*James Pov*

"It is better if you stay back for today." I said, looking at her tired face while she is trying to get ready before the mirror.

"And who will do the work? I need to finish the last touches before meeting the models and get the fabric stitched." She mumbled in a weak tone before letting out a cough.

"They will not get hurt if you stay back for a day." I said wearing my coat.

"So what? I should stay here all alone not doing anything? Thank you! But I would prefer to be with people when I feel ill." She said, standing up, but held the chair making me reach her in the next second.

"You will be sitting here while I go and get your food. Then you will stay back without going anywhere." I ordered making her sit on the bed before leaving the house ignoring her protest.

"She is not feeling well? I will be with her." Maha said, standing up, but I shook my head.

"It's okay! There is no need for that and I am sure if you are with her then she would make you to let her go to work." I said and she frowned, but arranged the breakfast for us while I glanced at the staircase to see Nakul climbing down the stairs whistling a happy tune.

"Maybe we both can stay with her while Nakul will leave for his work." I said the moment he reached near us.

"Sure!" she said after glancing at Nakul.

"What is it?" he asked frowning.

"Di is not feeling well, so we both are deciding to stay with her together while you go to work." She replied in a serious tone and he fumed at me.

I raised my eyebrow, seeing his behavior. Fuming is for me, but not for her? I shook my head and glanced at Maha to see her trying to stop the smile.

"Maybe we can play something when she will be sleeping to not get bored." I said and her eyes widened but his anger is only at me but not an inch towards her.

"I didn't give her leave permission and she is not staying back." He stated and sat down while she passed the tray.

"I will drop you both." I said, stepping back and Maha frowned at me.

"No need for that. Either someone will drive or Nakul can drive us." Maha said and he stiffened along with me.

"No! I will be driving and Nakul will not. In the evening someone else can drive, but not in the morning. I don't want to disturb their everyday duties." I said in a clipped tone before leaving the house frowning, but didn't miss the Maha's frozen form when observing our both reactions.

"Where were you?" Swathi asked when I reached near to her.

"And you could have cooked, right? Instead of going there." She added and I shook my head.

"She must have already done this and I didn't want them to worry about our absence. Now, eat this." I replied and she did along with me in silence.

"Will you stay back? Are you going to cook lunch for me?" she asked finishing the food.

"I am going along with them." I replied and she immediately frowned.

"That means I will be here alone? I am going to work." She said moving to get up, but I held her wrist.

"Stay! Do as I say at least for today." I said getting up.

"Why should I do anything like you say any day?" she asked back and coughed with the way she is riling herself up.

"I am requesting you." Saying that I walked away, holding the tray before washing them properly.

"And I am locking the house." I added, reaching the door and immediately heard her cursing.

"I will kill you, James. I will seriously do that if you lock the door." She screamed and I reached the room.

"Then promise not to go anywhere." I said and she stiffly nodded before laying back on the bed covering her face with the pillow.

I left the house and saw them both waiting for me. I dropped them and searched the grounds, whether the security is in its place before returning back after ordering two men to bring these both carefully back.

However, when I walked into the house and saw her tear stained face for a moment I felt I shouldn't have left in the first place and let someone else took them.

I stiffened the moment that thought entered my head. How can I think like that? This is my duty and I have to do it. But somehow I can't ignore the fact that I felt to step away from it today.

What is she doing to me? I mean, how can I even think like this about her? We don't trust each other and we fight all the time.

I shook my head and removed my coat before unbuttoning a few buttons from my shirt before laying beside her where I can see her back.

I placed my arm around her and pulled her back, to which she stiffened, but immediately turned around opening her eyes.

"What are you doing here?" she asked and frantically brushed her tears away and rubbed her face as if to remove the trace of her ever crying.

"Why are you crying?" I asked back and she flinched hearing the question before moving her hands away from the work of clearing her face.

"I told you I don't wish to stay alone when I am not feeling well. Otherwise, I will cry and I hate crying." She replied and I smiled hearing her reply.

"You stupid, stubborn woman." I said, pulling her into my arms and caressed her back.

"You already took that title." She pointed out sighing.

"Then it will be Mrs. Stupid." I said and she stiffened making me stare at her face to see a frown.

"What are you trying to say?" she asked and I sighed, thinking I shouldn't have let my recent thoughts show their face.

"Nothing to worry about." I replied and she calmed down before drifting off into sleep.

"Damn! I love this." She said eating a bite after bite, making me raise my eyebrow.

"What? I love the soup." She mumbled, but frowned.

"Do you know only soups?" she asked and I rolled my eyes.

"You don't know even that." I pointed out and she chuckled, making me smile at her reaction.

"So, you will be in a good mood when you are ill?" I asked and she nodded.

"Yeah! I will not have the energy to fight so I just let the anger, not reach me." She replied.

"Really? Now, how can I take advantage of it?" I asked taking the bowl away.

"Don't test it! Who knows how bad could it be if I become angry when I am ill." She said, shrugging, but I can hear the threat in it.

"Let me do the honors." I said, pulling her leg before me making her fall back on the bed and she screamed.

"Stupid! I am ill here if you forget." She said hitting me with her leg.

"What is this? I thought husbands are treated as gods by wives in India." I said, holding her leg before she can move it.

"They need to have traits of gods which you do not have even a little." She said trying to get her leg released.

"So, you accept to be my wife." I said smirking and she stilled.

"Well, for a few months I can't do anything about it." She said, shrugging and stared at me while I stared back.

"Right! Now, take some rest." I said, moving away from the bed and she held my hand.

"Stay!" she mumbled and I glanced at her.

"Will you say go after I stay?" I asked and she smiled.

"Unless you stay, you can't know." She replied and I shook my head.

"How is she feeling?" Maha asked in the evening after returning from work.

"She is feeling better." I replied and she walked into the house to meet her while I walked off to catch up with Nakul.

"Everything was fine?" I asked and he nodded.

"How is your wife feeling?" he asked and I gave him a surprised look.

"Don't say that before her, she will kill you on the spot." I replied and he laughed.

"She already does so I will stay away." He said and I frowned.

"Did he call back?" I asked, but he shook his head.

"No! I don't know how to get all this cleared." He replied, frowning and then glanced behind me.

"At least Maheshwari doesn't have the opinion of being me a culprit." He added, but I looked away because hearing her words I somehow feel she thinks the same.

"You just go, I need to have a word with her." I said to which he frowned.

"I need to have a word with your wife. Happy?" I added and he nodded slowly but walked away.

"What happened to him?" she asked, frowning reaching near me.

"Keeping up to be a jealous husband." I replied and she rolled her eyes.

"We will be leaving this weekend to meet the doctor. You remember, right?" I asked and she nodded but frowned.

"What about him?" she asked and I sighed.

"He will not be coming. We both will go there and return. It is too much of a risk for him to travel and more than that we will be diverting from the main thing which needs to be done." I replied and she immediately gave a confused look but nodded.

"Why doesn't he drive?" she asked and I smiled at her.

"Spying on your husband now?" I asked and she shook her head with frustration before walking away while I walked back into the house.

"I told Maha to not cook anything for dinner. I want to eat my husband's cooking." She said and I gave her a narrowed look.

"More like to prove that I know only soups to make." I pointed out.

"Of course!" she said, shrugging and I held her chin to lift it up while bending down.

"If I win?" I asked and she stared at me for a few seconds.

"Anything you wish, but if I win, then you will be modeling in my clothes in this house no matter what I present and I will even clock photos." She replied smirking.

"You do realize I will claim my prize near to the one you are asking, right?" I asked and she immediately got a wavering look but shook her head before nodding.

"Now, what do you say?" I asked, sitting back while she stared at the food items with panicked look.

"You were supposed to cook only soups." She mumbled.

"And you need to adopt accepting people's words as they are without thinking them as false." I said shrugging and she sighed.

"Fine! Tell my punishment after I have the food." Saying that she started serving herself and we both had a calm dinner.

"Now? Should I wash the utensils? That's it, right?" she asked with hope.

"This is not a hotel that washing utensils would be the punishment." I replied and she scoffed before waiting for me to say.

"I am not in the mood to ask you to do anything. I will ask when I want to." I said and her eyes widened.

"You are going to torture me, aren't you? Now, I will always think what could you be wishing for and my energy would go there only." She mumbled, but left the room quietly.

"I am fine and don't dare to tell me I shouldn't go to work." She ordered when I was getting ready and she walked out of the washroom.

"I am not going to say anything." I said, nodding and walked away to let her get ready.

"What happened?" I asked Nakul when we both were waiting for Maha to come as we all had the breakfast and Swathi already left for work.

"She is kind of distant from yesterday morning." He replied frowning.

"Trouble in marriage?" I asked and he shook his head.

"I will do something today." He replied, nodding to himself.

"Di left? She said she has to meet some models and she was excited." Maha said, getting into the car and gave me a pointed look. Now, what is she trying to do? I thought sitting in my place and drove them off.

*Maheshwari Pov*

"Is everything okay?" Nakul asked when we got into the elevator.

"Yeah! Why are you asking that from morning, Mr. Singh?" I asked not meeting his eyes.

"I just felt like it is not." He replied, but I didn't comment anything on it.

By eleven he called for the tenth time, but this time he calmly said, "Book a table for lunch at shangri-la and the guest is only one."

Somehow I felt like I heard the words already before, but ended up booking the table for three and waited for him.

After a few minutes the door to my cabin got opened and he nodded at me. We both left and James was already waiting for us.

This time I sat in the passenger seat, ignoring his frown and James drove us to the restaurant.

"What is the meeting about, Mr. Singh?" I asked when we got down from the car.

"Personal!" he replied and I stiffened kind of feeling I heard this too.

I brushed the thoughts away while we three started walking into the restaurant with the manager showing the table and James stopped like always a moment back whenever we got for meetings.

This time I too did looking at the guest already sitting at the table booked by me. I glanced at James to see him, frowning while Nakul continued to walk.

"Let's take your usual seat." I said and he nodded before we sat in the area like last time.

"Maybe just normal meeting." James said, but I shook my head not wishing to think about Nakul meeting his Ex.

"So, these models your sister is going to involve whom?" he suddenly asked and I smirked at him but I covered it.

"For this I think men models and women a few but mostly men. She said she needs to meet all them and know what would be comfortable for them and all." I replied in a normal voice but saw him gritting his teeth.

"Jealous?" I asked, punching on his shoulder and he immediately glared at me.

"Just like you are right now." He replied and I frowned, looking away to which he sighed.

"I am hungry! Give me that food." He said taking my bag and opened the zip.

"You shouldn't open a women's bag. If it was my sister, she would have buried you alive." I said taking my bag away.

"As if?" he said, rolling his eyes and I gave him a challenged look to which he sighed making me chuckle.

"Over?" we heard a voice and looked up to see Nakul is standing before us with folded arms.

"Over?" I asked back and he glared at me before holding my hand and pulled me to my feet.

"Last time I let it go, but not this time." Saying that he dragged me to the table where she is still there.

"What is the need for me to be there? It is a personal meeting, right?" I asked him, frowning and didn't put the irritation away.

"Are you jealous?" he asked, smiling at me suddenly stopping and I tugged my hand before moving to go away, but this time he held me circling his arm around my waist and dragged me back.

"Meet my wife." He said and the woman smiled at me.

"I thought even this time I will not be able to meet your wife. And she is beautiful." She said smiling and suddenly my blank look felt petty to myself and smiled at her.

"Why did you marry this guy, darling? You could have done better." She said teasingly and I sat down when he pushed a chair back, frowning.

"Please! She already has her doubts regarding that and don't increase them." He said sitting beside me.

"I really thought he was hiding you from me when he said he will get me to meet his wife but didn't bring you. Today I said I will not go until I meet you." She said and I don't know why, but I felt silly and confused at the same time.

I talked with her but kept on glancing at him in the middle and we had lunch too. When it is over, we stood up while she moved to hug me.

"I am getting married this month and he already said you both can't attend but I wish there was a possibility. Anyway, you must be amazing to make him fall for you because everyone tried, but no one could." Saying that she walked away smiling.

"I never tried." I whispered and immediately felt a pressure on my waist.

"You didn't need to." He whispered and walked off not releasing me with a hard expression covering his face.

"Angry husband?" James asked when I sat beside him in the car.

"Not a jealous husband like you regarding strangers." I pointed out.

"Yeah! Except regarding me." He mumbled and I stared out frowning.

"Mrs. Singh! Follow me!" he said, ignoring a few people who are there to meet him and my eyes widened along with everyone in the corridor.

I ignored him and walked into my cabin, ignoring his anger expression. Doesn't he know it would be a whole loot gossip within minutes by the way he called me?

I know about the head of each department meeting him today, so I sat at my place to finish the remaining work.

After some time, the connecting door was suddenly opened and I glanced up to see him entering the cabin which I ignored to save the files.

"Come here!" he said, but I took my time angry at the way he suddenly started saying 'Mrs. Singh!' while I already told everyone I am not married.

"I should be angry at you then why are you?" he asked and I glanced up.

"You said I am not your wife and I accepted your wish and told everyone I am single. Then why are you calling me like that?" I asked back, but he just gestured his hand, which he stilled kept out waiting for me.

I stared at him and finally stood up before reaching it after which he walked back into his cabin before making me sit on the couch while taking his place beside me.

"I said so many stupid things in anger and I am saying it now. Do not keep them in your head because all that is not what was in my heart." He said, placing his hand around my shoulder and pulled me into his hold.

"This is a work place." I said, pushing his hand but he didn't budge.

"Now, tell me why did you stay back again today?" he asked frowning.

"Because it is personal and there is no need for a PA there." I replied frowning back.

"I took you there as my wife last time and even now. She is my friend and wished to meet you when I told her I got married." He mumbled.

"And why did you think the lunch is for only two? I remember correctly saying book the table and only one person as a guest." He added.

"And I even heard the table is for three like last time." He said when I didn't say anything immediately.

"Because I thought I will be there if it is a business meeting and no need for me when it is personal. I didn't know it was personal until I booked." I said and he frowned.

"This is so confusing. Look, if I had not wanted you to join me, I would have simply said, book table for two like directly." He said and I frowned.

"Can we just leave it?" I asked and he nodded sighing.

"I was not trying to make you jealous by meeting my Ex or anything. You are my wife whom I am in love with. When will you believe it?" he asked, frowning after a few minutes.

"I have to take time." I mumbled and he nodded, placing a kiss on my forehead.

But without moving away, he trailed his lips to my cheek and moved to my lips, but I pushed him away immediately.

"Workplace." I said, gesturing around.

"What will you do if I kiss you right now?" he asked in a challenging tone.

"I will complain to the board saying my CEO is harassing me. Maybe they will listen immediately." I replied in a teasing tone thinking he will smile but he stiffened.

"What is it?" I asked him frowning.

"It was all because of me. If I had listened to you then you wouldn't have been attacked by him." He replied pulling me into his arms.

"Why didn't you?" I asked, hugging him back hearing his tone.

"I was angry because the before day James said you were sad and angry in the place of your sister regarding me meeting my Ex. I was hurt thinking you wouldn't care no matter what I do. So, when you said you were there to talk about yesterday's events I thought about that you are going to give me a class using your sister in it and showed my anger at you. But, whenever I saw you trembling with fear or think about the incident, I curse myself like anything." He replied and I tightened my grip around him.

"Now, is it not workplace?" he asked in a teasing tone and I moved my head to kiss his cheek.

"Wow!" he said, moving back to stare at my face and I pushed him away getting up to go to my cabin ignoring his laugh behind me.

"What will we tell him?" I asked James when he called me in the evening thinking it is better like this.

"And why are we hiding it from him? He already knows about the doctor, right?" I asked frowning.

"Because he would then wish to come with us and if everything failed, then he will be disappointed after going through all this." He replied and I sighed.

"We will leave in the early morning and I will write him something." I mumbled, not liking the idea.

"Add eloping in it." He said and I groaned.

"Enough of this! He went through enough." I scolded him and stilled.

"Wow! I am happy about this new development." He said and we both hung up while I stared at the wall in confusion.

I don't know why, but hearing his words today made me feel sad for everything that he felt. I shook my head and switched off the burner before moving around only to crash into him.

Oh god! Did he hear anything? But then he was smiling so he must have not. I thought, frowning and he tucked a strand of hair behind my ear.

"Why don't we watch a movie today after dinner?" he asked and I nodded to which he smiled more.

"How was the meeting today, Di?" I asked her and she started talking about it while naming the models to which James tightened his grip on the spoon.

"Isn't it great, James?" I asked and he glared at me.

"How was the meeting with his Ex?" he asked back and Nakul stiffened beside me.

"Stop it, James!" he scolded him while I grinned at my place, but froze when I felt his hand on leg and he moved it to my waist.

"Stop!" I whispered, but he smirked ignoring me and continued to have his food with the left hand.

"What happened to your right hand?" James asked him frowning.

"Busy!" Nakul replied and I coughed feeling the food going into the wrong pipe.

"I mean, today I was busy with so much to sign and feeling pain in it." He added and squeezed my waist.

I placed my left hand on his hand before pinching, making him hiss and take the hand away shaking it.

"It is really hurting." He said and James nodded while Di rolled her eyes.

After they both left, I immediately turned to stare at him with a frown while he laughed at my expression. I pushed him and stood up before walking away to reach my room.

"What about the movie?" he asked entering my room after a few minutes.

"Cancel!" I replied, sitting on the bed in silence.

"Our first date and you are cancelling it? Not at all good, Maheshwari." Saying that he walked near to me and glanced at me.

When I didn't say anything, he lifted me up, making me scream before walking out of the room and climbed down the stairs to reach the couch.

"Maybe I will shift this one or buy a new one for our room. So, then we can be comfortable." Saying that he sat down but hasn't released me.

Before I could say anything, he tucked my face under his chin and played the movie. I somehow couldn't scold him or say anything like release me or anything.

"Isn't it nice?" he asked and I glanced up moving my face away to stare at him.

"Yeah!" I replied, staring at him and stared back before leaning over.

I closed my eyes and felt his lips, but as usual, he moved back before I can react. I didn't open them and laid my head on his shoulder to which he hugged me while I smiled, feeling this happiness inside and not wishing to move away.

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so... here it is and i dont know what to say about this chap... by the way the doctor will enter the picture and how would the meeting be...

how is the chap???

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p.s- thanks for all the comments guys... i may not be able to reply :) but thnku so much for the support