Love or Retribution?

Chapter - 8

"Before you close the case, make sure the witness, the old man, is well taken care off, also, I had informed him that I will talk to the school principal about his grand daughters' admission, make sure that is taken care too"

Indira continued to listen to the recordings,  but only in vain, it had been more than 10 days since the pairing and she had not heard anything incriminating, but instead all she could hear was how perfect Madhavan was, be it as a police officer or as a father or a husband.

"Cha!", she hissed in a frustrated tone and tried to close the app, when the other two pairing caught her attention.

On that day at the resort, when Bhargav and Nandhini came to confront her, their phones too got paired as they were in close proximity.

Even though she had not tried to eavesdrop, she did not delete the pairing too. She thought Nandhini's could be useful some day and she couldn't bring herself to delete Bhargav's.

His name on her phone screen made her suddenly yearn for his presence, they had not met or spoken to each other since that day at the party. Since Indira had furnished her house as much as needed, she started cooking her own food, closing even that one opportunity for them to meet.

"Just once, hear his voice and then close it, just to hear his voice that is all", her mind voice started to convince her to hear the recording.

She got up from the terrace floor where she was sitting and listening to the recordings and started pacing up and down, fighting with herself whether to listen or not.

Finally temptation won, she pushed her air pods back in her ears, opened the pairing with his name and clicked the Live option

"Hello"

"Hello"

She heard it two times, once inside her ears and once outside. Confused, she turned and almost jumped with a heart attack, that she stumbled and fell down.

"Sorry, didn't mean to startle you, so sorry Indira", he immediately came near her and gave her his hand to get up.

Indira looked at him totally disoriented for few seconds.

"What the hell is he doing here? what the hell am I doing on the floor? ayo, phone", thoughts bombarded her, that she turned and searched for her phone. Thankfully it had fallen only few inches from her, that she strained a bit and reached it. The first thing she did was to close the app, let out a huge breath and turned her attention back to Bhargav who was still standing there with a smile and extended arm.

"Hi", she said with a smile that reached her eyes, but got up without his help. A sharp pain made her wince, but it was not strong enough to get her attention.

"What are you doing here?", she added while trying to pat the dust off her work out shorts and the next second her face changed.

Indira had just completed her morning work out and was listening to the recordings while cooling down when Bhargav walked in.

She was still standing in front of him with a tank top and a tight work out shorts, both of which actuated her attributes multiple folds.

Normally she wouldn't have given a second thought, after all she used to wear the same to gym and her kick boxing classes, but now standing almost half naked in front of him started to increase her body temperature that she looked around for something to cover herself.

Unfortunately, there was nothing except for a face towel, and she could easily feel his eyes on her, not in a creepy way but in an appreciative one that made her heart beat multiple times faster than her morning cardio work out.