I opened my eyes and found myself sleeping on the bed. But how come I was here? As far as I remember, I slept on the sofa. I sat up and saw Siddharth sleeping uncomfortably on the sofa instead, the sofa being too small for him.

He must have shifted me here.

The thought brought a smile to my face. I went towards him and sat on my knees while staring at his face. He was beautiful with his angular nose, high cheekbones, long eyelashes that I'd kill for and perfect lips that looked so pink and plump. His hair was messily lying on his forehead making him look young and not being able to stop myself I pushed them away.

Yup his hair is as soft as I thought.

I then started tracing his features with a feather light touch. When I touched his lips, his breath hitched but thankfully didn't wake up. Not being able to stop myself I kissed his cheek lightly and went for a shower.

After coming out of the bathroom I saw that Siddharth wasn't in the room. Not giving it much thought I wore my clothes that included a deep wine colour shirt and black wide pants. I paired them with black stilettos and moved towards the table to do my makeup. My eyes looked puffy because of crying so I put a bit of concealer to hide the bags under my eyes. I applied my eyeliner, sindoor and deep wine lipstick to complete the look. I then tied my hair in a sleep ponytail and after spraying my perfume I glanced at myself in the mirror happy with the way I looked.

Confident and fierce.

Today was the client meeting with the Oberoi's and I wanted to look the part. Taking my bag, phone and keys I left to have breakfast.

"Mom where is Siddharth?" I asked her when I couldn't find him anywhere.

"He left already. He said he'll go home first to shower and and said he'll meet you in the office itself"

"Okay" I said a bit disappointed with this piece of news. I was hoping we'll leave together.

I had my breakfast in silence and left before inviting them for dinner tonight, for which she agreed.

I reached office by 10 and went straight for my cabin. I was preparing everything for the meeting when my door knocked and Mayank entered.

"Hello. How are you? All set for today?" He asked

"I'm good and yes I'm excited for the project"

"Great. Dad has high hopes from your firm"

"And we'll live up to it" I assured him.

"I'll see you at 12, I just came by to say hello"

"Okay. See you later Alligator" I said laughing and he too joined in. He left while I prepared everything for the meeting.

At 12 o' clock we all met in the conference room to discuss about the project. Mr. Oberoi explained his demands and expectations from our company. I noted down all his requirements and we were supposed to showcase first draft of our designs within one month. Mayank was also present in the meeting and I saw a new side to him. He was passionate about his work and it showed in the way he spoke about his hotels. He truly looked like an heir of Oberoi Group of Hotels and I was thoroughly impressed by him.

When I was discussing something about the project with Mayank, I felt as if we were being watched. I turned around and saw Siddharth looking at us, though his face was neutral you could see it in his eyes how annoyed he was and if you know him well like I did you could also see a vein popping on his forehead, which only appeared when he was angry.

Feeling uncomfortable under his gaze, I moved away from Mayank and told him that we'll discuss it later, not wanting to fuel his doubts. Once the meeting was over, Siddharth was the first one to leave after the Oberoi's left and didn't even look at me once.

I knew he was angry because of me and as much as I wanted to avoid him, I urgently needed to ask Siddharth about the dinner tonight with our parents. I went towards his cabin and entered after knocking,

"I need to know something.." I stopped mid sentence upon seeing the scene in front of me.

Nisha was sitting very close to Siddharth, with their thighs touching and she was laughing on something with her hand placed on his chest. When she saw me she didn't even bother to get away from him and instead smugly asked "Hello Anika, you need something?"

Dressed in a loose sheer white shirt with a few top buttons undone and her shirt tucked into a black tight fitted skirt, she looked amazing and I looked like a pauper in front of her, all my confidence from earlier gone. With her golden brown hair, hazel green eyes and prominent cheekbones, she was really beautiful but her rotten personality overpowered it. Siddharth and her complimented each other with their model like looks while I felt very conscious in my modest clothing and average looks.

When Siddharth also didn't make any move to get away from her, my blood boiled in jealousy. I was his wife and he did say we have to act like a couple in front of others then why is acting like this? And why is he allowing her to be this close to him?

When I saw Nisha smirking at me as if she knew about my internal feelings, all my emotions got masked by jealousy and I answered in a heated voice "Yes I need to talk to my husband. In private"

I was expecting her to leave when,

"Whatever you have to say, you can say it in front of Nisha" Siddharth said while staring at me intently.

Really? If that's what he wants, he'll get it.

"Oh honey I just wanted to tell you that I wasn't fully satisfied with your performance in bed last night and you were too small than I had originally imagined. Hopefully next time you'll not be as disappointing as last night and will last longer than me" I said innocently and pouted.

I knew I was so going to regret this later but I just couldn't stop myself.

He stood up in complete shock, all red in anger or either in embarrassment. Even Nisha who was still sitting down on the sofa was staring at me in astonishment as if I have grown two heads and then looked at Siddharth weirdly.

I smirked at him. Take that hubby!

He composed himself and looked at me dead in the eye, his eyes swirling with anger. In a tight voice he said "Nisha leave" without sparing her a single glance.

Nisha getting the message was about to leave when I interrupted "Oh don't be embarrassed darling, Nisha is a friend of ours and she'll understand. But then I did say I wanna talk to you in private" I said meaningfully while looking at him.

"Nisha go I'll..." he was speaking when I interrupted in between not wanting to be left alone with him, I didn't want to face his wrath. I knew what was coming next.

"Okay. I said what I came here for, I'll take my leave now. Bye Nisha I'll see you soon" I fake smiled at her.

I left in a hurry when I saw that Siddharth was walking after me. Nisha was still standing like a statue too confused with what she just saw and heard. I quickly rushed to my cabin and locked the door after me when I heard him banging my door. I didn't open it and seeing as we were still in office, he left not wanting to make a scene in front of his employees, making me take a sigh of relief.

Just then my phone beeped and I saw a message from an unknown number

Just wait wifey, I'll soon prove your imagination wrong and satisfy you in bed with you writhing in pleasure under me while moaning my name and begging me to finish what you just started ;)

My heartbeat increased rapidly after reading his message. There were no qualms about the identity of the sender. I could just imagine Siddharth saying those words in his deep sultry voice. I know that he was trying to scare me with what I pulled earlier and he was succeeding. But my heart still raced in anticipation and I blushed reading his message again and again. I wished for it to be true. Oh, I wished for him to be mine.

I know I'm hopeless!

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Pic of Nisha above 🔝