First of all, sorry guys for being late. I would try to give sooner updates from now on. :)
Chapter 2
"Who are you baby? Why are you alone?" Jugnu looked at the lady who kept asking her questions.
"I want to meet Papa." She said in a bossy tone.
The receptionist of the Khuranna Enterprises was absolutely clueless. There were so many men in the office who were married and have a kid. How can she tell who is father of this baby girl.
"What's your name baby? Who is your Papa?" she asked again.
Jugnu was losing patience as she knew its his Papa's office, her mamma said it to her after they reached here. While she was paying the cab, in ran inside in excitement. Her mamma had said that everyone knows her Papa here and she wanted him as soon as possible.
"I am Jugnu and I want my Papa. Call my Papa, tell my Papa his daughter is here."
The receptionist gave her a chocolate from his bag to calm down the angry baby girl and buy some time as she was still completely clueless about whom the boy wants. Whenever she asked the girl who her Papa is she just said Papa. The little girl thought for two minutes before taking the chocolate as her Mamma always says not to take anything from strangers and don't eat much chocolate as it will effect his health but the chocolate slab was inviting him so she took it and started eating.
Pranati paid to the cab driver and was concerned not to find Jugnu by her side. She was hell tensed and was searching Jugnu frantically. She cursed herself for leaving her hand but the next moment she assured herself that she must have went inside the office.
Yes, she decided to meet Reyansh at the office first, alone. She didn't want to give the family a shocker by dropping the bomb all of a sudden, after all, Reyansh himself should know everything first. She rushed inside in search of Jugnu.
As Jugnu munched the chocolate, he thought to search for her Papa by her own. She moved inside crossing the staffs, giving them a shock. The receptionist tried to get a hold on her but failed. All the staffs were very much tensed and afraid by then as they were thinking about anger of their boss, how he will react to see a baby girl in this neat and clean office and how he will react on them for allowing the girl run in to office. So they decided to capture her before he could see her.
As a man hold her, Jugnu struggled to free herself from the man's grip but obviously he was strong for little Jugnu. Defeated, she started to cry loudly and all staff members get more tensed. They thought to take the crying baby girl out to the reception.
Reyansh came out from conference room after completing a meeting and marched towards his cabin and heard the cry. He climbed down the stairs immediately hearing the voice.
"Mr. Manager, what's happening?" he asked confused.
He tried to look ahead when he noticed his manager holding a girl in his arms.
"Papa!!" Jugnu yelled in between her hiccups.
They all saw Reyansh standing behind. The manager put down Jugnu and she ran to Reyansh who involuntarily sat on his knees to be at his level. Soon he was in his arms who hugged him closely. Reyansh was hell shocked to see the girl there and in that messy condition, chocolate spread all over her mouth and calling him Papa. He picked her up and Jugnu hugged him tightly putting his head in crook of his neck.
"Why are you crying, baby?" Reyansh tried to make him silent.
He didn’t know how to handle her. He bombarded with questions.
"How did you come here? Does your mamma knows that you're here? What have you done with your mouth? Mamma will be angry if she sees you like this." He said, trying to calm her down.
The staff members never thought she could be their boss's daughter as Reyansh kept his personal and professional life completely separate.
Reyansh took Jugnu to his cabin and cleaned her face carefully.
"Now tell me, how did you come here?" he asked he sat on the chair and put Jugnu on the table.
"With Mamma." Jugnu replied smiling.
All of a sudden, Reyansh felt his heart beat faster and he slowly turned toward the door only to see the most stunning woman walk inside and he froze. It was like time had stopped and all he could focus on was her face.
Pranati saw him as she entered the cabin nervously. He looked the same way he did years ago. Only a little more handsome. She stared at him for a few seconds only to notice something in his eyes that looked like longing. Something that she had thought she had seen before.
Reyansh stood up from the chair and Pranati kept walking towards him as they stared at each other. They were lost in each other's eyes that said everything and yet they didn't say anything at all.
"Pranati..." Reyansh whispered.
He recalled those pleasant waits, those yearning eyes and their thirsty sights, some unfinished talks, those promises to meet again, those kisses, those hungry arms.
"Reyansh!"Pranati sighed.
There was guilt, regret, passion and love. All twisted together in their eyes and after not seeing each other for so long, there was nothing they could do to look away from each other.
"Mamma!" it made both of them come back to the real world.
While Pranati was nervous, Reyansh looked shocked as Jugnu slipped from his seat and hugged Pranati.
To be continued...