Closer To You

Chapter 22

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I was sitting in my hotel room checking some emails just after finishing a hectic meeting. Not just a hectic meeting but also a hectic day. Being away from her has been incredibly stressful for me, and the meeting added to the problems.

"What are you thinking so deeply?" My secretary asked all of a sudden. I didn't even realize when he entered the room.

"Nothing," I replied. But it wasn't nothing. I was thinking about her. She is the 'nothing' I say when someone asks me what I was thinking. She has captured my mind and my heart, and I can't stop thinking about her. It feels like she's a drug, and I'm so damn addicted.

"Yeah, keep your nothing to yourself. I know what you were thinking. Must be Bhabhi. Let me just call her." He knows. He knows because I've made it so freaking obvious.

I look at my phone hurriedly whenever it dings with a notification, hoping it's a message from Vienna. At the office or at night, I keep staring at my phone, anticipating her message or call, instead of reaching out to her first. I want to see if she really misses me enough to call or message me.

One thing I've realized is that love is the most powerful emotion, and that makes it dangerous. Yet, it's a beautiful path that you want to freely walk on. And yes, I am walking on that path.

I, for sure, used to cry whenever a girl sat beside me in my childhood, as my mom said, but now I'm freaking craving her to sit beside me.

Heck. I have lost count of the times I've said 'freaking'.

"Bhabhi, I hope you're not busy thinking about your husband too. He is so in deep thoughts, and I am sure it's you in his thoughts." I came out of my thoughts about her when he said that. It was clear he actually called her when I heard her voice from the other side—a chuckle, to be specific.

"If my husband misses me that much, ask him to call me. It's not like I will ignore him, right?" She replied.

"Yeah, Bhabhi, but your husband doesn't seem to get that common sense in his mind and stands in his ego waiting for your call." He is making me look like a stubborn jerk and a high school lover. I might be actually acting like that, but I don't know because I have never dated in high school. I used to run away from girls, as I mentioned before.

A smack on his head was all that took to make him shut up. But I should have known better.

"Bhabhi, your husband is smacking my head. I did nothing wrong. Ignore him for the week as his punishment." I heard her laugh. He is talking about my punishment as her ignoring, and she is laughing there?

"She won't ignore me. And if she does, Varun, I will make sure to show you hell." I just can't with the thoughts of her ignoring me. Once she ignored me, and I had already learned how it actually feels. I don't want to feel her ignorance again.

"Look, Bhabhi, he is even threatening me. Make sure to double his punishment."