So here's the next update. Hope you guys like it.

Would have updated yesterday itself but server error kept coming up.

Do leave your valuable feedback.

Its time to take the temperature a notch higher. ;)

And my long lost friend... Hope this makes up for the crying.

Kria shifted in her bed uncomfortably. It was past midnight but sleep was miles away. Her mind was still stuck over the moment she shared with Reyansh sometime back.

This wasn't happening.

It was the only thought that hovered in her head.

That kiss was anything but plain. It was ethereal, beautiful, divine, wanting, needing and above all completely laced with desire. And it was embarrassing to her that she had the similar desire to feel those lips again. It was physically agonizing and she hated herself for that.

Rey lay on his bed staring at the ceiling – the taste of her lips still lingering. The kiss was so intoxicating that if it hadn't been for that wretched phone call he would have taken her then and there itself. She was all a man could ever dream about and was capable of igniting all kinds of sinister thoughts in his head. She was the perfect creation – a blend of attitude and beauty. The feisty side of her appealed the animal inside him and he knew if once it started, there were fewer chances that his need for her would ever satiate.

Kria gazed over the pool. It felt so serene - the blue of the calm waters reflected over the surrounding and the star lit sky just added to the aura and enhanced its effect. A midnight swim probably was the best idea she could come up with to calm her mind in the moment. She was looking for solace and hoped that the coolness of the water could provide the same.

Letting her robe slip she dived inside the pool, unaware of the lingering gaze that followed her form.

Rey had come out of the room to breathe in some fresh air to get his head right. From a distance he saw Kria slipping out of her robe. He was curious as to why anyone would go by the poolside at this time of the night. As he moved forward he caught the sight of her flexing her legs to jump and before he could see her entirely she was in water. His mind wanted to see her swimwear while a part of his solemnly wished that she was skinny dipping.

After a minute she came out of the water as she stood in the middle of pool breathing heavily and Rey took a sharp intake of breath.

It was better than he had expected - even better than her skinny dipping.

She was clad in a swimwear - a red bikini which he felt were only scrapes of fibers just hiding the essentials - a real itsy bitsy one and a big tease to the animal that resided inside him. The girl never failed to surprise him. The heat existing between them was undeniable and was something that could just combust both of them if fuelled even minutely. There was something inexplicable about her which invited him and attempted to wake the savage that resided inside him.

After becoming friends with her, he had thought he had done a huge favor upon himself voiding himself off her thoughts, but that was the biggest mistake of his life. The closeness had just increased and after that little stint on the poolside, the desire had only increased as he now knew what it felt having her in his arms.

Kria swam across the length as she tried to relax the restlessness of the mind. It was nerve cracking, the responses she was evoking in his presence. She was there to kill him and not to indulge him. But somehow the former had started going down her list of agendas and it aggravated her.

She wasn't that weak.

She didn't want to be any fling of The Great Rey Singhania or any of his petty conquest. For heaven's sake, she was better than that. She was better than any of his worthless sluts wanting to throw themselves at him. This wasn't her at all. She wasn't that petty.

She wasn't comparing.

And no way in hell was she jealous.

She took another lap as the turmoil inside her started growing. What was happening to her?

Instead of thinking of ways to kill him, she was going envious about his flings.

"You should often wear swimwears."

A husky voice rang in her ears and she turned abruptly to find herself facing the man she was dreading in the moment. Her body went stiff with the sudden proximity as he stood there holding her by the waist. Rey had slipped inside the pool without her noticing as she was too caught up in her turmoil.

"I thought black looked sexy on you, but it holds no candle in front of this red."

He spoke boring his eyes into her while she continuously fought the urge to shy away.

"Wha..What are you saying Reyansh? Are you checking me out?"

She tried to sound cocky as she threw the question trying to hide her fumble earlier. Rey smirked over her feeble attempt to hide her nervousness.

"Are you nervous?"

He spoke in a raspy tone near her ear making her shudder. He felt accomplished of eliciting such a response out of her.

"Why should I be?"

Kria found the strength to reply back somehow and she took her stance. Burying his face in the crook of her neck he whispered softly.

"You… me… poolside… tell me it doesn't affect you even a bit."

"N…No it doesn't."

Kria spoke with a straight face, without any emotion making him smile. She could sense the cocky grin spreading over his face and with all her might she pushed him away.

"I ain't your slut, Mr. Singhania…"

She smirked and then starting moving towards the edge to move away only to be pulled by him. Trapping her by the edge of the pool, he spoke.

"Then who are you?"

"I am your friend… your assistant."

"Oh… really…"

He spoke gazing intently into her eyes. Kria couldn't comprehend what was going on in his mind and she was having this strange feeling.

"So… if am your friend, then this shouldn't affect you."

Saying so he grabbed her by her waist and crashed her against his chest. Kria's heart skipped a beat on the sudden contact and heat flashed through her entire body. Rey was keenly observing her minute reaction as he swiftly dug his face amongst her wet strands biting harshly eliciting a loud moan out of her.

"Tut.. tut.. friends don't get affected by this, Kria…"

He spoke roughly as he started kissing her collarbone delivering bites all over. His one hand lingered along her lower piece while his other hand toyed around the thread of her upper top. His mouth went south as he continued delivering kisses whilst his tongue played around her cleavage. Kria couldn't help but squirm under his hold as he continued biting her making her moan in anticipation.

"Reyansh…. Please…"

"Please what Kria?"

Rey spoke cockily as his mouth caressed her jawline. His hand teased her arousal making her groan out in frustration as he continued tantalizing her senses. It was tormenting as how he was controlling her responses and she just couldn't help but comply with his scrupulous doings. She dug her nails roughly over his back leaving crescent shaped marks but he could care less. The sight of highly aroused, wet Kria made his mouth water wanting to take her there.

"Say it, Kria."

Reyansh commanded as his lips hovered over her lips but never touching. His hot breath fanned over her cold wet lips making her want to capture those lips and that was exactly what she did. She captured his lips into her as relief finally washed through her entire body after seeking the much awaited contact. She gnawed and nibbled over his lips as if they were some kind of elixir. Rey smirked over his little feisty cat and soon joined her meshing his lips with her in equal fervor as both fought for dominance and control. Their lips moved in sync as their tongues battled for dominance over the other whilst their hands moved around teasing and feeling each other's arousal and experiencing the need, the hunger and the desire to have the other. Neither the hour of the night nor the coolness of the water affected them as they sought the warmth in each other's presence succumbing to their primal need of feeling the other.

Thoughts.