Melting Hearts

Part 51 - Monday part 4

***Sahana's P. O. V***

I gulped in fear and blood rose to my cheeks as Arush moved forward towards the table, his arms just brushing mine.

And then, I almost squealed as I felt his musky cologne filling my nostrils as he slowly moved his socks clad feet on mine, making goose bumps erupt all over my body.

I cleared my throat and without looking at him, started moving my chair slowly away from him. But the great Arush always has his way!!

I felt a strong force stopping my chair and turned to find his strong hold on the arm rest of my chair. At this point, everybody in the room was looking at me and clearing my throat again, I bent down, acting as if I'm picking up something that's fallen down.

Taking deep calming breaths, I looked around to find Arush's socks clad feet, both of which were out of the shoe.... and that's when an idea struck me!

Bachchu abhi maza chakhaungi tujhe Arush!!

Smirking, I started tickling the underside of his feet ever so softly, hoping against hope that he was ticklish. And sure enough, I saw him fidgeting on his seat before he moved his feet aside. 

Barely controlling my smirk, I sat back on the chair, acting nonchalant, while Arush cleared his throat.

From the reflection on my laptop screen, I could make out how Arush was pursing his lips in anger, and knew very well that I'd be facing a hybrid of a hungry lion+dinosaur+dragon aka our very own pissed off Arush after the meeting was over, but as of now I'm safe aren't I?!

Oh how wrong was I?!

I was listening intently to Prisha saying about her contribution to the project, when I felt his warm and strong hand on mine which was on the arm rest. Before I could react, his hand had moved to my thigh as he pushed his chair forward, completely hiding his hand or his antics from view.

Blood rose to my cheeks as he started moving his hand along my thigh under the table, but it didn't stop there. His hand moved back to mine which was clutching the armrest tightly, and making random circles on the top of my palm, making goosebumps erupt all over my body. My insides squirmed in delight and my heart started thumping unnaturally fast! Blood continued to rise to my cheeks and I started feeling things I'd never felt before in my life... oh boy this wasn't god!!

My face was surely resembling a ripe tomato 10 minutes later, when it was my turn to speak and Arush was still continuing with his antics of touching my thigh and drawing circles on my arm.

"I...I.. I'm...w.....w.....w....working...o..on..." I stuttered as sweat beaded on my forehead, thanks to Arush's antics.

Arush intertwined our fingers briefly before pressing my hand {which was on the arm rest and hidden from view} in a reassuring sort of way and put his hand on my thigh and somehow, feeling much more confident than I usually would whilst speaking in front of a crowd, I spoke about my contribution to the project, looking at everyone else except at Arush.

Finally, almost at the end of my monologue, I looked at him, who blinked his eyes in a reassuring sort of way, and unable to control a smile, I spoke, looking at the people around me.

It was almost 4 'o clock when the meeting got over, and once again Arush pressed my hand which was under the table, wordlessly telling me to meet him, before he went out of the meeting room.

The room broke out in loud buzzing like the buzzing of bees once Arush went out of the room, and everywhere I looked I met eyes which were full of pity and sympathy for me.

"Should I talk to him about you sitting in his cabin?!" Riya asked, as she too looked at me with sympathy.

"Huh?! Oh no.. no need... not like he's gonna agree to you is it?! And in any case, I'll work there and prove to him that I'm a good employee and a hard worker.... at least then he'll stop glowering at me" I lied, while my insides squirmed in pleasure at the thought of working in the same room as Arush... how he'd hopefully hold my hands or kiss me occasionally...