Married To Heartless Billionaire

Chapter 6 – Strikes

    Veer~

    After signing off the documents anaira asked, "can we exchange our numbers now?" A smile crept on my lips at the innocent question .  

    When anaira used that odd pickup line comparing my smile with the sunshine, I couldn't control we both laughed very hard.

    I never laughed this much, but she made me today and I it was a nice feeling.

    We had lunch and after that I had attend some calls from London so to get some privacy I came outside and sat back on the swing to continue my work.

    When I got back I didn't see Anaira anywhere then misha told me that she went to here office to submit her resignation with her friend, mohit. That made me furious. I pulled out my phone from my pocket to call her but saw her text,

    'Hey husband, I am going to office...last day you see...will be back in few hours. '

    Husband, that one word brought jitters inside my stomach, it felt odd. I am her husband now...and she is my wife...oh god!

    Okay fine she did left me a message but why she went with that friend of hers. Can't she see how he looks at her? Full of lust.

    Urgh!

    I felt like punching a wall and get rid of this frustration. She keeps on making me disappointed with this behavior. With this rage inside me I went back home and changed myself in pajamas to take some rest but I don't think I'll be able to do so. So, I pulled up my laptop and started to work.

    After few hours, mom entered my room telling me pick up my new bride from her office bring her to our house. I sighed and agree to pick her up but I was still upset with anaira. I quickly got ready and turned on my GPS and went to Penguin Books Publications, stayed outside her office and asked her to come out in a cold tone. She agreed and came outside, I noticed she had changed her cloths before coming to office. Still couldn't ignore the skip of my heartbeat when I saw her again and her smile. She thanked me for picking her up but in wasn't in mood to talk to her so I just nodded and opened the car door making her sit inside the car.

    She must have sensed my bad mood and threw some questions at me but I remained quiet but inside I was screaming,

    Why you had to go with him?

    Is he your boyfriend?

    Will you also betray me, like every does in the end?

    While yelling this in my head I automatically gripped the steering wheel even harder then I observed that she got quiet, I quickly stole a glance at her found her looking outside the window keeping her forefinger on her chin.

    After another few minutes we reached Kohli mansion. She got out from the car before me and halted at the main door waiting for me to come, I guess. After ringing the door bell, Misha opened the door and everyone announced for ring exchange.

    Anaira looked surprised, so was I but we beelined inside the house and mother fed us some sweet and the gave me my grandmother's wedding ring to put on Anaira's finger. I turned to her and took her hand in mine, which was slightly shaking, was she frightened of me? I thought and slipped the ring in her finger. Everyone again clapped and Anaira's mother gave her a ring to put on my finger. She was hesitant to take my hand so I forwarded my hand towards her and she slipped the ring onto my finger. Her mom kissed her forehead and then mine.

    "Please take care of my little angel." Her mother told me with happy tears in her eyes.

    I smiled, "of course, I'll take good care of her." I replied looking directly at anaira who already engrossed herself talking to amit and Misha.

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    "I'm not hungry mom, I'll just have the soup please" anaira whinned at the dinner table when mom was serving food.

    "Are have a little bit of rice na?" Mom told her.

    "No, no I am really full. I can't eat anymore." Anaira tried to convince mom.

    "Okay beta!" She finally gave in and I felt ana taking a sigh of relief as I wasn't looking in her direction.

    "Are you done with packing bhabi?" Misha asked anaira.

    "Not even one thing!" Anaira chuckled.

    "I hope you are not having second thoughts." I whispered to her, she looked at me in shock.

    "Looks like bhai can't wait to take bhabi back to London!" Misha commented. Anaira still didn't gave me any response.

    After dinner, as I was making few conference calls back in London I found Anaira alone in the rose garden. I finished the call and took few strides towards her and stood behind her. Immediately I remembered the day when I did the same thing back in the club when I met for the first time.

    She was looking at our pictures in her iPhone clicked by misha while we were chatting on the swing after our wedding. I felt her taking a deep breath. She turned in a split second and her cat like eyes darted mine. Her pink lips twitched in a small smile and eyes shone in the moonlight.

    All of a sudden she wrapped her arms around my waist and sniffed. Her arms were inside my coat, she was holding on my shirt then she said something which brought shivers down my spine.

    "I don't know what I did wrong Mr.Kohli, but I am really sorry!" She said while sobbing in my chest. I stood frozen, I just didn't know how to react. This sudden impact took me off guard. We were like that for few minutes, she kept sobbing like that but then her breathing went normal. I didn't hug her back, I didn't know what to do.

    "Bhabi!" Amit came at the garden all of a sudden, startling us. Anaira pulled back quickly turned back and wiped her tears. "Oh, sorry!" Amit apologized quickly. "Actually everyone's asking for you inside." He told Anaira, she turned to face him.

    "Yes, I'm coming" she said and followed him. I stood their without any clue about what just happened.

    Anaira~

    His silence and ignorance was killing me slowly. I never knew what I did wrong? I went to my office but I informed him too. Then what was the problem? While going through all these twisted thoughts we reached Kohli mansion. I took a deep breath when he hit the breaks. He parked the car and I got out of it and marched towards the main door. After entering the house everyone yelled ring ceremony and it was time us to exchange our rings.

    First he slid the ring in my finger and I was shaking inside. Then it was time for me to put ring. s**t! I had to hold his hand first to put the ring, I got hesitant to do that. Maybe he sensed that and forwarded how hand towards me and I slid the ring in his finger.

    It's been a long day and I was exhaust. I wasn't hungry as well so I tried to convince mom about the same and settle myself with a bowl of soup. Misha asked me about my packing,

    "Not even a single thing!" I replied with a chuckle but veer interrupted our conversation by whispering, "I hope you not having second thoughts." That took me off guard.

    So, we are talking now! I wanted to mock him. But later on decided not to.

    After dinner everyone engrossed themselves in chatting and exchanging gifts, I got bore and went for a walk in the garden outside the house. It was filled with red roses. The view was mesmerizing. Dim yellow lights around the garden were making the roses shine. I touched one of the rose and smelled it. The sweet smell of the rose filled my senses.

    My iPhone buzzed which notified misha sent me something, I opened the link and found that it was mine and Mr.kohli pictures taken this morning. My thumb automatically hovered over Mr.Kohli's face in admiration. I was having mixed feeling about his behaviour, he was giving me cold shoulder which was unexpectable to me. I was hurt. I never felt like this before, he was making way too emotional. I wanted everything to be normal between us.

    Everything already happened too fast for us, our marriage wasn't exactly the usual one. But the moment he asked my hand in marriage, I accepted him there itself. But what about him, did he accept me?

    He was an egnima to me, I never knew what was going on in his mind.

    I took a deep breath. As I turn my body to back into the house I found him in front of me. A pool of emotions washed over me when he looked directly into me. Still he didn't gave me any reaction. It me break inside I was on verge of tears and it finally happened. My hands went to his waist as I hugging him.

    "I don't know what I did wrong Mr.Kohli, but I am really sorry!" I stuttered and my voice came out choked while sobbing into his chest. I wanted him to hug me back. I wanted him to tell me that everything will be alright, we will make it work together.

    Those words wasn't something I wanted to hear but I needed to hear them.

    But neither he hugged me back nor his said anything to me. Although his colongue made wonders, that was soothing. And it was enough for the time being. I wanted to say a lot more, I wanted to hear a lot more from him but nothing was said.

    To break our little moment amit barged in and asked me to come inside. I sneakily wiped my tears without knowing him and followed amit. Mr.kohli just stood there reactionless.

    I went home with my parents and Trisha bhabi as she was going to stay with us as adil bhai's in Singapore. I changed my clothes and took a warm shower as soon as I entered my room, which I was going to miss a lot. Bhabhi, adil's wife helped me packing my stuff. I packed only essentials because of lack of time.

    After packing I tried to get some sleep but my heart and mind was drifting towards my husband, one thing kept bugging me throughout the night, was I expecting too much from this relationship?

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    After barely getting any sleep I got ready early in the morning. I wore a comfortable light blue denims and a simple white blouse. I kept my favourite brown leather jacket in my hands with my sling bag as I got out of my room. I checked my iPhone hoping any message from my husband but to disappoint me even more, there was none.

    With these mixed feelings inside me I defended the staircase looking at my home intently one last time. I saw mom making breakfast in the kitchen. By taking some gentle strides I hugged her from her back, like I always do.

    "You are up, ana!" Mom exclaimed.

    "I am gonna miss this mom, I'll miss you." Mom turned and kissed my forehead and hugged me.

    "I'll miss you too my baby, don't worry veer is a really nice guy. He will keep you happy." Mom always know whats happening in my mind. I kept quite. After that dad came and hugged both of us together.

    "Family hug time!" bhabi squealed and we all group hugged. We had our breakfast. And then door bell rang and there stood my husband and his family.

    "Bhabi! We came to pick you up." Misha said happily and I nodded. Mummyji came and hugged me. I felt my husband's gaze on me but I tried not to get affected by him.

    "We will come back to England and then we will celebrate together." Mummyji said and I tried to smile.

    "Of course mom!" I said back. And they entered our house and met my parents. karan and bhai were going to land India in the afternoon. That made me a little sad. But they promised that they will come to London to see once everything is settled.

    After loading my luggage and we all sat in the car to leave for the airport. When amit started the egnition and quickly glanced once more to my home. All the sweet memories in that house made my lover lip tremble. I bit it trying not to show my vulnerability to everyone.

    After half an hour we reached the airport and I saw a private jet waiting for us. VK was written on it in bold black letters. A sense of proudness washed over me. Then I hugged mom, dad one more time. I saw tears in mom's eyes, I wiped them,

    "Don't cry mom, if you cry you know I'll cry too." I told her in a shaky voice.

    It was time for me to enter the jet, Mr.kohli started to climb the small stair attached to the jet and I followed him. Once he was about to enter the jet, he turned and extend his hand towards me, I took it after few seconds of hesitation. Once our hands touch I felt a shot of static roam through my body. That made my grip on his hand even tighter.

    "We will miss both of you!" Everyone cheered which made us turn and wave a goodbye to them. After bidding our goodbyes we entered the jet and it was gorgeous. It was filled with classy pieces of furniture. It had everything, you name it and you have it. After clicking my sealtbelt together he glanced at me.

    I c****d an eyebrow to ask him, 'what-is-it', "nothing." He replied. I looked out my window as the plane took off. Gazing at my city one more time one tear ran on my cheek, I never knew about it when I felt a thumb wiping it off. I turned my head,

    "Why are you crying?" He asked, a hint of concern reflecting in his voice. His face was way too close to me. His warm was comforting.

    "I'll miss them." I said and found myself leaning my head on his shoulder. I felt his upper body stiffen but I didn't budge, it felt good.

    "Aren't you going miss your family Mr.Kohli?" I asked softly. But he didn't answer me, he took a deep breath and his iPhone buzzed.

    God! It buzzes a lot.

    I brought my head back on the headrest and he got up to attend his call. After some time I pulled out my tab from my gadget bag and searched for best publishing houses in London.

    As I was doing so I got a ping from one of my collge friend from LA, kelly. I had completed my graduation from university of California, los angeles. Kelly was the only person with whom I kept in touch while I was in India. We were roommates. I smiled inwardly while remembering our time together. I pinged her back in excitement.

    "Looks like someone's in better mood now." My husband said as he got back in the cabin.

    "Yeah, you know my college friend Kelly just pinged me." I said excitedly.

    "Kelly?"

    "Yes. Kelly is my college friend back from CA."

    "You studied in CA?"

    "Um...yes... You didn't know?" He shook his head making me chuckle.

    "I thought you retrieved all information about me, at least the male lead does that in the novels I read" I said jokingly. I saw him smile as his lips curved from one side.

    "Life isn't a novel." He stated.

    "Hey don't say that, those novels wouldn't have written if they didn't had any real life reference." I protest but he just shrugged with a boyish grin.

    "Although I took the liberty to dig out all the information about you." His head snapped at me and his hazel eyes showed pure amusement.

    "Let's hear it then. "

    "Veer Prem Kohl I. Studied at Howard Business School. CEO of VK Enterprises. Ranked top in top ten youngest billionaires in London, by the way congratulations for that. Latest issue of Forbes featured your company."

    I paused to see his reaction, he looked quite surprised by my homework and, "huh, well that's it" I sighed and took a deep breath.

    Veer~

    In the morning we reached Anaira's house to pick her up. As soon as she opened the door she looked exhausted but still she managed to keep a smile on her face, I knew she haven't slept well neither did I.

    We all sat in the car, when the car started Anaira kept looking outside. She bit her lower lip at one point and I don't know how to console her. But amit kept me busy by talking about business. Misha kept her company.

    After sometime we reached the airport we hugged everyone one by one. My father and her father told me to take care of annaira, I gave them a brief nod. I spoke to the flight attendant and pilot and gave the required instructions. Then I started to climb up the stairs to enter the jet and Anaira followed me. The gentleman I am, held her hand in mine. We entered the jet she was definately mesmerized by looking at my jet. We grabbed our seats and buckled ourselves as the jet was about to take off.

    I was sitting opposite to her, she looked at me and c****d her eyebrow at me, I replied a nothing to her. Her gaze drifted outside and after sometime I saw a tears on her cheek. In matter of seconds I found myself sitting besides her and asked her is she is alright,

    "I'llbmiss them." She barely whispered and rested her head on my shoulder. It felt oddly good. Her hair smelled like strawberries. Her smell was sweet and enticing.

    "Aren't you going miss your family Mr.Kohli?" She asked after a while, I felt knots in my stomach. She's my wife but still I didn't gave her any rights to ask me about my personal life. At least not yet. Well then my phone buzzed I was relieved that I don't have to reply her. Volunteerily she pulled out and I went to a different cabin to attend the call.

    When I came back I found her sitting on the couch with her legs folded and checking out something in her tab with a smile on her face.

    "Looks like someone's in better mood now." I joked.

    "Yeah, you know my college friend Kelly just pinged me." Anaira answered with shine in her eyes.

    "Kelly?"

    "Yes...kelly is my college friend back from CA."

    "You studied in CA?" I asked out of surprise.

   "Um..yes... You didn't know?" I shook my head and thought how less I know about her.

    "I thought you retrieved all information about me, at least the male lead does that in the novels I read. " I found myself smiling on that statement again. I was going to pull all the information about her when we reach London but she doesn't need to know that.

    "Life isn't a novel." I stated instead.

    "Hey don't say that, those novels wouldn't have written if they didn't had any real life reference." She protests and her loud self was back again. It felt like the real Anaira was coming out.

    "Although I took the liberty to take out all the info about you." My eyes snapped at her.

    She already pulled out information about me?

    I remembered when Anaira googling me back in the coffee house when met officially for the first time.

    "Let's hear it then" I nudged her. Very eager to listen the info she holds about me.

    She cleared her throat before starting off,

    "Veer Prem Kohl I. Studied at Howard Business School. CEO of VK Enterprises. Ranked top in top ten youngest billionaires in London, by the way congratulations for that. Latest issue of Forbes featured your company."

    I was a bit surprised she memorized all that, "huh, well that's it" she concluded and took a deep breath as it seem like her lungs needs some air. I pressed my lips together and nodded.

    "Good! You can go inside, there is a spare bedroom if you want to sleep."

    "No, its fine I need to search a few things." She replied waving her tab to me.

    "Don't you use laptops?" I asked.

    "I gave a MacBook but I like tabs they are handy." She replied. Myself always preferred laptops and computers but this was another misfit between us.

    "Well then I will get some rest, if you don't mind."

    "I don't mind." She simply replied.

    I closed my eyes and tilted my head on the headrest to get some sleep.

    "Go inside and sleep." She said softly to me.

    "Its alright. " I replied lazyly and closed my eyes once again.

    I kept thinking, the way she apologized and hugged me last night it made me rethink about my decision. But the documents were already prepared back in London so there was no looking back now. Even if she was behaving really nice and like a harmless girl but I know she  wasn't the way presenting herself. She have proven that lot of time by now. She used her three strikes and it's a done deal now.

    First strike, back in club when she was ogling at me and provoked me to do things to her.

    Second strike, hugging those guys in the pub as well as in front of me. Shamelessly.

    Third strike, when she went away with the 'friend' of hers without telling me and sending just a tiny message rather tan informing me personally.

    Anaira ~

    We had lunch together, chatted a bit and took a small nap too. After another few hours we reached London. The flight was torturous. But I soon as we landed I couldn't wait to get out of that jet. Though it was a beauty, don't get me wrong.

    "Finally!" I sighed.

    "Yeah, I know." He responsed. I was happy too that me and Mr.Kohli were getting along slowly.

    I got my sling bag and straightened myself, I wore my sunnies. When the door of the jet opened, I couldn't believe myself. There were reporters everywhere clicking our pictures and asking us questions.

    "Just smile to them and follow me okay?" Mr.Kohli whispered in my ear and gave him a weak nod.

    "Mr.kohli, is she your girlfriend?"

    "Who are you ma'am?"

    "Sir, we need a statement from you."

    "Have already broken up up your previous girlfriend?"

    They threw all those questions at us, when they asked the girlfriend question I felt a pang in my chest. I kind of made up my mind him having girlfriend in past but there was one question which made me angry,

    "Mr.kohli is she your new girlfriend, is she is pregnant?" But I tried to suppress my anger and my husband gripped my hand even tighter.

    "Enough! Don't speculate anything, she is my wife! " Veer declared and my eyes snapped at him. I thought he will not say anything to them but he stood by my side, I found myself over the moon. Well, my imaginary moon.

    Few men in black suits came for the rescue and escorted us from the mess.

    "You are late!" My husband snapped at him when we reached near his car.

    "Apologies sir!" A man who was the head of security apologied to while looking at both of us.

    "Make sure this doesn't happen again." Mr.Kohli snapped again.

    "Definitely sir." That man maybe in his mid thirties replied.

    When we sat in luxurious black the SUV,

    "To the penthouse." My commanded he driver.

    "Congratulations on the wedding Sir and ma'am." That man said to us.

    "Thanks Mr.Dornan!" My husband said to him.

    "Thank you!" I replied.

    "By the way I am James dornan, mr.kohli's bodyguard."

    "Hi! I am Anaira" he nodded.

    "I am very well aware ma'am." He replied with a faint smile. I nodded knowing they already knows about me.

    While we were in the car, driving to his penthouse I kept looking outside the window and sinking in the beauty of London. After experiencing the crazy paparazzi one thing was clear, Veer Kohl was a very powerful and influential man in London or may I say England.

And that was quite nerve racking.