Sanyukta started moving ahead in her revealing singlet when randhir blocked her way.
"Wait here..." she said "...we just need a small distraction. So they don't see us leaving" as soon as she finished she felt Randhir grab her wrist.
"No" he simply said
"What no ?!"
"No ways you're going in there like... that" Randhir commanded her, "Are you out of your mind...you can't bait them this way" he said through greeted teeth.
"I can... and I will ! " She told him with authority and walked past him, "Don't act childish" ...if only he knew what she was capable of... the poor guy of earlier had learnt it the hard way.
"You will NOT go in like that !!! " he spoke each word with a force and anger. Was she crazy... she was almost inviting them to rape her.
"Who are you to command me?" she turned around to ask him seriously, "You cannot stop me anyway" and that was the end of the bargain...
Randhir got furious, he did not reply to her, she was right after all...who was he to stop her. He roughly released her wrist.
She entered the room where three guys were present, carelessly lying on chairs, drinking.
They looked at her in sudden amusement, a girl appeared fearlessly wearing all that. Jackpot !
Sanyukta advanced towards them taking slow steps... swaying her hips, left right, left right... at that precise moment she felt like a Guinean pig...yeah because just two days ago she had read an article on internet about male Guinean pig and their weird courtship strategies...indeed the Guinean male rumbled and walked proudly swaying their derriere right, left, right left in order to gain the attention of the female...weird right, but hey, who was she to interfere in the Guinean pig practices and customs ...!!! ...so at that moment she felt exactly like that male Guinean pig... the slight difference being that she was a female and the target were males ! Because let's be honest here, if the strategy was applied here without gender modification, she was not sure about its success among the human being species...just imagine, a male human being swaying his hips...eww, yuck... just EWWW... not appealing AT ALL !
She came out of the so not sexy image that came to her mind and proceeded with her plan, sitting over their desk and complained, "You know guys, I was feeling so lonely down there..."
"Maybe one of you could keep me company...?" she vaguely announced, leaving the three confused people.
"Maybe we could all keep you company" said on them, realizing the meaning behind her words.
No that was not part of the plan. Why was it always that when you offered one piece of the cake people always asked for the whole cake ?...greedy basterds ! she snorted !
Sanyukta think ! Think of something...
"Um you could...but I believe in quality...not in quantity" she said smirking, not openly refusing them, more like twisting it to her own advantage. That would do the trick. Because openly refusing would have suspicious !
Three pairs of eyes glistened at the proposition she made.
"Me..." they all said in unison. The three man glared at each other...now the question was who will be the lucky one ?... Bingo ! Now they were going to quarrel on who's going to accompany her... Oh how I am Evil ! she thought, She felt like one of those drama serials antagonist upon successfully achieving one of her scheme of creating a rift between the lead protagonists... Mission accomplished ! Time to flee !
"I will only take 1...until you choose who, I will wait outside... come down in 15 minutes" she winked, saying that she left.
Randhir observed the whole scene with clenched fists and tightened jaw from outside, their lusting prying eyes over her were enough to shoot his BP up. He wanted to go in and shied her from them. "I can't take other's looking at you like that...Only I have the right to do so" he told himself, "...But as she had said who gave him this right...Who was he to interfere?"...No one ! ...and that was it !
But the way she handled the whole thing... fabulous ! He just wanted to laugh at the basterds. How easily she had manipulated them. Her confidence...HOT ! She never ceased to impress him, she was one hot package !
The three men started arguing as Sanyukta quickly made her way towards Randhir, she gestured at him to pass.
She quickly fetched her top from Randhir's hand and dawned it back. Randhir intently looked at her...He had a lot of things to say...starting by screaming at her for what she just did !
"Don't..." she signaled with her palm adjusting her buttons, "Don't ever mention what happened in there" she cut him, it was already embarrassing enough without him scolding her and saying how "ethically wrong" it was !
He got furious with her bossing around and dealing with stupid men, taking in charge...and most importantly not listening to him... he pinned her to the nearest wall, his face dangerously close to hers... "NEVER do that again..." he said, his voice a mere whisper but with a dangerous edge... she looked in his eyes in confusion.
"Is THAT CEAR ?" he asked louder, applying pressure on her wrist.
"...Yes" came her weak response. She didn't know why she said that, it was totally unlike her to do so... but something in his eyes compelled her to say so... his behavior was... different.
Had he heard right ? she had complied without arguing ?!... he could almost feel submission in her voice...which was even weirder ! Sanyukta and submission ? ...never ! But upon hearing a satisfying response, he calmed down and slowly released her.
What was that about ? Sanyukta wondered. Brushing away the incident they advanced toward the exit.
As they moved ahead and they came face to face with two more men. Sanyukta looked at them with a gleam in her eyes, "I have an idea..." she started only to be cut off by Randhir.
"Don't even think about it..." Randhir glared at her. He had witnessed her crazy ideas once, he was not going to let do something like that again !
"But...You don't even know what I'm thinking about" she complained, outraged by his assumptions.
"Whatever shut up and stay in one corner, don't move...let me take care of this" he commanded. ...Oh ! The audacity of this man !!! Sanyukta felt really outraged at his words, "stay in one corner"...seriously ?... what was she, a pot of flower...to stay put in a corner without moving ?! ...infuriating male chauvinist !
Randhir pulled out a veiled knife from his jacket and quickly slit their throats before they even had time to react. Sanyukta just look at him...that was fast ! ...Randhir looked at the corpse for a moment when Sanyukta pushed him away.
"Don't act like it's the first time you are seeing dead bodies...We have to get out of here as soon as possible" she urged him to move, rolling her eyes.
Randhir just stared at her. What the hell ? was she for real ?! This was the last thing he expected her to say... he had expect her to turn her head away, to shed a tear or two, to throw up at the rather disgusting sight... but he had surely not expected the line she just said... like dead bodies were common things you could find on the market... This girl had so much facades... he sighed.
"Seriously ? are you the same girl that was yelling "bloody murder" when we first met ?!" he asked her, making sure she was the same girl.
"Well...that was different... right now it was either them... or us...and I prefer it that way !" she said eying the dead bodies.
Finally they made their way outside the crooked place and looked around, nobody, the path was clear... probably Vidhushi had taken care of others. "Come...this way" Randhir held her hand and made her rush towards the darker side... in her pumps ! Had he ever worn heels ? ...probably not ! ...even though his ancestors might have... While nowadays heels were the exact definition of sexiness, the first recorded use of high heels was slightly less glamorous than that. ...Actually Egyptian butchers originally wore them a thousands of years ago as a means to keep their feet away from all of the blood on the floor of their shops... yeah suddenly not that sexy...! Snapping out of heels history, she focused on the way ahead, trying not to trip.
"Where are we going?" she asked following him, trying to keep up with his pace.
"A car is right at 10 minutes walk on this side..." he told her, "And stop knocking so hard on the floor you will just alert them" he said irritated with her heels.
"Sorry !" she said in an absolutely-not-sorry kind of tone.
"I can't walk properly with these..." she said gesturing at her heels. Sure high heels were pure sexiness ...and occasionally they could act as a deadly weapon...but you sure could not walk in a forest with them, that was plain torture.
Lost in her thought, she didn't saw the branch in front of her...everything happened so quickly, one second she was walking, the next second she felt herself tripping... and the second after, she felt strong arms around her waist... Wow !!! That was a scene worthy of a romantic chick-flick, where the poor damsel in distress fell and the knight in shining armor was there to save her... the only difference was that, she was no damsel in distress but rather a damsel freshly out of distress, and Randhir was no knight in shining armor but more like a dark knight with a shining gun !
Randhir sighed and slid his arm under her knees and pulled her up in his arms lifting her. One instinct, her one hand gripped his collar as he other came to rest on his chest.
"Put me down, Randhir" came Sanyukta instant reply. Even though there were no typical damsel in distress and knight in shining armor... she very well knew how it all ended. The guy saved the girl, the girl shyly looked at the guy, the guy lifted her in his arms and well...they went on their way to do their business ! And if Sanyukta did not stop Randhir now, it's won't be long when they would also be doing the business !
"Randhir stop" she repeated trying to knock some senses in the hot headed ( or hot at all ! ) gangster.
Randhir ignored her and kept on walking.
Sanyukta sighed, she was too tired to argue so she just rounded her arms across his neck, leaning on his chest.
After a few minutes Randhir realized she had fallen asleep. He reached the car and placed her securely in the back seat, making her sleep comfortably. He looked at her baby like posture in her sleep, probably all this was exhausting for her. She looked peaceful and calmer now, her facial features were devoid of any tension... as opposed to the broken woman he had found at his arrival. He sighed this woman was a firecracker ! ...She had shown so many facades during all their encounters, he recalled seeing so many faces...sometime annoying... sometime sarcastic... sometime dominant... sometime sexy as hell... sometime childish... sometime so smart... sometime so scared... sometime so strong... she had so many colors !!! ...he could compare her to a rainbow... where all colors were stylishly gathered... some dull, some sober and other flashy !...just like her. ...In a little span of time this girl had achieved what nobody had achieved... she had broken his peace, she had messed up with his brain and she had stirred his curiosity...but above all... she had reminded him that he also had an organ called heart... he sighed. It's has been so long since someone cared for him...even the notion was so foreign for him...but the warmness he felt today at her words and actions forced him to thing about this foreign feeling...care... Looking at her serein face, he could not help it... he felt dawned toward this woman... no matter what she said, no matter what she did, no matter how much they argued...there was something between them...he could not deny that.
From the day he met her, he did so many things out of character... admitting it openly without trying to hide or justify his actions made him realized on thing... one deadly thing...this woman was starting to have power over him !
Today he had risked his life as well as the future of his mission for her sake... what had happened if things didn't go as smoothly... he could have died... and his mission, so many years' work would have gone down to waste...No !!! He couldn't let things go out of hands, his mission was his life goal...so many things depended on it...the countless sacrifices he made, the immense suffering he went through, the heap of restrictions, the deep hurt, the profound ache in his heart... he could not ! he just couldn't...he will never feel peace if everything ended up now...and so many lives depended on him... he could not let them down...the hope in their eyes, the faith they had in him... NO he just COULD NOT let them down, never !!! Nothing could come in between...!!! He decided that from now on he will not come close to her... as every time he did so, he ended up losing control and his focus. He will stay distant.
***
He pulled the accelerator and motioned towards den, He halted in front of the house and was about to pick her up again but realized he had to stay away from her. He shrugged her shoulder mercilessly breaking her slumber.
"We've arrived...I will let Sahil know about your dinner" he informed her rudely and moved away leaving her confused yet again.
"isse kya hua?" she thought
***
The morning finally came up, the past night had been tiring for all of them. Randhir came out of his room to find Sanyukta, sprawled in the couch, solving Sudoku, he ignored her completely walking away. Sanyukta noticed his presence and wondered what was the matter with him. "Ab mene kya kardiya..." she thought to herself about his weird behavior again. She could not find anything...she tried recalling the past events... she didn't even argue in their last encounter, no yellings, no arguments...not even sarcastic comments ! She was sure she had behaved properly the last time they talked...so why was he ignoring her ?
More hours passed and Sanyukta got the same treatment...maybe he was doing it on purpose, but why ?... Well she was not going to sulk over his moody attitude, if it was what he wanted..."Theek hai jesa tum chaho..." she told herself. She had decided to be nice with him from now on because after all she did to him, he still chose to save her life...when he could have left her to die ! He might be rude and ruthless but somewhere deep he had a heart with a bit humanity left...even though most of the time he acted like a beast... Recent events made it clear that Randhir was not as bad as he portrayed ...and so she had decided she was going to be nice to him from now !
Randhir took another task and stayed out to avoid her. When Sanyukta asked about Randhir's whereabouts from Sahil, he denied having no information about it.
This was weird... no after-kidnapping confrontation, no scolding, no arguments... he just avoided her. If no hi hello, she sure was waitingfor the after-kidnapping lecture... but no, nothing ! She sighed, Mr.Gangster's ego had been wounded deeply it seems...
***
The night sky peeped from her window as she flipped through the pages of her favorite tabloid. She hadn't seen Randhir the whole day and still had no clue if he would be back or not. She quietly had her dinner along with others with still no sign of him. Next morning she lazily walked downstairs where Sahil stood arranging some plates, "Breakfast" he asked her
"No...I will take it..." she told him with a smile, "Suno...Randhir aya kya?" she inquired.
"Yes...but he left early again..." he informed her. ...What the hell, Randhir na ho gaya, eid ka chand ho gaya... she thought ! Did he do something that he was ashamed of ?...cause she really could not understand the matter with him.
"What the hell is he upto?" she asked in disbelief on his antics and timings.
"Is there something?" Sahil asked noticing her unrest.
"Yes I wanted to talk to him actually..." she started.
"Is it an emergency ? because he asked not to be disturbed and only call if it's emergency " He asked.
"Kind of..." she told him. Ok that was not totally true, but withdrawing a part of the truth was not really considered as lying...was it ?
Sahil quickly dialed Randhir's number, "Randhir Sanyukta wants to talk to you..." he told him
"Tell her I'm busy..." came his stern reply, Sahil kept aside the phone and told Sanyukta that he was busy.
"He can surely spare 2 minutes out of his immensely busy schedule..." Sanyukta pleaded to Sahil, Randhir heard it.
"Tell her I don't have time for her ranting" Randhir told Sahil, before he could convey Sanyukta's message to him.
Sahil delivered the message while Sanyukta rolled her eyes...were they seriously doing the "I don't talk to her so tell her her that..." thing, ...and why not using owls to deliver their messages when they were at it...seriously ! she shook her head.
Tired of it, she snatched the phone from sahil and spoke up.
"Mr. gangster I understand you don't really... enjoy my company" she started choosing her word carefully. "But surely it is not that bad that you feel the need to run away from me ?" she asked him anticipating his answer.
"I am not running from you foolish woman" he emotionlessly said on the other side of the line. Complete and utter lie !
"Is that so... you are avoiding me then ?" She tried her luck again... Hey saying the same thing differently worked sometime ! Some words were less offensive than other... pure discrimination am telling you...but it was life !
"Am not avoiding you !" He said getting irritated.
"Ok where are you ?" she asked him changing the topic.
"None of your business" came his rude reply.
"When are you coming back ?" she asked unfazed by his rude reply.
"None of your business again !" he said with the little patient left.
"What are you doing ?" she kept her interrogation going...ok I admit I was doing it on purpose...LOL The best way to annoy someone was to completely ignore their apparent irritation with you...It irritated them even more ! She giggled at her thought... Well after that she couldn't blame him from wanting to run away from her, aww poor baby she was always annoying him... did she seriously said "poor baby"...wow wow wow.
"Why did you call, I have important things to do" he said fed up with her questions.
"So do I ! So get your arrogant self's ass here right now and get me out of the mess you created !" she ordered him referring to the girlfriend fiasco, fed up with his "I don't give a damn about you" attitude.
"What do you want me to do ?" came he calm reply.
"I don't know... it's all your fault, do something !" she accused him.
"Ok I'll be there in one hour" he simply answered back.
"What ?!! ...that's all ? no argument ?" she asked confused at randhir's behavior.
"Mr. Gangster you are acting weird since we came back from Sameer's place, what is wrong with you ?" she said the ultimate question that was making her crazy popping in her mind every 10min.
" Nothing is wrong with me !" he yelled at her. " I have more important matter to take care of than your little problems" he told her rudely. ...Were they really back to this ?
Sanyukta snapped at those words " Oh yeah ? well yesterday my problems were not that insignificant to you that you risked your life to save mine" she retorted back, angered by his words.
Hearing her words randhir hung up.