Finally we are at our destination. I slept during the entire duration of our flight. We are currently on our way to the hotel. Adi told me we will reach in a few minutes.

Anyways I'm enjoying the drive. Mauritius is really beautiful. It is so green, peaceful and the landscapes are simply beautiful. I love this place already. Soon we reach our hotel. The staff takes our luggage while I'm busy looking in awe at our home of next week. Adi got a suite for us which has a lovely view of the sea and the beach. The hotel even has their own private beach. Isn't that amazing!

'Do you like it?',he asks. 'I love it. Just what I wanted my honeymoon suite to be',I reply with a smile. 'Well I'm happy to see you happy',says Adi sweetly.

After resting for few hours we go to explore the beach. Adi is holding my hand with our fingers intertwined. It feels so intimate - walking on a beach, hand in hand, just the two of us. I breathe in deeply the warm feeling of the beach. I turn to face Adi and see that he is already looking at me. 'What are you looking at?', I ask him.

'You are beautiful. It feels right to be here with you', he replies. 'I feel the same. I have waited my entire life to live such a moment. Me walking on a beach, lazily, with my significant other. It is surreal', I say smiling at him.

Adi spreads a sheet near the sea on the beach and we both lie down to do some star gazing. The waves are crashing against our feet and we are holding hands enjoying the peace that nature offered us. We did find some constellations and made some on our own. I realised that Adi had no knowledge regarding it. He seemed mesmerized by the night sky as if looking at it for the first time. When I enquired about it he said,'Well I never really noticed them like this, until today. What about you?'.'I love the moon and the stars. I would daily spend time at night finding the constellations with my father during the summer vacations. I have many beautiful memories with the night sky. When I grew up, they would be my friends, consoling me and giving me hope that one day I will find a companion as reliable as them who would be with me every night, all my life. Didn't you have anyone to share your deepest thoughts with?'.

Adi looks at me and says,' I never really had anyone to share my thoughts with. To be honest I never felt the need for it'. 'Don't you have friends?', I enquire. 'I do but I'm close to only one, my friend Jai and that also because he happened to be there with me at an important point in my life. But even then, I wasn't a person who would have heart to heart talks. I'm a loner and a practical person. I don't believe in wasting time in idle chats', he says with an unexpressed loneliness on his face.

I turn towards him and gently caress his cheek and say,' Talking about what is in your heart and sharing your feelings with someone is not wasting time. It makes your feelings real and makes you feel more human. It gives you an intimacy with the person with whom you share your feelings with. That kind of intimacy is heart warming. It makes you feel safe and at peace, as you know there is someone who knows and understands what is going inside your heart and mind. It lessens your burden as you know there is someone who is always there sharing your burden'.

With that Adi slightly turns his head away from me. I continue saying,' I don't know why you married me. I know you don't believe in love and I don't know what led you to that belief. But believe me when I say that I truly do love you. I have no explanation for it but I just do. For me marriage is a sacred bond, sacred because in this two people spend their entire lives together sharing their joys and sorrows and being each other's constant support. For me there is no relationship more intimate than between a man and his wife. They know how to comfort the other. They know what makes the other happy, even the minute things which the person himself doesn't know. They grow together, deal with life together. They spend their lives together getting to know each other and themselves better, each day, till the day they are separated by death. Such a partnership, such a bond is sacred to me and is something which I want us to have. I know you don't like to be open about what you feel and I'm not going to push you, but know this, I am always here for you and I'm never leaving. I won't leave you until death do us apart. That is my promise to you', I end our talk by placing a tender kiss on his cheek.

After that I leave to go back to our room, giving him time to think about what I said. I meant every single word that I said. I want intimacy with him. The kind I described to him. I need him to understand that this is what I need and want. I know he is alone but not anymore. I will make sure that he never feels alone again.