I fell in love the way you fall asleep,
Slowly….
And then at once!
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Hotel Guest Tree,
Delhi.
Sitting lazily over the bed with his fingers typing swiftly on the keypad of his laptop, his focus was still somewhere else. Advaith was working on an important presentation, yet his eyes were again and again wondering over the girl's face who was sleeping on other side of bed and who had managed to attract his undivided attention since the evening.
Advaith focused on Aarohi's delicate features shinning under the dim lights in the room and his heart beats accelerated at the rate of double. His eyes caressed her every features and curves, until his dark orbs rested on her ring finger of her right hand, which no longer had his family's traditional ring. And he was immediately drown into the memory lane of today evening.
~Flashback~
Advaith entered the room only to find Aarohi walking to and fro from one corner of the room to another, with frowns adorning her forehead.
"What happen, you look tensed!?Is it again paining somewhere?”, Advaith asked as politely as he could, along with taking out his casual wear from the truffle bag.
"Uhh—I need to tell you something.”, Aarohi said fidgeting with her fingers, but Advaith's sole attention was on her pink glossy lips which she was chewing under nervousness.
" Are you listening to me?", Aarohi asked him on finding him looking at her intently.
"Uhh—Yeah. What were you saying?", Advaith asked shifting his attention to everywhere in the room but on her.
"Actually your mother gave me your family's traditional ring, but it has been lost from me somewhere. I --- I promise I didn't lose that ring intentionally. I don't know how and where I lost the ring.", Aarohi said looking at him, but once again his sole attention was on her moving lips, inviting him to devour them until they both fall short of breath under this breathtaking kiss.
"Advaith!?", Aarohi squirmed under his gaze which was making her uncomfortable.
"Uhh—Yeah, That ring right!? yes so you--- you have some idea where that ring will be?", Advaith asked a little irritated due to the interruption in his admiring session.
"No, I don’t know. I mean I checked the whole room but the ring is nowhere. Maybe yesterday while going to the hospital or somewhere in the hospital I lost it.", Aarohi replied along with trying to remember that where the ring could be.
"Oh—it is ok!! you didn't lose intentionally ring. I am sure Mom will understand. You don't take tension and take rest. I will call the hospital and ask if they have found any ring.", Advaith comforted her before entering into the washroom to change into his casuals, while Aarohi could not help but to think about how Advaith is so calm regarding this important matter and how he didn't blame her for this like every other time.
~Flashback ends~
Sparing the last glance at Aarohi, Advaith silently got up and walked towards where his traveling bag was. Taking out a small box from the bag, he cautiously walked to the balcony.
Opening the velvety box, Advaith kept looking at his family's beautiful traditional ring in his hand with many thoughts running in the back of his mind.
In the evening when Aarohi told him about how she is guilty of losing his family's traditional ring and how sad she was looking about this matter, Advaith for once wanted to comfort her and tell her that the ring is with him only.But then, at the end of the day he believed that this ring belongs only to his love, his Aamira, and no one other than Aamira can wear it.
Whole night there was a constant debate between Advaith's mind and his heart. Where his mind constantly reminded him that this rings belong the girl whom he loves. But his heart was at the opposite opinion to his mind. His heart wanted to see that beautiful smile on Aarohi's lips when Advaith tells her about how all this time, the ring was with him only.
At last Advaith decided to follow his mind and to never return this ring back to Aarohi, rather decided to let her believe that she was the one who lost it.
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"Boss, Advaith khurana is coming back to Mumbai by tomorrow evening's flight with his wife.", Mike informed to Asad, who was busy having his drink along with admiring Aarohi's big portrait, which he ordered Mike to hang on his bedroom's wall .
Mike very well knew that Asad is a Casanova, but this time it was different. The emotions in Asad's eyes for Aarohi was different.
"Boss you like her, don't you?", Mike asked while taking the glass of wine which Asad forwarded to him.
"Yes I like her. And the fact that she belongs to the person I hate the most, makes me more crazy about her. I want her, Mike, I want her. I want her to be mine by any means. I want end of Abhiraj Khurana’s family.", By the end, Asad's eyes turned red and his voice turned obsessed as he easily broke the glass in his hand, causing the glass pieces piercing in his hand yet he remained not effected.
Mike sighed looking at the blood dropping on the floor from Asad's injured hand but didn't said anything. After all, this scene wasn't new to him. Every person around Asad were well aware of his anger.
"Do you want me to go and get her here? Finish it all at once!", Mike suggested though he knew that Asad never liked short games.
"Asad don’t like easy games. There is no fun in getting something easily. I don’t get rest until I see the person in front of me suffering. And this is the yearning I have to see in Abhiraj's son Advaith, when I will make his wife mine in front of him.", Asad said with a smirk, imagining all the ways of making Aarohi his'.
"But boss you are forgetting that Advaith loves someone else. Even if someone else will enter in Aarohi's life, Advaith will still not mind.", Mike challenged him with his brows raised, but soon frowned when he saw Asad's lips curving into devilish smirk.
Asad forwarded his cell phone to Asad and asked him to watch the video playing.
"You are keeping tab on them?", Mike asked a little shocked as he was not aware of Asad's this step, and no way Asad will do something without Mike's help.
"Umm--hmm, I am just keeping tab on my belonging. This girl is mine. Aarohi Advaith Khurana is mine!!", Asad replied with some fire blazing in his eyes.
"And if it does not affect that Advaith Khurana, then he would not have taken her in his arms and ran to the hospital. Look at those emotions on his face when his wife is lying unconscious in his hands.", Asad said with a smirk, but his eyes were still on the Aarohi's portrait.
"So you mean to say that Advaith is already in love with his wife!", Mike asked frowning as according to the information he got, Advaith already love another girl.
"Not yet, but he will be very soon. After all, no one can resist this innocent beauty.", Asad replied as he clinked his glass with Mike's, before gulping down the whole content in a go.
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"I think you don't love your brother at all. Or, you think that I won't do any harm to your brother, right!?", Moloy gritted his teeth while clutching Aamira's hair tightly in his fist, forcing her to look up at him.
"Why are you doing this? My brother is your son as well, and I am your own daughter. Then why are you doing this to your own children?", Aamira raise her voice as this was getting too much out of her control. The person in front of her was not at all her father, rather he was a devil in disguise of a human.
"Just for once do my work and I will let go both you and your brother. But if you will try to double cross me---then not one, but you will be responsible for the ends of two people, one is your brother and the other... your Advaith. Got it?", Moloy left her with such a force that Aamira fall back on the ground and winced as her elbow got scratched with a table.
"Dad, I want to meet Aditya. Please I want to meet my brother, my Aditya.", Aamira kept screaming and banging on the closed door as Moloy locked her inside her room.
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