48| Business Party

Started writing on 8th January 2021.

Completed on 12th January 2021.

Word count : 3860 words

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– A Y A A N –

Just when Dhruv told that he's married, mumma fell unconscious. Dhruv being a doctor checked her until she gained her consciousness back.

Whom did Dhruv marry?

Was any girl ready to marry him?

Him?

Well, I'm happy for him but don't know why it's weird!

I walked towards Divya who was with mumma all the time, "Divya, who is Dhruv's wife?"

"Shh... You'll know it. Let mumma wake up first." She said and I nodded. It had been almost ten minutes since mumma was asleep.

"Her blood pressure fluctuated. It would be alright-" Dhruv said but Divya interpreted him in between.

"Really? And why do you think this happened? It wouldn't have happened if you told us everything beforehand."

"Do you think it's this easy? They're my parents too. Should have I called them and told that I'm married? Ofcourse not. I wanted to discuss this matter with them, face to face."

"Okay! Just don't fight over these things. Your mother is not well and what you think about is quarrelling?" Dad said shutting everyone.

Just when mumma woke up, everyone went towards her. "Mumma, you're alright? You don't feel dizziness right?"

"I'm alright. I just want to discuss few things with Dhruv." Mumma said.

"Even I want to know." Dad said while sitting beside her.

I want to know this too.

Dhruv nodded and opened his mouth, "When I went to States for some work, I signed the marriage certificate."

"With whom?" Mumma asked. Dhruv looked towards my direction and smiled.

Wait a minute!

I'm already married!

And I'm not interested in men.

"Natasha."

"Really?" Mumma exclaimed. "I mean, why didn't you inform me?"

"We thought that-"

"We won't approve?" She asked and he nodded. "Why do you think like that? When my daughter wanted to marry by her own choice we never disagreed. Then why would we disagree our son? How could you even think like that?"

"I'm sorry mumma, I just didn't want to tell you everything over phone."

"There's nothing to be sorry about. You brought a daughter home. Now I have two daughters." She smiled and Divya hugged her tightly. "My other daughter?" Mumma asked and Natasha too went towards her to hug.

Pity me!

Here they're group hugging.

And I don't even have anyone to hug!

"Have you discussed this with your parents?"

"No auntie." Natasha said.

"Auntie? I told you last time to call me mumma. Still you're not used to it?"

"I'm sorry auntie. Sorry, I mean mumma."

"Let's go to eat. I'm hungry." Divya interrupted and everyone was unable to control their laugh.

××

Tring..... Ring.....

"Divya! Switch the alarm off." I whined while shifting on my place. But the alarm was still going on and irritating me. "Divya!"

"Hmm..."

"Switch it off."

Even I'm growing into a sleepy head after staying with her!

"Do it yourself and let me sleep." She shouted and threw her leg over mine. I switched the alarm off and looked at her. She was sleeping without any care visible on her face. Her lips puckered out in a pout, distracting me to kiss them.

Incidents from last night easily bought a smile on my face.

"Ayaan! Listen to me." She said while we were entering inside our home. "Ayaan, don't act like this. There was something important, that's why I left."

"So, these things are more important that your husband?"

"No. But some things can't be left right. You heard what happened tonight. Dhruv and Natasha married each other without informing anyone. Do you think I shouldn't do anything in this?"

"Hmm..." I said while unfastening my watch.

"One is my brother and other is my best friend." She sighed and sat on the couch. "I need to support them."

"I'm going to take a shower." I said and left to the bathroom. Taking all my clothes off, I switched the shower on.

Although this shower was not needed, but the warm April weather wanted it.

Just when I was about to lower the temperature down, I felt a pair of hands roaming around my back. "What are you doing here?"

"Can't I be here with you?"

"It's not like that. It's just-" I held my breathe when her hand travelled straight to my chest, wandering around here and there. "Divya, stop this."

"Are you angry?"

"I don't know. I just don't like it when you push me away from you."

"I wasn't pushing you away. Why don't you understand it?"

"Do whatever you want to. I'm going out." I said and was about to go out when she pulled me and caged me between the wall and her. Cupping my cheeks, she slammed her lips on mine and kissed in the wildest way possible. Not able to catch my breath I pulled back, "What was that?"

"Idiot!" She said and I chuckled.

Her one kiss is enough to woo me away!

"You'll get your punishment." I said and saw her pupils dilated.

"Always ready." She smiled and stood up on her toes to kiss me and continue rest of the night.

Tracing her lips with my thumb, I involuntarily licked mine in the thoughts of kissing her. Her leg travelled up slowly, just about to reach my crotch.

Why is she hell bent on giving me a hard time?

"Divya..." I groaned and caught her leg in frustration.

"What are you doing? Leave my leg....." She mumbled and hid her face in my neck.

"What do you want me to do?"

"What's the time?"

"Six. But that's not the answer to my question."

"What?"

"Rough or gentle?"

"Huh?"

"Which one do you prefer?"

"Nothing. Let me sleep." She said not before blushing and turned her back to me.

"You look cute while blushing."

"Shut up." She turned back to me and said. Sliding my hands around her waist, I pinched her hips and she gasped. "We'll get late."

"I'm the boss. Do you think anyone could stop me from making love to my wife?" Smirking, I pulled her close to me and kissed her.

××

Sitting alone in my office, I was signing some papers when my gaze went towards a card kept on the table. I picked it up and saw an invitation to a business party going to be held in evening.

How come I wasn't informed about it?

I called Adarsh and asked him about the matter. "Sir, I informed you about this card yesterday but you went back urgently. So..."

"Okay, you can leave." I said and he nodded. A business party is alright. But the main thing is, will Divya agree to accompany me?

What if she asks the same things she wanted last time?

Bonus is alright.

But a month of paid leave isn't!

I called Divya and asked her to meet me urgently. Just when she arrived, I engrossed myself in my files. "You called me?"

"Hmm..." I hummed while keeping my eyes towards my file. "We need to go out for a business party."

"When?"

"Tonight."

"What? Why didn't you inform me earlier?"

"Even I didn't knew about it. Are you accompanying me?"

"Okay." She said and was about to leave when I called her back, "Hmm..."

"Nothing. You can go." I said and she glared at me before leaving. Seriously! She could make me laugh anytime!

Going through the hotel department's work all through the noon I finally sat back on the chair and checked the time. I walked to her cabin and saw her sleeping, while resting her head on the table. I cleared my throat to wake her but she being Divya was in her own world.

"Divya!" I heard a voice from my back which belonged to this department's superviser, Maya. "Oh sorry! I mean excuse me. Why are you here?"

"She's my wife."

"Ohh! But why is she sleeping?"

"How would I know? Don't you have any work to do instead of gossiping around?" I raised my voice and she flinched.

"I'll get going." She left the room immediately and I turned towards Divya.

"Divya, wake up." I shook her from her sleep.

"Hmm..." She groaned.

"Why are you sleeping at this time?" I asked and she looked at me weirdly. "Sorry. You can sleep whenever you want. But we need to attend a party in few hours. Let's go. We need to change too."

"Hmm... Let's go." She said. She stood up and was about to lose her balance when I caught her.

"You're alright?"

"Yeah. I just woke up. That's why."

"Are you sure?"

"Then it must be due to low blood pressure."

"Low blood pressure? Haven't you eaten your lunch?"

"I didn't feel like eating anything."

"Seriously Divya! You can't skip your meals like this."

"Okay sorry."

"This is not good. You know right?"

"Hmm..."

"That's why I told you to have lunch with me but you denied. Let's go and grab some food before going to party." I said and she nodded. Taking some food from the cafeteria, I fed her and finally drove back to home. When she was going to check her wardrobe, I called her and she nodded. "Divya, I bought this dress. Just try this."

Changing into my black tux, I was about to wear my coat when I heard her footsteps coming out. "How am I looking?"

Sexy!

"Really pretty."

"Thank you then. I'll do some touch up." She said and walked towards the dressing table.

I thought that the dress was good but what I didn't knew was that it would look too beautiful on her!

"Ayaan!"

"Hmm...."

"What is this party about?"

"Just a usual business party with new entrepreneurs of this year. Why? Don't you want to go?"

"I never said that." She said. I slowly paced towards her and slid my arms around her waist from back while keeping my chin on her face. "What happened?"

"Can't we stay back?"

"Seriously? It was you who told me about this party. I'm not a fool to use this much energy just on dressing up."

"Okay, let's go. But after a kiss." I said and she punched me in my stomach. "What?"

"Can't you see I've done the makeup? I don't have any plan to ruin it now, like the last time you did on Shrey's engagement day." She groaned and I chuckled.

"Hmm..." I hummed and turned her towards me to kiss on her forehead. "You never denied for forehead kiss." I said and slapped my chest. "Let's go."

×× ××

– D I V Y A –

We reached the venue and entered inside. The area was good. "Divya!"

"Hmm."

"Wanna eat something?"

"No, I'm not hungry."

"Okay, just tell me when you want to."

"Hmm..." I hummed and saw a man with a woman coming towards us. "Who are they?"

"Rishabh Randhawa and his wife. He's in jewellery industry, diamonds and all."

"The one who got pregnant just two weeks after her wedding?" I asked and he looked at me with shock.

Bad choice of words!

"Shut up. What are you saying?"

"I'm sorry. That's what one auntie said on the karwa chauth night."

"Just don't say it infront of them. It'll cause a huge embarrassment."

"Okay, but why isn't her baby bump visible? It's been almost five months since karwa chauth. Even Diya's belly is big now." I asked and he glared at me.

"I told you not to talk about this. What will they think?"

"Sorry." I said while touching my earlobe.

"You're not a child. Stop doing that." He said and held my hand in his.

"Nice to meet you Mr Chauhan."

"Nice to meet you too Mr Randhawa." Ayaan said. His wife excused herself to the restroom and I did so too. Using the restroom, I went out to the basin area and saw her washing her hands.

"Nice to meet you. I'm Divya. Divya Chauhan."

"I'm Shruti. Shruti Randhawa." She smiled while drying her hands.

"When did you both marry?"

"Just five and a half months back. When did you?"

"It's been nine months of our first wedding and three months to our second one."

"Huh?"

"First one was official one and second one was like our family's wish to marry again."

"Oh! Yours was love marriage right?"

What should I tell?

It was neither love, nor arranged!

"Love. Yes." I said and she nodded, "And yours?"

"Arranged."

"Let's go or our husbands would worry a lot." I said and she nodded. While walking I felt a little dizziness and got hold of a gate.

"Are you alright?" She asked and I nodded.

"My BP would be low. Let's go out or Ayaan would worry."

And now I'm cursing myself for not exercising!

If I exercised daily, then BP problem would not have happened!

"You should drink juice first." She said and I nodded. Walking out towards the food area, we grabbed some juice and sat on the chair to talk for a while. "What do you do? I mean your profession?"

"I'm a CA. And you?"

"Corporate lawyer. Don't you think this business world is too tiring?"

"Sometimes I think so too. But then, I like to play with it." I said and she smiled.

"Would you like to be my dance partner?" Two men came towards us and asked.

"I'm sorry-" She was about to say something when a voice interrupted.

"Sorry but she already has a partner." He husband said and turned to her, "Shall we?" She nodded and they went towards the dance floor.

And here I was!

Sitting alone!

My phone rang and I picked it up immediately. "Hello."

"Divya, guess where are we going?" Natasha asked.

"I don't know. You tell me."

"Seriously? Atleast show some suspense. We're driving to my parents'."

"Dehradun?"

"Yes. Your family is ready but we don't have any idea about mine. We need to meet them too."

"Mumma and dad are going too?"

"Well...no. I told my parents about this matter and they said that they want to meet Dhruv first. Who knows what's going on?"

"Okay, go on the way. Have a safe ride."

"Where are you?"

"In a business party."

"Seriously? Okay, bye. We need to go out to eat."

"Hmm..... Bye." I said. When I turned back on my chair I was shocked. A woman was standing just behind me, with the worst expression ever on her face.

Why does she has to stand so close to me?

What if I had heart attack?

"Divya!" Ayaan called me and I saw him gazing in my direction. Walking towards me he held my hands and dragged me towards the dancing area.

"You should have asked me about dancing with you. Consent is important."

"Oh really?" He asked and pulled me by my waist while dancing, "What happens to that consent when you kiss me without my permission?"

"You seriously don't have any shame right?"

"I didn't say anything shameful. Did I?" He asked while wiggling his eyebrows and I rolled my eyes. He took my right hand and joined it with his left one. "It's much better now."

Zindagi ne ki hai kaisi saazishein

Poori hui dil ki wo farmaishein

Maangi duaa ek tujh tak jaa pahunchi

Parvardigara, parvardigara

Kaisi suni tune meri khamoshi

O parvardigara

Ye fitoor mera laaya mujhko hai tere kareeb

Ye fitoor mera rehmat teri

Ye fitoor mera maine badla re mera naseeb

Ye fitoor mera chaahat teri

(What kind of conspiracies life has done,

That the demands of the heart are met..

A wish I made reached you,

O God, O my Lord..

How did you listen to my silence,

O my lord..

This madness of mine has brought me close to you.

This obsession of mine is your mercy..

This madness of mine, that I have changed my luck,

This obsession of mine, your love...)

"You know, this line is really true in my case." He bent down to my ears and said in a husky voice, "Yeh fitoor mera, laaya mujhko hai tere kareeb."

"You really won't stop saying these cheesy lines, right?"

"I won't, this is my promise." He said and I couldn't help but smile. "You know, it's very hard for me to control myself after seeing you in this dress."

"Why? Don't I look good in other dresses?"

"I don't mean that. It's-"

"Shut up. I don't want to talk to you." I said and started walking back to the food area.

That's why, food is better than any other human being!

"Divya, listen to me. It's not like what you think. I don't like this dress but you. Even if you wear nothing, I'm there with you." He said and I glared. "I mean you're more valuable to me than this dress."

"Idiot!"

"I'm listening. Infact everyone is listening."

"I know. That's why I said it. Now shut your mouth and let me eat." I said before digging food inside my stomach. Just when the party was over, he held my hand and dragged me to God knows where! "Where are you taking me?"

"Shh...." He said and picked me up in bridal style. "You'll know. And I would inform you beforehand, we're not going out."

"Then where are we going?" I asked but got no answer from him. "Ayaan, tell me. I'm growing impatient. Atleast put me down." I asked before we entered inside a lift. "Don't tell me we're going to stay in lift."

"Use some logic Divya. Are you really that studious Divya or a doppelgänger?"

"The second one."

"And I believe that." He smiled in a sarcastic way. Coming out of the lift, he opened the gate of a room and entered inside. The room was dark and was decorated with candles.

Wait a minute!

Was it a honeymoon suite?

"Why are we here?"

"Do you want to go back?"

"No it's not like that."

"Then I take that you liked this decoration." He said and I nodded in disbelief.

"What's that?" I asked, looking towards a strange thing on the bed and he chuckled.

"They seriously kept this towel swan on the bed! I just asked for a decorated room." He said and started laughing.

"Atleast put me down."

"Nope."

"Why?" I asked and he walked towards the bed. Putting me down on the bed, he opened the buttons of his coat and threw it somewhere on the floor. "Wait a minute." I said and he looked at me.

"What happened?"

"You don't love me anymore."

"What are you saying?"

"I'm just telling you the truth."

"And who told this to you?"

"No one, I know." I pushed him back on the bed and turned my back to him.

"Divya, you are overreacting now!"

"I'm not."

"So you think that you're the one who's correct?"

"Yes, I am. I'm always correct and better than you." I said and he chuckled bitterly.

"Do you whatever you want to." He said coldly and turned to his side.

Idiot!

Maniac!

Stupid!

"I can't sleep in this dress." I said.

"So?"

"I don't have another pair of clothes."

"Not my problem."

Again, idiot!

Maniac!

Stupid!

"Rude." I said and tried to shift on my place. "It's too hot here." I said and he switched the air-con on, with the lowest temperature possible. "It's too cold now." I said and he gave no answer. "It's not that I'm dying to talk with you." I could have slept in an instant but that dress wasn't allowing me to.

The beautiful the dress, more uncomfortable it is.

I stood up from the bed and walked towards the balcony. Sliding the door, I paced inside the balcony and closed the door. As the cold breeze hit my face, I couldn't help but cry. It's all so good then why am I crying?

Does he not love me anymore?

Is it true that love fades out from a relationship after few days?

He cares more about the dress than me!

Crying my heart out, I rubbed my eyes and turned back to open the door. As I slid the door to enter inside, I felt myself being pulled and caged between the wall and him. "What were you doing outside and why are you crying?"

"It shouldn't concern you."

"Oh really? I'm your husband. Who would care for you then?" He shouted and I said nothing. "Divya!" He cupped my face, "Why do you think I don't love you?"

"You love this dress more."

"Why.... Why would I love this dress? I don't wear gowns." He chuckled and I glared, "I mean, I just complimented you, not this dress."

"I know what you mean."

"Are you on your periods?" He asked and I glared, "But your date was just three weeks ago..... You want me to show that I love you more, right?" He asked and I nodded. He took a side of my dress and tore it without any care.

"What are you doing? Why are you tearing this dress?"

"Now you know that it's not the dress that's close to me but you. I love you Divya, why don't you understand? Where am I wrong?"

"I'm sorry. I just-"

"I know. It's alright." He said and pressed his lips on my temple. I wrapped my arms around his torso and hugged him tightly.

"I don't know why I'm thinking this much."

"It's alright Divya. Just don't take much stress. It's not good for you."

"Hmm..."

"Let's go to sleep. I'll arrange some extra clothes or you can wear my shirt."

"No..... Your arrangements should go waste then."

"So, now you care about my hardwork?"

"Hmm... But it's not you who decorated this room."

"I asked them to do it, right? So it's directly or indirectly me." He said and and I rolled my eyes. "Don't roll your eyes now. You can do it when I'm making love to you."

"You!"

"I?"

"Nothing."

"Really nothing?" He asked with his sexiest voice and I nodded. "Then....." He stretched his words while his hands went back to the zip of my dress. Cupping his jaw, I stood up on my toes and pulled him down. Nearing my lips to his', I captured his upper lip in mine in the slowest way possible. Getting out of my dress, I slid my hands into his locks. "Jump."

I jumped and he wrapped my legs around his waist while I shove my tongue inside his mouth. As my soft flesh molded with his, he pulled me close to him while walking all through the room except the bed which made all the things in the room fall down.

"Bed?" He asked while I was opening his shirt.

"Huh?"

"On the bed or couch or-" He was saying but I placed my lips of his in between.

"All of them." I said and he smiled, pulling me back to mingle our breathe again.

*****

TIED TOGETHER BY LOVE 💍

It's too cold here!

Okay, so you would have guessed, or maybe not.

There's another story, about Rishabh and Shruti. You can have a look of that in my profile. One chapter is already posted. I'll post the next chapter of that after completing this.

Next update : By evening

Till then, bye bye!!