A Silent Vow

The lights were dim, the city hushed under its night sky, but inside their small world, everything felt alive — like something had shifted… something sacred.

Poornima lay in bed, the cotton sheets gently rustling beneath her. She turned her head slightly to the right — and there he was.

Veeresh.

Sleeping peacefully.

His arm was firmly wrapped around her waist, his body half-draped over hers like he couldn’t bear any space between them. His head rested near her shoulder, breath warm and steady against her skin.

She looked at him… and smiled.

Not the polite smile she wore for the world.

But a soft, surrendered smile — the kind that only came when your heart finally rested in a place it knew was safe.

Her eyes fluttered down to his hand — the same hand that had once gripped her with irritation, tension, frustration…

Now, that same hand held her like a promise.

> “He’s intense,” she thought, eyes drinking in the curves of his sleeping face. “Raw. Obsessive. But never controlling. Never cruel. Just... honest. Honest in the way he wants me. Loves me.”

She had always dreamed of a man like that — not perfect, not poetic, but someone who would burn for her, protect her, worship her without needing flowery words.

Veeresh was that fire.

And slowly, unknowingly, she had let that fire warm her frozen heart.

> “In my heart, I always wanted a love like this…” she admitted silently. “Not the sweet, safe kind. But this — where he holds me like I’m the only reason he breathes.”

She looked at his face again, peaceful… almost childlike in sleep.

> “I will never leave you, Veeresh,” her heart whispered. “I will love you... stay by your side... and even when your weight suffocates me — I will bear it. Gladly.”

She gently brushed a strand of his hair off his forehead, careful not to wake him.

Then she closed her eyes, her smile still there, and melted into his hold — her heart finally still, finally home.

And for the first time since their marriage — Poornima slept without tension.

No anger.

No distance.

Only him.

Only them.