Ep-2

Even after returning to her seat, Madhavi couldn’t forget what had happened in the lift.

The young man’s face kept replaying in her mind again and again.

At first, she had been angry. But after some time, a sense of guilt slowly began to grow within her.

She started realizing that the mistake had actually been hers.

He had simply asked for a little space, yet she had unnecessarily turned it into a huge issue. Thinking about it made her feel deeply uncomfortable.

One side of her mind whispered,

“I should apologize to him…”

But the other side — her stubbornness — refused to accept it.

After struggling with those thoughts for a while, Madhavi finally decided to forget everything and focus on her work.

She carefully arranged all the files needed for the audit.

Just then, the office peon came to her desk and said,

“Madam… the manager asked you to bring the audit files.”

“Okay,” Madhavi replied before picking up the files and heading toward the manager’s room.

But when she entered, the manager wasn’t there.

Immediately, she turned back at the peon with irritation.

Feeling awkward, he quickly said,

“Sorry, madam… he’s in the MD’s room.”

“The MD has arrived?”

The shock froze Madhavi for a moment.

The very next second, her heart began beating rapidly.

“What if he overheard everything I said to Geetha…?” she wondered nervously.

With growing tension, Madhavi slowly walked toward the MD’s room.

But…

The shock waiting for her there was far greater than anything she had imagined.

The young man who had been in the lift with her… was Madhavan.

Standing beside him was the manager, Chandran.

The moment Madhavi saw him, her heart froze in shock.

Even though she had entered the room, she stood there like a statue, forgetting even to ask for permission to come in.

Noticing her condition, Chandran gently said,

“Miss Madhavi… please come in.”

Only then did she slowly step inside with hesitation.

Madhavan silently watched her.

The tension on her face and the confusion in her eyes were clearly visible to him.

After a few moments of silence, he calmly said,

“Please give me the files.”

The moment she heard those words, Madhavi’s nervousness only grew stronger.

Maybe it was because she had come to work without eating properly that morning…

Or maybe it was the shock of unexpectedly seeing Madhavan there…

The next second, her head began to spin.

Slowly, she started collapsing to the floor.

The sight startled Madhavan instantly.

To him, it felt as though a beautiful ancient statue had fallen and shattered right before his eyes.

From that very moment…

he had no idea that his own heart, too, was going to break in the same way because of her.

When Madhavi opened her eyes, she found herself lying in a white hospital room.

For a few moments, she couldn’t understand anything.

Slowly turning her gaze, she noticed Narendra standing nearby.

Trying to hide his smile, he teased,

“What happened, Madhavi? Did you forget to eat the food you cooked this morning?”

His words only confused her even more.

Without understanding anything, she widened her eyes in confusion.

The next moment, her eyes fell on Nandhini, who was standing beside him.

Seeing both Nandhini and Narendra near her, Madhavi couldn’t believe it for a second.

She didn’t know whether it was reality or just a dream.

“I’m… in the hospital?” she asked softly.

Seeing her condition, Nandhini smiled gently.

“You said you’d come to the hospital to see my father… but I never expected you to come here as a patient,” she said with gratitude and a hint of playful teasing.

Hearing that, Madhavi turned her face away in embarrassment.

But inside her mind, one question kept repeating itself over and over again…

“Who brought me to the hospital…?”

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