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"I'm warning you, stop right now if you don't want me to fuck the daylights out of you baby!" He said in a hoarse tone. "Although I think I should do it anyways, since you do deserve harsh punishment!"

She pressed harder on him and asked with narrowed eyes. "Why the hell do I deserve a punishment at all? Let alone a 'harsh' one!" She said air quoting the words 'harsh'.

"That's it! You've had your fun!" He said wrapping an arm around her waist and with one flip he turned them back to their previous position, with her beneath him. She looked up at him with wide clueless eyes, trying to make sense of what just happened.

She looked at his forearms on either side of her face, with the help of which he held himself up on top of her. "Wow you are so... strong!" Yuvi tried not to laugh at her tone filled with admiration but he lost it when she squeezed his biceps...or tried to do so anyways but her tiny palms wouldn't co-operate. He buried his head in her neck as he let out a loud laugh. She squealed trying to shove him away from herself. "Move away it tickles!"

Taking advantage of it, he latched on to her neck giving her yet another hickey. "So... about your punishment..."

"I didn't even fucking do anything you bastard!" She stubbornly replied.

"Tch! Tch! Such a pretty face and an absolutely trashy mouth..." He said smirking down at her. She gave him an angry pout and was about to push him off of herself when he moved his hands forward, clutched on to her open hair and pulled her face closer to his. "Yes you did! You dared to assume I spent our first night! Our wedding night with someone else, didn't you!? Even when I promised that I would be loyal and faithful to you." Taani looked up at him with wide panicked eyes, opening and closing her mouth like a fish, not knowing how to answer that.

"I... I didn't..." She stammered

He bit her lower lip once in warning. "Now you dare lie to my face, my darling wife?"

"It's your fault, you gave me reasons to assume! At least I didn't act upon it or the water on your god damned face would have been thrown by me instead!" Yuvi's eyebrows raised in surprise at the fact that she knows what went down between him and his mother in the morning.

She tried not to laugh recalling the incident which Rishi had told her about, earlier in the evening. "Who told you about that?"

"Even the walls have ears, Mr. Singhania." She replied with a smirk of her own.

"Then let's give them something to hear about."' He said and harshly pinched her nipple out of nowhere.

"Ahhh!" She yelled out at the sharp pain and Yuvi did not miss the chance to shove his tongue in her mouth, licking and sucking on hers.

She moaned out loud when he lowered the neckline of her night dress, baring her breasts and flicked the other nipple before rolling and pinching it between his index finger and the thumb.

"Mmm!" She tried to speak, pushing him back and he did. Panting heavily, he looked down at her with a clueless look on his face.

She quickly adjusted her night dress and glared up at him. "You can't have me tonight!" She said, still trying to regain her breath.

He raised an eyebrow at her with a smirk. "Is that a challenge?"

"No, it's a fact! You cannot have me...until you give me my gifts!" His smirk fell off and he looked down at her with furrowed eyebrows.

"What gifts...?" He asked with a cute scrunch of his nose.

"Meri muhh dikhaayi aur meri pehli rasoi ke gifts!" (For my face reveal and for my first cooking in this house.) She replied with such a resolute look on her face, like she has come to this decision after giving it quite a lot of thought.

He gave a short laugh at her cuteness. "I didn't even reveal your face last night though." He playfully argued.

"You really want to get in THAT argument right now? Moreover it was your fault and your loss!" She sassily replied.

"Hmm indeed." He playfully flicked her nose. "Alright then, let's just go to sleep." He got up and removed his tshirt in one swift move. Taani was so lost in his droolworthy abs, she didn't even realise what was happening until he was already settled beside her.

"What do you think you're doing?" She asked.

He raised an eye brow at her. "I'm going to sleep of course, what does it look like to you?"

"Oh no, no you are not sleeping on the same bed as me." She vehemently shook her head.

"Where else would I be sleeping then!?" He asked, giving her an incredulous look.

She shrugged her shoulders nonchalantly. "On the couch of course."

"Absolutely not! I'm not going anywhere, it's my room and my bed as well." He placed his hands behind his head and closed his eyes, making himself even more comfortable.

Taani stared at him angrily then turned to look at the couch with a pout, considering if it's even going to be worth it. "You sleep on your bed then, I'll move to the couch!" She muttered while picking up her pillow.

His arm shot out and clutched on to her forearm,  roughly pulling her to himself. She shrieked in surprise as she fell on his chest, his skin feeling warm beneath her palms. "What the hell Yuvi!" She shouted glaring at him.

He took her chin in a firm grip and replied. "I'll be damned if I let you sleep on the couch as well. You're not sleeping anywhere but beside me and in my arms, my darling wife." He clutched her tight to himself and covered them both with the blanket before turning the lamps off.

"Mr. Ziddi Singhania!" She muttered in a low voice, he just gave a small smile before kissing the top of her head.

"Go to sleep Tani." He muttered while caressing her hair. Her head was placed on his forearm and she was truly stuck to him with one of his arms behind her back and one around her waist.

Although she actually loved sleeping like this in his arms, she still didn't want to get attached to him. They were to remain as friends, and if this continued she was surely in for a major heartbreak. "You are suffocating me!" She weakly argued.

"You'll live just fine baby, go to sleep." He replied.

Half an hour went and it seemed that Yuvi was asleep but Taani was still wide awake. She moved a bit away from him so she could gaze up at his face, which was now slightly visible under the moonlight.

He truly was a very handsome man , sometimes cocky and insufferable, but handsome nonetheless. His face was literally shining under the moonlight, his long lashes sticking to his cheeks and his mouth slightly parted. His lips were looking so captivating, she felt like having a taste of her own.

She ever so slowly touched one of his lashes in a feather light touch but instantly removed her finger as his eyes slightly fluttered. Waiting a few more minutes to make sure that he was truly asleep, she traced his entire face with her finger before bringing it down his arms, tracing the protruding veins on them.

Her mouth parted when she reached his abs, so defined and hard beneath her finger. "Stop looking at me like that princess or it would take me just a minute to have you writhing beneath me, with me inside of you!" She yelped out loud in fright and looked up with wide panicked eyes to see him already gazing down at her with a hungry look on his face.

"Taking advantage of me, Mrs. Singhania? Weren't we supposed to go to sleep?" He asked, smirking down at her flustered face.

She blushed harder at his words, and burrowed her face in his chest to avoid looking at him and his teasing smirk. "I couldn't sleep! I told you, you were suffocating me, but you never listen!" Her voice came out muffled as she had already covered herself with the blanket up to her head.

His entire body shook as he let out a loud laugh. "Of course, I was suffocating you." He peeked inside the blanket as she tried to hide her face from him. "I hope you are able to breathe properly now?" She slapped his hand away, before covering herself once again.

"Let me sleep!" She yelled. He hugged her to himself, with a smile on his face, feeling content after a very long time.

***

Yuvraj woke up and found himself entangled with Taani. This was the first time he was waking up beside her. Her face comfortably laid on his naked chest, her arm around his waist and both their feet intertwined with each other. Almost her entire body laid on top of his, and even more interesting was the fact that he was loving it.

He had never slept with anyone in such close proximity. In fact even when he used to date, just a little bit of closeness or clinginess would irritate him to no end. But with Taani, he longed to hold her just a few more minutes. She fit so perfectly in his arms and all of it somehow felt right with her.

He admired her face in the glow of the morning. She appeared to be in a deep sleep. Her long silky hair was spread all over the pillow behind her. She truly looked like a royal princess. 'Sote hue bhi muhh bana hua hai sahiba ka.' (Madam is pouting even in her sleep.) He thought with a soundless chuckle and gave her a quick kiss on her mouth, making her eyebrows furrow.

He checked the time and it was almost 5:30am. He had to get up for his morning jog and gym but found it very hard to move away from his darling wife. After admiring her for five more minutes, he carefully took his arm out (which seemed to have fallen numb) from beneath her head and removed her arm from around his waist.

"God damn it!" He cried out in pain as he jerked his arm around to make it feel better then quickly freshened up and walked out of there.

***

After completing his jog and spending an hour at the home gym, he came back to see Taani standing in front of the mirror, fidgeting with the sponge trying to conceal the hickies he gave her.

She looked just as beautiful today wearing a baby pink coloured saree. Her hair was looking slightly wavy and she had clutched half of them up with the help of a clutcher.

He walked up to her and snaked an arm around her waist, keeping his chin on her shoulder. "Good morning my darling wife" He said kissing her cheek.

"Good morning..." She mumbled absent mindedly then narrowed her eyes in the mirror reflection and turned her face to glare furiously at him. "YOU!" She shouted pointing her finger.

He merely raised an eyebrow at her outburst. "Yes me, your darling husband." He replied, giving her an easygoing smile.

"Pain in my ass is more like it!" She said trying to wiggle out of his arms. He tightened his hold on her, refusing to let her go.

"I am really not...yet." He said blinking innocently when she turned to throw daggers at him with her eyes.

"Don't be a smartass I'm telling you! Look at what you have done!" She said showing him her neck which was again filled with quite a few hickies.

He smirked looking at her neck, feeling proud of himself. "Beautiful" He whispered giving a feather light kiss on the hickies. She smelled divine and he felt compelled to take a strong whiff of her neck, making her whole body shiver.

She snapped back to reality and turned around to glare up at him, still caged in his arms. Yuvi saw their reflection in the mirror, the way she was craning her neck to look up at him.

He looked down at her with a small smile and pecked her nose once. "You're so tiny, my little angry bird."

"I'm 5'2. YOU are just abnormally tall! You monster!" She said scrunching her nose up at him.

"And this monster wants to devour you, sweetheart." He whispered bringing his face closer to hers.

She flustered. Forgetting all about the argument. "No! You can't do that! You can't distract me like that, I'm angry at you!" She said stomping her foot like a child, pouting angrily up at him.

"Then let me apologize properly." He whispered, kissing on the side her neck.

"Stay far away from my neck Mr.!" She said, slightly shoving him away before turning around once again to resume with her work. It took her another five minutes to conceal the hickies and when she finally looked at the person standing behind her, she found herself blushing under his intense gaze.

"You're so beautiful Tani." He said caressing her hair and placing one last kiss on top of her head before heading towards the washroom to get freshened up for the day, leaving her a blushing and stuttering mess.

An hour later Yuvi went downstairs and saw that Taani was in the dinning room, along with everyone else.

Taani was coming out of the kitchen when she saw Yuvi coming downstairs. Her heartbeats accelerated looking at her husband, walking up to them while fixing his sleeves, his suit jacket hanging casually on his arm. His shirt was such a perfect fit, that every single cut of his biceps was visible through them.

"Ahem!" She snapped back to reality and saw that everyone was looking at her, giving her teasing smiles. Rishi gave her a faux innocent smile and said "Bhabhi ek paratha chahiye tha." (Sister-in-law, I wanted one paratha.) He said gesturing to the plate of parathas in her hand.

She blushed lowering her head and served him breakfast. "So are we not angry at brother Yuvi anymore?" Rishi whispered but he intentionally said it loud enough for everyone to hear.

Taani blushed in embarrassment when everyone started laughing. She twisted Rishi's ear making him yelp out in pain and said "Khana khaate waqt zada baat nahi karte dewar ji!" (We shouldn't talk much while eating, brother-in-law!)

"Oww oww bhabhi, okay okay!" He said trying to get his ear out of her grip. She patted his head and asked "Aur du?" (Want some more?) While gesturing towards the  parathas. Rishi silently shook his head in denial.

Yuvi smirked at the flustered look on his wife's face then wished everyone a good morning, before taking his seat at the table.

"Going back to work?" Divya asked, taking a sip of orange juice.

"Yes maa, have to close that deal, the head of that company will be visiting in a day or two, so I have to get everything organised before that." Yuvi replied taking a sip of his green tea. "And I've got to question a few people as well." He said looking at Taani, remembering about the girl who had picked up her call on his mobile.

"Question who?" Asked Aadesh.

"Just an employee, dad, don't worry about it." He said and quickly finished having his breakfast and ordered Rishi to be ready, as they will be heading out soon. Before going, he bent and touched the elder's feet.

"Khush raho beta." (Stay happy my child.) Meenal said while patting him on his head.

He was on his way to his room when he yelled for Taani. "Taani where have you kept my wallet, I can't find it!" Her eyebrows furrowed in confusion since she never even touched his wallet in the first place.

"Lo shaadi hui nahi ki khud ki cheezon ka bhi khayal nahi! Yahi haal Aadesh ka tha!" (He can't even take care of his wallet now that he's married! It was the same with Aadesh as well!) Meenal commented. Aadesh and Divya looked at each other and shared a secret smile.

Taani excused herself and went to their room to look for his wallet but just as she entered, the door was closed behind her and she found herself caged between the door and Yuvi, who was looking down at her with a devilish smile.

"What are you doing, aren't you getting late?" She asked.

Seeing the genuine look of confusion on her face had him biting his lips to stop his laugh. "I'm indeed getting very late." He replied.

"Then move aside, and let me find your wallet!" She said, trying to push him away, only for him to move even closer to her.

"Oh I have it already." He said gesturing towards his pocket.

"You do!? Then why did you -?" Her words were cut off as he pulled her closer by the back of her neck and placed his lips upon hers in a searing kiss.

As he tried to pull away, Taani took hold of his upper arm with one of her hands then gripped the back of his neck with the other and went on her tip toes, chasing his lips with her own.

They bit, licked and sucked on each other's lips and tongue, until they were both out of breath. Yuvi pulled away from her and kept his forehead on hers, trying to regain his breath once again. Then he looked down at her tightly closed eyes, rosy pink cheeks, plump lips and her beautifully dishevelled hair.

"Beautiful..." He whispered as she slowly opened her eyes looking dazed. "I just wanted to bid my darling wife a proper goodbye." He said smiling lovingly at her.

She looked up at his beautiful face in a daze, wondering what is the meaning of all this and how is she supposed to resist falling in love with him if he keeps pulling all these sorts of stunts? She is only a human being after all, she also has feelings.

"Madam kahan kho gayin?" (Madam, where did you go?) Yuvi asked, snapping his fingers in front of her face. She blinked rapidly, coming back to reality once again and forced a smile on her face.

"Kahin nahi, bas yun hi..." (Nowhere, just like that...) She trailed off.

Yuvi could feel that the smile on her face was not as it usually is, it did not seem to reach her eyes. She didn't appear to be happy, in fact she almost looked upset. 'Is it because of the kiss...?' He wondered.

"Are you really okay Tani?" He reluctantly asked.

This time she genuinely tried to smile for him. "Of course I am, why won't I be? And that too, after a mind-blowing kiss like that!?" She asked with a cheeky smile.

"Mind-blowing huhh?" He smirked at her. "Is that why you seemed to go to a whole other world baby?"

"Hmm maybe."

"Come on now Romeo, time to go!" She said ushering him out of the room. Yuvi pecked her lips one last time then went on his way while she stood there with her head against the door frame, lost in her own thoughts.

***

As soon as Yuvi reached the company, he ordered Rishi to gather everyone who was present in the last meeting, in the reception area. Soon, a crowd of department heads and other employees gathered, some looking anxious while some were just waiting for him to address the issue.

Yuvi stood in front of everyone with his hands in his pockets, oozing a great sense of power which had everyone getting anxious. "Good morning everyone." Everyone wished him back a good morning before he continued. "So you all know that we had an emergency two days ago, which we all collectively tackled and fortunately the deal is back on. So congratulations to you guys as well." There was a loud cheer at the end of his brief speech. The environment became much warmer seeing that he was just here to congratulate everyone.

"Of course now we'll have to work harder to welcome the head of that company, and to successfully commence the project and I have trust in all of you that you guys are more than capable of doing that. So are we ready!?" Everyone shouted a loud 'Yes' in response.

He nodded with a smile before continuing. "It's good to see that all of you are in high spirits, but before I end this impromptu meeting, I have one last thing to discuss."

He waited to have everyone's attention before speaking once again. "I'll come straight to the point. The day before, one of you had picked up a phone call for me on my mobile, who was it?" There was a pin drop silence in the entire hall. Mostly everyone was looking confused but there was someone at the back who was now full on panicking, knowing she was the one who had done that, having no idea it will land her in such a situation.

Even Rishi looked at his brother in confusion not knowing what was going on. "You can come out and admit it on your own or I can have the authorities to check the security footage, either way I'm going to find out so the choice is yours." The girl slowly walked ahead with her head lowered in fear and anxiety. Everyone else shook their head in pity, knowing the outcome is in no way going to be pleasant for her.

"Ms. Sharma of the finance department right? If I'm not mistaken?" He asked. The girl literally shivered before muttering a quiet 'Yes sir'.

He nodded and then addressed everyone else. "Is anyone over here allowed to touch my mobile without my permission?" Some just shook their head while the others replied with a 'no sir'.

"So how did you assume you had the authority to do so, Ms. Sharma?" He still maintained his calm authority, which seemed even more dangerous than a person shouting in anger. The girl remained silent. "And not only did you make the mistake of picking up my call, you had the audacity to be rude to that person as well." Her eyes widened in fear and she was now on the verge of crying.

"And just your luck, it happened to be my wife. And no one, I repeat no one is allowed to disrespect my wife under any circumstances." He said in a loud and clear voice. "This is for everyone present over here, any disrespect to my wife is a disrespect to me. So heed my advice once and for all or it won't turn out well for either of you." Everyone mutely nodded their heads, including Ms. Sharma who was full on crying now.

"Ms. Sharma, collect your termination letter from the HR department in ten minutes. The meeting is adjourned, everyone get back to work." With that, he walked towards his private elevator followed by Rishi, leaving behind a sobbing girl and a crowd full of murmuring employees.

How are you guys? I'm not really sorry for the late update and to be very honest, I didn't really want to update either but my dedicated readers who vote and show their love and eagerness by commenting, deserved it, so I'm uploading today only for them.

I hope you guys won't disappoint this time... it's very demotivating to post for an audience who is not even willing to show their support :(

Have a nice day everyone. Vote and comment✨

Shukriya❣️

-Your Taani