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Gina looked at Viaan with worry because that was their code for that show to stop airing due to any sudden emergency.
"Well, yes Mr. Raivardhan. That truly is a fact that we as media persons admire the most about your family. But right now, let's take a little break. We will be right back after this," She announced getting them the requested break.
"Everything alright, Mr. Raivardhan?" She asked out of courtesy.
"My wife, she hasn't come back yet," He resorted to a short reply. He already had a dreadful feeling when I had left the room but now it had only been amplified. Something was most certainly amiss around here and he wasn't ashamed to look arrogant to stop the live show in the middle to search for his wife.
"Günter, where is Mrs. Raivardhan?" Gina quizzed looking at a baffled looking errand boy who had escorted me to the washroom.
"I thought she had come back so I came here in search of her," He looked around.
"What do you mean byyou thought she came back?" Viaan questioned rigidly making Günter explain that while he was waiting for Mrs. Raivardhan outside the washroom, an old man stumbled towards him catching his chest right above his heart and mumbling 'water' making Günter rush to the nearest water dispenser which happened to be in a studio down the corridor. By the time he rushed back the man fell before his very own eyes leaving Günter in a panic and making him help the old man to slowly sip the water from the glass. After drinking the water, a few guards claiming to be the old man's bodyguards came to his aid and took him away telling that they were going to take him to the hospital. In that chaos, he had forgotten about Lady Raivardhan until five minutes ago when he realized that she wasn't visible anywhere and he came searching for her.
Viaan let out a string of profanities as he called the head of the ARAIV guards on the duty that day and asked to search for his missing wife. Having no idea that I wasn't even in the building at the moment.
Everybody became anxious as they started to help Viaan in the same. Not even ten minutes later the head of the ARAIV guards came rushing to Viaan to deliver the news, "Sir, there is a little bad news. Mrs. Raivardhan has been abducted. We found this footage from the CCTV of the back door."
And just as the guard had informed, the screen of the laptop showed a black sedan standing in the distance and a bulky guy in a black shirt was carrying his unmoving wife, away.
"Whose car is that? What's the registration number?" The slowly simmering anger was now boiling in Viaan's veins which could be easily made out from the stony and chilling tone of his voice. The guards slightly trembled under his blood freezing gaze, "W-we don't know, S-sir. No other camera c-captured anything that could help us with this. They were really careful about everything."
Viaan felt like throwing the laptop on their heads as he boiled with anger. Who had dared to enter his territory and take his wife away? They had unknowingly signed their own death contract.
"I don't know anything, hunt down the security guards of this place, interrogate them. Ask them where they had died during this incident. Gather the staff and interrogate them. Check all the cars that had arrived and track them back to their owners. And if anything, any minute thing not falling in together, bring it to my notice. And call our best hacker, right now," Viaan roared the orders before punching the glass teapoy letting it shatter to the ground into tiny pieces of shiny fragments as he cursed, "damn."
He wanted to punch the daylight out of the kidnappers but he had to manage with the teapoy, at the moment. Leaving the guards to shiver at his anger.
"But our best hacker is Mr. Vikrant, Sir. What do we do?" One of the guards dared to ask, calling for Viaan's wrath onto himself.
"Then call him, you idiot!" Viaan shouted at the imbecile guard leaving all of them to scramble away to follow his commands.
Viaan couldn't help but remember the time he had shouted at the watchmen back in the Raivardhan Winter mansion for being irresponsible and letting an opportunity for me to get in through the gates. He had thoroughly scolded those poor fellows, enough to have their knees shaking. That day he had scolded them for letting me in and today he was scolding the security for letting me out, or rather being taken away. How ironic was it that the situation had taken this kind of twist? He had never even thought that he would be caring about a careless girl who he had concluded to be a clever, gold digger. Only now did he know that I was anything but that and perhaps much more.
"Sir," Viaan's chain of thoughts was broken by a guard standing before him.
"We have some progress," He added, making Viaan nod before he continued, "that errand boy Baron, he was involved in this."
Viaan had a hunch on that nervous wreck errand boy, so it wasn't particularly surprising. But what the guard said next was, "and this was sent for you."
Viaan eyed the metal part of the small pen drive before nodding at the laptop.
The guard didn't waste any time and immediately inserted the pen drive and played the video in it. It chilled the air further as the video continued on the screen. Without another word, Viaan launched from his chair and stalked toward the exit. Gritting his teeth all along.
Another one of the guards rushed after him, "Sir, Mr. Vikrant is in an important meeting it seems and his assistant isn't allowing further communications."
He grunted in annoyance ordering, "get Abhimanyu to handle things over here," before dialing the number of his nearest brother as he rushed through the corridor. Neel didn't take much time to answer it.
As soon as he had spoken a "Hello" on the receiving side, Viaan spoke, "they took her away. They took Rynah away right from under my nose!"
"What!?!" Neel was shocked to say the least.
"Get Vikrant on the call and set up the clone device to let him remote access to the systems here. Let him hack into the cameras of every single stoplight and track the route of this car I'm sending the video of. And stay in touch with me the entire time," Viaan barked into the phone. Neel hadn't waited for him to finish his ordering but had rather started with doing the same as they came. He was already moving towards their cyber room at the end of the hall in their Cape Town mansion while dialing for Vikrant from his work phone.
Apparently, the video Viaan had received on the pen drive was the video of the car from another angle where the car's registration number was clearly visible and the route it had taken next. Ordering the guards following him about what else to be done, Viaan had also ordered for the assemblage of the alpha team in the area and a group of about twenty people had appeared out of nowhere.
On the other side, no one had an idea about what was going to happen. Especially me...
The darkness swallowed me when my eyelids slowly raised. The warm and sticky air started to suffocate me already. My breathing had slowly morphed into ragged. Panic flooded my system. What scared me more was the realization that I couldn't react. I couldn't even lift a finger, let alone move my body. I didn't know why my body felt numb and heavy while my head was dizzy. My vision blurred on the edges making me so badly want to throw up.
