Meri Rooh♡

47. Protective Jay

RUHANI'S POV

"Something happened right..? Please Don't hide anything for me Rooh.."

Those eyes,
Those two shiny diamonds looking my way with immense love and concern preserved only for me, how could I ever lie to them? Won't I prefer to burn down alive than lying to those pure innocent eyes who want nothing but my happiness? Hell yes I would. I let out sigh feeling torned between having to lie to Jay or tell him the bitter truth..

How do I tell him about the cheap comments my own father threw regarding his deceased mother, my tongue doesn't allow me to repeat those cursed allegations on my jay and his mother. I let out a sigh and lowered my gaze unable to gather the courage to lie while looking into his eyes. Jay cupped my face softly and spoke while caressing my cheeks with his thumb.

"Jaan...what's troubling you please tell me?"

I almost open my mouth to reveal what's troubling my brain, at his convincing tone but stooped myself midway. A lie that heals is better than a truth that tears apart oneself right? 'I am sorry jay', I repeated in my head and looked down at my fidgeting fingers before speaking.

"Nothing unusual, my father and I got into a fight."

"For what?"

He asked and made me look back at him by my chin as his eyes observed my face carefully. I crashed my eyebrows and bite my inner lower lip before muttering out.

"He found out about us from a news article regarding that dance contest and got mad asking why I didn't tell him sooner."

I looked up to see his reaction at my statement but he stood there looking almost blank as if he never expected this to happen, well neither did I. I held his hands in mine which were placed on my cheeks, before whispering.

"Say something jay."

"Did he shout at you Rooh?"

He suddenly asked looking me dead in the eyes, for a second it felt like I could see a flame burning behind his eyes. I stood there silent for a few seconds not knowing what to answer. His hands moved from my cheeks to my waist as he pulled closer, I could feel his warm fierce breath fanning over my lips. I held his forearms at the sudden pull, feeling flustered yet nervous not for me but for my father, if Jay gets to know what actually happened.

He tucked a strand of my hair behind my ear and held my head from behind before connecting our foreheads together. I closed my eyes involuntarily and leaned in closer into his comforting touch. Tightening his hold on my waist, he repeated his question again; This time emphasising on each word but kept his voice down.

"Did he shout at you Rooh?"

God! How lovingly he called out my name, the way he asked that question made me want to hide myself in his embrace and rant out all about how my father shouted and disrespected me, how his negligence towards my feelings caused wounds to my heart but I wasn't ready for what will happen after that.

Jay won't leave him and my father would fight back. As much as I hate myself for it, I can't help but still have a soft corner for my father despite his deeds, just like my mother even though I always blamed her for this, I couldn't help but be like her in these times. I was her daughter after all...

I smiled sadly and held Jay's cheek, making him look at me with a worried look. I knew he could see right through me, read me like a open book. I promised myself that I won't be like mother, I won't hide my father's wrong doings just because we share the same blood; So I nodded with a heavy heart. I could feel his Jaw tightening, at my answer.