Chapter 15
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"What?" She chuckled without an ounce of humor in her voice. "Had too much drink?"
Putting her heels back, she stood up to her full height reaching only up to a little more than his shoulder.
Trying to ignore the look of hurt that flashed in his eyes.
Alisha kept on repeating the same mantra, over and over again. 'I don't care! It doesn't effect me! ' like she had so many times before when she got the news of him getting engaged to that model...... After what happened at the funeral.....or even after the press conference. 'I can't care any less! 'She kept on repeating in her head.
She started to walk only to be pulled back with Aditya's strong grip on her wrist. She then so wanted to scream out at him with the anger she felt at his audacity. 'How dare he touch me?' But she said nothing of that kind, carefully choosing her next words because.....seriously, they needed to act like two adults to sort it all out for once and for all!
"Oh my! Mr. Singhania you must leave my hand....because for all I know your finance would not like this. " She looked down at their entangled hands more of his grip on her hand when she noticed the difference.
'The ring was gone!'
"She is no more my finance. But......Alisha I-I seriously need to tell you something. "
"Oh! "She faked a gasp. "I am sorry to hear that! "
"Wait till she hears that." Aditya murmured to himself.
"I need to tell you something important! "
"Alright! Go on....I am all ears."She folded her hands in front of her chest.
"First of all.....I am really sorry for what I did....about the press conference....before that and sorry for-for what I am going to confess to you now. I am so sorry.....it's just so much guilt that I can't take it anymore. If I go on like this.....I don't know what will happen of me." He bend his head low. Lower than it had ever been.
While she prepared herself for it. She already knew it wasn't going to be good and if anything his words were just a testimony to it.
"I am sorry.....I had bribed your doctor. Dr. Lokhande to make me the sperm donor of your child. "
He did not look up until he felt the tight slap on his left cheek and then the sound of clicking heels fading away.
He sighed. His face stung. His heart stung. But he smiled through it....it was his first right step towards her. To come clean from the past before he could even dream to built a future with her.
Looking at his own reflection in the mirror of the restroom he cringed. He needs to go home because he can't go through the night wandering around people, sporting a red hand print on his face.
And if his calculations are right then she would be ready to leave as well. Considering the way the evening had progressed. With all the drama, she must be emotionally exhausted, ready to leave if not already leaving.
So he had to move fast!
Pressing the kerchief to his cheek, he passed through the crowd of people as fast as possible.
Ignoring Bhaskar as he spotted him from a little distance away and kept on calling.
And he strode away. He can't stop now! He was the one causing her all the pain and he will be the one to take it away.
He will make sure of it!
He was right. Stepping out of the building, he saw her getting inside her car.
It was already around nine. The darkness of the night hiding away the expression on her face.
But he knew it anyway....knew that the heavy droplets of tears must be covering both her cheeks. She must be struggling to keep her composure and not to break down right now.
He knew that she was struggling to keep the emotions at bay, until she reaches home and then she would let it all go. Let them all out of her system and be prepared for the next day to start fighting once over again.
This is all due to him! He knew it!
'But now I am back Ali! I know I am stupid and an asshole and kept screwing things over and over again. But I am here now. To take all the pain away. To keep you safe, to make you feel safe!
To take care of you forever! Just let me.....hold you. It will be alright.'
He took a deep breath before he took the road, he should have taken a long time ago.
"Alisha! Wait!"
"Wha...." she gasped as she saw him striding towards her car and to her utter despair he just opened the door and slid inside. BESIDE HER!
She did not know what to make of these strange antics right now but she knew that she was infuriated with THIS MAN!
"stop gritting your teeth so hard. They would get powdered!" Aditya closed the door beside him. And signaled the driver to start driving. He would take the wrath on the way.
"Ravi stop!" She yelled. "NOW GET THE HELL OUT OF HERE ADITYA SINGHANIA! " she yelled twice the louder.
"I am not going anywhere! "He pouted. Moving his head signalling no.
"Do you think it's funny? JUST GET OUT OF MY CAR! RIGHT NOW! " she screamed.
"No! How could I think it's funny? It's....I mean you are exceptionally rude, very insulting and highly embarrassing! " he pointed his finger outside through the glass and she saw someone with a camera on the opposite side of the road. Probably snapping pictures of them together.
"Ravi start driving now!" She commanded and within the next minute they were far away on the road.
"Ravi turn the car from the next traffic signal and move towards andheri. We need to drop Mr. Singhania at his home. " The way she gritted his name out, he was sure that she would be strangling him in her imagination every now and then.
But he wasn't going to back out! Not anytime soon!
"Ravi...uh..I suppose your name is? Drive on boy and don't take any detour. I need to be dropped exactly where Alisha needs to be dropped. "
"NO WAY IN THE HELL YOU 'RE COMING WITH ME! STOP THE CAR RIGHT HERE! " she shrieked. Her icy glare trying to tear his flesh and bones apart.
"Aww...honey we can't stop here! You know we can't! " he leaned in with a wicked grin.
"Wha.."
Her words were left incomplete as she felt his stubble grazing her cheeks before his lips peked her softly.
"GET AWAY! " she pushed his chest away with all the might she had.
And looking up she found Ravi still driving with a flushed red face in the mirror.
She sighed. 'What must he thinking about me? Oh God! ' she palmed her face and said nothing thereafter, afraid what this man would do next to utterly humiliate her.
"Alisha are you alright? " he came near her when she said nothing even after five minutes, concerned.
"No! I am not! Just tell me what do you want and leave me alone! " She kept looking out of the window hearing him sigh and could clearly picture him running his hands through his brown locks.
"Okay! I will leave! But at one condition. "
She was finally forced to look at him, her dagger like gazes fixed back at him. "I don't think it's your time to put conditions. "
"You are right! " He nodded absent mindedly. "I would rather spend the night with you at your home. "
It was the starting of a highly painful headache. The spasms were coming over, she could feel it! "What do you want! " she gritted out, noticing the bright red that spread across Ravi's face through the front mirror.
She had to get rid of this man right here!
"Let me be your escort tomorrow at Nihar! "
"NO! It would raise a scandal! "
"You are right! I would rather spend the night with you than raising a scandal! " he spoke, a smile already making its way on his face because he knew......he is nearly there!
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