Chapter 53 - Silent moments

Sitting on the sofa chair for an hour, Vihaan kept on looking at the pictures of his childhood. He smiled a little when he saw his younger self sleeping in Avni ŀȧp in his twenties.

It was just a day, and he was already missing her. He had never imagined the current scenario and had no idea how to cope up.

He knew Avni was going to be happy with Anubhav and, he could meet her whenever he wished. She was still his sister and, he, can talk to her as much as he, wants, but he too could not deny she was now a married woman.

In order to distract himself from missing her more, he opened his ŀȧptop to check emails. He had not visited the office for the last three days and, he was sure he was going to be busy like hell.

He was not in favour of sleeping again or, to imagine things he did not wish. He had no one to talk his heart out his, best friend had gone back to his home, Vansh was sleeping and, he hardly had friends. .

Sitting alone in the room, he felt the loneliness he always felt and thought of drinking. He was about to open his cupboard, where he mostly had alcohol when his heart declined the temptation.

It was strange.

He had never declined any, alcohol.

He went back to his chair and sat down with his eyes closed. He wanted something to drink, but it was not alcohol or coffee.

"Tea!" he smiled when the word came to his mind and, he stood up to go to the kitchen.

He entered the kitchen while rubbing his head and eyes which were partially closed. Without looking at Shana or having any idea of her presence in the kitchen or the boiling pot, he went to the cupboard that usually stores utensils, picks out another pot, fill some water on it and moves toward the fireplace.

Confused by it, he moves his eyes all over in the kitchen and stopped when he found Shana sitting with her eyes closed.

He furrowed his brows in confusion and kept on looking at her. He wanted to know the reason but, he also wanted to ignore it considering the chemistry they had. They were strangers and were going to remain the same in the future.

"Yes, and you like touching a stranger, great, my man" mocked his mind and forced him to move toward her.

Reaching her, he sat down in a steady position with one knee bend in 90 degrees and another bend in the backward direction. He observed her closely and found her eyes closed shut as in pain, and her hand clutching her abdomen.

He was guessing what had happened to her when, he remembers the hot water bottle on the cabin and, understood, what was going on. He stood up and on reaching the fireplace, found the water has reduced to half because of over boiling.

He adds more water in it and, after boiling it for another five minutes, he filled the hot water bottle and moved back to her and sat down in the same position he has sat down before.

Shana opened her eyes, as if, she could sense someone's gaze on her, and, saw him sitting in front of her and looking at her with care.

However, he does, not revert back his eyes and continued looking at her. She could easily hear her pounding heart, and was sure she was embarrassing herself in front of him for she was damn sure she was blushing! Before she could do anything, She looked at him in surprise when he moved a little bit forward, evading the little privacy she had and taking her free hand put the hot water bottle in it.

Shocked, surprised, thankful, speechless and teary was what she felt at that moment.

She wanted to thank him for his sweet and careful gesture but did not utter a single word.

He wanted her to say to take care of her, but he simply looked in her eyes as if to say" Take care".

Deeply looking in each other eyes, unaware of their surrounding, lost in the temptations, dėsɨrės and gratitude, the charm broke when they heard the boiling water noise.

Vihaan turned his attention back to Shanaya and saw her blushing.

"God! I like it!" his mind screamed and, it was becoming hard for him to resist touching her and kissing those red and juicy lips which were tempting him.

He stood up with a sudden force and moved back to the burner, giving the time and distance Shanaya was in deep need.

It took a minute for Shanaya to compose herself back to the normal, and she stood up. She heard, her heart, asking her to thank him for his help but, her mind screamed at her for even thinking about it.

"Shana baby, he helped you but, he did not speak a single word to you. Besides, he knows you are grateful for his help in the same way you know he has asked you to take care of yourself. Do not think, too much of this moment, it was just humanity" talking to herself, Shana stood up and without glancing at him, moved back to her room.

Turning her light on, she opened her cupboard and picked up the large brown envelope from it. Reaching her bed, she sat down on it and read the papers. Thinking for a moment, she smiled a little and grabbing the pen from her bedside desk, she, signed it.

She was ready to be ȧssociated with Rathore's.

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