Chapter 69: Chapter 69

"ThankGod that Khushi shared her problem with me and I was able to find the solution for her without letting her know by the way.", Abeer mumbled and rested his head on the pillow when his mobile started ringing again.

It was a call from Scarlett.

"Hey Mr. Handsome how are you?", Scarlett asked in her sweet voice.

"I'm fine Miss. Beautiful. Tell me what you are upto?", Abeer questioned back.

"Well I am thinking of meeting you. It had been so many days since we last met. We only talk over calls. So I want to meet you today anyhow.",Scarlett wished.

"But today? No.. No.. That's not possible Princess.", Abeer tried to turn down her request.

"I knew it. I knew this for a long time." Scarlett spoke in her complaining voice.

"What?", Abeer asked confusingly.

"That now after you met with your that female friend, you will forget me soon.",Scarlett said in her voice full of pain.

"Hey! No. No way I am forgetting you Princess. You are not a thing whom I can put anywhere and forget. You are my only whole bundle of joy for me and I promise I will never ever forget you. You want to meet me, No?", Abeer questioned.

"Yess.", Scarlett replied with her running nose.

"That's it.. We will meet in the evening. Don't worry at all. Now smile.", Abeer mumbled.

And Scarlett started smiling as her plan of emotional blackmailing really worked on Abeer just as it worked on other people.

Suddenly Abeer heard a continuous knock on his door.

" Arnan opened the door. Are you sleeping so that you can't hear me? I have been knocking for so long. Ahhhh I will kill you if you don't open it in the next ten seconds.", Khushi threatened to knock on the door at full speed.

"Oh! My Goodness. What did I do now that she is here to kill me? And after threatening me with her words, how could she think I am going to open the door for her?" Abeer spoke to himself in fear.

"Hey! Mr. Handsome everything okay?"Scarlett questioned from the other side, making Abeer realize her presence which he really totally forgot after hearing Khushi's voice.

"Yeah all good. Okay then we will meet in the evening Princess. Take care." Abeer replied and cut the call immediately and left the bed to open the door, hiding his mobile in his pocket to know the reason behind Khushi's screaming.

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"Ummm... Ummmm...", Stella tried to scream for help but of no use as the thief had shut her mouth tightly with his hands.

The thief grabbed the chance and flipped his position in his favor. Now Stella was beneath him and he was on top of her. Their eyes met and for the first time Stella stopped screaming and started staring at the thief's big brown eyes like she knew him for so long. The thief, too, removed his hand from her mouth, realizing that she would not shout anymore.

"Who are you? Why did you hide your face with this mask? Why did I feel like I know you?", Stella started throwing her bomb of questions one after the other, the moment her mouth got free.

"Shut up Stella. Just keep your stupid mouth shut."The thief spoke, finally breaking the silence.

" B..b..Boss.. You.. Is this you? ", Stella asked, confused.

"Finally very soon you recognised me Miss. Stella.", the thief taunted and removed his mask.

"Boss, what are you doing here?" Stella questioned.

"Wow! You really have the guts to ask me a question like that Stella?"Damian asked irritably.

"Umm.. Wmm..", Stella started looking here and there when she realized the situation between them.

Both were so close to each other that they could hear their heartbeat clearly.

Stella's heart was pounding heavily witnessing the proximity between them that made her speechless and she started feeling jelly like something in her stomach.

"What on the earth were you busy doing that you did not have time to pick up my call? What were you doing?", Damian questioned angrily.

"Actually Boss..", Stella stopped herself from speaking when she realized what she was actually doing.

"What? Now what?"Damian roared in his deep husky voice making her flinch at her place in fear.

"How will I tell him the truth? That I was busy crying over my fate. That I was busy crying for you. No.. Noo...I can't tell him the genuine reason. I have to make some excuse otherwise he would eat me alive in his anger.", Stella spoke to herself in her mind.

" Would you mind opening your mouth and answer me, damn it?", Damian asked again, seeing Stella wandering in her own chain of thoughts.

"Boss I was doing some personal work that's why I did not hear the mobile ringing.", Stella faked an excuse to escape from the situation.

"Oh! Really! Mind telling me your personal work, Stella?", Damian questioned back because he was not satisfied with her answer.

Since The day she joined her in his gang, that day till now she never ignored him like that no matter how important work she was busy doing, she left aside her work just to attend to him.

In short his wish is her command and today was the day when this unusual thing happened.

"Don't make any excuse related to your mother because I knew that at this time she must be sleeping after taking her medicines. So you better come up with a good excuse otherwise, be ready for my punishment, Stella.", Damian warned her in his deep husky voice, making her numb for sometime.

She started shivering in his embrace as she was only wrapped up in a towel and it's cold outside making her quiver in cold but she was not feeling that in front of Damian because she was facing a bigger problem than having a cold.

And that is to answer Damian's question which was really hard for Stella as she knew that she could not lie in front of him।easily.

"Answer me, Damn it!", Damian roared, annoyed.