Inside his apartment, Zack sat Meera down on the couch. And then he went inside leaving her alone in the living room. Meera couldn't really keep her head straight. With her adrenaline draining, the alcohol was taking a toll. She lazily laid on the couch resting her head on the couch.

A few minutes later, Zack came back in with a set of his clothes and swung them into her hands.

Meera frowned confused at first, but then she looked at herself. She was a mess and her clothes were actually torn at places. When she looked up at Zack again, he pointed his fingers towards a door. Meera limped her way to the room and opened the doors.

"Hot water is to the left.." Zack said before going back into his room again.

Meera closed the doors behind her and opened the latch to her left and lukewarm water came in through the shower. She quickly let the water wash her and came back out wearing Zack's clothes.

His clothes looked like a robe on her rather than a t-shirt. But she did not complain. She just folded the sleeves of both the t-shirt and tracks. The shower had sobered her up considerably. She wasn't as drunk as she was the last time anyways. The previous time, she had a complete blackout after pulling over the cab. And when she saw herself in a weird neighborhood, she thought she might have messed up with the directions because of her drunken state. But today, when she noticed that the cab was driving in a different direction in spite of her giving the proper address she panicked and tried to get away but then the driver knocked her out and when she woke up, he was already parking the car. She swung her purse hard on his head and ran away.

She came back and sat on the couch thinking about everything that had happened today but slowly drifted off to sleep.

A few minutes later Zack came back with a medicine kit. He unbuttoned his cuffs and folded his sleeves to his elbows and sat down on the floor in front of her. He saw that Meera had already fallen asleep so he did not wake her up. Instead, he took her swollen foot and spared the medicine for sprain and wrapped a band around.

"Hss.." Meera woke up hissing in pain. But then she did not complain or comment. Neither did Zack.

Once he was down with her foot, he took her palms in his and first disinfected the wound before spreading ointment and wrapped the wound too.

"Thank you.." Meera said sincerely. After all, she could not even consider what would have happened if Zack hadn't shown up today. But more than that, she wasn't sure what would have happened the previous time if Zack hadn't let her in and she did not even thank him but instead actually accused him.

"For both times.. And sorry about last time." She said looking into his eyes. An involuntary shiver ran through her body as she remembered everything.

Zack looked at her surprised. There was none of the arrogance that he saw the last time. He thought since she was Ram's daughter, she will be like him. He had encountered the first two kids at the office and they were exactly what you would expect of being Ram's children. They were extremely arrogant and bossy as if just because they are Srivastav's, they have the right to order everyone around. And if it were them in this situation, they would have flung a bunch of banknotes at his face and went away. But seeing Meera utter thanks and sorry.. he was slightly taken aback.

"Seems you are different from the rest of the family.." He commented with a smile.

"Well, they would have had be around me to be able to turn out like them.." Meera said rolling her eyes. A sudden coldness crossed her eyes. She was someone who grew up all by herself in that big house of theirs. When Adithya uncle was still around, her mum in order to keep up appearance would take care of her elder sister and brother personally. But Meera had been way too young back then. But then her uncle passed away when she was still young.. from then on her mum stopped even the pretense. And her own sister and brother were quite elder to her. So they couldn't be bothered to teach her anything while they were busy being pleased and being kissed up to them by other rich kids in school. So she grew up on her own.. all alone.

"You are not missing out on anything good. Trust me. You are lucky.." Zack said ruffling her hair comfortingly.

Meera looked up at him surprised.

"Come on. Now get some rest. You had a long day.." Zack said giving her a pillow and blanket.

"Being a gentleman are you not going to offer the bed??" Meera asked with a teasing smile. But she had already taken the pillow and blanket from him.

"Well, I would offer the bed if only I had one.. It's either the couch or the floor. And I would very gladly offer you the floor if you want.." Zack deadpanned rolling his eyes. But his lips still twitched when he saw Meera panic and occupy the couch as if he was going to snatch it away or something if she wasn't fast enough.

Zack let out a chuckled and ruffled her head one more time before bidding good night.

"Good night.." Meera mumbled back with a smile. For some reason, her heart skipped a beat with the smallest of warmth from his touch.

It may be because he had just saved her that her emotions were drawn to him. She never had someone save her or protect her as Zack did. So it was inevitable for her to be slightly attracted to him.

After a while, she brushed the thought aside and closed her eyes drifting off to sleep.