hi, I am back with a new chapter. the last chapter we saw Serena confessing in her sleep and ash admitted that he does have developed a feeling for his wife. so without waiting lets starts our new chapter.

chapter 9

already two months have passed since the shopping. after their unknown confession till now ash and Serena have grown still together and both were itching to confess but didn't do it since Serena believes that ash will never love her and ash is still bound to his self-made promise.

it was one in the morning. everyone in the Ketchum mansion slept peacefully except for Serena. she was thrashing and moaning in her bed. she was having a bad dream, no not dream it was a bad memory which she was having in her dream.

dream scene

serena hugging ash says "I love you ash " and kisses him

to which ash easily responds. after kissing for some time both separate and gaze each other with full of love and affection but suddenly ash face changes to some unknown persons face who laughs evilly at her. terrified with this Serena struggles against his hold and tries to free herself from his hold but he holds her hand tightly and roughly pushes her upon the bed. and he pounces upon her like a tiger pouncing upon its prey deer and tries to kiss her.

serena continues to struggle against his actions " no, plz leave me. I don't want this, let me go plz"

unknown person laughs loudly at her and disappears. suddenly her whole world turns black and she can hear only his evil laugh. she cries in agony. after some time she sees a small light and from that light, she hears a voice and that voice is calling her name repeatedly. it was a familiar and soothing voice. she feels a hand with soothing touch on her cheeks and she grabs that hands in her hands. she opens her eyes.

dream scene end

serena suddenly opens her eyes and sees ash very concerned gazing at her.

ash very concerned " hey what happened, did you have a bad dream? "

serena doesn't speak just hugs him tightly and sobs.

ash trying to calm her rubs her back " hey it's ok it was a bad dream. just calm down nothing will happen to you."

"do you want some water, here drink the water " telling that he pours a glass of water and gives to her.

serena lifts her face from his shoulder and drinks the water. ash gasps with concern seeing her so distraught, face filled with tears. serena after drinking water calms herself.

ash asks" are you ok now"

serena nods "ya thank you ash "

ash smiles " its nothing.so do you want to speak about it."

serena "about what"

ash "do you want to speak about that dream "

Serena's smile disappears and fear replaces that smile and she mutters "I don't want to talk about it, so plz lets sleep" telling that she lays on her side.

ash wanted to ask her but seeing her face he stops and lays next to her. serena puts her arms on him and hugs him.

ash stunned "hey what are you doing."

serena pleadingly "plz just tonight let me hold you, I'm scared plz"

ash sighing but inwardly feeling happy "ok just tonight " he also hugs her tightly and both falls asleep.

after this, both had good sleep.

it's been two weeks since that night and it became routine for ash and Serena to hug each other while sleeping. it was morning 7.00am .serena stirred because of morning sun rays and gets up. she sees ash still sleeping. she smiles and leans down to kiss his cheek next to his lips.then she goes to take shower and other things.she was wearing her office clothes when she came out. she sighs when she sees ash still sleeping so she goes near him and shakes his shoulder calling his name.

"ash get up. its 7 and today we have an important meeting with important clients"

aah groaning and pressing his face deeper into a pillow "hmm just five more minutes "

serena sighing " no get up, we have an important meeting. I'm already ready"

ash with a smile answers without opening his eyes " make me if you have guts or you can go without me"

serena annoyed " ash you know I cant leave you and go to meeting alone so get up"

ash teasingly " how about no"

serena sighs " fine you brought upon this on yourself "telling that she pours water on his head for which ash screams 'ahhhhhh'

ash glaring at her " what did you do this for"

serena ignoring him "now you are awake, get up and get ready it's already late for office "

ash grumbling "fine you win let's do it your way " gets up and goes to the bathroom to get ready

Serena smiles in triumph and then suddenly she remembers something that she wanted to ask ash yesterday in office so she goes near the bathroom and asks " hey ash, about that client with whom we have a meeting today, what's their name "

ash hears her question while showering and tells " ohh them, their name is, even I don't know, they didn't tell their names, I only know about their company, Morgan corporations "

Serena " oh OK, but it's strange that they didn't tell their names only about their company "

ash drying himself from towel "hmm even I felt strange " telling that he comes out just in a towel and gets stunned seeing Serena there. even Serena get shocked seeing ash in the towel, well this is not the first time seeing him in the towel but still. but to Ash's dismay, he tied his towel lose because of which it fell down to the floor. ash was fully naked and Serena seeing ash in his naked glory didn't know what to do so she did one thing that she knew, she screamed " ahhhhhhh" and covered her eyes. ash immediately picked his towel up and tied tightly to his waist and turned that side and goes to the closet to wear his clothes.

Serena blushing fully screams " you fool that is the reason why I told you to take your clothes with you to the bathroom "

ash after wearing his suit comes out and answers " Ya, like thousand times but it will get wet if I take it."

Serena glowering "at least you could have taken your boxers " her blush still not gone fully.

ash also blushing "sorry I will try to take it next time. now can you please help me with this tie."

Serena smiles and goes near him and ties his tie and their gaze meets and both get lost in their eyes and unknowingly the space between their lips becomes less. just an inch more for their lips to meet. suddenly

Delia calling them for breakfast " ash, Serena both come down for breakfast. ash did you hear me. Serena "

and that call did it for them to come to this world back and both separates.

Serena blushing " ahh I'm sorry. I'll go down and I will be waiting " telling that she runs from the bedroom

ash coming to his senses "damn I wanted to kiss her and I didn't even feel guilty" seeing the time from his watch which Serena bought him during the shopping " oh my god I'm late " telling that he goes down to have breakfast with the unfinished kiss on his mind.

after the breakfast, both ash and Serena went to the office. it took just half an hour to reach the office. both enter the office and meet their respective secretary's

ash and Serena's secretary " good morning sir and madam"

both ash and Serena greets them both "good morning "

Serena addressing to her secretary " did the client come already "

secretary "yes ma'am they are waiting for you both in the conference room "

Serena nodding" oh OK tell them that we will come in 5min "

both the secretary answers OK and goes to inform them.

ash and Serena go to his cabin to get the file and bickers.

Serena glaring at ash" see they already came. we are so late because of you. "

ash rolling his eyes " we are just 15min late. nothing to be worried about "

Serena glowered " nothing to be worried about, ash if we lose this deal because of you I'm going to kill you "

ash smirks " Ya we'll see that. I have taken the required files. let's go for a meeting, we don't want to make them wait anymore " telling that he leaves his cabin. but before the exit, he turns back with a smirk and mocks " common you are making them wait "

Serena mutters "asshole "and walks along with him to the conference room

ash still smirking "huh did you say something "

Serena glowered " you are impossible " and enters the conference room. but before entering she informs her secretary not to let anyone inside the conference room.

ash laughs and enters and sees two people, one man and one woman sitting in the conference room. he makes his presence known by clearing his throat which makes the two people turn and stand and greets ash " good morning, nice to meet you, Mr. Ash Ketchum "

ash in return " please to meet you. plz take your seats " he also goes and takes his seat.

ash with a smile " I am Ash Ketchum, president of this company. we heard you were coming from Morgan corporation "

the female person speaks " Ya myself Korrina Morgan, president of MC and this is called stake, vice president of MC and also my fiance "

ash smiling "oh once again glad to meet you both again."

Korrina smiling at him " so shall we start our meeting now"

ash opening the file" yes we will, I'm just waiting for my wi..."

Serena interrupt them " sorry I'm late" and enters, goes near ash and she sees them for the first time and gets shocked seeing calem, the person whom she never wanted meet in this lifetime.

ash smiling at her " it's alright. " turning his attention to others and introduces Serena " well she is here. Ms. Morgan and Mr. stake this is my wife and also vice president of this company Ms. Serena Ketchum"

Korrina smiles "hello please to meet you "

calem also greets with a secret smile" Ya same please to meet you Ms.serena Ketchum " stressing on Ketchum more.

Serena winces little but reforms herself and smiles " glad to meet you both please sit. let's start our meeting " telling that she also takes a seat

meeting started and was going on but during the whole meeting Serena was feeling calems eye on her and was feeling very uncomfortable. the meeting took place till afternoon 2. both the parties agreed and also signed the deal.

ash after signing " well folks we finish our meeting here. since it is afternoon why don't we go to our cafeteria and have lunch? our cafeteria serves very good lunch"

Serena slightly hesitating " Ya it's very high quality and good tasty food"

Korrina with a smile " that's ok, another time"

ash convincing them " oh plz it's just lunch in our cafeteria don't hesitate"

calem with a smile " honey common I'm hungry. let's have lunch here plz"

finally, Korrina agrees "OK let's have lunch together "

finally, all four of them leave for the cafeteria. in the cafeteria all orders their lunch. in the middle of eating ash gets a call and he excuses himself to attend the call. other three continues to eat but calem spills juice upon korrina.

calem apologetically " oh I'm so sorry I didn't see it "

Korrina with a smile " that's K. I'll just go and clean myself in the washroom. " asking Serena " Serena can you please tell me where is the washroom here"

Serena in reply shows with her hand " next to that room. if you want me to come to help i'l come."

Korrina smiling " that's K I'll go me. plz, you both continue your lunch" telling that she goes to the washroom.

calem relaxing "finally we are alone. so how are you my darling "

Serena glowering " shut up bastard, "

calem laughing " honey you know we have a past and you also know how much I love you "

Serena glaring " don't call me honey. I'm going to tell my husband "

calem with a sinister smile" darling you don't want to tell him. babe just think what might happen if you tell him about your dark past"

Serena glowered " I don't have any dark past and I'm not scared of you"

calem mocking her" common Serena don't you remember our past ,our college prom dear. wow what a night we spent together "

Serena glaring " I remember everything and I also remember how you were rusticated from the college. also, I don't care if you tell my husband, he won't believe you."

calem with seductive voice" oh common on dear. what will he think about you and your character " telling that he holds her hand tightly

Serena glaring and trying to free herself "do what you want. but my husband won't believe you and nothing happened that night. now release my hand immediately "

calem wanted to continue but seeing ash returning he releases her hand and acts innocent. Serena rubs her bruised hand. ash returns and even Korrina returns. everyone continues there lunch but between the lunch, Serena felt something rubbing her leg. she sees down to see its calems leg. calem smirks, she wanted to slap him but restrained because of ash and Korrina. she just wanted to go home and be with ash leading a free stressless life.

after finishing lunch they thank each other and shake hands. calem while shaking hands with Serena shows her a very dark smile.

Korrina smiling "OK bye. let's meet in future thank you for everything "

calem with a secretive smile" Ya ash let's meet in Future and I also wanted to speak with you about something's .but we are getting late so let's keep that speak for next time. isn't right Mrs. Ketchum "

Serena with a forced smile "Ya bye"

after this, both leaves and Serena and ash returns to their cabin. ash seeing the silence starts a conversation

" nice people isn't it "

Serena still forcing her smile "Ya nice people. ash I'm tired because of this long meeting, can I leave to home please"

ash with understanding "Ya you do look tired. let's go home together now "

Serena "thank you ash"

telling that both leave for there home after informing their secretaries. even during the car ride, Serena can't forget the sinister smile of calm. she just hoped that nothing will happen to their newly formed relationship between her and her husband

well, that's all for this chapter.

what is this?

what happened between Serena and calem?

did they had a dark past?

what happened in their past?

will the newly formed relationship get ruined because of serenas?

let's know about that in next chapter.

till then me signing off the bye : )