“Ma’am you can not go inside. Please ma’am wait.”, The receptionist ran behind Meera as Meera walked straight out of the lift towards Rehan’s cabin ignoring all the shouts of the lady behind.

With the lady still following and shouting for her to stop, Meera did not stop as she opened the door with name plate CEO Rehan Goenka with loud bang and saw Rehan sitting working something in his laptop.

“Ma’am please you cannot come like this—“, The lady reasoned as she tried to hold Meera from her elbow but Rehan raised his hand to stop her before gesturing her to leave and the lady left after closing the door behind.

“You were in meeting, weren’t you?”, Meera asked glaring him and Rehan sighed before saying, “Lets go somewhere else to talk about this. You don’t have to create scene here In the office.”

Meera nodded before walking out of his cabin followed by him and everyone were looking at them in the office but Meera cared less. They went to the restaurant opposite his office and asked for a private area to avoid the outsiders as well as media who were eager to know about even a small details about them.

Sitting in silence for few minutes until Rehan broke the quietness as he apologized, “I am sorry, I should not have lied to you about me being in the meeting.”

“Why did you call off this marriage?”, Meera asked straight away without beating around the bush and Rehan sighed before he said, “You know that our marriage was nothing but a business alliance between our families. Your business collapsed suddenly and we all know that if we still hold onto this marriage that it will affect Goenka’s business as well.”

Meera looked away for split of seconds before looking back as she stared at the person in front of her with hurt in her eyes and smile on her lips as she uttered grimly, “Thank you.”

Rehan looked at her stunned and surprised as he had expected anything but a gratefulness from Meera after their marriage got cancelled.

“Thank you for breaking this alliance and letting me know that what a great mistake I was doing by agreeing to marry a person like you. If this would have happened after our marriage, then I might had to live forever with the tag of a ‘divorcee’. But I am happy that all this happened before our marriage and I got to know your true face.”, Meera said calmly without a single trance of anger neither in her voice nor on her face and that alluring smile playing on her lips hurt the male ego of Rehan beyond repairs.

Grabbing her bag, Meera got up and turned to leave but suddenly halt in her steps as she gazed back sincerely in Rehan’s eyes before saying, “Marriage is a sacred bond and not some rubbish business deal. It is a pure relation where you don’t share only happiness but every phase in your soulmate’s life. You don’t hold her only in good times but also support her in her worst days. I hope you meet someone who can make you understand the real meaning of marriage. Hope to never see you again Mr. Rehan Goenka.”

And she came out of the cubicle only to collide with something or may be someone. Meera hurriedly apologized to the person without glancing at him as she walked out of there.

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Vivaansh after getting done with his lunch meeting, was sitting in one of the private cubical while waiting for the girl he was supposed to meet for the blind date when he heard some commotion from the another cubicle beside his’.

He Ignored at first as he continued checking important mails in his cellphone but voices from other cubicle was loud enough for him to ignore. He was about to call the waiter to look into the matter but then her words took his attention.

And without his notice he was already eavesdropping the private conversation between these unknown couple sitting on the other side of wall. And somewhere her each and every word were exciting him more and more to hear them.

“Marriage is a sacred bond and not some rubbish business deal. It is a pure relation where you don’t share only happiness but every phase in your soulmate’s life. You don’t hold her only in good times but also support her in her worst days. I hope you meet someone who can make you understand the real meaning of marriage. Hope to never see you again Mr. Rehan Goenka.”

A small smile made Its was on his lips as he felt proud of the bravery of whoever this girl was. It is not easy to bear the pain of the marriage getting called off but th way she stood strong instead of crying over the loss, unknowingly made Vivaansh admire the girl.

His trance was broken as his phone went off displaying ‘Mom’ and he walked out of his private area to attend the call when he collide with someone and he saw a girl barely reaching to his shoulders, with long straight black hairs and a bit chubby but beautiful in figure, apologizing him without looking up at him before she walk past him.

She was wearing a beautiful baby pink colored palazzo suit with a white colored mojdi (flats). Her voice had the magic to enchant anyone and even though he did not look at her face but the way she was carrying herself into that traditional dress with those brave words he heard from her few minutes back made Vivaansh knew that she is one beautiful girl he had ever met.

Staring at her retreating figure for last time until she was not visible to him anymore, even Vivaansh went away to attend the call.

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