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Cat-ish Raivardhan...
These people were so heartless. How could anyone laugh like that when someone else may be breathing their last breaths?
I kind of felt disgusted.
Me mulling over my thoughts was interrupted when the door opened revealing three completely drenched hotel staff who were ushered in by the three Raivardhan brothers who didn't have a speck of a wet spot on their clothes. A few guards in black uniforms stayed outside while two of them entered after Daksh.
One of the guards locked the door behind him after everyone was inside. The three drenched staff members stood like culprits before us. Viaan let go of me before walking towards the male staff member on the extreme right and narrowed his eyes at him, "Where did you find him?"
"Caught him struggling to open the window at the end of the corridor," Aaryan replied as emotionlessly as a dead making a chill go down my spine. Though this wasn't the first time I had seen him hiding his emotions, then I had never seen him this cold.
Viaan moved to the next male, beside the former one, scrutinizing him under his cold glare while he asked, "And him?"
"In the room 604B," Daksh replied in a similar monotone. I could feel my eyes slightly widen at Daksh's poker face and stone-cold voice. I could expect other brothers to be detached and emotionless but Daksh? After he had been so kind and polite and caring towards me and even Anjali just some time ago? That was a real surprise on his part.
Viaan turned his gaze to the only lady staff who had started shivering out of the cold.
"Ladies washroom," Neel added briefly, not showcasing any emotion just like his brothers. His gentle side hidden underneath his cold facade. All of them looked so scary that way. If I hadn't witnessed their other side, I probably would have started crying by now for being married into their family. Agreed that Viaan didn't spare me off his cold side but all of them, like this? At the same time? Even Jason Voorhees might run away after looking at them.
"Vikrant," Viaan's voice was steady and authoritative as he kept his gaze focused on the three drenched people in the room.
"Alarms of 610B, 611B, and ladies' washroom had gone off, causing the fire sprinklers to go off," Vikrant had an arrogant glint in his eyes as he looked at the lady with a soul-chilling gaze. He looked like a grim reaper, especially with his light blue eyes, it could cause skeletons to jump to life just to run away from him.
When his words were registered, Viaan's gaze intensified on the only female apart from me in the room.
The other two were dismissed as Daksh signaled them to leave. Holding the woman still with his freezing glare, Viaan questioned, "Who paid you?" His voice just as freezing as his expression.
Though the question wasn't for me, I couldn't suppress the shudder that rolled down my spine. It reminded me of the time he had asked something similar to me, assuming that I had stolen some precious file of his.
The girl whimpered as tears threatened to roll down her cheeks. I felt pity for her, I could totally relate to her and understand her fear because I had been in her shoes not very long ago.
Taking a small step forward, I opened my mouth to stop this mental assault but someone else beat me by whispering under their breath, "Don't even think of doing that."
I turned left to find Vikrant standing not a foot away from me, his gaze fixed at the sight ahead of us as he continued to whisper only for my ear, "You will only complicate the procedure resulting in more severe consequences for her."
I frowned at his words as I turned to find Viaan looking at his watch, "I don't have all night. If you don't speak now, I'll let the police do the job."
"N-No, sir!" Her eyes widened as she stuttered, "the o-order came from M-Mr. Raichand..."
I stood there shocked and confused by hearing her words. Looks like,the Raivardhans strategyof scaring people to obtain truth really did work...
"Raichand? Had a hunch about that," Neel licked his lower lip thoughtfully.
"Guards!" Viaan called still not looking away from the woman, "Take her away."
"Don't forget to collect your pink slip on your way out," Vikrant added arrogantly making her slump a bit before sobbing softly.
"Well, that was as expected," Aaryan remarked as soon as the guards led that woman out of the room.
"Mom must be worried, let's get back to the event," Viaan stated as he started to move towards the door while I stood rooted in my place confused over everything that happened in the duration of one evening.
"Craziness, you aren't coming?" Aaryan asked making me look up only to find all the Raivardhans stop to look at me.
"Wait, I don’t think I understand anything at all here.. What just happened? Who was the guy that we saw on the CCTV footage? Did the woman really light a fire and yet the event is still going on even after all this happened? It must have been a chaos in the banquet hall due to this fire! I am just so confused right now that I my head is hurting..." I was a blabbering mess.
They sure were amused by my little blabbering show except for Viaan, who sighed slightly irritated but he eventually said, "Aaryan."
Aaryan smirked as he started explaining, "the hotel has fire sprinkler systems which activate only on those particular floors where the smoke is been detected and not the entire building. Vikrant had changed the fire alarm settings for today, so it would only let us know if there was a fire or 'fake' fire, as of today. This was only known by us, and no one else.
