Detached

CHAPTER 7

*MEERA'S POINT OF VIEW*

   When my cell phone vibrated on the side, I was laying on my bed with my arm covering my eyes, trying to block out the midmorning sunrays those were coming from the window . My whole body hurt from the run that I’d taken earlier in the morning.After speaking to my father first thing and learning that I was going to be getting a new near guard today, and the bombshell that he’d dropped on me about the guy posing as my boyfriend, I’d taken my frustrations out in the gym, running on the treadmill until I passed out.

Finally , I grabbed my phone from the table corner and pressed it against my ear "“Yeah, what?” I muttered into the phone, already knowing what this would be about. My father had told me that I’d get a call when the new guard arrived, and I would have to show him around the house and get to know him ready for next week when we both went to the new school.

Jyoti replied politely from the other end of the phone"“Hi, Meera. Could you come down to your father’s office, please? Agent Riyansh has arrived , and he’d like to meet you.”

I sighted in frustration and tried to calm my self and replied"Fine, I'll be in his office in few minutes."I disconnected the call before she could answer, and then headed out of my room on my wobbly legs.

As I reached outside of Dad's office , Jyoti came near me excitedly and said " This new guard is very handsome. You are surely gonna like him."she was gushing at me and also raised a eyebrow playfully.

I frowned and folded my arms across my chest. Her comment was both inappropriate and unwelcome. It didn’t matter what he looked like, all that mattered was the fact that I didn’t want another guard.

When she waved her hand at my father’s office door, signalling for me to go in, I shoved it open and stepped inside. As soon as I entered the room,my gaze flicked to the stranger standing in the middle of the room.

I felt my eyes widen from shock. Maddy was right, he certainly was handsome. His black hair was shorter around the sides, but fell across his forehead messily, and he had the most beautiful dark brown eyes that I had ever seen. His face was perfect, just like an angel’s. His body would be incredible too – I could see that even though it was covered by a plain, white T-shirt and ripped jeans. He actually looked like he’d just stepped out of a magazine shoot and was easily the most beautiful boy I’d ever seen.

His gaze was raking over me slowly, his mouth slightly open as he took in every inch of me, making me want to squirm on the spot or run away as fast as my legs would carry me. Lust was written plain across his angelic features.

I kept my expression neutral and quickly looked away to my father, who was watching me with tight eyes. Silence was filled in the room until I breaked it with my question " So is this the new near guard or boyfriend whatever you call him?" I said the last sentence with a poison in my tone.

He nodded. “Yes, Meera. This is Agent Riyansh. Agent Riyansh, this is my daughter, Meera Singhania,” my dad answered, looking between the two of us warily.

The beautiful stranger extended his right hand towards me. “Hi, Miss Singhania, I’m Riyansh. It’s nice to meet you.”

I tried to calm my nerves and not show how panic I was.My eyes flicked down to his extended hand and my heart started to race at the thought of him touching me. Physical attention, especially from men I didn’t know, made my lungs constrict and my body go cold. It had done ever since Carter. I glanced back up at the agent’s face. He was smiling at me; his eyes warm and friendly.I tried to shook his hand briefly but I knew my hands were shaking. I tried to calm and when I noticed that his eyes didn't left staring at me the whole time we shook hands and he had that gorgeous smile on his face that made me feel relax.

As I dropped his hand, I stepped back and folded my arms over my chest; my mother was watching me with wide eyes as if waiting to see what I would do. I plastered a confident , fake smile on my face "“Well, Riyansh, you don’t look like the normal guys I get assigned. I’m gonna be generous and say that you’ll last a week, maybe even ten days, before you request a reassignment,” I teased cockily.

He smiled that gorgeous smile at me again “Actually, Miss Singhania, I’m here for eight months, and I don’t quit,” he replied confidently, folding his arms across his chest too, mirroring me.

His arrogance hit me and I surely didn't like it, but I fought back with myself to stay calm and  hold back my reaction . " You can call me Meera."I waved my hand dismissively.

"Ok, Meera."His answering smile was gorgeous and seemed to light his whole face.

My mother cleared her throat obviously. “Why don’t you show Agent Riyansh to his room,Meera? Maybe you could give him a tour of the house and Show him where the lake is.”

I frowned at that. They always expected me to play nicely with these agents.“I’ll show him to his room, but he’s a big boy, I’m sure he can find the lake himself. I mean, you can’t miss the damn thing, it’s right there.” I turned and stalked out of the room, ignoring Riyansh.

As I walked up the hallway, fast footsteps sounded as he ran to catch me up. “Thanks for waiting,” he muttered sarcastically.

I scowled over at him. In all honesty, I was a little surprised at his attitude. Usually the guards were all ‘Yes, Miss Singhania. No, Miss Singhania’. Clearly this guy had some balls. “Whatever, pretty boy. You want me to show you to your room or not?” I snapped.

“Sure, that’d be great.” His arm slipped around my shoulder. My heart seemed to stop before my body reacted immediately. I ducked under his arm and put both hands on his chest, shoving him as hard as I could. Because I’d caught him off guard, he stumbled back a step and looked at me with wide, horrified eyes. My teeth clenched together as I pulled back my right arm, throwing a punch in the general direction of his face. But he was too fast for me and threw his arm up to block my hit before holding both hands up innocently.

“I’m sorry! I shouldn’t have done that, I’m sorry,” he apologised quickly, shaking his head.

Tears welled in my eyes as my body shook from the shock of it. Male attention wasn’t something I could deal with anymore. It brought back too many memories. And I started running towards my room.....