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Pooja almost nudged her when the official gave her a no-no sign. He approached Naina, and softly whispered so that only she could hear, "I think it's time you stop thinking about Mr. Special and get back to work." Her eyes flew open at the voice and she found her sight captured by chocolaty brown velvety eyes. A smug and mischievous now clouded those sharp manly features. Flushing from embarrassment at having been inattentive and to top it all the accusation hitting the bull's eye, she felt her eyes downcast. Worst it was he who had caught her red-handed of all people.
Part 15:-
"Actually, I ummâŚ. Wasn't âŚ.eh⌠daydreaming. I wasâŚâŚâŚuhhhâŚâŚâŚâŚ", she managed to stutter out, mind furiously scanning for excuses, though the earlier embarrassment still clouding over her thoughts helped no more. She almost tripped in a hurry to rise which just added fuel to fire.
"Planning on when next to blast me eh?" he whispered again.
Now completely self-conscious, relatively darker than the reddest of roses, all she managed to utter was a lame apology. Now shifting his focus with a sly grin, Major Rajveer Singh Shekhawat addressed the entire congregation. Regaining his professional, curt posture with absolute proficiency, the partial seminar- partial presentation-partial planning initiated. His eyes once or twice swam over his protge earning him a frown due to her dormant conduct in the conversation. Her mind appeared to be reeling, re-evaluating and re-cross-examining their means and modes of fighting back.
Naina true to his assumption had been accessing their data and strategies. Unconsciously when their eyes met, she understood the reproving look. But she wanted her tactics to materialize and for that to occur, she had to remain mum. She just couldn't yell out to him that she planned to use herself as a bait to lure Gehlot to commit a mistake by coming out in the open. He would without any second thoughts, discard her idea as superfluous and outrageous. Afterwards, true, he would be livid but then later she would make him see reason.
About an hour later while the other officers dispersed, Naina bent down as to pick up her fallen pen and vehemently began to pray that Raj doesn't question her right now. She quickly rose and almost ran to the door but to her dismay fount it securely shut. Her anxiety coupled with irritation when the door refused to budge.
"Isn't this remote-control combination lock cool and effective? 100% secure and quite invisible too. A friend of mine wanted me to check this gadget out. Quite a development, in safekeeping field, eh?" Raj said, while uploading information in the cd in his laptop and without even a glance in her direction. All he managed to evoke was a flustered "aye" from her.
"Looks like you still haven't managed to recover from the morning's incident, Naina." He finally continued after a prolong silence. He was quite aware of her discomfort. But still he failed to elicit an acute response (apart from her tinted cheeks). He knew one question that would definitely bring her out of her reverie.
"Marry me, hun!"
Yup, that worked just fine. Eyes wide and round, shock so prominent that it could induce second thoughts even in a stranger.
"WhoaâŚ. What the âŚ!" Naina began, her thoughts running bizarre along with her stumbling words.
"Finally, thought that if this wouldn't have worked then would have directly had to kiss you back to senses", said her luminary (though he mischievously pondered that wouldn't have helped, as he himself would have lost all voluntary control.)
Now Naina knew that all she wanted to do right now was disappear. Her bare effort of concealing those blushes creeping along her neck and cheek were pointless. The shy and quite hunk of a teacher's sudden makeover into a daring and blunt official was disbelieving and left her gasping like a gold fish.
"Anyways looks like you wouldn't want to let me into your conjuring secrets. Also your present condition wouldn't have aided you even if you did want to. Anyways gotta go. See you around."
With an airy look, he sauntered by innocently leaving Naina to curse herself.
Shiv Shakti
