CHAPTER-30 (WHISPERS OF LOVE)
"Let your heart guide you. It whispers softly, so listen closely."
Quote- Random
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He drank in the sight of her laughing so freely after such a long time and was unaware that the group had dispersed and Geet was walking towards him.
" Mr.Khurana do you need something?"
"No--- no."
"Were you looking for me?"
"No--- definitely not."
"I wanted to thank you for sending that food out with Adi Sir, I like Chinese. The choice was perfect."
Maan nodded and abruptly turned from there. He didn't want to hear her tell him that he shouldn't have done so.
Geet was about to say something else when Maan suddenly turned and walked away from her. Geet frowned.
'How am I going to talk to the man if he doesn't want to listen to me?'
Geet noticed that wherever she might be in the hall, she could feel his eyes on her. She felt a warm feeling envelop her. She didn't find the sensation to be an unpleasant one.
After the break the meeting commenced again for the second round and again both Maan and Geet were perfect in their presentations. But this time, Geet made a conscious effort to relax around him. Maan felt the change in her but was unable to comprehend why it was so and further more he didn't want to read too much in her body language as he didn't want to disturb her, with his unwanted approach.
After the meeting was over and almost everybody started to get back to their respective work stations, Geet lingered. When MSK turned from talking to the last of the departing clients, Geet was standing right behind him.
"Can I talk to you a minute Mr. Khurana? Of course if it is no problem for you."
Maan nodded his head. His heartbeat had already accelerated. 'What did Geet want to talk about?'
Geet felt nervous all of a sudden. The trick would be to let him know that they could be friends but not go any further than that. Looking at MSK she couldn't decipher what was going on in his mind as no emotion crossed his face only his eyes held her gaze with a smoldering intensity.
"Mr.Khurana I would like to know how you reached the conclusion that I was not to blame for the incident in KC?"
"It is a very long one, Adi will be a better person for telling the story, why don't I call Adi and then you can hear the complete version."
Geet nodded and MSK called Adi.
In short order Adi told how the incidents had unfolded after Neha had come back from her home town. Geet was silent all through the narrative. After Adi finished off all three of them stood silent.
Then Geet faced Maan and asked, "So now what of Sasha? What are you going to do about her?"
"I was waiting to talk to you about that. She is as much your culprit as she is mine and I think we should pay her back in kind after what she had done."
"Fine, so let's plan."
Maan was taken aback with Geet's attitude. Only yesterday she hadn't been ready to see him, let alone talk to him and today she was being so open.
"So have you both thought about something? Some plan?"
Geet looked at both of them while asking the question. Adi was seriously considering her question but MSK was looking at her at with surprise in his eyes. Geet gave an inward smile. Here was MSK totally confused and she loved to see him trying to understand what she was up to.
"We haven't thought of anything yet Geet, but now that you are also in it together, we can all together think of something grand for Sasha." Adi told her brimming with enthusiasm at the idea of outwitting Sasha.
Geet looked at MSK, he hadn't yet said anything and was now frowning, alternatively looking at her and Adi.
"Toh chalo why wait, let's go someplace and talk. I want my revenge soon."
She and Adi started, Msk was still rooted to the spot, looking at her.
"Maan Sir, are you ok? Aren't you coming too?"
It took a moment for Maan to take it in___________ Geet was calling him Maan Sir!
He at first looked on blankly for a few seconds and then smiled. Adi looked surprised, Maan Sir was smiling after how many days, he had lost count. Geet too looked on and then an answering twinkle lit her eyes.
"Chale Maan sir?"
"Yes, let's go."
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Maan lay on his bed even after waking up. The unspoken truce that had been going on between Geet and him for the past couple of days was alternatively a source of happiness and agony. To see her smile, to be near her, was both satisfying and a torture too. He yearned to tell her so many things. A man of few words he had never thought he would ever have to stop himself from expressing anything to anyone. The irony of the situation was not lost to him. Here he wanted to say all that he felt whenever she was near him, and to think, everyone who is near and dear to him have always complained that he never expressed himself.
Every instance spent in her company was an agony of yearning. Geet was almost as she had been before that fateful incident had taken place______ almost, but not completely. She laughed when she was in his company, but when they were surrounded with others. The moment she found herself alone with him, she found an excuse to go someplace else or finish up a very urgent report almost as if she no longer wanted to be left completely alone with him.
She was talking to him, even sharing jokes as she used to, but there was a guarded veil over her which seemed only applicable for him.
'Damn it', Maan sore silently and swung his legs over the side of his bed. He was almost at the brink of his patience here. Only yesterday he had gone to look over the site for their project. He had know that Geet was already there and he had deliberately arranged for that viewing with their client at the same time, what was he to do, he hadn't seen her all morning! and while coming down that construction hydraulic elevator, Geet was pushed firmly against him. That hadn't been part of his plan, but------------ It had been such a bittersweet sensation. He had tried to step back, but it was rendered impossible due to the small space. Her essence, that special scent which was exclusively hers, the feel of her soft hair on his face had stayed long after they had gotten down.
Uttering another curse, Maan walked into the shower stall and turned on the steam full blast.
(So heres the second pic Sanjh that I promised i will put it in my FF... so sorry i couldn't remove the obstruction and give u an unobstructed view...)
'He was acting like a teenager with his first crush.'
This sensation of relief and joy that he was experiencing after she had forgiven him was so new, just as if a new friendship had developed between them. For days now he had been so tensed, so on edge.
'Damn it!' his heart stumbled whenever he saw her for the first time every day. He just needed to hear her voice in the vicinity and without him being conscious of doing so, he craned his neck and his eyes would seek her out.
This wish to see her at all times, this inexplicable urge to hear her voice at odd times of the day, everything seemed to have become magnified with her forgiveness and the newness of his realization that he loved her------- that since his own realization this was the first time he was with her, in her company without any anger between them. He was unable to understand what was so different this time. They had shared such a close relationship earlier, but now after he had realized that she held his heart in her hands, his expectations, his wishes and his sensations of being around her have all taken a leap. Is this how Love feels------- the first strains of it-------- as if one lets go of their heart and becomes a prisoner of their needs______________
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Geet entered her cabin and looked at the yellow rose which was lying on her desk. Maan Sir hadn't stopped giving her this one single rose with his 'Good Morning' note every morning, the only thing that has changed was the colour of the rose which is now yellow. She very slowly kept her bag, her files in their proper places and then lifted the rose and the note. She sat and looked at both of them and then kept them in the drawer where she had kept all the other notes (and recently) the roses too.
It had been very difficult for her to maintain the strictly professional attitude towards a colleague that she had been maintaining with MSK. Small things now made sense to her. Why he had told her that he couldn't give her love, why he jumped to the conclusion that he had about her when faced with Sasha's so carefully planned treachery. At times she felt she thought she had glimpsed in his eyes something different than the earlier times, some emotion different in its intensity when Maan Sir looked at her, but then he would pull down the shutter over his eyes and become normal in his expressions again and Geet couldn't be sure, whether it had been her imagination, her heartfelt desire or something tangible.
He was so careful around her. Whenever something included her, he would first look at her gauze her reaction and then he proceeded. Geet had started to relish those moments when Maan Sir, obliterated or ignored all else to listen to her theory, or her ideas. She felt so good, so special, as if whatever she thought was of supreme importance to him.
She had seen him look at her across the room, whenever she raised her eyes, but the moment he saw her looking his way, he would start doing something else. Geet didn't know what to make of it. He desired her and this she was sure but what if---------
"Geet sudher ja------ varna u will fall face down once again. He respects u as a person and so he is being so with u and after yesterday's incident at the site--------."
She had been so acutely aware of him standing behind her. His cologne, his breath stirring her hair, everything had made those few moments so difficult for her to endure, it had taken everything in her not to succumb to her heart's desire and turn and melt in, in his embrace, in his arms. Geet clenched her fists even as she remembered the sensation so vividly now sitting at her desk.
She had been prepared to laugh off the incident with some witty remark, but when she had turned towards Maan Sir after getting down from the lift, there had been such a intense expression of naked desire stamped over his face and something else, that she had felt her heart race and so she had turned tail and run with some excuse of getting home early. In these few days she knew, all his earlier emotions for her were still there, but NO, noway was she going down that road again. Now she knew herself better and she won't settle for anything less than what her heart dreamt of. So all she had to remind herself now________ everyday, was to be strong and not melt seeing the fire in his eyes.
"Babaji, what a mess! How am I to face him today?"
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Ved had come back straight to the office and he, Geet, Adi and a few more were discussing what they have done these past few days, when Ved picked up the intercom and called MSK to come and join them. Geet's heartbeat accelerated and she felt her face go hot, with just the mention of his name.
Maan walked in and instantly his eyes collided with that of Geet's. She hastily looked down and started scribbling something on her file and MSK too sat down and started to ask Ved how his trip had been. Ved then asked some info about the client meeting and MSk told him the pertaining details, there was just a slight hesitancy when he mentioned Geet's name, but it was caught by no one else. After they had discussed all else Ved turned to Geet and in an undertone asked her to accompany him to lunch as he had something very important to tell her. Maan casually looked towards them, while answering something asked by Adi and he frowned. A little while later as they all came out of the room, he watched both of them walking off towards the lifts, get into one and then were gone.
Maan remained irritated for no apparent reason the whole of the afternoon, his mood took a even downward slide when he came down out in the parking lot and saw Ved and Geet get out of their car and Ved was saying something looking at Geet's lowered head and then he lifted Geet off her feet and swung her in a circle--------- Maan came to a full stop.
'How dare he!' was Maan's first thought__________
His fists clenched and he took a step forward before he came to himself and stopped.
Oblivious of him, Ved and Geet laughingly entered the building and went up riding in an elevator.
Adi came out a few seconds after that to find Msk still standing there glaring at the building.
"Maan Sir what happened? Are you ok?"
"I hate elevators." And so saying Maan strode towards his parked car.
Adi was left blinking owlishly behind his spectacles, trying to understand what his boss had just said.
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So here's Chapter-30 everyone... hope u all enjoy the whispers of love as i enjoyed envisioning our Maaneet fall in love more deeply.
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