"Ananya are you sure you want to do this" Kabir asked, leaning forward in his chair, his slightly apprehensive eyes set on her.
Taking a spoonful of rice she put it near his mouth and fed it to him. "And why do you think I should not be?" she said in a matter of fact manner and went on mixing some more dal and curd in the rice, just as he liked it.
Hearing her words, a fond smile toyed with Kabir's lips and it brought a twinkle to his eyes.
"What would have I done without you" he took her hand near his face and pressed his lips on her knuckles. A slight blush formed on Ananya's cheeks as she felt the lingering touch of his baby soft lips on her skin. She was smiling and that made his smile widen further. Seeing him grin romantically at her, she thought of playing along.
"You really want me to answer that question Mr. Sharma?" she moved closer to him and whispered in a tone he wished he could record and listen to the naughtiness of it for an infinite number of times.
"Why not..." he said with a smug.
"Ok then for starters, nothing better than roaming around being your sadu self and taking class of everybody at office and of course being ever so khadoos and rude to your junior reporters" she giggled wittily and fed him another spoon.
"You really think I was that arrogant?" by now Kabir's lips had pursed into a classic duckface expression. He was so cute and handsome at the same time that Ananya felt like pulling his puffed cheeks.
"Arrogant and too hot" she winked and wiped the piece of rice from below his lip with her thumb.
He shook his head and smiled at her.
While Kabir was busy staring at his out of the world girlfriend with utmost awe twinkling in his eyes, Ananya grabbed her bag from his desk and took out some tablets from it.
"So Mr. Sharma, lunch is done and now it's time for your medicines"
Kabir's expression changed to a poker face as soon as he spared a look at the most unappetizing thing in the world.
"Please Ananya my pain is much better now" he muttered sulkily, in a tone of a man who already knew his was a lost cause.
"There you go" she passed him a glass of water and motioned him to open his hand. When he reluctantly did, she popped out two small pills on his palm and grinned at him.
"I hate that grin on your face" he stated drily.
"Aww you are so cute na" she pinched his chin and signaled him to gulp down the medicines before she was forced to use some other tactics on him that he won't much appreciate.
He sighed and rolled his eyes at her "What all will you have me do?"
Shrugging he exhaled deeply and threw back his head dropping the painkillers down his throat.
"See not that bad" she proclaimed sarcastically as he made the funniest clown face ever.
"You know that deserved a click haha" she teased and he slumped back in his chair crossing his arms on his chest.
"Not fair Ms. Kashyap" he whined with a pout.
"What is not fair...feeding you medicines when you so stupidly took up a fight with those goons and ended up spraining your wrist...honestly Kabir I had never seen you so angry!!" Ananya complained making his expression change to that of anger and disgust.
"Please Ananya don't you think we already talked much about it...those jerks tried to misbehave with you, they pushed you so badly, you could have hurt yourself...and you expect me to react in any other way than what I did...bullshit!!"
Ananya was certainly surprised as well as secretly charmed seeing Kabir's extreme possessiveness for her.
"Ok baba now you please don't start again"
"You started it"
"So you want to end it?"
"Uff No!I I was just saying that it's not fair you know..." he teased again, the huskiness and mischief back to his voice.
"Ok then tell me Mr. Sharma, lets make it fair and square!!"
"Well, you know they always give some sort of candy after feeding kids with bitter medicines na, like some compensation and all, but I think probably you forgot the later part" Kabir bit his lower lip in anticipation trying to decipher the next tongue in cheek reply his sassy girlfriend would surprise him with.
"Ohh really Mr. Sharma?" she took another step in his direction, and uttered this last part slowly in his ear.
"Ofcourse" this was getting exciting now.
"Ok then, lemme bring you a chocolate from the cafeteria" she chuckled but as soon as she stood from her seat he grabbed her from her waist and pulled her towards himself making her fall on his chest.
"Why go to cafeteria when I can get my dessert here only?" he whispered softly in his dripping sexy voice and brushed his lips against her luscious ones taking in her natural feminine scent. Kabir could easily notice her cheeks turn rosy under the scrutiny of his impassioned gaze and she could feel his warm breaths tickling the skin of her neck. She so loved this naughty side of him, that he let out though rarely but so unexpectedly that it left her gasping for air. He surely had his way when it came to charming her, Ananya thought.
She circled her arms around his neck and positioned herself on the top of his thigh.
"You don't even know what this naughty side of yours does to me Mr. Sharma" she snuggled closer to him and was about to kiss him when Khalid suddenly barged in pushing the lovebirds out of their lala land.
Ananya almost jumped up from Kabir's lap, trying to avoid any sort of eye contact with Khalid. For a few passing seconds, no one spoke in the room.
"Khalid you seriously have one kickass timing" Kabir rolled his eyes and gave Khalid one of his most disgusted looks while Ananya's cheeks were totally flushed as she gawked at the floor trying to avoid looking at both of them.
"My timing is bad...Oh really Kabir?" Khalid stopped midway and shrugged in resignation. "You know Ananya I just came to know that my business head has been beaten up by some goons, I come to check on him and here he is taunting me and lecturing me about my timing, I think I should seriously take a retirement now"
Kabir shook his head in perplexity, So many drama queens and kings he had at his office.
"Khalid can you please cut it out now and for your kind information I beat them up not they and I am scratch less, if you can see" Kabir chided rolling his eyes at Khalid.
"Except a broken wrist" Ananya mumbled inviting a glare from him.
"I don't care, who the hell gave them the right to touch my girlfriend...I would have killed them there and then."
Ananya felt slightly embarrassed as Kabir had said his emotions aloud.
"Ok! So now I get it, what made the ever so cool headed Kabir Sharma turn into angry young man" Khalid spoke in his usual nonchalant tone without noticing the sharp gaze that shot in his direction.
"Khalid is this what you disturbed us for...like seriously?"
"Certainly not Mr. Sharma" Khalid smiled and motioned a letter towards him. As soon as Kabir looked at it, a smile spread across his lips and he turned back at Ananya with sheer excitement spread across his features. When Ananya read through the letter her happiness knew no bounds.
"So are we ready for the big announcement?" Khalid asked adjusting his scarf.
Kabir nodded with a big grin on his face and showed a thumbs up. "Let's go for it".
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Prologe - Pg1
Part 1(a) and 1(b) Pg 4
Part 2 Pg 7
Ye Hai Mohabbatein
Mangal Lakshmi
