Disclaimer

This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to persons living or dead is coincidental. The opinions expressed are those of the characters and should not be confused with the opinions of the author.

I believe in live and let live, so anyone's sexual preference is entirely their concern. The characters of the book have different views over this issue. So if anyone finds views of this book offensive, I am sorry for that. I do not support or condemn any of them.

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Mohit's POV

" Harry, just see to it that everyone gets the beautifully wrapped gift with the invitation. "

" Right sir... Just rest assured. "

" No one should be missed from the list. This exhibition is very important to me. Make sure that every rich and famous person in Delhi should get our invitation.

" Don't worry sir, all the rich and famous people like actors, models, politicians, doctors, lawyers, industrialists, millionaires, billionaires, socialites, critics, people from the fashion industry, reporters from the leading newspapers and magazines are invited. " Harry said.

" Are you sure?? Make a double check. I don't want to leave any stone unturned. Everything has to be perfect. "

" It would be sir... I personally checked it. "

" Great !!! See all the other arrangements. Models, Dresses, accessories, makeup artists, hairstylist everyone should be there at least 2-3 hours before time. "

" I make sure of that sir, just rest assured. "

" So there would be a fashion show for all my dresses in the beginning and then an auction is planned for the dresses. Make sure everything is ready, I don't want any mistakes. Everything has to run smoothly. A part of the money collected in the auction would be given to an orphanage. "

" Right sir... " he said and then the knob of the door turned and Manu walked in.

" Hi, Mohit... " She smiled at me.

" Hi, Congratulations !!!!! I am sorry that you had to be here working right after your wedding... but thank God that you are back. I was getting a bit apprehensive. " I got up from my chair and hugged her.

She got married to her sinfully handsome husband again this week only.

" I had to come, could not leave you here in this alone. "

" You are such a sweetheart. Where is your handsome husband?? I hope he is not waiting outside with a gun to kill me. "

" Why would he do that?? "

" Because you are here with me instead of being tucked up in bed with him. "

" Eeeeww shut up... As it is, he had to go to Jodhpur. "

" What ?? Alone?? Is he crazy?? You should have married me... " I was shocked to hear what she told me.

" Oh, God !! Don't start again. " She glared at me and I laughed.

" Who leaves his beautiful wife alone and goes out of the city?? He did that again?? He went on the honeymoon alone?? "

" Hold your horses Mohit... It was related to me, I was supposed to go but as I had to come back to Delhi... "

" Oh, God !!! I am sorry dear... Did you two argue about it?? "

" No... He was very understanding. He is really sweet... "

" Sweet?? aahaan... last time I met him he was anything but sweet. "

" He is very sweet, ok ?? "

" Ok !!! You must be knowing better... You must have tasted him. Did you both... "

" Not another word you idiot. I don't know how we became friends, you came without a filter in your mouth. "

" Did you... ?? "

" Mohit !!! Don't you have any work??

" Did you ?? "

" Shut up Mohit !!! " She glared at me and her face was as red as a tomato.

" You didn't??? Why ?? "

" What ?? Will, you shut up?? "

" No, I would not... you are my best friend and I have to know what is going on in your life. "

" Even this?? Get lost... Do some work or I am going back. "

" Awww missing him??? I am missing him too. "

" Leave him alone and tell me what is to be done as I have completed my work. Tell me anything you want me to do. "

" Ok fine... But you got to, tell me later on during lunch break. "

" There is nothing to tell, he got flu on our wedding night and he had to leave the very next morning. Now no more discussion on this. "

" Poor him... He was already going crazy about you and then he had to have that damn flu on the wedding night... God must have conspired against him. Got the punishment for the sins he committed earlier. "

" MOHIT !!! Stop. Talking. About. Him."

" Awww you are missing him terribly... "

" Yes, I am... Now give me some work to do or I would kill you. "

" Ok ok... Cool down. Please click some more pictures of a few designs as I paired them with different things and accessories and it gives a different effect. "

" Ok, I will do it right away. I think Monisha and Wasim are here. "

" Yes, they are... "

" Ok see you later... "

" Hmmm... I missed you. Sorry for spoiling your honeymoon. "

" Please Mohit you didn't... This was scheduled. We got married all of a sudden. My work is also important to me. Don't say sorry now... Or I will not share my lunch with you. "

" Don't even say that... I missed it as much as I missed you. I have been eating junk food since you went to Chandigarh. "

" Of God !! You are too much... Why didn't you go home... "

" You know why... "

" Mohit they love you... "

" Unfortunately... But they are making me go crazy for this marriage thing. "

" I can understand... But you can't avoid them forever. "

" Yeah... Leave it. Thanks for coming... "

" Mohit... " she glared at me and went out to work.

She is one of the people I really love. My best friend. She understood me very well and never judged me.

We met at an exhibition where her pictures were also displayed. I was impressed with her work a lot and one of my regular models who accompanied me at that time told me that he got his portfolio clicked by her about a year ago. The pictures were good enough to get him lots of work.

I offered her to click pictures for my upcoming summer collection.

She did that and the pictures came out to be so good that some of them got selected in the top magazines. My designs and her photography clicked together and we are a team since then. The famous fashion designer and fashion photographer combination.

We both got benefited from each other's work. So we work together. My spring collection was also done by her and those pictures got selected in a competition in Lakme fashion week.

I started getting more exposure because of her impeccable pictures.

We gradually became friends. She was a very sweet and shy person. While I am very blunt and open-minded as compared to most of the people around us. She was shocked at my compliments for her and they usually make her blush. I just loved to make her blush.

She knows everything about me but she never behaved differently though she belonged to a family with conservative views.

I have always been very comfortable around her. I loved her and I would have liked to spend my life with her if I didn't have a different sexual preference.

I had relations with both men as well as women but I felt that I was more into men.

My parents were really after my life to get married and give them grandchildren. My grandmother was being very persuasive using the fact that I loved her a lot against me only.

They were old fashioned people and they would never understand me. I would be pronounced as a sinner if they ever get to know my sexual preference.

My dad would probably disown me for being polygamous. He was strictly a woman man only. He expected nothing less from me. I would be shot by him if he gets to know about me being a bisexual.

Now my family was using every trick in the book to get me married to some good, beautiful eligible girl. Either mom or my elder sister tried to make me meet some girl almost every month.

So I avoided going home. I lived separately at my penthouse. Sometimes I even stayed at my studio apartment which was just above my workplace.

Mohit's POV

I went outside and saw Manu clicking pictures of Wasim and Monisha. I was amazed by her dedication. It was not easy to come to work, on the next day of your wedding.

I still remember my meeting with her husband Sahil Malhotra. I was shocked...

That day, Manu came to the workshop with a man. I had met him at a wedding, which Manu had gone to attend in Chandigarh.  He was really handsome and attractive. I liked him a lot, But before I could talk to him, I felt that there was some tension between both of them.

He said he was her boyfriend and I got angry with her as I used to tell her everything about myself. I still remember she came to talk to me the next day. But I didn't want to talk to her. I don't know why, but I felt bad.

" I am sorry Mohit... I should have told you about him. "

" I don't want to talk about it please..."

" Please Mohit, at least hear me out. "

" What?? I asked you so many times about him but You always refused to say anything. Why do you want to talk to me about him now? "

" I know... I am sorry... But I didn't want to talk about him. "

" So why now?? Had trouble in paradise earlier... And now everything is settled? Passion filled moments and all that... haan?  "

Why was I sounding jealous?? I didn't love her... I mean, I did... But not in that way. But then why??

Maybe, I was feeling insecure about losing her.

" Mohit Please... It's not like that. It's not like that at all. "

" Please what, Manu ?? What do you want to tell me now?? I don't want to hear anything now... Your boyfriend already told us many things. "

" Mohit... "

" Please yaar, I felt betrayed. let us not talk about your boyfriend. "

" He is not my boyfriend... " 

"  What?? What the hell?? " I asked. She started crying.

Why was she crying?? What happened?? Was she in any kind of problem?? I would kill that man if he did something...

" Why did he say all that ?? Why ?? What the hell is going on?? Who is he?? " I took her in my arms and patted her back to calm her.

" He is my husband.... "

She said and I was shocked. No... That was not possible. 

I always thought that I was an important part of her life... But she had a husband??

" How?? How can he be... You are married to him?? How ?? When?? Why??" I was so shocked. I wanted her to deny it.

She told me everything... From the beginning.

" What the hell?? Who gets married like that?? " I was feeling bad...

" I know... But I had no option. "

" Why didn't you tell me?? "

" I was shocked... "

" I would have helped you. "

" How?? "

" I would have married you... " I said.

I really would have... She was the only woman I could live with... We get along well. 

" What ?? Are you insane ?? "

" No, I am serious. "

" Mohit!! But you... "

" My parents are really after my life to get settled. I don't want to... "

" But then, why??? "

" At least, I would have saved you from that unwanted forced marriage to a total stranger. "

" Mohit, do you even know, what are you saying?? "

" I know what I am saying..." I said. I was feeling bad. I had a sinking feeling. I didn't know why??

" But why??"  She asked but I  just shook my head. I didn't know...

" Leave that... So, exactly what do you feel about him??  " I asked.

" I don't know. "

" You love him? "

" No... "

" So there is still a chance for me?? " I asked.

" What ?? No way... " 

" You like him??

" I don't know... I am not sure... "

" Will you care to explain? "

" I am not sure what I feel about him. I hate him for what he did but still, I am thinking about him all the time. "

She was thinking of him all the time?? I was sure that they were falling for each other.

" You signed the papers, right? " I asked.

" Yeah, but he destroyed them. "

" So what?? I will get the papers made in no time. "

I would have if she had wanted to get divorced from him. But I didn't feel that she wanted it.

" I also said that to him. But he said he would not sign the papers at any cost as he wants another chance to make this marriage work."

" Adamant man "

" Very Adamant... "

" He seems to like you a lot. "

" How can you say that? "

" Well, I saw in his eyes. He was getting all jealous and possessive when Kabir, Wasim and I were coming close to you, he was getting very jealous and wanted to beat all of us.  I know that. "

" What ?? "

" He is falling for you. "

" You really think so?

"  I know so... trust me I know the way he was looking at you and all the glares, he was giving all of us. "

" Seriously?? " She asked and I nodded.

" What do you think about him?? " She asked.

" Well, he seems to be a nice man. He is falling for you and is really hot... Tall... fair... handsome.... "

" Hey !!! You are talking about my husband... " She said.

" Getting jealous?? "

" No... But still, he is married to me. "

" Hmmm, I wish he was not..."

" Mohit !!! Stop talking about him like that. He is off-limits to you..."  She said. So, she was jealous...

" You are being mean... You don't want him and still, you are getting jealous over him too. What exactly do you want? "

" Nothing,  but just don't think about him. As it is, he was a casanova... He is absolutely straight. "

" I will try to change his point of view... " I teased her.

" No Mohit... " she said glaring at me but I kept teasing her for another five minutes that she should let me try my charm on her husband.

" Mohit... No more discussion on this point and just stay away from him... stop thinking about him.  Ok?? He is married to me. "

I was teasing her. I was sure she liked him.

" So..  you and him never...."

" Hell no... Enough Mohit !!! stop it."

" I mean not even kissed?? " I asked and her face became absolutely red.

" Oh god.... Look at yourself. So you both have kissed. How was your first kiss?? "

" I don't want to talk about it... "

" That bad ?? " I narrowed my eyes.

" What ?? No... " Her whole face was absolutely hot even thinking about those kisses.

" That good?? Shit !!  I am jealous of you. " I said, her eyes got wide open.

" Mohit !! You are too much. Drop this topic already. "

"  He seems to have understood everything and I think he loves you. He is trying a lot dear. Please, give him a chance. "

" I don't know... I want to... But I doubt that he is not serious in the relationship. What if he goes back to others. "

" What if I persuade him to try something different for a change. " I  winked wickedly.

" Just shut up and stay away from him... " She glared at me.

" Ok, love, " I said, raising my hands in surrender and then shook my head and started laughing.

" Mohit, why did you say that you would have married me? "

Oh, God !! I should not have said that...

" I thought that you were bound in a forced marriage to a stranger just to satisfy your parents. I may also have to do that someday.  They would never understand my sexual preferences.  You know everything about me still you don't judge me for that. I love you a lot.  So I said that it would have been better, if we got married to satisfy our parents, at least we are friends and you know very well that you are the only woman I love. We could have gotten married to satisfy our parents and could have lived our lives the way we wanted. "

" Mohit you are crazy... why would I judge, it's your life... Live it the way you like. But, I don't think like you... "

" What do you mean? "

" I want to be in a normal marriage, where my husband loves me and me only. "

" I understand that... Forget that I ever said that. "

I wish, I had not said that... I didn't want things to get awkward between us.

" Hmm... You are my best friend... Though you are a bit crazy, still, I love you. "

Oh, Thank God !! She was normal...

" I love you too... But your husband is hot... Let me know, well in advance if you want to divorce him. "

" Get lost !!  "

" Someone getting possessive over her casanova husband. "

" Shut up !! "  She said and shook her head.

I swear, I loved her, she didn't even get angry when I proposed to her indirectly. I could not lose my friendship with her.