THE BEST PROPOSAL

CHAPTER 1.

UNEDITED

PLEASE IGNORE TYPOS AND GRAMMATICAL ERRORS.

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After getting married in the Church, Aditya and Kiara were now in Aditya’s car, in the back seat, as Karam drove them to a restaurant in complete silence with Aditya working on his tablet and Kiara just staring outside the window and glancing at Aditya time to time, finally after twenty minutes, Kiara broke the silence as she turned to Aditya and asked.

“Do you have to go to your office after lunch?” Kiara asked softly and hesitantly, as Aditya looked at her with his usual straight face, trying to figure out why she asked the question as Karam too glanced at her through the rear-view mirror.

“Yes, that was my plan originally, why?” Aditya answered her question first before asking her a question himself while placing his tablet aside and placed his full concentration on Kiara as he turned to face her too, who just looked here and there hearing his question, trying to figure out how to ask him what she wanted to, or instead, request.

“What is it? You can ask me freely, I’m your husband, you don’t need to overthink anything in front of me.” Aditya could sense her hesitation and awkwardness, therefore, his choice of words were assuring and encouraging, they also showed and carried his sincerity in their marriage and his willingness to make it work, which gave Kiara the confidence and push that she needed as she turned to Aditya.

“I was wondering if you could take a day off so that we could get to know each other better, we are practically stranger’s right now, it would be better for us to know some basic things about each other as we start a new life together.” Kiara voiced out her opinion even though she was scared that Aditya might get angry, after all, he was famous for being emotionless and ruthless, but his reply not only surprised Kiara, but Karam too, who feared that Kiara would be scolded by his boss on the first day of their marriage, or to be more precise, just minutes after getting married, because he knew his boss way too well, and for him work always comes first.

“You’re right, and I completely agree with you, but I have a really important meeting that I need to attend at the office today, and I’m afraid that it can’t be postponed.” Kiara’s face fell hearing Aditya’s reply, even though she didn’t have much expectation but his next statement surprised her.

“Why don’t you accompany me to my office after lunch, we can then leave together after my meeting.” Aditya suggested as Kiara just stared at him as many thoughts ran through her mind.

“But what if someone sees me?” Kiara asked after a long moment of silence where Aditya just stared at her intently trying to figure out what she was thinking.

“Don’t worry about that, I have my own private elevator to my cabin, no one can see you until I want them to.” Aditya answered as Kiara breathed in relief.

“You need to trust me Kiara, I won’t do anything to break my promise of keeping our marriage a secret for six months.” Aditya assured her by taking her hands in his and staring right into her eyes as Kiara nodded.

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After a quiet and private lunch at a five-star restaurant, Aditya and Kiara reached Aditya’s office and took his private elevator from the basement up to his cabin while Karam went to park the car.

As the lift doors opened and Aditya and Kiara stepped into Aditya’s cabin, Kiara was in love with the interiors of the cabin. The cabin was huge, with Floor-to-ceiling window wall providing the perfect view of the marine drive and the Arabian Sea, and Aditya’s desk, with white glossy finish, sitting right in front of it, the interior was mostly white and grey with Metallic touch to it, a huge L-shaped white leather sofa set placed right in the middle of the room with a white, coffee table in the middle of the sofa set, a double door metallic fridge sitting in a corner of the room and two doors side by side on the left side of the cabin, and an entry door to the Cabin connecting the Cabin to the office in parallel to the glass wall, right in front of Aditya’s desk and the sofa set.

As Kiara was looking around the cabin, Aditya’s eyes were fixed on Kiara as he quietly and patiently followed her with his hands in his pant pockets, until she turned to face him.

“What are those two doors?” Kiara asked curiously making Aditya smile as he held her hand and walked near the doors.

“This is this the washroom,” Aditya said pointing at the door on the left.

“And this is a bedroom, for the times that I have to stay back at the office due to work or when I don’t have enough time to make a trip back home and return to office.” Aditya explained as he punched in a code, unlocking the door and entered the room with all black interior with Kiara as she looked around the room which had two walls as the glass wall giving perfect view of the Marine drive just like in the main cabin, and a bed placed right in the middle of the room.

Kiara was practically speechless as she looked at the view from the room while Aditya just enjoyed the reaction of his newly wedded wife, it was the first time that anyone had entered this room apart from Aditya himself, no one was allowed to enter this room, after all it was Aditya’s own personal space which Aditya even cleaned himself.

“What do you think of my Cabin?” Aditya asked Kiara as they returned back to his cabin as Kiara just stared at him.

“I have never seen such a beautiful and spacious cabin with such an amazing view in my entire life.” Kiara answered honestly making Aditya chuckle.

“It now belongs to you too, so you can now sit here,” Aditya said while making Kiara sit on his chair as she looked at him surprised.

“And I have to go attend my meeting, it will take me two hours max, till then you can sit here, or go take a nap in the bedroom, the pin to the bedroom is 0301, and the pin for the computer is 4102.” Aditya told her the pin to the two most important things in the cabin, bending over in front of her while holding the arm rest of the chair as Kiara just stared at him, and just at that moment Karam entered the Cabin.

“Sir it’s time to go for the meeting.” Karam informed him as he stood near the lift while facing it, giving the couple their privacy.

“I’ll see you in two hours.” Aditya whispered as he straightened himself making Kiara lift her face to look at him.

“I’ll wait here.” Kiara promised as Aditya turned and walked out of the cabin followed by Karam as Kiara was now alone in the cabin.

For the first fifteen minutes she just stared outside and absorbed the beauty of the Arabian sea after which she decided to check her email and typed in the password to the computer as it unlocked at the first thing that came up was the live footage from various camera’s on that particular floor of the building with an option on the left side of the screen to switch to the footage from another floor.

As Kiara looked at each and every frame, there were three camera’s that provided a clear view of the reception area and lobby, two cameras provided the clear view of the corridor and area in front of Aditya’s cabin, three camera’s provided the footage of the area outside six cabins, three on each side of the passage, and three camera’s provided the footage of two conference rooms, among which one was empty and the other one, which was also larger, with two camera’s, had a meeting going on, as Kiara clicked on one of the camera’s from that conference room, she spotted Aditya sitting at one end of the oval conference table, like a boss, the camera fixed at the wall right in front of Aditya giving a clear view of Aditya and all the other people sitting around the table, while the other camera was fixed on the wall behind Aditya which gave a clear footage of the thing that was being presented, Kiara then clicked in the frame which Aditya was on, enlarging it to full screen and zooming in on Aditya’s face.

“Now I understand why people call him emotionless and ruthless.” Kiara whispered to herself as she started at Aditya’s live footage, as he sat in his chair with no emotion reflecting from his face, staring straight ahead, probably intimidating the presenter.

“But he does have a king like presence, everyone seems so intimidated by him.” Kiara talked to herself as she compared her new husband to whatever she had heard about him through the media.

Kiara continued looking at Aditya’s live footage from the conference room entertained by the intimidated faces of the people around him as he spoke something which wasn’t audible to her, totally forgetting her own agenda of opening the computer, and as few minutes passed, Kiara didn’t even realise when sleep took over her and she fell asleep in a head down position on the desk.

After the meeting ended Aditya entered his cabin after instructing Karam to get the car ready, he expected Kiara to be sitting in the cabin, staring outside the glass wall or busy on her phone but the view in front of him surprised him, Kiara was asleep with her arms on the desk, one over another with her head resting over her arms which worked as her pillow, as he walked behind her he noticed what she was watching and understood why she fell asleep as a smile appeared on his lips.

“Kiara.” Aditya called softly in order to wake her up, while making sure that he doesn’t startle her.

“Hmm?” Kiara just hummed in her sleep, acknowledging the fact that she heard her name being called, but wasn’t conscious enough to open her eyes.

“Hey, wake up.” Aditya whispered near her ear while caressing her head over her hair.

“Two more minutes’, please, I didn’t get an ounce of sleep last night.” She mumbled in her sleep confusing Aditya, but with the latest information that he received, he didn’t have the heart to wake his newly wedded wife up, after all, during the marriage ceremony he made a promise to himself to make this marriage work and provide his wife with all the love that he possibly can, so without any further delay, he picked Kiara up in his arms in bridal style and walked to his private elevator.

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