48.A Promise

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It was close to noon time, Rohan was settled in the sitting area of Adhiraj's chamber along with Adya and Adhvan.

They were enjoying tea in weekend just like their good old days.

Adhvan said to Rohan,"You know Rohan Bhai, Bhai sa's love story will end even before starting."

Adhiraj eyes turned to him.

Not like Adhiraj but even Adya and Adhvan were outspoken. The relationship they shared with the eldest Rathore was very transparent because they had stayed with him all of their childhood in England,away from their parents. There he was their guardian who guided them, who made them learn the new things, he was their teacher.

So one thing they learnt to be open with him of course with a humble barrier of manners. Whenever they faced any problem, going to him for the solution was natural for them.

"Why?", Rohan asked keeping his cup on the table.

"He is scolding her on daily basis, even on some auto correct typos in reports. I highly doubt that she even talk to him properly other then professional talks. Gosh!!? she maintain more then necessary distance from him.", Adya shook her head.

Rohan laughed on that, "Adhiraj!! How much have you scared that poor soul."

Adhiraj said in a defensive tone, "Guys, I just wanted her to be perfect in her work. Maybe I just became very strict."

Adya said or more like accused,"Very? Oh please Bhai sa. You don't know, she works late night to complete the assignments given by you and what you do? You only scold her."

Adhiraj looked ahead with a frown on his face, he didn't know about her overworking.

But a small smile of contentment tugged on his lips, "Just because of my over strict behavior she is ready within two months."

Rohan asked confused,"Ready for what?"

He ignored his question and asked,"Have you brought that file?"

"Yeah.... Don't tell me you...", he affirmed taking a file out from his bag but stilled on his place as the realisation dawned on him.

He looked at him stunned.

Adhiraj took the file from his hand and turned the pages over to double check the contents, he said to Adya, "Adya, Call your friend here."

She wriggled her eyebrows,"You mean your unofficial wife?"

Adhiraj glared at her.

From past two months their teasing about Raina became a common thing to him.

"I am calling, I am calling.", she squirmed.

A smirk came on her face,"Now see how much she fears you."

She called Raina's number.

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"Arghhh.... Why do I have so damn long hairs.",Raina was trying hard from past ten minutes to remove that bracelet which was stucked between her hair locks.

And the worst part was the jingling sound coming from it, it was irritating her to the core and the water dripping from her hair tendrils was fuel to the fire.

Still she was trying to fix the problem, her attention diverted to her ringing cell phone.

She was feeling a bit drowsy because she took a sleeping pill after mid night and it was having the effect maintained on her.

She picked up the call and adjusted between her shoulder and ear and continued the attempts to pull that strings of pearls out from her hair, "Hello."

"Hello Raina, we are in Bhai sa's room. Come here fast. We are waiting for you.", Adya's voice came from other side.

"Adya, why? I am busy at the moment.", Raina said frustrated.

It was Saturday and she was having a relaxing shower but all of her relaxation went out of the window when that stupid bracelet decided to stick in between her hair when she was towel-dring her hair.

"Raina!! Bhai sa is asking for you."

Raina's hand dropped down from her hair and she took the hold of her phone.

"What? Just a minute,I will be there."

She cut the call and hurriedly took a clip, that bracelet was still in her hair not wanting to come out. She rolled her wet hair in bun such that the bracelet was trapped within the layers of hair, after that it was not making any jingling sounds.

She pressed the towel on her bun so that it can absorb the extra water, she didn't have any extra time to dry her hair.

She went out of her room in fast pace.

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After five minutes, a knock appeared in the door.

"See", Adya smirked before yelling a 'Come in'.

Raina entered hurriedly, Adhiraj felt like facepalming himself after seeing her panting a little.

"Oh Raina, take a seat.", Adya said to her.

Raina looked for a place. Adhvan and Adya was settled on one sofa and Rohan was on another whereas Adhiraj was sitting on a sofa chair.

Only place she found at that time was space next to Rohan, she sat there. Adhiraj was sitting adjacent to her with one meter gap between their seats.

Adhiraj forwarded the file towards him, Raina took that with confusion.

"What is it sir?", she looked at it.

Adhiraj kept his one leg on another and observed the costly watch wrapped around his wrist, he looked at her with his firm side gaze,"Time to face your opponents Raina, prepare for this project. You are going to do this alone."

Seeing the first page and listening his words made an alarming sound in her head, she went pale with anticipation.

She looked at him wide-eyed and tried to say something but was struggling with her words, "What is this sir? Me? Alone? What are you sayi-"

She was cut off by the ringing sound of Rohan's phone. Rohan picked it up and talked. He fished the phone back in his pocket once done and looked at Adhiraj, "Adhiraj, I have to go back to home, some personal work. You make things clear to her, I will join you all in office."

Adhiraj nodded his head, Rohan stood up to go when Adhvan also got up pulling Adya along, "Wait Rohan Bhai, we also have some work in the same area. We will go together."

Adya was going to ask questions but Adhvan signalled her to stay quiet and moved his eyes towards Raina and Adhiraj.

"Yeah,yeah.lets go.", Adya walked out with the men but not before throwing a teasing smile towards Adhiraj.

Adhiraj shook his head as door closed with a sound, Raina was totally engrossed in seeing the papers.

Adhiraj leaned back in his chair, he smiled very slightly when he saw her biting her nails in nervousness.

Few tendrils falling on her face and the light coming past her face was making her side profile attractive.

His gaze moved a little up to see what he found fascinating always.

Her dark brown hairs.

But he frowned seeing it tied up by a clip, the back portion of her T-shirt was wet due to the constant dripping of water from her hair.

He got up and moved to his bedroom, Raina glanced on his way but again focused on her work in the hand.

He came back with a towel in his hand.

"Here, take this and dry your hair."

She looked up surprised.

"Umm.. Sir, I will do it once I will be back in my room.", she said hesitantly.

"Raina.", he pressed her name in a commanding persuasion.

She shifted on her place, but said looking down, "Sir, please. I will do it later."

He asked seeing her little uncomfortable,"What happened?"

She nodded in 'No' but said after receiving a pointed eye from him,"Actually, a bracelet is stucked in my hair, it will take time to took it off. So I will do it later."

She was looking down on the papers resting on her lap

He came behind her and before she could turn around, he unclipped her hair, letting the dark brown hair fall on her back.

She let out a gasp in surprise, "Sir, what are you doing?"

"Shh...",he shushed her.

Unintentionally, his voice came out husky and trailed.

He bent a little.

She gulped when he entangled his fingers in her hairs, he was focused on separating the bracelet.

Minutes passed and the happenings were very weird for her.

She was feeling very awkward, to make the atmosphere different she asked, "Sir!!"

"Hmmmm.", he hummed.

His humming just behind her head reminded her of his close proximity.

She hesitated a bit but later the words slipped out fluently and confidently just like her nature,"Why are you doing this? Sending me in the auction to acquire a big hospital in which I have to bid against some top industrialists and not to forget Jayant Chauhan is the top opponent there. He won't let it slip from his hand, giving the reins of this matter in my hands is not a wise decision, I am still learning.", she asked directly.

Adhiraj let out a chuckle, feeling stupid by her question Raina tried to pull away but Adhiraj stopped her by holding her shoulders.

He started softly still trying to untangle her hair, "We learn our whole life Raina but it doesn't mean that we will be running away from our problems, one day we have to face them. Just like that it is your test, and you have four days to prepare your strategy."

"If you really want to make a difference, if you really want back the hardwork of your parents the stood above the crowd, don't assimilate in the crowd. At this moment, you are thinking that this is out of your league, but this is a part of rising up."

He was little disappointed on how she underestimated herself everytime and neither he tried to hide it even, "I didn't know that my scolding will demotivate you, my goal was to make you perfect but here, you lost your self esteem."

Raina shook her head,"No no sir. I was just....confused."

Just at that moment she felt a hard tug in her hair, she winced.

Adhiraj bent down to put the bracelet on the table, Raina knew it very well that if she would turn her head to see him, there won't be left any descent space so she continued to look ahead.

"Your problem got solved?",he asked on which she nodded.

He took the towel and stood up once again, he slowly started rubbing it on her scalp, "Thank you sir, I will manage from here."

She tried to move away when he didn't buzzed on his place.

"Stay quiet.", he hissed irritated and Raina froze on her place not wanting to anger him.

"Any questions?", he asked about the project but..

But Raina asked something different,"Sir, why did you decide to struggle for years when you had your own company?"

His fingers drown into the thick brown layers of her hair,"That doesn't matter if I had a company already or I was heir of this Suryagarh province. Believe me, it doesn't matter if Raina Kashyap... Raina Chauhan is satisfied with her job and in her salary. The thing which matter is how much hunger she has within her to acquire something big, the thing that matters is how much effort she can put to defeat the demons of her past."

"You made it sounding all these so easy.",she smiled listening to him, unknown to her she was was liking this feeling, the feeling of opening up to him. And his sharp eyes made it easy because she did not need to express herself everytime, he was attentive enough to see them.

And the way he was wiping her hairs and the regular rubbing of his finger on her scalp was relaxing her and the effects of sleeping pills was not helping at all.

"I agree it is not easy but you can make it easy. I know, you can do it.", proud, confidence and trust oozed from his statement.

"How do you have so much trust on me?", she asked surprised but her voice came out slow and low.

"I am a businessman Raina, I tend to recognise people's calibre.", he said and it was like end of discussion.

Raina sighed in relief, his hands has same feeling as of Vasudha.

On the other hand, he was delicately pressing the towel through her hair by parting them into small portions.

He frowned when she leaned back, bending down he saw her eyes closed . He was surprised on seeing her sleeping.

He dropped the towel on the sofa and come forward, he was going to shake her but he reminded what Adya said,

"Very? Oh please Bhai sa. You don't know, she works late night to complete the assignments given by you and what you do? You only scold her."

He sighed thinking what to do to her.

He didn't wanted to look like pervert so he called her softly but received no reply.

Finally after contemplating a little, his one side won over other side, he sneaked his hand under her back and knee , picking her up in his arms he walked to his bedroom.

He hold her more tightly , it was second time when she was in his arms and he can feel it, first time he was in rush to save her.

He bent down and put her on the middle of bed , his gaze was focused on her face as he pulled the cover over her.

He was balancing himself by keeping a knee on the edge of bed.

He didn't know what came in his mind, he laid beside her.

He kept his one hand under his head and looked at the detailed work of the ceiling.

In his life of almost 27 years, he didn't thought of love happening to him even once. But in past few months, he realised that it is a kind of essential reality in life. To be consistently aware of this love in others and ourselves is the purpose of life.

He turned to look at her, her lips were little parted and small puffs of breath were going in and out evenly. Her long and soft brown hair was reigning over the pillows placed beneath her.

The view of her sleeping on his bed wrapped in the covers were tempting him to hell.

He smiled on his activity, he could just stay awake to watch her peaceful sleeping face, to hear her soft breathing, he could spend his whole life in this sweet surrender, he could stay lost in the moment forever.

Won't you call that feeling love when you like spending time together even when one of you is asleep?

Definitely that is love.

He propped up on his elbow and looked at her. His hands automatically went to cup her cheek of other side and he turned her a little towards himself.

He ducked his head down and kissed her cheek. The feeling of his lips dipping in her cheek made him groan.

He rubbed his nose on her cheek softly , enjoying the feeling and the bliss. He murmured,"You do something to me that I can't explain."

He pulled back and laid back on his place, a voice whispered in one corner of his mind that it is wrong, it is not good to touch her when she is not aware of the things.

Like he cares, he smirked. He had his own fair share of sins. He was not any saint, nor he wanted to be one. He was like a moon, half of his side consist light for his loved ones and other half is full of darkness to retain the beauty of light. His both sides were companions of each other making him epitome of balance.

His trance were broken by the vibration of his phone, he sat and pulled out the phone from his pocket.

A message popped up as soon as he unlocked the device, he had to discuss something with his parents about work and they were waiting for him.

He stood up and glanced at her then his gaze roamed over his room.

His voice was firm, "One day, you will be walking in this room fussing about different things. You will be the one who will have more ownership over my things, even more then me. And it is a promise."

He walked out of his room, not wanting to cross his limits any further in her matter.

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