warning:cheating,forbidden sex

The air in the dimly lit bedroom was thick with a suffocating tension, the silence broken only by the occasional creaking of the old, four-poster bed as Shivaay shifted his weight. Anika lay stiffly beside him, her eyes fixed on the shadows dancing across the ceiling, each one cast by the flickering candlelight from the adjoining room where his wife, Priya, sat watching their reluctant coupling with a mixture of longing and despair.