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She was still laying there, hugging him tightly, not minding his weight crushing her but then Adhiraj patted her head and called her, "Raina!"
She didn't respond for few seconds but then hummed lightly.
"Get up."
She didn't moved an inch, just continued to cling to him with her eyes closed as if she was trying to catch on the last ruins of her dreams.
He sighed and rested his head on the crook of her neck and said while inhaling her scent, "I really don't mind it but someone is knocking on the door relentlessly."
And that did the job. Raina immediately sprang on her feet, pushing him away, as soon as her mind registered his words and the sound of knock over the door.
The door was not locked!
And they were in the seating area, not even the bedroom, leaving only a door between them and the person standing behind it.
She was stumbling towards the bedroom when he held her elbow. She looked back and asked hurriedly, "What?"
"You are forgetting your file.", he handed the black folder out for her.
She grasped it but he didn't let go of his hold.
Instead his eyes travelled to her face, her disheveled hair, her puffed up lips.
And then down to the curves of her neck. Further more down to whatever the undone button may allow him to see, the neck, few pale red marks, including her cleavage and a glimpse of a black lacy fabric.
"What are you looking at?", Raina frowned and looked down where his gaze was settled. She gasped and tried to put together the sides of her satin top.
He let go of the file and leaned back on the sofa.
"Everything is perfect."
His statement made her eyes narrow.
He bit back the smirk and said in a very smug tone, "In the file. The contract, the clauses. Everything is perfect."
Raina felt the heat of shame and irritation swirling in her chest. Keeping anything and everything aside, she just wanted to smack his head with the back of that file.
But then another knock put a coma at her violent thoughts. She jogged to the bedroom after sending last glare at him.
Adhiraj leaned back on the sofa and shouted, "Come in."
A staff entered and greeted him with a head nod before informing him, "Rani sa and Rana sa have come back, they are calling you and Bai sa in the hall."
Adhiraj dismissed him after after letting him know that they will be there in a while.
He heard some shuffling sounds from his bedroom and then the bathroom door closing with a bang.
Hmmmm!
Was it sadistic to see someone just so nervous and awkward because of you? If it was then he would not mind accepting the title of sadist.
Just for this moment, just once.
While in the ensuite, Raina was having a full blown existential crisis over the recent happenings where she was questioning her life decisions.
For first few minutes, she could not look towards her own reflection in mirror.
She sat over the flat edge of bath tub and took some deep breaths so that she could kick off the unsettling feeling.
After thinking something, she took out her phone from the back pocket of her pants and realised that how the phone was there whole time , digging into her muscles of her butt. It would be shame to say that she did not feel any pain untill she thought of her phone.
She typed in the search bar of google:-
How to face everyone after having your first kiss?
The AI had it's own mind or algorithm, whatever suits your tongue. Rather than showing the results of what she asked for? It showed the results on 'How to make your first kiss memorable' Or 'How to kiss properly'.
Raina locked the phone that instant with a reflex faster than light.
"Look if you don't have answer to my problems, just say it.", she hissed out at the black screen of her phone.
She thought again, going through her life decisions again, some scenes playing in her mind again.
Breaking that cycle, she got rid of her formals and put on the simple top and pants.
With a deep breath she decided to go out of the ensuite with towel in one hand , the phone and her file in another because earlier she brought them inside the bathroom in rush.
After making her presentable she went towards the office to place her file at its respective place, completely disregarding her husband in the seating area.
She was just locking the cabinet after placing her file with other important ones when she heard him, "Raina, Baba sa and Maa sa are back. Let's go."
She felt a fine sheen of sweat covering her forehead as she exited the office room and stood in front of him.
He didn't said anything just gestured her to leave the room first, which she did.
They were walking through one corridor when he finally said it while throwing her a look, "That was just a kiss, you know."
She cleared her throat and corrected him,"My first kiss."
Her eyes still not meeting him.
"So?", he asked in a teasing tone.
"So it's awkward.",she shrugged.
"What is awkward in that? It is not something immoral or illegal."
Raina gritted her teeth.
Why is it not making sense to him?
"I just dont understand.", he said in a very exasperated way.
Raina snapped at him, "What you don't understand? Just remember the moment when you had your first kiss. Weren't you shy or at least a bit awkward? Or were you a rock as usual."
Adhiraj let out a very amusing sound from his throat, "As far as I can see, I am perfectly fine. I am neither awkward nor uneasy. "
"You are not from this planet.", she huffed.
Something caught her attention, something hidden amidst his sentences and words.
She looked at him with wide eyes, momentarily stopping in the middle.
"Now what?", he asked her in a bored sigh.
"Nothing.", she quipped.
"Hukum sa!"
"Was this your first too?", she asked meekly, peeking through her lashes.
"What?"
"Ki-", she stopped as soon as she saw a female staff passing through them.
They walked further but his expressions were rigid whereas his posture stiff.
She noticed that but she continued to poke him.
"You have never been in relationship?"
"Never been with any girl?"
He nodded in negative.
"In England, in your university?"
"Were not this women flocking around you?", she made few signs of blooming flowers with her hands in a very funny way.
He gripped her forearm and pulled her close. Leaning down to her ear level, he asked very slowly, "Do you take me as a womanizer?"
Raina shook her head vigorously,"No! I was just-"
"Stereotyping.", he completed for her, pulling away.
Even then she couldn't help the smile present on her face.
"The same awkwardness I was feeling a while ago.", Raina pointed out with a smirk.
"Revenge is sweet, isn't it?", he cocked an eyebrow.
"Oh! So much.", she giggled wrapping her hands around his forearm.
A short update, because it was so tough to write after months.
It was like I am an introvert and I was made to recite a poem in front of whole class. I was having issues while describing it.
We have so much to know in the story and we are already in the chapter 16😭🤧
Target-700.
See you soon❤