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Before me was a terrace bathed in moonlight — a bed beautifully decorated with flowers, a soft rug beside it, and twinkling fairy lights that looked like stars had descended just for us. He took my hands in his hands and then we moved toward the bed. He sat down, pulled me gently into his lap, and said, "You always wanted to sleep in your future husband's lap under the stars. So here you are — not just in his lap, but above his whole world, my cutie."

Tears welled in my eyes. A dream I had seen since my twenties... was finally real.
I was going to sleep under the open sky, in the safest place I knew — my husband's arms.

And honestly, nothing could've been more perfect for our honeymoon.

I looked at him through my tears, my heart overflowing, and hugged him tightly."Thank you... thank you so much for this gift. I really love it," I whispered.
He smiled — that soft, loving smile that always melts me — and pulled me closer.

As I sat there, adoring the view of the stars above and the serenity around us, a thought struck my mind. I turned to him and asked, "Abhii... I never shared this dream with you. So how did you even know about it?"

He looked at me with utter fondness, the corners of his lips curling up."I have my own ways, wifey," he said, pulling me closer and wrapping the blanket around us both.

But curiosity burned in me, and I frowned playfully. "Say na, from where did you get to know about my dream?"
He smirked, his eyes glinting with mischief.

"Do you really want to know?"
"Yes!" I said, nodding quickly.

He leaned back, his tone turning a little serious yet teasing. "One day, I was working — had a crazy hectic schedule, and I was missing you like hell. I wanted to talk to you, but I didn't want to disturb you either. So, I took out my phone and..."

I leaned in eagerly, eyes wide. "And what?"He chuckled, dragging it intentionally. "And then I opened the camera and mic, and suddenly... I heard you talking to someone."

My brows furrowed. "Whom was I talking to?" He looked at me dramatically and said, "The most, most, most important person in this world. The one without whom I can't live..."

He was exaggerating, and my brain started to spin with confusion, trying to guess every human being and I looked at him and asked " who , say it na " . He looked at me and then he broke into a laugh. "My wife."

I glared at him with narrowed eyes. "Very funny, Abhi."

"What? I just said the truth!" he said, still laughing.But when I didn't stop glaring, he sighed dramatically. "Okay fine, fine! I'll continue the story."

He tucked a loose strand of hair behind my ear and continued, "The days before our honeymoon... I was in my office and I was missing you . So, I thought of checking the tiny camera on your mangalsutra — just to see what you were doing. And then I heard this..."