21. Kitchen Encounter

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The maids and soldiers took their leave, seeing Indraprasthraj enter the royal kitchen

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The maids and soldiers took their leave, seeing Indraprasthraj enter the royal kitchen. Now, only Arjun and Draupadi- who was unaware of Arjun's presence, were present in the kitchen.

Draupadi stood in the center of the kitchen, her back facing Arjun as she wondered what she should make for supper.

A bright smile bloomed on her beautiful face as a result of a menu popping up in her brain after torturous seconds of hard thinking.

Her eyes moved to the top shelf of the food compartment. She walked towards the shelf and raised her hand trying to reach for a container placed on the top shelf. Unable to reach the shelf, she stood on her toes and stretched her hand a bit more. Her continuous attempts were futile.

Arjun leaned against the door frame with his signature smirk plastered across his face. He chuckled seeing her futile attempts to reach up to the last shelf. Despite trying her best and raising her hand to the farthest height she could, she was still nowhere close to the metal container. Her fingers barely touched it.

Hearing a deep, throaty chuckle, Draupadi turned around only to find her oh-so-handsome husband leaning against the door frame with his hands crossed against his chest. His shining golden hazels were staring at her intensely, almost making a dark shade climb up her rosy cheeks.

"What are you looking at?" Draupadi crooked her fine, arched eyebrow at him.

The corner of Arjun's lips curved as gazed at her. Her eyebrows slightly furrowed in annoyance and her hands placed on her hips which were broadened after the curve of her small waist. Arjun lowered his eyes before he raised them again to meet the pretty blue ones he was forever ready to lose himself in. He nodded his head in 'no', his eyes never leaving hers. It felt as if her blue eyes were an ocean, so deep that he did not know how deep he was drowning. He was so whipped that he could not even imagine. One smile from his enchantress and he was at her feet. She stirred something in him that he did not even know existed. She made him feel some alien emotions. She made him fall in love with her, something which he believed he was not capable of.

He cleared the distance between him and Draupadi in a few of his long strides.

Arjun raised his hand reaching out to the container. Draupadi's eyes did not fail to notice the flex of his biceps as he grabbed the vessel effortlessly with his muscular, veiny hand.

"Hey! I was about to get it!" Draupadi pouted her lips, taking the container in her hands.

" Of course, you were" Arjun rolled his eyes while walking to the chair placed in front of the kitchen counter.

Draupadi pressed her lips together, ignoring his taunting comment as she walked towards the stove kept in the center of the kitchen. She sat down on the elevated floor, in a position such that one of her legs was folded parallel to the ground while the other one was folded perpendicular to the floor.

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