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"Shana?" I heard a very familiar voice from behind me. Turning hastily I saw

him after a good whole year. I didn't know how to react, I just stared at him unbelievingly. Mia in my arms squealed on seeing him..

"Dada! Look I found Mosi!"

Then it snapped, holding Mia securely into my arms I ran to him, my legs feeling wobbly all of a sudden, he continued coming closer and then I jumped onto him, hugging him tightly with Mia still between us.

"Arman..." I sighed relieved. His hands circled around both of us, as his breadth flowed on my forehead, I holded him and Mia close after so long.

I felt him pressing a light feathery kiss on my forehead, I almost felt like crying from happiness and a tear actually left my eye, his finger lightly wiped my tear.

I separated from him crying and laughing at the same time. I was so happy to see him here that I can't even describe the feeling...

"Tu kha chala gya tha? Phone bhi nhi Kiya, pagal tereko pta hai mai or Diya kitne preshan ho gye the!" I yelled worriedly touching his shoulders to make sure he was alright. I felt Mia wiggling around between us, so I lightly placed her on the ground and focused on Arman once again.

"Maine tujhe bahot miss Kiya yaar."He said and engaged me in another hug and I didn't resisted in reciprocating it.

We both finally completed our meeting and greetings, separating from each other I teased him,

"Oh ho!! Now little Arman had become the CEO after all! " I punched him on his arm, he scratched his neck shyly before waving the question off..

"Yeah Whatever!" He answered in a high pitch voice shyly. I smiled at his behavior, some habits don't change overtime after all...

"What are you doing here!? I didn't expected to meet you here at all." He asked slightly confused.

"I came with Xavier." I answered smiling at Arman..

Xavier.

XAVIER!

I heard a baby voice from behind me which I recognized of Mia questioning someone..

"Who are you?" She said, I turned around just in time to see her questioning Xavier innocently, she have genuine curiosity floating in her eyes, Xavier glanced down at her confused, I face palmed myself in my head for leaving him alone there, I know I have a lot of explaining to do.

I turned to Arman and gestured him to come with me, he passed me to Mia and smoothly lifted her in her embrace, she was still staring at Xavier curiously, Arman nodded in Xavier's direction but the later didn't even moved a muscle, Xavier just glared at him in furious gaze.

I quickly walked to him before holding his arm to get his attention, turning to Mia in Arman embrace I answered her question for Xavier..

"Mia baby, you can call him Xavier Uncle. Alright?"

She tilted her head curiously, her eyes shined with unknown sparkles, grinning she turned to Xavier and asked him cheekily..

"Did you kissed my Mosi! Dada says when someone will kiss Mosi then he'll be my Uncle!" She squealed at her own theory.

I almost chocked on my breadth, who the f*ck is teaching her all this! I turned to Xavier to see him scoffing at her, okaaaayyyy......I didn't expected such an unexpected reaction..

"Your Dada said when someone kissed your mommy then he will be your Uncle. What a open minded man." He said harshly glaring at Arman, Arman looked confused, I am confused and Mia was even more confused than us..she tilted her head to Arman for answers but instead Arman told her to play at a small distance from us in exchange of giving her something later, she happily obliged and sprinted to the nearby aquarium and started observing the fishes in it.

Turning back to us Arman said calmly

"Excuse me Mr. King, but I think you're misunderstanding something."

"Am I!? " Xavier stepped ahead in fury dragging me with him in the process. I barely managed to stay straight, Arman looked in my direction worriedly but I nodded my head to reassure him that I was alright.

"Xavier what are you doing!?" I hissed at him, he turned to me, his eyes red from his anger.

"When were you going to tell me that you have a f*cking child with him?!" He snapped at me, Arman was quick in his action, snatching my arm away from Xavier he glared at him.

"Chill bro! You're hurting her." Arman backed me up. But I squeezed his hand showing that I can handle the situation.

"Xavier what are you talking about." I asked softly.

He glanced at Mia towards the aquarium and hissed in a much slower voice. "What the heck am I talking about! Why this child is calling you mother! And what do I make out of you two!?" He said gesturing to my hand over Arman's arm.

Slowly realization started sinking in and both of us understood what he was trying to say.

I almost felt like cracking up but I saw Arman beside me already trying to stop his laugh from coming out, Xavier glared at him annoyingly.

"Is something funny Mr." He asked grimly.

"N-no." Arman answered after clearing his throat for stopping his laugh.

"Xavier are you jealous?" I asked amusingly.

"The heck I am!" He answered glaring at me. I separated my arm from Arman and went to his side and entwined our hands together.

"Now?" I asked innocently. He glared at me in return.

"Mia." Arman called Mia back and lifted her up in his embrace, he told her to give Xavier a proper introduction.

"Hi I'm Mia salvoski Routella. " she answered cutely in her Russian accent.

"Can I call you Uncle Xavier now?" She asked with childlike innocence. Xavier was still very uncomfortable but he nodded reluctantly, Aww I love him, he's confused but still accepted her.

"I like this one." Arman mouthed to me.

"Me too." I mouthed back.

"Xavier." He looked into my direction. I stared into his eyes which were a deep pool of uncertainty right now. Reaching for our entwined hands I placed my other hand on them..

"Mosi means Auntie." I said, he stared at me for a good 10 seconds before he understood what I meant, his eyes widened a little in understanding and all I wanted was to Crack the f*ck up right there..

"She's your niece!" He hissed into my ear. And I nodded in confirmation.

"Mr. King I'm married." Arman said from his front. He looked into his direction and saw the ring on his ring finger. His expressions were to die for.

"So she's not your child." He asked me and I nodded. He looked really relieved.

He glanced at Mia to see her gesturing to carry her. He took her from Arman's embrace and held her close, securely.

He looked in my direction an I stared adoringly towards both of them. He smiled relieved at the fact and turned to Mia.

"Mia you have just been promoted to my good side so you can ask for almost anything." He said smiling at her, she looked like she had just won a lottery.

"Really?" She asked Xavier and he nodded to assure her. She squealed in excitement.

"You are the best Uncle Xavier!" Xavier looked pleased with himself.

Not long after Mia was munching on her chocolates that Xavier has managed to order for her from somewhere. A man out of nowhere came with Mia's chocolates and handed them to her, she was quite content from the amount she got. Xavier was much calmer and sober than before. We were conversing about anything and everything..

"So you two know each other from when?" Xavier asked both of us.

"Primary school." I answered grinning at Arman.

"Yeah she was crazy!" Arman grinned back at me.

"I was crazy! What about you! You dated almost everyone in our high school." I accused back. He was the jock type bad boy in our school, of course he got the girls.

"Yeah I did. Don't forget it included you and Diya as well." He said cockily, almost seeming pleased with himself. I looked at Xavier and his expression was not so likely after all.

"Don't forget asking someone to be your Valentine and then getting rejected doesn't get counted as dating." I answered back cockily.

He cringed at the memory making me chuckle at his face, he turned to Xavier in pity and patted his shoulder...

"I'm sorry. You have to go through all this." He said sadly patting his shoulder.

"Yah! He is lucky he got me otherwise dudes were lining up for me." I said flipping my hairs behind my back.

"No comments." Arman said making a weird face.

"You Dumbo! Leave my past alone! Tell me why didn't you brought Svetlana along?" I asked about his wife, actually I was expecting her to be here as well.

"She is back in Russia, she's seven months pregnant with our baby, that's why doctor had adviced her to not travel long." My eyes widened at the information in shock, I wasn't expecting this to be reason.

"I'm going to be an Aunt again!" I squealed in excitement.

"Yep."

Yay!! Another baby! I'm telling you we seriously have a minority of babies in our family, we need more of them!

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Little after our conversation, we noticed that Mia was sleeping soundly in my arms, Svetlana actually face timed him asking about whether Mia had slept till now or not. But when she saw me in the background hopping to catch her attention, she literally yelled at Arman to pass me the phone, we talked for a while before hanging up and Arman and Mia departed for the night.

Saying goodbye to Arman and Mia for the night we decided to get back at the ball....

Getting into the elevator with Xavier I pressed the button to the ground floor, Xavier was in deep thoughts beside me, I slightly nudged him with my elbow to gather his attention, he glanced at me.

"What did you wanted to tell me?" We were actually in the middle of a serious conversation when Arman came, and he seemed actually nervous about this, I'm not sure what was this all about, but I was nervous as well as curious about that..

He stared at me for sometime before smiling and pulling me to him with my waist, I grabbed his shirt to prevent myself from tripping, he smirked down at me and oh ho! I was suddenly on fire, smirking back in return I trailed my hands up towards his neck...

"What?"

"The dance has begun downstairs, so....will you do the honor of dancing with me?" He asked leaning down towards me.

"Hmm..what do I get?" I asked looking up towards the ceiling of elevator in fake thinking. Suddenly his lips were on mine devouring them like his last meal, his lips tasted like whiskey making me drunk in no time. I grabbed more tightly onto his collars to keep myself upright. We moved our lips synchronized pleasuring the other to our extent. His hand tightened over my waist making a little moan slip through my lips and this was just the invitation he needed, his tongue entered my mouth battling with my tongue for dominance, we emerged like thunderstorm in oceans not backing from winning, but Atlast he took the lead making me moan with intense pleasure.

What felt like ages of heaven he parted slowly, looking into my eyes with so much hunger that I was dreading why weren't we back at home.

"Is that good enough for you?" He asked huskily.

"No." I moaned, I knew when I needed more and I was absolutely not satisfied now.

He smirked at my answer, leaning down to my ear he slowly whispered making me shiver in delight.

"Laters baby.."

He bit my ear softly making me gasp slowly in anticipation. The elevator opened and guess what....

Mrs. Rodriguez...

Oh f*ck!

There stood Mrs. Rodriguez gaping at us with her jaw hanging. She didn't looked confused instead she was looking delighted.

I was still in Xavier's arms, I waved awkwardly at Mrs. Rodriguez and in return she grinned at me, pulling myself away from Xavier I exited the elevator and went to where she was standing. She was still bursting with excitement.

"I knew from the moment I saw you and Xavier together. You two are perfect together." She said taking my hands in her. I smiled not knowing how to answer that.

"So when's the wedding?!" She squealed like a child. I chocked at her demand.

"W-wedding?" I asked hesitantly looking at Xavier who was now standing beside me.

I leaned nearer to Mrs. Rodriguez and whispered in her ear. "He hasn't proposed yet." I retreated from her pouting.

At the information she turned to glare at Xavier, he looked confused.

"If you let this one go then I will absolutely haunt you in your dreams." She said glaring at Xavier.

"OK now that everything's settled I'll go to my husband, he must be waiting for me." She said and sprinted into the elevator which she was meant to use before we surprised her.

Xavier glared at me playfully and asked

"What did you say to her?"

"Something."

He encircled my waist before leading me back into the ballroom where everyone was dancing on slow music, he took me to dance floor and rested his hands on my waist while I rested mine on his shoulder...

🎶 Detonate, detonator

Baby, oh, you blow my mind

You'll tell me wait, wait on ya

But baby, I can't wait all night

I go through pictures you send my phone

Oh, stop tempting me

You know what I want

I wanna make, wanna make love

Girl, I can't lie🎶

I let me him guide me through the floor, we moved slowly with our body close to each other, his hand occasionally moving making me shiver, I rested my head on his chest..

🎶I'm just a sucker for a cold-hearted lover

You make me suffer

You make me suffer

Don't keep me waiting, you should come over, whoa

Don't make me suffer

Don't make me suffer 🎶

I heard his heart beating rhythmically and steadily soothing my senses. Leaning into my safe place I sighed softly forgetting that we were to act like a proper boss and personal assistant...

🎶So, here we go, go again

It's like I'm caught under your spell

You're wearing black, black magic

Well, baby, don't wear nothing else

When I open up this door, don't you play

Ain't no other man gon' make you feel the same

I wanna make, wanna make love

Girl, I can't lie🎶

He twirled me around so my back was facing him, I leaned back into his embrace, his head resting beside my ear slightly biting it making goosebumps erupt on my body from the proximity. I glanced around the dance floor and most of them were too busy to gather what was going around them. So I let myself be loose into his lead...

🎶I'm just a sucker for a cold-hearted lover

You make me suffer

You make me suffer

Don't keep me waiting (Don't keep me waiting)

You should come over, whoa (You should come, you should come, baby)

Don't make me suffer

Don't make me suffer🎶

He glided me through the dance floor, not once I stepped on his foot and that was a record for me, I turned around just in time and confirmed around that no one was looking in our direction, getting on my tiptoes I gave him a quick peck, he looked shocked before his eyes became dark, he leaned down to my ear and whispered so that only I can hear him.

"You're coming with me tonight. " he said and I felt myself slipping through his hands due to my wobbling knees, he grabbed me securely to prevent me from falling.

To compose myself from doing something inappropriate in the middle of the dance floor I excused myself to the rest room.

I went through a corridor in the search of the rest room fanning myself with my hand to cool myself down from high end. I finally found the ladies restroom and went inside to freshen a lit bit. Getting inside I stood in front of the mirror and lightly tapped my face to get my mind straight. Turning the tap on I washed my hands to somewhat calm myself. I can't even wash my face due to this makeup. I took out the lipstick out of my clutch and reapplied it, I applied the face powder to keep my makeup oil free. When I was somewhat distracted from the events that happened just a moment ago.

I turned to get out only to come face to face with Zachary, he was stumbling around here and there, he was probably drunk out of his mind. He is looking even more young now without his cocky personality.

"Mr. Mickelson this is the ladies washroom. You have came to the wrong one sir." I said trying to help him a bit but little did I know it would backfire right in my face.

He looked up with a drunk smile and stalked towards me stumbling all over, he is just like my brother except the creepy part. I bolted forward when he was about to trip over.

I held his arm to support him but oh boy he was needy as heck. Suddenly from somewhere he gained a hell lot of strength and pushed me to the wall beside the sinks. I was so surprised that I didn't even got the chance to see him standing in front of me.

"Shana. You're smokin hot." He said and leaned down to kiss me but I was quick to duck under his arm. Oh God. This isn't what I signed for at all. He looked confused for sometime before he turned around and his eyes landed on me. He smirked at me.

Great!

All that was left was to deal with a horny teenager!

"Zachary! You're not in your right mind. Just stop right there. Okay?"

I seriously didn't wanted him to get hurt from tripping over or something he was still coming in my direction with a permanent smirk plastered on his face. I groaned why can't these boys act like a mature human than a caveman once in their lives. I looked at Zachary in pity. I don't want to hurt him but I don't think he would stop stumbling around if I didn't stopped him.

Groaning one last time I charged slowly into his direction.

"Come here sexy." He slurred drunken.