A Chance

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Rishi POV

She was perfect in every way, today was perfect. The way she felt around me, her mouth. I have to stop thinking about it. But how could I. She trusted me gave herself to me. True we didn’t have s*x but for her that was a big thing and she trusted me.

If she ever finds out the truth she will hate me, if she wasn’t so perfect this would have been easy. If I wasn’t falling for her this would have been easy. Maybe just maybe this might work out better than I planned. I looked down at the sleeping girl next to me and I wished that she would never find out the truth.

Rosie POV

I woke up happy, Rishi was snoring softly I leaned over kissing his cheek. I slipped out of bed and brushed my teeth. I grabbed Rishi’s t-shirt and threw it on.

I cleaned up from last night making sure everything was tidy. I checked my phone looking at all the pictures people sent me from yesterday. I smiled at the pictures of me and Rishi.

“What are you smiling at?” Rishi’s voice startled me, he came behind me and kissed the top of my head.

“Just some pictures of us yesterday” I showed him the picture of me feeding him cake. He smiled walking into the kitchen.

I sat on the counter swinging my legs as he fed me some cake.

“I loved the cake, thank you so much” he fed me another spoon and it dropped on my chest.

“You did that on purpose” I rolled my eyes, I went to wipe it with my finger but he grabbed my hand.

“I got it” he smirked, his lips collecting the cake on my chest, I giggled at the feeling and he smirked. “Last night was perfect. I can’t wait to marry you” I smiled blushing at the memories.

The next two weeks passed by quickly, I was busy with work and going shopping for the wedding. Today was our engagement party. I hadn’t seen Rishi in a week. We hadn’t talked much because he was busy at court in London and I was busy at work myself. I missed him a lot.

I was wearing a simple pink lengha with a heavy chuni.

I got to the Venue and Rishi and his parents were outside. Rishi walked over to the car and opened the door. He smiled when he saw me and I couldn’t help but smile back.

“Long time no see beautiful” he planted a quick kiss on my head and I said hello to his parents. We walked inside and stood by the door waiting for all the guests to arrive. One by one I was introduced to all of Rishi’s family and he was introduced to mine.

Rishi POV

I couldn’t take my eyes off her, after weeks of not seeing her my eyes were impatient. As soon as the car stopped I opened the door. I was grinning at her and she smiled back at me. I kissed her on the head wishing I could kiss her like my life depended on it. But I couldn’t.

This week away from her has made realise I should tell her the truth. That maybe just maybe she will trust me, forgive me and still marry me.

Rosie POV

The guests all arrived and the ceremony started, Rishi and I were sat on the stage the priest blessing us. My parents and the boys in my family gave Rishi gifts and my parents gave him a gold chain. The priest said a few words, then it was my turn. Rishi’s parents and his sister in laws gave me gifts, gold chain, jewellery, eyeliner and a red chuni which I wore.  After all of the formalities were done everyone ate and danced.

Rishi and I headed out into the garden to take some pictures. We walked back into the hall to the VIP room.

“We need to talk tonight, will you come back to mine tonight” he pecked my lips softly.

“Talk about what, is everything ok” I was worried was he getting cold feet.

“Everything is fine I just miss you”

“Hello, hope I’m not interrupting” a man in the doorway spoke

“Cole? Rosie this is the owner of the firm I work at. Cole this is my fiancé Rosie” I shook his hand and he smiled at me.

“It’s lovely to meet you” he smiled at me, I glanced at Rishi and he looked tense.

“I’m sorry I can’t stay long I just wanted to drop by and congratulate you and thank you for the work the past two weeks you have worked so hard. You have a good man here, I have high hopes for him” Cole smiled and walked away.

We walked back into the hall Rishi excused himself and I watched him walked outside. Mom called me over but something was telling me something was wrong.

Rishi POV

I walked out quickly to meet up with Cole

“What are you doing here?” I asked him

“I’m lucky I walked in when I did, if you tell her the truth she won’t marry you and there goes the biggest break of your entire career. You have worked so hard for months, if you truly have feelings for that’s fine you can stay together, but remember this was only supposed to be temporary”

“I know it was a momentary lapse in judgement it won’t happen again” Cole walked away and I walked back inside feeling worse than before.