Bound By Vows ✔

21: The Cookie-Tales

Kanishk's Pov

The next day was a hectic one, after a wonderful lunch I surprised Siya with the amazing dinner she prepared for me was one of the best I had had in days.

I loved teasing her, the way her cheeks would immediately turn red or the way she would avoid my gaze whenever I came any closer to her, was worth ignoring my work last night.

It was indeed the best time spent not doing any work and I even canceled on Rishi when he asked about the football match. He was supposed to come to my place and we were going to watch the football finals but after the lunch I had spent with Siya, I wanted some alone time with her, I didn't know why.

I never canceled on watching the matches nor have I ever prioritized anything above work, but last night, I did both, and that was both scary and astounding.

It was almost evening, Siya was going to go to her parents but I could not leave that afternoon because of the unexpected meeting that came up, but I told her that I would come in the evening and we will have dinner with her parents and then leave. And I was counting the minutes until I can finally finish the meeting and leave.

"So what do you think Mr. Kapoor?" The client asks and I look at him confused until I registered that he was explaining about some product that he wants me to invest in.

I shake my head trying to clear out my wife's thoughts and straightened up, "It seems good, but I do still want a profit report by tomorrow, then I will decide if I want to move forward with your proposal or not," I say and stand up and immediately notice everyone on the meeting table standing up too.

"But the presentation is not over yet," one of the employees says and I look down at my watch to see it was almost six and I had to go to Siya's parent's house and I didn't want to be late.

"It is over, send me the reports tomorrow," I say and exit the meeting room without giving a second thought.

As soon as I reached my cabin, I walked to the attached washroom to get freshen up before I leave for dinner. 

After forty-five minutes I reached Siya's parent's house, they lived in a bungalow and I always loved how quiet their area was. 

I walked towards the door and rang the bell and a minute later, Siya's mom opened the door with a huge smile, "Good evening mumma," I greeted her with a smile of my own.

"Good evening beta, how are you?" she immediately pulls me in for a hug and ushers me inside, and closes the door behind me as my eyes immediately search for the one person I had been thinking about since morning.

"I'm good, how are you, how is papa?" I ask as we walk toward the living room and I hear voices coming from the living room and see two unexpected persons I least expected to see. Riya and Siya's ex-boyfriend Dev Sinha sitting together with Siya's father.

As soon as I walk in, the three pairs of eyes look up at me, I see Siya's father give me a huge smile, Dev straightening up and sitting straight as if he just saw a president walk in, and Riya, well, I didn't know what she was exactly trying to do adjusting her dress again and again but like always I immediately searched for Siya, I wanted to see if she was okay. As far as I know, her relationship with Riya and her ex was not good and she didn't say anything to me about them joining us at the dinner.

"Kanishk, good to see you, come here," Papa says and pulls me in for a hug and a smile forms on my face, and as soon as we break the hug, I see Siya walk in, as soon as she sees me, I see a relived expression fall over her face and I couldn't help but feel the flutter of emotions wash over me, happy, content and jovial.

"Hello, Kanishk," A flirty voice says as I look over at Riya who stood up and walked towards me, "It's nice to see you again," she says and unexpectedly hugs me and I could hear a gasp from behind me which I was very sure came from Siya's mom. I could see papa almost facepalm and I grit my teeth irritated at the unwanted touch.

I hate anyone coming into my personal space and I hate them more when they touch me.  I break the hug and open my mouth to curse at Riya but stopped as soon as I realize that her parents were in the same room and worse, they were Siya's parents too so I couldn't say anything harsh.

I backed up a little from her and notice a warm hand coming and holding me and I realize that Siya was beside me and I sucked in a breath to calm myself down.

I realized everyone was standing silently anticipating my reaction but I didn't give any and nodded my head, "It's nice to see you," I say, and Riya instead of saying anything, was scowling at Siya looking at our joined hands. And behind her, Dev was giving longing looks at Siya.

Okay, that's enough. 

I turn around and looked at mumma, "I brought you guys something," I say forwarding a paper bag towards her, suddenly the tense atmosphere cooled down a little when I saw Mumma smiling at me. "It's the cookies you love," I say and she beams up at me and a hand over my back makes me look behind me to see Papa, giving me a smile, looking glad that I did not do or say anything about his elder daughter who just came up and hugged me unexpectedly.

"Oh Kanishk, thank you, you're the best, I was craving for them for so long," Mumma says and walks towards the kitchen, Papa following her.

When they both were out of my sight, I look beside me towards Siya, "Are you okay?" I ask her and she smiles and something fluttered in my heart, I was sure it was my heart that unwillingly would start beating whenever I see her. I swear if I had been wearing my smart watch right now, it would start buzzing with how fast my heart rate had gone up.

And that was only because of her.

"I'm good," she says and looks toward where her parents went, "Thank you for bringing the cookies," she tells me and I shrug my shoulders as if it was nothing when in reality I had Raj travel for four hours to bring the cookies because I remember during our Dinner with Rishi and Ananya how she told that she loved those particular cookies. It just so happened that her mom loved the cookies too and I decided to bring them for the dinner.

"It was nothing," I say and see her look at me suspiciously.

"You know I love those cookies too," she tells me.

"Really?" I say acting as if I was hearing it for the first time when in reality I had two more boxes stocked up in my car to take it home with us.

She again looks at me suspiciously.

"You knew that didn't you?" she asks with her eyebrows raised, looking darn cute.

"Nope, not at all," I say and she nods her head as if she believes me. 

"So, how many boxes are there in the car for me?" she asks instead and I look down at her, she knows me so well.

"Two," I answer with a straight face, not showing any emotion, looking into her eyes and seeing her face morph into a beautiful smile.

"I knew it," she says grinning like a Cheshire cat and I couldn't stop the flutter of emotions that overcome me.

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