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Shivaay and Annika walked inside the resort to see the workers of the resort preparing for the mehndi and sangeet which will be happening next day.

They walked to the reception to take the keys of their room when others except elders came there.

"Thank god you came safely. I was so worried for you guys", Gauri said hugging Annika tightly. Annika smiled hugging her back.

"We're absolutely fine Ri. Just our car broke down and then it took us time searching for mechanic", Annika said parting from hug.

"You both always end up with car puncture in journey", Arnav chuckled.

"That's why I say, take me also with you", Rudra pouted.

"Ru, car won't puncture that way?", Annika chuckled. Rudra gave a sheepish smile.

"Actually it's nice, pumpkin. He will push the car from next time when it will break", Shivaay said teasingly towards Rudra.

"Haww", he pouted with a frown and looked towards Annika. She turned towards Shivaay.

"Don't tease my Ru like that Shivaay", she frowned making him sigh. Rudra smiled widely and gave a victory look to him.

"Leave this Anu! Tell me one thing, how you came then?", Malika asked.

"Haan, you didn't clearly told on call", Om added.

"Annika's sister dropped us", Shivaay said making everyone look at her. She looked towards them with a small smile.

"You have a sister?", Malika asked shocked.

"Cousin but yeah", Annika nodded.

"Oh shit! Yeah! How can we forget Bhav. Anu's family lives in Panaji only", Gauri said looking towards Bhavya.

"Oh yes yes! Anu, you'll meet them?", Bhavya asked seriously in slow voice.

Before Annika could say ahead, Jhanvi came there, with a tray in her hands.

"Annika, your family lives here?", Jhanvi asked with a slightly surprised smile.

Annika looked towards her feeling tongue tied. She surely can't lie for her. This woman has given her the motherly feeling she is craving from years. She was her second mother and the bond they share is something Annika adores a lot.

"Umm..Aunty, actually, yeah. My parents live here", Annika said and looked down.

"Really? Then why don't you make us meet beta. After all even we would love to know about our daughter's family", Jhanvi said cupping her cheek softly.

A lump formed in her through as Jhanvi asked it. Shivaay noticed Annika getting emotional and held her hand tightly making her look at him.

"Mom, actually it's just her cousin sister here right now. Her family has gone out of town. She forgot to tell them about that. They'll be coming after some days. Maybe next time now", Shivaay said making Annika look at him shocked.

"Right, love?", he asked looked towards Annika and pressed her palm. She smiled lightly towards Jhanvi and nodded.

"Ye..yes aunty. They're out of station now. I forgot to inform them about my arrival. Next time I will make you meet them", Annika said in low voice.

"Oh, it's okay. Next time then, maybe we'll talking about your wedding then", Jhanvi said teasing her in last. Annika smiled softly.

"Mom! We've time. Please", he said making Jhanvi giggle.

"Haan haan. Now as you came just now, go freshen up and rest for sometime. You must be tired with all driving", she said caressing his cheek lightly. He nodded.

"And you two, I said na, go and rest. You're the going to be married, kids", Jhanvi said frowning towards Malika and Arnav who raised their hands in surrender and all started going from there.

Annika stopped Shivaay as everyone started going. He looked at her and held her hand firmly between both her hands.

"Why did you lied to aunty?", she asked softly.

"Because I know, you're not ready yet to tell them", Shivaay said softly making her lower her eyes.

"I..I want them to meet you first, then I will immediately make them meet uncle aunty and everyone. I promise", Annika said looking towards him.

"I know, love", he said cupping her cheeks, "and I understand. You can take as much time as you want", he said kissing her forehead softly.

"Thank you for being so understand, Shivaay", she said looking towards him gratefully. He smiled and rubbed their nose together.

"No thank you and sorry between us", he said pecking her lips. She gaped and slapped his chest looking around and sighed seeing no one noticed it.

"Koi dekh lega", she exclaimed.

"Darta thodi hun, dekhne do. Pyaar hai toh hai", he said and looped his arm around her neck. She chuckled and both went towards their room.

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Shivaay came out after taking a shower to see Annika standing in front of dresser brushing her hair. He went behind her and shook his wet hair making them fall on her shoulder and upper back. She turned around in reflex, and he held her immediately keeping hands on her waist.

"What going in your mind?", she asked seeing his piercing gaze on her.

"You really wanna know?", he asked sneaking hands inside her shirt and messaged her waist.

She shrugged feeling his cold hands touching her warm waist. He kept walking ahead making her take the steps behind and pinned her beside the dresser. She gasped looking behind at the wall and then looked towards him.

"You see, you're injured from past one month and also busy with others", he said tucking her hair behind her ear.

"So..so?", she asked looking in his eyes. She has always noticed seeing them changing the shade whenever they're close. They get into something more intense.

"You asked what's going in my mind right?", he said pressed his bare chest against her chest making her clutch his shoulders. She nodded.

"I am feeling like kissing every inch of your body", he muttered and brushed his nose against the cheek, pressing it and kissed her jawline. Her cheeks turned red hearing his mind out.

"I am feeling like kissing you, like I have never before. Make you completely breathless", he turned his face and came in front of hers. He was towering over her with their lips just few inches away.

As he saw her eyeing towards his lips and then looked in his eyes, licking her lips, his control reached the limits. He pasted himself completely against her and slammed his lips against her making her breath hitch.

He pulled her more closer than they already were, wrapping an arm around her waist. His another hand went behind her head and pulled it closer deepening the kiss. Her arms in themself, wrapped around his neck, kissing him back.

His bare body with dripping water just added the fuel to the sexual tension already created between them. She was so close to him that she could smell the peculiar scent of his own body.

His hands went inside her hair, clutching them softly as he kissed every corner of her mouth. Her moans got muffled against his lips. Wrapping his arms around her thighs, he picked her up, making her wrap legs around his waist.

Kissing each other, he moved to the bed and sat down with her in his lap, making her straddle him. He left her lips and started kissing her jaw, moving down to her neck. She clutched his back being dazed as he started kissing her soft spots of neck, gently nibbling there, grazing his teeth on her collar bones.

She pushed him on the bed and hover him making her smirk. She pulled all her hair on one side and started kissing his neck, running her nose tip on the length of his nape. She grazed her teeth on the hollow of his neck and gently nibbles there, sucking at the area. She smiled seeing a hickey forming at the place.

Smooching all over his neck, she stopped at his adam apple to see it bobbling because of his quick breathing. She pressed her lips on his throat earning a groan from him. She started kissing it, sucking it lightly making him dazed in pleasure. His hands were inside her shirt, just going up, caressing her skin, feeling her.

Both came face to face breathing unevenly, he leaned in again joining their lips. Her fingers got lost in the thick locks of his hair, while his fingers moved towards the buttons of her shirt and slowly started opening the buttons. As he was on the third button, they heard a hard knock on the door.

Their eyes widen coming out from the daze and looked at each other and then themselves. Her eyes widen in realisation on them going with the flow as she could see her red lace brasseries visible from the shirt, giving ample look of her cleavage. She looked at him who's eyes were also there.

He immediately turned his face other side gulping. She tucked her hair behind her ear when they heard the knock again.

"Bhaiya!! Didi!! Come out fast. Yahan mahabharat ho gayi hai!", Rudra shouted from outside but the two in room were still lost in the moments their shared.

"We..we're coming Rudra. You go", Shivaay shouted back and looked back at Annika.

"I think.. We should stop here", he muttered making her nod with flushed cheeks.

"Annika", she looked at him with blinking eyes. He eyed her when she realised that she was still straddling him. She immediately moved back and sat down on the bed blushing furiously. He kept hand on his chest to feel his heart still beating rapidly.

They looked towards each other and the next moment both smiled and next bursted into laughter. He pulled her closer, looping arm around her neck and kissed her temple. She blushed wrapping arms around his torso.

"We need to put a control on us", he muttered making her nod blushing. He held her chin up and kissed her eyes.

"Sorry if I crossed my limits", he said softly making her frown lightly.

"Shut up! Just sometime back you said, no sorry and thank you between us", she said keeping hand on his chest.

"Yeah.. Still", he sighed keeping head above her head.

"We both were into this, weren't we? It's okay, it's just we can't resist each other", she said with a smile at end. He smiled kissed her hair.

"I can definitely can't resist you", he sighed dramatically making her giggle and slap on his chest, "but now, we'll try to control each other", he said making her look at him.

"I don't mind giving myself to you Shivaay. I trust you", she said softly. His chest welled up with the respect for the woman in front of him, she is ready to give herself to him, it's a big thing for any women.

"I am honoured love, that I make you feel so secured that you're ready to give yourself to me but I want to wait till our marriage", he said shocking her.

"Really? Why?", she asked surprised. Isn't men casual about it? she thought.

"You can consider me old school, love but I wanted my first time to the women I wed. My wife. I don't want to just have a sexually physical relationship with you, I want to make love to you. To your heart, to your soul. I want it to make the most beautiful night of our life that even after years, you smile thinking about that. I want your heart to feel the intensity of that", he said caressing her cheekbones.

She looked at him in awe as he looked at her. Guess she was wrong, his man is completely different. Deep down in her heart, she has wished for same. To give herself to her husband but after knowing that Shivaay is, anyways, going to one, she was little casual over it. But her man, he turned out to be completely different from this generation.

She wrapped her arms around him, taking him in a hug. He smiled confused and hugged her back.

"What happened, pumpkin?", he asked softly. She shook her head.

"Stop stealing my heart again and again. I have only one, it's already yours", she muttered. He chuckled on her cheesy reply and pecked her hair.

"How am I so lucky to have a man like you, in this generation?", she asked making him shake his head.

"It's nothing about generation baby. It's preference. I am not against the physical relationship before marriage but it's just I don't want it. They're no less in love who get physical before marriage. Every love is different", he smiled. She looked at her man in adoration and nodded.

"But.. Ma'am, button it up. I may change my ideas after knowing you're ready", he said eyeing her shirt with a grin. She then realised that she hasn't yet buttoned up her shirt and slapped his arm and button up it. He chuckled.

"You go ahead, I will wear my clothes and come", he said getting up from bed. He was just in his sweatpants. She nodded and he went to dress up.

She was leaving when she noticed her dishevelled hair and slapped her forehead, biting her tongue. Her cheeks turned pink as she recalled their moments while brushing her hair. Getting hold on herself, she went outside.

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As Shivaay came to the garden area of the resort, he saw Annika standing confused and gaping on the other six who were fighting with each other. He gently kept hand on her shoulder making her jump at the place, startled.

"It's me", he said raising his hand making her sigh and nod.

"Sorry I just.. Look at them Shivaay, what is this!", she exclaimed looking back at them.

"Yeah, even I am surprised seeing them like this", he said and walked to them.

"Okay okay, shut up now! What's going on here?", he exclaimed looking at them.

"Yeah, why are you fighting like this? I thought rehearsal is going here", she said looking at them.

"Rehearsal with them? Never", Malika said with a frown.

"As if we're dying here to rehearse with you. Even we don't want it. We're better alone", Arnav said back.

"Aur nahi toh kya! In fact, we're better dancer than you", Om said making Gauri pass him a sweet smile.

"Really Om? I mean for a moment I can accept on these two knowing that bhaiya dance really well but you, please!", Gauri said making Om gape at him.

"We'll prove you Ms. Gauri that we can dance better", Om argued back.

Annika and Shivaay looked at each other and sighed in disbelief. Then looked towards Rudra and Bhavya who shrugged.

"We didn't fight today for a change but these four had fights over the steps. Malika didi and Gauri didi like their own steps", Rudra said.

"And Arnav bhaiya and Om Bhaiya said they can do better steps than them", Bhavya added.

"Seriously? They're fighting for a kid issue", Shivaay rolled eyes.

"It's final! We're having boys v/s girls!", Malika announced.

"Very well, we're having this only then", Arnav challenged back.

"Hey! We decided to divide as team bride and team groom, what's this Boys v/s girls?", Annika frowned.

"It's boys v/s girls now! And you're being in our team Anu", Gauri glared at her pulling Bhavya towards her. Bhavya sighed towards Annika.

"Exactly! And Shivaay, Rudy you're in our team", Arnav pulled them towards him. Both looked at each other.

Shivaay sulked and looked towards Annika who shrugged shaking head in disbelief.

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Hey guys! Thanks for your votes and comments on the previous chapter. Keep reading, voting and commenting your views. They means a lot to me♥️

I was missing my romancing ShivIka so little make out🙈 isn't he a dream man?😍 my single self is crying🌝

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Precap: wedding ceremonies starts

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