Chapter 19

I walk out of the kitchen after few seconds and I see everyone has already settled in on the dining table.

Taking a seat besides Manik, I avoid any sort of eye contact with him.

"This is really good, Nandini, the taste however is awfully familiar." I immediately look at Manik with my eyes wide open.

At this point I was freaking out, I knew they will come to know who made it in a matter of seconds.

Manik clears his throat and with calm look on his face, he starts eating like nothing is happening.

This man.

I slap his thigh which makes him look at me.

"They'll figure it out!!" I whisper slowly.

"They already know, sweetheart." I turn to look at everyone and I find them looking at me with a smile on their faces.

"Sorry?" I sound like a child who was caught cheating.

Manik chuckles making me slap his thigh one more time.

"Aggressive." He whispers.

"It's okay Nandini, you don't have to feel bad. Besides we all love Manik's kheer."

"Yeah trust me, you don't want to compete with your husband by making kheer. He loves to win."

He sure does.

"Nandini, what time are you going to your parent's house?"

"We were thinking around 1:00."

"Okay. The preparation for your reception party are coming along well, I'm going to double check everything tomorrow morning."

"Mom how along are we supposed to stay there? 30 minutes? 1 hour?"

"Manik! It's your own reception not someone else's party you're attending. You have to be there during the whole thing."

I feel my eyes widen along with Manik. We'll have to stay awake with a fake smile on our face until 4 am along our very drunk guests.

I will have to have few drinks of wine to get through it.

"Good thing wine exists." I whisper to him and I see a smile forming on his face.

"Thank you for the breakfast Nandini. We have to go now. We'll see you tomorrow."

Slowly they leave after saying their goodbyes.

"It's just you and me again."

"And your 100 staff members."

"You amuse me Mrs. Malhotra."

I sit down on the couch and look at him staring down at me like he is trying to analyze me.

"What?" I finally ask.

"I'm trying to figure out how you'll react to what I'm about to share with you."

I look at him with confusion on my face.

He extends his hand, sort of telling me to grab it. I follow him as he guides us to what looks like an office or study room.

My eyes follow him around the room as he walks gracefully to the huge safe he has, after opening it, he brings out a piece of paper that he gives me.

"This has all the passwords to everything I own. You have access to all the bank accounts, properties and companies. Remember when I asked you to sign a paper before our marriage? With your signature on that, you have become 50% owner of MEH. I wasn't kidding when I said we'll be equals in everything."

I probably haven't gasped louder than now. What the hell.

"Manik! That's insane. MEH is your company. You have put all your hard work in it and you deserve to own it 100%. I don't want to take that away from you."

"Sweetheart, you already signed the papers so we're not going to argue about this."

"You tricked me!! You knew i would sign on anything you gave me without reading it."

"You probably shouldn't do that, love. Let this be a learning opportunity. Besides, you know i would have gotten you to sign those papers no matter what."

That stupid amusing look on his face is irritating me right now. He is thoroughly enjoying this.

"I'm going to contact my lawyers." I say after a moment of silence.

"You don't want to play that game with me, Nandini. You are the owner of MEH now and it is not going to change."

I roll my eyes at him and he raises his one eyebrow in amusement.

"I'm jobless with access to million of dollars."

"Pretty much but that reminds me, where do you want to work? Are you going to work with Abhimanyu?"

"Abhi wants me to work under him for a little bit and then handle the company along with him but I don't want that."

"Then do you want to start your own company?"

"I'm not sure. It would take a lot of time and effort and honestly speaking I'm not the best person at running a business neither am I fan of the idea. I like investing though but I don't know what to do at the moment."

He stares at me for awhile probably thinking something.

"Join our company Nandini. Work under me. Let me see how you work and I'll train you appropriately after that you can take care of the investment part of our business. You'll be entirely in charge of it and I want you to learn about the rest of the business stuff too so that you can make decisions along with me."

"I..I don't know Manik. I don't know how I feel about mixing our professional and personal lives. It could possibly affect our relationship."

His arms circle around my waist and he pulls me closer to him.

"We'll be okay. Both of us are sensible enough to not bring work to home. Let's try it out and if we see that we can't separate them then we'll stop."

"Okay." A slow whisper escaped from my mouth, uncertainty clearly heard from my voice.

His soft lips touch my forehead and they stay there for a few seconds. My arms wrap around his neck.

This. This is peace. My new happy place. I feel myself calm and without worries. A home in a person.

His exhales loudly bringing me back to reality. Home. He whispers. Happy place. I whisper back.

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