Just like that, she got sink-in into the fact that she will be staying with him for the next two months, and as he said she will never let her love for him hide her eyes this time. She knew she was late, she woke up from bed and opened her eyes to the view of winter Mumbai from their large giant-sized glass view from her side, while then, her eyes focused on a human who was sleeping next to her while cocooning himself next to her. Her heart smiled at the fate that keeps bringing out the moment she missed in the past four years, whatever happens between them, her heart always relaxes when she woke up in his hold and to his sleepy face. She resisted herself when her fingers as well as lips yearned to touch his sleepy face.

He remembers complaining to her during the initial stages of their married life about how he lost track of time when he sleeps next to her and had to put an alarm to wake him up. She just smiled at his complaint even now she's smiling thinking how peacefully he sleeps next to her even though they had a breakdown moment. She walked away and freshened up first, she knew it would be her long day in the office since the channel planned for the debate regarding the MP who married the minor, and also she gathered the evidence against him which was also going to be revealed in that live debate since it would be from the opposite party, she would be hidden for good. She picked the first outfit that she got from her suitcase and moved towards the walk-in wardrobe to get ready, while then, she got a call from her roommate, Tharra. She was the only person who cried when she told her she will be living with her husband for the next two months, but her reasons made her laugh out loud.

"Because of you, I am late to work, Ani," Tharra complained as soon as she attended the call. Tharra was doing her fourth year of engineering when they met, it was so coincidental as Tharra was drowning in sorrow because of her mom's sudden demise and her father's remarriage that made her come out of the house and stay in PG. Since then, Anika always protected her as her younger sister as she looks after Bhavya.

"Aww, Baby. I told you to put an Alarm and sleep," She replied to her with a wide smile in her sleep.

"I did but I couldn't wake up since I was missing your morning coffee, it's just been one day without you and I couldn't cope Ani." She complained. Anika couldn't help but laugh at her lame excuses to bring her back, she knew it was always been the shift between them, both were there for each other in their worst moment, and morning coffee was prepared in PG, not by them.

"Such a drama queen, had breakfast?" She asked and walked out of her wardrobe ready just to bump into her husband who stood in the way, by seeing his face, he could say that he just got up from sleep and he was curious about something, soon his facial expression changed when he saw her so close.

"Excuse me, please," Anika asked and walked ahead.

"What?" Tharra asked her from the phone.

"No, it's Shivaay... You tell me what you were saying?" Anika asked her while rushing out of the room since his facial expression said that he got completely turned on by her. Her heart unusually raced fast.

"Why are you so tensed out of a sudden?" Tharra asked her in her usual cheeky tone.

"I am not tensed, it's just the situation, we bumped into each other just a while before." Anika just blabbered, it not only affected him but her suddenly there was an urge built in her, and all she could do was run away from this house before anything could happen.

"Array, I didn't ask in detail, what happened? It's just been one night!" Tharra laughed.

"Shut up. I will call you as soon as I reach the channel, Let's meet up for lunch." Anika said and disconnected the call. She rushed to the kitchen but to her shock, there were no chefs, and neither was the breakfast prepared. In the hope of something ready will be there in the fridge, she opened it, it was filled with fruits and vegetables, and her stomach growled when she didn't find anything to eat.

"I am hungry!" She cried without her knowledge when she saw all green in the fridge, her eyes watered, and decided to leave on an empty stomach.

"May I help you with that?" The voice from her husband made her tremble out of a sudden. He was standing at the entrance, fresh but in the same clothes. She took away the gaze from him when she realized she gazed at him for a long time.

"No, I can't wait. I have to go. It's getting late." She said while checking her watch, she lied, there was no specific time for her in her channel to log in, and the hours she works matter. She took her handbag from the dinner, her stomach growled, that too, loud.

"Anika, give me five minutes. I will prepare something for you!" He said while walking inside, she couldn't stop him since she skipped both lunch and dinner the last day. She sat on the dining and drowned herself in the phone while checking what he was doing in a few seconds. In a few minutes, the smell of French toast started to hit her nose, and her heart was overwhelmed with happiness, not because she was going to satisfy her hunger but because she finally got to taste his signature dish. She looked at him, there was a small lopsided smile, she guessed what he must be thinking in his mind, you jerk I hate you for this.

"Here's your toast and veggies, do eat this." He said, her head started to spin when she saw the veggies on her plate in a blunt form.

"Thanks." She replied and ate the toast alone, even though it was mesmerizing, she didn't say anything. Not even the compliment.

"How's it?" He asked with hope while leaning to the dining table where she was eating, she couldn't gulp down the food.

"Good, and thanks." She said and ate all the toast in a counting thirty seconds while having his entire focus on her.

"What about you?" She asked.

"I will eat it, anyway It's my day off, got up too late. It's very unusual." He replied with a smile, but she didn't reply anything to him.

"Okay, bye. See you" she said and got up from the table.

"See you? When?" He asked her in his usual cheeky tone.

"Evening..." She replied and rushed out of the house.

"Uff, I don't know how I am going to tolerate this for two months." She said to herself walking inside the elevator.

"Baby..." He called her when the elevator door was closed before she could press the open button, it started to move, and soon the lift door got opened on the next floor. She couldn't control her shock when she saw him with a heaving breath and with a smile on her face which made her recall all their passionate moments in the lifts.

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He couldn't control his chuckle when he saw her shocking gaze as soon as the lift door opened. He knew she must have felt the deja vu,  since the similar moment happened with them in past followed by passionate moments that lasted for almost 48 hours. She forgot to blink when he approached her inside, even though the urge of kissing her and carrying her in his shoulder were running inside his thoughts, he stopped himself and started to adore her shocking gaze. 

"Your ID card!" He said which she left in the dinning table. The image in her card carried a pleasant smile of her. He initially intended to give it in her hand but when she continued to gaze him in a shocking expression, he couldn't stop from slip in her neck. She still stayed stuck. 

"Cute." He tapped the id card when hanged little lower to her breast and in her upper abdomen. He could see her peaks peeking out from her pink shirt she was wearing then, he knew she got aroused by his action but it was nothing compared to their moment in the morning when they bumped to each other and stayed for minutes in the same place feeling the proximity between them.

"Wh-What are you doing?" She finally asked without breaking their eye contact. 

"My job!" He whispered and leaned closer to her until his nose brushes her nose, their lips were just a inch apart, she quickly closed her eyes and turned aside when she made an assumption in her head about the happenings. He smiled but cupped her face to his side, and placed a gentle peck on her forehead. 

"I couldn't wish you on the first day of your work, Baby. All the best. I wish all the success for you in your every step and decision ahead. Make me proud, My sweetheart." He whispered those words, she finally opened her eyes in delight, there was a shine in her eyes that twinkled. He placed another kiss on her forehead. 

"I know you hate hearing this from me, but I couldn't stop. I love you, baby. Have a good day." He said while cupping her face. 

"Thank you, you too." She replied bluntly, the lift door closed and it moved directly to the ground floor. 

"And one more request..." He asked in the hope she would never turn him down his request in this condition. 

"What?" She asked. He tugged her hair behind her earlobe.

"You didn't accept my request on Instagram, yet." He said with a smile. She was confused for a while, but soon cleared her throat and placed her palm on his chest, slowly pushed him away, and increased the distance between them. 

"It's my official account, shivaay. Nobody in my office knew about you or my dad, for them, I am just Anika. Also after I published that diplomatic article about you, it created a buzz in the field, till now my boss bearing it as your P.R team tried to sue me," She said clearly. He knew what happened, it was the time when his product started to shine over Asia while then, he manufactured it only in the US and was available only in US for the starting two years, when every article and program praised his new initiative, one publishing media posted about his hesitation for making it available for Indian audience in the start since all the three creators belong to India. Shivaay didn't expect that he didn't know who was and summoned his PR team to sue the organization, but soon, he deeply dived into it, he knew it was none than his wife, and that was when he came to know she started her career as a journalist. 

"That I did it without my knowledge. I really don't know it was you, but I wrote an apology mail by myself to your newspaper after that," He stated the fact. 

"That's why it became a buzz" Anika told. 

"People still think that you started manufacturing your Smartphones in India especially after that incident." Anika added, he couldn't deny that fact because none of his friends had an idea to manufacture it in India until that incident or he could say his selfish reason but they didn't have any idea that their one decision will make them sudden billionaires. 

"Anika, how does it matter what people think?" He asked. She just smiled at his own words, while then, it was Anika's same words when he refused her politely to add his in his social media as she posts random things and tags all the people in her posts during then. When the argument got heated up between them he just told her directly that he can't afford her immature act in social media which hurted her, till then to now, she was never behind him in social media and stopped speaking about it, even after he apologized her million times. 

"The Answer is No, Shivaay. I don't want more drama in my life, already having a lot of things in my plate." Anika said. 

"Okay, you don't accept the request of ShivaayOberoi, but accept the request of Ansh" He said and showed his fake id created from the first two letters of their name. She looked at him confusingly. 

"Ansh... Really?" She asked in a cringe tone. 

"What's the problem in it? I just want to stay connected with you! And I don't stalk you know about me." He said and she just stayed stuck. 

"I am not egostic like you, especially not with you, I told you sorry zillion time for talking rudly at you, you forget, even I tried to give you request but you deleted your account then. Problem is with you, Mrs Oberoi." He said in a cheeky tone. He don't know what happened to him, but from the last conversation, he understood it would be utter waste to run behind the past and keen to know about the reason. 

"Okay, accepted..." Anika said as she couldn't tolerate him especially when he was right. 

"Also you should accept this Anika. You are very adamant." He said with a chuckle. 

"Definitely not a bossy jerk like you." She replied in an uninterested tone. 

"I already told you, how much time it take I will always get done with my job, either in a direct or indirect way." He said while again leaning towards her but unlike before she didn't lean back to the iron wall. 

"What?" She asked with an attitude. 

"Just trying to finish my incomplete job." He said still leaning towards her lips, neither she trembled nor it affected her. 

"Does it have any time bound?" She asked. 

"Yes, Two months I guess." He replied with a chuckle. 

"I advice you to have some patience," She said, soon the lift stopped in the ground floor, she walked ahead of him and moved from the lift. 

"I will take your advice also you have my word, Mrs Oberoi." He said when she walked towards the parking lot. She didn't turn back but his words reached her. 

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