Chapter 16

Chapter 16

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“I want to continue Sir” How could she let the job go. She cannot miss a single chance to be near him. He is hurt somewhere.

“Fine. Then in office, you are my secretary.. Personal secretary” he added

“Personal Secretary, sir” Geet said and turned. Smile forming her face for the first time as the feel sinked in slowly.

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On their way back home, Geet was not lost in her own world but she was lost in an entirely different universe.

Thankfully her uncle and Aunt were in the car that they came in and Geet and Sheela were in Maan’s car, their family driver taking them.

“Geet” Sheela tried to talk but seeing Geet completely lost, she let her friend be the new world of new bond. 

As the car moved, the trees passed by, a boy in cycle passed by, cars and buses passed by, numerous shops and complexes passed by… all passed by her eyes but surpassed her brain. 

Geet’s mind was fully occupied absorbing the fact that she was Maan Sir’s fiance, her marriage was fixed with Maan Sir. She will be his wife and he her….. Her heart jumped as she thought further.

How will they talk, how will they interact, how will it feel being near him. It will all be so strange, awkward but yet so beautiful. But why did he say yes?  As far as she remembers, he never mentioned his alliance being fixed. Does it not mean anything to him? But it means a lot to her, especially now, when the man was Maan Sir.

“Phir haan kyun bola. Abb bola hai to nibhana toh parega” Geet blurted to herself

“Did you say something, Geet” Sheela, who was getting bored with her friend’s silence.

Geet turned and nodded for no and again turned towards the window “Maan Sir, haayy Rabba..” she spoke in her mind.

On the other hand, Maan was not himself as well. 

“Geet Handa was his fiance” It was nothing less than lifetime shock or surprise. He could not fathom how he was feeling about it.  Why was he not feeling as irritated as he had imagined he would if his alliance is fixed to just any girl that his Dad selects.

Why did he feel relaxed? Why? Because the girl was Geet? But why? All that girl does is to disobey him, put herself in danger and increase his trouble? A big distraction that he is working hard to keep away? Why is he not feeling irked by the alliance  being fixed rather feeling a bit opposite. 

And why was he unable to find reason to decline the alliance. He had prepared a solid valid reason to decline, till he saw her as the one and all his plans went into the drain.

On the top of knowing, she has indirectly rejected him. She clearly said she said yes because of his family.

“Aaap bhi bohot achce hai… consolation prize de diya”

Maan lay on his room absorbing the fact that Geet Handa, his personal secretary was in real his personal matter now

Naintara was so excited to go and check on Maan but Sandhya stopped her

“I will go and talk to him”  

Sandhya entered his room and sat on the other side of his bed. Maan saw his mother and moved his head from pillow to her lap

She lovingly threaded his hair “abb yeh bachpana, lad dular chodna hoga. You will be married in couple on months”

“Hmm… so you won’t love me anymore”

She hit his head “Where is my love going to go away from you. But it will come to you through your wife. Uss bachi ko maa ka pyar dena hai”

“Not fair” he said but somewhere felt good about it, kind of relieved that she will definitely get the family love in his family for which she has been craving

“And you too have to shower your love on her”

“She doesn’t need that. She wants this alliance because of this family”

“Hmm… toh iss baat ka gila hai…”

“Why does it matter to me”

“I know every nerve of you.. You would have not raised this matter if it did not matter to you. You are discussing her, it is enough for me to know what’s going inside you… nahi toh.. You would have been cribbing about the alliance being fixed… khud haan bola aaj toh” she teased him

“I am not the one to reject any girl”

“Achcha… planning toh kee thi…”

“Mumma…. Are you under Bhabhs training to trouble me”

“No. I am here to tell you that now Geet will be your responsibility. We all will love her but you have to make sure she gets everything she deserve”

“Ek din me itna pyar hogaya usse… main hee bura hoon”

“Mere Maan kee dulhan hai.. Payr toh kerna parga. Or else you will complain we love your Bhabhs more than your wife”

“Why will I complain? She is already everyone’s favorite”

“Bol, pasand hai na tujhe bhi”

“Mom, I go to the office to work and if you don’t know I am very serious and mature at work. Focused to achieve. I don’t have time for…”

“Leave it.. You are not even able to figure out the excuses” she laughed. She was his mom, and knew him much better than him. Maan knew, he could hide things from his own self but not from Mom

“Well, now, from tomorrow onwards, start taking care of her and make her feel special..”

“Mom, she is a disaster queen… na khud chain se rehti aur meri toh dushman hai… she is not as sweet as you are thinking. Negating my words comes first in her rule book.”

He sat, trying to complain about her, trying to convince mom that she only troubles him but it all went into the  well

“Hmmmm…. I see… her talks doesn’t tire you”

“Mom please… bola na… she is just a trouble maker… Now let me take a rest. I have too much work in the office” She left after sneaking to his heart. It was very important for her to know if Maan was at all in this relation and she got her answer.

Geet has rolled on bed, twisted and turned the whole night to sink in the fact that she exchanged rings with Maan Sir.

“But he does not like you Geet. So be prepared to see his big angry glares now more in office and then whole life..” She then hid her face in pillow thinking of the life with him

“Chi Geet.. be in control. He is your boss” then she took another turn

“So what?? he is also my fiance now” and she then hit her forehead

“Chup ker Jhalli.. Kuch bhi bol rahee hai”

Thus the sleep took over Geet only at the early morning hours of 4 am. It was 8 am when shrill voice of her Aunt woke Geet up

“So now being alliance in a bureaucrat family, you think you are already one of them”

Geet rushed to get ready. She  must have left for the office by 7:30 and it’s already 8 am. She has  just woken up.

But it was not that easy. Her aunt who was already boiling with jealousy of Geet going in such high profile reputed family made her do all her morning chores

“Okay.. so you wake up late and rush to the office without any work. Ohh I should have known that now onwards I have to be at service of her”

“I will do all my chores Chachi”

“Hmm…” 

So when Geet rushed inside the office it was already 10:30 am

Geet dumped her bags and lunch box on the table and rushed to check on her boss. She almost forgot at this spur of moment that she was his fiance now. 

And in hurry, she also rushed inside his cabin without the knock

“Good Morning Sir” and her eyes went on all the MDs and other HODs seated there

“Sorry sir…”

“Sir woooh…”

“Geet calm down” said karan getting up as Maan kept looking at her

“Disaster queen” commented Shasha who had no idea of their ring exchange. 

“Shasha!!” Maan calmly warned her

“MK.. she is reaching office at this hour” she said trying to act being horrified

“So…” Came out from Maan. Of course he himself wondered what made her so late but somehow he did not like Shasha’s comment on her

“Boss ko phasana aata hai inn jaisee ladkiyon ko bas”

Geet looked horrified at Shasha

“Geet leave. We are having management and leadership meeting”

“Sir main…”

“LEAVE!!” Geet gulped, the pain hit her heart. They were engaged yesterday and this is how he is speaking to her today.

He was not happy with whatever happened yesterday, she was confirmed.

She settled in her seat “Why did he say yes if he so dislikes me. Now he will shower all his frustration on me in office”

Geet took out her breakfast which she had packed in hurry

“Yes, and that is why he had reappointed me as his personal secretary”

Geet took the bite, in pain and anger, not even realizing what she was eating

“His family exhorted him to accept this alliance but he can shower that frustration on me”

She then took out her small mirror and looked at her face

“Itni buri bhi nahi hoon mai”

“Wow… what’s going on. Is this the time to reach the office and then see what you are busy in. Fixing yourself in the mirror”

Said irritated Maan, who had canceled all his morning meetings for the first time, so that he could have some talks with her. And you all can imagine Maan’s irritation when the person for whom he freed his morning hours did come exactly after the other uncancelled meeting started.  On top, that Shsasha’s words about her.  It has always been beyond his understanding as to why he could not bear anyone else demeaning her. Well, maybe he felt it was his sole right to taunt her.

Already hurt Geet with his “LEAVE” in front of everyone got up

“I know, very well know that you don’t like me or my presence around you” She moved close to him in speed, Maan backed off with her sudden avatar, in return raising her confidence

“Haan kyun ki phir kal” she spoke quite loud and almost hovering her face on his, causing his index finger to go on her lips. Well his one finger contact on her lips, and all her anger and mornings frustration disappear in the thin air 

“Chup… bilkul chup” he left her for a second only to close the door and then turned to bore his intense gaze on her. That intensity… uff abb kya bolegi woh. He took slow lion strides towards her, making her do the equal slow steps but in backward.

Next Geet was stuck on the wall and Maan, so close to her, bordering her with his strong arms… Ohhh.. she could feel the closeness and his strong structure hovering over her, filling her with sinful desires

“Do you have to speak this loud? Other than my friends no one in office know about what happened yesterday”

“Why? Do you feel ashamed of being in alliance with me?” she tried countering, though her heart started pacing fast with the different craving aroused by his closeness.

Maan took a deep breath, closing his eyes and throwing his head up. He let out his breath, lowering his face, in the process fanning her face with his warm breath, not helping her to collect her uncontrolled heart.

“How are you capable of inventing such a unique meaning of my words… and these razor sharp words, where do they vanish when with others?”

“Or else why would you not want anyone to know?”

“You want everyone to know? Mujhe nahi pata tha tum itni khush ho is rishte se that you want the whole world to know about it. ”

Of course she was happy, she cannot tell him that it was limitless but then the painful part was he did not like her at all

 Maan released her and turned “You see, a person like Shasha, who does not like you very much will make it an office gossip. You already got a glimpse of it today”

“Well, You don’t like me either and you taunt me as well. Why would you have a problem with anyone speaking anything about me” Frustrated with her absurd arguments which poked him to look into his heart, Maan turned and grabbed her to pull close to him, his  arms around her waist.

Geet felt dizzy with his such possessive hold on her, pulling her so close to him. She could feel every inch of their contact. His long fingers on her waist and her breast crushed to his hard front

“Itna hee samjha tumne mujhe Geet?” his intense gaze piercing inside her heart, telling her whole different story of his heart but his next set of words brought her back

“This is how you see me, no wonder you dislike me so much. Why did you not deny the alliance” he said, still  holding her close to him in his arms. And making no effort to get out of his captivity, she countered

“Okay… so you want me to fulfill your wish. If you so much don’t want to get into it, take a dare and decline” she said very briefly, looking into his eyes which were moving all over her face. Not able to take the close intensity of his look, she lowered her gaze.

“You dislike me, right? And you want me to reject the alliance.. Wow you have a dare” he countered, his hands leisurely supporting her back

“I am not doing it, you want, you decline” she declared

“I am not doing it, You want, you decline” he threw her words at her…. 

Maan pulled her closer with a jerk, she made no effort in resistance.

“Then bear me for life” he made her look into his eyes by lifting her chin making her tear her gaze from his perfectly shaped lips

“Same, bear me for life then”

Maan's eyes now went to her plum pink lips as they were always ready to answer him. He cannot take them into his, she does not like him

“So, now that I know you are not willing to be a perfect wife but as you have claimed to be a perfect secretary to me, can we do some office work” and he freed her, making her feel the vacant created.

“Hmmm” she hummed, gathering herself.

In Maan’s office, Geet was standing with notes to write whatever he was dictating but as he spoke up in super jet speed about five projects and their details in 10 minutes. Obviously everything went above her head as she was looking at him with her hand still

“Show me the notes now, we will go over them one by one slowly”

“Slowly??” Geet spoke to herself lost and handed him the notes with an empty page. In full energy Maan looked at the notes to find in empty

“Geet!!”

“Hmmm….”

“GEET!!!” “Hmmm” She was lost observing him or say, analyzing the situations. She has to be near him all the time, be tortured by his magnetic personality when she knows he is not interested in her

“Where are you lost” “In you” still lost Geet uttered

“WHAT????” Geet’s trance broke

“Sab mujhe pareshan kerne ke liye ker rahe hain aap.. I know” 

Maan narrowed his brows in utter confusion “What did I do now? And why would I do that?

Geet herself did not know what she was speaking and what she wanted to say. The chemical reaction of her heart and brain were not in sync at all 

“Because I declined to do what you wanted me to do?” Maan suddenly pulled her to him and placed his finger on her lips “BAS!!” Geet kept looking at him with her big hazels blinking

“Do you really think I am that bad, Geet?” ohh.. The way he spoke in his husky voice

“You are too good” she said again lost in trance of his possessive hold

“Really? Then what’s the problem”

“That is the problem.”

“That is the problem?” Maan asked, confused. This girl is thinking something and speaking something else. She is beyond his understanding. She is enigma behind her simplicity

“You don’t like me but you are so caring for me. Why did you save me from Shasha ma’am’s taunt in the morning” Maan traced his hands through her arms, placing them on her shoulders and pulled her closer, looking directly into her eyes, as if trying to read them. They had their own story which she denied to tell.

“We may have our any level of arguments but I cannot let anyone else demean you. Never. Samjhi tum” Maan himself didn’t know why it was so but he knew it was his fact and Geet being Geet asked further

“Kyun”

Maan took a deep breath and sighed

“Geet, I have tons of work. If you want a break you can take a break today but can I catch up with some work, at least few important ones, please”

“Hmmm.” she nodded and left

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