Chapter 8: The Billionaire's Desire

Zaroon’s POV

Its 6 in the evening when I reached her place. I pressed the bell and there she came, struggling with her foot-steps while opening the door. She looked all drained out and her eyes all red as if she hasn’t slept since days or she is burning with high fever. She was wearing possibly everything she have, may be because she was feeling cold.

“Why didn’t you called me if you are not well? Or do you think that you are capable enough to handle everything on earth all alone?”

“I never wanted to bother you with such a small thing. It’s nothing serious. I know I will be fine by tomorrow morning and there is nothing to be worried about.” She replied in the most innocent voice with the cutest expressions she could give at that very moment.

“Have I asked you about your opinion? I simply asked you a question to which you could not answer me reasonably well. Now shut your excuses in your mind and mouth and tell me that have you visited the doctor yet or not? Or have you taken any medicines?”

“You only told me not to step out of home and since I do not have any medicine at home so……”, I cut her then and there and pulled her towards my side to shout at her, but the moment I held her wrist, I could not believe that she was literally burning with fever and on top of that she haven’t taken any medicine nor she informed me on time.

“Stacy, I don’t know how you can do this? How on the earth, someone can act this foolish? You should have informed me atleast. And do you know how much temperature you have right now?”

In return she could just move his head in NO. I was getting irritated and losing my temper for being so idiot to leave her all alone on her own, when I knew that her roommate is visiting her parents.

“Have you eaten your meals in time?”, to which she again signaled NO.

That very moment I felt that I have done some mistake by not telling her about my feelings for her. Because if she would have been aware of that, she would have thought beyond our official relation and I would have been there with her to take care of her at the right moment. But unfortunately I did not do that and of-course, now is not the right time to do that either.

I made her sit on the sofa which is there in her living room and I myself headed towards the kitchen to prepare some soup for her. And in the mean time I had called my family doctor and as per his advice over the phone, I had called for some medicines to be delivered at her address. I had a plan to make her eat something and then probably she can take some medicines and if then also she will not feel better, I will take her to our family doctor.

By the time I came to the living room, where she was supposed to be sitting at the sofa, I saw her lying down there. I thought that she may wanted to take some rest and that is why she just lied down there. But to my surprise further I have observed that she was lying unconscious there and that bought a lot of worry to me. I picked her up from sofa, in a bridal style, to take her to the room and by putting her down on the bed, I tried to wake her up. After a minute of effort and some sprinkles of water on her face, she woke up and without asking any further questions I fed her with the soup. She also followed my silent instructions and kept silent. After the soup was over, I made her again lied on the bed and covered her with the blanket there, she just could close her eyes and said nothing. The doorbell rang and there were the medicines. I got a glass of water and made her take the medicines. She seemed not very comfortable in having those but may be due to my presence, which she still considers as her boss' presence, she had those and again went on to close her eyes.

It’s almost mid night and I am still there with her in her home. She is sleeping like a baby and I am sure her temperature is also coming down with the effect of medicines because the drops of sweat on her forehead were visible and she was also not looking very comfortable with the blanket on her. But due to drowsiness in the medicines, she was unable to open her eyes and to came back to her senses to do what her body, at that point, wanted her to do. I kept on checking her temperature in between and was satisfied with the fact that she is getting better with each passing hour.

It is mid night and I am also feeling tired. I just lied down beside her, but unable to close my eyes because I wanted to continuously stare her and I was happy to see the peace she had on her face and how calmly she was sleeping. I again touched her forehead and recorded that finally there was no fever. I wanted to put her in my arms and never let her go but all I could do at that time was to kiss her on head forehead carefully so that she will not wake up and then I don’t know when I slept beside her.

Its morning 6 when my phone alarm pressed and I woke up to find that she is still sleeping and thankfully my phone’s volume had no effect on her sleep. I get down from the bed and went towards the living room to make a call to my family doctor to ask for the further course of action, because I was afraid that the moment the medicines will end their effect, she will again get the temperature and I am not ready for that kind of situation to come in. But doctor told me to give her the repeated doze after breakfast and lunch and if by the evening she doesn’t feel little energetic, then he will come and test her.

After that I went to make some breakfast for her and with the tray full with meal, I went to her room to wake her up. But to my surprise, she was already up and sitting on the bed.

“I am sorry for the inconvenience I have caused to you Mr. Faith. I seriously had no such intentions and believe me I am fine now. You please carry on with your routine and don’t think about me much. I will be able to take care of myself. I promise! And I will surely inform you if I need anything. Please forgive me for such an irresponsible behavior and I will try not to repeat it.”, she said all of this in one breath and also with the tears in her eyes which she somehow managed inside her eyes only.

“You were unaware of your surroundings, about my presence and about the food and medicines; and then you want me to believe you when you says that you will be able to take care of yourself.” I said authoritatively.

     She broke down after hearing that from me. She was crying like a small kid and I felt so bad being the reason of her crying. I held her close to me and after looking into her eyes, I composed her in a warm hug and said, “Please don’t cry and don’t worry. I am here and will be there for you.”

After about five minutes, when she realized that she is in my arms and according to her that was not right, she moved away from me and then without asking her further questions, I just put the tray filled with breakfast in front of her.

After giving her morning doze of medicine, I asked her, if I can go for some 2-3 hours to office, will she be able to manage alone, to which she happily agreed as according to her I was doing a favour to her by staying and taking care of her. I instructed her to take full rest and I also told her that I will be calling her every 30 minutes so keep the cell phone with herself. I had to take that decision because I knew that she will never call me to ask for anything. Neither in her worst scenario nor in her good one. According to her, I am just her boss and she very well knows how to maintain the distance.

With all said and done, I left for my home to freshen up and then for the office to organize and postpone today’s activities onto the next day.