Healed By Her ❤️

Chapter 20

Nandini's pov

I woke up when a gush of cold air touches my back, it felt like I was being dipped in ice or something.

When I open my eyes I realized I was literally laying on manik well half on him, the blanket over the two of us, I think I turned in a weird way because half the blanket was on the floor beside manik

This is the second time I am waking up next to manik or actually on manik, I remember I woke up on a couple days ago too and I was way too hassled that day but today I couldn't help but admire him

his face actually looked calm for the first time ever, it felt like he was peaceful, usually manik is chaos, not in a bad way but he is just always thinking but right now he is calm

I couldn't help but notice how beautiful his features are, his nose is so well structured, his lips are pouty but not too big, they seem like they are the perfect size, hehe his ears are so cute

"If you are done gawking, can you let me sleep?" His voice freaks me out because I thought he was a sleep

"Who says I was gawking?" I ask still not snatching my eyes away from his

it is so hard to look away when he looks so handsome, I mean he always looks handsome and attractive but right now he isn't being a monster, he is nice, ha guard he has up isn't there

"Your stare is burning holes in my face nandini, look away"

"Is it?" I ask

I am being so cocky right now

"Yes it is, now stop staring" he mumbles hiding his face in a pillow

"You know it's actually a compliment when a girl stares at you"

"I have a couple million staring at me all the time so it doesn't faze me"

I roll my eyes at his words, sure girls are so obsessed with him but I am not every girl

"Stop staring at me hun"

Third time, this is the third fucking time he has refereed to me as hun, he doesn't call anyone using endearments or nicknames but just sometimes when his guard is down, he uses 'hun'.

Every time I hear him call me that, my heart thumps louder than it has ever beat, my whole body reacts differently, I'm not sure why but it does

His groan makes me giggle because he couldn't sleep, he has had more than 6 hours of sleep anyways, you know manik barely sleeps, here are times he texts me at 3 in the morning about some meeting and then he is up around 8:30

"Hiiii" I giggle when he turns on his back looking at me

"Morning" he whispers

"You no sleep anymore?" I ask

"I was until a little someone continued to stare at me"

"Who?" I giggle

He sighs looking in my eyes and now I got nervous. I can never keep eye contact with him, not that I have tried but right now I am starting to get warm

"What?" I ask

"Oh nothing, I thought I should play this game with you" he says continuing to stare in my eyes

"I am not playing no games with you" I mumble looking away

His hand grabs my chin turning my hear towards his face

"What was that?' He asks still holding my chin

"I mhm well I was"

"Yes you were, you were feeling cocky but as soon as I looked at you, all that cockiness flew away"

He is absolutely right but I am not going to bruise my ego admitting it

"Not true" I whisper with a lot of difficulty

"Sure"

I hum as I look away for the 10th time

"Look at me nandini" he demands

Instantly my eyes lift up to his and I notice how dilated his eyes were

"The next time you want to stare at me, do it with confidence and now when I am sleeping" he says leaning closer

I don't back up, instead I could feel my pulse quickening under his gaze.

My eyes close when his cheek touches mine, it was like a thousand of fireworks, the mere contact makes my stomach flip too

"You are late to work nandini" he utters

His warm breath makes me shiver

"You heard me right?" He asks and I hum obviously but I didn't really register any of this words

"Hmmm"

"You didn't hear me hun, I said you are late"

"Hmm"

His voice is so deep when he just wakes up not to mention how good he smells right

"Nandini"

"Yeah"

"You are late for work, i am taking 2 hours from your pay cheque"

I frown pulling away from him

'What did you just say?" i ask

"You are late, your punishment is losing 2 hours of your pay" a soft smirk on his face

"You know what? I hope you sip your coffee today and find it tasteless and cold you monster"

the sound of his low deep chuckle makes me groan at him

I got off the bed and stood in front of the bed, my hands on my hips

"You piss me off" I yell before I make my way to the bathroom

I did hear a noise but I don't think manik malhotra is ever capable of laughing so it can't be that.

By the time I got ready and came out of the bathroom, manik was gone, there was no sign of him being around or anywhere in this room.

The blanket was folded sitting on the edge of the bed, it was almost like his presence was gone, his scent, all of it had disappeared

I am not sure why it upset me but it did. It is even weird to admit that I feel very very different towards manik even though he is cold most of the time, I see that warmth rarely

I see the way his chocolatey brown eyes soften or how he tries to hide his smile almost like he is embarrassed to smile  but he shouldn't be, he has the prettiest smile.

Suppressing my feelings or whatever this thing is, I started checking emails and even got some coffee for manik, it was on his desk getting cold because Mr Punctual Malhotra isn't here, mind you, he did go home late but it has been 4 hours since he left