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Chapter 4
Then it happened finally
Ram came next day morning at sharp 9 am. Juhi was dressd prettily for the him . As usual, Juhi was a vision of petite loveliness. Her black long hair was swept atop her head, a few stray curls left to frame her face, and her form was the epitome of grace as she moved through the steps
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Ram , Priya noted with irritation, was blindingly handsome. Not that she would acknowledge her thoughts .or the sanity of it . But how did a """not so fit person """ looked handsome to her . He was just dressed in stark black and white minus a jacket but formals it was.. He was tall, stood straight and proud, and had thick hair that tended to fall forward over his brow. Next to him stood a man equally tall but exactly oppositely dressed . The attire he wore, could have been taken straight out of Page 3 of the society magazine, he was dressed in skinny tight Green pants , purple jacket with a grey scarf around his neck. He perfectly groomed in fact too well groomed, it looked like he spent major of part of his morning in the Salon to turn out this way. The man in green trousers was around 30 definitely looked younger than Ram .
Both of them were standing outside , taking some business call, rest of them were waiting in corridor waiting for them to finish their call. Ram came in after he finished his call said a hello , gave his usually devasting smile to Juhi .. Priya didn’t know, how Juhi was able to stand steadily on her two feet after receiving such a smile. He has never has smiled at her that way , only smile if one could call it a smile was that smirk . But why was she bothered if he smiled at her or not. Juhi smiled her graceful smile. Went down to meet him.
“They make a handsome couple, don‟t they?” Mamji murmured.
Priya bit her tongue. She actually bit her tongue.
“He‟s a quite tall for her, but I don‟t see that would be problem would you?”
Priy clasped her hands together and let her nails bite into her skin. It said a great deal about the strength of her grip that she could feel them drawing a blood
.
Mamaji smiled. A rather sly smile, Priya thought. She gave her mamaji a suspicious look.
“He is handsome don’t you think ” Mamaji asked.
“He is not going to marry Juhi!” Priya burst out.
Mamajis smile slid straight into a grin. “I was wondering how long you‟d manage to hold your silence.”
“Far longer than was my natural inclination,” Priya retorted, practically biting each word.
“Yes, that much was clear.”
“Mamaji, you know he is not the sort of man we want for Juhi.”
Mamaji cocked his head slightly to the side and raised his brows. “I believe the question ought to be
whether he is the sort of man Juhi wants for herself .”
“He‟s not that, either!” Priya replied heatedly. “Just yesterday she told me who she wanted to marry !” She jerked her head toward the dark-haired cretin talking with her cousin sister. “And belive when I say he is not that person ?”
“I‟ll Know ,” Priya continued through clenched teeth, “that one ought not judge a person merely on his outer appearance, but surely you must agree. From all that we lnow of him, he does not seem the sort to spend his afternoons over TV serial and movie reviews
“ Perhaps not,” Mamaji mused, “but I had a lovely chat with his mother earlier this morning.”
“His mother?”Priya fought to follow the conversation. “What has that to do with anything?”
mamaji shrugged. “I find it difficult to believe that such a gracious and intelligent lady could have raised anything but the finest of gentlemen, regardless of his reputation as cut throat businessman”
“But Mamaji—”
I think Priya you should let them decide, and you should be concentrating at the boy who according to Ram a perfect match for you .
Mamiji please .. I don’t want to get married period. Not to this man definitely .No offense meant he is just too well groomed for me, look at him mamaji he is dressed like a peacock . I just cant think of Marrying him
Mamaji advised Priya why are you judging the book by the cover, look at you .You don’t look like you finished college itself but in reality you are Vice Prinicipal of a School. No Priya you should give the man a chance before you reject him. Just this once indulge me please, I promise I will not force if you feel the same even after that.
Okay , but Mamaji who is he?
He is Ram’s business partner in Construction Business. He builds Mall , He must have heard about him … He is Rajath Kapoor of UW constructions .. the UW malls are constructed by him
She looked at him second time, but again nothing impressed her.
Suddenly , Rajath cut his phone which he was talking looked at Priya and said SORRY , immediately ran towards the gate For minute she thought he was actually rejecting her, though it did hurt her ego, she was somewhat happy that she didn’t need to do dirty work of breaking the rishta. If he just ran away same way he came, she would really be happy... so would Mamiji be happy that her predication came true.
But dreams are meant to be broken, Rajath came back not alone but with huge bouquets of red roses on one hand and 100 helium red heart shaped balloons on his left hand.
As he was coming inside the house, there was band which playing latest Hindi romantic numbers.
He came close to Priya and went down on knee, offered the bouquet of roses first then let helium balloon fly in the air in a dramatic fashion.. Priya was flabbergasted to say the least .
Ram was standing in corner of the corridor was controlling laughter looking at Priya.
Priya gave him her best drop dead stare and with all patience of a saint asked Rajath to stand up.
Rajath was eagerly waiting , for words of praise from Priya
Priya didn’t have single word to say.
She took the bouquet which just about her height tried to walk with it inside the house.The inevitable happened, she tripped on the steps to the corridor, fell forward she would fallen on the rosesif it not been Ram who held her by her waist prevented her falling with bouquet.
When he came near her , she could smell his after shave, his breadth sent shivers down the spine.He came close to her ear whispered in that husky baritone of his, are you okay .. I didn’t know you will fall in love so fast .. but again you do generally fall whenever possible. Priya was still reeling from the proximity of him, to really come out with stinger, Somehow her wits seems get mangled whenever he came near her.. she did not like him, but why did he have this kind of effect on her.
She stood ram rod straight , looked at him seriously and then asked do you know what a family is Mr Kapoor ? do you have sister Mr Kapoor
His eyes, which had been laughing throughout the conversation, turned dead serious without even a
blink. “Yes.”
“you will know what it means then ” Priya said pointedly.
“And that means?”
“It means,” she said, knowing she should hold her tongue but speaking anyway, “that I will not allow
anyone to break my Juhi ‟s heart.”
Ram remained silent for a moment, slowly turning his head to watch Juhi standing in the other coroner looking at the balloons flying high “I see,” he murmured.
“ I don’t Know what you are up Mr Kapoor to One thing let me make it very clear Mr Kapoor to you?” you can do what you can with me, but juhi is very innocent she doesn’t know what a beast you are … I will never allow her to be hurt
One corner of his mouth curved up in a mockery of a smile. “ You don’t have really very good opinion of me Priya is it ?”
“No you have never given me chance to form an opinion Mr Kapoor .”
You wound me, with your hate Priya , but what I don’t understand is why you hate me so much ”
Please Mr Kapoor , I would like to leave, he was now blocking her with that stupid bouquet
Just one minute waited he said keeping that bouquet down, then said, “You did not answer my question. Why do you hate me?”
A rush of air slipped through Priya lips. She hadn‟t expected him to repeat the question. Or at least
she‟d hoped that he would not. “I do not hate you, ” she replied, choosing her words with great care. “I do not even know you.”
“Knowing is rarely a prerequisite for hating,” he said softly, his eyes settling on hers with lethal
steadiness. “Come now,Priya, you don‟t seem a coward to me. Answer the question.”
Priya held silent for a full minute. It was true, she had not been predisposed to like the man. She
certainly wasn‟t about to encourage Juhi into this relationship . and she also didnt believe for one second that he was interested enough in Juhi to marry her .
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Mr kapoor , I am really very protective of my family , if I somebody is trying to hurt them, I will make it sure that somebody never lives to see a another day …
“For minute Ram didn’t know what to say , Priya had already left the corridor taking , juhi who still watching the red balloons flying.
Ram had to appreciate the lady for her devotion towards her family,hmm it was interesting to see the mouse turning to lioness guarding her cub . He found her very interesting. What she didn’t know was That he had come with sole intention telling Mr Sahni ji about the breaking this relationship. Though Juhi was beautiful actually very sweet , and even-tempered. Very attractive without making his blood run wild. But she was just not made for him .He doubted if there was anyone made for him. He wanted somebody who excited him, somebody who stood up to him ,someone not afraid of him and definitely someone who is just not looking at the money he made …. Someone like priya…. For minute he didn’t know where that thought came from .
No he didn’t like Priya.. he thought she was so irritating aggravating This was getting ridiculous. Bloody hell. She was too bossy, too opinionated, too quick to jump to conclusions. She wasn‟t even beautiful—at least not compared to quite a few of the women he met at Mumbai parties especially compared to her cousin sister.
Priya’s face was a touch too long, her chin a hair too pointed, her eyes a shade too big. Everything about her was too something. Even her mouth, which vexed him to no end with its endless stream of insults and opinions, was too full. It was a rare event when she actually had it closed and was treating him to a moment of blessed silence, but if he happened to look at her in that split second (for surely she could not be silent for much longer than that) all he saw were her lips, full and pouty, and—provided that she kept them shut and didn‟t actually speak—eminently kissable.
Kissable?
Ram shuddered. The thought of kissing Priya was terrifying. In fact, the mere fact that he‟d
Even thought of it ought to be enough to have him locked up in some pagal khana .
And yet... Ram collapsed against the wall. And yet he had dreamed about her. For Past 3 months and Yesterday night he had dreamed that he was kissing her soft honey dewed lips marriage. Shit what was happening to him. He had actually bought Rajath in for Priya.. He didn’t know Rajath all that well. Rajath actually was vikram’s friend’ s partner… It was Mamaji who told that him during his initial talk that they had got a rishta for his baanji from someone called Rajath Kapoor . He was making enquiries about Rajath who was also into business in Mumbai .But when he realized who Sahni ji’ s baanji was he talked rajath though his contact bought him here to actually fix the marriage …Yes intentions were not so noble but never knew Rajath was like this.. He just encouraged /pepped him that over the phone … but now .. he just didn’t know what he was doing what was happening to him …
He went in because he didn’t know what else to do The scene that greeted him made him clench is fist in anger. Rajath was actually talking to Priya and making do eye at Priya …. And Priya was listening to him which such rapt attention as if he was explaining universal truth to her dammit !!! this was not supposed go like this.
He had to do something ….
He announced first thing that came to his mind, can we all go out ?
Rajath immediately agreed with much enthusiasm, as if Ram had announced prices of cement had gone down by half ..
What was with this guy? He didn’t know who priya was before yesterday and now he was acting as if he was she was already his wife irritating specimen !!
He then looked at Juhi, as usual she had her graceful smile on her face. Sometimes he felt juhi simply didn’t understand the language he talked.
Ram suggested they take his car, he made sure that Rajath occupied the front seat with him. But the ass kept talking on and on about knowing who is who in the film industry. How close he was to SRK and AB and How he keeps going to Salman bhai’s house for id… and so on . At one point Ram wanted stuff is mouth with gauze. Fortunately they reached their destination … Mall . Ram didn’t know where else to go, only thing he knew was he couldn’t take anymore of Rajath’s torture.
He got down they all decided go to a café… but there again the conversation centered around stars how Rajath organized film shoots in his mall. Ram looked at the ladies.. but they seem to find Rajath conversation entertaining . Ram then decided to change the venue…. Ask suggestion of moving to somewhere else unfortunately for him everybody outvoted him juhi was first to agree to suggestion of Rajath of going to the film , and she then prodded priya to agree also . Priya reluctantly agreed for the film thus it was decided they would all go for a film in the same complex.
Rajath immediately called up his so called filmy friends.. to get some premium tickets.
Juhi was dumbstruck with Rajath ‘s magical filmi powers. What got Ram’s goat was .. that priya also looked equally impressed by Rajath’s .
Ram couldn’t do anything about it but tag along for the movie. But he made sure that he sat in the middle with one side Juhi and another side Priya. But unfortunately Rajath choose to sit on other side of Priya.
The movie started,,, both Rajath and Juhi seemed to be engrossed in Movie, they were so into the movie they were explaining the intricacy of the each dialogue and the scene.. It looked like they both had already seen the movie n number of time. But to Ram the movie was crap… he didn’t know how got himself into such horrific situation.
Suddenly he felt a weight on his shoulder. It was Priya who had put her head on his shoulder. For a moment he didn’t know how to react, he called her softly but there was no response, then he bent down to look, she was actually sleeping. And sleeping with her head on his shoulder. Ram didn’t know how to react , he didn’t want her wake her up but at the same he didn’t how priya would react if she knew she was actually lying her head on his shoulder.. He just hoped that she wouldn’t create ruckus saying he took advantage of the situation. But truth to be said he liked it he liked it very much. Suddenly she put her hand on his chest murmured something … he bent down to actually hear what she was saying… she said something about feeling cold. When he touched her hand , it felt hot, it was very hot … it was as if she was running a temperature.. He immediately checked her forehead. She was indeed running a temperature. He lifted her , told rajath to enjoy the movie with Juhi .. and he will take care of Priya. Rajath was little too happy to be left back with Juhi … and the movie. Ram guided Priya out of the Cinema hall. Took her home.
Mamaji profusely thanked him, for bringing Priya home. He said he would call the Doctor The doctor came and told it looked like viral infection, asked them to monitor the fever for three days if it didn’t reduce he said he will write down some test.. but there was nothing much to worry . Then Doctor also left Priya was sleeping . There was nothing much Ram could do ... so he took his leave , decided to go back to his hotel room.
Today one thing became very clear to Ram, he needed to tell Sahinji that he couldn’t marry Juhi. With Regards to priya Ram was still confused he didn’t like her… but still there was something in her which was pulling him towards her. He just didn’t know what his feelings were with regards to her, but one thing he was sure that she made him feel alive.
But Rajath and Juhi was another tangle he didn’t know how untangle without hurting somebody in the process. When he pondering the issue between him Priya juhi and Rajath…. He saw something in the park he passed by … which made his heart do somersault with relief …
He saw Rajath kissing Juhi ,,, in one of those park benches… to confirm it . He got down from his car , went near the park tree behind which they were kissing . It was them.. they were actually declaring their love… Nothing could have made Ram more happy than this. He quietly left the love birds …. For the first time in his life he had something to look forward to next day.
Next day morning Ram reached Sahniji’s house first thing in the morning… but atmosphere was little tensed.. for a minute he feared that something had happened to Priya..
But mamaji quickly allayed his fears that priya was okay and sleeping, and it was Juhi who was the problem…
Then Ram sighed a sigh of relief.. Now he knew what the problem was ..
Then mamaji slowly with much embracement and lot of apologies, told that juhi was no longer interested in this rishta and she felt that her views didn’t match with him
Ram trying hard to control his happiness on successful breaking off the rishta.. Very magnanimously refused to accept any apologies from mamaji.. and said he would be happy be just friends with the family and hoped that he will always be welcomed as son if not son in law on to this house
Mamaji was also relived that the matter was resolved so amicably . He hugged Ram and said if he had another daughter he would surely give her to him….....
Ram actually wanted to see Priya.. but since she was sleeping he didn’t have much choice other than taking leave from them. He asked them convey his regards to Priya and left the house.
After three hours , his hotel room phone buzzed, he picked it up , it was a call from the reception saying that one Ms Priya Sharma would like to meet him.
For a moment he was happy that Priya had come here to meet him but at the same time he was little worried , because he was still confused about his feeling for her.. Things were happening too fast for him to make sense of . He needed time to analyze and understand what it is that he was feeling for her. Was it just lust or attraction or something totally different .. This is an area which he has never trans versed before .His feelings were still too alien for him to understand it fully.. he didn’t know what he was going to say to Priya…
But same time.. he needed to clarify certain things with her first. He asked the manager to her guide to his room
She came in , the minute the waiter closed the door and left them, she pounced on him like a tigeress on its prey ..
I told you Mr Kapoor that I would not allow you hurt my family , how dare you do it.. raised thier hopes only to crash them if you didnt want to marry why did you come here? why are you doing this to Juhi.. You have problem with me , be a man take it up with me, why are hurting innocent people like Juhi mamaji. They had nothing to with this. I didn’t expect you will behave so cheaply…
One minute , One Minute .. Priya Just hold on … Listen to me He kept saying .. What did I do .. Just listen to me.
No Mr kapoor you listen to me… just stay away from my family…
Dammit Priya… Ram raised his voice in anger will you please stop it . He forced her against the door..
Ram knew he had to be insane. There could be no other explanation. He‟d meant to make her listen make her understand that she was jumping to conclusion again and instead...
He kissed her. Intimidation had been his intention, and so he‟d moved closer and closer until she, an innocent, could only be cowed by his presence. She wouldn‟t know what it was like to have a man so near that the heat of his body seeped through her clothes, so close that she couldn‟t tell where his breath ended and hers began.She wouldn‟t recognize the first prickles of desire, nor would she understand that slow, swirling heat in the core of her being.
And that slow, swirling heat was there. He could see it in her face.
But she, a complete innocent, would never comprehend what he could see with one look of his eyes. All she would know was that he was looming over her, that he was stronger, more powerful, and that she had made a dreadful mistake by angering him.
He was going to stop right there and leave her bothered and breathless. But when there was barely an
inch between them, the pull grew too strong. Her scent was too beguiling, the sound of her breath too
arousing. The prickles of desire he‟d meant to spark within her suddenly ignited withinhim, sending a warm claw of need to the very tips of his toes. And the finger he‟d held up to stop her from talking was now trailing along her cheek—just to torture her, he told himself—suddenly became a hand that cupped the back of her head as his lips took hers in an explosion of anger and desire.
She gasped against his mouth, and he took advantage of her parted lips by sliding his tongue between
them. She was stiff in his arms, but it seemed more to do with surprise than anything else, and so Ram pressed his suit further by allowing one of his hands to slide down her back and bringer more closer to him.
“This is madness,” he whispered against her ear. But he made no move to let her go.
Her reply was an incoherent, confused moan, and her body became slightly more pliant in his arms,
allowing him to mold her even closer to his form. He knew he should stop, knew he damned well
shouldn‟t have started, but his blood was racing with need, and she felt so...so...
Sogood. He groaned, his lips leaving hers to taste the slightly salty skin of her neck. There was something about her that suited him like no woman woulde, as if his body had discovered something his mind utterly refused to consider. Something about her was ... right.
She felt right. She smelled right. She tasted right. And he knew that if he stripped off all of her clothes and took her there on the carpet on the floor of his study, she would fit underneath him, fit around him—just right.
It occurred to Ram that when she wasn‟t arguing or berating with him, Priya might bloody well be the best woman for him in this whole wide world.
Her arms, which had been imprisoned in his embrace, slowly edged up, until her hands were hesitantly resting on his back. And then her lips moved. It was a tiny thing, actually, a movement barely felt on the thin skin of his forehead, but she was definitely kissing him back.
A low, triumphant growl emerged from Ram‟s mouth as he moved his mouth back to hers, kissing
her fiercely, daring her to continue what she had begun. “Oh, Priya,” he moaned, nudging her back until she was plastered against the door . “God, you taste so good.”
She planted her hands on his chest and wrenched herself away, leaving him off balance and panting. She lifted her hand before he realised she slapped him hard
How dare you ??? Mr Kapoor ? How dare you ??? who do you think I am ... some girl who you can kiss when you want? Let me make my self very clear....
Sorry He said ... before she could continue.. I am so sorry... I shouldnt have done it ... Im terribly sorry..
“Don‟t say anything,” he whispered. “Whatever you do, don‟t say anything.”
“But—”
“Not a word,” he interrupted,
Ram let out a curse, and not a mild one.
Priya scurried away, not all the way across the room, but over to a tall wingback chair, far enough away so that she was not in arms‟ reach. She gripped the stiff back of the chair, then darted around it, thinking that it might be a good idea to have a nice solid piece of furniture between them.
Ram didn‟t look to be in the best of tempers.
“Why did you do that?” she said, her voice so low it was almost a whisper.
He shrugged, suddenly looking a little less angry and a little more caring. “Because I wanted to.”
Priya just gaped at him for a moment, unable to believe that he could have such a simple answer to what was, despite its simple phrasing, such a complicated question. Finally, she blurted out, “ How could you ”
He smiled. Slowly. “But I did.”
“But you don‟t like me!”
„True,” he allowed.
“And I don‟t like you.”
“So you‟ve been telling me,” he said smoothly. “I‟ll have to take your word for it, since it wasn‟t
particularly apparent a few seconds ago.”
Priya felt her cheeks flush with shame. She had responded to his wicked kiss, and she hated herself for it, almost as much as she hated him for initiating the intimacy.
But he didn‟t have to taunt her. That was the act of a cad. She gripped the back of the chair until her
knuckles turned white, no longer certain if she was using it as a defense against Ram or as a means
to stop herself from lunging forward to strangle him.
“I am not going to let you hurt Juhi ” she said in a very low voice.
I didn’t hurt anybody ,” he murmured, moving slowly forward until he was just on the other side of the chair. “I didn‟t it was she who said that she didn’t want to marry me … I think she wants to marry Rajath .
Her chin lifted a notch. “ that is nonsense”
He planted his hands on the armrests and leaned forward until his face was only a few inches from hers. “ who told you that I rejected the offer .”
Priya stopped…. Actually nobody had told her anything , except mamiji informed her in the morning that marriage between Ram and Juhie was off and when she saw Juhie crying in her room she assumed that was because of Ram ….. slowly doubt started setting in what if what he said was really true.
Ram .. saw she was now confused … so he ploughed on. Check with Juhi if you want .Just call her now
He handed her the room phone to call her cousin..
Priya called her…..asked juhi It seemed Ram kapoor was right . Juhi was the one who rejected Ram because she claimed that she loved Rajath.. she was saying sorry now to priya about breaking up her rishta with Rajath and breaking her heart . Then she started rattling off plenty of filmi dialogues of how She priya would not be happy if she married Rajath, because Rajath was made for her .. they were soulmates..and thenn she went on on … but Priya just didn’t listen to the rest.. she slowly placed the phone down. And sat down on bed shocked….
Looked up at the man who turned her world upside down.. and asked what now???
To Be Continued.........
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Priya RamKumar
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Awesome update.
Awsome update...😃
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