AUTHOR'S NOTE:
Dear esteem readers --
'ENAMOR'
is part of the 3
rd
Annual on the Job Story Event Author Challenge. As usual please vote, comment and send feedback.
Look at all my other stories for fun and pleasure reading. For your information -- All my story names are single words (excepting Raw War) and consist of just six letters: BEYOND, CHASED, CHOICE, ENIGMA, FOREST, GRACED, LEASED, PLUMPY, PRENUP, SEDUCE and SILENT. There is always a hidden meaning in most of my story's branding whether ASSUME, PASTRY, POISON or RAW WAR.
As you will see, I've a couple of stalkers, who vote and write the same comments on all my stories, on the very first day within hours of publication of the story. There is even one diehard critic of mine who keeps on posting his comments multiple times within a day of my story being published. You'll find the same prejudiced comments again and again without an iota of change in language or content. My sincere advice, they must change their IP Addresses each time they vote 'Anonymously'.
I seriously think their wives might be cheating on them, for which they are so biased about my LW and Cheating Wife stories, forgetting the very fact that it is just a fiction created for light reading, not to be taken too seriously at the personal level by any chance. But they are very much obsessed to down-grade all my stories with open one star comments and the same hopeless one-liners all along.
Please vote to offset them. Thanking you all very much. Have a great day.
SweetNothingsAndBeyond
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PRELUDE:
Year: 2020, Month: May, Date: 8
th
, Day: Friday, Time: 8.00 PM
Place: Gurugram -- A satellite township south off Delhi, India.
After cleaning and dusting the drawing, dinning, and lounge of their two floor villa; Richard took all the dirty linen from the laundry basket and put into the front loading washing machine. The timer was pre-set for 45 minutes. So he had that much of time in hand to prepare his dear wife's favourite dinner -- Chicken-Chooza-Pasta and Chicken-Hot-N-Sour-Soup. And for the post dinner dessert he had already prepared the typical Punjabi Pirni in ethnic earthen pot for taste and ethnicity.
By the time it was quarter to nine, Richard had put all the delicacies on the dining table in La Opala bone-China serving bowls with matching table mats, napkins, full plates, soup bowls and dessert bowls along with forks and suitable spoons for separate dishes.
By the time he pulled out the wine glasses and a bottle of imported Chilean red wine, the calling bell was loud and clear to announce the arrival of his dear wife Elba.
Elba was his dear wife of five years. At 28 she had a baby-like face and an hourglass figure. With a modest height of 5'5" and a descent weight of 120 pounds she was definitely a woman destined for 'Neighbour's Envy and Owner's Pride' - Tag! At a first glace she didn't look even a day older than 23, at the age she was married to Richard five years back. As if age had stopped adding any extra days to her youthful and bubbly body. Her shoulder length blonde hair, almond shaped sea-blue eyes, perky nose, pouty lips and slender neck made her the hottest commodity in her corporate office at the Corporate Park DLF Phase IV, Gurugram, South of Delhi.
As Richard opened the mahogany entrance door, there stood Elba in her gorgeous glory. Even after more than ten hours of hectic office work, she was still looking surprisingly cool, fresh and composed. Recently she had started dressed up to kill with knee length skirts, sleeveless and a bit of deep-neck top showing a hint of her deep cleavage, the four inches high-heels not only adding extra height to her stature but also an extra oomphness to her well-deserved second-look oriental beauty. She did dressed a bit seductively to tease Richard with wild imaginations, so that when she returned from her day long work, the nights invariably become more exciting with sexual undertone with prolong foreplays and exhaustive aftermaths.
Her recent promotion as Executive Assistant to MD had made drastic changes in her official attire, behavioural pattern, attitude and timing. From a next door plain Jane a few months back, Elba had evolved into a head-turner, thanks to the special interest shown by her new MD for South-Asia-Pacific business in the multinational conglomerate Elba was working for the past six years.
Her place of work destined her to meet Richard her soul-mate. She fall for his simplicity and love for her; and he for her beauty with brain. Their whirl-wind romance was culminated in a quick marriage and short honeymoon. It was a registered court marriage, with very short notice for which their parents could not join them for obvious reasons. Post marriage life was cool and good both for Elba and Richard. They wanted to settle down with their dream house, car and other eventualities before expanding in the family front.
But with the first wave of Corona and the prolong lockdown from 22
nd
March 2020, had its adverse effect and impact on business. Until 7
th