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Gauri Kumari Sharma hurriedly walks into her office. She was late today. She hated being late. Gauri rushes to her table and was about to sit.

"Gauri..." Richa calls her and Gauri stops quickly and turns around to look at her. "Sir asked you to see him before you started work." Richa tells her with a teasing and all-knowing smile.

Gauri sighs and walks towards his cabin. It was not even a secret what he has been trying. He never tried to be subtle. How she hated him for that.

She knocks on the door and pokes her head in, "May I come in, Sir?"

"Gauri!" Om looks up with a smile. "You know you don't have to ask."

"You are my boss and I have to."

"Have I ever treated you like my employee?" Om asks her grinning.

"I would appreciate it a lot if you did." Gauri replies.

"I could but I don't want to." Om replies as he checked her out top to bottom. "No new dress for your birthday?"

"How do you know it is my birthday?" Gauri asks him shocked.

"Where you are concerned it is my business to know." Om tells her as he stood up and walked towards her. "Happy Birthday, Gauri." Om tells her as he offered her a jewellery box.

"What is this?" Gauri asks frowning.

"Open it." Om tells her as he pushed the box onto her hand.

Gauri opens the box to see a beautiful diamond necklace. For a second, she had to force herself to close it and return it to him. "I don't take expensive gifts, especially from you."

"Ouch." Om says keeping his hand over his heart though he was still grinning. "You are always rejecting my gifts."

"I know what prize it comes with it. And it is against my policy to accept expensive gifts from outsiders."

"That was cruel." Om tells her making puppy face.

"You'll live. Can I go?"

"So... you won't take expensive gifts... huh? How about an inexpensive one?" Om asks her.

"What is it?" Gauri asks frowning.

"Me."

"You? inexpensive?" Gauri mocks. "Aren't you the heir to business worth 200 crores?"

"You have too much information." Om says pissed.

"It's my business to know who I am working for." Gauri throws his words back at him and turns to walk off.

Gauri walks towards her table and sees a giftwrapped box. Curious she opens it to see a red rose inside that.

"You will never take expensive gifts from me. So, I got you that." Om tells her.

Gauri turns around to find him leaning on his door with a sexy smile.

"This...."

"I didn't even pay a single penny for that. I stole it from my mom's garden." Om tells her grinning. "So, I don't think you have any grounds to refuse that." Then he turns to Richa and cheekily winks at her and walk back.

Gauri turns to Richa and sees her watching them with an amused smile.

"Shut up." Gauri tells her knowing full well what was going to follow. She turns to look at his door and sees the door closed. She sighs and smiles as she kept the rose on a glass of water. She wished he would stop this nonsense. It's seriously close to a year since he has been behind her. The dedication and sincerity he shows, one would think he wanted to marry her when in truth all he wanted was a sexy time between the sheets, his words to be exact. At least, he was honest about that and she had to give him that. And he has never misbehaved with her, the reason she had remained at the job in spite of him chasing her shamelessly for a year now.

Later, Gauri was working when Richa comes to her.

"Do you want to have coffee?" Richa asks her.

"Yeah, okay." Gauri replies smiling, she had been thinking of taking a break. She gets up and walks with Richa to the pantry as they talked. Richa was telling her about the latest office gossips. Gauri used to gossip about the office people before but now she stopped as she knew the biggest gossip of the office was that their boss was trying to get her to sleep with him.

"HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!" everyone shouts as she enters the pantry and Gauri stops in shock seeing her co-workers and Omkara standing around the table with a cake on the table. Gauri looks at Om furiously as she walked towards him.

"What? It is office tradition." Om replies defensively.

"But you never take part in it." Gauri furiously whispers to him.

"That is because you are special." Om replies not so quietly winking at her. Gauri turns completely red in embarrassment. "Do you have any idea how beautiful you look when you blush?"

Gauri turns to look at everyone and they were watching like hawks. "I am so close to quitting."

"Wow... you mean no more threat on sexual harassment in workplace law suit?" Om asks excitedly.

Gauri looks at him helplessly.

"I was just joking, Gauri. Cut the cake and I am here because I consider you a friend." Om tells her as he passes the knife to her.

"I am not your friend." Gauri says furiously as she snatched the knife from him.

"But I am your friend." Om tells her smiling genuinely at her.

Gauri looks at him helplessly. When he smiled at her like that, something in her melted. Sighing, Gauri turns around and cuts the cake. She takes a piece and turns to Richa, "Richa..." Gauri says as she offered the cake.

Richa's eyes quickly dart between Gauri and Om nervously and she says quickly, "You give Sir first. I'll take the second one."

"No... you have this." Gauri insists.

"No. Give him first." Richa insists. When Gauri looked adamant, she whispers, "I don't want to lose my job."

"He is not going to fire you." Gauri whispers to her.

"Really?" Om asks Gauri from behind.

Gauri turns to him in shock and Om gives her a challenging look. Sighing loudly Gauri shoves the cake into his mouth making him chuckle and everyone else gasp out loudly. He takes a piece and takes it near her mouth. Gauri looks away furiously. "I can see Richa is important to you." Om says.

"Gauri... please?" Richa begs from behind.

Gauri opens her mouth and Om feeds her. Then he looks behind Gauri at Richa and grins at her, "I owe you."

"WHAT?" Gauri wipes around in shock as she looked at Richa who was looking at her guiltily.

"Did you really think I was going to fire her for this?" Om asks her chuckling and then he walks off.

"He made me do that. He is my boss." Richa tells Gauri in panic.

Gauri sighs and looks away from Richa and sees everyone watching her. Some amused, some disgusted, some angry and a few in jealousy.

"Thanks everyone for this." Gauri tells everyone uncomfortably. "I am just gonna go."

"May I come in?" Gauri furiously asks him.

"Please." Om replies smiling ear to ear.

"Stop smiling!" Gauri furiously orders him.

"I thought I was the boss here." Om replies.

"Stop it, please! I can't take it anymore. The way they all look at me. They hate me. they think that I am encouraging you like this. They think I am here only because you want to sleep with me."

"That is true." Om replies.

"I am good at what I am doing!" Gauri says furiously. "I am here because I am good at my job."

"Yeah I know. But you are my secretary because I want to sleep with you. You were going to be promoted to assist my Dad and shifted to the headquarters, but I stopped that. So, it is true that you are here because I want to sleep with you." Om explains to her.

"You stopped my promotion?" Gauri asks him shocked.

"Yes. And my Dad is a tyrant. He'll torture you. You will never have the fun you are having with me." Om tells her with a wink.

"I am not having any fun with you!" Gauri says outraged.

"Only if you let yourself have the fun. You have no idea how great it is going to be between us." Om tells her as he stood up and walked towards her.

"STOP IT!" Gauri says furiously. "Why don't you just leave me alone?"

"I'll. One night and I'll."

"You are disgusting!" Gauri says furiously. "Can't you see what it is doing to me?"

"How many people in this office do you think is chaste?" Om asks her.

"I don't care about others. I care about me."

"Even I care about you."

"Then stop this nonsense."

"I can't. You are kind of like an obsession. The only way to get you out of my system is... bed pe cricket." Om winks at her.

"You are sick!" Gauri says furiously and turns to walk out.

"Gauri... have lunch with me." Om tells her.

Gauri furiously turns around, "What?"

"I said have lunch with me."

"No."

"Just lunch." Om tells her.

"Still no."

"It's your birthday and I want to do something special with you. So just lunch."

"I said no."

"Like I said, you are my friend, Gauri." Om tells her earnestly. "And I promise I'll behave."

"If I have lunch with you then will you stop all this nonsense?"

"No. I can't."

"Then no."

"Please?"

Gauri stops hearing him. She turns to look at him and he was looking at her very sincerely. She sighs; there was something in him that made her give in to his silly demands like these. "Fine."

"Thanks." Om says smiling excitedly. "How about Chinese? It's your favorite right?"

"How do you know that?" Gauri asks him shocked.

"What do I don't know about you?" Om asks her back.

After they placed their orders they were silent for a while both lost in thoughts.

"They are going to talk about this." Gauri tells him.

"That we went for lunch together?"

"Yes."

"Then why did you come?" Om asks her.

Gauri shakes her head and looks away, she didn't know, and she was scared to ask herself why.

"Relax, Gauri. Whoever wants to talk let them talk."

"I can't have people talking about me like that. I am a girl. I have to get married one day. I am going to be someone's bahu."

"Do you seriously think your husband would be a saint?" Om asks her surprised.

Gauri doesn't reply.

"Do you truly think that he would be a virgin?"

"I don't care even if he is not."

"Then why do you insist on being a virgin?" Om asks her.

"Can you stop this?"

"Tell me, Gauri."

"Why do you want to talk about this? And what makes you think that I am a virgin?" Gauri asks him in a challenging tone.

Om's smirk drops for a second hearing her question a possessiveness gripping him then he shrugs it away. "I just assumed you are."

"I am." Gauri tells him as she looked away because she wanted to tell him. Why? She didn't know.

Om mentally relaxes; something had hurt him when she had said that.

"Wouldn't it matter to you if your wife is like you?"

"Do you think I can handle a marriage?" Om asks her surprised.

"If you show half the dedication that you show me then I think you can."

Om chuckles, "You are different, Gauri."

"How?"

"You are special."

"Why?"

Om looks at her thoughtfully wondering why she was special then in the end he just shrugs.

"I don't think I can ever be with one girl all my life."

"You can. When you find your Mrs. Right, you will."

"Then it is a good thing that I am not looking, right?" Om asks her cheekily.

"You get into my nerves!" Gauri says furiously.

Om chuckles, "Can you be with one man all your life?"

"Yes."

"What a boring life that is going to be." Om tells her.

"It will be my life."

"Yeah I know. So... what plans for the weekend?"

"I am not going anywhere with you." Gauri snaps at him.

Om chuckles, "How long can you keep rejecting me?"

"How long are you going to torture me like this?"

"As long as it takes." Om tells her.

"Can't you find anyone better?"

"Never found any one as enticing as you." Om tells her.

Gauri looks away as she tried to control her blush.

Om parks the car and quickly gets down, runs to the other side and opens the door for Gauri.

"You don't have to do all this." Gauri tells him though her cheeks were turning pink.

"I wanted to do it for you." Om tells her as he led her towards the elevator to take them back to the office.

"Thanks for the lunch." Gauri tells him.

"Thanks for coming with me." Om tells her smiling happily.

Gauri turns to look at him and loses her footing and starts to fall when Om quickly holds her. "Careful, Gauri." Om says in genuine concern as he helps to steady her. "Are you alright?"

"I am fine." Gauri says and looks on in shock when he quickly kneels down and starts inspecting her ankles.

"What are you doing?" Gauri asks panicking seeing two of her co-workers in the smoking area watching them in shock.

"I am just checking whether your ankles are fine." Om says as he continued to twist her leg around.

"I am fine. Please stop." Gauri says as she pulled her leg away from him.

"I was just checking, Gauri." Om says a little offended. "I am not trying to rape you."

"People are watching." Gauri tells him in a whisper. "I would never think that of you." Gauri tells him.

Om turns to where she was looking and sees them. "You are giving them undue importance."

"You are giving me undue importance." Gauri tells him.

"For a reason." Om replies to her.

"I am never going to sleep with you."

"A man can try." Om replies with a shrug as he led her towards the elevator.

Couple of weeks later, Gauri was getting ready for office when Padmini comes to her excitedly. "Gauri... you remember my friend Meera?"

"Yes." Gauri replies smiling at her.

"She is coming to our house next week, and her son is also coming."

"Ah that is nice." Gauri says smiling.

"She wants her son Ajay to marry you." Padmini tells her happily.

"What?"

"Yes, Gauri. You two used to be such good friends when you were small. Then itself we used to say that Gauri is for Ajay." Padmini tells her smiling.

Gauri panics hearing her mother. Her marriage? To Ajay? I have to talk to Omkara! Without saying anything, Gauri hurries out.

Gauri opens the cabin door and starts to run in when she spots Ridhima with him. She stops dead in shock. What was she thinking? That it would matter to him that her parents were thinking of getting her married to someone else? The first thing he would tell her would be to find out if the guy is a virgin and whether he was worthy of her virginity. Then he would ask her to spend a night with him before her wedding. She was nothing more than that to him.

"Gauri?" Om calls her in concern.

"Sorry." Gauri replies and quickly starts to leave.

"Gauri... wait." Om says as he runs behind her. "What happened?"

"Nothing." Gauri tells him as she looked away.

"You look pale. Is everything alright?" Om asks as he was about to keep his hand on her shoulder.

"I am fine." Gauri says quickly as she steps back not wanting him to touch her.

Om stops furiously when she did that. "Then why did you come running in?"

"I wanted to take the day off." Gauri tells him as she looked around agitated. She couldn't look at him now. She needed to think.

"Is everything alright, Gauri?"

"I said I am fine." Gauri snaps at him.

"You are not fine." Om says furiously as he holds her hand and drags her with him to his cabin.

"Leave me! Stop creating a scene." Gauri furiously tells him struggling seeing people were staring.

"Ridhima, I'll see you at the party in the evening. You go now." Om tells her ignoring Gauri's protests.

"Is this Gauri?" Ridhima asks him as she looked at Gauri in shock.

"Yeah. Now leave."

"How do you know me?" Gauri asks her shocked.

"He keeps talking about you. No girl has made him run around in circles like you." Ridhima tells her impressed.

"Leave, Ridhima."

"I am going." Ridhima says rolling her eyes. "See you, Gauri. By the way, I am Ridhima, his best friend."

"Best friend?" Gauri asks shocked. For a long time, she was the only girl by his side in every party and she had assumed she was his girlfriend or something but best friend?

"Yeah... Difficult to believe that he can have platonic relations too... huh?" Ridhima asks chuckling.

"Get lost, Ridhima." Om says irately.

"I am going.... Anyways I'll catch you some other time, Gauri... when you are not so worked up. Hope everything is fine with you. See ya."

Gauri watches as Ridhima walked out.

"What happened?" Om asks her angrily.

"Nothing." Gauri replies.

"You were pale when you came in."

"It was the sun."Gauri tells him avoiding eye contact.

"Look at me when you are talking." Om tells her furiously.

"Why does it matter to you?" Gauri asks him furiously.

"Because you are my friend!"

"I am not your friend!"

"For me you are!" Om says furiously.

"Just give me some space... okay?" Gauri tells him as she held her head.

Om lovingly cups her face and asks her "What happened, Gauri? Whatever it is you can tell me."

Gauri looks at him helplessly. Why was he acting as if she mattered to him? When the truth was all he wanted to do was have sex with her.

"Gauri..."

"I need to think." Gauri tells him.

"What is the problem, Gauri? Maybe I can help. You came here running because you thought I could help right?"

"I will talk to you later. I need to sort it out in my mind first. Please give me some time."

"Okay. I'll be here. If you want you can take the day off." Om tells her.

"Thank you." Gauri replies and walks out.

Gauri was sitting in the park near her office as she let her thoughts in and let it guide her. Why did she want to inform Omkara about the marriage proposal? What did she expect him to do? Why did she expect him to do anything? It is not like she mattered to him. But he mattered to her. She had been so hard at fighting him off then when did he enter her heart? He was a shameless womanizer. Who had a new girl at his side everyday but for a long time there has been only Ridhima and no other girl in his life... rather his public life. There was nothing about him in news or in office gossips but he did tell her that he couldn't be with one girl all his life. Then why did she let him affect her? She knew who he is and what he is like then why? Because in spite of all that he had a good heart. He never tried to force himself on her or touch her without her permission. He genuinely cared for her and treated her like a friend. That was the reason why she had remained in this job in spite of people talking about them and she loved her job too, or that was what she had told herself. When in truth it was because, she wanted to be around him, she liked the way he made her feel, the way he was always behind her and was never ashamed of his attraction towards her. In spite of knowing everything why did she fall for him? Why did she want more from him? Why didn't he want more from her?

Two days later, Gauri walks into office determined. She had made her decision and she was going to stick by it. She sits on her chair and starts working. She hears the door open and hears a "Hey." Gauri looks up and sees Om smiling at her happily.

Gauri smiles at him.

"Everything alright now?" Om asks her.

"Yes. Thanks for asking." Gauri replies. He had called her that night and she had told him she had some family problem and was worked up about that. He had seemed to buy that.

"I missed you." Om tells her.

Gauri's heart starts slamming against her chest hearing him. Even she missed him. Om walks towards her side and sits on the table. "Now, all your family problems sorted out?"

"Yes."

"Do you want to talk about it?"

Gauri shakes her head, "Thanks for asking." Then she smiles so as not to hurt him.

Seeing her smile, he smiles at her "I am happy everything is sorted out."

Gauri smiles at him.

"Take care and be happy always." Om tells her and walks back into his cabin.

Gauri watches him walk away, why did he have to show so much concern for her?

"Weekend... huh?" Om asks her as he walked out of the cabin.

Gauri shakes her head at him, "You never give up?"

"When it concerns you? Never." Om tells her. "What say? You and me... take a trip?"

She turns to look at Richa's chair and sees that it was empty. "Where?" Gauri asks him.

"Anywhere." Om tells her smiling happily. "So?"

"I have never been to Goa." Gauri tells him.

Om's smile drops and he looks at her in shock, "Wh... what?"

"I said I have never been to Goa." Gauri repeats.

"What do you mean by that?"

"You said trip. So, I said Goa."

"You and me? To Goa?" Om asks her shocked.

"Yes." Gauri replies.

"What happened to you, Gauri?" Om asks her in shock.

"I changed my mind." Gauri says shrugging.

"Why?" Om asks her frowning.

"I guess you were right... what is wrong in having a little fun."

"Are you joking with me?" Om asks still not able to digest it that Gauri was willing to have sex with him. Gauri is not like that.

"I am not. I am serious. I thought about it a lot and made up my mind." Gauri tells him.

"What has happened to you, Gauri?" Om asks her shocked.

"I don't know. I have been having this thought for some time now."

"You sure?" Om asks her.

"You sure?" Om asks her again as they walked into the hotel room in Goa.

Gauri sighs, he had been asking her that ever since she told him that she wanted to take a trip to Goa with him, then when she went to her house to get her clothes, she had lied to her parents that she was going away for an office trip, then all the way to the airport, in the flight, before checking into the hotel and now, that was all he asked her.

"What changed your mind, Gauri?" Om asks her.

"I don't know." Gauri tells him.

"But you are sure?"

"How many times will you keep asking me this?"

"If you want you can walk out right now." Om tells her.

"No, Omkara. I don't want to. If you are not interested we can go back." Gauri tells him.

Om looks at her in shock. He leans down and gently takes her lips in his. "Say my name again."

"Omkara." Gauri whispers as her heart started slamming against her chest. The kiss was so slow and sweet.

"You are sure, right? There is no going back once we start."

"I am sure." Gauri tells him confidently.

"Do you want a few minutes?" Om asks her.

"You are making me nervous." Gauri tells him.

"I am nervous!" Om tells her exasperated.

"Why?" Gauri asks him shocked.

"Because I have never been with a virgin!" Om tells her as he stepped back. "Because it is you!"

"Because it is me?" Gauri asks him confused.

"It's your first time and I want it to be perfect for you."

Gauri smiles at him, "Just by saying that you made it perfect."

Om walks towards her and cupping her face he tells her, "Even if it is going to kill me, I am going to go slow."

"I don't know whether going slow or fast is better." Gauri tells him smiling.

"You will know, Gauri." Om tells her giving her a sexy smile.

Om gently leads Gauri to the bed. He could see that Gauri was nervous but she said she was sure of it. He still didn't understand why she changed her mind. He had been chasing her for close to a year and he had realized a long time ago that she was not the type of a girl who took a physical relation lightly but still he had shameless went behind her because he simply couldn't help it. She had kind of become an obsession to him. Even though he cared for her and considered her his friend when Gauri's promotion had come up, he had fought for her which had led to his father to find out about what was happening, he hadn't backed down then. She was an obsession, a game that he had to win. Now she was in bed with him and strangely he didn't feel like a winner, if anything he felt like he was losing something, something very important. And Gauri? She seemed so different; he couldn't even recognize this person she has become. Why did it feel like that he was throwing away something very precious? Why is it hurting him that Gauri is willing to sleep with him? Why isn't he feeling happy or victorious? Why is he feeling as if he is spoiling Gauri? Ruining her? That he was making the biggest mistake of his life?

Om steps back as he ran his hand through his hair agitated.

"What happened?" Gauri asks him.

"I need to know what changed your mind, Gauri." Om tells her.

"I just changed my mind." Gauri tells him shrugging.

"How can you change your mind like that? For no rhyme or reason?" Om asks her exasperated.

"I wanted you to be my first." Gauri tells him.

"First? How many were you planning to have?" Om asks her shocked and hurt.

"I am not a slut."

"I didn't say that!"

"Don't you want me?" Gauri asks him upset.

"I do."

"Then what is the problem?"

"You are the problem! Something made you change your mind and I want to know what it is!"

"Why do you care about the reason?" Gauri asks him furiously.

"So there is one!" Om says shocked.

"There isn't any reason."

Om looks at her for a while helplessly.

"Omkara?"

"I NEED TO THINK!" Om says furiously and walks out of the room.

Om walks towards the hotel's private beach as he tried to clear his thoughts. something had happened to Gauri. Two days ago she had been upset about something and now this. What the hell happened to her?

Hearing his mobile ring, he ignores it at first then thinking maybe it is Gauri calling from the room he checks his phone. Seeing Ridhima calling he picks up sighing.

"Yeah?"

"Where are you?" Ridhima asks him.

"Goa."

"Goa? What are you doing there? Why the hell aren't you here?" Ridhima asks him furiously.

"What?" Om asks confused.

"Did you forget that today is my birthday?"

"Oh fuck!" Om mutters when Gauri had told him that she was ready to have sex with him, he hadn't thought of anything else.

"Om... is everything alright?"

"I can't come, Dips. I am caught up with something."

"You sound upset. I got few minutes before the party starts. Do you want to talk?" Ridhima asks him in concern.

"I don't know if I should be even talking to you about this. But I am so fucking confused. My head will burst now."

"Tell me... maybe I can see things in a different perspective."

Om sighs and asks her, "Why would a virgin who has been adamant on waiting for her marriage and husband, suddenly decide to have sex with another guy?"

"Hmmm"

"I am just so confused. I feel this is wrong." Om tells her helplessly.

Ridhima smiles, "the reason... huh?"

"You know?"

"I could."

"What is it?"

"It is the same reason why you haven't been with any girl for the last one year."

"What nonsense? I haven't been with anyone in last year? And what do you know about my sex life?" Om scoffs at her.

"When was the last time you had sex, Om?"

"The last time..." Om starts thinking and he draws a big blank. "Oh my!"

"See... I know. If you were having sex on the side, you wouldn't be talking to me day and night about Gauri."

"I don't talk about her."

"You do, darling!" Ridhima tells him. "Gauri looks best in yellow but her favorite color is green, so she is mostly dressing up in green. Gauri likes coffee to tea. Gauri likes Chinese food. Gauri likes Ranbir Kapoor."

"How the hell do you know all that?" Om asks her shocked.

"You don't talk about anything else, Om."

"Oh God!"

"So the answer is simple."

"What?" Om asks her confused.

"Just like how madly you are in love with her, Gauri seems to be madly in love with you."

"Love?" Om asks her shocked.

"What else is it then?" Ridhima asks him.

She was right. Gauri was all that mattered to him. he had been going so crazy about Gauri that he never realized that it was because he was in love with her. How did he never realize it? And did Ridhima say that Gauri could be in love with him? Wait a minute!

"What makes you think that I am talking about Gauri?"

"Seriously, do you want me to believe that you would ditch my birthday party and go to Goa to be with some random girl? That you would sacrifice your chance on talking about Gauri to be with some other girl?"

Om starts smiling, "Love you! You are the best."

"I know."

"Gotta go." Om says and was about to hang up when she stops him.

"In case you are wondering, the reason you are hesitating is because, even though you wanted to sleep with her, what you always wanted was her love."

"What makes you think that I was hesitating? For God's sake, I am Omkara Singh Oberoi!"

"Gauri is willing to sleep with you but you are on a phone with me."

"Thanks Dips. I owe you."

"You do. Love to Gauri. Bye."

Om walks back into the room to find Gauri sitting on the bed crying.

"Where you ever going to tell me?" Om asks her.

"Tell you what?" Gauri asks him confused as she wiped her tears.

"That you love me!"

Gauri's eyes go wide hearing him. "I don't..."

"Don't you dare lie, Gauri. I will kill you if you do!" Om tells her angrily.

"Omkara, I..."

Om sits next to her and tells her, "You are an idiot, Gauri. I am a bigger idiot, I would have never realized the real reason why you were here with me!"

"Does the reason even matter?" Gauri asks him as tears fell from her eyes again.

"Yes it does because I love you."

"You do?" Gauri asks him surprised as joy started filling her heart.

"I do. It just took me forever to realize it."

"But you can't be with one girl all your life. You don't do commitments."

"And I didn't even realize that I was celibate for a year now." Om says rolling his eyes.

"You were?" Gauri asks surprised.

"Yes."

"Can men be celibate like that?" Gauri asks him as she smiled in surprise.

"I don't know. If I had realized that I was celibate then..."

"Then?"

"Then..., I don't know, Gauri... I guess I would have chased you even more." Om tells her smiling. Gauri chuckles hearing him, "Why didn't you tell me, Gauri?"

"Mama was planning to fix my wedding with her friend's son, and that is when I realized I love you. I came to tell you but that day I saw Ridhima with you... and I don't know... I changed my mind thinking it wouldn't matter to you. So I thought I will be with you. I wanted to be loved by you once, and then I would resign and marry whoever Mama and Papa decides."

"So... you were going to marry someone else." Om says looking away. That hurt a lot.

"Omkara..."

"You didn't even think to give us a chance?"

"I never thought you could love me. And you are so rich. Your family will never accept me."

"They will, Gauri." Om tells her confidently as he cupped her face. "Will you parents agree?"

"They will." Gauri tells him smiling.

Om smiles at her, "I love you, Gauri Kumari Sharma."

"I love you, Omkara Singh Oberoi."

Om leans down and takes her lips in his.

"Gauri... do you want to wait till marriage or can we?"

Gauri starts blushing hearing him. Seeing her blush he was about to kiss her when his mobile starts ringing.

"Just a sec." Om tells her. Gauri nods. Om picks up his phone seeing it is Ridhima.

"Yeah Dips?"

"Please don't kill me."

"What did you do?" Om asks surprised.

"I kinda told Tej Uncle that you are in love with Gauri."

"You did? That is fine. I was going to talk to him when we get back." Om says smiling.

"He got super excited and he and Jhanvi Aunty left."

"Left? Why didn't they stay for your party?" Om asks surprised.

"Because they went to fix the wedding."

"Ah! Nice." Om says smiling.

"Great then. All fine?"

"Yeah everything is fine here." Om says smiling then suddenly realizing he asks, "Wait a minute! Did you say they went to fix the wedding?"

"Yes. Okay bye."

"WAIT! To Gauri's house?"

Hearing him, Gauri looks at him in panic.

"Yes."

"They are going to ask to see Gauri there."

"I guess so."

"Her parents are going to tell them that Gauri has gone on a business trip."

"Yup." Ridhima replies.

"And Dad knows there is no trip."

"Even I thought something like that would happen."

"I WILL KILL YOU, RIDHIMA!"

"Don't forget you owe me and today is my birthday!" Ridhima reminds him worriedly.

"Oh my God! Oh my God!" Gauri says frantically as she ran around the room grabbing her things.

"We are coming back!"

"At least, you guys got to know about your feelings." Ridhima says as if in a consoling way.

6 years later

"Come, get on the bed." Gauri tells three years old Neil as she held his hand and helped him onto the bed. Once Neil gets on the bed and settles down, Gauri passes him his feeding bottle. Neil takes the bottle and starts drinking from it. Gauri lovingly caresses his forehead as she watched him drink from the bottle. Suddenly, her phone starts ringing.

"Papa?" Neil asks curiously.

"Who else?" Gauri asks him grinning and takes the phone. "Hello?"

"What's up?" Om asks from the other end.

"Nothing much. Giving Neil milk. The boy doesn't have any solid food." Gauri tells him as she frowned at Neil. Neil makes a disgusted face and continues to enjoy the milk.

"He'll start slowly. Relax." Om tells her smiling.

"How is your new secretary?"

"Sexy." Om replies.

"Really? Good for you."

"She is very sexy." Om tells her again.

"I hope you will stick with her at least." Gauri tells him smiling.

"What kind of wife are you?" Om asks her pissed. "She is very sexy."

"I got that." Gauri replies chuckling.

"Those were the days when girls used to fight for me." Om says dramatically sighing.

"If any girl tries to get close to you then I'll also kick some asses." Gauri tells him.

"Really?" Om asks her excited.

"But please don't fire the new girl."

"Why won't you work for me again?"

"I love you but I can't handle you 24 hrs a day."

"You don't love me anymore!"

"That worked the first two years not anymore." Gauri tells him grinning.

Om sighs loudly "You were better off as my secretary."

Gauri chuckles, "Why won't you stop chasing me, Omkara? I am your wife."

"You were the best secretary I ever had. And I am just not finding that comfort and rapport with anyone else."

"I definitely hope so." Gauri tells him chuckle. "Give the new girl a chance."

"Yeah okay... did she mail you my schedule for the week? I told her to do it."

"Let me check." Gauri tells him as she quickly grabs her laptop.

"Wednesday you are fully packed." Gauri says frowning.

"Is there a problem?"

"We were supposed to go for Neil's school shopping right? He is starting preschool on Thursday."

"Oh! We will go on Tuesday then." Om tells her.

"But then I have my baking classes on Tuesday. Now I'll have to reschedule it to Friday. I'll have to call the students and inform them." Gauri tells him.

"Okay do that."

"Oh no! Friday, I am supposed to go with Dips for her wedding shopping." Gauri says frantically. "I'll have to reschedule that too. On monday, Daddyji and Maaji would be coming back from there trip so I'll have to be home. Oh God! I got lots of things to plan. I'll call you later." Gauri says and hangs up.

Om looks at his phone in shock, "Why does she always hang up on me? She never hung up on me when she was my secretary! Even today, I have to run behind her!"

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