FF(Arhi): Lavender [Thread 2 link - p. 159] - Page 85

Chapter 21: Moral Fiber

There were so many people at the party that after wandering around the three floors of the Vardhan house making chitchat and after spending some time with Jay and Nikhil and their little friends, she snuck off into Sohan's office in the back to fix her boots. They were so abominably uncomfortable. She took them off and flexed her foot and then tried to walk around for a bit. She had walked around the room a few times and had returned to Sohan's desk to lean against its inside when she heard the door open and close behind her.

Before she could turn around, she heard an agitated voice. "What the hell were you doing?"

Arnav? He was here? She hadn't seen him or his cousin in all the time that she wandered the house.

She froze for a moment and thus didn't turn around.

"How could you let him kiss you?" he asked, his voice now clearly angry.

Kiss you? What the hell?

"He is my employee! You are not allowed to do that!"

"Oh, but you can?" she asked, not knowing what he was talking about, but still not being able to help retorting at his hypocrisy.

"What the hell is wrong with your voice?" he asked and she heard him walking closer. "And who the hell told you about me?"

What?

This time she didn't respond as she was totally lost and she merely shook her head.

"Who the hell told you? Did you meet Khushi already?" she heard him ask and her eyes widened.

Who exactly did he think she was?

"Answer me!" he said. His voice sounded much closer suddenly and for some reason her first reaction was to bolt. Which made her trip over her boots that were in front of her and fall. She fell on her left ankle and felt pain shoot up the ankle bone almost immediately. f**k! The man was like a bad-luck charm. She was tripping or falling or talking out of her ass whenever he was around!

"f**kin' A" she whispered to herself as she tried to slowly move her injured foot. He was near her within seconds and she kept her head down, feeling silly suddenly in her costume. He bent onto his knees next to her and reached for her foot. She tried to keep her foot back but he was insistent and then successful as he took her foot and put in on top of his knee. She couldn't help but be reminded of the last time that he had done this, but he pulled her out of her remembrance when he said, "You have more in common with her than I thought. Not only do you both have smart mouths, but you are also both clumsy as hell. And you both kiss..." he started, but then trailed off and she looked up, the anger coming on so quickly that she was surprised at its intensity.

She barely noticed that he was in costume as she tried to pull her foot out of his hold and said, "I don't know who you are comparing me to, but have a care in throwing around accusations that should be laid at your door and not mine. I did Not kiss you. But if that's the spin that you are giving the whole thing that happened that day in that store-room, then you are not only a poor boss, but a sorry excuse for a man."

She started to get up to her feet, forgetting her pain for a moment in her greater need to get away from him, but he pulled her back so that she fell onto him.

"What the hell, Arnav!" she bit out and she noticed that he was Wolverine. She thought of saying to him that Lex Luther would have been a better choice rather than the upstanding leader of X-men who had more moral fiber in the tip of his retractable steel claws than he had in his entire body!

She struggled to get up off of him, but in vain, and in a move that stunned her, he pulled off her mask and head-gear – hair net and all – and her hair spilled out in relief, glad to be out of its constraint.

"What the!" she said out loud for the first time in her life.

"If I am going to be a sorry excuse for a man, then I really want something substantial to regret!" he told her, his tone just as angry as hers, before he pulled her up to crush his lips over hers.

Wow, where is this heading actually???? Short update, leaving us asking for more, have you just opened a can of worms??? What is this with A & K at logger heads always, can't they deal with what the feel like adults postponing the issue does not solve it. Finally our dear Arnav kissed the Cupid-bow lips of Khushi. Will she reciprocate or not, waiting again.