Rishabala One Shot Story Collections I

Forced Marriage 1 - Kuch Kuch Hota Hai

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Previous Story : Anchor (Posted on 20-May-2022)

This is an experiment story. I've never written on sexual tension, so I wanted to try that. don't know how it is going to be. So, if it is a big flop, then please forgive 😊

Too much Imlie influence, so this is a forced marriage story. got one more idea on forced marriage, so making this a series.

"That's it. you can go." Rishabh says as he turned his attention to his laptop.

"Erm... sir?" Madhu hesitantly starts.

Rishabh curiously looks up. "Yeah? Is there anything else?"

"Ria is rejoining tomorrow." Madhu tells him.

Rishabh nods. "Mukund informed me. but it's okay. you can continue as my executive assistant. Ria will assist the marketing manager."

"Sir, I was thinking..." Madhu nervously says.

"What?" Rishabh asks with a curious frown.

"I was doing online course in BA in marketing. Last month I cleared all my exams. While I was assisting Sultan I used to help out in the marketing department. I'm familiar with the work. So, if you would.... Erm.... If I can work in marketing..."

Rishabh frowns in absolute confusion hearing that. "You want to go back to assisting the marketing manager instead of me?"

"No... not as a PA... I want to work in marketing." Madhu quickly clarifies.

Rishabh thoughtfully looks at her. "Madhu, I'm very happy with your work. You are very efficient and you keep my work smooth. Better than all other assistants I have had so far. So, if it is a raise that you are looking for..."

"No, sir... it is not the money. I want to work in marketing." Madhu cuts him off. "I was doing this job so that I could finish my course. you can check with Sultan, sir. I've helped out the marketing team before. I want to pursue that as my field."

Rishabh thoughtfully sighs. "Okay, let me think about it."

"Thank you, sir." Madhu tells him smiling.

Rishabh nods then frowning he asks. "Is there an opening in marketing? I wasn't aware of it."

"No, there isn't."

"Hmmm... so let's see when an opening comes up." Rishabh tells her.

"Okay, sir." Madhu says smiling.

"Till then you continue in your current post." Rishabh tells her.

"Sure, sir." Madhu says happily.

**********

Madhu was working when she feels someone standing near her, curious she looks up and sees Ria standing there.

"Hi Ria, how are you?" Madhu asks her with a smile.

"How can I be when you stole my post?" Ria asks her angrily.

Madhu's smile drops. Ria had been assisting Rishabh when she had met with an accident and Madhu who had been assisting the marketing manager was transferred to assist Rishabh in the interim.

"I want to see Rishabh." Ria tells her.

Rishabh ran an informal and friendly business environment. Everyone was addressed on first name basis. Somehow Madhu felt uncomfortable calling her boss by his name and had stuck to calling him 'Sir'.

"Should I just walk in?" Ria asks her.

Madhu takes her phone and calls Rishabh.

"Yes?"

"Sir, Ria is here to see you."

"Send her in." Rishabh replies.

"You can go in." Madhu tells her as she put the phone down.

Ria glaring at her, turns and walks into Rishabh's room.

Few minutes later, Madhu sees Ria walking off pissed. Madhu sighs. She wondered whether she should tell her that it was temporary and that once marketing department gets an opening then she will hopefully be transferred there, then she decided against it.

Madhu walks into Rishabh's room after he called her.

"Yes, sir?"

Rishabh looks up at her. "Ria wanted to come back to assist me. I told her that you would be assisting me."

Madhu nods.

"Since you said you wanted to shift to marketing, do you want to assist Sultan till we have an opening or you prefer to continue assisting me?" Rishabh asks her.

Madhu thoughtfully looks at him. she wasn't very excited about working with Sultan and she has been more comfortable working with Rishabh. Sultan was very unreasonable while as long as she did her work properly Rishabh didn't create any issues.

"What do you prefer?" Madhu asks him back.

"I told you already." Rishabh replies frowning. "I prefer you continue at your current post."

"Even I prefer that." Madhu replies to him, feeling a little relieved.

Rishabh nods. "Just wanted to be sure. You can go."

Madhu was about to leave when she turns back and informs him. "Sir, I'll be leaving early today. Is there anything that you want me to do before I leave?"

"No... all okay?"

"Have to go with my mother somewhere before we leave. I'll meet you at the railway station." Madhu tells him.

"Okay."

*********

Carrying her overnight bag, Madhu walks through the platform to board her train. she stops in front of the compartment and looks for their names on the chart. Confirming their names and seats, Madhu gets on the train.

Hearing her walk in, Rishabh looks up from his laptop. Madhu politely smiles at him and he nods at her.

Madhu keeps her bag under the berth while Rishabh continued to work on his laptop. Madhu sits opposite to Rishabh near the window and looks out. They remained silent while he worked and she just looked at the sights.

A while later, bored Madhu looks at Rishabh and sees him dozing with his head resting on the window. She really respected him a lot. He was so hardworking. Their company was his brain child, his start up. It's been three years and the company was growing and making a name for itself but they were still not that well established. They had 18 people in total working in their company. And due to constant meetings with finding investors and vendors, she has to travel with him some times.

"Hello..."

Hearing that, Madhu turns to look at her side and sees a man sitting there smiling at her.

"Yes?" Madhu asks him.

"I'm Abhay." The stranger tells her smiling.

Madhu nods and then she opens her bag and takes out the book she had brought with her. she opens it and starts reading.

"What's your name?" he asks her.

Irately, Madhu looks at him. "I'm busy."

"Oh sorry... please carry on." Abhay says contrite.

Madhu turns her attention back to her book.

The train stops at a station and that man gets up and leaves. Madhu sighs in relief, she had got major creep vibes from him.

She was reading when she hears him come back and sit down. Madhu doesn't bother to look at him. the train starts moving again.

"So, are you travelling alone, Madhu?"

Hearing the question, Madhu turns to him in shock, her heart skipping a beat in fear. "How do you know my name?"

He smiles at her. "It was there on the chart."

Madhu sighs in relief though her aversion to the man increasing considerably.

Seeing the creepy smile on him, Madhu gets up. "I'm not travelling alone." Madhu tells him.

Madhu moves forward and softly calls Rishabh. "Sir... Sir..."

Frowning, Rishabh wakes up. "Yeah?" Rishabh asks yawning.

"Can you move a little to the side?" Madhu asks him.

Frowning in confusion, Rishabh slides to the middle of the berth. Madhu sits next to him near the window.

Confused Rishabh looks around and sees the man looking at Madhu. "Is there a problem?" Rishabh asks Madhu.

"No." Madhu replies shaking her as she looked at the man. "The light is better here."

Rishabh nods though he turns to the man and suspiciously looks at him. he gets up and leaves immediately.

"Sorry, sir.... He was just trying to talk to me." Madhu tells him.

Rishabh nods. "You sit here only."

Madhu nods and gets back to reading her book while Rishabh leans his head back and sleep.

*******

Hearing a sound, Rishabh wakes up and sees Madhu taking out her food to eat. Sleepily Rishabh sits up.

Noticing him waking up, Madhu offers him her food.

"Didn't you order my food?" Rishabh asks her confused.

"I did. It will be another hour when they deliver it." Madhu tells him.

"I'll have that." Rishabh tells her.

"Take some, sir." Madhu insists.

Rishabh looks at her food and looks at her. "On one condition."

"What?" Madhu asks him.

"You'll stop calling me sir."

"But you're my boss." Madhu tells him surprised.

"Everyone else calls me by my name. it feels weird. I am not very into that 'boss-sir' culture." Rishabh tells her. "And I am not really a boss. Maybe when I become a rich and powerful businessman, you call me Sir." Rishabh tells her grinning.

Madhu smiles hearing him, first time he was talking like that and she asks him back. "What makes you think that I would still be working for you then? Maybe I would be running my own business then."

Rishabh looks at her surprised. "Are you planning to start your own business?"

"Not really." Madhu tells him sighing. "I am not that hard working."

Rishabh chuckles hearing that. "I feel you are a very dedicated and hard working person."

"Thank you." Madhu says as she extended her dinner to him.

Rishabh raises one eye brow at her.

Realizing, Madhu says with a smile. "Please eat, Rishabh."

Rishabh grins and takes one of the katti rolls. "Thank you, was really hungry."

Madhu smiles and takes the other roll.

"Wow, this is amazing. You made it?" Rishabh asks her as he bit into it.

"My mother. I don't cook." Madhu tells him smiling.

"I'm a good cook." Rishabh tells her.

"Really?" Madhu asks him smiling.

"Yeah, I like my cooking. Even Mukund. You can ask him."

"I believe you." Madhu tells him chuckling.

"Can you get the recipe from your mother? I want to try it at home. The filling is yum, if I make bulk and keep then it is easy to put together for dinner."

"Yeah sure. I'm sure it is very easy. She keeps making it that I am fed up of it." Madhu tells him tiredly.

"Really?" Rishabh asks her shocked.

"Yeah, you can have that one." Madhu tells him showing him the third and final roll.

"That's okay." Rishabh tells her.

"I'll take some of your sandwich. You have this."

"Okay." Rishabh says smiling happily as he took that.

"How did you learn cooking?" Madhu asks him conversationally.

"Have been living on my own since I turned 18." Rishabh tells her.

Madhu nods. "How long have you and Mukund been friends?"

Mukund was working in their company. He was handling the account section and was also the de facto HR manager.

"College." Rishabh tells her. "I was like you."

"Like me?" Madhu asks confused.

"Working and doing my college. But I worked in the evenings while I studied." Rishabh explains.

"Oh." Madhu nods, she had heard someone mention in the office that Rishabh was an orphan and he grew up in an orphanage.

"Thanks for this, Madhu." Rishabh tells her as he finished the food.

"Welcome, sir."

Rishabh turns to Madhu in shock and Madhu chuckles seeing his shock.

Seeing that he was behaving friendly with her, she gently tells him. "Ria was a little upset that she is not getting her old position back."

Rishabh nods. "She is not bad, it is just that, she is not as organized and meticulous as you. I struggled with her, because Mukund said that we can't afford an experienced executive assistant just yet. And then when she had that accident, Mukund assigned you to me, and with you, it was such a relief and I actually could do my job because you would do your work properly and in time."

Madhu couldn't help smiling smugly. "You're going to miss me when I go."

"I'm dreading already."

Madhu chuckles and then worriedly asks him. "You'll let me move to marketing when something comes up, right?"

"I'll not make a position for you. if a spot opens up then, yes. Because I know, in any position, you'll be an asset to us."

Madhu smiles hearing that.

*******

"Your sandwich was nice." Madhu tells Rishabh as she finished it off.

"I liked your food better." Rishabh tells her as he finished his off.

They smile at each other.

"We want to sleep." the passenger sitting beside Rishabh tells them.

Madhu bends down and pulls her bag from under the berth. She opens it and takes out her blanket. She keeps the blanket on her lap and closes her bag and pushes it back under the berth. She starts to stand up and keeps her hand on the berth. She felt an electric shock pass through her the moment her brain processed that she had kept her hand over Rishabh's hand instead of the berth.

She quickly takes off her hand and turns to look at him and sees him also looking at her in shock.

"Static electricity." Rishabh says as he stood up, feeling nervous and conscious.

"Yes." Madhu agrees as she stood up. "I'm going to sleep." Madhu tells him.

"Yeah, me too." Rishabh mumbles.

Madhu climbs the ladder to get on the upper berth and Rishabh climbs the ladder to his upper berth. Heart slamming against his chest, Rishabh lies on the berth from the corner of his eyes, he could see Madhu putting the blanket over her and lying back. he couldn't understand what had happened. He has shook hands with other women and never had he experienced anything like this. He even felt a slight stirring in his loin when their hands had accidently touched.

Madhu nervously tried to calm her raising heart. she didn't understand, how an innocent touch could cause such an effect to her body. Maybe it was the static electricity that he mentioned, there was no other explanation to the sensation that she had felt between her legs.

The passenger from the lower berth switches off the light, and as the surrounding filled with a light blueish light, both of them sighed in relief.

************

Hearing the alarm beeping, Madhu opens her eyes and sees Rishabh turning off his phone alarm. Madhu sits up realizing that they were about to reach. Rishabh also sits up as he stretched. Madhu ties her hair as she looked at him. Rishabh also looks at her at that second. Seeing that, he gently smiles at her and she smiles back politely. Deciding that the other didn't remember the previous night incident, they relax.

They get down the ladder and get about to freshen up before they reach their station.

They get down at their station and taking a taxi, they head to their lodge.

They were walking to their rooms when Madhu turns to Rishabh.

"Sir... our meeting with Balraj Choudhary is fixed at 11. We need to leave here by 9:30."

"Okay." Rishabh replies, after the weird incident at night, he felt it even more weird to ask her to call him by his name, so he doesn't correct her. "I'll meet you at the reception."

************

"My son is the one who is handling the selling and distribution. You talk to him. if he is convinced then we've a deal." Balraj Choudhary tells them.

"Sure. When can we meet him?" Rishabh asks him.

"He is here only. He got back today. I'll send for him." Balraj Choudhary tells them and leaves the room.

Madhu looks at Rishabh, and sees him take a deep breath as he looked at the laptop screen and mentally prepared for the presentation.

"All the best, Sir." Madhu whispers to him.

"We really need it, Madhu." Rishabh tells her. "If we get an opening with him then we would hit gold. They have clothes, furniture, stones, all those things that are in demand in the international market. If we can source from them and export, we won't need to look for investors."

"You can do it, sir." Madhu tells him encouragingly as she extended her hand to him.

"Thanks." Rishabh replies with a smile as he took her hand in his.

Both leave their hands instantly feeling a jolt of lightening hit them.

"Static." Madhu quickly says as she rubbed her hands and pulled her legs together tight.

"Yeah." Rishabh whispers as he looked away as he kept his laptop on his lap properly.

Hearing someone walk in, they both look up and stop in shock seeing the man from train.

"It's a pleasant surprise." Abhay says smiling wickedly as he looked at Madhu and then at Rishabh.

Madhu worriedly looks at Rishabh and he also looks at her.

Abhay sits down. "So, let's hear your proposal."

Madhu gulps as she listened to Rishabh explain their business model and all the benefits that Abhay's business would have if they collaborated with him. Madhu looks at Abhay and sees him watching her. she quickly averts her eyes, and looked at Rishabh.

"All sounds interesting." Abhay says thoughtfully.

Madhu felt a very bad premonition and she looks at Rishabh and sees him also slightly frowning.

"But what do I get?" Abhay asks.

"As I explained, 5 % more than what you are..."

"That the company is getting." Abhay cuts Rishabh off. "I'm asking about me."

Rishabh frowns hearing that and asks. "You want commission for your own business?"

Abhay looks at Rishabh. "I'm not talking about money." then he turns his gaze to Madhu.

Madhu sits up in shock understanding his meaning.

Furiously slamming his laptop shut, Rishabh says. "We're done here."

Hearing him, the very second, Madhu gathers all the papers and shoves it inside the laptop bag.

Rishabh gets up and furiously puts his laptop inside his laptop bag.

"We haven't finished discussing this." Abhay says.

Rishabh furiously turns to him and sees his gaze still on Madhu. Rishabh turns to Madhu and asks her, "Madhu, do you want to sleep with him?"

"WHAT? NO!" Madhu furiously shouts.

Abhay furiously glares at her.

Rishabh turns to Abhay and tells him. "Heard her? If you didn't understand it yesterday, then understand it now. She has no interest in you. Be man enough to take a girl's no as no. STAY AWAY FROM HER. Let's g0, Madhu."

They were walking out, when Madhu furiously turns to Rishabh and tells him. "I am a virgin!"

"What?" Rishabh asks as he turned to her in shock.

"How dare you ask me that?" Madhu angrily asks him.

"When the hell did I ask you whether you were a virgin?" Rishabh asks her offended.

"Not that! you asked me whether I wanted to sleep with that pervert." Madhu tells him angrily, still reeling from the shock at his question.

"I didn't see you slap that pervert when he was saying all that." Rishabh tells her as he opened the back seat door and put the laptop bag inside the car.

"Because you said that this deal was important for our company." Madhu furiously reminds him as she got inside the car.

Rishabh furiously gets in and tells her. "If I wanted to get business by making you sleep with him then I would have gone into pimping and made money."

"I didn't mean that." Madhu says softly.

"Then?"

"His father seemed better and maybe we had a chance with him." Madhu whispers.

Rishabh shrugs then noticing the cab driver looking at them waiting, he says. "Let's go!"

"Erm... lodge?" the driver asks confused.

"Yes, please."

************

Madhu and Rishabh had finished their dinner and was walking back to their lodge.

"Tomorrow I'm thinking about going around the market. Balraj Choudhary might not be the only one who is manufacturing here. There might be other small scale business too."

"Even I was planning to go to the market tomorrow. When you're going, I'll also come, sir." Madhu tells him.

"That's okay, I'll go. And it is a Sunday tomorrow, so technically it is your day off too."

"Erm... I wasn't coming to find you supplier." Madhu hesitantly says.

Rishabh turns to her and asks her, "Shopping?"

Cheekily grinning, Madhu nods.

Shrugging, Rishabh says. "Fine."

Suddenly, they were surrounded by a bunch of men.

************

Rishabh and Madhu were tied to a tree with a crowd gathered around them.

Rishabh turns to look at Madhu and sees her crying. Even he was scared and worried for their lives. He sees Abhay walk towards them.

"You..." Rishabh furiously starts.

"I would be careful of what I say if I were you." Abhay tells him with a smirk.

Rishabh furiously looks at him as he tried to think of a way to escape.

"There is only one way to escape." Abhay says as if hearing his thoughts. "My father will come in a few minutes. And his word is the law here."

"He is with you on this?" Rishabh asks him frowning in disgust.

"Oh no!" Abhay shakes his head. "And that is worse for you." Abhay tells him with a snigger.

Rishabh and Madhu frown in confusion.

"You see, he is told that you two were being immoral here and the punishment for immorality is death by stoning." Abhay informs them.

Madhu and Rishabh hearing that, starts struggling against their binding in panic.

"You know, how to save yourself." Abhay tells them. "I can tell my father it was a misunderstanding and have you both leave safely."

"Why are you doing this?" Madhu asks him scared and crying.

"If I want, I can rape you but I don't want you like that." Abhay tells her. "I want you all meek, crying, scared and you..." Abhay turns to Rishabh. "I want you to live knowing that you're alive because you had to get her to please me for you to stay alive. How much of a man are you going to be then?"

"I will die than sleep with you." Madhu furiously tells him.

Abhay moves towards them, and wanting Rishabh to also hear him, he leans towards them with his face in between them and whispers to Madhu. "If you quietly come with me now, you both will live. Otherwise you both will die. Choice is yours. Are you coming?"

Madhu furiously looks at him.

"Let him stay here till I'm done with you." Abhay says as he started to untie Madhu's rope.

Rishabh with all his might, hits him with his head and Abhay falls back down.

The crowd furiously screams and raise their spears at Rishabh.

"What is happening here?" Balraj Choudhary asks furiously.

"These two were being immoral." One of them loudly informs him.

"You two came to my house today." Balraj says recognizing them.

"He is lying." Madhu furiously says. "They all are lying. He wants me to sleep with him, so he is threatening us with this. He said if I didn't sleep with him then you would stone us to death for immorality."

"My son is not like that." Balraj says furiously.

"HE IS! He was in the train with us yesterday. Even in the train he was being creepy with me." Madhu tells him.

"To escape you both are making up stories and accusing my son."

"We don't have to make up stories to escape because we were not being immoral." Rishabh informs him furiously.

"Do you have any proof that you two were not being immoral?" Abhay asks them.

"You can check at the lodge; we were staying in two different rooms. If we wanted to be immoral then why would we take two different rooms in the lodge? Who knows us here? We can easily lie that we are married and stay together. When you asked us earlier, we could have lied that we are married and you would have believed us." Rishabh tries to reason with Balraj.

"That's true." Balraj says thoughtfully. "This might be a misunderstanding. Bring the witness."

"I saw them together." Abhay accuses them.

"You saw them?" Balraj asks him.

"Where? Inside our lodge room? did you come in there?" Rishabh asks him challengingly. "How would you even know what happens inside a closed room?"

"Yes, I saw them hugging and kissing outside the lodge." Abhay informs them.

"You saw?" Balraj asks angrily as he turned to Rishabh and Madhu furiously and accuses them. "You lie."

Realizing Balraj would never believe them over his son, Rishabh says the first thing that came to him. "Madhu is my fiancé. We are getting married soon. So, I was just wishing her good night."

"They are lying." Abhay accuses furiously.

"About hugging?" Rishabh asks him back.

"Is this true?" Balraj asks Madhu.

Madhu turns to Rishabh and he looks at her. seeing his blank face and the way he was staring at her, Madhu turns to Balraj and says, "Yes. We are getting married."

"If they are getting married then is it immoral?" someone asks Balraj.

"But they are still not married." Someone argues.

"Yes, but they were just saying good night with a hug. Like they said, if they wanted to be immoral then they would have stayed together."

"That is true, we don't know them. so, they could have said that they were married and stayed together."

"You don't know them and they are lying that they are getting married." Abhay says furiously.

"And what proof do you have that we are not getting married?" Madhu asks him angrily.

"Enough!" Balraj says loudly.

"What should we do?" someone asks Balraj.

"I need to think." Balraj says. "Till I decide what should be done with them, hold them here. Don't let them out of your sight." Balraj orders the men.

They nod in agreement.

"Come on, Abhay." Balraj says and walks off.

Having no other option, Abhay follows his father as he glared at Rishabh and Madhu.

**********

"Madhu..." Rishabh softly calls her seeing her head bend down.

Madhu turns to look at him and guiltily says. "I won't sleep with him. even if they kill us, I won't. I am sorry."

"If I wanted to live off selling women then I would have got into pimping business." Rishabh tells her.

Madhu couldn't help but smile through her tears.

"I'm sorry that I brought you here. If I hadn't then you wouldn't be in this situation."

"It is not your fault. It is his fault." Madhu tells him.

"Remember that. whatever happens remember it is his fault, not yours." Rishabh tells her.

Madhu nods and scared, she asks him. "Can I hold your hand?"

Rishabh sighs hearing that and he stretches palm, his finger brushing against hers. Madhu stretches her palm, and unable to hold hands, they hook their pinkies.

*********

"We don't tolerate immorality here." Balraj says loudly.

Madhu and Rishabh turn to look at each other. They tighten their grip on each other's pinky.

"But we can't ignore their arguments and that they are going to get married."

Hearing that, Rishabh and Madhu look at each other hopefully.

"What Abhay said is also true. They could be lying about getting married."

"We are getting married." Rishabh and Madhu quickly says.

"You both will be married today." Balraj says.

"What?" Madhu and Rishabh shout in shock.

"Yes. And you will leave this village in the next train. and you both will never step foot in this land ever again."

*********

The moment the train started moving, Rishabh turns to Madhu. "Madhu..."

Madhu hugs her legs and hiding her face on her lap starts crying.

Rishabh kneels next to her. "Madhu..."

"What right they had to do this?" Madhu asks him as she broke down.

Rishabh helplessly looks at her, not knowing how to console her. "We had no option, Madhu."

"What crime did we commit for them to do this to us?" Madhu asks him. "How am I going to explain this to my mother?"

"I'll explain it to her." Rishabh promises her.

"No." Madhu tells him as she quickly removed her mangal sutra and put it on the berth. Then she wipes off her sindoor. "I won't tell her. she won't be able to bear it."

"What?" Rishabh asks her in shock as he looked at the mangal sutra abandoned on the berth.

"This marriage is not legal. They forced us to get married. We don't have to tell anyone. We'll forget this happened." Madhu tells him.

Hearing her, Rishabh nods. "We'll forget it happened."

Madhu nods and rubbing off her sindoor, she walks off to the bathroom to clean it off.

Few minutes later, she comes back with her maang wiped clean.

"You take rest." Rishabh gently tells her.

Nodding, Madhu climbs on her berth and lies down.

When they reached their station they wordlessly got down the train and started walking out of the station.

"Erm... I'll drop you home." Rishabh tells her

Madhu turns to him shocked, he never offered to drop her home before. "Company reimburses the cab charges and other expenses. I'll take a cab." Madhu reminds him.

Rishabh nods.

"I'm going, sir." Madhu tells him and starts to walk off then stopping, she turns to him and tells him. "Please don't tell anyone."

"I won't." Rishabh promises her.

"Not even Mukund."

"Yeah." Rishabh confirms.

"Don't worry, even I won't tell anyone." Madhu tells him.

Rishabh nods.

With that, Madhu walks off to the taxi area and Rishabh follows behind to get a taxi for himself.

********

Next day, Madhu reaches office and walks to the elevator when she sees few people getting into the elevator. She starts to run when she notices Rishabh get into the elevator. She stops not sure whether to get in or not. Rishabh turns around and notices her. he quickly holds the elevator for her. seeing his gaze on her and him waiting for her, Madhu nervously gets into the elevator.

The elevator door closes Rishabh and Madhu nervously looks at each other. Then they look away and stare at the lift display as the number kept changing. The lift stops and few gets out. The lift starts again and a floor before theirs' the lift stops again and the rest of the people get out. The lift door closes and they nervously look at each other. Suddenly, the lift felt very small and they felt as if they could hear each other's breathing and could feel the heat from each other's body.

Madhu nervously takes a deep breath while Rishabh scratches his hair as he looked everywhere else. The lift stops and the door opens. Madhu quickly hurries out while Rishabh leaves the breath he was holding and calmly walks out behind her.

Rishabh walks into his room while Madhu got settled in her desk. They had a small office space with just Rishabh and Mukund having private rooms while the rest of the team had their desk in the hall space.

Knowing she couldn't procrastinate facing Rishabh, Madhu goes to his room.

"Sir?"

"Come in, Madhu." Rishabh says sitting up nervously on his chair.

Madhu quickly tells him his schedule for the day and asks him about the response to the mails she had received on his behalf.

After they were done, Madhu starts to leave. Madhu stops and turns to him, "If anyone asks about the deal with Balraj Choudhary, what are you going to say?"

"That their demands were too much." Rishabh replies.

"Okay." Madhu nods and starts to leave.

"Madhu..."

"Yes, sir?" Madhu turns to him.

"You decided to forget what happened. So, just be normal. Don't give others any reason to be suspicious." Rishabh tells her.

Madhu nods.

"You're okay, right?" Rishabh asks her softly.

"I don't know." Madhu helplessly tells him. "Are you okay?"

Rishabh shrugs in confusion.

**********

Madhu was watching Ozark on her laptop, when someone comes near her ears and asks her, "What are you watching?"

Madhu jumps up in her seat and turns to look who it was and sees Mukund leaning next to her as he looked at the screen.

"Oh hi Mukund."

"Ozark! You're watching it now only?" Mukund asks her.

"Unlike you, I don't sit in office and watch full season back to back." Madhu teases him as she removed her headphones.

As long as you did your work on time, no one really cared about what you did during your free time. that was one of the reason, how she was able to study for her course comfortably. And their office didn't have set work timings too. Rishabh believed that productivity increases when people worked in their own comfortable time.

Mukund frowns at her. "Show me respect, Madhu. someone dies in this episode."

Realizing he was threatening her with spoilers, Madhu quickly says. "Please don't tell me. you're the best, Mukund."

Mukund smugly grins. "That's like it."

Madhu rolls her eyes. "You had some work with me?" Madhu asks.

"No..." Mukund shrugs as he stood up. "Erm...it didn't work out with Balraj Choudhary... huh?" Mukund asks a little disappointed.

Madhu nods uncomfortably.

"Rishabh seems to be a little upset about it. he has been silent since he got back." Mukund tells her.

"Oh." Madhu nervously says.

"He is always positive about everything. I guess he was really hoping for this deal."

"Hmmm."

"Anyway, something else will come up." Mukund says waving it off.

"Yes." Madhu automatically replies.

"Did Ria say anything?" Mukund asks her gently.

Realizing that he had actually come to talk to her about that, Madhu relaxes. "She spoke to sir." Madhu tells him.

"Yeah I know. She is not happy about this change. And Rishabh prefers that you assist him than her. he told her it is either assisting Sultan or she can resign. She was rather pissed."

Madhu nods. When she was transferred from Sultan to Rishabh, her salary had increased because her work load had increased tremendously. So, she wondered whether Ria's salary was cut down when she was kind of demoted.

"So, if she says anything to you, let me know." Mukund tells her.

"Okay." Madhu nods.

***********

The next couple of days went uneventful and Rishabh and Madhu were getting adjusted to their new reality though neither spoke to each other about it.

"Anything else?" Rishabh asks after they had finished their daily meeting.

"It is Mukesh's birthday today." Madhu informs him.

"Okay." Rishabh takes his wallet and gives her money.

After starting the company, when the first person they had hired, his birthday had come, Rishabh and Mukund had pitched in money and got him a small gift voucher as a birthday gift, and ever since then the tradition had stuck on with every staff pitching in to give a birthday gift and a small cake.

Madhu takes the money from him.

"When is your birthday?" Rishabh asks her.

"April 8th. Why?" Madhu asks him curious.

Not knowing why, he had asked her that, Rishabh shrugs. "Just... simply... asked."

"Oh okay." Madhu turns to go then stopping curiously, she asks him. "When is yours, sir?"

"August 14th... why?"

"Just... simply... asked." Madhu also replies and she quickly turns around and leaves.

Cursing herself, Madhu sat in her chair. What was the need to ask him for his birthday? It would be there somewhere in her calendar. She could have found from that. and why does it matter when it is his birthday?

Rishabh sits up exasperated. What was the need to ask her for her birthday? I could have just looked at her file and found her birthday. And why do I need to know her birthday?

**********

"Sir, it's time to cut the cake." Madhu informs him.

"Yeah, coming. give me two minutes." Rishabh says.

"Okay." Madhu replies and leaves to join the rest of the staff.

Madhu opens the pantry door and walk in.

"Where is Rishabh?" Mukesh asks her.

"He is coming in two minutes." Madhu tells him.

"Mukund is also coming." Sweety informs them. "He is on a call."

They hung around as they chatted, as they waited for Mukund and Rishabh to come. Madhu was talking to one of the staff when she notices Ria glaring at her. Madhu looks away. the door opens and Rishabh steps in.

"Happy birthday, Mukesh." Rishabh wishes him as he stood next to Madhu near the door.

"Thank you, Rishabh." Mukesh replies with a smile.

"Mukund isn't here?" Rishabh asks Madhu.

"He is coming." Madhu replies as she turned to him and stops in shock realizing that he had leaned towards her to ask. Seeing him so close, her heart started beating fast, but she couldn't move back. all she could do was stare into his eyes.

Having her look at him like that, Rishabh couldn't help but be lost in her eyes. He forgot to breath.

They were lost in each other's eyes when Rishabh was pushed forward towards Madhu.

"Sorry... I'm here." Mukund says as he opened the door and walked in.

Madhu quickly holds Rishabh to steady him. on reflex, Rishabh holds Madhu. nervous they stare at each other, unable to let go. Heart slamming against their chest.

"Let's cut the cake." Mukund says excitedly as he hit Rishabh on his shoulder.

Breaking them out of their trance, Madhu and Rishabh quickly look away. though conscious and nervous, they don't move away from each other. Unable to move away, they stood side by side.

Everyone start singing the happy birthday song. As everyone were busy singing and watching Mukesh cut the cake, Rishabh couldn't help but look at Madhu and Madhu at the same instant looks at him. they both quickly look away.

What the hell is wrong with me? what is happening? They both wondered.

Mukesh cuts a big piece and he starts feeding everyone. after feeding Mukund the cake, Mukesh offers the cake to Rishabh. Madhu sees Rishabh biting into the cake. Madhu gulps nervously as Mukesh offered her the cake next. Very aware that Rishabh had just bit that cake, Madhu nervously bites the cake. Unable to control herself, she turns to look at Rishabh and sees him watching her.

Rishabh takes his hand forward and then realizing what he was about to do, he stops and gestures to Madhu's lips. Realizing there was cake on her lips, Madhu wipes it off.

Confused about what is happening with him, Rishabh leaves.

Fed up and confused at the way she was behaving around him, Madhu hits her palm on her head.

"What happened?" the person next to her asks her curiously.

"Erm... I forgot to send a mail." Madhu mumbles and hurries off to escape.

********

Hearing laughter, Madhu curiously looks up and sees Rishabh with Mukund and Mukesh as they talked. Mukund was sitting on the desk, while Mukesh sat on the chair and Rishabh was leaning against the wall.

Madhu couldn't help look at Rishabh. no one would say that he was the owner of the company. He was friendly with every staff and was a very approachable boss. So far, she has never seen him lose his temper at anyone but he was stern when he needed to be and kind when needed to be. He was the exact opposite of all those Mills & Boons alpha bosses. Maybe it is because he is not a super rich successful businessman yet. But somewhere in her, she knew, even when he becomes a successful businessman, he would remain the same.

Realizing he was looking at her, Madhu consciously sits up, though she couldn't avert her eyes from him, and even he didn't take his eyes off her. lately, she kept staring at him and most of the time, he would be looking back at her. she didn't know whether it was because of that forceful marriage or because it was something else.

"Hey, Rishabh... where are you lost?" Mukund asks him.

"What?" Rishabh turns to Mukund breaking out of his stupor.

Mukund curiously follows his gaze and it falls on Madhu. Madhu immediately looks at her monitor. "What? You got some work?" Mukund asks Rishabh curiously.

"No... no..." Rishabh says shaking his head. "I was just looking whether it was time for marketing meeting. What were you saying?"

********

Madhu listened to Rishabh, Mukund and the marketing team discussing various marketing plans for the coming quarter as she was taking down the minutes.

"Madhu..." Rishabh calls her.

"Yes?" Madhu looks up at him.

"Do you have anything to add?" Rishabh asks her.

"What?" Madhu asks him confused.

"You said you wanted to work in marketing."

"Yes." Madhu replies as she looked at Sultan and his team.

Ria's face picks up hearing that.

"So, do you've any suggestions and thoughts on what we discussed." Rishabh asks her.

"Erm..." Madhu sits up smiling excitedly as she looked through her notes. "Yes." Madhu says with an excited smile.

Rishabh nods as he waited for her to continue. Madhu quickly starts giving her suggestions and what changes she thought they should make from the ones everyone had said while Rishabh intently listened to her.

Finishing Madhu nervously looks at Rishabh, waiting to hear his thoughts on her thoughts.

Rishabh watches her for a few seconds and then with a hint of smile, he tells her, "I'll miss you when you go to marketing, Madhu."

Madhu's face breaks out into a big smile hearing that. he looked so proud of her just then.

"What Madhu suggested is better, Sultan. We'll incorporate that in our coming quarter." Rishabh tells Sultan.

"Madhu to marketing?" Sultan asks frowning in confusion. "Is she going to assist me?"

"No... she'll be joining the marketing team." Rishabh informs him.

"I don't need more people in marketing." Sultan informs Rishabh, slightly offended for having a decision regarding his team taken without consulting him.

Rishabh frowns in displeasure hearing that.

"Not now, Sultan. When an opening comes up." Madhu clarifies to him.

"If and when an opening comes up. Let's see then." Sultan says getting up. "For now, go and mail me the minutes of the meeting."

Rishabh turns to Sultan furiously and asks, "What right do you have to order Madhu like that?"

Sultan turns to Rishabh in shock, seeing him angry for the first time. "I was just telling her that I want a copy of the minutes."

"You were ordering her. Everyone is equal here, Sultan. That is the company policy." Mukund reminds him. "And Madhu is not your assistant. Your assistant is Ria and mailing you the minutes of the meeting is her job."

"It is just that Ria would have missed many points..." Sultan quickly tries to explain.

"Then you should be requesting Madhu. or making your own notes." Rishabh tells him angrily. "Next time I hear you talk to Madhu or anyone like that, you'll be out of here."

Sultan nervously nods.

"If you don't like the work I do for you then let Madhu assist you. I'll assist Rishabh." Ria says pissed. "Anyway, Madhu wants to work in marketing."

And somehow that pissed Rishabh off more than anything else. And he says pissed. "The only reason I didn't fire you before was because Mukund told me we couldn't afford a better executive assistant. After working with Madhu, I know for this salary also I can get a good assistant. So, you better buck up and do your work Ria otherwise, the company will let you go."

Gulping in shock Ria nods in yes.

"You all can leave." Rishabh says in a dismissing tone.

Sultan and Ria walk out as they glared at Madhu. Madhu waits for the rest of the team members to leave.

"Mukund, I need to talk to you." Rishabh tells him seeing him walking to the door.

Madhu leaves the room and closes the door. she sees Sultan and Ria furiously glaring at her from their desk, she ignores them and walks to her desk and does her work.

Hearing a furious voice, Madhu curiously looks up. She looks around and sees everything normal. Realizing that it was coming from Rishabh's room, she moves her chair a little more closer to the door, and strains to hear.

"Are you out of your freaking mind, Rishabh?" Mukund furiously asks him.

"It's my decision, Mukund." Rishabh replies in a calmer but stern voice.

"I'm struggling with so much work here. If we could afford one more staff then I would have hired someone in the accounts team. And you want to make a post for Madhu in marketing? That would not only increase her salary..."

"Madhu told me that money is not an issue. I will talk to her. I'm sure we can come to an understanding."

"What about the salary for your new assistant?" Mukund asks him.

"We can let go of Ria. I am starting to wonder whether Sultan really needs an assistant."

"He has too many meetings and events. He needs that assistance." Mukund confirms. "While Ria was on leave, he had been pestering me, asking for a new assistant."

"But when Madhu joins the team, Sultan's work load will obviously lessen that time, would he need an assistant?" Rishabh asks him and he says. "If it was Madhu in his place, she would have handled it all without an assistant."

"Rishabh, just because Madhu is an excellent assistant to you, doesn't mean she will excel in marketing or other fields. And Madhu might also ask for an assistant."

"You heard her, earlier. She belongs in marketing." Rishabh says in an offended tone.

"Yes, she seems to have a grasp on it." Mukund agrees.

"Then don't argue, just do what I am saying."

"Rishabh... right now, we can't." Mukund argues.

"Mukund..."

"And Rishabh, I am getting this feeling that there is something about Madhu that is affecting you." Mukund says in a suspicious tone.

Madhu panics hearing that and she waits with bated breath to hear what Rishabh says.

"Nothing like that. Mukund, this is my company and this is my decision."

"What is with this Mata Shivagami attitude? Mera vachan hi mera shaasan hai." Mukund asks him.

There was a silence for a few seconds then Rishabh and Mukund were howling with laughter.

"Man, just do what I am saying." Rishabh says as their laughter dies down.

"Okay, I'll but let's just wait." Mukund says giving in. "We're going to US in a few days to finalize the deal. So, once this investor comes through then we can do it. that time we can afford a new assistant for you, an accountant for my team and Madhu can do whatever it is in marketing department."

"Fine." Rishabh gives in.

Hearing Mukund walking out, Madhu quickly sits properly as she stared into her laptop screen. Though her heart was slamming against her chest. She wanted to talk to Rishabh about what she overheard and knowing she would have to confess that she was snooping, she couldn't. she felt touched and ecstatic that he thought she deserved to be in marketing but she didn't want him to go out of his way to do all that for her.

********

Madhu was disinterestedly working. Her mind elsewhere. It's been three days since Rishabh and Mukund had gone to the USA to meet someone in regards to him investing in the company. Every so often, her eyes would go to his room and she had no idea why she was missing him like this.

********

Tired and drained, after a long day, Rishabh falls on his bed. He sighs as he closed his eyes. He was hungry but too tired to even get up.

"Oh my baby is so tired." Madhu whispers as she leaned on him and pressed his shoulders gently.

"Madhu..." Rishabh whispers her name as he smiled.

Madhu leans further down and whispers into his ears. "Rishabh."

Rishabh feels the blood flowing south having her so close to him. having her lying on him like that. "Madhu..."

"What do you want, Rishabh?" Madhu asks him.

"I want you." Rishabh whispers.

"And what is stopping you?" Madhu asks him back. "Claim your wife, Rishabh."

Hearing her, Rishabh holds her and turns around, trapping her beneath him. And the next second, they were naked and writhing in pleasure and Rishabh kept thrusting into her.

Hearing a loud sound, Rishabh wakes up in shock. He looks around as he tried to steady his breath realizing that he was having a very vivid dream of Madhu. hearing the sound, he sees that his phone was ringing.

"Hello?"

"Where are you? I'm at the restaurant." Mukund asks him.

"Coming. I dozed off." Rishabh tells him and hangs up the call. Then sighing he lies back.

He has had erotic dreams before but never like this. Never with so much clarity and his body reacting to it so strongly.

Seeing his organ straining against his pants, feeling its raging need for release, Rishabh finally admitted to himself that he desired Madhu.

**********

Hearing her mobile ring, Madhu wakes and groggily she answers the call. "Hello?"

"You were sleeping." Rishabh says realizing.

"Rishabh?" Madhu says as she sat up, feeling happy and excited to hear his voice.

Rishabh smiles hearing her call him Rishabh.

"You there?" Madhu asks him.

"I wanted to tell you and I forgot about the time difference."

"Tell me what?"

"They have agreed to invest 1 million." Rishabh excitedly tells her.

"WOW! That's amazing, Rishabh. I knew, you could do it." Madhu says excitedly.

Hearing Mukund calling him, Rishabh tells Madhu. "I've to go. Mukund is calling me."

"Okay." Madhu says smiling then she asks him. "Sir, you're flying back tomorrow, right?"

"Yes. All okay there?"

"Yes."

"Okay, I'll see you when I get back." Rishabh says and hangs up.

Smiling Madhu hangs up the phone. She lies back as she thought of this big achievement for Rishabh and their company. As she was dozing off, her last thought was, why did Rishabh call her of all the people in the world to share his happiness with?

********

Next day, seeing no one mentioning about the investment, Madhu realized that they were not aware of it. maybe Rishabh and Mukund were planning to inform after they got back. so she also doesn't mention it to anyone.

Seeing that the day after Rishabh and she has to go on a three day trip to attend an conference. Madhu felt a little worried realizing that Rishabh was travelling back to back. he wouldn't be getting a proper day's rest. And she knew, he was going to get busier with the new investment. Madhu sighs.

********

"How is he?" Padmini asks her excitedly.

"Who is this?" Madhu asks her frowning looking at the photo on mobile screen.

"Sheila got this proposal for you. I'll forward you all the details. You see."

"Ma, I want to work." Madhu quickly tells her, her heart skipping several beats and her thoughts going to Rishabh.

"You can work after marriage too. You see his details. He is just perfect for you."

"I'll check. You go. Now, I am going to sleep." Madhu tells her mother irately.

"Fine... but check... okay?" Padmini tells her and leaves the room.

Madhu lies on her bed and looks at the photo of the man. He was a good looking man. But she didn't feel anything seeing him.

Feeling sleepy, she yawns as she lay on her side and read the details about the man whom her mother thought was perfect for her.

"Perfect? Him? for you?" Rishabh asks her.

Madhu looks up and sees him leaning on her cupboard.

"Rishabh?" Madhu sits up in shock.

"Is he perfect, Madhu?" Rishabh asks her.

Madhu gulps hearing the question.

"Or is your husband the perfect one for you?" Rishabh asks her as he sauntered to her.

Hearing him, Madhu worriedly looks at him.

Rishabh bends down, and holds her leg and pulls her towards him.

"Rishabh..." Madhu gasps in shock.

Rishabh leans down and his lips brushes against her lips. "You're my wife. You belong to me."

Madhu leans up to take his lips in hers and Rishabh moves back. Rishabh leans back down and teases her by brushing his lips against hers. When she tries to kiss him again, he moves back.

"Rishabh..." Madhu says pleadingly.

"First you say it." Rishabh tells her.

"I'm yours." Madhu whispers to him.

Rishabh leans down and takes her lips in his possessively. Madhu pulls him towards her as she hungrily kissed him.

Rishabh gets on the bed with her. Madhu lies back and Rishabh lies on top her as he kissed her down her naked body. Feeling the pressure on her core, realizing her body's need for him. "Rishabh..."

Understanding her need, Rishabh enters her and Madhu opens her eyes in shock. Her heart beating fast, Madhu looks around the room, and realizes that she was alone. She looks at herself and sighs in relief that she was fully clothed. But the desire that dream had evoked in her, she had never felt it ever in her life before. Madhu lies on her side as she curled up, wanting her body to calm down. But somewhere in her, she knew that this raging fire could only be calmed by Rishabh.

********

Everyone excitedly cheers hearing Rishabh's announcement. Madhu watches as everyone congratulated Rishabh and they all congratulated each other. Rishabh turns to look at her, she smiles at him, silently congratulating him. he smiles back at her, understanding her.

"When is the party?" Mukesh asks loudly.

"Party?" Rishabh asks laughing.

"Oh we are definitely celebrating." Mukund declares happily.

"YES!" Everyone shouts excitedly.

"Okay." Rishabh agrees happily.

********

Madhu was dancing with the girls while the men were having their drinks. As she danced, Madhu curiously turns to look at Rishabh and sees him watching her, as he sat with the guys while they talked. She continued to look at him while she danced with him watching her.

"Let's dance." One of the guys says.

The guys start walking towards the dance floor, and Rishabh gets up and follows them, his eyes on Madhu. he joins them, and stopping next to Madhu.

Madhu continues to dance as she looked at him. Rishabh starts swaying with her. without saying anything, they just swayed to each other's rhythm.

Someone pushes Madhu, and she crashes to Rishabh's chest. Rishabh keeps his hand on her waist to steady her. once she was steady, he doesn't take off his hand. Remembering her dream from the night before, Madhu couldn't control, and she moves closer to him, her chest brushing against his. Rishabh pulls her closer to him, pressing up against each other. Seeing the raw passion in each other's eyes, and their raging breath and feeling their heart beat against their chest, they both realized that it wasn't just in their hearts, the other equally desired them.

********

"5 star hotel?" Madhu asks shocked. "I thought we were booked in a 3 star hotel."

"I asked Mukund to change it. now we have funds, we are raising our bar. The contacts and respect that we get by keeping this appearance that this is our company's normal standard is important." Rishabh tells her.

Madhu nods and follows him. all the way here, they hadn't said a word to each other. They had been silent, nervous and ogling at each other.

"The event is here only. So convenient for us and easier to get meetings with people." Rishabh tells her.

"Okay." Madhu nods smiling. "We are going to the next level."

"Yes." Rishabh smiles hearing that. "Let's check in. it should start in an hour. I'll see you back here in 55 mins."

"Okay."

********

The first day of event was nice with them getting an opening with many people.

Madhu was making note of all the people that they met and what they spoke with, and who all had given an appointment for one more meeting.

Feeling a tingling sensation on her neck, Madhu curiously turns to look and sees Rishabh watching her as he spoke to an elderly gentleman. She sits back as she watched him. Rishabh continued to talk to the man though his gaze kept coming back to her.

Rishabh ends his conversation with the man and he walks to Madhu. seeing him walk to her, Madhu stands up and waits for him to reach her.

"Let's go." Rishabh tells her.

Madhu nods and follows him. "How did it go with him?"

"He is interested. He was looking for someone like us. I'm meeting him for breakfast tomorrow to discuss further."

"That's nice." Madhu says smiling.

Rishabh smiles at her.

"Long day." Madhu says as they waited for the lift.

"Very." Rishabh agrees.

They get into the lift, the lift door closes. It was just them in the lift and realizing that, all tiredness left them and new life and energy filled them.

Nervous, from the corner of her eyes, Madhu looks at Rishabh. Rishabh also nervously looks at her. Rishabh starts to move closer to her when the lift door opens and a man gets in.

They remained silent as the lift went up the floors. The tension filling the air around them, their heart beats raising. Hearing the ding for their floor, Rishabh and Madhu step out and start walking towards their rooms.

Their rooms were opposite to each other and they stop in front of their rooms. Madhu takes out her key card and starts to unlock her room, then unable to fight her urge, she nervously looks at Rishabh.

Rishabh also had turned to look at her, seeing her looking at him, Rishabh unlocks the door, and without taking his eyes off Madhu, he steps aside as he holds the door wide open.

Madhu gulps seeing that. her heart slamming against her chest, nervous and excited, Madhu looks down and walks into his bedroom.

********

Her heart raising against her chest, Madhu stood by the window, looking out. Hearing the door bell, Rishabh walks to the door and opens the door. he takes the packet from the waiter and locking the door, he walks back in.

Madhu turns to look at him and Rishabh puts the condom packet, on the bedside table. He walks to her, seeing that Madhu steps forward towards him. Rishabh stops in front of her. Madhu looks up at him and steps closer to him. Rishabh cups her face and kisses her on her forehead. Madhu nervously grips his shirt. Rishabh wraps his hand around her waist as he kissed down her face. unable to wait anymore, Madhu lifts her head up, and Rishabh takes her lips in his. They hug each other as they hungrily kissed each other.

Rishabh pulls her closer to him, as his hand travelled down, his hands cupping her ass. Feeling his erection, Madhu moans softly as her hand went to his shirt buttons and she start removing his buttons. Rishabh also starts unbuttoning her clothes. as they fumbled and stumbled onto the bed.

With each passing second, their desire and need for each other and to see and touch each other increasing. They frantically start removing each other's clothes almost tearing them in their desperation.

As they got rid of the last piece of clothing and as their naked bodies touched each other's, they both groan in passion. They kissed and touched each other, till their desire for each other reached their peak.

"Madhu...?" Rishabh looks at her as he waited at her entrance.

Understanding, Madhu cups his face and takes his lips in hers. "Yes. Now." Madhu replies against his lips.

Rishabh possessively takes her lips in his and kisses her hungrily as he entered her.

Once they got adjusted to each other, they started moving against each other. Frantically taking each other and themselves to an earth shattering orgasm.

********

Madhu wakes up to find herself alone in bed. She looks around for Rishabh and realizes that she was alone in the room. Madhu checks the time and sees that it was 9:30. She had slept off late. She quickly wears her clothes and runs to her room to freshen up and go for the event.

Madhu reaches the lobby and sees Rishabh talking to someone. He immediately looks at her, remembering all that, that had happened between them the previous night, Madhu quickly looks down, her cheeks heating up.

Madhu stood there till Rishabh finished his conversation with the person. Then Rishabh walked towards her.

"Good morning." Rishabh whispers against her ears.

Madhu blushes as she looked at him.

"Had breakfast?" Rishabh asks her with a smile.

Madhu shakes her head in negative.

"Come." Rishabh says as he kept his hand on her midriff and guided her to the restaurant.

Rishabh walked with Madhu as she walked through the buffet area, taking her food.

"Why didn't you wake me up?" Madhu asks him as she blushed looking at her plate.

"I kept you awake the whole night, I thought I'll let you sleep late."

Madhu turns a darker shade of pink and she looks up at him. "Even I kept you awake the whole night."

Rishabh breaks out into a bigger smile hearing that and says hotly. "And I intend to keep you awake tonight also."

Madhu turns red with blush and she looks down, feeling herself getting hot.

Seeing that Rishabh leans down and quickly pecks her cheek. Madhu looks at him in shock and he winks at her. then he felt her hold his hand and squeezes it tight.

"Don't you have to go for the event?"

"We'll... you finish your breakfast first." Rishabh tells her smiling.

"How did your breakfast meeting go?" Madhu asks as she sat down at one table.

"Good." Rishabh replies as he sat opposite to her.

They sat together and spoke as she had her breakfast.

********

Madhu stood next to Rishabh as he talked to someone. She knew, she should be following their conversations and make necessary actions based on their conversation but she couldn't listen to a word, her full concentration on Rishabh as he nodded to whatever the man was saying. she was so happy to be with him. She was so crazy about him and she just couldn't wait to be alone with him. be in his arms, make love. Feeling herself turning pink, she quickly looks down wanting to calm her raising heart.

The moment the man left, Rishabh turns to Madhu and tells her in a whisper. "Please mail me what all he said. I didn't hear a word."

"Even I didn't!" Madhu tells him in shock.

"What?" Rishabh asks her in shock. "What were you doing then?"

"I guess, the same thing you were doing." Madhu replies to him.

Rishabh grins hearing that. "Really?" he asks her with a sexy smile.

Madhu blushes hearing that then pushing him, she tells him. "Now, go try talking to him and see when he asked us to meet him again."

"Okay. don't know how I am going to manage that." Rishabh mutters as he hurried after the man.

********

Rishabh and Madhu excitedly smiled at each other as they stood inside the lift. Rishabh slides towards her, and Madhu pushes him off shyly as she worriedly looked at other people in the lift.

Rishabh kisses her in the air and Madhu glares at him. Rishabh silently chuckles as he looked away.

They get down in their floor and excitedly they hurry to the room.

"I'll come now." Madhu tells Rishabh as they reached his room.

"You vacate your room. bring your stuff." Rishabh tells her.

Madhu smiles hearing that then she tells him. "You vacate your room. my room has better view."

Cheekily grinning, Rishabh asks her, "Wow Madhu, you've view from your bed?"

Madhu turns pink hearing that and she hits him.

Smiling, Rishabh cups her face and lovingly requests her. "You do as I say."

"Okay." Madhu smiles. "I'll call Ma, get my stuff and take a shower and come."

"You do all that, but shower, we'll have it together." Rishabh tells her with a wink.

********

Twenty minutes later, Madhu stood outside Rishabh's room and rang the bell. When he didn't open, she rings the bell again.

Madhu puts her bag on the floor as she pulled out her mobile to call him.

"Madhu..."

Madhu turns around and finds Rishabh walking towards her.

Madhu chuckles seeing him. "I have been ringing the bell like a stupid person. Where did you go?"

"I just went to check something." Rishabh tells her as he picked her bag. "Come."

"Where to?" Madhu asks confused as she followed him.

"I'll tell you." Rishabh tells her as he took her to the lift and went up.

They walk through the corridor and Rishabh stops in front of a room.

"Who is here?" Madhu asks him confused.

Rishabh hands her the key card.

"We are moving to this room?" Madhu asks him excitedly as she took the key card.

"Yes." Rishabh tells her smiling happily seeing her excitement.

Madhu opens the door and seeing the room she excitedly shrieks. Rishabh smiles seeing her excitement and leaving her bags on the floor, he hugs her from behind.

********

"Honeymoon suite... I never thought we would stay in one." Madhu tells Rishabh as she lay in bed with him.

"I'm glad you liked it." Rishabh tells her.

Worried Madhu asks him, "We can afford this, right?"

"We can't afford it regularly but we can indulge once in a while." Rishabh tells her.

Madhu turns to him and takes his lips in hers. "I like indulging in you more."

********

Hearing the phone ring, Rishabh answers it.

"Hello.... Yeah.... Oh why is that?.... hmmm... hmmm... so what can we do?... you can't make a new booking?... okay, I understand... fine, charge it to that card... no... don't use points, I will pay for the room." Rishabh says and hangs up the phone.

"All okay?" Madhu asks him.

"Yeah... yeah.... Billing confusion." Rishabh tells her as he took his mobile and called Mukund.

"Hey Man... what's up? How is it going?" Mukund asks as he answered the call.

"All good... how is everything there?"

"Good."

"Listen... the hotel said that you used some points for the payment."

"Yeah... since you said that now you would be staying at five star hotels, I got this credit card, the benefit of it was 200 thousand loyalty points for this hotel chain. So, I used those points to book the rooms. What happened?"

"No, I changed the room. upgraded the room and told them to charge it to my card. Since you used points and it is the same booking they will be charging it to the company card only."

"Okay... but why change the room?" Mukund asks confused.

"I'll explain when I get back."

"Okay."

"So, the hotel will be charging the card, I'll reimburse the amount."

"You don't have to; you're staying there for the company only."

"No... no... this is not on company. I'll explain when I get back."

"Okay."

After Rishabh kept the phone, Madhu asks him softly. "What are you going to tell him?"

"About us." Rishabh tells her then smiling, he reassures her. "First we'll tell your mother then only we'll tell him."

Madhu turns around and lies on her stomach as she leaned up balancing herself on her hands and looked at him. "Can we take it slow, Rishabh?"

"Slow?" Rishabh asks her confused then chuckling he says, "Madhu, I really don't know what your idea of slow is when you're lying naked with me on bed. If those condoms didn't do their job, we could be pregnant too."

Madhu worriedly looks at him and gently tells him. "I just don't want anyone to know about us now."

"Why?" Rishabh asks her shocked and hurt as he leaned up in bed and rested against the headrest.

"Please Rishabh, let's just keep this between us for now."

"Why?"

Madhu doesn't reply as she helplessly looked at him.

Rishabh watches her for some time and he says. "Mukund is my brother, Madhu. but when it comes down to it, in this whole world, you're the only one I can call my family, and you're asking me to hide that from the world."

"Why am I your family, Rishabh?" Madhu asks him sadly.

"Because you're my wife, Madhu." Rishabh reminds her with a frown.

"If we hadn't got married, would you've still been with me like this?" Madhu asks him.

"I don't understand what you're saying. Madhu."

"I would have never got intimate with anyone without marriage, Rishabh."

"We are married, Madhu."

"I desired you, Rishu. I had these dreams and emotional pull towards you. and knowing that we were married, I just let all this happen between us. but I can't help wonder whether all these emotions and feelings are they there because someone had decided that we have to get married or we would have felt all these even if we weren't married."

"What difference does it make?" Rishabh asks her.

"Not now, but after a few days what if we realize all this is just because of the marriage."

"Is that so bad?" Rishabh asks her. "How many people get married and the feelings happen after that? how many people have arranged marriage with someone their parents picked and are happy together?"

"What if we regret it later?"

"What if you regret it later?" Rishabh asks her in hurt.

Madhu shakes her head. "You've never had a family and suddenly I became your wife. And you just accepted me. if someone else was in my place, would you've accepted her too?"

"I don't know, Madhu. but it took me a long time to realize that even before we got married, I had desired you."

"Even I realized that I desired you, Rishabh."

"Then what is the problem?" Rishabh asks her.

"But would we have acted on these if we weren't forcefully married?" Madhu worriedly asks him.

"Madhu, it was a forced marriage but the moment we walked into my room last night it became a marriage of choice." Rishabh tells her.

"Please Rishabh... let's just take it slow for now. so, there is no doubt or fear."

"You're feeling insecure." Rishabh says softly.

Madhu nods in yes. "If instead of me, it was Ria then would you be with her here now?"

Rishabh felt puke-ish and shrugs in disgust.

"I just can't help wonder about all that, Rishu." Madhu helplessly tells him.

Hearing that, Rishabh couldn't help wonder whether if in his place, it was someone else, would Madhu have been with him like this. Once that thought, got into his head, he couldn't shake it off.

"What do you want us to do, Madhu?" Rishabh asks her gently.

"I don't want to tell anyone about us for now, Rishabh. what if this doesn't work out? I can't hurt my mother like that."

Rishabh nods hearing that.

"Let's just forget about the marriage for now. we'll date each other and see for some time."

Madhu anxiously looks at him and Rishabh reassuringly smiles at her. "Okay."

Madhu smiles in relief and hugs him happily.

"But I've a condition."

"What is it?"

"If we decide that we don't want to be together, then we'll get a divorce." Rishabh tells her.

Madhu looks at him nervously.

"After all this, if we are going our separate way then we'll end it all properly."

Madhu knew that was the right thing to do. Even though no one knew of their marriage, in their hearts they knew they were married and if Rishabh was to move on if they end everything, then he should be a free man to do so.

Madhu nods in yes.

"Don't worry. We'll do it as secretly as possible if we have to." Rishabh promises her though he prayed that it won't come to that.

********

Rishabh turns off the shower and turns to grab a towel.

"You go." Madhu tells him as she turned back the shower on.

"What?" Rishabh asks surprised seeing her standing under the shower.

"I need to shower." Madhu tells him.

"We took a shower."

"I need a proper shower."

"really?" Rishabh asks with a sexy smile as he moved towards her.

Madhu laughs seeing that. "Alone... you go... else we will be late. Go."

"Even I want a proper shower."

"No, you don't. go." Madhu laughs as she pushed him out of the shower cubicle.

"Madhu..." Rishabh excitedly turns to her. "Proper shower in the tub."

"No way... I kept slipping off." Madhu tells him exasperated.

Rishabh chuckles as he left the cubicle.

Madhu comes out after her shower and she sees Rishabh sitting in the balcony. She steps out and hearing her, he looks at her.

Madhu sits on his lap. "What are you thinking?"

"That we've to go back today." Rishabh tells her as he wrapped his hands around her.

"Are you angry with me?"

"I can never be angry with you." Rishabh tells her as he kissed her cheek lovingly.

"But you're not happy."

"I thought you would be with me from now on." Rishabh tells her.

Madhu nods as she guiltily looks down.

"But it is important that we both are sure this is what we want."

Madhu smiles in relief. "Till then we will see each other in office. We're most of the time together only."

"Yeah but not for long though."

"Why?"

"Mukund is already interviewing some candidates to replace you. once he finds someone good, you'll move to marketing."

Madhu nods and hugs him tight. "We'll find time for each other, Rishu. I promise."

"I'm going to hold you to that." Rishabh tells her as he hugged her tight.

********

"I've to go." Madhu whispers against Rishabh's lips.

"No... I missed you so much last night." Rishabh says as he pulled her close to him.

"Liar... we were on the phone whole night." Madhu teases him.

"So I can't miss you?" Rishabh asks her as he stepped back.

Madhu chuckles and says. "I'm going." She opens the door and stopping, she turns to look at him, and tells him, "Even I missed you."

Rishabh smiles hearing that.

********

Madhu was working when she hears someone walk towards that side. She curiously looks up and sees Mukund walking towards her then he stops and he looks at her for a few seconds. Seeing him so agitated, Madhu was about to ask him what happened when he opens the door and walks into Rishabh's room.

"Do you want to tell me what is happening?" she hears Mukund asking Rishabh.

With the way he had looked at her and the question, Madhu couldn't help think that he had somehow found out about Rishabh and her, she couldn't sit still and she gets up and runs into Rishabh's room.

"What do..." Rishabh stops seeing Madhu run in. "Madhu?"

Madhu worriedly looks at Mukund then she worriedly looks at Rishabh.

"So it is her!" Mukund declares in shock.

"Her? What are you talking about?" Rishabh asks him in confusion as he stood up.

"Honeymoon suite? Condoms?" Mukund asks him in shock.

Rishabh stops in shock and looks at Madhu and sees her worriedly looking at him.

"What is happening? Are you two dating?" Mukund asks them.

Rishabh looks at Madhu and sees her watching him.

"So? You guys are together?" Mukund asks.

"We're married." Rishabh informs him. then looking at Madhu he tells her. "I can't lie to him, Madhu."

Madhu nods understanding.

"WHAAAT?" Mukund shouts in shock. "You guys got married?"

"Remember, we went to meet Balraj Choudhary." Rishabh starts to tell him and explains to him what all had happened and why they want to take their time before they told everyone.

"Damn!" Mukund mutters in shock as he sat down.

"Mukund, we have decided not to tell anyone for the time being." Madhu gently tells him.

Mukund looks at Madhu then he turns to Rishabh and tells him angrily. "You should have told me, Rishabh."

"Man, I told you..." Rishabh starts.

"At least when you called to inform me about this bill thing." Mukund tells him.

"what happened?" Rishabh asks him.

"I told Sweety to handle the bill." Mukund tells him.

"What?" Madhu whispers in shock, her heart slamming against her chest.

"And she did?" Rishabh asks as he looked at Madhu worriedly.

"Yeah... she is the one who found the honeymoon suite and condoms in the bill. She also noticed that you both had vacated the rooms you were in and only one room was taken after that."

"Oh my God." Madhu gulps in worry. "She is going to tell everyone."

"I told her that it might be a mistake and they might have sent the wrong bill. I told her that I'll clarify with Rishabh and contact the hotel."

"Did she buy it?" Rishabh asks him.

"I guess so... maybe... I'll tell her that you both had shifted to cheaper rooms and that it might be an error from the hotel's end and I'll handle it." Mukund says.

Rishabh and Madhu nods.

"I'll tell her not to mention this to anyone and start an unnecessary rumor." Mukund tells them.

"Thanks, man." Rishabh tells him smiling.

"Thank you, Mukund." Madhu also feeling relieved.

Mukund smiles at Madhu and tells her, "Anything for you, Bhabhi."

Madhu gasps in shock hearing that. Mukund chuckles and walks to Rishabh and hugs him.

"So happy for you, man." Mukund tells him happily. "You guys are so perfect for each other."

Rishabh smiles happily as he looked at Madhu. Madhu smiles and feeling relieved and her guilt easing that now, Rishabh could share about their relation with his brother and best friend.

"Now, give me the details of this Abhay. I'll give it to Trisha." Mukund says and turning to Madhu, he says. "Trisha is my girlfriend, she is a journalist. She will expose that Abhay and his father who think they can decide on other people's life."

"But Mukund..." Rishabh starts.

"Your names won't come out." Mukund promises them.

********

Things were going smoothly for the next couple of days. When an exciting news reached Rishabh and Madhu.

"I'm so happy that Trisha's sting operation worked and they exposed that Abhay." Madhu tells Rishabh happily.

"His father is also punished for bringing his own law. Punishing people for what he thinks is a crime." Rishabh says happily. "People have legal rights to be with each other as long as both parties are consenting and he criminalized it and his son misused it to his advantage."

"They deserved it." Madhu tells Rishabh as she hugged him.

"They did." Rishabh agrees as he hugged her back.

********

One day, Rishabh was getting into the lift when he was pushed into the lift. Shocked he turns around and finds Madhu closing the door.

"Madhu..." Rishabh calls out her name, smiling in confusion.

Madhu walks to him and keeps her hand on either side of him. "You're at my mercy."

Rishabh chuckles hearing that.

"I'm serious."

"Oh no... please, I will do anything. just don't hurt me." Rishabh says though he was shaking with laughter.

Madhu gives up fed up. "You're so bad at role playing."

Rishabh laughs hearing that and he sings sensuously, "I know you're the bad girl, I can be your bad boy."

Madhu turns pink hearing that. she leans up and takes his lips in hers. "I told Ma that I've to work late today."

"And what work do you have?" Rishabh asks her as he kissed her.

"Be your bad girl."

********

Madhu looks around Rishabh's one bed room flat. It was a small and neat flat.

After seeing around the flat, they walk into his bedroom. Rishabh hugs her from behind. "Stay here tonight."

"not today. another day. we'll plan and I'll come." Madhu promises him as she turned to him and hugged him.

Noticing the mangal sutra on the dressing table, Madhu walks to it and takes it in surprise. "You took it?"

"I couldn't leave it behind." Rishabh tells her as he walked to her.

"That is why I couldn't find it when I looked for it." Madhu whispers surprised.

"You looked for it?" Rishabh asks surprised, smiling happily.

Madhu nods. "I thought someone might have stolen it."

"I kinda did." Rishabh jokes.

Madhu chuckles and she takes Rishabh's hand and she keeps it on his hand. "Now, I'll take it back from you when we tell everyone that I'm your wife."

Rishabh smiles and hugs her happily.

********

"Is Rishabh free?" Mukund asks Madhu as he walked to her with a man.

"He is not on a call." Madhu tells him. "Don't know if he is busy with any work. You want me to check?" Madhu asks him, though Mukund never took permission to enter Rishabh's room.

"It's okay, I'll go in." Mukund tells her. "Since you are here, it would mean that he is busy." Mukund cheekily tells her.

Madhu's eyes widen in shock and she glares at Mukund though she couldn't control her blush.

Mukund chuckles seeing that. "You wait here." Mukund tells the man and goes in.

A minute later, Mukund opens the door and says. "Come in."

The man walks in.

"Psst... Bhabhi..." Mukund whispers.

"I have told you not to call me that in office." Madhu whispers to him as she glared at him.

"Come inside." Mukund tells her.

Madhu follows them inside.

"This is Patil." Mukund informs Madhu. "He'll be replacing you."

Madhu immediately looks at Rishabh and he gently smiles at her. she felt a sense of loss at the thought of not working closely with Rishabh, and she knew even he felt it.

"He is ready to join tomorrow. Madhu, if you can hand over everything and then maybe work with him for a day or two and after that you can officially start off with the marketing department." Mukund tells her.

"Okay." Madhu replies and she looks at Rishabh.

"All the best." Rishabh tells her smiling at her.

"Thank you."

"Why don't you make the announcement?" Mukund asks Rishabh.

********

"Hey everyone..." Rishabh calls out.

Everyone curiously stands up and gathers around.

"This is Patil. He has joined us and he'll be assisting me from now on." Rishabh informs them.

"New assistant?" Ria asks a little pissed while others said hi to Patil and welcomed him.

"Yes." Rishabh replies.

"So, Madhu is joining marketing?" Sultan asks.

"Yes." Rishabh replies.

Madhu looks at Sultan and tries to smile politely as she had to work with him from now on.

"But we don't need a new member in the team." Sultan argues.

Rishabh looks at Sultan and informs him. "She is not joining the team, Sultan. She is going to be heading the team. Madhu is the Director of Marketing."

"WHAT?" Madhu turns to Rishabh in shock.

"Congratulations, Madhu." Rishabh tells her with a smile and walks off.

Madhu watches him walk off in shock. She turns to look at Mukund and he grins at her and walk off. she looks at her co-workers and sees them all staring at her.

Madhu turns around and runs to Rishabh's room.

********

"How can you do that?" Madhu asks him in shock.

"Why can't I do that? it's my company." Rishabh replies cheekily.

Realizing she says in shock. "This is what Mukund and you were talking about that day. you wanted to create Marketing Director post for me."

"You were listening?" Rishabh asks her shocked. "You little sneaky, you." Rishabh teases her. "You always snoop on me?"

"That day you two were arguing and I couldn't help it." Madhu hesitantly says.

"It's okay. You can snoop on me." Rishabh cheekily tells her.

"Stop distracting me. This is not right, Rishabh. you can't just make me the Marketing director."

"Why can't I?" Rishabh asks her.

"You can't favor me like that." Madhu tells him angrily.

"I'm not favoring you, Madhu." Rishabh tells her.

"Then? I've next to no experience and you just made me a director?"

"I'm asking you to share the responsibility of this business with me." Rishabh tells her. "My responsibilities and pressure is increasing and I want you to help me take this company forward."

"What?" Madhu stops in confusion.

"I'm asking you to make your dream and my dream into our dream."

Madhu starts melting hearing that. "Stop it! you're saying all these emotionally manipulating things to brain wash me."

"Is it working?" Rishabh asks her sheepishly.

"YES!" Madhu says pissed.

Rishabh cheekily grins and pulls her towards him. "Don't fight me on this, Madhu. even when you didn't accept me, I wanted this for you."

"Why?"

"Madhu, this is my business and when a family member joins office they don't start from low."

"But no one knows about us." Madhu reminds him.

"But I know, Madhu. my heart knows."

"Stop with the cheesy dialogues." Madhu tells him helplessly.

"Is it still working?" Rishabh asks her cheekily.

"Yes!" Madhu tells him giving up.

"Do it for me, Madhu." Rishabh requests her.

"Okay." Madhu gives in.

"Thank you." Rishabh says excitedly as he hugged her.

Madhu smiles seeing his excitement.

"You need to see Mukund to discuss your new contract." Rishabh tells her.

"Why? The family members also get those?" Madhu asks him as she took his lips in hers.

"Sweety is going to wonder why a new contract wasn't drawn up for you." Rishabh tells her. "Mukund said so."

"Hmmm." Madhu kisses him. "All that later, now..." Madhu leans in and looks at his laptop screen. "You have 18 mins before your next call. Can you make it good?" Madhu asks him with a sexy smile.

"Can I? I'm becoming an expert lately." Rishabh smugly says.

"Really? I didn't realize it." Madhu teases him.

"Let me show you then."

********

Madhu sees the marketing team huddling together. She decides to talk to them as she didn't want any ill feelings the team members might have towards her.

"Hi..." Madhu tells them smiling.

"Look who is here. Our boss." Sultan says venomously.

"Sultan, I'm not your boss... we all can work together as a team." Madhu tells him.

"But you didn't want to work "as a team", that is why you became a director, right?" Sultan asks her.

"It was Rishabh's decision." Madhu tells him.

"Rishabh? sir gone?" Ria mocks her.

"Obviously." Sultan says as he glared at Madhu.

"Guys, stop it. if Rishabh took a decision then he might have thought it through." Ishana, one of the team member says.

"Yeah, we've known him for some time now. he is not a fool to throw away his company like that. and we've worked with Madhu, we all know she works hard and is good. So, if Rishabh made her the Director then it might be the right decision." Tanya, the other member says.

Madhu smiles at them gratefully.

"Oh I am sure, she worked hard. I can't work hard like that. you see, I am not a slut." Ria says in disgust.

"How dare you, Ria?" Madhu furiously asks her.

"Don't act so offended. You were sleeping with Rishabh. we know about the honeymoon suite and condoms." Sultan tells her in disgust. "We know exactly how you landed this promotion and what is your real area of expertise."

Madhu gulps in shock hearing that, her eyes filling up.

"he has been saying that, Madhu. we know that is not true." Tanya gently tells her.

"Sweety told us. she got the hotel bills." Ria tells her.

"And just yesterday, I saw her leave with Rishabh. If you think that is not what caused this promotion, then you are too innocent." Sultan tells them.

"Just shut up, Sultan." Ishana tells her.

Madhu turns around and runs to Rishabh's room.

********

Rishabh looks up and sees Madhu standing at the door crying.

"Madhu?" Rishabh stands up in shock. Then realizing that he was on a call, he says. "I'm sorry, I've to go. Can we continue this another time?"

Then quickly hanging up, he hurries to Madhu.

"Madhu, what happened?" Rishabh asks her as he held her.

Madhu hugs him and bursts into tears. "Sweety told everyone. they are saying that I was sleeping with you for promotion."

"What?" Rishabh asks furiously.

"What if one of them tell Ma? I don't want her to find out like this, Rishu." Madhu tells him worriedly as she cried and told him what happened.

"She won't find out like this." Rishabh tells her furiously, his heart burning with anger at her slander.

"We'll tell Ma today itself, Rishabh." Madhu tells him worriedly.

"You calm down. We'll sort it out." Rishabh tells her as he tried to calm her down.

After some time Madhu comes down.

"Come with me." Rishabh tells her as he held her hand and walked out of the room.

"MUKUND!" Rishabh calls out furiously.

"What are you doing?" Madhu asks him shocked seeing everyone looking at them.

Everyone was staring at Rishabh for seeing him furious for the first time.

"What happened?" Mukund asks as he stepped out of his room.

Rishabh turns to look at his staff and says furiously. "MADHU IS THE MARKETING DIRECTOR BECAUSE SHE IS DESERVING OF THAT POST AND I KNOW SHE IS CAPABLE AND CAN TAKE OUR COMPANY TO HEIGHTS."

"Did they say anything to her?" Mukund asks Rishabh angrily.

Rishabh turns to Mukund and tells him. "Sweety, Sultan and Ria, I want them out of here this instant."

"What are you saying?" Madhu asks him shocked.

"Sweety had explicit orders from Mukund which she disobeyed. Ria and Sultan for harassing Madhu." Rishabh tells Madhu.

"Three of you, in my room, now." Mukund tells them angrily.

"THIS IS MY COMPANY AND I TAKE DECISIONS HERE. I DON'T HAVE TO EXPLAIN MYSELF TO ANYONE AND I AM NOT GOING TO. BUT KNOW THIS, IF YOU HURT MY WIFE THEN I WILL NOT LOOK THE OTHER WAY. IF ANYONE HURTS MADHU, THEN YOU'LL HAVE TO FACE HER HUSBAND." Rishabh warns them all.

Then holding Madhu's hand, he walks to his room.

"Why did you tell them that?" Madhu asks him shocked.

"I'll not have anyone think you a slut." Rishabh tells her.

"Why? Is it just because I'm your wife?" Madhu asks him softly.

"It is because you mean the world to me, Madhu. I love you and if anyone hurts you..."

"I love you, Rishabh." Madhu cuts him off as she hugged him.

"Are you sure?" Rishabh asks her nervously, his heart slamming against his chest in joy.

"I wanted you to be sure. I always thought the world of you, Rishabh. I don't know whether I accepted you as my husband because I love you or I love you because you are my husband. But I do." Madhu tells him, her eyes filling with tears.

"I love you, Madhu. I don't know whether I love you because you're my only family, or you're my family because I only love you." Rishabh tells her with tears in his eyes.

"It doesn't matter. I just wanted us to be sure." Madhu tells him.

"I'm." Rishabh promises her.

"Then come, let's go tell my Ma." Madhu tells him excitedly.

"Will she accept me?" Rishabh asks her worriedly. "I've no family. I'm an orphan."

"She'll have to accept you because I'm your family." Madhu tells him confidently as she cupped his face.

********

5 years later

Rishabh crawls into bed and hugs Madhu around her swollen belly.

"Rishu?" Madhu sleepily calls him as she woke up. "You are back?"

"Yes." Rishabh replies as he kissed her cheek.

"I was waiting for you to come. I didn't hear your bell."

"I called Ma on her phone and she opened the door for me."

"Why didn't you call me?" Madhu asks frowning.

"Because you guys need sleep."

"Had dinner?"

"Yeah, she gave me dinner."

"You might be tired." Madhu tells him lovingly. "I told you to take someone to assist you."

Rishabh was a very successful business man now and their company had expanded considerably. Though there has been more structural changes and stronger HR policies implemented in the company, Rishabh's personal relation with each staff member remained the same. And Rishabh remained the same.

"I didn't want any feudal lord to threaten me and force me to marry my assistant. I will refuse and he will kill me, then you will hunt my dead body and kill me for dying on you." Rishabh says.

Madhu chuckles hearing that. "Stop being silly."

"Anyway, Patil is back after his vacation and now till your delivery I am not going anywhere. So, it is not a problem."

Madhu smiles hearing that.

"By the way, Ma was saying that you are so close to delivery that you should start your maternity leave."

"She did?"

"I think she got fed up from telling you. I don't know why she told me though."

"Why do you say that?"

"Maybe because my designation is higher than yours, she thinks that I hold some kind of power over you at office."

Madhu scowls hearing that.

"You'll do what you want to do."

"You make me sound so bad as if I don't listen to you." Madhu complains.

"Only when I use emotionally manipulative brain washing techniques." Rishabh replies.

"Wait till they get out of me then I'll show you!" Madhu says unable to turn as easily as she could have when she was not heavily pregnant.

"I think it will be a boy and a girl." Rishabh tells her excitedly as he caressed her stomach.

"Whatever they are... I'll be your number one family." Madhu possessively says.

"Don't be so selfish, Madhu. you need to share me with my family." Rishabh cheekily tells her to irritate her.

"I'm already fed up with your bonding with Ma. You two act as if, there is no other mother and son in the world."

Rishabh smiles hearing that. Ma and he had hit it off at the get go and poor Madhu had been kept side lines ever since. "I love you, Madhu." Rishabh tells her as he kissed her cheek.

"I know that. you start acting it and showing everyone around us that." Madhu orders him.

"Okay Madam." Rishabh agrees with a smile.

"Hmmm... now, let me sleep." Madhu tells him and closes her eyes and promptly goes to sleep.

*** The End ***

I know the epilogue wasn't good... I didn't get any other idea.

Did you guys like it? the sexual tension didn't come out like I wanted. But still hope you guys liked this story.

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- Lazy