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‘Go to him, Koyal, tell him that you love him. Take your destiny in your hands. Get the man you love’

Koyal could only stare at Kimberly.

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Koyal grabbed Atharv’s Mac and ran out of the room. She jumped into her car and drove faster than she should have.

She burst into his flat only to realize he was not in.

‘Where are you?’ she said into the phone as soon as he picked up.

‘Where are you?’ he said at the same time.

Koyal rolled her eyes. ‘Where are you?’ she tried again.

‘Where are you?’ he said in unison again.

‘Okay, stop.’

‘Okay, stop.’

‘Oh god!’

‘Oh god!’

They both burst out laughing.

‘I came looking for you at the hospital!’ Atharv exclaimed breathlessly.

‘I am home! Looking for you! Koyal said in an uncharacteristically excited voice. ‘Why did you go to the hospital?’

‘I could not wait!’

‘For what?’

‘To see you!’

The urgency in her voice mirrored the restless in his.

‘I am coming home, wait.’

‘That is one thing I refuse to do,’ she said and then added softly, ‘I have waited long enough already.’

Silence.

‘Meet me at South Bank. It should take you thirty minutes to get there. I will take about twenty-five,’ he said.

Koyal was already out the door by the time Atharv finished his sentence.

Atharv paced up and down restlessly. He paused, grinned and then started walking restlessly again.

‘Atharv!’ he heard and turned around sharply.

‘Koyal!’

Atharv ran to Koyal and simply took her in his arms. She wrapped her hands around him as tightly as she could, her body sagging with relief. Atharv took Koyal’s face in his hands and Koyal felt his eyes caress every bit of her face. She blushed and tried to look away, but Atharv would have none of it. His lips brushed against hers delicately, and the hair on her hands stood up. And for the next few minutes, the world disappeared as he kissed her with a passion that Koyal had never known before.

‘When you kiss me,’ she murmured as he focused his lava-black eyes on her, ‘I feel like a teenager.’

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