Chapter 271 - And whose fault is that?

Charan, at last, finished saying in detail what had happened in the past two days…

It was pretty late at night… they were at Shreya's apartment. Given the circ.u.mstances, none of them wanted to be away. And anyway, he still had two weeks of his leave pending…

It took everything in Charan to just pull Shreya out of Akira's room as she slept. Shreya had barely trailed her eyes away from Akira all day long. He coaxed Shreya like coaxing a baby to get his toy car away from him… and he also felt it probably would have been easier to do that than to bring Shreya away from Akira at some point in time today.

And as soon as they came back to her room and her mind started working, the first thing she asked was what happened. After all, Shreya was attached to them like glue all day long without really getting any opportunity to inspect and keep herself informed of what had happened on the island in the last few days.

Charan gave her a detailed report of what had happened to his knowledge…

"What did your parents say? Where they scared?" Shreya asked tentatively. After all, no parents are going to like their children put in the path of danger…

Charan just shook his head and said, "I never told them anything… I just said a storm is coming the way of the island and we can't stay there any longer and the power cut was a technical difficulty because of it… they did not suspect much but I am not so sure now… after seeing your reaction at the airport, they are bound to be suspicious… But knowing them, they are going to let me get away with the lie." Charan answered leaning back against the headboard.

For once, he actually observed Shreya… she had lost a lot of weight in the past few months and she was back to having very deep dark circles around her eyes…

He could already guess what had happened in the past few months they were separated.

"Come here…" Charan asked softly opening her arms toward Shreya who was deeply immersed in her own head.

Shreya looked up when she heard Charan and her eyes met with his warm ones… for a second she just stared back at him before dashing over and crashing in his embrace…

In all the anxiety, she completely forgot that they were together after such a long time… She had been so worried about their safety that she never got the chance to just think about Charan and herself and their relationship… and how they were back with each other all over again after not seeing each other for a little less than half a year…

"I missed you…" Charan mumbled over her hairs and rubbed his hands over her back as he held her against him tightly…

"Let's not do this again okay… being away sucked… big time." He said again after a pause.

Shreya did not reply but pulled away from Charan and looked into his eyes intently… seeing the warmth in them… she really wondered how she survived without looking into them all these days… it did not seem possible… It felt as if it had not been her who had been breathing and moving all these past months.

Her eyes darted over his face eagerly… and she missed each and every inch of them to hell and back…

"Are you just going to keep staring at my face like that all night?" Charan asked smirking… His own emotions have settled down as soon as he saw Shreya… and even though he knew Shreya had been scared shitless in these past two days, he couldn't really help himself from being slightly grateful that it happened because invariably those events led to her being here in front of him where he can reach out and touch her… and that is all he ever wanted.

Shreya, on the other hand, did not really react for the full two minutes… she just stared at his face without blinking as if she never really heard what CHaran had just said.

Just when Charan was about to shake her awake, Shreya leaned over and bit on his cheeks as she always did… her teeth dug into his skin without much mercy leaving behind her mark very proudly.

Charan winced at first but did not really push her away… he just smiled. He never thought he would actually miss being bitten… but he did.

He beamed as Shreya let him go and buried her face in the crooks of his neck and muttered, "I missed you too… more than you would ever know… even though I once mocked the line, I really don't know how to live without you. It did not feel as if I am alive without you guys… I just…" She stopped talking without knowing how to continue after that.

"And whose fault is that?" Charan asked sulking… He pouted making a funny face. He knew this was not the time but he still held a grudge for this point.

Shreya pulled away and looked at him and she was speechless.

After all, the whole reason she had forced them to be apart was to keep them safe… and that she did not want to put them in harm's way because of her… and yet… in the end, what she feared had happened anyways. They were put in danger because of her. So, what was the point of them being apart from each other in the past months… it did not serve any purpose except for giving them heartache.

But more than that, if she had not let them separate and kept them close to her… this whole ordeal wouldn't have happened. They wouldn't have been on some island in the middle of nowhere with no way to defend themselves.

Her emotions reeled leaps and bound as she thought of all this… She started rambling unconsciously,

"I'm sorry, Charan… I just… I just thought… I never thought things would get to this point invariably in the end… I never should have let it get this far… I never should… I should have been more careful. But somehow things just seemed to have gotten out of my control without me realizing it… I am really sorry. If something had happened to you guys… I really don't know what I would have done… I just…"Find authorized novels in , faster updates, better experience, Please click <a href="#%!d(string=15043105205573105)/and-whose-fault-is-that_%!d(string=51489155745639448)">#%!d(string=15043105205573105)/and-whose-fault-is-that_%!d(string=51489155745639448)</a> for visiting.

Her voice broke and she choked involuntarily not knowing how to continue.

Guilt and pain-wracked through her with just the thought of what could have happened if only Mary hadn't chanced on the conversation…

Charan just gathered her impossibly closer and consoled her gently…

"Hey… we are here now, aren't we? We are safe… And we are not going to go anywhere any time soon."