ZAYN'S POV:

I immediately looked to my phone book to dial Andrews's number when another message popped up on my screen. I opened it immediately without wasting a second. It was an image file. It took a few seconds to download. And when it opened, it gave me the biggest shock.

Allah! She is the same girl whom I saw today morning outside Humana Publishing.

I don't believe this. She is Zoya.
Zoya Ali.
She is the one who called me Richie Rich. I laughed like a child.

I kept looking at her picture trailing my fingers on it.

She is so very beautiful. So innocent. An angelic face, then why she is not on social media. I thought.

Then the realization hit me.

Why did she go to Humana Publishing Corp?

I gave a call at Andrew's number and he picked it up on the very first ring.

"I was waiting for your call, Zayn."

"Andrew, tell me why did she go to Humana Publishing?"

"I thought you would be a better person to know that. After all, it's your company." He told me.

"Stop playing with me. Answer me".

"To publish her book." He said.

"Her book?" I queried.

"Yes. LOVE 24HRS."

"LOVE 24HRS?"

She loves to write. And 'Love 24hrs' is the name of her romantic novel. She went to your company to publish it. He informed me.

"'Love 24hrs'. That's an interesting name.
But then why did she slapped my editor?" I questioned him.

"Come on Zayn, why don't you ask that jerk, huh." He asked.

"Andrew, Damn it. Don't test my patience. Just answer me." I howled at him

"Because your editor was not in his limit. He touched her waist and she touched his cheeks to remind him of his limits".

"How dare he do that with any lady?" I roared in anger.

"Any lady or with your lady, Mr. Zayn Ahmed Khan." He teased.

"Ahhh... enough". I yelled.

"She is beauty with Brains. A very rare combination. I must say, you made a great choice". He remarked.

"Andrew, it's nothing like that," I explained to him.

"Seriously! Nothing?" He asked.

"No," I confirmed him.

"So you won't mind if I try my luck with her."

"What the hell!!" I screamed.

"Okay okay. I got your answer. You do mind." He teased.

"But yes, there is another information about her". He said in a deep voice.

"And what's that?" I asked in curiosity.

"She is very much single so it's better that you find a way to get mingle". He teased me again

"Shut up". Saying irritatedly I disconnected the call.

I kept the phone on my bedside table and settled myself on the bed to take a sound sleep.
Suddenly, a thought struck my mind. I immediately got up from the bed and walked straight away to my closet after turning the lights on. Walking to the closet, I turned the laundry bag upside down to get my suit which I threw out for a dry wash after wearing it for the whole day.

I picked up the suit and started looking into the pockets and then I got the lipstick and the Kohl pencil that I picked up from the Humana Publishing Corp.

I started looking through her items and a smile appeared on my lips

"What!! Oh Allah, These companies. They are really something. But what a perfect shade of lipstick she uses."
'MANEATER'.

Really, the name of the shade of her lipstick suits her lips perfectly.
Men will die to eat such lips.

I quickly turned to look at her Kohl.
'COVERGIRL'.

"What a coincidence!!" I said to myself.

She is really under 'COVER'. She is nowhere in the media. She has covered herself so well that to know her, an investigator had to be hired. I thought.

I kept looking at her picture for some time.
Her beauty, her innocent face flashed in my mind when she was busy admiring herself on the tinted glass of my car's window.
Her edible red pouted lips, her smooth creamy fingers caressing her soft dark brown hair, her deep brown eyes which she carefully lined with her Kohl pencil, that later turned into black when her eyes met mine. Her smooth white cheeks immediately flushed red like tomatoes seeing me inside the car. Though she didn't see me but I saw every inch of her face. She has a small black mole at the right corner of her lower lips, making her more gorgeous, sexier. Her features were incredibly affecting me.  And her lips were just a few inches away from mine. The only thing which was between us was a 4mm glass window.

I never came close to any girl after she, my love left me. I never wanted though I can get any girl with a snap of my finger. The famous actress also tried to lure me but I never encouraged or rather to be precise; never paid any heed to their advances because they all want me for my money and for my looks. I know I'm handsome with a perfect manly body, on which girls drool. For me, these are nothing but temporary happiness, nothing permanent.

Beauty should be permanent that can be only earned with a well-defined character.

Zoya is the only girl I've known and seen in the last few years who possess that permanent beauty.

Being so beautiful, she didn't get attracted to Social media. Maybe because she herself is so real, so genuine, so true.
The fake world couldn't lure her at all.
She kept herself away from it.

She is not even after money else she wouldn't have slapped my editor. Any girl would have gone along with his advances to get her book published under the banner of Humana Publishing. She is a real gem.

Though she is away from the fake world, she lives in her dreams. Dream to be an Author. Dream to be loved.
Dream to be Loved 24hrs.

I really wish she gets someone who loves her 24/7. Because she deserves to be loved, to be cared and to be treasured for lifelong.

I won't disagree that I'm very much impressed by Zoya from the very first conversation I had with her and now after seeing her, I'm completely mesmerized. She is affecting me.

But my love for my beloved is so very deep that it will never let me move out from her. I just wish that she comes back to my life.

But now, whether she comes back or not, whether Zoya catches up with her dreams or not, but I will surely make my editor Mr. Jamaal Malik, taste the fruit of Hell.
I, Zayn Ahmed Khan, will never tolerate this kind of behavior in my business world ever.
"Mr. Jamaal Malik, you are finished."

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