FROM DARE TO LOVE (Editing)✔

CHAPTER 5

I moved my hand and placed my palm on his chest, trailing it down. I felt his perfect abs from over his shirt. Damn! For the first time, I feel so aroused by a stranger. This is so unlike me.

'You are beautiful...' he says bringing his lips to my ear.

I blush! Why the hell am I blushing by a stranger's compliment? Of course, this guy doesn't mean the compliment, he is simply saying so to get me to his bed. Which of course will not happen, Bad luck Handsome-stranger-dude.

'May I know your name?' he asks

I usually give some random names to strangers but for some reason I answered 'Aleesa...Aleesa Siddiqui'

As soon as I utter my name I felt his grip around my waist loosened, I frown as he takes a step back. I see his expressions turn dark. What happened? Does my breath smell? Before I could ask he turned around and disappeared into the crowd. I shrugged! He missed a chance to dance with me, it's his loss

Soon Ruchi joins me at the dance floor with Rishabh, we had few more drinks. I glanced at my watch it's 9.55. Oh ho! I turn around to inform Ruchi that I am leaving, but then she had already disappeared with Rishabh to one corner. I roll my eyes, this is why I don't like coming with Rishabh, he and Ruchi always end up making out. All the way home and even as I lay in my bed that night all I could think of, was that mysterious stranger. Who was he? Why did he look so familiar? And his eyes, Gosh! They were so deep, so magnetic. I can't believe I am thinking so much of a stranger I met in a pub just some time ago. I don't know why I am feeling so attracted to him? Who the hell is he? And why doesn't he get lost from my head.

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'Argh!' next day I wake up to throbbing pain in my head. I sit up straight and come face to face with a glass of lemonade. Adnan is sitting opposite me holding the glass up close to my face. He looked disappointed.

'I didn't except you to drink so much and you drove home yourself.' he says sternly. I nod my head feeling guilty. I know I shouldn't have drunk so much and then drive, Bhai might think of me as an irresponsible kid. At age of 31, how can I be so reckless. He shakes his head and hands me the glass.

'I am sorry, Bhai'

'Aleesa, I care about you' he held my face his palm and look at me 'If something happens to you, I don't know what I will do. You are everything to me! I almost lost you once' he says

I feel guilty, the guilt of lying to him all those years still haunts me. I shake my head and place the glass on the table beside me, I shift closer stretching my arms and gesturing Bhai for a tight hug. Adnan looks away, he is still angry on me. I crawled up to him and hugged my brother tight. He takes few seconds but hugs me back.

After we break the hug, he forwards me to drink the lemonade which I happily gulp down in one go. My head feels lighter and clear but there is one thing that isn't leaving my head, that stunning stranger I met last night at the pub. My mind keeps wandering there, to him.