Falling For You

Chapter 11

11.The fallen tears.

To all those who used to find this Shivaay 'goals',sorry in advance.😂

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*Longer than usual*

"Lovely meeting you Mrs.Smith",Annika spoke giving side-way hug to an elderly woman.She was one of the very few faces Annika recognized at the party.Having worked for one of Mrs.Smith's event,Annika knew the lady and was glad to have found her at this party filled with foreign businessmen.She smiled as the lady walked away with her husband,waving a bye to Annika.

It's been few minutes to the party and Annika was already bored.The only good thing was having Shivaay by her side all these while,until Mrs.Smith approached them.She assured Shivaay that she'll be fine with the lady's company and now that she was gone,Annika regretted letting Shivaay go.

She scanned the room and a smile appeared on her face when she spotted Shivaay.He had a glass of champagne in his right hand while the other was hid in his trouser's pocket.Looking every inch of the handsome,powerful business man that he is,having a conversation with one of his business partners.

He was wearing an all black suit with a navy blue pocket square.She had to agree that he looked deliciously handsome,but she wouldn't dare say that to him.Since,that would only boost his mountain sized ego.

She walked to the bar counter,thinking not to disturb Shivaay as he looked engrossed in the conversation.Sitting a bit far from the counter,she fished her phone out of her silver shimmery clutch.There was a message from Shivaay,which was almost twenty minutes back,Annika unlocked the phone in confusion and as soon as she saw his message,her lips curved upwards.

It was a an image of Annika in their hotel room,doing some last minute make up check.Annika had to admit,he did have a good photography skill.There was a text along with the picture,which said,'Someone's looking breathtakingly gorgeous' with a blue heart.

"Blue heart?seriously?",Annika muttered to herself while typing a thank you and decided against it as she felt that it would be too formal.Instead,she sent him a blue heart back."If that's what I  get,then let him have that too.",she spoke pressing send.

She looked up to see him smiling at her and he was back to the conversation before she could give him a hint on how bored she is.

Annika sighed as she scrolled through the phone again.Suddenly,she felt a touch on her shoulder making her shudder due to the sudden action.She expected it to be Shivaay,but was left disappointed when she saw an unfamiliar face.There stood a man with a smile on his face.He was quite handsome with dark hair and thick,dark eyelashes."What is this beautiful lady doing here all by herself?",the stranger asked in a soft tone.

Annika didn't know what to say,he looked decent and she decided to play it safe with a simple,"I don't think that should be any of your interest",in a not so rude way.She was already bored and was in no mood to answer a stranger.

"Woah!Easy there,beautiful lady.That was rude of me to not introduce myself.I'm Vikram.Vikram Malhotra.Though we never had the chance to meet in person,we did have a phone conversation two days back,Ms.Annika."

That was when it hit Annika.It was Vikram,the same Vikram who was keen on getting his event organized by her company.The same Vikram Shivaay had warned her about a day prior to their trip in her office.But that's just Shivaay,she can't judge people on the basis of what she's told.Now,can she?

She easily got into a conversation with the man and he looked quite harmless to Annika,afterall women do have the instinct to understand people better,right?