Falak’s POV
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“Help..Help..!!” I cried for someone to save me from my father, who was trying to chock me to death. I tried to fight with him but was failing miserably.
“Shh..Falak! No one is here to harm you. I’m here with you.” a rough and warm hand ran over my face. “No one is going to hurt you. No one.”, Immediately, the person choking my neck started disappearing like some magical show. “Just calm down,” A sound rang in my ear in a low tone. I couldn’t help but snuggle more toward the direction from where that sound was coming. When I realized the boogieman of my dream was not haunting me anymore. I again moved back into a deep slumber.
When I work up in the morning, there was no one besides me, but the bedsheet was telling me the other story. I knew he was here last night. And he was the one who consoled me when I was fighting with my nightmare alone.
I sighed and left the bed to do the rest of my work for the day!
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Monday Morning!
I was helping Sister Alima in preparing breakfast and was thinking about HIS proposal. He asked me to move into that apartment. I returned back to the orphanage last night and couldn’t sleep properly because of the nightmare.
I had thought the session with Dr. White started showing results when I didn’t get any nightmares on Sunday morning. But I was too wrong about that or said it was too early to assume that. I was really too stupid to understand then that I didn’t get any nightmares last night; that’s because I was in the arm of my knight, who didn’t let any boogieman come near me.
I had finally decided what I had to answer him when we would meet again.
If you would be thinking, why was I waiting to meet him when I had his number, then let me tell you that his number always remains switched off. I couldn’t help but wonder whether he purchased a new sim card just to text me once in a lifetime?
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At Office!
“Hey!”
“Hi, How are your legs now?” Ashley asked.
“Better than the rest of the day.”, I replied and switched on my desktop. At the same time, I started arranging my things.
“Great!”
I hardly settled on my chair when that devil walked in with no expression on his face.
“Ms. Srivastav, Come into my office with the report and with a black coffee,” He said.
“Okay, sir.”, I nodded my head. The moment he entered his cabin, I turned my head toward Ash. “‘Black coffee?’ This is not in my KRA.”
“Preparing facilities for scheduled events and arranging refreshments, if required.”, Ashley mimicked in a robotic tone, on which I glared at her and left my seat to get black coffee without knowing his taste.
After a moment, I dashed toward my boss’s cabin holding both report and coffee in my hand.
“Come in,” Hearing these two words; I made my way toward his office.
As I entered, a man in a dark navy blue suit was sitting with his back to me. Though he had his back toward me but seeing his broad shoulders and the way the Armani suit was hugging his body. It was no doubt that this man could have a good chance in modeling.
‘Why didn’t Ash tell me that there was someone else also in the cabin?’ I thought.
“And there, I thought you’re going to take a whole day to prepare a single mug of coffee.” Jacob’s sarcastic remark brought me back to reality.
Muttering a sorry in a slow tone, I walked toward him and placed the coffee near him.
“That coffee is for me.”, A deep baritone voice forced me to look toward the other person. I looked at that man and gulped my saliva nervously. It was Klaus. My mind was about to start praising his notable feature when I shouted at her.
‘Shut up! Shut the fuck up! We’re committed to someone else.’, I reminded myself after giving the report to Jacob. I made my way toward Klaus to provide him with the coffee. I was sharing my bed with someone and praising the look of someone else.
This was not me!
I turned my head toward my boss, who was busy in checking the reports, and then saw him glaring at me like a raging dragon. I stood nervously by shifting my weight from one foot to another. No sooner later, I observed his eyes turning red and nostrils flaring, making me wonder what did I wrong with the report this time?
Throwing the file on the table. He shouted. “What’s this, Ms. Srivastava? There are still some mistakes in the data. What the hell did you do in those last week? Time Pass?”, He looed at me with full force that made me flinch visibly, and I took a step back.
‘Some mistakes in the data?’ I repeated his words in my mind and then realized that Ashley and I were working that night on the data. I was confident that I had corrected the errors, but I didn’t check the work done by Ash!
Shit!
“Calm down, Jacob. Just let her know the mistakes and ask her to do the same thing again.”, Klaus said.
“I’m not here to teach her. I wonder how these stupid girls get selected for the campus placement? What does the interviewer see in them? Not their brain for sure!”
That was it.
Tears dwelled in my eyes hearing his rude comment!
Okay! I agree that he had all reason to be mad for the error in the report, but how could he say something like that. What did he think of me, a slut?
I tried as much as possible to control my tears. I didn’t want to cry in front of him or say them.
“Tell me, Ms. Sriv..”, Suddenly, he stopped stabbing me with his words when he saw my expression. I quickly lowered my head to hide my wet lashes. I didn’t want to hear his comment on my this nature as well. But the fact that I was already caught and there was no point in hiding my tears, an uncontrollable sob escaped my throat no matter how much I tried to control my emotions.
“I’m sorry, sir.” I choked out the three words with difficulty before feeling the tears rushing down my face. “I’m so sorry…” I couldn’t complete my sentence this time, but out of nowhere, I was engulfed in someone’s arm. I was already having a hard time controlling my tears, and now that I got a shoulder to cry, tears started leaking out from my eyes, wetting the person’s shirt who had hugged me.
I took a deep breath and smelt the familiar smell of cologne.
The same which was used by HIM.
His hands wrapped around my should gently, caressing my hair in an attempt to make me feel better, but I, on the contrary, started crying like a baby as I found myself cocooned in HIS arms.
‘So, he was my mysterious love.’ I thought and felt bad that he said so many things to me. But at the same time, I made a mistake by not checking the report before submitting the report. I chanted a number of sorrys that were just muffled when he pressed my head more into his chest, saying, ‘it’s okay.’
“I’m not those type of girls.”, I explained and looked into his eyes and muttered in a crying voice.
“I know. I’m sorry for saying those things to you.”
“Ahem, Ahem.”, Immediately, I remembered that there was someone else in the office as well. I pulled myself away from Jacob and looked at the source of the voice. “Do you want me to leave?” Klaus asked Jacob, on which he glared at him and walked toward his seat.
“You can leave, Ms. Srivastava. I will call you later.”
“Okay, sir.” I nodded and had hardly turned my heel to leave his cabin when she spoke again.
“And I don’t like cry babies because I’m not here to pamper them.”, He added, on which I nodded my head again. I couldn’t imagine the shade of red I was turning right now.
Not because of his words or anything.
But with the thought that ‘Is he…Is he the one?’
My heart started to beat like crazy as it was going to jump out of my chest.
Could it really be him?
I had to confirm my doubt, but HOW?
With all these thoughts, I walked out of the cabin.
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#TBC