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"The hotel also happens to have the lockdown system as you just noticed, allowing us to remotely lockdown the area we want. So, the sixteenth floor was under lockdown, and when we reached there, we shut the sprinklers and opened the locked doors one by one gathering all the people who were stuck inside. Which happened to be those three people, among them one was the culprit, the one who tried to trigger the alarm in attempt to sabotage the party. We found the culprit, who confessed to work for Raichand, fired her. So, nobody knows what happened other than us and hence the reception is still going on. End of the story, now shall we go?"
"But why would this Raichand guy want to ruin our reception?" I frowned.
"Because your husband married you and not his daughter," Daksh shrugged.
"We don't know about that," Viaan breathed making a part of my heart clench to see him defending Nishika's father even after hearing all this.
"Come on, bro! Everyone knows that Nishika is crazy about you," Aaryan snorted.
"That doesn't mean that he would risk losing our trust for such a petty thing," Viaan was clearly irritated.
Really Viaan? Nishika's love was petty to you now?
I so badly wanted to yell,'I know your secret'at his bloody handsome face but I restrained and resorted to asking the final question I had, "And that guy I bumped into earlier? Who was that?"
"We are trying to find all the information about him available to us. So you have no need to worry," Viaan replied, his eyes burned into mine and that was the cue for my heart to flutter.
"Of course, she isn't worried. She is rather missing that hot guy with signature cologne," Aaryan gave me that irritating smile of his making my eyes narrowed at him.
Before I could do something, Neel dope smacked him on my behalf making him cry out, "Ouch! That hurts!"
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We were back in the banquet hall. Just like Aaryan had told, nobody had any clue about what all happened on the floors below them. Except for Nishika's father, who looked like he was constipated.
"Where were you? The guests were asking about you," My mom smiled and nodded at somebody as she scolded me from the corner of her mouth to remain inconspicuous.
"I was with Viaan, mom," I kept it short and honest. She nodded in understanding.
"Guess what? Tapasya and Rajeev are here," she added with a laugh, "They just found a few of the celebrities and are having a photo session with them."
I would have done the same if the celebrities hadn't done it themselves. Tom Cruise was here at my wedding! Tom freaking Cruise! He and some other celebrities were in Dubai for some event promotion. Not only him but Selena Gomez, Sandra Bullock, Will Smith, Mitchell Yo, Shahrukh Khan, Priyanka Chopra, Siddharth Malhotra, Bella Hadid and many others were here! I was hyperventilating when they came to congratulate us. I was grinning like a child in Willy Wonka's chocolate factory, all the time.
The clearing of the throat brought me back to present. "You still have that goofy grin on your face," Viaan's smirk seeped through his voice making me roll my eyes. That was not enough to knock that smile off my face. I could see Luv and Kush surrounding Bella Hadid as they continued to bug her. My mom was beside my dad as they both were talking to my dad's boss.
Mayank and Prerna were talking to Aaryan. Aadarsh uncle and Lasika aunty were accompanying Rajiv's parents. Anjali and Ritika were swooning over Siddharth Malhotra, along with so many other girls. The rest of my in-laws were entertaining other guests. It felt so good to be able to see their happiness glistening on their faces.
Two familiar faces appeared before me, before one of them engulfed me in a hug, "Hey! Congratulations on your big day!"
Tapasya withdrew to smile at me widely, "Can't believe my little cousin is married now! And that too to aRaivardhan!" The heights of her excitement were on some other level entirely.
"Tapasya," I blushed at her statement, "Thank you for coming."
"Wouldn't miss anything for this wedding," she winked before nudging her husband, "Right Rajiv?"
Rajiv stopped his small talks with Viaan just to agree with Tapasya, "Yeah yeah."
And the men resumed their talk again. I couldn't help but giggle at the cuteness of the couple before me.
"You are going to tell me every single detail," she left her sentence incomplete as she winked at me and started to get down the stage. Rajiv shook his hand with Viaan, congratulated me and followed his wife as another guest came over to congratulate us.
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I woke up to the sound of Viaan's soothing words. He was rubbing my back trying to calm me down. My chest heaving vigorously with heavy breaths as if I had run a marathon. It was then I realized that I just had another one of my panic attacks. My hands fisted into his t-shirt in a tight grip. I felt calm and relaxed, feeling safe when he was around.
I was so tired that I fell asleep on his chest again. The next time I opened my eyes to Viaan gently peeling off his t-shirt from my hand. My back now rested on the bed and a quilt over my body.
I raised my gaze to find him stop his actions to watch me. He looked good in casuals, really good. Very different from his suits. He looked approachable. I don't know how long we stared at each other. His hypnotic pools of chocolate just made me want to drown in them. It felt like a dream, a sweet dream.
