ASHLOK FF - AT FIRST SIGHT Last Chapter - Page 41

Your tender kiss has awaken my desires

Only your love can take away my fears

Baby, I promise you there'll be no more tears

Give me a chance to show you lives cheers

~Anupama~

She could feel his warm breath on her ear and her cheek. Shivers ran down her spine. Her whole body was yearning for his warmth to engulf her. She closed her eyes as if to shut away the sensations that were creating a whirlwind of emotions in her. The same feeling she got when he kissed her for the very first time on her cheek. She was lost in her own thoughts when she heard the door close. She turned around to see an empty room.

Just like that he was gone. She touched her cheek and a smile appeared on her blushed face. "He kissed me".

For the first time in many years as she can remember she wasn't afraid to be touched by a man. She didn't feel like a piece of rotten meat. It felt good to feel his touch. To feel his warm lips on her cheeks. She remembered his scent. His warmth. Everything about him was right. There wasn't anything about him she didn't like. She loved everything about him.

It was the first time she was brave enough to let a man come near to her and her skin didn't crawl. It was the first time that she felt safe in the presence of a man. She didn't mind being close to him. How is it possible? She never thought that she'd be comfortable or trust a man enough to get close to her let alone kiss her.

Walking away he felt like a warrior returning after conquering a new kingdom. He had conquered his Kingdom of Heavan. Where his Angel reside.

After hearing her voice and seeing her face and her all telling eyes, what ever doubts, if he had any with regard to her feelings towards him was put to rest. Just as the sun rising from the east or the waves crashing to the shoreline, he knew she loved him too. "She loves me!"

Her love has given him wings to fly. She's become the reason for him to breathe. She was the reason for his happiness. He was trying to fathom the intensity of his love and his feelings towards her. For Just the thought of her loving him has given him such a high, he wondered how ecstatic he'd feel when she actually accepts him as hers.

He has made it his mission to bring her out of what ever misery she's in. He can feel it just by looking at her face and now after what ever little she managed to say to him proved that she's keeping a deep dark secret. And it's eroding her soul from within.

The fear and apprehension stems from her past. Her past is keeping her from living her in the present and expectations for the future.

He wanted the whole world to know how she feels for him. He wanted to climb on to a roof top and scream as loud as he can say to the world she too loves him.

Now all he needs to do is convince Astha that she too needs him as much as he needs her.

Astha was sitting in her consultation room, finishing some pending paper work, when her intercom buzzed and the receptionist informed that she has a special delivery and if she can send the delivery guy over. She said yes and was anxious.

Her jaw dropped when she saw what the delivery guy had in his hand. A huge Bouquet of white lilies. 4 dozen to be exact.It came with a note which the delivery guy insisted she read and she give her reply then and there. That was the condition of the sender.

She knew who had sent it. She took the note and opened it...

Astha, I need to talk to you. I know that you will not take my calls. Read maybe, but never reply any of my messages.I really don't like to create any issues for you at your workplace. So this is my only option. Unless you want me to pay you a visit just like today? Tell me the place and time, I'll be there in a heart beat. Give me a chance to prove I'm worthy of your love!

Shlok.

She didn't know what to think nor what to write. But the delivery guy told her very politely he'd be in trouble if he retuned without a reply. Of course Shlok had paid the guy extra for this. She just wrote..

Received.

Thank you!

Put the note in the envelope and gave it back to him.

She was lost yet again. He's not going to go away, he's gonna keep on trying to convince me what my heart already knows. How can I convince him otherwise when I myself knows the truth. What am going to do?

She knew this is not the last she's heard of him. But she was determined to win this challenge as well just like all the others she's won so far. But is this really a victory for her. She knew this is one challenge winning actually meant loosing.

He was frustrated to say the least with her reply. But what was he hoping from her a miracle may be yes! But a positive reply? At least she didn't throw the flowers at him or return them? Is he grasping at straws here? Is she ever gonna confess her feelings to him! He didn't have a choice...it was the only way. He needs to stay positive and fight for both of them. He was ready for the fight of his life.

He kept on sending her flowers and texting her for a chance to talk to her out side the hopistal.

She was in her consultation room when her colleague the one who had taken over Shlok's cAlled her in a hurry asking for a favour. His seven year old son has had a freak accident in the school playground and he needed to get him. So for her to take over for the day if she's not too busy. And she was more than willing and happy to return the favour.

She was going through the patients files that was sent to her by his assistant. And then she saw his name. Mr. Shlok Agnihotri. He was to have his sutures removed today. She took a deep breath. She didn't have any other choice but to see him as well. It's her job.

He had received a call informing him of Dr.Robertson's unavailability and that he should see Dr. Astha Kalindi. He asked again just to make sure that he want hearing things. He was on cloud nine. He couldn't wait to reach the hospital and see his Angel. How he missed her? His heart ached for her. To see her smile.

He tried almost all the shirts he had with him. Combed his hair , ruffled it combed again. He was nervous like a teenager getting ready for his first ever date wanting to make first good impression. Finally he settled for a pair of jeans and an off white linen shirt. Put way too much perfume. And just combed his hair with his fingers.

He waited for his turn. Impatiently. Time seemed to have topped moving. He was cursing the patients before him who according to him was wasting others time by taking so much of his Doctors time. Just get the darn prescription and get going. He was swearing at all of them. Unfortunately or fortunately he was the last patient. So finally her assisting nurse asked him to go inside.

He got up and his heart beat increased with anticipation.

Other side of the door things weren't any different. The moment Astha asked the nurses to call the next patient in, she felt as if her heart was trying to burst out of her chest. It was beating so fast if she didn't know any better would've mistaken it for a mild heart attack.

She was standing near the small wash basin wiping her hands dry. When he knocked and entered.

Time stood still and everything else around them was a blur. All they could see, sense was each other. Nothing else mattered at all. Nothing or nobody else existed. It was just two lovers, one lost and other the seeker.

The nurse entered with a trolley with sterile gloves, scissors, plasters antiseptics etc.

They came out of their trance and she asked him the routine questions, but he was lost in her eyes. He answered without taking his eyes of her. Like a collector of exquisite and rare painting and he was gathering as many images of her as possible. Not wanting to waste a single second.

It took her all the effort and courage to put up a brave face and act unaffected and normal as possible with his presence. If she thought things were hard as it is she had another thing coming in the form of a shirtless Shlok Agnihotri in all his glory to feast and to please.

She was hoping that he is colour blind as not to notice the blush that was claiming her cheeks and her face rapidly. All her defence systems failed her miserably. On top of that she had to be so close to him, touch him. She was praying to god to show some mercy. But she soon found out God was busy attending to more pressing matters.

He was grinning like a kid in a candy store. He couldn't but be happy seeing her blush and her nervousness when she leaned forward to remove the plaster. Though the room was cool and he should be feeling more without the shirt. Her presence next him alone warmed his soul, his heart and his whole being from within.

He could clearly see her hands tremble a bit when she was holding the surgical scissor and the tweezer. When she pulled the suture he screemd. And the next instant laughed. She was scared and the next instant angry and then couldn't help but smile. It was actually really funny. Juvenile, but funny.

Oh! How he wished he can always make her smile like this. Her smiling face would make the most beautiful star studded moon lit nights Sky to hide behind clouds with shame. There are no comparisons.

She removed the sutures and the nurse cleaned and covered the wound with a plaster. He put on his shirt back on and sat in front of her table. She removed her surgical gloves and seated herself. Nurse walked out. With the trolley.

Astha said looking down at his file "our work here is done, now you are free to go back. Dr. Robertson told me you'd be needing an all clear letter from the hospital for you to travel. It's in this envelope. But you must not exert your self. Take things slowly. Take rest. Internal tissues needs time to heal."

"But my work here is just begun." He said looking into her eyes. She looked away and got up and walked towards the door...

She didn't manage to walk very far, she hit her foot on chest of drawers and she slumped to the floor. Next moment he was bending and reaching for her shoulders to lift her up.

"Are you ok? can you stand up?" he asked with much concern.

She just nodded her head to say yes.

"Then why are you crying?"he asked. She looked upto him with those angelic eyes tears streaming down. She was crying for him. He saw the depth of her love and the intensity of her pain.

The next moment she was being cradled in his arms.

Chapter 15

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