Redeeming Love by Shikha Mishra (books for men to read .txt) 📗

“Ro. He-he's crying no-nonstop. I fed him mi-milk and after that he st-started crying. I.....I think I fed him wrong." I cry out. I shouldn't have fed him without any knowledge. What if....what if something happens to him?

“This brat is really troubling you. I knew that babies are troublesome." I hear him say which makes me feel like crying more.

Suddenly we hear a burp sound and then following another one. Ro stops crying after burping. I wipe away my tears and remove his head from my shoulder to see his tearful eyes watching me.

“You are such a badboy ro." I comment and flick his nose which makes him giggle. As soon as I hear his beautiful giggle my heart lightens as if a huge weight has been removed. “He stopped crying." I say to vihaan with a small smile.

“Yeah I saw that." he says. He wipes away the tear traces from under my eyes. He pecks my head, then my nose. J move away before he can kiss my lips. His eyes flashes hurt and he doesn't makes an effort to hide it.

I clear my throat and push ro towards vihaan and before he can ask anything I say “Look before him till I clear the mess which you have made in the kitchen." I say with a non-negotiable face.

“I don't want to look after this brat." he replies without an inch of hesitation.

“Vihaan."

“Okay but do it fast. I can't handle him for long." he says with a defeated face as he takes ro from my hand. And as soon as ro goes in his hand his hand flies towards vihaan's cheeks and ro's palm stops on his cheeks. Ro starts laughing after that.

“Okay I will be fast but please....do look after ro." I say and instantly dart towards the kitchen. I start picking the utensils first which are on the floor. Time goes by as I clean the kitchen.

“Finally." I say. I move my eyes all around the kitchen for a final check and it looks perfect, just like before. Just the washing of utensils is remaining. I dump all the utensils in the dishwasher.

With a anticipated heart I make way to the hall. But what I see made me shocked? I had imagined various scenarios while cleaning the kitchen but I never ever expected this scene. Not even in my wildest imagination.

Vihaan is playing with ro. And his not playing halfheartedly or forcefully which I generally expected from him but is playing with ro genuinely. Vihaan throws a sponge ball and ro crawls towards the ball to fetch it for vihaan. This repeats. After sometime I thought to make my presence known as I don't think they even remember me from how much engrossed they are in playing.

“Ahm." I clear my throat. My voice gets surpassed by vihaan's and ro's laugh. So I say loudly “You both are really enjoying each other and here....." Vihaan's head swipes towards mine while ro fetches to get the ball “I thought that you are getting irritated by ro's presence."

“Oh I was. Who told you that I was enjoying with him. That was just me being good. You know you told me to look after him." he scrambles in a very unsuccessful way to convince me that he really was not enjoying it. And I nod my head to let him know that I understand him. I keep a small smile on my face which I guess made him want to change the subject.

So he says “By the way you done with your cleaning?“

“Yeah I am. Just the dirty dishes are in the dishwasher getting washed." I say. I glance towards ro and what I see made my heart flutter. Ro very adorably is seating beside Vihaan's leg with his eyes intact on vihaan. I am afraid that his small head will start paining if he strains it that much so I take him in my arms. All the while his eyes were intact on vihaan.

What did they both do all this time while I was cleaning kitchen?

“Did he troubled you?" I ask. I fail miserably in surpassing the giggle which left my lips after that sentence. “Sorry. I just remembered a joke." I say.

“You are asking me if that br....I mean ro troubled me? Then he sure did. He is very bad baby. Now that you have come take care of him." he replies. And I like that he didn't called him brat. After that vihaan turns away and start making his way towards stairs.

But what I didn't expected was ro pushing himself towards vihaan while babbling some gibberish. Ro's pushes are so strong that I had to walk towards vihaan for ro can fall if I hadn't walked.

“Vihaan." I call him. He turns and when he saw ro pushing himself towards him while mumbling some gibberish his eyes lits up.

“What?" he ask with a fake annoyance.

“I think he wants to go to you." I state.

“But I don't want to take him." he says. Obviously faking it. I am sure he wants him but his denying it because of his ego.

“Okay don't take him but can you atleast sit with us." I say. I am sure if vihaan is infront of ro's eyes, ro will sit quietly.

“Okay." he replies. We both go and sit on the sofa. Ro in my arms.

We trio spent the next hours in talking and playing. Vihaan sometimes pouting when I don't give him enough attention. Ro pouting when vihaan doesn't gives him attention. In all this ro ends up sleeping in my arms. Vihaan puts his head on my shoulder.

“Why are you putting your head on my shoulder?" I whisper to vihaan. He moves making his breath hit my neck and goosebumps rises in my arms. I can feel his lips on the crook of my neck.

“Because I am sleepy." he says with a husky voice which does something to my body.

“Then go and sleep in the......."

“Shhh..... Don't talk I am sleepy." he replies. His lips grazing my neck and his hot breath heating my neck is making my whole body hot. After sometime I hear him mumble.

“I want to spend these type of days everyday."

Does he mean that he like babies? Has his thoughts changed about the baby? Or did he just said that unconsciously? Even if his thought changes would it change anything? Even if his thought changes his love will always be toxic. But maybe...maybe there is........