Part-7
Geet was sitting in her cabin wistfully.Everyone had left the office premises...except she.Almost all the lights of the coridoors of KC were put off.It was dark.She felt uncomfortable thinking that Maan & she would be working on the presentation alone...with no one around...She felt timid.But it couldn't be helped.Just then the phone next to her rang,alarming her.Her hands unsteadily reached on to the receiver.
"H-Hello?"
"Geet!!Where are you?!!!"
Hearing Maan's voice from the other end,made her fumble in nervousness.
"I-I a-am...n-no I-I"
"Come to the conference room,Right now!!!!"
Her heart skipped a beat with fear,"I-I can't come alone...the coridoors are dark...I-I am scared of darkness..."
Saying that,she sheepishly thought that he would allow her to go home but his next words contradicted her.
"Don't make excuses!!!Come fast,I'm waiting!!!"
Maan rang off.
Geet peeped out of her cabin.Everything was dark.The conference room was at the extreme end.She gulped her saliva in fear of walking alone through the coridoors.But she had to otherwise he would shout.
"I-I will run from here r-right upto the conference room...I-I have no other choice..It's too scary to walk.."
With great effort,she made up her mind & finally ran as fast as her legs could carry her...
In the conference room,Maan had already laid out the sheet for making the blueprint.He was waiting for Geet.
"Where is she now!!!!Not yet arrived!!!" He was irritated.
He walked up to the door to see whether she was coming or not.And at that moment,he saw Geet running at lightening speed towards him.As she came,she hugged him tightly.All this had happened in such a jiffy that both of them didn't know what was going on.Geet was so scared of having run all along in the dark that she didn't realize she was still hugging him.Maan's senses had gone for a toss...He could only feel her body breathing heavily against him.His hands were just about to hold her when he heard her timid voice
"I have darkness phobia!!!!" she cried with her eyes tightly shut being still in his arms.
That broke his trance.And that moment itself, when Geet opened her eyes & saw the room lit with lights,she realized what she was doing...She immediately distanced herself away from him.He stared at her blankly,struggling to recollect what had happened to him a few seconds ago.Geet didn't dare to make eye-contact with him.There was this awkward silence which was unavoidable.
"I-I am sorry Sir...maine a-apse kaha tha mujhe aandhere se--"
"Kaam shuru kare ya abhi aur bhi kuch baaki hai!!!!"
He interrupted her with his scornful voice.
They sat opposite each other.Geet was growing all the more uncomfortable.It became extremely difficult for her to lift her eyes & look at him.Maan did not notice this as he made himself busy with planning the presentation.
"Give me the pencil." while looking at the sheet
"H-Here"
She handed him but he accidently caught her fingers along with the pencil.She was alarmed.He looked at her.She quickly withdrew her hand away.Maan saw that Geet was behaving rather odd.
"Okay,see here Geet," he addressed her without looking at her,"First I need to tell you what you have to do"
"Yes..." she said unattentively.
"So this is the..."
He went on but she did not at all listen what he was saying.Her mind was elsewhere trying to find answers to various random questions which had cropped up.'Does he think that I was lying & that I purposely hugged him?', 'Did it send out a wrong signal to him?', 'Is he doubting my character?' ,'Will he...will he do anything wrong with me?'...Her discomfort grew with every question.She unconsciously begin to shift her chair away from the table,step by step.Maan did not notice at first but when she went a good distance away,he glanced at her with a questioning look but she was not looking at him.Irritated,All of a sudden,he got up from his seat.Geet too got up with a start & looked unsurely at him.He began to advance towards her.She stared at him wide-eyed with shock.She began to move backwards not knowing what to do.She felt that the things she had dreaded are about to come true...Maan continued to walk towards her.
"W-What a-are you doing?????" she asked in an unsteady voice.
He did not answer but inched closer to her step by step...
Ultimately she was plastered between him & the wall.Her breaths ran cold with fear when he placed his hands on the wall,on either side of her head.She tried to read his expression for getting a hint of his next move,but she couldn't.Maan stared at her,waiting for her to say something.
"I-I will c-call t-the p-police i-if you d-do s-something---"
"Toh tumhe lagta hai ki mein tumhare saath kuch buhot galat karne wala hoon?" he smirked.
His straight forward question stifled her.
"N-N--"
"When you can actually get off a bus one night & come with me,when we were unknown to each other,Then why are you having 'doubts' today?"
"I had no other option that day!I was supposed to report for my job here & now--" she was interrupted
"And now also you don't have any other option but to do the blueprint!!" he said with finality. She stared at him fretfully while she was still caged by him
"I want to go to my PG!!!Sab aapki galti hai!!"
"Achcha toh now everything is my fault???"he asked her gruffly.
"Aur nahi toh kya??If I am inefficient according to you then you should have backed off from that Shukla's project!!!"
"Ms Geet Handa!!!!If everything is done as per your wish,then the company will go down the drain!!!!"
She felt his hot breath brush past her face & his eyes arrowing her from a very near angle.She looked away from him,trying hard to maintain atleast some distance between them.
"Now if your drama is over,can we start working on the blueprint?" he asked sarcastically.
He released her.She frowned at him & walked up to the table.As he was about to take his seat opposite her,she exclaimed wistfully,
"I am married!!"
Her sudden declaration stunned him,"What!!!!!"
"I am married to KC!!!!!"
That shocked him even more,"What!!!"
"From the day I have joined KC,for some reason or the other,I have to stay here even at night!!!!!"
"Dekho,it's all because of you own fault as---"
He stopped pondering over what he had just said.She stepped close to him
"Dekha!!!Aap bhi maante hai na meri galti nahi hai???First, you ordered me to redo some stupid files & now this Shukla.Why the hell does he wants these 'special requirements' in his so-called office building?????..."
She went on and on and on.Maan's patience had reached it's end.
"Chup!!!Bilkul Chup!!!!"
He silenced her by his finger.She was startled.His finger had almost touched her lips...making her nervous yet again.He felt her lips to be soft & silky & also a little bit sticky due to her lipstick.Her breaths were blowing past his finger as well.Their eyes met...
Just then Maan's phone rang.It was Dadima's call.Geet started to draw lines on the sheet while Maan moved away to attend the call.
"Hello Dadima?"
"Maan bete,kaha ho aap?"
He had forgotten to inform her that he would be late.
"Actually woh-"
"Dia & her parents have come here to talk about your engagement.Please come home fast!"
He recollected that Dia had told him about the same but it had slipped his mind.
"Okay Dadima,I'm coming within half-an-hour." he said while looking towards Geet who was busy in figuring out her handwriting.
Dadima rang off.
"Geet."
"Yes Maan Sir?"
He felt somewhat wierd about what he was about to say but he had to say it,"Woh...presentation banane ke liya,you have to come to my house."
Now that was something which she had least expected.She looked at him wide-eyed not ready to believe what her ears had just heard.
"Y-Your H-House???B-But why???"
He told her.
"Wow!!!!!Your engagement date will be discussed!!!!How exciting!!!So that means no work &...& I can now go to my sweet PG!!!!"
She could feel the bubbles of joy building in her but Maan wasted no time bursting those bubbles.
"I think you haven't heard what I have said!!You are coming with me to my house!!"
"But you are supposed to spend time with Dia instead of--"
"Work is first before anything else!!!We will prepare the blueprint in the outhouse!"
"O-Outhouse???"she asked suspiciously
"Don't let you thoughts run in the wrond direction!!!!!!The hall of the outhouse had an office-setup!!!"
She had no other choice but to agree.
~*~
KC Parking Area--
Maan sat in the driver's seat waiting for her to get in.But she said,
"Sir,I will come by rickshaw."
"Sit in the car quietly." he aid sternly.
"No!"
Saying that she began to walk away.But Maan blocked her away by driving the car in front of her.
"I have no more time to waste,understand??Get in the car or else I can even force you too!"
She frowned & sat on the back-seat.Just then she saw the driver coming.Her thoughts of sitting alone in the back-seat were watered when Maan came & sat next to her.She looked away from him but he unknowingly kept looking at her...& the car drove off...
Precap: Thoda sa Pyaar Hua hai😲😳
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