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There was a longer vibration before Anjali's faint"hello"reached my ear, snapping me out of my thoughts. Quickly pulling my thoughts together, I carefully constructed my sentences. I didn't want her to feel more anxious than she already was. I wanted her to be happy with the guy she loved but not the guy who was lying to her face.
"Hey Anju!" My eyes never left the impostor named Raj, following every movement of his.
"Oh, Rynah! What's up?" Anjali’s voice held joy while I tried to keep the worry out of mine.
"Nothing much, dear. I just wanted to know the full name of your guy," I watched herso-calledguy toasting a glass of champagne to two other ladies in the group.
"Raj Agnihotri. Why what happened? Is something wrong?" She picked something up from my question.
Stupid Rynah! Couldn't you have been more careful with that question?
I mustered a fake smile as I replied sweetly, "Nope! Nothing's wrong. It was just Viaan and I were having a chat and I ended up mentioning about you guys by mistake. And he asked for the guy’s which I wasn't able to deliver. So, I called you."
I just hoped that my justification was logical, I didn't want to make another blunder after the previous one.
"Oh, alright. Are you still with my brother-in-law?" Anjali questioned making me glance at Viaan who was still holding the file and looked occupied with it, though Natasha was nowhere in sight.
"Yeah... He's standing right beside me," I answered as my eyes automatically landed back on Raj Agnihotri.
"Alright, then I'll talk to you later when you aren't busy," Anjali's voice reached my ear, making me nod once before I realized that I was on phone.
"Sure," I hit the end button and looked at the person I was going to hunt down tonight. Raj Agnihotri.
"You better tell me what I hadsupposedlyasked you to find out about Anjali's guy," the deep voice of Viaan's, startled me in my place. He was still flipping through his file making me almost exclaim, the keyword being ‘almost’, "What the hell!?! I thought that you were preoccupied with that stupid file and hadn't heard a word that I said to Anjali!"
"I am occupied with the file but it's the Raivardhan habit of multitasking," he closed the file and looked at me with that piercing gaze of his, "now tell me what is this all about?"
"That's what I want to find out," I cast my gaze at Raj to find him walk away with other girls towards the door guarded by a bouncer. Now how in the hell was I going to follow him in there?
My eyes then landed on my husband who tilted his head as he regarded me with a cool look while he waited for my answer.
"Why don't we go for a walk inside there and I'll tell you everything?" I nodded towards the door behind which Raj had disappeared, making Viaan follow my gaze to watch the bouncer.
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"That is why I need to find out who this really guy is," I finished explaining Viaan as I looked around the high-end bar. The blue lightning around the area gave it a SciFi touch.
"Who is the guy?" Viaan exhaled loudly, folding his arms across his chest.
I looked around for another time and found the person I had been searching for.
"There! That guy in the blue tuxedo. With those two ladies and two oldies," I discreetly tried to point at the table about four tables away from us. Viaan looked at him and observed the people.
I wished I could approach Raj and confront him. And as if my wish was coming true, Raj got up and walked towards the bartender who was pouring the blue colored liquid into the pyramid of glasses. I immediately got up to follow him but instead of me going after him, I felt a hand snake around my waist before dragging me in the other direction.
My head whipped up to find Viaan pulling me away to elsewhere.
"What are you doing, Viaan? I need to talk to him," I tried to free myself from his hold but Viaan being Viaan, didn't let go of me. He just whispered above my ear, "just trust me."
And before I could even comprehend, we were standing before the table where Raj's companions had been seated. All of them looked up at our arrival and the two oldies stood up in greeting, "My goodness! Hello, Mr. Raivardhan! What a pleasant surprise!" The man in his late fifties with salt and pepper hair and decent suit welcomed, shaking Viaan's hand. Okay, maybe I was getting what game Viaan was playing here.
"Nice to meet you again, Mr. Agnihotri. Meet my wife, Rynah," Viaan gestured towards me, causing me to reflexively shake Mr. Agnihotri's hand mumbling a ‘hello’.
"This is my younger brother, Kamal and my daughter, Mona. And that's my niece, Kajal," Mr. Agnihotri introduced the other people around the table. Now that their surnames were out, wasn't Agnihotri the same surname Raj had?
"Please do join us," Kamal Agnihotri moved away to let us in. I looked at Viaan for the next step and when he gestured towards the sofa, I moved in and sat next to Mr. Agnihotri's daughter Mona while giving both the ladies a polite smile.
"What are you doing here?" Viaan casually asked, making Mr. Agnihotri laugh.
