The Quill Part 2- - Page 5

Woahh 😳☺️ but i don't follow the sudden romance .. isn't it their first..I'm kinda lost now!! It was hot 🔥 how did nice weather shift to hot kiss 🤔🤭

Gaurav is openely shameless how do you do that ask your bil bluntly after the car fiasco at the home entrance !! How does he think only about money it's his sister no doesn't he have compassion , he lost his dad a while ago , and his sister got married in this unexpected way !!

All Gaurav cares for is money. Not his family, not the store.

If she wants it, she has to ask for it. What transpired in those 3 hours leading up to it?

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In the 3 Hours…

“When did you get here?” he stretched holding the rails

“Abhi ek ghanta pehle”

“Why are you dressed up?”

“Your Mum said she was going to do some arti”

“Of who?”

“Don’t know”

“Is today a festival?”

She smiled and did not answer

“Tum ye saare sawaal mujhse kar rahe ho, apni Mom se nahi poochhoge?”

“I was going toward the kitchen I spotted u”

“Theek hai agli baar chhupkar khari rahoongi”

They gazed into each others eyes

He wondered what was it about her that made her brother feel so threatened

He thought thought about himself for a second

She did intimidate him as well

She was fearless and focused

It was an old run down bookstore , she fought like her life depended on it

“Sell any rare books recently?” he muttered still ogling her face

“Do u want one?” she smiled wearing her salesperson hat

“Are u angling for a in-person sales call in Chandigarh?”

“Ohhh! That would be nice, but I am piloting a new U/I for buying online, dikha sakti hoon tumhe”

“Oh?”

“Its fine if u don’t want to see it” she smiled shrugging

“I do”

They walked back, almost shoulder to shoulder

He wanted to hold her hand

In one of the hallway lounges leading to the kitchen, she had set up her work laptop on the coffee table

“Baitho” she patted the seat by her

“Yes Ma’am” he chuckled

“Teacher ki tarah baat kar rahi hoon main?”

“Yeah” he laughed

“I was in my nephew’s pre-school for 3 months one year”

“Cracking the whip?”

“They are too cute to be beat up”

She loaded the still being worked on page

It was fantastic!!

“Who did you hire?” he asked astonished

“I just took a non rare book and had 3 html developers create something for me

Two haven’t done it yet” she smiled at him proudly

“This looks great” he muttered staring into her eyes

“Ahem! Ahem!! I am going to show this to your Dad, he keeps asking me how the store is functioning”

“Great”

“Are you thinking its going to be harder to kick them out of there?” she chuckled

His expression changed

“You believe that’s what I am thinking?”

“I mean, there is a thin layer of civility and friendship between us, I would be a fool to assume anything otherwise”

“Your glossy rare books site is not going to be a impediment to my build plans Taara” he said firmly

They both sighed audibly and looked away

“Can we just suspend talk about Zenith Astro?” he growled

“Agar Zenith Astro nahi hota to main yaha nahi hoti”

“U know what I meant” he growled “Why do you act like you don’t get me?” he looked at her piercingly

“For a change normal chit chat between you two?” Gopal interrupted

“Umm.. I was just sharing some bookstore thing” Taaruni was flustered

“We are not done yet Taara” Pradyut muttered under his breath and got up to greet his Dad

“Chalo lets eat” Sumedha appeared too

“I wanted to show you something” Taaruni approached Gopal with her laptop

The duo spent the next 30 minutes holed up in his office talking about the bookstore

Pradyut was dispatched to fetch them

He watched with a bit of envy how she was able to be relaxed and warm with his Dad

“Done strategizing?” he chuckled

“He reads books but I know business” Gopal winked at his son

“Ah”

“Time to eat” he stood behind her waiting to pull her chair back

“Ma ne… Aunty ne arti ki aaj beta?” Gopal enquired

“Hmm” she nodded

Gopal took a call after patting her appreciatively on her head and walked out

Pradyut scoped her out

“U suggested we give Zenith a break so lets do it” she said warily

“NOW u take my advice?” his lips twitched

“I feel good when I am here” she shrugged

“Ah” he paused

“They don’t lock the fridge u see” she chuckled

“Woooww”

“I Met …” he began

“I know Gaurav visited” she said abruptly

He froze

“Despite what you think it was not my idea”

“Why are you so crazy about what I assume?” he voice was like whiplash

“K fine…. I take it back…but I didn’t send him”

Food was great, banter lively

“What did he say?” she whispered when Sumedha was packing food

He looked at her someberly and sighed

“Mujhe batao Pradyut

“Umm.. lets talk later, when we get home”

“Bahut badi baat hai?” she panicked her eyes like saucers

“No” he said flatly

She texted her Mum as they went down the stairs

Sumedha cried laughed and cooed over her

“He wants to live separately I hope he will invite me and Dad so we can move in with you guys” Sumedha hugged her

Taaruni teared up

“Would you do that for me?”

“Aapke liye to kabhi bhi beta” she squeezed her almost knocking her breath out

Taaruni went home with him, her car was still unavailable

“No pointy heel mishaps today” she tried to joke with him

“Kya hua Pradyut office mein?” when he drove quietly

“Nothing, he visited, we chatted, he left”

“Cant be so simple”

“Why not?”

“Main jaanti hoon unko”

“Then why did you ask me”

“Really? Is that what you are going to say to me?”

“I said I don’t want to talk about it Taara”

“You don’t have to protect me!”

“Oh believe me… I am absolutely not!!” his stare was cold

“Was Veer there?” she panicked

“No he wasn’t”

“What did he say Pradyut?”

“He wanted some share of the sale”

Her face paled

“Uh”

“He is sure you profited from it”

“Did you tell him, only Towers Partners profited from anything?” she lashed out

“Actually I did… I told him it’s a property the company will be developing, we plan to keep everything except the bookstore to change”

“He probably saw how “intact” the store was” Taaruni mocked Pradyut,

“Actually he cared less about the store and more about whats in it for him” Pradyut gave her a satisfied smile

“You are lying, he got to have seen the damage to the outside of the store”

“You have to ask him”

Neither of them knew Gaurav didn’t actually go to the store so he had no idea

“He hates me but loves Papa!!” Taaruni was furious… “I refuse to believe”

“This was my interaction, you can corroborate with him independently ofcourse” Pradyut parked and got off

She sat there heartbroken

“Oh! How can Gaurav not care about the store?”

“How can Pradyut lie about it?”

“Is he trying to buy off Gaurav so he can eventually take the store and gut it?”

“Did he actually pay Gaurav big money to go away?”

“Iska matlab the store is in even greater jeopardy”

She hurriedly got off the car and stormed after him

“I am trying to make the store profitable Pradyut, did you pay my brother to undermine my efforts?” she asked bitingly

“Towers Partners is already in a bind at Zenith Astro, we are unable to claim the whole plot of land, why would I buy his silence”

“It’s a choice you made, you offered me a deal of marriage to leave it untouched”

“There! You answered it!!”

“You cut a deal with me, and then go bribe my brother to increase your leverage?”

“I don’t have to bribe him at all”(Gaurav is no threat to Towers Partners) Pradyut opened the house door and stepped in, turned around to declare with a smirk

“You should just let me go and crush everything” she said calmly setting the picnic basket of food on the kitchen counter

He slowly approached her

“And just let me win Taara?” his eyes had a sparkling glaze like midmorning sun “just like that!!? (fingers snapping) had his voice silky with amusement

“Oh you can never win” she said firmly

“None of this is about anyone else” he said quietly

“Before you go down the path called Cliché Avenue There is no “us” Pradyut” she leaned on the wall weakly, afraid to move

He was too close

“You had the opportunity to tear it all up and walk away” he whispered on her face

“I still do”

“I DO I DO WHAT IS HE TALKING ABOUT” her mind voice screamed

“You didn’t” he gently pecked under her left ear

She stifled a groan on his shirt

“You avoid being alone with me, you bolt when I show up” he nipped her lobe

“Hamesha tumse darkar nahi jee sakti main” “I am going to accept the status quo” she gasped when he basically just cupped her bare waist

“You will be lying if you pretend like we are not aware of each other” he nibbled his way from her ear to her chin

“I don’t think about how I feel… I just go about (gasp! He had found her sensitive spot under her chin)

“We can put it to test right now… Taara” his lips closed on hers… her phone slipped from her fingers and fell to the floor

She had always been prepared to do what was needed, always controlled prepared and with functioning faculties. This man ripped it all up when he as much entered a 4 feet radious

Up close and personal he didn’t really make her angry or spiteful

Why?

Oh why?”

She trembled

He was feasting on her neck, gently feeling the beautiful handiwork on the shoulders of her sleeveless blouse

Her battered pride wickedly smiled, she was able to shake him

She was able to cause tremors in that arrogant unshakeable demeanor

He lifted his head his stormy gaze fixed on hers

His eyes raked the deep cleavage, the blatant sexuality of the hot black gaze giving her a fierce pleasure, she took a long deep breath accentuating her curves

“Armed and dangerous” he whispered, the back of his fingers floating over her bodice

“Flattery?” she rolled her eyes

He seemed to love her eye roll

“No truth” he whispered bending down to feel her heart with his lips

THIS is how he made her feel, unfailingly…… pursued and trapped and alarmingly safe!!

She groaned when she realized it

“Pradyut…” she inserted her fingers between her thundering heart and his lips

“U are shaking like a leaf for someone who believes there is nothing between us” he taunted unapologetically

“hato”

He trapped her fingers and kisses it one by one…

“Acknowledge it Taaruni Bhsuhan”he held her chin and demanded softly

He afforded her her fiery independence, and claimed her immediately

“No” she argued defiantly

His lips lit her like a blow torch to wax, and watched herself spread into a puddle

Talking with proof.

Bande nee prove karke hee mana.

He indeed is killer.

She has no chance. Plus he is gentleman in most ways. Baring his business he has been considerate towards her.

He wanted to hold her hand

That’s love ❤️

He watched with a bit of envy how she was able to be relaxed and warm with his Dad

Pradyut, you the reason for that as well.

“U are shaking like a leaf for someone who believes there is nothing between us” he taunted unapologetically

She is protecting herself from you. Too scared that you will dump her at first given chance one done. She doesn’t know you care. Or why you married her.