As much as I was confident of my skills, I knew your response had more to do with you than me”, Nikloi smiled humbly.

 

“But

 

 

then you had destroyed it all by rejecting me and breaking my heart.” Nikloi shared his deepest emotions, his hurt.

 

Chrissy quickly replied “I am really sorry, I was thoughtless but didn’t know you loved me then. In fact I didn’t understand my own feelings completely. But that kiss had me breaking all my reserves and pushing me off the cliff I had been dearly holding onto. I found myself kissing you back and I realized this was where I would lose myself. I thought you just wanted me physically and once you were through with me you would forget me like all your earlier relationships. Like Susan.”

 

“Don’t talk about her.”

 

“I don’t want to butshe was part of your life and then you moved on. For Susan, it was because of me. She thought the reason you had broken up with her was because you were having an affair with me. And I couldn’t even blame her because that is exactly what she had witnessed in your conference room. Atleast from her perspective”, Chrissy said in a low voice.

 

“I was never in a relationship with Susan. It was more like a business setting to be together.”

 

“But you were about to marry her!”

 

“Yes, but not because I loved her or even had any feelings for her. Susan was always interested in me but I took her as a family friend and a business partner. Her father and I had had a long partnership and they obviously wanted to turn it into stronger relationship but I wasn’t keen. I had been trying to tell this to Susan delicately as I didn’t want it to impact out businesses but she wasn’t getting the message.”

 

“I had finally decided to be more blunt and direct and that’s when you came into the conference room. And the rest, as they say, is history.”

 

“Your history that almost cost my life. Because of the stunt you pulled off in front of her, she was after my life. Mrs Clark’s party, yacht party and then at North Hampton. She was hell bent on killing me one way or the other.”

 

 

“That will always be one of my biggest regrets that I didn’t find out on her earlier. Had I known she was doing this I would have killed her myself”, Nikloi said holding her hands tightly. His knuckles had all turned white.

 

“It’s over, Nikloi. But don’t hate her. What she did was wrong but she was in love with you. She did all this to be with you”, she said taking his face in her hands and caressing his dark hairs off his forehead.

 

“My angel, how can you be so forgiving?” Nikloi asked incredulously sweet.

 

“Don’t get me wrong. This is as much as I will ever understand. But if she or anybody tries to get close to what’s mine, they will pay for it dearly”, Chrissy said pulling him close to her lips, as if to place a seal of her ownership. Sucking his lips softly, she said,

 

“The same goes for you too. If you even thought of getting close to someone..”

 

“Not on my death bed”, he said, pulling her back to cover her mouth in another heated exchange of kisses where their tongues seem to be promising each other of their never-ending love.

 

 

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