Unexpected Love

Family

Jia Davis

"Good morning, Mr. Anderson, your coffee."
I went and placed his coffee 2inches... I am so used to keep saying in my mind, huff.

"Good morning, soon to be Mrs Anderson." That made me smile. 'Mrs Anderson' had a feel to it. Viktor got up from his chair and came towards me, rounding the desk. He pulled my by waist and gave a hard kiss on my forehead. When he said he loved me yesterday, I was shocked and overwhelmed. I  love him too, but I was unable to say it as he was throwing one shock after another, first the proposal then ring and then…our moment of love.

"Where do you want to go for honeymoon?" Viktor whispered in my ears. I pulled back with confusion.

"Mr. Anderson, aren't you missing something? First there has to be a planning for wedding. You skipped that part, moving directly to honeymoon?"  He chuckled.

"Honeymoon requires planning, what's there to plan in a wedding." He nuzzled his nose in my neck.

I was flabbergasted as I had just witnessed what it takes to accomplish a full-fledged wedding, that to a small one and here he thinks…

"I think you are in some delusional bubble. We need to book a venue, decorators, caterers, designers... it's a huge task. A mammoth task." I traced his scars with my fingertips. Somehow, his scares fascinated me. They made him 'him', strong, undefeatable and sexy.

"Why are you getting so hyper? We will book a wedding planner they will manage everything and anyways it will be a small wedding just your and mine friends that's that." He brushed his lips on mine that made me giggle.

"Bro did you hear about the wedding?" Richard dashed in without a knock. Wedding... Had Viktor discussed about our wedding with him?

"W... wedding.?" Viktor furrowed.

"Lia...she is getting married." He interjected, oblivious of our closeness. I moved away from Viktor's embrace.

"We know that for a long time…"

"No... she and that...that Liam has finalized the date." He spat. I was quite unable to understand his behavior towards Lia and Liam. It felt like he was jealous of Liam, always throwing daggers at him with his eyes.

Viktor went near him and started talking in hushed voices. I could see Richard nodding unwillingly. What is all this about? In between, he looked at me and gave me a smile. When they were done, Richard came towards me, taking my hand in his.

"Congratulations Jia, I am so happy for both of you. Welcome to the family. We are gonna have fun together." He seemed genuinely happy and gave me a quick hug. He went away after that.

"What was that? Why is he so agitated?" I asked Viktor.

"Can we talk about it at home tonight?" He had a hard expression on his face which I was unable to read.

"Who told you I am coming to your home tonight?" I jested playfully.

"Our home. Yes, of course you are coming." He pressed his lips to mine for one of his soul touching kiss.

"Only if we watch some Avenger movies." I piped, leaving his office with him shaking his head playfully.

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"We have been trying to talk to her, but she is not responding. She keeps sitting on the bench and stares at flower." Rachel told me. She is the caretaker at Home. We had started the help line, were a team would go and rescue the abused ones and bring them here. As of now, we had some 20 plus people already. Last week our team had rescued an old lady, but she was in some trauma.

"What happened to her?" I inquired going towards the bench where she sat, her back facing me.

"She was being starved, over worked and beaten by her husband and his kids."

"What's her name?"

"We don't know yet...she doesn't speak"  she sighed, pressing her lips together. Rachel was a kind-hearted 20-year-old girl who had volunteered to help us here along with many kids from Viktor's orphanage. Being an orphan herself, she valued relationships. Where it always depressed us to know stories of all the members coming to us, it shattered her. She took deep care of each and every one of them.

I nodded and went in front of the lady. She was very weak and dehydrated, her hand had bruise on them.

"Hi how are you doing?"  I asked softly.
She didn't look up, so I kneeled in front of her to take a better look at her face, but what I saw stopped my world from rotating.

"Mom!"

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I reached home that is Viktor's house and found him in the kitchen cooking dinner for us. I hugged him from behind and let lose control on the tears I had been holding in my shattered heart.

"Hey, you are bac...what happened?" He turned around, and I hugged him the tightest crying hysterically.

"Sunshine...baby, why are you crying…" He tried to pull away, but I didn't let him go.

"Jia you are scaring me... please can you just let me know..." His caresses on my hair and his strong arms gave me strength to speak.

"My....my...mom...." I stuttered in between sobs.

"I am not getting..." He got impatient.

"Rachel call... called in afternoon and asked to come to Home...they had rescued a lady...who...who was b..b..beaten by her husband and his family...." I tried to explain.

"Ya I know..." He nodded.

"She... she is my..mom Viktor...my mom."

"What?" This time he pulled away, holding my arms.

"She is in trauma and depression...she has bruises all over her...she doesn't eat or speak...I will kill that man.."

"I am such a bad daughter...I thought my mom left me forgot me and is happy in her life...that she doesn't need me...I never bothered to reach her...but there she...was beaten...starved...." I bawled.

"No...no Sunshine you are not a bad daughter.." he cupped my face in his hands "look at me...stop crying. You and me together, we will fix it. Right? We will get her treated, bring her back to life, take care of her and love her endless… she will recover and will be fine. We will see to it that he is punished. I promise. He assured me, looking deep in my eyes.

"You will do that for me...for my mom."

"I lost my mom long back, I will never lose another one. She will be cherished and loved. We are together in this and we will face it like a family" He hugged me again, resting his chin on my head. I know he had tears in his eyes too.

"I love you" it came out of my heart.

"I love you too."

I pulled away a bit and kept staring at him. Man of my life, love of my life. My support, my rock, who had unexpectedly came in my life. When I look back, it seemed so impossible, unexpected to fall for my rude and arrogant boss. But now I can't imagine my life without him. Viktor Anderson, my unexpected boss, and my unexpected love.

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Hey my lovely readers, I hope you enjoyed reading this story. This was the last chapter. I will be adding Epilogue soon, but this is were Viktor and Jia's story ends.

I will also add few bonus chaper about their life. I also want to write a chapter on Stephen and Aarti.

I know you are confused about Richard and Lia but they have a whole new story for themselves.

Cover page and Blurb for the same will be posted with Epilogue.

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