After lunch, Tina came to tell me that he called me in the garden. I rolled my eyes not bothering to move.

Who does he think he is?

"I am not going," I told myself. If he wants to talk he can come where I am but after some time I went thinking what if it's about the deal?

I groaned and went to the garden. He was standing, his back facing me. He was looking in the distance, his hand in his pocket. He seemed to be in deep thought. I wanted to know what he was thinking. I went and sat on the bench.

"I don't have enough time," I told him not looking at him.

From the corner of my eyes, I saw him turn around. He was silent. I looked at him to find he was smiling, looking at me.

"You are impossible," He said grinning.

"Thank you very much. This is what you called me here to say?" I said rolling my eyes. I couldn't stop rolling my eyes and it was his fault.

"I want to talk to you about my friends,"

Friends? Oh yeah probably about his best friend miss Ratna, the queen.

"Why?"

"Because I want to," He continued "Srisha and Sanskrit, I..I haven't told them about us because..."

"Yeah, because of the deal," I muttered looking at my lap.

"No," he said sitting beside me "Because they were off the country and I never thought you would want to meet them. I thought about it when they came back but I didn't get time to tell them. Yesterday they came without informing me. I will tell them about you when I see the right time so I don't freak them out."

I laughed "Till that time we will already be divorced,"

He was quiet.

"Today, there is a party at srisha's house so if you would join me...." He ignored what I said.

"Ok," I said getting up not letting him finish.

"Any... anything else ?" I asked him and he shook his head.

"And oh, you don't need to tell them that I am your Budi," I said Budi in air quotes.

(Budi = wife)

There was again the same problem, the problem with the dress. I quite panicked but then when I opened the closet there was this short open-back fitted deep v-neck glitter sleeveless designer dress. The color was emerald. I loved it as soon as I saw it. There was a note beside it.

"Brought this thinking you might like it," was written in the note.

Like it? Boy, I loved it. How did he know I like this type of dress. I thought or heard guys don't like their wives to wear short dresses.

I got dressed and looked at myself in the mirror. The dress was short but I liked it in me. I felt comfortable in it and quite beautiful too. I came down where he was waiting. My breath hitched looking at the sight of him. Damn, he looked so handsome. He muttered something under his breath and then opened the door. I couldn't stop staring at him.

"Stop staring," he said.

I rolled my eyes and got inside the car.

"You can compliment me if you want to," he said once he started to drive but I ignored him.

We went inside and got a warm welcome from Srisha and Sanskrit. They seemed happy to see me. I don't really go to parties but when he told me it was Srisha's party, I couldn't say no. We were about to have a drink when Ratna came and took him away. He didn't even say no. Srisha and Sanskrit were already dancing and I was all alone. I then saw the devil and Ratna dancing. This made me so angry. I knew he was watching me but I pretended like I didn't care. After some time he came to me and asked me to dance.

"No," I said steadily.

"Come on," he said, offering me his hand "One dance won't hurt you,"

I shook my head and he was about to lower his hand in defeat when I heard Ratna call his name. I immediately took his hand. He smiled and we went dancing.

"What was that smell? " He said pretending of searching where the smell was coming from and then brought his nose near me "Ah, someone's surely burning," he said while dancing.

"I am so sorry to separate you two but I didn't come here to feel like some kind of trash that is left to sit in the corner," I said rolling my eyes.

"You are not a Trash," he said in a slightly angry tone.

"By the way you...you look beautiful," He whispered after some time.

Is he out of his mind? Why would he think that?

"Thanks," I muttered. "For this dress," I said when I remembered I haven't thanked him for the dress.

He just gave me a nod.

Later, Ratna came and kept complaining about how she doesn't have anyone to dance with. She is all alone blah blah and took him.

The whole time, I felt his eyes on me. I know even though he was dancing with her his attention was on me. A boy exactly the same age as Devil came and asked me for a dance. He was quite handsome too. He had a dimple on his cheeks which made him more attractive. After he insisted like 1000 times, I agreed to dance with him but deep down I was quite scared. He was a total stranger to me.

He told me that he was Ratna's brother. I happened to look at Amol and by his look, I knew he didn't like it. I was confused. He didn't like him or me dancing with him? Slowly I started to feel uncomfortable. He started to touch me everywhere and pulled me close. I could feel Amol's eyes on me. This guy's name was Anurodh and he started to bring his mouth close to me and tried to kiss me. Before I could protest or tell him to fuck off, a strong hand pulled me. It was the devil. He punched him and had no intention of stopping.

"How dare you?" he said and that guy fell to the floor. That guy was bleeding and I couldn't move. My mind wasn't working. I just stared at him. Ratna came and tried to stop him and I saw something flash in Amol's eyes. Ratna backed off immediately. No one tried to stop him. I had never seen him so angry. This was a totally different side of him. This was a whole different person.

I don't know what came to my mind. "Stop," I said touching him. He sat there closing his eyes and calmed down. He took my hand and pulled me up. Ratna came running to him.

"Amol it's..." He stopped her by showing his hand, not looking at her. I was staring at him not believing anything that happened and without glancing at anybody we left.

I didn't bother to speak with him in the car. I would look at him time and again and his gaze was fixed on the road. Was he angry with me? I nervously thanked him once we came home, afraid he would yell or shout but instead,

"Thank you won't work," he smirked and came close to me.

"Maybe a kiss would do," he whispered in my ear sending chills to my body.

He was such a moody person. Half an hour ago it felt like he gonna burn everyone and everything and now he was teasing me. I stood there unable to say anything.

"You ready to kiss me?" He looked at me licking his lips and my breath stopped right there. I know he was teasing me but we completely got lost in each other's eyes. I came to my sense when his phone rang.

"What?" he barked.

"Are you fucking serious?" He said turning, showing his back to me.

"Right now?"

"No,"

He sighed "Fine," he cut off the phone and stood there for a while staring at the wall.

He turned "I have to go," he said not looking at me. His mood changes faster than anything else. He didn't say anything after that so I went to get change and when I came out I saw him packing. I wanted to ask where he was going but didn't. What if he gets angry?

"I will be back in a week and Rima will be here any minute to stay with you while I am gone," he said looking at me.

"I will be out of the city for some work. Some emergency came up so I must go," he said in a soft voice.

"Ok," I said not looking at him and not liking that he was leaving.

"I know you gonna miss me," he said in a playful tone.

"Yeah, in your dreams," I rolled my eyes.

He came closer "At least you can give me a hug,"

I kept my hand on his chest to stop him and he kept his hand above mine. We stood there in silence and then we heard a knock on the door and it was Rima.

Before leaving, he whispered something to her and she nodded looking at me. He looked at me, gave me a quick smile, and then left. I wanted to tell him that I don't want him to go. Rima gave me a soft smile and went to her room. I quickly went to the window on the other side from where I could see him. I saw him enter the car and then he was out of the gate. I slowly came and fell on our bed, already missing him.