Rich Brat: Sweet Revenge Of A Lazy Princess - Chapter 409

“Does this mean it’s a yes?” Shreya asked suddenly without context.

They had just come from Akash’s engagement. Charan went for a shower first. Unknowingly Shreya actually reached her bookshelf and took a look at the ring she had bought… at least, that was her original intent. She did not know why but seeing Akash’s engagement party and seeing happily grinning all day long, she suddenly thought of herself… how things would be if she got married too.

She did not want anything this extravagant. But that status as a wife to someone… that solidification of the relationship legally… She was curious how it would be. But she was also scared… so, she did not dare to show Charan the ring till now. But seeing Akash happily announce to the world… the way he yelled, ‘She said yes…’ Shreya felt complicated.

In front of such a joy, her own fear somehow felt meaningless.

But her eyes couldn’t help widen when she saw that the box did not have the ring she had bought for Charan but instead had a lady’s ring in its place. It took her a minute to even comprehend and understand what was going on.

Just then, Charan also came out of the shower in his PJs. So, Shreya just unconsciously blurted out, “Does this mean it’s a yes?”

“What are you talking about?” Charan asked confused. After all, his face was still covered in a towel as he dried his head. But he pulled the towel down and looked up at Shreya when he heard her and as soon as he saw her looking at the box with dazed eyes, he understood what she was talking about.

Charan did not answer her instantly. He discarded the towel on the bed and approached her. He came to stand in front of her and looked down at her. Her eyes were still very unfocused when they were staring at the ring he had bought for her.

He quickly lifted her up and sat her down on the side of her table. The table was actually pretty empty for some reason today.

Shreya couldn’t help run her index fingers across the ring… cold metal came in contact when her skin but somehow it spread warmth in her heart because she knew they were real and not her delusion.

Charan quickly got the ring she had bought for him and dangled it in front of her as he asked, “What about you? What did you mean when you bought this ring?” He asked very softly. His breath brushed against her cheeks…

There was practically no distance between them. Shreya sat over the table with her legs wide open and Charan stood very close to her.

So, when Shreya lifted her head up, their faces were just inches apart. Shreya couldn’t help blush when she saw Charan trace the words she had inscribed on the insides of the ring.

“I… I…” Shreya stammered but she did not know what to say.

“Does that mean ‘yes’?” Charan asked looking into her eyes.

Charan knew even when she wanted to there was something holding her back or else Shreya was not a person who holds back for anything. Just the fact that she never showed him the ring told him that she was still contemplating something. And they wouldn’t be able to go anywhere without knowing what it was.

“When did you buy it? Why did you not give it to me?” Charan asked again.

“I just did not know if I should…!” Shreya mumbled looking defeated.

“What do you mean?” Charan asked confused.

“Because when I give you the ring, it would mean I would no longer be just your girlfriend but also a ‘wife’ and even if it is not a mother, I would also be a guardian to Akira!!” Shreya said without explaining more.

“And you are afraid of the commitment?” Charan asked. This was probably the only time he ever had to actually ask for an explanation from Shreya in all the time they had known each other. And the only time Shreya seemed to be actually holding back… But Charan did not mind. He just looked at her patiently as Shreya shook her head.

But the initial shaking stopped under his constant staring and turned into nodding very slowly. But before Charan could say anything, Shreya actually said in a low mosquito-like voice, “But that is not all…”

“Then what else?” Charan asked. He was fully calm as he tried to decipher where she was going with all this. But this calmness also came from actually understanding her completely. And he was also mȧturė enough by now to not ȧssume anything.

He did not want to think that Shreya was holding back because she was not sure about them because he knew she was… and so was he. He knew they have reached the point in their relationship where they did not want to imagine a future without each other in their lives. It hurt to just imagine something like that. It felt suffocating to think about the possibility of not having Shreya with him because of any reason at all.

The reason why he had not asked her yet was mainly that they did not have a peaceful time from the time he actually bought it. And he wanted to ask her when she was actually free of all her worries and stress and it happened for only a few weeks now.

But he could see the Shreya had been holding on to the ring for a while now. Shreya must have bought the ring well before her accident and everything that came along with it. So, she had plenty of opportunities for him to give him…

So, why? What was she holding back…? He cannot figure it out…