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"That must be it! Thanks, Rynah!" And he rushed out of the room. Making me dizzy.
What was that all about?
I shook my head and let him be. Weren't all the Raivardhans weird in their own ways?
But what I didn't know then was that Neel had just found a new lead that was the key to my freedom from this luxurious prison.
Neel on the other side rushed to Viaan's office where the rest of the Raivardhans were inspecting different things. Vikrant was looking through the system checking the CCTV footage, Aaryan was using the ultraviolet light to find any clue, Daksh was going through all the files and Viaan was searching all the hiding spots of the office for umptieth time.
"Guys! Found any new clue?" Neel walked into the room dragging everyone's attention for a split second.
"We didn't, what about you?" Daksh asked closing another file before placing it on the side.
"I think so," Neel's words made everyone in the room come to a halt, waiting for him to continue, "who checked the trash bin?"
"I did. It was empty," Viaan responded making Neel nod.
"When did you check?" Neel enquired.
"As soon as I found out that the file was missing, I checked the entire office, including the trash bin," Viaan folded his arms across his chest as he leaned his back against the bookshelf.
"You didn't find anything in the trash bin?" Neel stressed.
"Nada, it was spotless. Not a piece of paper remaining in it," Viaan confirmed.
"You didn't find anything in the trash bin, meaning the trash was taken out and the trash is usually taken out every other day and emptied in the dry trash room downstairs. Before... before it's been sent for recycling," Neel mused after he placed his theory.
"What if... Just what if—" Daksh cut Neel off completing the thought, "the file accidentally fell into the trash bin in the morning after Viaan left the office but before the maid collected the trash and-" now Aaryan completed Daksh's sentence by interjecting, "took the file away?"
"Vikrant check the CCTV footage and see if the trash was collected that day?" Neel ordered as all the brothers crowded around the system. Vikrant rewound the footage to the start of the incident's day and played it.
The brothers watched carefully and patiently till they saw Rynah enter the room.
"No trash collection that day," Vikrant sat back looking at the paused screen. Shoulders of Neel, Daksh, and Aaryan slumped down. The hope that had formed suddenly left them.
"Unless," this time it was Viaan who looked thoughtful, "unless the garbage was collected the previous night after I left the office."
Vikrant bent forward and rewound the footage till the clip of a maid entering the room was found. She looked around the hallway before entering the room. Not very long after, she left the room with the trash but something was off about her.
"Hmmm... Suspicious, very suspicious," Aaryan commented looking at the clip, "Vikrant, please rewind to the start of the clip?"
Vikrant followed the request and replayed the clip.
"Stop!" Aaryan gushed making Vikrant pause the video.
He pointed towards the blazer of the maid saying, "there."
The Raivardhan brothers looked at what Aaryan was pointing at and saw that there was something firm and gray in color peeking from below her blazer while she was going in. The gray color looked so much like the gray color ofthe file.And when she walked out, the gray object wasn't there anymore, instead, she carried the trash.
"I think I've seen a gray file in those sets of files," Daksh recalled.
"Well well, it looks like we've got our thief," Vikrant announced making all the Raivardhan brothers' eyes to harden. They had a suspect to catch and a file to get. And of course, how could they forget about me? They had an innocent heroine to release.
16. SOLAH
Thedropping of various objects on the bed beside me caught my attention. It took me only a second to identify those objects as mine. My phone, my purse, my ID cards, all the other stuff that Viaan had confiscated.
"Here, take your things and leave," I looked up to find the owner of the voice, Viaan Raivardhan standing by the door. He was as emotionless as day one but now he was not having that coldness in his eyes nor was he glaring at me.
