3 Chapter 3

"In your dreams , Mr. Shekhawat ! You were never my type , and don't you remember ? When you came home late hours , you were the one looking for me , so that ! I could serve you the dinner ? Right ! So don't ever tell me , that I was the one drooling at you !!" I pointed my finger towards his tough chest , and he narrowed his eyes , when I was about to turn, he caught my wrist and I was unable to free myself from his firm grip.

He made me face once again his alluring face, which hold a furious anger beaming all over his body,

"Then! Why did you left that letter under the bookshelves of my personal library , inside my all time Favorite book, " the Lucifer's effect".

And that made me hollow from inside, so he knew about that letter, what made him came to know about my any kind of items?

Why that thing concerned him , and yes! He was into the creepy psychology stuffs, that psychosomatic man was the biggest fan of

The famous book, "the Lucifer's effect", by Philip Zimbardo, the popular american psychologist who had given the Stanford Prison Experiment, his book had a susceptible insight of his trailblazing theories about how the situational forces and group inmates turns a decent men and women into the evil people, but his trial was stopped , as this experiment was very brutal and harsh .

"Honestly , I don't want to answer that to you!" As I was about to turn around my heels , he once again captured my hands by my elbow and dragged me alone with that narrow passage of the abandoned alley , and I was wriggling very much to come out from his clutch.

After dragging me and taking me out from my office building , we were standing in front of his car, and then he left my hand , and I released the breath , which I was holding onto , for a long time. the atmosphere was chilling outside, it was the month of winter, I hadn't been wearing my wild brown Victorian cape cloak, which my friend Natasha had brought from London, especially for me, I wrapped the hands around myself just to protect myself from cold outside, the days during winter, No matter how sunny the day would remain, always had a glimpse of cold in it.

"Here , take this !" Adhiraj took off his blazer and offered it towards me, he had the stony look in his eyes, as if there was some guilt into his bored eyes, which he wanted to be hidden forever from my self, this was the time when I thought , that I had the same hesitation a time ago, when I really wanted to tell him , about how I feel around him, how his presence effect my each and every fibre of my body, how his mere touch over my shoulder get me aroused every time, and I always planned to tell him in text message , a long and romantic para , I did plan to send him but then somehow , my meek confidence would fell off, and I would ended up deleting those messages always, by keeping a heavy stone over my thumping heartbeats.

"Why are you offering me your fake concern , Adhiraj , I don't need your blazer , keep it to yourself !" I denied his offer but for one time , I wanted to touch his coat , I wanted to inhale his aroma of spicy cardamom and mild cologne , and he kept back his coat to him, how rude and blatant!

"Better than! Well guess what ! It's actually good for me, that you didn't accepted my coat , because it would be difficult for my maids to wash off your dirt, Now! get back to my car , we had a lunch meeting ! Remember ?" He pulled out his smirking face, and opened his front driver door to slid his gigantic body inside. practically he started enjoying it from mid beginning of our topsy turvy marriage to insult me on every chance , he got ! His mean taunts and comments about , how poor I am or from what place I came, never bother him to loathed me in public, I controlled my inner self from not spilling my tears again, in front of this man vulture, I looked near me he had a Lamborghini , that I missed to notice because he brought me here in a ruffling manner, the model was an upgraded version of what he used to kept a while ago in his garage.

"I can drive my own car , I don't need anyone's lift and also I m afraid , i f I might taint your expensive seat cover , Mr. Adhiraj , and oh! How it would be difficult for your skinny maids to clean my mess , " I fired him back, and the look on his face was worth paid, he hoisted his long sensed eyebrows and knitted together , while ferociously gripping his steering wheel , and honking his car at a loud sound, it was pricking into my ears, and that was too unbearable to hear.

"I ...said....just....get....into....the...car!!

Dammit ," he roared and all my self esteem was crashed like a house of cards , and like a squeaky mouse,I hopped to the back passenger seat of his car, and he stopped his over irritating honking , and again I released a sigh, I think I would become an asthma patient in less than a month, if I would be working for him, he is such a brute !

"Bloody Control freak !!" I muttered under my breath , but it was audible enough to get through his ears, and he was letting a geeky laugh , that moron !

"I m not anyone's personal chauffeur, come and sit beside my driver's seat , " he ordered me again, and I opened the front door of the car in a haste, so that once again, I could be seated near his driver's seat.

"Why you have to showcase your controlling attitude , everywhere ?" I irritatingly asked him while he had started off his engine,

"Because ,I m born to show off my attitude to each and every person in this world, sweetheart! and you ! Now you had to close your closet like mouth, as you are going to be my personal PR officer , and most importantly , I m shoving a huge amount of cash to your boss and also, you! Yourself, will make a good value of increment , plus fortune, as you are getting a chance of working with the famous IT company , Blackpool private Limited, isn't it sounds so awesome !!"

I was tired listening his Boasting about himself, how can one man should be that much self conceit, i shook my head and looked out of the car's window, but the roaring sound of his engine reached through my tattered ears, I tried to shut my ears by covering them by my hands,

For a little period of time , the whole drive was a silent ride, or I would say , I thought it would be but, again it has to be Adhiraj Singh Shekhawat .

"Are you planning to explode your ....umm...boobs ?" His unknowingly question caught my attention and I gave him a murderous look. Turning my head towards him and that handsome but a pervert debauchee was having a nasty smile , which may get attention of every petite woman , either blonde, dark or browny but that rusty smile, only made my adrenaline level rose high. That nerve of him.

"How dare you comment on my body parts , like that !! And by the way you had once said to me in very disgusting manner that , what you like D cupped size rather than C cup? So why you are so much concerned about my small tits ?" I hissed and he while shaking his head about my new bold attitude, replaced his ghastly smile with a slurry one. The car speed was changed from first gear to second .

"That proves." He said while rotating the steering. As there was a sharp turning points, and I saw a mischievous shine into his black brown eyes. Making his laugh more sonorous.

"What . do. You. Mean.?" I don't know what he meant but I narrowed my small eyes to much more smaller scale and I m sure I was looking like some lizard but no matters I just wanted to find out the gist of his sentence, when he said those words , he was highly skeptical when he is not a quieter , he talks and freaked me a lot, since our teenaged period, he was this only , Shekhawat uncle always got irritated about his lame jokes and he would turned out towards me , for making me impaired from his not so lofty jokes.

"That you are making them enlarge in size , just So ! You will have my all undivided attention , well that's working a less bit small , but I should appreciate your efforts , sweetie !!"

And he winked at me, something is not very usual about him, he had been flirting very much to me, but I m not going to respond his every cheesy pick up lines, after half an hour , we stopped in front of a 5 star hotel ,

"Castle de fest " , I stepped inside the hotel , while Adhiraj was at the parking lot, every thing here had been embedded in a very luxurious mixed richness, a single item screams the only word, CLASS ,

After long time, I confronted with the term class difference, that's what ! I felt when I entered in this lavishing place of foods and dishes ,the ticktock of heels coming from high class woman , who usually came to relax themselves , by smoking and gambling their useless moneys into casinos and bars , throwing kitty parties and drinking liquors which would be that strong , can burn their throat , I know their taste and expensive business suit running over . a manager came in his pseudo gentleman phase, with a fake smile plastered on his oblong face. He had been in his black job suit , and with his hands in a taught gestures, he allowed himself to prose,

"What would you like to have mam, is any service our management can provide you ? " he inquired to me , and I tried to process what should I tell him , a reservation for McLeod law firm and Blackpool dashboards, or what ?

"I would like to have my reservation venue , booked sharply at 2 p.m by Miss Radhika Sundaran from Blackpool private limited." As I was about to speak, Adhiraj appeared from nowhere, and cut my words that were about to come , and told the manager in his so called bossy manner, straightening his suit, and he again threw his arrogance goofiness towards me, which made me look like a fool in front of the manager .

"Oh ! I m really sorry sir, I ..I was unable to recognize, yes ! First of all, I heartily welcome you again over our place, as you had been our VIP member and a platinum card owner, sir I really congratulate you , that you had become 55% partner of this Deluxe hotel ,you had increased our economic ratio , please sir here this way, to the rooftop !" I knew that Adhiraj was a rich personality,but I didn't knew that if he meant that worlds rotate around him, that means , this type of worlds rotated around his dominating galaxy,

Manager guided us through the lift which took us the top most layer of the hotel , they called it rooftop and this place was reserved only for very affluent and plush personas . they had planted the american lilies in red and dark blue color and also the hyacinths of pink color was rowed and bunched in every corners of the roof, there was a small artificial pool with bluish water and some small red Shiners fish breeds were swimming there, the atmosphere was calm and soothing, and it reminded me of my first blind date with Adhiraj, it wasn't like we loved each other, just our parents had set us to meet with each other, like we really didn't knew both of our traits, bullshit , just a formality,

"Don't get fazed by all this moneyed term, they are just a showpiece ! Focus, we had to discuss our business with each other , remember ?" He brought me to reality, and I was taken aback, I was drowned into my past and his simple push on my back , made me dwell into current situation.

" yeah...yeah ! I m right here in the moment,No need to remind me, I ..I just blurred for some personal reason , so...what's your case ? I mean , there would be the time or any personal issue or management issues , because honestly they told me , you had been caught in adultery ?" I asked and that made me to run my finger along the table cloth, the red with polka dots design , and a vase of yellow daffodils blooming their glossiness .

"Not that , I would call it adultery , but ....yeah one of my flings, umm....just I mean , blackmailed me and released our MMS .....on the social media ...so they , the paparazzi are latching on me , that I had harassed her, but you know , everything that was shot during that moment , was illicit , I mean we both had done it by our mutual consent .....but she is using against me to get sympathy under the name of pseudo feminism ." no matter how practical I look from outside, I was right now , a jealous woman from inside of my every chambers of heart , and it was ruining my professional mannered face,

"Did Mallika knew all about this ? I mean she had the right to know about this whole scandal , and from my observation , she is a practical woman and she would try to handle you though !" I asked him about Mallika ,his fiancé and heiress of Manohar Telecom Ltd. One of the biggest telecom networking industries of Bangalore,

"She knew about this whole situation, as it is aired on over the whole media , but she had closed her doors for me, we are not on talking terms and our parents are also trapped between this cold war going on amongst our families , and I m not in a mood to sort it out with her, it would take lots of time and effort ...." He signalled his hands for the waiter who was about to come for taking our orders, and I was nearly dying without my lunch, the waiter was paused in his position , as Adhiraj was looking at me with the hopeful eyes , or I should autocorrect it to the puppy eyes, but he will never admit it.

"And you want your time and effort to be invested into your image establishment , like how changed and different person you are , in spite of what she is projecting you on Media, right ? But you still would be labelled as a cheater !" I taunted him , how could he just keep on cheating and tormenting the relations , and let it go as if it was a talk of time ,

"Do you have .....I mean ,are you seeing someone or dating anyone right now ?" He asked me out of blue and I was shocked , what the hell ? Did he really seemed desperate enough to know what was my romantic life secret, or he was just infatuated about my change in behaviour , I don't make wild guesses because hopes are always a big flops .

"It's my personal matter Mr. Shekhawat , don't try to barge into my life, it's none of your business?" I told him in a very concrete manner but my appetite was making giving me more prowess , because I was way too blunt.

"I get that , this is the fever of new professionalism cover, under which you had slipped your legs, but whatever , now , as I m paying you off , you have to make it effective and fruitful about my benefits , and one thing , just be a mast of my ship ,don't be a captain,because I will be the only captain of my ship , get that !" He rolled the glass of water which had been kept there ,

"You know what! you are a triple time arrogant bastard , who does not know how to keep it under the pants , and you always want a hole for your goal , you are an immaculate player , by nature just because I m getting paid, doesn't gives you any right to talk to me like that , as if I m not your PR officer but a simple maid, even maids also have their self respect .Adhiraj !" And as I was about to get up and leave that place , he stood up and his closeness hit me on my suppressed feelings for him,he would never had an idea, what it feels like,

"Wait , what you want to eat right now , because I know you are extremely hungry and I know , half of yours are irritated because you never miss your lunch !" He finally said those magical words.....