15| The Ruler

Started writing on 30th June 2020.

Completed on 3rd July 2020

Word count : 3224 words

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– D I V Y A –

I was sleeping peacefully on my bed after coming from the party which was nothing like a party, when a call disturbed my sleepy sleep. Who the hell is it? I didn't gave any respond to the ringings and decided to continue my sleep.

But the person on the other side doesn't want me to sleep. The phone kept ringing and ringing and ringing.

WHO THE HELL IS THIS?

YOU WON'T GET MARRIED IN THE COMING YEAR! I clearly cursed the person.

"Who are you and what do you want?" I shouted picking up the phone. I didn't check the caller ID.

"Natashaaaaaaa!" She shouted. Ohh, its Natasha. I think I gave the wrong cursing to her.

"What do you want at this time?" I said, my eyes half closed.

"I've met him. He's the one." She said in happiness.

"Who? Your Mr right?" I asked and this time my eyes wide open.

"Yes. He's so amazing. I searched his name on internet. He's such a great person. He's a true gentleman and has earned a good name and a lot of certificates in his work. I'm so happy that I've finally met him. The tarot cards spoke the truth. It's not even a week and I found him. I'm so happy....." She shouted on the line. I know that she's happy but atleast she should have taken my sleep into importance. How can someone play with my sleep. Now my sleep was already gone so I decided to ask her a bit more.

Are the tarot cards really true?

"Who is he, an army chief?" I asked as she told that he's a great achiever and all that.

"No. He's a doctor. A pretty charismatic doctor. I met him tonight-" seriously. It's already two, "Sorry yesterday night and he has that aura. But you know, he didn't even gave a damn to any girl in the party. Not even me." She said and I chuckled.

"So you like Mr doctor." I asked, more like a teasing and she nodded.

"But as that man said, I've to work hard to get him. What will I do? And when will we get married?" She sighed about her fate.

"I think an year later." I said.

"And how can you say it?"

"Just five minutes ago I cursed you that you won't be marrying this year." I said hesitantly.

"Divyaaaaaa!" She shouted on the other side and I quickly cut the call.

So she likes Mr doctor. But who is he? Wait! Only one doctor came to the party.

DHRUV!!

So, Natasha's Mr right is Dhruv. But when did it happen? As per what I know, Dhruv stays miles away from girls and if the girl is flirty then one more mile is added to the distance. He hates girls who throws tantrums. Dad, Dhruv and me, all the three of us like to talk when needed and use our mind for something useful. Mumma is an exception. She loves to gossip in her kitty parties. But somehow we all have managed to love mumma, with her nature full of tantrums. Till now she's the only tantrum throwing woman whom Dhruv loves.

Natasha loves Dhruv! How did this happen? What good did she see in Dhruv? ...Don't get me wrong. Dhruv is a good man who loves his family and profession but is quite the opposite of Natasha. Infatuation is something else and long term relationship is something else. I can't see my loved ones in pain.

Dhruv and Natasha!

Equal to Ice and fire!

Introvert and Extrovert!

Quiet and Talkative!

But we haven't heard Dhruv's side. It's just one sided now. Let's see what happens. It would be quite thrilling to watch them together. And there's nothing bad in having your best friend as your brother's other half.

Thinking all this my eyelids felt heavy dragging me into a deep sleep.

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I opened the door and walked inside our house. The dazzling bright glow of candles and fairylights filled the darkness of the house. There was a pin drop silence. The scene in front of my eyes was enough to grow the insect of romance inside anyone's body. Suddenly pair of arms snuggled onto my waist and pulled me onto himself. I knew who it was.

"What took you so long?" Ayaan whispered in my ears.

"I'm sorry love. It won't happen again." I said and kept my hands on his pulling him more towards myself.

"I won't let you do it again." He turned me back to face him and hugged me tightly. I hugged him back and kissed the back of his neck.

"Someone is eager." He teasingly whispered and crashed his lips on mine, slowly yet passionately. I responded to the kiss and slid my fingers into his hairs stroking it.

Just in a minute or two I found myself lying on the bed, Ayaan on top of me.

How did we reach here? I don't even remember us climbing stairs. Well who cares all this, when I'm with him. All the time we were lost in each other's embrace, kissing unconditionally.

That was the last thing I remember until I felt an arm around my waist and hot breathe stroking the skin of my neck. "Let me sleep." I mumbled.

"Divya. Wake up. The sun has already came up. How long will you sleep." He pulled me into him and caressed my back. The touch felt cold yet warm. Back? I'm naked? Sleeping? With Ayaan? Well who cares, everything would have happened last night resulting in both of us sleeping naked.

Please don't expect me to act like girls who would feel shy after first night. I'm not one of them.

"Baby wake up." He said softly.

"Let me sleep." I said.

"Wake up." Voice sounded a little more strong.

"No...." I said more loudly.

"Divya wake up." He shouted this time pulling me out of my dreams. I opened my eyes and saw the lavender-grey walls which means that I'm in my room. I pulled up the duvet and checked my clothes. I'm wearing all the clothes which I wore yesterday. So, that all was a dream.

Thank God! It was a dream.

What were you even dreaming Divya?

That's so filthy! Why would I call him love? What's with baby?

How can I dream so dirty and that too with Ayaan?

Eww! Its disgusting!

'There's nothing filthy in this! He's your husband and you're his wife, lawfully.' My inner voice said, standing just four feets away from me. Sometimes I wonder if she's really my inner voice or someone else. She wears black thigh-length lacy gown all the time whereas I won't even look at these types of dresses, this is just too gross.

'Nothing filthy? We don't even like each other. And also I won't ever do anything with him, it's just too gross. Even dreaming about it gives shiver to my spine. I just can't do anything like this with my enemy, who's an egg scorer. He's a loser!' I said to my inner voice standing in front of me.

'You think that love is based on your school scores. No one could match your score then. So, I think you won't be able to find your love in this life. Let's wait for the next life.' She winked and I narrowed my eyes. She's just an inner voice, the real Divya is me. Be cool Divya. Her opinions doesn't matter. 'What if you fall in love with him?' She tilted he face asking her question.

'Then I must be a fool and a fat piggy!" I shouted.

'Let's see who wins.' She released a dry laugh and disappeared.

"Divya, you sleeping piggy wake up. It's getting late. Then afterwards don't complain me that I didn't wake you up." He shouted drifting me from my conversation with myself.

This is the reason I love this house. We don't have to share our rooms. Both of us can live our life peacefully without any interruptions. No one can force us to sleep in one room. Only I know how that one week in the same room with him has passed.

"I'm awake." I shouted loud enough to make him hear my voice. I quickly did all my morning business and after dressing up I came down.

"Breakfast is ready. You can have it. You have three minutes." He saw his watch standing with his back in front of me. He turned back and was surprised to see me already eating the food. We'll sleeping is my hobby, but when I get into my work mood nothing can make me lazy.

"I know how to do my work. You don't have to worry." I said looking into his eyes and suddenly drifted my gaze down towards my food after remembering all my dreams. How would I be able to face him?

No Divya, you can do it. You're today's confident girl. You shouldn't get distracted by these things.

"I can do it." I slammed the table and stood up. Ayaan looked at me with strange expressions on his face. "Oh. It's nothing." I said and sat down to sip my juice.

"I have a friend. He's a psychologist. If you need help than I can call him." He suggested. Was I acting too strange? Oh God help me!

"Thank you but I don't need any help. I'm alright." I said sipping the last drop of mango juice.

"Are you sure?" He chuckled.

"What do you mean? I'm alright. And why are laughing? Do you think that people dealing with emotional instability are mad?" I raised my voice. How can he think like that? No one want to deal with mental instability, but they have to withstand it because of some incidents of their life.

"I don't mean like-" I stopped him in between.

"Oh really. That's why I adviced you to gain some knowledge. But you didn't." I taunted and moved aside to keep my plate in the sink. As I moved back to go, he grabbed my hand and pulled me slamming my body to his. "What are you doing?" I asked being irritated.

"Shh." He kept his index finger on my lips. I looked into his black orbs until my eyes slowly moved through his nose towards his lips. They look so soft. Should I just kiss them?

With the growing intensity he leaned towards me slowly. We were about to kiss with our lips which were just two centimetres away. I can easily feel his hot breathe on my cheekbones. And suddenly his phone rang drifting us out from the imaginary Narnia land. We both moved back in a hurry.

What's happening? Why am I feeling so strange? This dream has ruined my innocent mind. Soft lips. Eww... What was I even thinking?

I quickly went outside taking the car key in my hand and sat inside the car. In a moment or so he came back and started driving. No one said anything. Whole ride was filled with silence. Pure silence.

Just half a kilometre away from A&C, I came out of the car and he drove the rest of the distance alone by himself. I walked alone to the building, finally entering my cabin. It has became a routine to walk alone.

"Divya… Divya…What happened my darling?" Shouted Maya entering my room. Sometimes I wonder if she has any work to do. Maya spends most of her time in my room doing nothing but gossiping.

"Nothing. Just working which you don't do." I said working on my laptop.

"You don't understand it Divya." She held her hands in air, "This is my work. Don't you remember what I am?"

"The supervisor." I said.

"Yeah. That's what I'm doing. Monitoring and helping everyone." She said.

"You should monitor your juniors, not me. I know how to do my work. If you always stay here then I'm sure that one day you have to change your work." My eyes were fixed in laptop. "Should I shift your office in my room?" I asked her humorously finally drifting my gaze towards her.

"Your wish to shift my office won't come true. I love to walk here and there. Shifting my office won't make it better. I'll get going." She walked outside the room closing the door.

I saw a notification on my computer screen. I quickly opened it and saw a message from Ayaan in the designing department chat,

‘Urgent. Everyone in the meeting hall. Now.’

I quickly closed my PC as it contains a lot of confidential information. I ran towards the meeting room as I don't want to give Ayaan a chance to call me a late comer.

I saw everyone running fast to the meeting room which means that something in wrong. Entering the hall, everyone took their usual seats.

"We need to do everything faster. Our rival companies have already decided to launch their new designs. We can't lag behind in this situation, that's why I want everyone to fasten their work and share their designs as soon as possible." He said.

The situation is really tight. Never the situation has been like this in all these years. After Ayaan has become the CEO, everything has changed. Earlier everything always went without any stress but now I really don't feel good.

"We need to do it really faster and efficiently in this one week. All the designers, complete your works so that the textile department can handle it in time. And for the New Era Contest, you need to prepare it really early without any mistakes." He said all these things seriously. Ayaan and seriousness are two different poles of Earth. He was in a mood of anger by this time. This man is crazy.

After a long meeting everyone went back to their work. It's really going to be tiring week.

"Divya. Come here." He stopped me before I stepped out from the hall. What does he want now? I walked towards him and nodded in question. "I need you-" he said and I instantly spoke. "What?" I have a really fast nervous system.

"I want you to-"

"See. I'm not the type you think. I'll get going." I said and turned back to go.

"Just stop at that place." He said and I stopped. What does he want?

"Now listen carefully." He instructed by his eyes, "I want you to strictly take care of all the finances of the sales which will happen now. A single mistake and you're gone." His eyes showed smirk. He was talking about work and what was I thinking about. You're really becoming disgusting Divya. Just because of your good for nothing inner voice!

"I know. That's my work and I clearly know how to do it. You don't have to say it, I'm responsible enough to take care of my surroundings unlike some people." I clearly taunted him to crush his smirk.

"I heard that." His face changed into a person who had caught a thief.

"That's why I said it." I said and he left out a dry laugh.

"What was that for?" I asked.

"Don't you think you've been in this room for a long time?" He asked, more like said.

"Yes."  I nodded.

"No one knows that I'm your husband. Have you thought what would others say when they get to know about you being alone with someone else's man in a room. What would they think?" He smirked. What does he mean? Oh my goodness? How can I be here with him? That too alone! In office! I'm screwed.

I pushed him aside and moved outside only to be caught by the eyes of employees of our company. Don't they have any work to do.

Feeling nature's call I quickly went to the restroom and settled myself in one. I was sitting inside peacefully in the bathroom. Yeah, bathroom is where I find my peace. Atleast no one can say anything to me here.

"Do you know the head CA in designing department?" I heard a girl speaking from outside. She's talking about head CA which is equal to Divya Gupta which means me. What are they talking about me? As usual it must be about my wit and achievements.

"Who?" Another girl said. That's me Dumbo. She's going to talk about me.

"Divya Gupta. The newly wed bride who wears all that bridal chuda with her formal wear. The one who was married just few days ago." The first girl explained the second one. Is this the way how you explain someone.

"Oh that lady. What about her?" The second girl asked. I attached my ears to the bathroom door to hear their conversation.

"She's such a shameless woman. She's already married to someone but still spends time with other married man alone. I know bosses are like this and especially these handsome ones but I never thought she would be like this. She always showed that no one is better that her, being under the sheets of a dignified woman." The first girl said. How can she say something like this? She's doesn't even know anything about me nor the situation.

"Our boss is really hot and rich. Ruler of our company. No one is able to resist him, so who's that Divya. She must have seduced him. Who knows how women are? Can do anything for money!" The second girl said. Wait! What did she say? All the women! I'm really pissed off now. I slammed the door of my toilet with a thud sound and came out to face them. They were shocked by hearing such a loud voice.

"What were you both saying? Huh?" I asked. And they both looked each other confusingly. "You don't even know me and then you're saying such shameful things about me behind my back. And what did you say– women can do anything for money. You're a woman too." I said peacefully.

My mind was on fire but I can't let the situation go out of control. I'm known to be the one who don't catch anger easily. And that's true. No one can make me lose my patience. Except that Ayaan.

Wait! How can I forget this? They said that Ayaan has no fault in it as he's hot and that I've seduced him. I'll kill these women.

"Wait a minute!" I said when they both were ready to move out. "What did you both say? I seduced him? He has no fault in it as he's hot? Are you both even women? You both have such low thoughts." I'm just disgust by them. They're not even qualified to be called women.

"We're sorry about the second thing but you agree that you have an affair with your boss. You should atleast care about your reputation. Acting a good wife in front of your husband and on his back you're doing dirty things." One of them said.

"Oh really? Then you should know who's my husband. He's Ayaan your boss." I spurted out in a hurry due to my well growing anger.

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TIED TOGETHER BY LOVE 💍

Precap : Accusations

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