He couldn't do anything suddenly. Slowly he hugged her back and tried to comfort her.
"It's okay. I'm here for you always. You don't have to panic for any reason," he said in a soothing voice. Maddy felt so comfortable in that hug that she could hug him more tightly.
After sometimes Mark realized that she slept on his chest. He made her lie on the ground comfortably. He tried to close his eyes and have some sleep, but he couldn't as he was worried that Maddy might have those nightmares again.
In the morning, when Maddy woke up she didn't see Mark. She got panic and searched for him calling his name.
"Why are you shouting? I'm not going anywhere," he said annoyingly.
"How did I know whether you will leave me or not?" She said with a frown.
"If you don't trust me, even after I helped you so much I can't do anything," he said.
"Here is some water I got from the nearby river. Fresh up yourself and get ready. We filed leave soon or our families might search us everywhere and get panicky," he said and gave her a bucket.
She obediently got it and went to freshen up.
After some time they started to walk in a way according to their guess. Finally, they reached their cars.
Mark quickly took his mobile and saw more than a hundred missed calls and messages from Juddy. She immediately called her and informed her that he is totally fine and will tell the whole story when he will reach home.
"Hop in my car I will give you a lift. What will you do if someone tried to kidnap you again? Mark said.
" lift? To me? Come on, I can take care of myself," she said over confidently.
"Really? Oh my God, what's that big creature behind you?" He showed something behind her and said.
"Oh my God, chats that? Please save me, Mark," she got panicked and ran towards him. She hugged him tightly with her eyes.
When she realizes what she had done and released herself.
Mark smiled at her with a mischievous smile.
She got angry and went to her car. She tried to start her car, but she couldn't do it. Mark came near her and said, " I think you don't need my help. Bye, take care of yourself," he said and waved at her. He was about to leave. She quickly ran faster than him and occupied his passenger seat.
He said nothing and started his car.
The car stopped in front of her palace.
“How does she know our home?” She was confused at first but then she realized that who doesn’t know the palace of the Brand family?
She got out of the car and went near Mark. Mark didn’t wait for her to say so does up his car immediately.
“How rude? How dare you ignore me? We will see in the future,” she scolded him in her mind and went inside.
Shhardclimbing the stairs very happily humming one of her favorite romantic songs.
“Where were you last night?” She heard a strict voice unexpectedly. What didn’t expect it and jerked once and was about to slip from the stair, but she balanced herself luckily.
She turned towards the person and saw her granny with her hands folded and staring at her angrily. Her granny was waiting for her ready to give her a long lecture.
“Hi granny, I thought you have already left our house,” she said in a guilty tone and came near to her slowly.
“I’m about to leave, but thank God I didn’t. Otherwise, I might not be able to see what are you doing behind my back,” she was still mad.
“I don’t understand granny,” she said and gave a confused look.
“You didn’t answer my question yet. Where were you last night?” she asked again.
“I was staying at a friend's house,” she lied as she didn’t want to make her upset in her old age.
Granny looked at her madly.
“Granny, why are you looking at me like this? I’m so searching,” Maddy said in a childish tone.
Granny suddenly smiled at her and caught her ear slightly.
“Maddy dear, you should tell me if you are dating anyone. I will be happier for you. Why do you try to hide it from me?” she asked.
“Granny, I think you misunderstood something,” she said and gave a confused look.
“What misunderstood? I saw a young man dropping you at the gate through CCTV footage,” she said as s**t'sught her granddaughter red-handed.
“I’m not dating him yet,” she said and gave a gloomy face.
But she felt very pleasant and relaxed when she thought about the moments she shared with Mark. She even blushed hard.
“Why dear? Who is that boring young man who isn’t attracted by my granddaughter's sexy look?” she asked with a surprised look in her eyes.
“He already has a girlfriend. He loves her so much,” she said and gave a sad expression.
“Why do I feel sad when I think about him and his girlfriend together?” she thought.
“It's okay dear, I am sure you will get your prince charming very soon,” her granny said and hugged her.
Maddy felt somehow relaxed and warm in that hug.
“I’m going to leave for some work now. I will meet you soon with a big surprise,” her granny said and planted a kiss on her forehead.
“Really? Then I will be waiting for you. Take care of yourself for us,” Maddy staring too dear, take care of your two brothers also,” granny said.
Then she left the place.
Maddy's smiling face again became gloomy after the second her granny disappeared from her sight.
After two weeks after the cooking competition
One day Judy was working in her room. She looked at her watch and realized that it was already seven
“Oh God, time flies very quickly. She took her things and was ready to leave as today she had to take a taxi because Mark had some night shifts and Hari was also out of the station. When she was about to close the door, Suddenly she got a call from the H.R department.
“Hello, Miss. Brown from R.K groups of company,” she introduced herself.
“Miss. Brown, this is from the H.R department. You have to submit some files regarding the last project to our president today itself. Get his signatures for all that e-files and submit them tomorrow early in the morning. We have to send it within tomorrow,” someone said from another side.
“Yes sir, sure,” she replied and cut the call.
“Why does this happen to me only?” she thought and searched for the relevant files.
“Where is that No 6 file?” she searched her whole cabin but she couldn’t find out.
She suddenly remembers d that she had left it in the documentary room when she went this noon.
She quickly went there to get it. She forget to do entry her name in the register and went inside as she was already late.
She went inside and searched the cupboard. She finally saw the file on the top track. She went on her toes and tried to get it. She couldn’t do it. She took a chair and climbed on it. She could barely reach the file. She tried very hard to get it. She lost her balance and was about to fall to the floor.
“Ahhh,” she got panicked and closed her eyesight.
“Why don’t I feel any pain? Reversible I’m feeling very comfortable,” she thought.
She slowly opened her eyes and looked straight.
Her heart skipped a beat and her pupils dilated in shock.
“whose eyes are these?” she thought.
She couldn’t take away her eyes from those eyes and was just staring at them without blinking.
Those eyes also were looking at her with passionate love. Those feelings in those four eyes couldn’t be described by any words. They were strong passionate and unconditional.
Suddenly they heard a voice. They came out of their trance and looked in the direction of the sound.
When Judy lost her balance, she reflected very quickly and pushed the track hardly. So that track and some other tracks in front of it had fallen. Their moment was disturbed when they heard the voice of a file falling.
Judy realized that John had been holding her to prevent her from falling to the floor. She had been hugging his neck very tightly. She took her hands away and tried to get away from him. But he was holding her very close to his body rightly. So she couldn’t free herself from that tight grip.
Judy felt somehow her body become hot little by little. Her cheeks and ear started to become red. She looked down to avoid those sharp eyes that were still on her.
“President,” she tried to call him. He didn’t respond to it.
“Mr. Brand,” she looked at him and called him again. There was still no response.
She finally waved her hands in front of him and tried to make him aware of the situation.
He finally got out of his dream world and looked at her. He realized that honed been holding her for a long time. He put her down and looked at another side to avoid embarrassment.
Judy also didn’t know what to tell.
“Thank..,. Thank you Mr. President for your help,” she stammered and somehow finished her sentence.
She didn’t wait for his response and ran from there.
When she reached the door, it was already locked.
“Why is it closed?” she wondered.
She knocked on the door very hard, but nobody could hear her voice as it was an entirely closed room.
John's pov
When I was crossing the H.R department, I heard someone calling her name.
My legs stopped automatically when I heard her name. I could hear clearly what he was telling her on the phone.
“So she will come to my cabin for my signature,” I thought and it made me somehow happy. I couldn’t guess the exact reason for that. I was about to go to my cabin. But I saw her going on another way.
“she isn’t going to my cabin. Then where is she going so fast?” I thought and followed her without anyone's notice.
“Oh, she is going to get some file from the documentary room,” I thought and followed her into the documentary room.
I took some baby steps without making any noise and hid behind a track. She was trying to get a file so hard. As she was short, she couldn’t get it. When she got disappointed, she made a cute face and it made me smile at her innocence. Then she took a chair and brought it near the track.
Again she failed to get it. I thought to help her and went near her. At the same time, I saw her losing balance and was about to slip from the chair.
I acted quickly and somehow managed to catch her within time.
She fell into my arm automatically and I secured her with a tight grip in my arms. She was very close to my heart. I could hear my heart beating very rapidly. But I wasn’t sure whose heartbeat was that.
“Were our both hearts competing with each other?” I thought and smiled in my mind at how silly my thoughts were. I could feel the heat of her body and the rapid breath expelled from her respiratory tract. Her big eyes were closed as she might have felt scared. She opened her eyes very slowly. I couldn’t hear any heartbeat more.
“Did I die?” I thought for a moment. Her one glimpse was enough to kill me thousand times. I couldn’t move my eyes away from her. I was staring at her continuously without blinking.
Suddenly I heard her voice and came out of the trance. Suddenly, I realized the situation and put her down.
I could see that she felt a little awkward when she stammered to speak. She quickly left the place.
My mind went back to the moment when our eyes got locked themselves.
Suddenly I heard her voice again.
“What happened again?” I wondered and went to the door.
When I went there, she was knocking on the door hardly.
When she saw me, she became quiet.
I went near her and asked, what happened?”
“she looked at me for a second and said, “the door is locked.”
“what?” I was shocked when I heard her words.
“I think they didn’t notice that I was inside and locked it,” she somehow finished stammering very much.
“Why does she stammer when she talks with me? Do I look very scary?” I asked myself. I searched for my phone, but I couldn’t find it.
“Do you have your mobile?” I asked her.
She was looking at the floor from the beginning. She nodded her head as no.
“We can’t open this door from inside. What to do now?” I asked myself.
“Sorry sir, I should have registered entry before I enter the room. But there was no one at the desk and I also forgot as I didn’t have much time,” she said in a low voice almost whispering. But my sharp ears could hear her voice. She sounded panicky and tense.
I looked at her and smiled within myself. She was panicked.
“We have to wait until someone notices our absence and search for us,” I said casually and occupied a chair. She was still standing silently. The room was fully air-conditioned, but still, there were a few sweats on her forehead.
They added more beauty to her. Suddenly she looked in my direction. I looked away quickly before she noticed.
It was awkward for a few minutes. She was continuously standing.
“Please have a seat. You might get pain in your leg,” I said.
“it's okay, she replied.
“It's my order,” I said a little bit louder.
She quickly occupied a seat opposite me. I didn’t know how to start talking.
Suddenly I heard some noise from somewhere. I looked around myself.
“where did that sound come from?” I thought.
When I saw her holding her stomach, I could guess that she was hungry.
She looked at me and smiled a little bit awkwardly.
I didn’t have anything to give her to eat. Suddenly I remembered that there was chocolate in my coat pocket. I searched in my coat and found it. Roy used to give me some chocolates, whenever I work after office hours. Today also he had given me a chocolate bar. I gave her it and said, “have some chocolate.”
She should have been very hungry. She took it quickly and opened it slowly.
She took a bite and said, ‘hmmm very tasty.”
She was super cute when she rolled her eyes and enjoyed the chocolate. She caught me starring at her.
She should have felt guilty for not asking me for chocolate.
“Sorry sir, have some bites,” she said and gave me the bar.
“It's okay. I’m not hungry,” I said but I was really hungry.
My stomach made some sounds and she caught me red-handed.
She smiled at me and gave me it again. I said nothing and took it silently. We both enjoyed the chocolates silently.
“Sir, she called me. I looked at her with a confused look.
“Some chocolate on your lips,” she said.
I tried to wipe it from my lips. She laughed at me.
I realized that I have spread more chocolate while trying to clean it.
“May I?” she asked me.
I looked at her and nodded my head as yes.
She slowly came near me and wiped the chocolate slowly. When she was about to go away, I caught her hand tightly.
She looked at me with a shocked expression.
I suddenly took her hand licked the chocolate on her finger. Her eyes became wider with shock and she took some steps back and occupied the seat. She turned to the other side and hid her face from me. I couldn’t see her expression.
Then only I realized what I had done. What would she have thought? Would she think of me as a p*****t? Many questions ran into my mind.
“You should ask sorry,” my mind ordered me.
But I was very reluctant to talk with her.
“Oh God, why did this happen? What happened to you, John? I asked myself.
I somehow gathered some courage and said, I’m……I’m…….. Sorry for what happened just before.
She was silent for a moment.
“Is she so mad at me? She didn’t even respond to my apology,” I thought.
I went near her to see her expression. When I went in front of her, I saw her fall asleep in the chair in a sitting position.
I smiled at her baby face and adjusted the hair strand that was disturbing her in her face slowly and gently. She should have felt cold as she tried to hug herself with her soft hands. I took my suit off and covered her tiny body with it. I brought my chair near her and sat on it. That night, I spent the whole night just staring at her.
“Why do I behave like this around her? I have never done something like that. Why is she very special to me?” I thought.
Next morning
Judy’s pov
I slightly opened my eyes and yawned a little bit. When I stretched my hands lazily, it was stuck in something. I turned towards it and was shocked to see John near me.
I tried to clear my vision with my hands and focused on him again. Yes, but was John. Then I remembered that both of us were locked inside the documentary room for a whole night.
He was sleeping peacefully but in an uncomfortable position resting his head on my chair. I looked at him and tried to make him sleep comfortably. I tried to turn his head straight. He put one hand around me and tried to hug me. Now I was under his hug. I couldn’t move my body. When I turned towards him to wake up him, I was freezing when I saw his cute face.
“How cute is he? No one will believe that bossy president Mr. Brand lóks very cute when he sleeps,” I thought and a small smile crept into my life.
“His eyelashes are longer than mine. I am jealous of him,” I thought.
My thoughts were disturbed when I heard someone open the door.
My eyes would have popped out of if I didn’t know the person.
I reached my office and fell on my chair. I just wanted to leave the office, but I suddenly remembered that I should get John's signature in those files.
I quickly went to the documentary room again. I slowly sneaked into the room and searched if John and that person were still there. There was no one in that room. I thanked God secretly in my mind and grabbed those files and went to Michal. It was too early and she hadn’t reached the office yet. I should send it at ten O'clock.