"Gudiya! Gudiya!"

Ayi called me and I looked back from my book.... I meant my comic book...

She entered my room and came near the bed...

" Sir's assistant has set up all the plants in the backyard, all the maids and servants are waiting there for further instructions... " ayi said and I nodded to her talking till the backyard....

Fresh smell of the crops and mud invaded my nostrils and I felt like a little green angel myself....

I selected different places for each crop and allocated them with specific measurements of the land that is to be used with the help of ayi...

Butler was looking after the cropping work where as I raised my Kurtha up a little and put a cloth to the fold of my Kurtha holding it up... All set...

I started working along with everyone, helping them cropping the plants in mud... The sun was blazing too much for my own good but I'm not gonna stop , it's good to do heavy work some times in our life and live our lazy asses a little....

Shall I thank him?

Ha ! For what? All he did was buying the plants... I'm the one who is planting them along with maids...I'm the one who is safe guarding their lives.... Though the virus ain't fatal as the mortality rate is 2.4% until today..

He is just sitting under AC and getting his health served in a gold platter...

Bullshit... I won't go....

I'm selfish beacuse mostly I have done this for myself too beacuse I'm an asthmatic patient and the recent virus can be more fatal to me than the normal people....

Also I do care a little about other people too because if it turns out to be a fatal pandemic then something happens to all the people out there, I need to have normal people around me right?

OK I shall stop it here... I'm going too damn crazy....

I looked at the other side of the backyard under the tree near a bench were lot of grapes.... Wait.... Grapes weren't there in list....

I asked one of the maid beside me while pouring water that what are grapes here for? and she told me that grapes are bought every season to make homemade wine which master prefers to have....and also that there is a cellar which has wines which are dated back to times....

As soon as she said that grapes will be crushed like in movies, the way they do with feet..... My eyes glowed with excitement.... This is gonna be fun....

100 maids were not at all less and within next 2 hours we have completed planting crops.... Few gardeners were taking care of the rest..... I have asked the Butler to arrange for orange juice and water or everyone as it was hot outside......

I went inside directly into my room and under the shower to get rid of the mud and sweat.... It feels good under the cold showers in hot weather....

I wrapped a towel around my body and entered walk in closet....

What should I wear... I have plans for the noon... Shall I wear a summer dress or something traditional...

I have a very good fashion sense as my mom says but now that I have married I started dressing up conservative..... I'll just wear a saree...

That would be comfy rather than pulling up the leggings...

I went down the stairs to the dining hall and had my lunch with ayi....

I ate alot because of hunger and kept on licking my fingers...ayi gave me disapproving looks but who cares... Hehe

Arjun POV

Dead with Mr. shubam gosh has been settled and I shut my laptop groaning with headache... I went to the dining hall and saw ayi cleaning the table...

I sat on the head chair and ayi served me food.....

Alone on the long table with empty chairs and food served infront of me..

People present around me to take care of my needs but still it feels lone in the dark.... I'm the source of dark...

I've done with my lunch and moved onto the stairs to stop near the window to see my little wife jumping happily in a big wooden base filled with grapes....

Her hair was braided to a side , in blue cotton saree that she tugged it up in her waist.... Laughing along with few other maids who were smashing the grapes with their feet....

That window with Sun rays illuminating the whole stairs with golden rays and my wife in the middle of the back yard looking pure and divine with an unknown essence radiating from her very presence made an unknown ease in my heart...

I went to the backyard and stood near the door after sometime, I went near the wooden base , my wife's back was to me . She is talking animatedly to the maids and as soon as their gaze fell on me, they all moved out of the base..... My wife turned back at me and she stood like a statue...

I looked at the covers on the chair and wore them on my feet after raising up my black pant.... I went into the base and she moved back....

She was about to get down the base

" are you scared of losing little wife?" I whispered slowly near her ear and went back into my section which is sepereated from her section in the wooden base which has 2 openings on the opposite sides from where the juice gets out....

She came and stood face to face with me.... Should I add that she was spraining her neck to look into my eyes? I chuckled at her attempts and she flared her nostrils in anger...

She started stomping with anger while I did the same looking at her childish antics.... Her cheeks were moving along with her and I felt like biting them hard...

" gudiya! hold master! or else you would slip! " ayi shouted with concern and lakshmi looked at me for a few seconds slowly stomping her grapes...

What's taking her too much time?

I held her waist and pulled her to me in a jerk.... Her eyes wide looking at me....

" Lolita, don't think too hard "

" your body is like a post box " I said to her and gave her a smirk... Her mouth was wide open like a gasping fish and I chuckled... How cute.....

She smirked back at me and before I could understand.... She jumped on the grapes that made the pulp to fly up till my shoulders.... My white shirt.

I looked at her and she grinned at me... Oh then I'm gonna merge you into the pulp my little wife.... I thought and as soon as I was about to stomp on the grapes hard, she stepped on my legs...

This little wild cat read my mind ha..

Due to plastic covers, she was about to slip and she held on to my collar tight in the moment... I held her by her small waist and put my head on her head...

I felt small hands hitting on my arms but I didn't want to leave her in this moment.... I just want to hold her.....

I felt like I have something that belongs to me....within in me....

I don't know why I didn't want to let this little thing get out of my grip... It left soo wrong yet soo right...

" why did u spoil my shirt? " I asked her near her ear and she stiffened...

" you can buy 100's of them, you have to sacrifice some for attaining some " she said after a few seconds like a tigress.... looking into my eyes...

We're did she get the courage from? Yesterday she was shivering like a dying cat and now she became a tigress...

" my little wife sure grew few claws ha? " I said hugging her tightly around her waist.....

I heard someone clearing their throat and I realized my staff was here... I looked around to the other side to see my friends standing their looking at us.....

" why don't you call them " I asked her trying to read her expressions.... She looked at me for a few seconds and then at them and nodded a no...

I asked her why and she responded

" why should I call? They are your friends... I don't have any ties with them " she said hiding her anger which she couldn't....

I guess she was angry about that night.... thinking that they have lied to me about her.... I sighed visibly....

But why am I relaxed with her hating my friends?.... I still don't know.....

I don't want her any where near them.....

She left the base and removed her covers on legs and washed her feet on the grass....

I looked over to my friends who are now entering the house from the back door, where the came out from...

We sat down in the balcony of 2nd floor .

" Mr. Gosh is planning to split the deal with two companies " rahul said and I nodded..... That old hag is planning to split the materials too, to get few bucks saved..... I will make you get more loss Mr. Gosh..... I smirked....

" Mr. gosh's good days are over "

Rahul said looking at my face.... He is a devil in business world , he plays people on his fingers like puppets....

I heard the sound of anklets and turned around to see my wife holding a tray with cups....

She came near us and put it on the table and left.... What is going on in that little brain of hers? Behaving like an arrogant brat....

I sipped tea and loved the aroma and taste.... It's refreshing.....

I looked at rahul who was giving approving looks at the tea and Vihaan had hard expressions with his eyebrows scrunched together...

I pushed every single doubt and tensions behind my mind and relaxed with the tea in my hand....

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I came down after a hectic meeting with clients and sat down on the dining table for dinner.....

"............shopping as my clothes are few only.................. " I could hear the voice of my little wife talking to ayi in the hallways.... Her voice is too loud to not to be heard..

She entered the dining room and her expressions dropped immediately and sat down quitely....

We had our dinner quitely which I didn't like in her presence.... I want this whole room to be filled with her voice.... I always had in silence but why is there a change now? Why do I want it in that way?

She left after her dinner and I went to hall room as ayi wants to speak something important....

I looked at her after sitting on the arm chair and indicated her to speak..

" Sir, my daughter in law is pregnant and I need to go back to her.....to India, to look after her...." she said,

She was more than a maid here....

I respect her......

" how many days? " I asked looking at her.

" 3 months Sir " she is said and I nodded.....

" your advance salary will be deposited in your account " I said permitting her to leave.... If she leaves, that means Me and my little wife are left....

She suggested me of having her relative replace the work in her absence but I already have plans for my jobless wife ....

I felt earth shattering bangs on my door and I yelled a ' come in ' and buried my face in the pillow... I couldn't sleep beacuse of that husband or mine who is like a bipolar freak.... One time he is normal, one time is like a perfect husband...and the other moment he turns out into a world's most scariest psycho....

After a few minutes I looked from my pillow to see pant... Pant??.... I looked up and saw my husband who was looking at me like an exotic animal....

I pulled my bedsheet covering myslef more as I wore only a satin night dress ' only '......

" don't you know that you have to cook and you are sleeping like a pig? " he said loudly and I shrieked back with the tone he used on me.....

I remembered that ayi has taken leave but there are many more maids who can cook.... Then why ME ?

" ji , we have many more maids who can cook right? " I said softly gripping my bedsheet tightly.... Remembering how he beat me senselessly like a maniac that night....

" so you want to daze around leisurely all the day while your husband works? U want my money to enjoy but you don't want to work? What did you think ha ? That you would marry me and spend my money?..... U know what are those women called? " he said coming closer to my and looked at me face to face....

Tears welled up in my eyes thinking what he meant.... Gold digger.....

I never spent money on unnecessary stuff... Hell I didn't even spend much on the necessary stuff.... These types of false accusations always hurt me..

I didn't even take a single penny from him but here he states that I'm eating his money....

I looked up and saw him still staring at me.... " I'll get ready in 15 mins " I said to him and he moved back and went out of the room...

I quickly took shower and changed into a saree...

I went down the stairs and into the kitchen directly with phone in my hand... I don't know how to cook....

That's the biggest problem now.... I could have said him that I didn't know cooking but I don't want him to blame me for being a useless wife or I didn't want to feed on his money as he has mentioned.... I will earn it on my own....

I looked into fridge and found dosa pindi and idli pindi....

This is easy.... I made a couple of masala dosas and idli's along with coconut and tomato chutney.... Then I made sandwiches and salads along with aloe veera juice..... I have kept in mind about his health..... I ran around the kitchen like a monkey doing multiple works at same time because of less time..... It's not that I care about him but I see him as a patient...

In half an hour everything was done and I arranged the dining table....

I went to his room for the first time looking at the walnut brown double door.... I knocked on it lightly and the door opened after a few seconds.... I stepped back immediately and looked down " breakfast is ready " I said and he hummed following me down...

I set the plate in front of him after he sat down . I put a bowl of dry fruits first and he looked at me...

" ha-have them first " I said with great difficulty and with god's grace he didn't question me anything...

I put a 2 dosa's in his plate along with chutney and 4 idli's..... I stood behind him seeing him eating.... Thank god he didn't complain...or scold.....

I set the salad with juice in front of him and he had them.....

After he was done, he washed his hands and went to the hall room...

He sat down on the sofa and I looked at him from a certain distance....

He looked around and his eyes fell on me.... I looked down immediately....

" get my socks and tie " he said and I nodded my head....

I ran back up the stairs lifting my saree and bit my lip before entering his room.... He was the one who asked me....so I guess I can go inside.... Ofc silly me.... I said to myself and went inside.... His room was magnificent like a royal room with royal blue curtains.... Lakshmi!!! He is waiting for you!!!! ....... I opened a door and it was a walk-in closet.... Wooooww!!

I immediately took out ash color tie as he was wearing a black suit...

I bent down and took out black socks from another shelf...

I ran down immediately and stopped a little away from him trying to catch hold of my breath... I raised my hand towards him with tie and socks....

He looked at my hand and then at me.

He came in front of me and raised his collar.... No need to be told twice as I understood what that action meant..

I put the socks down on the sofa and raised on my toes.... Damn this giant husband of mine.... He saw me struggling and he bend down a little... I mean aloootttt!! Where is his 6'2 and where is my 5'3..... I threw the tie around his neck and he bent more down..... As if the coconut tree has faced tsunami in a beach....

I was tying it precisely concentrating on it and I felt hands on my waist....

I looked up at him and he raised an eyebrow..... Oh.... Maybe his back is paining by bending soo much and he needs a support to hold on to....

It was done and he sat back on the sofa..... He looked at the socks and I followed his trail understanding what he meant....

" I don't have time " he said

" so do it fast " I said and went up the stairs....or should I say I ran up the stairs....

How can he ask me to put his socks? Does he have no respect for others? He may not accept me as his wife but still I'm a human! I have self-respect and dignity for godsake !!! My nostrils flared in anger and I lied down on my bed.......

After thinking hard for another hour, I went down to fill in my empty stomach....and partially prayed god for my husband's absence tooo....

The coast was clear and I put all the masala dosa's in my plate.....

I went to the hall room and turned on the TV..... I put on an old Telugu movie and started eating my yummy dosa's.

After I was done with food, I went outside into the backyard and watered the plants along with few other maids.... It was already 12:00pm and I went back to my room...

I took shower and changed into another saree..... I looked myself in the mirror but I heard grumbling sounds from my stomach....

" let Me feed you " I said looking at my poor tummy with a pout....

Suddenly it struck my mind that ayi ain't there then who would send him food?? God!!! I detest going to that place!!! His office!!! After getting humiliated in that place.... It seems second most dreadful place for me....

I will ask the driver to give it to him...

Yah.... That would be best....

I went to the kitchen and after 40 mins I was done with lunch for him...

I made veg soup, vegetable rice with dal, Sambaar rice and curd rice....

I made 1 liter of mixed fruit juice as he has to work in office for long hours and this could give him some energy..

I set it in the carriage and went out of the house.... The driver was already waiting near the entrance and I handed him the carriage... He took it and looked at me.... I nodded at him and turned back to get inside...

"ma'am you should deliver the food " he said and I turned to him...

" Uncle ji, ayi is not there and I don't know much about his office, so you go deliver it to him " I said with a smile..

" but ma'am, we aren't supposed to deliver the food.... It would be disrespectful to sir when he already has a wife and I'm...... Just a driver..... the food wouldn't be delivered to him as I'm a driver . I hope u understand the protocol ma'am " he said and I nodded.... That giant husband of mine has a protocol for such minor stuff too!!

I huffed in annoyance and sat inside the car.... The old man smiled at me and sat in the driver seat....

After another 1/2 hour we reached his office and I looked up at the tall glass building infront of me....

I hate this place.... I told to myself and the driver guided me inside....

The receptionist wished me and I gave her a smile wishing her in returm... The driver guided me till the private lift and he left.... I waited till the ding sound was heard and I dreaded stepping out of the lift....

A lady smartly dressed in formals who looks like around 30's greeted me and I greeted her back.... She introduced her self as ms. Harika, assistant of my husband and I nodded.... I got an idea....!

I put the carriage in her hand and I turned back to leave but she stopped me

" ma'am, this wouldn't be appropriate and it wouldn't be accepted by sir " she said and I nodded my head....