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2024-10-29 19:42:56The woman who was sitting in front of him, awkwardly willing the flush away from her own face.
It so happened that she had come to wake him up half an hour back. And call it an occupational hazard, but he had lethally quick reflexes even in his sleep. It took only a nanosecond for him to haul and trap her beneath his body when she poked him in the shoulder. Thankfully, his subconscious knew that he was safe in his house, else he might have snapped her wrist or something. As soon as he saw her surprised face below his and it registered that it wa
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It was an hour or so past midnight and an ominous storm that had been brewing above the Arabian Sea all day, was at its crescendo. Cinching the lapels of the bomber jacket closer, Jayant braced himself against strong gusts of incoming sea wind. Small steamer boats anchored at the shore were dancing choppily at the tunes of rough waves. While he monitored the unloading of their latest consignment going on in front of him with practiced eyes, he could see that the workers were having a tough time of it. The high tide was vehement on this cloudy night and the full moonlight was quite lacking its usual luster. And true enough, before he could even finish the thought, a man almost slipped a wooden crate while trying to hold his footing against a particularly high wave that crashed into the rocky embankment."Kalji ghya! Agadi ekaca boksa nahi sodala pahije," Jayant instinctively shouted in his mother ton
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"Where were you the whole day?"Maahi's heartbeat stopped for a moment before it restarted, and she slipped into the dining table chair on the left side of her grandfather."Out," she lifted the cover of the curry bowl in front of her with an unaffected air."Out? That's all you have to say?" Lala Amarnath narrowed his eyes."What else, dadu?""Where were you exactly? In absence of your brother I expect you to keep me updated on your whereabouts.""Dadu, even bhaiya doesn't worry about my whereabouts when he is in the city. I am safe with Mohan and JK. I have backup security too.""I know. It's not your safety that I am worried about. Girls from good families don't stay
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Maahi watched Samar emerge from the bathroom with only a towel tied around his waist. For the millionth time, she ogled at his fantastically ripped physique. She probably wouldn't ever get tired of watching him. Or of loving him. As she sat on the bed, painting her toenails, she marveled at how far they had come in just last month. From being novices to experts on each other's body in the sex department. The things they had tried in bed, things they have done to each other, the number of times they have done them; if she hadn't known it firsthand it would have been impossible for her to believe that they both were virgins just four weeks back. To be fair, they did practice a lot. A lot.Samar dropped the towel. Maahi promptly forgot the task at hand.Samar smirked at her.She rolled her eyes.
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The dreadful implications of what she had heard and who she had seen assailed Maahi as she absently stared at the swirling steam rising from the hot mug of Chocolate cradled in her hands. She was wrapped in a warm blanket, still, torpedoes of chill traveled down her arms. Her hands trembled."Drink it. It will help with the cold."She looked up at the owner of the voice. Rizwan Baig. While she sat sideways on his three-seater regal couch, her back resting on the brocaded pillows that were stacked against the armrest, he sat on a stately settee. His living area was an exquisite ode to the Mughal era and while her experienced eyes had involuntarily registered her surroundings, she couldn't find the slightest of enthusiasm for the classic details she would have otherwise gone crazy over. In fact, she had been lying along the length of this couch lifelessly, before the hot-choco came along and forced her to sit up.Maahi glared at the younger Baig brother, but when
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"What the hell, Maahi? I have been calling you for the last three days and you don't even revert my calls, let alone pick them!""I remember messaging you that I'll call back when I am free," Maahi replied in a dull voice."And you didn't get one free moment in three days? What are you so busy with?"Crying. Thinking. Cursing. More crying."This and that," she said."This and that? Seriously?""Yes. Talk later?""How much later?""I'll call you," she bit out."No can do, sweetheart. What is troubling you? Out with it."
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He had been miserable for the past four days since Maahi had walked out of Rizwan's flat. Angry and miserable, sad and miserable, guilty and miserable, defensive and miserable. In a nutshell, miserable.Maahi was the only girl in his life since forever. She was his only reference point when it came to female kind. Except for his mother he had never been that personally involved in any other female's life and that was a different kind of a relationship, very long ago. In his adulthood, Maahi had been a benchmark for the whole womankind for him. It was difficult for him to imagine a female who did not dress high fashion, who did not spend away money like empty shells of peanuts, who did not treat him different from all others in a special manner, or who did not love her useless brother with all her heart. Because that was what Maahi was. For him, the word female was synonymous with Maahi. To add to all of it, she wa
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Maahi smiled at the night duty nurse and quietly closed the door behind her after checking up on her grandfather. He was sleeping peacefully, under the effect of painkillers probably, for it has just been ten days since he had been shot. He was moved back home as soon as he was out of danger. In the business, to which their grandfather had dedicated his life and sacrificed everyone else's, it was considered wise to recuperate in one's stronghold. Lying helplessly in the public building, where security arrangements could never meet the rigid standards, no matter how meticulously they were made, was akin to tempting the fickle fate.Without making a noise, she moved to the room two doors down. Similarly, she opened it and took silent stock of the situation there. Her brother was sleeping, and his male nurse was dozing off in the comfortable chair in the corner of the room. These days her brother didn't require much nighttime care. Satisfied, she closed that door as well.
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Samar paced outside the small bedroom at Jayant's flat. JK stood tensed in a corner. Half an hour back, Swapnali had collapsed. Just like that. She was sitting on the bed and bam, keeled over, and dropped on the floor unconscious without any prior warning sign. Samar panicked. JK grew hysterical. It was kaki who finally emerged out of her five-day-old stupor and rushed to her daughter-in-law's side. The doctor was summoned and was presently checking her inside.The vibrating phone burned a hole in his pocket. Out of sheer irritation, he fished it out and barked, "What is it, Maahi?"He knew it was her without even looking at the caller id. She had been doggedly persistent in calling him since the last five days. But she was the last person he wanted to talk to right now. He had realized how easy it was to say that her family name didn't affect his love towards her. It did. W
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"I DIDN'T DO IT!!!!"Maahi sat up with a start."IF I FIND THAT YOU HAD A HAND IN IT, I WILL KILL YOU WITH MY OWN HANDS KUNAL!!!"Alarmed, she jumped out of the bed and rushed to her door. The voices were coming from the corridor outside."I SAID I DIDN'T DO IT!!"She peered outside, quiet like a mouse, trying to make a sense of all this commotion. Loud noises had been permeating her sleep since the last couple of minutes and had more or less woken her up, but she wasn't any wiser regarding the topic of this argument as her groggy brain took time to pull out of the dreamland and catch on to what was actually being said.It was very early morning going by the hues outside
