My Beloved

Chapter Eleven

~KAIRAV~

She was looking way too gorgeous in that dress of hers. That was my first thought when I entered the place. And those sexy criss-cross strings that dress had at the back made it more difficult for me to stay in the same room as her without touching her. I so wanted to throw every man who was checking her out of this room right now. I didn't even like Kabeer or any other man from the team being in close proximity to her. I think it must be because of the soulmate bond. These past two months have been really difficult for me. It was a task for me to stay away from her, but I don't think that control over my instincts is going to work today.

She looked so kissable while blushing from the question earlier as soon as she saw me. I was also in midnight blue tonight. She might be thinking it's a coincidence. But it's not. Mia slipped up about their dress colors to Kabeer while bickering, and Kabeer informed me about the same, so I intentionally matched our outfits.

"We did it, guys. Congratulations to everyone!" I said this to the team.

"Cheers to us!" Remo said, raising his glass in the air, and soon we all followed.

Afterwards, when Mia was done with her speech and we had four or five more rounds of shots, Kaira and Mia decided to dance. The boys and I were looking at them from afar. Some time later, Malik also came and left with Yaksh for the dance floor. I could see Kaira clearly from where I was seated, and she was a little tipsy. It was clear from her dance moves that sober Kaira wouldn't be doing that. I started moving towards her when I saw an asshole approaching her for a dance and trying to convince her after she said no. Before I could go and beat the shit out of him, Malik made him leave the club altogether. I saw Kaira looking at me and biting her lip on the dance floor. That was an invitation enough for me.

"May I have a dance, darling?" I asked her after getting a foot away from her. She nodded her head, probably shocked by the incident earlier, I thought.

I pulled her close by her waist. Mia was already off the dance floor, taking a rest. I pulled Kaira even closer by lifting her a little. She released a breath of relief, as I had seen her fidgeting with her heels some time ago. I bent down so close that she was able to hear my whispers over all the chaos happening in here.

"You look too hot for your own good, darling." I started while pecking her ears a little, "Every man in this club is stealing glances at you." I went on pulling her even closer, her breath hitched, "but I hate it when someone has their eyes on what's mine." I said, digging my fingers some more into her waist, which made her close her eyes in return.

After a moment or two, I let her down, which made her open her eyes and meet mine. We started swinging to the music. A romantic tune was playing; that must be Kabeer's doing, as I saw him winking at me from the DJ area. Kaira closed her eyes and put her head on my shoulder. We were swinging like that for around an hour. I lifted Kaira up and continued swinging from time to time to let her foot rest for a while. I was not ready to leave her little body tonight. My instincts were getting a lot stronger about the mate bond; if I were not to have any other physical closeness with her, I'd take whatever I got.

Late into the night, I felt Kaira weigh on me and her yawning, so I got us off the dance floor and towards the table our team was sitting on. Some of the guests had already left, and the remaining group of young boys and girls wasn't showing signs of retiring for the whole night. Malik was going to stay here, looking over everything. So Yaksh decided to crash here as well, in the small office of the club. Remo had already left, something about his medicines, and Kabeer was going to drop Mia, who was still energetic as hell. I said all the best to my best friend and left, lifting Kaira's bridal style as she was really tired.

When we reached her house, I knew her building, as I often came to drop her off after our Sunday meetups at the park. But I didn't know her floor and room number. So I had to wake her up.

"Kaira, darling, what's your number?" I asked her gently.

She stirred in my arms but was still in deep sleep. She was sleeping so peacefully that I had no heart to try to wake her again. I took out my locket with one hand while the other supported Kaira to stand and lean on me. She was so deep in sleep that she didn't even register that she was in a different position. I thought of the word Άνοιξε [Ánoixe] in my mind and took the name of the person I wanted to contact.

"What's her floor and room number?"

"3rd floor, on the right, second room," a voice replied from the locket.

After entering her apartment with the keys I got from her purse, I took her to the bedroom. I made her lie on the bed and was about to get going when a voice stopped me.

"Where do you think you are going?" asked the voice from the room's dark corner.

"To my hotel room, of course! I don't want to scare her when she gets up by sleeping on the same bed as her." I replied with a slight irritation.

"And who'll be answering all her questions in the morning?" he questioned in return.

"You don't have to worry about that. It's none of your concern." I said it sternly.

"Of course it is. I'm her guard dog, remember? Appointed by you." He said it tauntingly.