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I and Anjali enter the room to find all the Raivardhans except for Asha. Daksh was the first one visible, who was busy staring at his phone while leaning against the wall right opposite to the door. Vikrant was being pestered by Aaryan while Viaan stood with Neel discussing over something. All of them stopped what they were doing to look at us.
"Daksh," Viaan called nodding at his brother and making him approach Anjali, "let me take you to a room to freshen up."
His voice was calm and gentle as if he cared about her. The same tone that he used had with me. Anjali shot me a swift glance before walking away with Daksh.
I turned around to feel all their gaze focused on me.
"Where were you?" Viaan asked calmly but his eyes said he was anything but calm.
"A-Anjali wasn't feeling alright... I followed her downstairs to comfort her a little," I don't know why I stuttered while replying. Something about his stance and his tone put me on the edge. Viaan silently covered the distance between us. He looked like a predator ready to pounce on his prey if needed, "Don't ever go anywhere without informing me."
I opened my mouth to counter that but he raised his finger stopping me, "agreed I wasn't there but you shall call me up if needed. That's why you have a phone. I'm telling you this for your own safety, now that you are a Raivardhan and especially my wife, you are my responsibility."
He looked like a teacher scolding a little girl though he wasn't actually scolding. I bent my head a bit feeling intimidated as I looked at him from under my lashes. He wasn't looking at me but rather his gaze was focused on my lower arm, a frown etched on his face. His arm reached forward pulling out a delicate chain-link from my gold bangles just to narrow his eyes at it.
"Where had you been?" Viaan asked still looking at the tiny little silver chain.
"I told you, already. I went after Anjali—" he cut me off asking, "Which floor?"
"E-Eighteenth," I gulped as Viaan turned to look at Vikrant with a serious face who immediately opened the laptop on the table beside him and started typing something.
Viaan faced me once again, "try to remember with whom and where did you interact this evening who had something like this on them?"
He raised his hand showing the small chain. Now that I noticed the chain, it had a blackish hue to it. Small stones embedded on the sides of the chain at equal intervals.
Seriously, who would have patience to detail things this finely?
And immediately my brain clicked, "it was the guy on the eighteenth floor who I bumped into while running after Anjali. He might be one of the hotel clients. He looked like he was in a hurry."
"He's not a client," Viaan shook his head.
"How do you know? You weren't even there," I pointed out.
"The hotel is closed for the day. So there is no one from outside unless they were one of the guests invited by us. And none of the guests would be going downstairs because the hotel staff is strictly instructed to guide them back to the banquet hall," Viaan explained.
"Your staff isn't doing a really good job you know, they neither stopped me nor Anjali," I pointed out.
"They know my bride and her family. So it's out of the question," he retorted making me gape at his words.
"That means those idiots knew damn well who I was yet they had enough guts to shout asking if I had gone crazy!?!" I whisper yelled in disbelief. I looked up to find amusement flash over Viaan's face as he stated with a chuckle, "Looks like they are very good at judging a person."
Urghh!!! This jerk! I so badly wanted to punch him!
I had my hand rolled into fists hoping that I get a chance to land my dream punch on that smug face of his. Instead, he turned around when Vikrant called, "Viaan."
The rest of the Raivardhans rushed towards him, including me. Vikrant had a recording covering his laptop screen. And as surprising as it sounded, I was there on the screen, looking disheveled.
Vikrant played the footage making me realize that it was none other than the hotel footage from about fifteen minutes ago! How in the hell did he get that so fast?
Letting my thoughts slide away for the moment, I looked at the screen seeing myself rushing down the corridor only to bump into another person around the corner. The person's back remained throughout the screen as I withdrew to step away from him and feeling dilemmatic stood there pondering whom to follow.
Stupid, stupid Rynah! You had your guts telling you to follow that person! Then why didn't you?
I would have, if it wasn't Anjali on the line... Yeah, Anjali was more important to me at the moment than that mysterious person.
"Check the other cameras where his face is visible," Neel ordered making Vikrant switch the footage off and select another camera before selecting the period. The video of the person walking down the corridor was visible. But what surprised me more was the fact that he had a white cloth tied above his face covering it. Except for his eyes, nothing else was visible.
