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"Sana, please help me with this tie", Nakul said standing in front of the mirror.

Dressed in a beautiful pink saree, she rolled her eyes and went close to him. He placed the tie on her palm upon forwarding. As she stepped ahead and adjusted the tie around his neck, he pulled her closer by her waist leaving no gap between them.

"What are you doing Nakul?", She said.

"What? What am I doing?", He asked acting totally innocent.

"Hmm.. Stand straight", she ordered pushing him a little back and getting on to work with the tie while his hands were still around her waist and eyes explicitly reserved for her face.

"Done!!", She said with a bright smile.

"So soon?", He asked sensuously.

"Yeah.. now leave me..", she said.

"No", he shook his head and water droplets from his hair fell on her face.

"Hey!! You haven't wiped your hair properly. Leave me and wipe your hair.", She scolds.

"No, I won't", he shook his head rigorously causing few more droplets splash on her.

"Nakul.. stop it..", She whined while clenching her eyes shut and gripping a few strands of his hair in her hand.

They stared intensely into each other's eyes and leaned closer. Their breathing and heart beats rose.

Sidharth startled in his slumber hearing his phone ring and sat up straight. A sudden sharp pain in his head due to last night's hangover caused him to hold it.

Before he could gain control of his mind and attend his phone, it stopped ringing. He didn't bother to give it any attention but looked at where he was at the present. It was his room and memories of last night before he passed out flashed before him. He was then reminded of yet another nightmare he had a few minutes back.

His mind was in chaos so his head pounded even more. Just then he noticed a glass of lime water on the table beside his bed. He instantly gulped it down the throat and lay flat on his back again, his eyes wide open staring blankly at the ceiling of his room.

After quite some time, he got up and took a shower. Dressing up in casuals as usual, he went down to the kitchen. 

"Sir, do you need something?", Asked the maid.

"Sana..", he asnswered.

"Ma'am isn't home. She left for her work at 8.", She answered.

"Hmmm..", he nods absent mindedly and opens the fridge door and stares blankly at it for quite a few minutes.

"Sir, do you want something?", The maid asked yet again when she found him standing idle infront of the fridge for over 5 minutes.

"Sana..", he said yet again. The maid was taken aback as to why would he ask the same thing. After a pause, she assumed that he probably didn't hear her for the first time.

"Sir, she left for work at 8.", She answered again but he had drifted off into his thoughts before hearing her answer. His mind had just been occupied with the same nightmare all the time.

"Sir, should I get something to eat for you?", Asked the maid finding him lost yet again.

"Huh? Where is Sana?", He asked her once more.

"Sir, are you not feeling well?", Asked the maid. He narrowed his eyebrows and glared at her for not answering his question. Instead, he got irked thinking that the maid was being sarcastic as he had never asked her about Sana earlier.

"Why? Can't I inquire about Sana? She is my bloody wife!", He yelled at her. The maid trembled in fear and clenched her eyes shut which made him feel guilty.

"I am sorry. I lost my mind when you didn't answer about Sana.", Sidharth explained as calmly as possible.

"I.. I.. I am s.. s.. sorry Sir but I d..d..did answer to your question twice b..b..before that she went to w..w..work. I just thought you weren't well h..h..hence asked me the same question three times..", the maid fumbled still scared of his wrath.

"Oh! I.. I.. I didn't hear it. Sorry.", He said closing the fridge and exiting the kitchen.

"S..Sir.. do you need anything to eat?", Asked the maid running behind him. She stopped and shivered when he paused and turned around.

"S..s..sorry!!", She said yet again immediately fearing his outburst which made him feel even more motified for his reaction earlier.

"I am sorry..", he said before leaving the house.

The entire day at office, he kept looking at the watch. He cancelled all the meetings he had, asked his secretary to not disturb him and didn't leave his cabin. That whole time - he strolled to and fro in his cabin, changed seats, stared out of the window, drank multiple cups of coffee, smoked few packs of cigarettes while over working his mind aimlessly.

At 6:00pm, he barged out of his cabin and sat in the car instructing the driver to take him to Leelas. The drive was just 25 minutes long and he reached half an hour before the said time. He ordered plain orange juice remembering the previous day's incident.

Every minute he waited for her felt like a decade. Finding the time crawl at sloth speed, he pulled out the cigarette from his pocket.

"Sir, it's a no smoking zone.", the waiter said gently.

Sidharth nodded his head when the waiter pointed towards the smoking area. Walking up to the smoking area, Sidharth lighted the cigarette and puffed it. He looked at the watch and it was 6:59pm.

It will be 7 which meant he would finally get to see her after 24 hours. Rubbing the cigarette butt into the ashtray, he lifted his head only to freeze at the sight outside.

A bike stopped at the entrance, the pillion rider was none other than Sana. When the rider took off his helmet, Sidharth recognised him as Nakul. Sidharth kept staring at the two from the tinted glass as they conversed with each other. Sana laughed and smacked on his arm while Nakul teased her. She then looked at her watch and facepalmed before waving her hand at him. She took a few steps ahead only to turn back and smilingly nod at something said by Nakul before reauming to enter the hotel.

Sana asked the receptionist about Sidharth and she pointed to the seat which was reserved for them. She nods and raced to the table which was unoccupied but had his blazer jacket on it. Sidharth lit another cigarette and took a puff observing at her from far. She pulled out her phone and typed something in it.

"Excuse me, are you aware of his whereabouts?", She asked the waiter after 10 minutes of waiting.

"Sir is at the smoking lounge.", Said the waiter pointing into the direction.

Sana looked at Sidharth and found him staring at her. His face was covered with a thin stubble as he hadn't shaved since 3 days. Though he looked in an awful mood, he still was the most handsome man she had ever seen in her life.

Flashback:
"Sidharth, is this business trip so compulsory?", Sana whined the nth time.

"I wish it wasn't. I don't want to leave my month old wifey all alone but Papa is so adamant on me attending the meeting.", Said Sidharth with a sad pout.

"Dare you look at other girls while away from me.", She warned him pointing a finger at him.

"I won't but what if they can't keep their eyes away from me?", He asked.

"How would you know if you ain't looking at them?", She asked making him speechless.

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After a three days trip, he returns home to be in her embrace.

"What's with this beard? You look like a beggar.", She scolds.

"You weren't there to gawk at my handsome face so I grew stubble to keep off other girls", he teased.

"Did it help?", She asked

"How would I know cause I never paid attention to anyone.", He said making her giggle. He brushed his cheeks with hers making her yelp.

Within the next few seconds, he found her sitting in his lap and running a shaving machine over the stubble. Once done she brushed her cheeks against his smooth cheeks and nuzzled her nose with his before indulging in steamy romance with her husband.

Flashback ends.

Her face had an unamused expression while his expressions were cold as they both stared at each other from far. He rubbed the fourth cigarette butt into the ashtray and walked back to the table. Without any greetings or conversation, he sat opposite to her. Their eyes stared blankly at each other for a while before he pushed the menu towards her.

"Order your new favourite dish.", He said in a cold tone.

"I am not here to eat Sidharth.", She said.

"It's a restaurant and it's dinner time. There is no harm in eating unless you already had your food elsewhere with someone else.", Said Sidharth.

She glares at him which he ignores royally and instead focuses on his phone. She shrugs in disbelief and looks down at the menu. Looking at her through the corner of his eyes, he smirks annoyingly.

The waiter arrives and she orders for herself.

"Sure ma'am and what about you sir?", Asked the waiter.

She pushed the menu towards him which Sidharth quickly glanced at and pointed at an item. The waiter nodded his head and left. Sidharth was observing her all the time. She was looking at her phone.

"So how is Nakul?", Asked Sidharth all of a sudden. She narrowed her eyebrows.

"Why would you ask?", She questioned.

"He is your best friend so I was just asking. You are friends with him for how many years now?", Asked Sidharth.

"19 years, 11 months..", she said nonchalantly.

"Oh! Don't you remember the days, hours, minutes and seconds?", He asked sarcastically.

" 26 days, 11 hours, 35 minutes and 25 seconds.. ahh.. 28 seconds", she said looking at the time on her phone.

He widened his eyes and glared at her.

"Anything else?", She smirked glaring back at him.

The waiter served the food in front of her and a large glass of alcohol in front of him.

"Are you going to drink today as well?", She asked looking at the glass.

"Get me one more, extra large", he ordered before gulping down the entire liquid down his throat paying no heed to her question. She looked at the waiter and bit her lip feeling humiliated of being ignored.

Though her mouth was silent, her cutlery made more noise as she poured her anger on it. He looked around at a few people staring at her.

"Will you slow down? People are looking at us?", He spoke gritting her jaws.

She ignored him and continued her torture on the plate, munching her food. Her anger multiplied when the waiter served another huge glass of bitter liquid to Sidharth. The noises from the cutlery became louder, when he ordered one more serving. The waiter looked at them both with a hesitant body language before going away.

"Sana.. you are causing humiliation.", He said in extreme frustration.

She dropped the fork and knife in her hand into the plate harshly and glared at him. The waiter kept another serve of alcohol on the table.

"Get a taste of your own medicine Sidharth before you start blabbering in intoxication and start humiliating me like yesterday. What is the purpose behind calling me here everyday when all you have to do is get drunk?", She said standing up on her feet to go to the washroom. Her eyes were red and on the verge of crying.

He tried getting up to stop her but staggered feeling tipsy after downing 4 large glasses of alcohol. If he waits for her, he would surely cause shame to her he thought so he paid the bill and went to the car tottering and asked the driver to take home.

After crying uncontrollably alone in the washroom cubicle, Sana washed her face by splashing cold water. When she returned, she found herself stranded by him. She had her car broke so had to take Nakul's help to get dropped to the hotel. Somewhere she expected to go home with Sidharth but he had left her.

She called up Nakul yet again and asked him to pick her up to be dropped to her maternal home instead of Sidharth's loveless mansion.

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To be continued.. ❤️❤️