Meera's pov

I reached home the next day in the early morning. As I was entering I turned around to catch him. Yes, I know Krsh has been following me through the whole journey. I caught him late at night when he was standing near the gate of the compartment, but I didn't say anything because on one side I was not ready to face him still and the other side was nervous to see him ignoring me again. But by the time I reached home, I decided to confront him with a lot of courage.

And here he was still looking fresh and handsome as ever and acting as if he didn't know me. I sighed, "Krsh I know you've been following me. Why are you doing this? Actually I don't want to know. I came back and now you can go back to where you belong. You are not free anyways, many people depend on you. And I also need to go back to my work ...."

I couldn't even complete what I wanted to say further and he interrupted me, "But I depend on you, my angel. Please, please give me one chance. Be angry with me, I am not complaining, but please talk to me, don't give me this silent treatment. I can bear with anything but not you being silent. Okay, first you get freshen up, go to your work and then afterwards we will talk about all this. Till then, I will not disturb you a bit. I promise."

I didn't stop him when he was going away, even though I wanted to voice out my thoughts. But then baba came and saw him, so he called him. And now here we all are in the living room. Baba had strictly told him if he is going to stay in the town, he has to stay in this house only. And he told him that till the time he is going to be here, he can treat my room as his own. And the audacity of Krsh, he was, he was giving this toothy smile to me as if he had won something grand.

I closed my eyes and composed myself to not lash out on him here. I told baba I am going to my room and baba was also not paying attention to me. He just nodded and I stood there wide mouth like he had stolen baba from me. This is not at all fair, when did they get so close. Okay, calm down Meera, just go from here before this becomes a battleground. I stopped when I saw Rohan coming downstairs. I was happy to see him and he also smiled but I was so wrong. This donkey without sparing me a glance straight went towards Krsh and hugged him like they were long lost buddies. I was so wrong, how can they just ignore me like I don't even exist.

I stomped my foot without making any noise and went from there. How can they? They never did this. It is like Krsh is their son and brother. When did this even happen? I am so confused, what the hell is happening around me. I was just going to the washroom when I heard a ping on my phone. I opened it to see and the ground slipped from my feet. I was shivering visibly seeing the message. 'Stay away from Krsh and break this marriage alliance, or else I will kill him and you know me sweetheart that I can. And if you tell him anything then the worse will happen to him.'

Abhay, only he had the guts to send something like this to me. The other day when I had a panic attack, the reason was him. I saw him near the school. Only him being near me gives me shock and panic and now this. I don't understand why he has come back now. Wasn't he happy and satisfied destroying my life enough? What does he want now? I need a break from all this.

I went in the shower and spent twenty minutes which I didn't even realize. I am fed up and feeling so exhausted. I need to get away from here. I got ready quickly in a simple suit of light lavender color and only applied lip balm and kajal and put on a few bangles.

I went downstairs to see all three of them still engaged in talks, so I also ignored them by saying to baba only that I am going without even looking at him.

"But beta, eat something then go."

"Now you remembered that you have a daughter also." I slightly pouted since I can't be angry at baba much even if I want to.

"How can I forget you when you are my sweet innocent daughter. And if you are angry that I ignored you then I did not. Krsh is here, he is the son-in-law of this house, so he should be given the attention. Please try to understand me. You are my understanding daughter. Right?"

"I am but this is also not fair you are giving all the attention to him. Now I am going, I will have something on the way, don't worry." I smiled and went away.

I did not once even look where Krsh was, even though my heart wanted me to turn beside and see him. But he was looking at me, like only I exist in this room, since I can feel his strong gaze on me. I made my way to school, but the thought of him being in danger because of me was killing me from inside. I don't know what I should do. My thoughts are all over the place.

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School was over and I was making my way to go outside when I saw Krsh in the parking lot, leaning over the car with legs crossed. He is wearing his typical black suit but his jacket was not there and sleeves of his shirt were rolled making his veiny arms on display. I was suddenly feeling so hot in this cold weather, I can feel my cheeks being flustered. Other teachers were also looking at him and were drooling. I was feeling a kind of feeling similar to jealousy, like he is my man. MY MAN, wait where did that come from. Ugh!! He always makes my mind go into chaos.

He saw me and started coming towards me. I don't know why I was feeling shy and nervous. It's not like it is the first time I am seeing him. My heart was ready to jump outside, it was beating this fast. We were very close, so close. He leaned down such that our noses were touching.. I looked down feeling butterflies all over. "I missed you so much, love." He whispered so that only I could hear slightly touching my ears with his lips when he spoke, making goosebumps arise all over my body.

I closed my eyes and said slowly , "But I didn't at all."

He smiled wide and took my hand and started walking. I wanted to protest but it was like my body knew who he was, my whole hand was so small in his big hands and fitted like a puzzle. "I know you did." He said.

I looked away feeling flustered knowing he knows me so well. He opened the passenger side gate for me. Without looking at him, I sat and then he also came to his driving seat. I wondered where this car came from, but then he is Krsh Singhania, he can do anything. I sighed and looked outside. I was tired, I just needed my bed and wanted to sleep like I didn't care with all the traveling and classes.

I am feeling drowsy, so I closed my eyes, feeling sleep take over me. I can feel myself being taken towards my room. I was so sleepy that I couldn't even open my eyes fully and come to senses. I hear a soft voice, "sleep baby, you need rest." And then I was back to it.

I can feel a soft beneath me like a bed and feeling a little cold, I snuggled more into the blanket which was draped over me and went back to sleep.

I opened my eyes and saw I was in my room in my bed completely covered. I tried to remember, Krsh was there to take me home, I was in the car and slept on the way. I winced, closing my eyes and clutching my hair, how can I be so careless? That means that I was in his arms when he was taking me to the room. That is why I was feeling like I was floating in the air. How much more I will embarrass myself. I looked outside to see, it was soon going to be dark and the clock showed the time to be six in the evening.

My eyes widened at the time, I needed to prepare the dinner and Krsh being here means, I need to make something special. I groaned, even after sleeping for almost four hours, I am feeling worn out. I mentally prepared to get up and made my way towards the washroom. I freshened up and changed hurriedly into comfortable outfits which was a simple plain suit. Since Krsh is here, I can't roam in my pajamas and tops.

By the time I went downstairs, another hour had passed. I entered the kitchen and saw Krsh and Rohan busy in their talks while Krsh was stirring something and Rohan was cutting. I cleared my throat and blithe turned towards me and then went back to do their things as if I was not there.

I walked to them and asked Rohan what are they doing and as usual instead of giving me a straight answer he chose a sarcastic way to answer. "Can't you see or are you still sleeping with your eyes open." I hit him in the head and then went out. Great way to make yourself more flustered, Meera.

I saw baba sitting in the living room doing something on his phone, I went and sat beside him keeping my head on his shoulders and wrapping my arms around his. "Sorry beta for ignoring you in the morning." Keeping his phone aside he said.

I looked up at him, "Why baba, I know you both were teasing me. You should not feel sorry about such a little thing."

"I know and I also know my daughter, she overthinks everything and unnecessarily troubles herself. I want her to know that she is my topmost priority and nobody can take her place." he said patting my head and then I again went to back to the same position and closed my eyes, "I know", saying slightly smiling but continued, "but I will get even with that donkey." He laughed listening to me.

"By the way, why are they cooking and what are they cooking?" I asked baba.

"You were tired and they didn't want to disturb you, so they thought of letting you sleep and experiment something. Even though Krsh was working, he kept aside that and agreed to give company to Rohan. I don't know what they are making, since I also wanted to go but they refrained from coming, saying that I should also rest till the time they do the work."

"They did the correct thing." I agreed.

After that nobody said anything. After almost half an hour Rohan screamed like a mad man calling us that the dinner was ready. We made our way and saw every type of dish kept on the table. There was butter paneer masala, fried rice, roti, tadka dal and for dessert it was gajar ka halwa. Everyone proceeded to eat. Baba was sitting at the head chair, I was sitting on the left side of him and opposite me was Krsh, Rohan was sitting beside him.

I didn't see even a bit of awkwardness on Krsh's face since I thought, in his home there are servants for everything even for serving food also and here he was doing that thing. I looked down feeling a bit overwhelmed. I have to control myself, I am angry at him, these are just tricks of his to persuade me, but I will not be so easily convinced.

I am not going to make mistakes twice, I have to show Krsh that I am strong and that I can handle myself well all alone. I took the first bit of roti with paneer and it instantly melted in my mouth. I was too stunned to speak. I didn't know he cooks so well. Baba also acknowledged his efforts and also of Rohan's.

Neither did I speak anything at all nor I gave away my emotions to what I am feeling right now. I took my plate, washed it and kept it back. I wished good night to baba and ignored both the boys and went. They didn't let me help in cooking, so they are capable of doing the dishes also.

I was going to close the door when I saw a foot in the middle of the door. Looking up to see it was Krsh. I sighed and rolled my eyes at him and tried to close the door. But he put a force which was nil, came inside, locked the door and pulled me towards him by my waist such that our bodies were touching, breath was mixing and forehead was touching.

He nuzzled his face in my neck, blowing soft breath giving me tingling sensations and then said in my ear in a hoarse voice, "Next time when you want to roll your eyes, allow me to give you a perfect reason for doing that."

And again went down to my neck, I moved my head in the opposite direction to give him more space. I don't know how my body automatically obeys when he comes so close. The kisses turned into sucking and biting. I feel his teeth bite into me just below the collarbone making me give out a moan. I impulsively put my hand on my mouth to make such an embarrassing sound.

"Don't stop, baby, let me hear what I make you feel, what you yearn from me." he said without looking up and continued to do his work.

He shifted to the left side of my neck and by this time I was literally clinging to him for my life, my knees have given up, and he was tightly holding me feeling the same as me. My one hand was on his shoulder. I felt a stinging pain and automatically my eyes closed taking deep breaths.

When he was satisfied with my neck, he moved up by kissing from my neck to jaw, reaching my lips, taking me into the world where only we exist. His kisses always make me feel like this, like I belong to him. He kisses me as if a tidal wave of desire crashing over me. I can feel the warmth and love in it. Though the kiss was more rough, it gave me pleasure of being so close to him.

He bit on my lower lips to make me open my mouth and I came back to reality. I patted on his shoulders to let me breathe, but it was like he was possessed or something. After much hitting and shaking he broke the kiss. I was panting hard such that it looked like I had run miles. And he was standing there unfazed by whatever happened. He was still looking at my lips like a hungry wolf that if given a chance he will not let it go to waste.

I closed my eyes to calm the nerves down and went towards the mirror. There I can see reddish marks on both sides of my neck. I widened my eyes as realization hit me that he gave me hickey. This is too much for me.

"It looks good on you, now the world will know that you are someone's beloved. I am proud of my work."

I turned around to see him sitting on my bed with arms both sides and grinning like he won something. This only increases my anger at him. I went to take the pillow and threw towards him but he dogged and still had the audacity to laugh. I felt tears around my eyes, these period hormones suck, why do they come when they are least expected. I turned opposite to him and said to go away from here.

He might have sensed the change in my voice because he came towards me and turned me around by my arms. I can see the softness in his eyes and the love pouring for me. He wiped my tears and made me sit on the edge of the bed and himself sit on his knees in front of me.

"Don't cry baby, it breaks my heart seeing you sad. Okay I will not tease you, I promise."

I ignored whatever he said and standing up said, "You should not be here, go away Krsh."

"No I will not go until you hear me out, until this misunderstanding between us is cleared away."

"Please, Krsh, don't make this hard for me. I need time, I need to be away from you."

He came towards me near the window and placed both his palms on my cheeks, he said in a soft whisper, "I know you are hiding something from me, I am willing to wait until you are comfortable enough to tell me, but please tell me angel before it gets very late."

I looked into his eyes, I can see the uncertainty and the fact that he knows something. I want to know how much he knows, does he know about her, does he also blame me for the thing that happened. His hands on my cheeks were making me to still the time here but I looked away. I can bear anything but not the look of him not believing in me.

"Goodnight love." He said giving me a kiss on the forehead and went away. I let the tears fall like a river. After calming myself I went towards my bed switching off all the lights and picked up the phone.

I was in shock seeing photos of me and Krsh while we were in school holding hands, and some were of only a few times only, when he was kissing me. I looked down to see the message, 'I warned you, now you have to face the consequences.'

I put my palm on my mouth to not let a sound escape. I tried calling Abhay but he was not picking up. I am so anxious right now. I can feel something is not going to be right tomorrow. I have to do something but what.

Whole night went into trying to call him and curse the first time I met him. I decided I will tell Krsh everything about my past. Enough hiding and being the weak and helpless, if Krsh is with me I should not fear anything.