After Midnight- [I Lost Everything]

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[Aditeya]

"Suddenly I'm not alone anymore!"

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Xeno,

A beautiful word pronounced as the smallest unit to measure the human connection. Sometimes it measures a describable connection with another soul and sometimes an inexplicable connection. A flirtatious gesture, a sympathetic smile, a sudden touch of someone's hands, an ephemeral eye contact, an apologetic gaze, or a fleeting blink of eyes; short-lived and random moments still have a tendency to be remembered in your mind for ample amount of time.

We may never cross paths again, but the beauty of those fleeting moments still lingers, leaving a sweet sensation of warmth in our hearts.

Even for these fleeting moments we cross paths with the strangers but here I've only heard her name a few hours ago and she has engulfed me in her thoughts. I wanted to stop myself thinking about her, but nothing was happening according to me. The man who loves to control, a name was controlling him from the moment it made its presence in my life. How ironic!

Suddenly it seems that I'm not alone anymore. Even though surrounded by a sea of ​​strangers and a few familiar faces, I always felt lonely somewhere between its waves. But now I've a string that's going to control my kite in the sky of loneliness.

A thought of someone!

"Where are you lost, Aditeya?" Norah Johnson, my personal assistant queried.

Even though being the daughter of my rival and a multi billionaire businessman, she decided to work as my personal assistant. The initial days of working here were difficult for her and I was the reason that made it difficult for her. I'm not the person who trusts easily.

What do you expect from someone whose trust was brutally crushed?

In between I came to know the real purpose of her working here. And it was her love for George and she wanted to stay close to him.

Believe me these two have made my office their bedroom. And many times they've surprised me with their activities in office hours! Let me quote this- love making sessions.

"Nothing!" I answered shaking my head from left to right in denial. I was twirling the paperweight in my left hand and pretending to be focused on to avoid her questioning gaze.

"I want to hear truth from you, Aditeya!" She protested banging her palm on the table, not hard enough to make an impulsive noise.

"Me too." George chirped as if my answer was the most interesting thing that was trending in the market.

If I've 99 problems, George's immediate presence magnifies them 99 times!

"When did you come?"

"When you were lost in someone's thoughts." I glowered at him when I heard him laughing.

"I wasn't!" I murmured.

"Really?" He let out a chuckle on my words. If I didn't tell him what I was thinking, his curiosity will definitely open up a Pandora's box of unseen troubles.

I heaved a sigh of defeat at their incessant questioning, and began to narrate the whole scenario to them. And included the fact that I've to marry her at any cost because of a promise made by my grandmother to her grandmother.

"I want to feel love before my marriage. That's why I don't want to marry before falling in love. I'm clueless right now. I've to marry her but I don't want to fasten her in a loveless marriage. Apart from this I don't want to go back India."