Imlie's Pov (OS)

Imlie's POV

I took a sharp breath as he brushed his textured cheeks on mine and put colour on me.

I didn't want him to put colour on me.

I want my mentor, not a friend back this man in front of me.

I don't recognise him.

He doesn't understand what I am thinking anymore.

I want us to go back to being like we were before.

I shed a tear remembering MY ABP.

This isn't the ABP I know he is only Aryan Singh Rathore.

I looked at him and he seemed hurt.

Was it because I cried?

I: You are not ABP. Who are you?

He looked a bit stunned.

Ar: What? I am me. What do you mean not ABP. Imlie talk in a language I can't understand why you are making it complicated.

I: I am not the one making things complicated. You are. You want to marry me? For what? Revenge? As much as I know MY ABP he will never use someone especially a woman for revenge. So the question is why marry me huh?

I think the bhang is getting to my head.

I actually saw him smiling.

I: You have become so unpredictable these days sometimes you are hot and sometimes you are cold. What will it take you to turn back into the ABP I know and admire? Why are you so hell bent on marrying me don't revert the question to me Aryan Singh Rathore because tumari pith aur humar koni hoovet.

I was fed up.

He needs to know that I can't be forced.

I know for a fact that our legal marriage papers have yet to be submitted by him.

So we are technically only engaged.

So before this marriage thing gets out of hand I need him to stop it.

Do you really want to stop it?

Once that thought entered my brain I didn't know what to do with it.

Do I really not want to marry this Akkadbagga or is it because he forced me to marry that is why I am protesting.

Hmm.

I think I might need to clear my feelings first before cancelling then.

I think we need to have a talk.

Ar: Look Imlie I only want to protect you. I think you are too self-sacrificing for your own good and as a good boss I want to protect my brilliant employee.

Again.

Again with the boss and employee thing.

But I am not giving up.

I: So you mean to say that you are ready to marry me so that I don't sacrifice my career for the Tripathi family. Okay I won't. I can even write a contract that I wouldn't do anything that would jepordize my career for them. Then your only reason for this marriage is gone. You have your brilliant employee and I don't have to be forced into a new relationship so quickly since I just got out of one.

I could see that he was stunned.

He might have thought that I would have argued that they were my family and I couldn't leave them and all.

But they are family.

I couldn't leave them as well.

But I had a talk with Aparna Maa last night and she had realised that they had given me the type of responsibility that they haven't given to Aditya sir even after growing up this much.

She asked me to stay away from Thier problems as they wanted to stop being so dependent on me when they had their own sons and daughters who do nothing but watch while a girl younger than them will take over crisis of the family despite them being there.

So I promised that I won't interfere with the family matters unless Aparna Maa asks me to interfere.

I will focus on myself and to be honest I felt relieved. I felt that a few kilos have been reduced from my shoulders.

So that's why I got ready to sign a contract with this Akkadbagga so fast.

Ar: Okay then I will stop the wedding.

I finally released the breath that I was holding. 

I realized that while I am glad that I wasn't being forced to marry the Akkadbagga, I still felt something different for him ever sine that stormy night when he landed himself in the hospital.

I: I want a long engagement, at least don't think about marriage until I am halfway through my masters. 

Saying this I ran away from there.

I went to Kaki maa and said that Aryan had something to say to her and I will be leaving for the Rathore Mansion as I have a report to complete.

Saying this I left. 

I reached Rathore Mansion and headed straight for my room.

I had a shower, I hesitated to look at my self in the mirror I know I was going to be red from all the shyness I felt when I told Aryan that I wanted to get married with him, not now but at a later date. 

When he said he was ready to compromise for me, I felt that maybe my ABP is still there and will return soon. 

I will wait for him to return. 

After all, we are 50-50 partners.

The end for us but a new beginning for them.

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