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"No mom, it's not that windy over here as you assumed it to be," I cheerfully continued to chit chat with my mother over the phone when I noticed that an envelope in Viaan's jacket pocket fluttered in the air just to fall on the middle of the road. It had been peeping for quite some time now before it finally decided to fall off. And he didn't notice it as he had been busy discussing something with Vikrant while they elegantly walked towards the awaiting cars. Daksh too had his back to us as he continued to instruct something to the drivers who were replying animatedly.
I contemplated calling out to him and informing him about the envelope but then I was already heading towards the same way, I could always pick it up for him.
My mom continued talking about a proposal that Anjali had got, but my attention was all focused on the white envelope that laid harmlessly on the freshly metalled side of the road.
"Hang on for a second, something has dropped from Viaan's pocket," I subconsciously stalled her from filling me up with the juicy tweets while I was already bending over to pick the envelope up. My entire attention had been circumstances by the situation that I didn't hear the furiously honking in the background.
But when I did register it and look up, the phone slipped from my hand and fell while I froze in my place. The back of my mind processed the screen of my new phone cracking into several fragments while my mother kept calling out for me. Chills ran down my spine and fear pumped in my heart making it stop for a few seconds. The same happened with my ability to breathe. My body had locked itself in its place, right in the middle of the way for the huge truck.
On the other hand, Viaan casually turned around still talking to his brother when he saw me halfway bent down in the middle of the road and a truck racing towards me, honking like bonkers. Coldness settled into him for a brief second before the calculative Raivardhan side of his taking over.
The first thing he realized was that it was a regular eight-wheeler lorry and it didn't have additional wheels in the middle. Simultaneously, his mind had calculated the approximate speed at which it was traveling and the time he had left with to implement the best survival strategy. Leaving the talk in the middle, he ran at his full speed towards me, his wife who so happened to have frozen in the spot like a stuffed toy after seeing death rolling down the road.
Just when the truck was a few meters away from me, I finally realized that anytime now my stupid brain would be all over the place. I swear, I saw my life flash before my eyes making me regret all the things I did and didn't do. I felt my world pause and my eyes close shut tight, hoping a miracle would occur and me to grow a pair of wings and fly away. Anyway, it looked like I would be growing them soon after coming out of this body.
But no, fate had other plans.
I felt a strong rough arm grab me by my shoulder and instead of being pulled or pushed away, I was pushed down just to fall on the ground right in the way of the truck!
All sorts of fear crawled over me learning the fact that Viaan had a suicidal tendency and a real death wish to be lying beside me. Though everything happened so fast, every single second felt like the 'slow-mode' button had been pushed.
Damn amazing feeling!I rolled my eyes mentally.
Viaan's strong hand had grabbed me before curling around my shoulders just to hold me tighter and closer to him. More specifically, his hot body. I felt his body quickly adjust to lay halfway over me, reducing the space between us as we laid down flat vertically in the direction of the moving truck. My panic levels rose as my brain failed to process all the sudden things that had just transpired. I clutched onto him as if my life depended on it and tightly shut my eyes close for the second time as they had flashed open when Viaan did all that circus.
Even though we were going to die, a part of me had calmed down as soon as I was in his arms.
The cool air and sunlight were replaced by hot fast-moving wind and shade with a feeling of something moving above us as we both laid still for what looked like hours together but was only a fraction of a minute.
My body had grown more rigid, if possible, with the fear that one small movement could kill us just like that even though all I wanted to do was get up and run away from here. But those few seconds were enough to leave me feeling the absolute dread course through my entire being.
The hovering presence disappeared and people rushed towards where we laid so still. I was still unable to accept the fact that it was over. Disbelief coursed through my body and so did the trembling. My eyes were blurring up due to shock and joy. Yet my breathing still remained ragged.
We came out of an impossible to escape accident unharmed, for the sake of god! And the fact that Viaan had risked his life to save mine touched my soul. His action reached so deeply in my heart that my heart surrender itself to him.
It was crystal clear, I had fallen for him. Who was I kidding before by saying I hadn't?
My heart pounded harder with the realization and the proximity between us. A kaleidoscope of butterflies fluttered in my stomach. I had fallen in love with my husband.
I felt Viaan move away from me before he sat up spitting fire but not before roughly pulling me up in a sitting position, "What the hell Rynah! How irresponsible are you? That truck could have..." He left his sentence incomplete as he looked around bitterly digesting the fact what could have happened if he hadn't reached me in time. He didn't even want to think of that possibility at the moment as his stomach clenched painfully.
All that I could do was suck in a breath trying to calm my thundering heart. It was a relief that no one was hurt. Daksh immediately knelt beside us, checking for any injuries on either of us while the screeching of a car's tires attracted attention before it raced down on the other side of the road after the truck that had almost killed us. And I eerily suspect seeing Vikrant with a clenched jaw behind the wheels.
"What were you thinking? Why were you bending down so carelessly in the middle of a damn road?" Viaan's further questions made me look into his furious eyes that also harbored concern. His open scowl made the other driver take a step back feeling intimidated. The tears in my eyes continued to roll down even when I willed them to stop but he didn't care about it. Only one thought had clouded his mind. The one thought that plagued him -she better be crying than be dead.
"I… I was..." I sniffled before raising my trembling hand which held the envelope, "Picking this up."
The small embarrassing hiccup that involuntarily left my lips softened his expression. And the envelope and the sight of me trying hard not to break down, made him sigh.
The way his fingers gently touched mine as he took the envelope from me, I knew one thing for sure that I had unintentionally risked my life to collect something more important than his own life for him.
His eyes bore into mine, searching for something that I didn't know. But I was already lost into the chocolate swirls of his. A tender look had taken over them making them look even more beautiful.
Could this beautiful man ever feel something for me?
I was ready to pay anything as long as he looked at me that way.
"He wasn't supposed to be here. This road is under construction. The heavy-duty vehicles weren't allowed in this part of the area," Daksh's grave voice caught our attention.
