Binding attraction😃
The urge to see him only intensified the following days, she thought up excuses to go to NOIDA or Jor Bagh
Rohan was reviewing everything she was doing carefully and thinking about adding more to her plate
55-60% of the needs assessment at EurAmr was done already
Now Stern Consulting had to build scenarios to pull EurAmr out of the pit they were in
Unbeknownst to her Avyaan was actually looking at his business operations, how he was forecasting sales the first few years and how he had been doing it the last couple.
They exchanged a few emails in the next couple weeks but nothing hugely incriminating about their burning attraction.
His brother had wanted to see him one afternoon, he had lied about work and actually ended up working
He didn't want to go see his smug face
Nope!
His mother overcompensating so that Avyaan should not feel bad in his own brother's presence
Pathetic!
I need to be handled with kid gloves
He was so engrossed in figuring out why he did a better job the first years of break up vs last, he completely forgot the passing of time and ended up being at work until 2 AM
He returned home and found his heart thudding as he opened the door and the power had gone out again minutes ago as he turned into his street
The backup came on soon after and yet he felt a strange unease
He did hear from her a week later
"Please let me know if I can drop off the binders to your office?
"I should have them digitized at some point, its really archaic to be carrying binders back and forth he shamed himself
"There is a lot to be said about putting everything on cyberspace she defended him
"Umm... whichever location you prefer he said politely
Her insides churned when he gave her the choice
Her mouth turning dry
Shiv had returned reluctantly.
Her mother wanted her to visit Bangalore for Ganpati, the best time of the year in Karnataka and in her life with Bik. She used to dress up every evening and go out to greet friends and family for the utsav
She spent the afternoon vacillating. Drinking too much tea again, She had kept acidity at bay for 3 weeks
Completely not her style BTW. She hated self pity and moping. Every time it reared its ugly head she actually got up and threw herself into a task. She couldn't cook, she wasn't a great cook but did experiment and found it therapeutic for her grief
But at Mrs Mitra's that was out of Q.
Some days grief hit her in waves... Never like a tsunami... always like a high tide
She took an auto and went to Jor Bagh arrived at 7 and he was already home since he had a splitting head ache from being at work until 2 AM
And the night before just unable to sleep
And the whole week just being out of sorts...
He opened the door thinking it was the maid from next door with his grocery... and milk
It was Samidha Sa... Rao
Toast just barked in a circle just batty...
"Shush he warned dragging him in
"Arent u going to invite her in? "Well? I mean? he panted and drooled "huh huh huh huh loud sounds
"Hi! he greeted
He wore grey shorts and a maroon red tee of some sports team... he smelled like the inside of his apartment
She desperately wanted to smell that, her cheeks flamed just at the scent alone. She didn't know what it was, she just wanted to smell it intimately
She was wearing a pink chikan suit, sleeveless with all over fine embroidery her dupatta sweeping the marble lobby...
The binders flattening her already unremarkable chest she realized
"Here she gave him the edges of the binders sweaty
"U can come in he yanked his dog
The dog spazzed and stretched... "IN... Toast... right now
"Can u tie him? she demanded
"Umm.. no he chuckled
He took the guy to the bedroom and shut the door and he began scratching
"thanks he reached for the binders
She went on her toes swiftly and kissed him with her eyes closed, a small whimper escaping her throat
A quick moist molding of his upper lip, his really full lower lip caressing under her bottom lip involuntarily
He dropped the binders startled landing on both their feet...
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