Manan SS: Modern Cinderella ✔

Chapter - 6

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"Well that was interesting", commented Yash, handing Nandini her mug of coffee, before taking a seat beside her on the couch. They have returned from the castle and Yash, the man who knew her heart better than anyone in the whole world, made her coffee the first thing after coming home.

Nandini nodded, taking a sip of her coffee. The caffeine worked her brain into functioning again and then she had a series of questions. One question topped her priority list and she narrowed her eyes on her dad. "Dad, Raj Malhotra was way cooler than you portrayed him to be. What the hell? With your description, I thought he was the villain." Of course, she was exaggerating but the look on her dad's face was hilarious.

"What? I never have. I respect him, okay?", he told. "But he comes to my home and informs me something about my daughter which would possibly take her away from me, I would panic. And I did. I panicked. How would I know he wanted you to join him in business? Coming to that, what have you decided about that?"

She sighed. "I don't know, dad. It's huge. Do you think I am capable of handling it? Do you think I am even worth it? And there's Manik. I don't know what to think about him in between all this."

"Do you love him, Nandini?", asked Yash but he answered his own question. "I know you don't but what's actually your equation with him? Because as far as I can see, he isn't another Cabir in your life."

She nodded, taking another sip of her coffee, and mentally recollected the past six months in her head when she was with the Prince. "Dad, I don't love him but there is something. A connection between us. I don't know how to explain it in words without sounding like a creep. Every time I am with him, we have fun as I have with any other friend even if it's the end of the day and we are dead tired to the world but then it comes the time when we have to part ways. And suddenly, I don't feel like leaving. I don't know if it's because I have more fun when I am with him than with anyone else or alone. He calms me down when I am worried sick or panicking for a deadline or angry enough to punch someone but he does that with Cabir too. It's how he is. Sometimes, I blurt things out and I get afraid of making it weird between us but then he says he feels the same. I just don't know what to think about all this."

Yash chuckled, throwing an arm around her and pulling her close. "You went to a party you weren't expected to go to. You met him again in Delhi, in a mall out of all places because guess how many malls are in Delhi and you both have to be there on that day at the same time. And then your company lands a contract in his hospital. You become friends and then his dad asks you to be a part of his family business. You know what people call all this?", he asked and continued when Nandini shook her head. "It's what destiny is. It throws two people into circumstances they never thought they would be part of and creates a bond they never thought they needed."

"Do you believe in destiny?", she asked.

"I do, of course. I do. That's how I met your mother. I am a lawyer, just out of college, and started my practice. I first saw her in front of my court where she was protesting for some student rights which didn't even make sense. Later I got to know that she didn't prepare for her exams so she started a protest all over the campus. She was capable of that."

"Oh, God. She was really chaotic", commented Nandini. She had known a million stories about her parents but not how they met and fell in love. Her mother never told them and after her, Yash said he would if he needed them to know. "How did you know she was the one? Because you are always composed and I don't know, dignified?"