2 weeks later,

"All the members of mars mission assemble on the ground"

Everyone groans as they hear this announcement echo through the speakers, it's really early in the morning

'Yaar...this is not fair' Joy mutters pulling the duvet off him

'At times I wish I was Sanyukta, no physical exercise for her for now' Sumit says and climbs down his bed.

'These stupid work out session' Sanaya groans sitting up on bed, her eyes still closed. Kritika climbs down her bed muttering curses in her native language. Sanyukta yawns stretching in bed, she hears her phone beep.

"you will simply sit there and don't you dare to do any exercise not even simple ones" Randhir's text read.

Sanyukta smiles, she could sense his possessiveness.

Sanyukta rushes to the gym where the instructor is waiting. He greets her and they begin to discuss the details of the exercises they had planned for everyone

'I will be with you coach monitoring everyone's performances' she says after they were done discussing

'Sure, but you can do simple exercises.' The coach suggested

Sanyukta recollects Randhir's text from earlier, if he sees her exercise he will get angry and Sanyukta doesn't want that.

She shakes her head refusing politely.

'But it is good to do some simple exercises and yoga.' he says glancing down at her small baby bump. Sanyukta feels awkward

'My wife used to go few exercises and also yoga it's good for the baby' The coach says

'Okay' she nods and leaves. This baby bump is now getting embarrassing; everyone keeps eyeing it. Sanyukta decides to get loose clothes.

Everyone assembles in the ground and are standing in line waiting for the Coach. Sanyukta comes and stands beside Randhir, he looks at her surprised

'What are you doing here?' he says

'Coach said I can do some exercises' she says avoiding looking into his eyes.

'But...'

'It's healthy for babies...' she says looking at him. Randhir looks unconvinced, she places her hand over his arm and smiles 'Relax...nothing will happen...I will be careful' she says

Randhir opens his mouth to say something when the coach arrives.

'Okay everyone' The coach says addressing them, they all look at him with annoyed expressions on their faces.

'We will do simple exercises at first...then some intense workout like always, but Sanyukta won't be joining us then. After that, this week we will get everyone's measurement to see the progress.' The coach says

Sanyukta and leans towards Randhir 'I will take your measurements' she says to him brightly and then blushes on her own statement.

They start with simple squats. All the while Randhir kept glancing at Sanyukta. After a while they finished

'Uff...' Sanyukta says holding her lower back. Randhir panics

'Are you fine...? Is it paining...' he says scared. Sanyukta looks at him with a faint smile, she places her hand on his cheek 'I am fine' she says

Half an hour later, Sanyukta is sitting on the bench holding a notepad. Her work is to watch everyone's performance and note down it for the record. Everyone are doing their workouts, Coach is in the ground along with others closely monitoring them and guiding them.

Sanyukta watches Joy and Sumit struggling with their push ups, she smiles and turns her head. Her gaze falls on Randhir.

He isn't too far from her doing his pull ups, his back to her. She watches him intently, noticing him keenly. His muscles flexes as he does his pull up, his shoulder blades... His grey vest now has sweat stain. For some reason she feels extremely aroused watching him. He stands on his feet, his body glistening with sweat. He uncaps his bottle of water and takes a sip, water flows from corner of his mouth and trickles down his neck disappearing into his vest. Sanyukta bites down her lower lip pressing her thighs together tightly. He places the bottle down.

'Sheku...'Sanaya huffs, she stops in front of him. 'I am so tried' she pants placing one hand over her chest and other on his arm.

Sanyukta frowns... Sanaya is touching him, why is she touching her man? Sanyukta glares at them.

'Here have water' Randhir says casually, Sanaya's face lights up and happily she takes the bottle from Randhir, her finger brushes over his. Sanyukta folds her arms across her chest angrily, but why is she angry? Why it affecting her so much? Sanaya and Randhir are friends; she knows that very well but then why is she feeling uncomfortable?

Randhir and Sanaya begin to chat

'Wow, Sheku...your muscles are so awesome' Sanaya says touching his biceps, Randhir simply nods. That was it for Sanyukta, she slams the notepad on the bench and stands up.

"you will lose your... this hour glass shape...roam around with puffy cheeks and bulging belly"

Vidhushi's words rings in her eyes, Sanyukta touch her cheeks and then places her hand on her baby bump. She looks up again.

Sanaya seem have cracked a joke because she was holding Randhir's shoulder laughing while Randhir is smiling

"with all the hot women roaming around him, how much will he control? He is a man after all"

Sanyukta isn't liking this.

'Sanaya' Sanyukta says sternly walking towards them, Sanaya moves her hand from his shoulder and turns around looking at Sanyukta

'Hey' she chirps 'you are so lucky...these exercises are exhausting' she says happily

'20 laps' Sanyukta says harshly

'Huh!' Sanaya says confused

'Go run 20 laps more' Sanyukta snaps at her, Sanaya is taken aback

'Sanyukta...Sanaya just finished 10 laps, she is exhausted...'Randhir defends his best friend. Sanyukta shoots a deadly glare at Randhir. Sanaya places her hand on his arm and looks at Randhir silently telling him it's okay. Sanyukta fists her fingers tightly eyeing her hand on her husband's arm.

Sanaya leaves.

Everyone stands in queue, boys in one row and girls in the other. Randhir stands last as per Sanyukta's orders. It's good that there are only two girls and she will be done with them soon.

The coach is taking Arjun's measurement, next is Sumit and then Randhir

'Sir,' Sanyukta turns after she is done with Sanaya 'I will take Randhir's, that way we will finish soon' she says trying hard to control her smile.

'Okay' the Coach says, turning his attention back to Arjun. Randhir smirks at her while she looks away smiling.

Sanaya nudges Kritika and they giggle.

Randhir stands in front of Sanyukta spreading his arms wide. Sanyukta looks up at him, her heart starts to flutter.

She takes the measuring tape, wrapping it around his chest she moves closer. She could smell his sweat and feels herself go crazy. After she is done with it, she held his hand and slowly moves her palms up his sweaty arms eyeing them with lust. She wraps the tape around his biceps she feels it tense. Slowly she looks into his eyes, he looks back at her.

'Are you done, Sanyukta' Coach says as he finishes taking Sumit's measurement. Sanyukta snaps from her zone and looks at the Coach embarrassed

'Yes sir, almost' she says. Damn! Her pregnancy hormones always manage to either embarrass her or land her in trouble. Randhir chuckles, Sanyukta frowns wrapping the tape around his waist, she pulls it hard

'Ahh...'Randhir winces, Sanyukta smirks.