NAINA
"Don't worry, Naina! You'll c***k this deal with the American investor. I have a gut feeling about it." Ruhani said as she helped Pearl and Robin out of the car. We had come to the mall owned by my cousin for the shopping for our children. Arjun had asked that he would ask one of his staff to bring whatever we want to the Goenka mansion itself, but our children and their mothers wanted a day out.
So, here we were. Ruhani stood in between Pearl and Robin, and held their hands, while I parked the car.
"Gut feeling?" I asked her from the window as I parked the car in the parking of the mall. I silently prayed that she might be right this time with her intuition.
"Well..." She paused for two seconds before continuing, "Each of your designs is just mind-blowing, in addition to being unique... and moreover..." She again paused, this time, for a longer duration.
"Moreover?" I asked as I was now standing in her front.
"You look damn hot! He will surely loss his sanity after meeting you." She said with a cheeky smile. I rolled my eyes at this and said, "You are already aware that I..."
She cut in mid-sentence as she said, "Yeah yeah, I am well aware that you won't marry again...bla bla."
I rolled my eyes.
"But you can't deny the fact that any man would fall for you. Look at you, hotness overloaded..." She said with a wink as we started to walk towards the inside of the mall.
I could not help but chuckle at her statement.
"Thank you!" I said as I tried to control my laugh.
"By the way, Jackson Morgan is supposedly a gay," I told her, to which she raised her brows shockingly.
"Momma, what is a gay?" Pearl asked as she pulled the hem of my dress.
But Ruhani decided to answer for me, saying, "Baby, gay is a guy, who likes men."
"I also like Rohit uncle and Arjun uncle, that means I am gay?" My smart daughter counter-asked her aunt.
"Me too! I like dadu too!" Little Robin squealed as he walked toward Pearl and gave her a high five, saying, "We both are gays!"
"Hey, you are not gay." Ruhani said immediately. I could not stop but laugh at their talks.
"Hey, I forgot my wallet in the car," I said when I realized that my wallet was missing.
"You guys go, I'll be right back," I said and went back to the parking.
"We are waiting for you in the toy station, aunt Naina!" Robin's sweet yell was heard.
As I was returning, suddenly, a black range rover came hurtling toward me from the road. I stumbled back as it took me a few moments to adjust to the speed of it when it came to stop a few inches from me.
A man came out from the passenger seat of the car with an amused expression as he said, "What happened?" Wait, he was talking to me?
He wore a black tee along with black pants. He looked like a funny character from a Hollywood movie. Soon another voice was heard, as another man from the car came out and yelled, "What the hell happened?"
The voice was commanding, full of authority, and held my attention as I waited for the man who was the owner of the voice to come into view. I don't know why but the surroundings appeared to be silent all of a sudden as I watched the man. First his right leg and then left leg slowly came into my view. He wore black shiny shoes. I don't know why, but I waited to look at his face. As if he heard my mind, he came into view quickly. Grey suit and off-white shirt...without a tie. The upper two buttons were undone from his shirt, which gave a glimpse of his muscular chest.
He had a sharp chin, naturally pink lips, even pinker than any girl. His clean-shaved jawline looked more perfect than any model. His hair was randomly messed up upon his forehead as if he had just now raked his fingers through his hair. His blonde hair looked too sift, such that my hand itched to touch them. His left cheek had a prominent dimple, that was visible even when he was not smiling Instead, he was frowning.
"Are you gonna eat him now?" The other man, who looked like a funny character from any Hollywood movie commented with a chuckle. But he was not rude, he said it just jokingly, but his words made me feel embarrassed. I was a mother to a four-year-old girl, and I behaved like a teenage girl who had just seen her crush.
I had something with the blonde guys and those who had dimples on their cheeks. Oreo and now this man, both of them were blonde. Though, Kundan had claimed that in childhood, his mother had painted his hair blonde because she liked blonde children, as he had black hair when he had met me. But that was obviously a lie, Kundan was not my Oreo. But this dimple...Oreo, Kundan, and now this stranger, all three of them had a dimple on their left cheek.
Can this man be my Oreo? I looked at him and was once again lost in my thoughts when I felt someone tugging my hand.
"Momma!"
"Naina!"
"Aunty!"
I heard three voices when I finally looked at them
"What?" I asked in frustration as my gaze was fixed on the man who was visibly saying something angrily to his partner. He looked similar to someone, but to whom?
"What took you so long...and what has happened to your dress?" Ruhani asked in a voice full of concern.
"What happened to my dr..." I was stopped in my mid-sentence when my eyes landed on my dress. The f**k! I did not even realize what did they do. Stupid men!
"Momma...your dress is so...muddy!" Pearl squealed. My blood boiled as everything came to my realization. This blonde stranger was none other than Jackson Morgan. I had seen several pictures of him on the internet. And the man beside him is probably the one with whom he has an affair.
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TO BE CONTINUED...
I hope you will like their further meetings. Naina really deserves to end up with someone who would love her rightly, unlike the way her ex-husband loved her, in order to cheat on her and gain money from her family.
Stay tuned for more chapters...XOXO