Khushi was in her place working on the designs….. KARMA not participating was a sudden decision. She wanted to work with AR for the time being. Not participating in one event will not affect KARMA and she being inside AR will be a great benefit to her.so the decision. She had already informed her office about the same.

She knew that she had pissed Lavanya off and was already expecting a visit.

La: “hey u! chamkili! What do u think of urself, ha? ur first day here… and already playing smart?”

K: “Lavanyaji…. main…"

La: “Just cut the crap OK! I don't rly believe in this show of urs. acting all meek… ”

K: “oh lavanyaji…. U r so right… its not always what the eyes see…. mind games… they can be rly different from what the eyes and ears meet…. but… what can poor LavanyaJi do? nothing! just nothing! Go tell ASR and he will just think that u r jealous! go on…. give it a try!”

Lavanya left the place totally shocked. The new girl was not what she looks like and she was right… ASR wont believe…. and that too when he was completely impressed with the girl.

Khushi thought that it would be fun to rile up the Head of Designers…. poor LavanyaJI. La had been pretty loud while Khushi made sure that no one else heard her. So her secret was safe with Lavanya But inbetween something else flared up her anger and she rly wanted to vent it out.

She walked into ASR’s cabin all the while chanting ‘not here… not now…..’. She had to somehow get out of the office.

K: “SIR… Actually I had to go home! its an emergency! I’ll do extra time tomorrow!”

ASR: “emergency? is everything alright?”

She was barely controlling her anger. “Can i leave?”

ASR: “OK!…..”

She didnt wait to hear the rest. She rushed out. She stopped her scooty after getting into her studio, entered the building and called someone.

K: “MEET ME! NOW!”

Her anger was evident in her tone and the one on the other side would know where to come.

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“r u ok DOLL…. What did that Lavanya tell u..”

Her temper worsened.

“how do u know that she did something?” Her partner fumbled. "What the hell is Armaan doing in AR?! u think that i’m not capable to do the work…. then y did i even get into AR…. u could have asked some one else to do it….. after all it seems its rly easy for u to get someone into AR….”

“doll…. its not like that…. i just wanted someone there to help u… i cant help it…… I get worried about u….. i’m sry…..” she melted seeing his puppy face.

“but how did my bodyguard get into AR?”

“doll…. he had completed his CA before joining the force….. and u know y he quit….. and it wasn’t that difficult for me to get him into the accounts section…. and before u say… i cant get him out…. a new employ vanishing from AR…. unnecessary attention!”

Her studio… there were lot of paintings in different corners…. some completed and some not…. clothes were not the only thing that came out of her canvas….

She mixed her colors to start a new painting. She was back to her cool self.

“RajaJI… My Best friend is turning rly stupid…. u created all fake ids, proofs and certificates… u could have changed my surname too u know!”

“I rly wanted to give u my surname……. but i thought u wouldnt like it!” He teased her. And she gave a slight punch to his shoulder and turned towards the canvas.

She had just brought the brush to the canvas when she felt him move closer.

He slowly moved her hair to her right shoulder and started kissing her left. He was nipping and sucking her neck while his fingers worked on the zipper of her top. He brought his hand to the front palming her br*ast and mumbled against her neck. “I am just ur best friend, ha?”

She immediately moved out of his reach and adjusted her cloths. “I need to get home!”

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Khushi was woken up by the sunrays. She streched her arms and got up from the bed. A glance to the clock told her that she’s quite early. She withdrew the hand that went to take her dress, instead she took his shirt from the floor and wore it. She then took the remaining clothes and kept them aside for laundry. There was a sweet aroma in the air and she knew that her partner was in her private kitchen upstairs. She could walk out like that because the maids had strict instructions to remain in the ground floor while she was home.

She saw him preparing breakfast… handsome with a bare chest… wearing his jeans alone…..

“good morning doll!” he said without turning around.

“how did u know…”

“i can sense ur presence…” he said turning around and batting his lashes.

She rolled her eyes at his antics.

“ermm.. doll…. Syam called…”

“bhai? what did he say?”

“nothing much…. said that my sis is not giving him time….. and i told him that his sis is busier than his wife…. after all his wife is just managing a kid along with business…. right?” He teased her.

“what? i too am managing a kid!” She countered wrapping her arms around his neck.

He pulled her closer. “u r calling me a kid????? and that too after last night?”

She changed the subject immediately feeling the proof of him not being a kid, poke against her abdomen.” So what is the great R making for breakfast?”

“R?”

“well u were right…. i cant take ur name… The name GUPTA alone may not ring any bells but combined with ur name……”

“i just asked u not to take my name while u r in AR”

“I am practicing RAJAJI!”

“u know what….. u r crazy!”

“afterall i am ur best friend right!”

He stiffened at that.

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He was setting the table while she went for the newspaper.

He looked at her questioningly hearing her laughing and she held out the newspaper for him to see the headlines..

THE KING OF FASHION WORLD ASR LAUNCHES A NEW RANGE OF CLOTHES IN SUMMER WEAR… THE YOUTH LOVES THEM LIKE ALWAYS…..

He gave her a bored look. “I dont understand what’s up with these guys…. ASR always gets into the first page…. as if there is no other news in the world….. u r better and still no one even knows how u look like….”

“I love my privacy yaar…. and then, a mystery is always good for the promotion of our brand…..”

He ran a hand through his hair. “Do we really have to talk about marketing strategy and all??? I was hoping to have a peaceful time… Have some breakfast with you…. then…. before we both have to leave for our boring work…. spent some interesting time with you….” His last sentence was barely above a husky whisper, while he nuzzled against her neck…. slightly moving his shirt from her shoulder.

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She was busy with the computer when Aman reached her.

She slightly jumped in her place hearing his greeting.

“What happened Khushi? R u alright?”

She composed herself within fraction of a second. Aman hadn’t seen what she was doing and that was better for her. “ya Aman…. I’m fine…. Was not rly expecting you…. so I was slightly startled….”

He smiled at her. “I heard that Lavanya was a bit harsh yesterday…. u fine? just ignore her words ok….. she is just plain jealous of u getting attention from ASR…. She had been trying for a while u know….”

“Trying?! Trying what?”

“er…. nothing…. ”

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Khushi was walking back after having a coffee…. She didn’t have much to do…. ASR was out for a meeting… and like he said, her hands were pretty fast…. so her work was almost completed. She was walking through the lobby when she saw the DM(Devi maiyya) idol. She saw the unlit incense stick and her gaze went upto the smoke detector…. A naughty smile crossed her face. … she went upto the idol, took the matchstick from the side and lit the incense sticks…. she knew that it will trigger the detectors…. she did it just for fun….. she knew that the inner office won’t be drenched…. and this was a good opportunity to show how naive she was…..

She stood under the showers of water…. she always loved getting drenched….

A sharp WHAT THE made her turn towards the doors.

There stood the great ASR drenched… In his three piece… she had to bite back a smirk which threatened to form on her face seeing his scowl. And then something else crossed his expression which literally wiped out her smirk. But he was good at masking his emotions and the ASR look came back as immediately as it was lost. She wouldn’t have even noticed the desire in his eyes if she was not that good at reading people…. she was excellent when it comes to judging people. She was brought out of her thoughts by Arnav’s harsh voice. She wondered how he managed it. His expression was controlled. But his eyes, it betrayed him. “What the hell GUPTA? What r u doing here?” and his gaze went to the matchstick still in her hand.

“Woh… woh main…. DM….”

Aman ran towards them. “What is this Khushi? This place has smoke detectors. …. good that it happened out here and not in the office…. uhf…”

Lavanya too had walked upto them by then. She too had a scowl plastered to her face. “I told u ASR… this girl….”

“Get her something to change into Miss.Kashyap!”

And Arnav went away even before La could reply.

La took Khushi to a rack full of clothes. She so wanted to try the designer wears… but Khushi didn’t have K’s tastes….

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She stood in front of ASR with the new designs, in the green saree she took from La.

ASR didn’t even try to hide his expression now. Maybe it was beyond his control. His pupils dilated seeing her. And the desire in his eyes aroused her. She was having a hard time preventing herself from going to him and kissing the senses out of him. She so wanted to make his fantasies come true.

A minute more there would have brought K out. But she was knocked back to her senses as his cabin door closed behind her. She wondered who dared to get into ASR’s cabin without knocking.But she couldn’t see anyone.

A small voice brought Arnav back to the world. “Annav!”

A little girl around 3yrs stood there smiling at Arnav. And he sprang to his legs, went towards her and took her in his arms.”princess?” The little girl squealed with joy. Aman knocked the door and entered with a lady who seemed a couple of yrs elder than Khushi. Arnav was smiling ear to ear as the lady hugged him. Acording to the tabloids ASR was the most eligible bachelor in town… never ever seen with a girl. … well then, they hardly knew anything about his personal life.

“Anjie…. What r u doing here??? I mean when did you…”

He was cut off by Anjali “kyun bhai? u r not happy to see me??? Did I. … interupt something???” She said stealing a glance towards Khushi. Arnav got what his sister was hinting at. But he couldn’t tell her that his mind was rly in the gutter a few moments ago… could he?”

He was gonna reply her when La barged into the cabin. “ASR u r wanted by the security team… they said it’s urgent.”

He gave an apologetic look to Anjali. “Anjie…. i’m rly sry… I have to go… Make ur self comfortable here…. and i’m sure both Miss.Kashyap and Gupta will be more than happy to help u!”

He went out of the cabin along with Aman leaving the 3 ladies and the little princess there.

“Hey… u seem new here….. i’m Anjali…. Arnav bhai’s younger sister… and this here is my little princess ISHA”

Khushi smiled at the little girl and extended her arms towards her. SHe readily jumped into her arms. “wow she’s such a barbie doll…. er… sry….. I didn’t introduce myself….. i’m Khushi. … ” Khushi smiled at Anjali before turning her attention back to the little girl.

“Ya…. GUPTA right?”

That caught Khushi’s attention. Maybe it was not rly the first time ASR had mentioned a certain GUPTA in his conversations. Anjali was keenly looking at Khushi’s face which in turn made her look back at the little girl in her arm. She felt rly good holding the barbie doll.

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Arnav was still thinking about his conversation with his security team.

There was some foul play going on inside AR. He had a separate IT team in his security which no one rly knows about and they had detected a virus in the LAN… every single one of his office computers were infected except for his personal ones as they were not rly connected to the rest. The virus had some sort of monitoring system… but they were not rly being able to trace its origin or its total potential…. Their guess was that someone was trying to steal info….

He had to use his pc alone for confidential works…..

And the presence of a traitor in his company was disturbing. He had to catch him or her rly fast.

He had a growing headache and he was pacing in his cabin… He walked upto the glass walls of his cabin and slightly moved the curtains to look at the angelic face that always filled his thoughts. He relaxed seeing her working over something. He frowned as he saw La moving towards Khushi. He knew about how La treated Khushi. but he couldn’t rly take any action without real complaints. He certainly didn’t want his staff to know about his attraction to the new girl.

That was crazy… He was always surrounded by models who threw themselves at him…. which he hated…. but here a girl clad in the most bizarre of clothes was turning him on…. and a vision of her in a saree…. He wanted to have her then and there…. and he would have done something stupid hadn’t it been for ISHA. … the little princess rly saved him today!

He took the intercom to call Khushi up before La could open her mouth. but then, he had no idea what to tell her…. He ran a hand through his hair. He took a deep breath as he composed himself. ‘ask about her progress… u dumb… er… now I have started talking to myself! ”

He sighed.

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She was going through the emails gone out from AR. There weren’t much relevant things and she expected that… that day when La came into ASR’s cabin, K was pretty sure that they detected the virus… but she was not worried… they didn’t know its action and it was a huge advantage. And then ASR’s pc alone being the imp one… that wasn’t rly bad…. she just had to get access to that to know about every single deal of AR… and that wouldn’t be much difficult. .. by the current situation the great ASR wouldn’t even know if she checked his comp right in front of him. He was always lost when she was in front of him… and she wondered y no one else noticed it till now… maybe he WAS good at hiding it… but she saw right through.

A particular email caught her attention. It was to some ID which she couldn’t rly understand. It was quite diff. There were just symbols and she found it weird. And the content.... someone was being informed that ASR was keeping most of the details to himself and that he/she will be informed as immediately as the file is copied.

Wow AR has got mice within. She wanted to know who sent the mail. And finding that was easy. her virus activated the Web cam as soon as someone activated email… and the recording saved along with the email sent directly delivered to her.

The video showed a girl. K knew her to be Sheetal… the sweet girl who had come to console her,the second time La confronted her. They had been frnds since then…. only becoz K had seen the not so innocent face under her mask…. and she knew that it was solely becoz she had been announced as the designer of the bridal show. Once Khushi had caught her trying to take a design with her. hmm… being frnd’s with a traitor was surely gonna be beneficial for her…. Have to make it stronger… the fake friendship!

K laughed at that.

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