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Chapter 3:
Manik's POV:
I take my jacket off and place it on her shoulders to cover her torn clothes whilst she continued to avoid my gaze at her, still in tears. 'Nandini we have to go.. It's not safe to stay here' I say to break her out of the trance. She still seems shaken by the experience, any normal person would get scared of seeing bullets flying around. It's all my fault, my stupidity could have costed us our lives today. She continued to stare at me, unable to take her silence I shake her shoulders 'we need to go.. Please' I say. She just nods and we start walking before the rest of Pasha's men catch up with us. Silence prevailed between us, she seems to be coming out of the shock, she doesn't look scared anymore.. But she is confused.. Very confused. 'You need dressing, your arm is bleeding' she says to break the silence. My hand at this point is bleeding really badly, but we just lost my car, we're away from the main city, there's no cars around to give us a lift. We're basically stranded. I look at my phone to see the battery is dead as well. 'Yeah I do.. But where do we get the bandages from? We're lost.. We have no way to get to the city' I say and we both start looking around for shelter for the night. Much to our misfortune it starts raining even heavier, leaving us completely drenched. We see a guest house around, we both share a quick eye lock before running towards the guest house to save ourselves from the raging storm. I double check the place to make sure we're not staying in a dodgy place, much to relief the place doesn't look weird or suspicious. It's a well respected guest house near the Pune highway for people to stay if they ever have to face such circumstances with bad weather or road blockages. Me and Nandini enter to be greeted by the manager, 'hi, how can I help?' he asks very nicely. 'Erm we need two rooms just for the night' I reply. 'I'm afraid we only have one room available at the moment sir. We've had a lot of people come in due to bad weather today, and because this guest house is so small we don't have that many rooms'. Me and Nandini look at each other very awkwardly, I don't know what to say, I don't want her to get wrong ideas about me. 'We'll take it' she says much to my surprise, I thought she'd be uncomfortable staying with me, I guess not.
The manager walks us to our room and we settle in, 'could you please get us a first aid box as well?' she asks the manger really politely. 'Yeah I will, your boyfriend looks injured, met with an accident?' he asks casually. Boyfriend? I wish. She looks shocked and blushes at the same time... Blushing and all.. I like it. 'Yeah, just a small accident' I say to save her from the awkwardness. The manager leaves, and comes back five minutes later with the first aid box, after wishing us a good night he leaves us alone. I politely take the first aid box from Nandini and make a very rubbish attempt to bandage myself, whilst she stands at the edge of the room with an amused expression. 'Ho gaya?' she asks blankly, she comes and sits next to me on the bed and takes the cotton from my hand, and starts cleaning the blood of my arm. I hiss in pain and her eyes soften at me, she then looks at me really awkwardly, she wants to say something but can't say it.. 'What?' I ask confused by her awkwardness. She clears her throat 'woh.. Bandage ke liye.. You have to.. take your.. shirt... off' she says very shyly. My lips automatically shape up into a smirk, and I, more than happily take my shirt off. As soon as she looks up at my bare chest she goes in a trance.
Nandini's POV:
It was hard to do the dressing as his shirt was in the way, but how do I ask him to take his shirt off. Why do I always land up in such awkward situations, God please help me. I look at him with all the weird expressions in the world hoping he'd automatically understand I want him to take his shirt off. 'What?' he finally asks me. How do I answer him.. How do you ask a guy to take his shirt off? Nandini calm down! You're a doctor! He's a patient and be need dressing.. Man up! 'woh.. Bandage ke liye.. You have to.. take your.. shirt... off' I manage to say totally embarrassed. He immediately smirks at me, urgh his smirks kill me! I hate him for testing my patience with that smirk of his. It's so distracting. He starts unbuttoning in shirt and I immediately look away. After he's done taking it off I look up at him and HOLY FUDGE CAKE! As if my patience hadn't already been tested enough today he flashes his perfectly toned torso. What is breathing? What is air? What is life? I don't know. All I know is I have this sexy guy in front of me with the body of heavens staring at me with the bloody smirk which is so sexy! URGH. I shamelessly stare at him to fulfil my hearts desire until he clears his throat to grab my attention. AWKWARD! 'I'm glad you're loving the view this much but my arms still needs dressing' he says flirtatiously. Well gee thanks for embarrassing me further Manik, I glare at him and continue the dressing. My hands shake every time they come in contact with his skin. FOCUS NANDINI.
Manik's POV:
I can't help but be happy seeing the effect I have on her. This is amazing, but wait.. Is it amazing? How can I forget who I am.. What I do. No! No! No! I need to stop getting attracted to her. I have to drop her safely at her friend's house tomorrow and go my separate way. There's no room for serious relationships or feelings in my profession. My thoughts are broken as Nandini's tear drop falls on my arm. I immediately look up to see her crying, she was still tying the bandage around my arm, whilst crying? I don't like it. Why is she crying? 'Nandini.. Hey! Look at me.. What's wrong?' I ask her holding her chin up to make her look at me. 'Manik I.. I hate violence' she says between her cries, how could I forget what she saw today may be normal for me, but wasn't normal for her or any other normal human. 'I hate it.. I just...' she continued crying and I can't help but feel even more guilty than before. In a reflex I grab her very roughly and pull her in my arms, I hug her tighter than what was necessary, giving her all the assurance and consoling that she might need at this moment. What makes me happier is the fact that she hugs me back.. Why is she hugging me back? Why isn't she asking me any questions about today? She breaks the hug much to my irritation, it felt good having her close to me. 'What was that Manik? Who were those people and.. and who are you?' she finally asked. And now I don't know what to say, how do I tell her I stole the worlds biggest possession and now I'm being hunted for it. 'Nandini I..' I don't know what to say, how do I explain this to her. I can't tell her the truth, it'll put both of us in danger. 'I.. They were my dad's biggest rival's men.. You know business competition and all. My dad refused to do a deal with them and now they're out to get me' I didn't lie, pasha was my dad's biggest rival and is out to get me because my dad refused to work with him. 'Why did you have a gun?' she continued her enquiry, 'for safety purposes since I didn't have my guards with me today' I replied. She seemed convinced but also very upset. It's all your fault Manik, she couldn't stop crying. God! What is with girls and crying? 'Are you okay?' I asked genuinely concerned about her, 'Manik I've seen violence all my life.. My dad used to abuse my mom all the time over the stupidest things. He had a gun in our house and would always use it to threaten my mom. Two years ago dad came home drunk and completely out of his senses, he asked mom for tea, mom was really scared to see dad that drunk so she accidentally put salt instead of sugar in dad's tea. When dad drank it, he was furious, and because he was out of his senses.. He.. He bought his gun down and shot my... mom in her...heart. I didn't know what got into him after shooting her, he shot himself as well.. I... Manik.. As a child that was too much for me to take, I got away from home to go to medical school.. Half way through my course I was told my parents died.. my childhood still haunts me. I hate violence.. I hate guns.. I just...' and she completely broke down in front of me. Her tears just wouldn't stop, I felt my heart break for her. That must have been so hard for her, I lost my mom at a very young age so I know what it feels like to lose a parent. I had to comfort her so I hugged her again, her delicate arms wrapped around my bare waist felt like I found heaven. Nandini hates violence and guns and I... I use both of those things as my Holi Grail, I use guns more times than I breathe. We're so imperfect, but this moment feels too perfect. She slowly breaks the hug, probably embarrassed, 'I'm sorry.. Thoda zada ho gaya?' she asked innocently, 'no! Bilkul bhi nahi.. In fact I'm glad you shared it with me.. Feel better now?' I asked politely to which she nodded.
I ordered coffee for the both of us as got comfortable near the fire place. 'So who do you stay with now, if you don't mind me asking?' I initiated the conversation. 'My dadi... She came with me to Mumbai for my studies.. But after mom and dad died we moved back to our old house in Shimla. You know Manik, no matter what my dad did, no matter how wrong he was, I know I should hate him.. But I still love him.. I will always love him. I can do anything for my family' she said lost in a trance. She seems really affected by the whole family thing, I don't blame her though, must have been hard for her. 'So it's just you and your dadi in your family?' I asked. 'I had a brother too, and I loved him the most. He was my best friend.. But he met with an accident and..' tears again started filling her eyes, she's basically lost all her family at such a young age. My heart aches for her. She's seems absolutely devastated talking about her brother, I didn't see this much pain in her eyes when she was talking about her parents, she seems the most hurt by her brother's death. This is probably going too deep, I don't wanna dig at her horrific past and make her upset. 'Nandini.. I know losing someone you love, losing family is never easy.. But you have to understand this is what life is. We lose, we fall but we have to move on and continue living our life. I'm sure your mom and brother wanted you to be happy.. And your dad, what he did was unforgivable, so the fact that your forgave him and love him so much just proves what a great person you are. So just smile, if not for yourself, for your dadi who is still here and loves you' I said smiling at her. 'Thanks Manik.. This means a lot' she smiled back at me.
Whilst talking neither of us realised just how close we had come. She was inches away from me, gosh she's beautiful. She's staring into my eyes with the same intensity as me. I move my face closer to hers, I wait for a moment for her to stop me and when she doesn't I take it as my cue and place my lips on hers. She immediately responds to me, her hands find a place in my hair and she starts massaging my scalp whilst kissing me with all the passion. GOD THIS FEELS SO GOOD! I pull her closer to me and kiss her harder. My brain goes numb and the only working organ in body is my heart which is pumping at an erratic speed. Getting carried away with the passion I move the jacket that I had given her from her shoulder along with the strap of her top leaving her shoulder bare for my hands to explore, whilst deepening the kiss further. Suddenly there's a knock on the door which breaks our perfect moment much to my irritation. Nandini looks at me dreamily and shyly, but as she realises what just happened she looks away embarrassed, I smile at her and get up to kill whoever is at the door for ruining my moment. I open the door to see the waiter standing with our coffee, someone give me a gun so I can shoot him for knocking at the wrong time. 'Sir your coffee' he says smiling at me. 'Saale thodi der baad nahi a sakta tha?' I glare at him angrily to which he looks at me confused. Idiot. I take the coffee tray from him and close the door at his face. I walk up to Nandini who still looks very shy. 'Coffee?' I ask her softly, 'erm I'm sleepy so I'm gonna go to bed' she says awkwardly and moves away to go the bed to sleep. I don't blame her for being awkward, we met like five hours ago and we already made out. I can tell just by looking at her that this was her first kiss. Did she regret it?
I have kissed thousands of girls before but no one has ever made me feel this way before. I look back to see an angel calmly sleeping in front of me, her innocence adds so much more to her beauty. What was I thinking? Manik you're not right for her, she deserves so much more! You don't deserve her, my life is war zone and any one that comes in it is immediately put into danger. I can't put her into danger. I had my moment with her and it was great while it lasted and tomorrow we go our separate ways, I'll make sure of it. With this thought I hey comfortable on the couch waiting for sleep to take over me as I continue to stare at Nandini.. I wish we could be something, anything, but I'll have to finish this story before it even starts.
Sorry if the kisses aren't written well, I'm really bad at writing romantic scenes, so if anyone who is comfortable writing kiss scenes and other romantic scenes, can you please PM me, so maybe you can help me write some of the parts of the story? I'll really appreciate it.
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