Part 14: incomplete. Do not yet read
He was never wrong. Maan Singh Khurana was never wrong. He and everything calculated. Nothing could ever escape his witty self, but he would be fair and give a chance to Geet for the sake of it, Maan decided as he spun the paper weight on the table.
Maan couldn't for the life of him understand how somebody from a murderer's family could be so pure and innocent. Her undying love for him was slowly eating at his almost absent conscience. As soon as he recovered from his fever he urged his investigators to have a further look into the matter and discover what exactly had happened in hoshiarpur. The detectives asked him for some more time since the village people were not easy to deal with.
Maan reluctantly agreed to give them some more time but in his heart he wanted to spend as much time as possible, with Geet, why he couldn't tell and didn't want to dwell upon.
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Geet was on cloud 9. Maan had recovered sooner than expected from a viral cold and fever. She laughed to herself as she remembered the mild scolding she had given him for neglecting his health. If not for her, who would have nursed him back to health? She spun around in the office smiling. She seemed to have only one work, day dreaming about him. Of course she was a romantic, but if somebody had told her she would fall in love this way, she would have laughed it off. But now she could imagine why lovers sacrificed their love for each other. He wasn't just her love, he had become her life in such a short span of time. She couldn't dream of a life without him.
Just as she was mulling over him she received a phone call to her cell. Looking at her name made her heart beat even more faster. It was him.
"Hello" she said in a shy voice. She was still very very shy. He had that effect on her.
"Hi baby! I was thinking about you."a deep accented voice spoke through the phone making her blush.
"Ji! How is your health now? I told you to rest a little more. If you had stayed back at home for one more day, the company would not have shut down." Geet spoke in mock anger.
After almost a minute of silence during which Geet lost all the courage she had gained, his next words made her shiver.
"I've never heard you speak to me like that before. Your courage seems to be increasing day by day. I want to see how much of that courage lasts when we go for a weekend getaway to a cabin in the middle of the forest." He whispered softly.
Geet swallowed her spit. They were going to the middle of nowhere and that too with Maan. She was almost fainting in her seat imagining what would happen.
"What happened Geet? Did you chicken out? No more guts to form a reply to my statement?" He chuckled softly
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