- | Chapter Fourteen | -
After a peaceful night with his fireball, Taani. He was happy and it was visible on his face. He was smiling when he entered the office premises, surprising his employees since he hardly smile when he is in office.
Aman, his assistant followed him inside his cabin while telling him about the day's schedule.
"-and sir, there is a girl waiting for you in waiting area." Aman informed him.
"Who?" Rey look at him, his brows knitted in confusion.
"The girl said her name is Kiara. And she wants to meet you. She had been waiting from past 3 hours. Should i send her?" Aman asked him.
Anger coursed through his veins when he got to know about his ex's visit in his office. He wanted to send her back without a meet, but then he also wanted to end this matter. He doesn't want her to go around, stalking him.
"Yea! Send her." Rey gave a curt nod to him. Aman nodded his head in response and walked out of the cabin.
He seated himself on his chair and closed his eyes to calm his anger. He doesn't want to create an unnecessary scene in his office.
After some five minutes, there was a knock on the door.
"Come in." He responded. He was mentally prepared to face his ex. The woman whom he trusted once, loved once but the one who betrayed him in return.
The door creaked open, revealing a lady in her mid 20's. She stepped inside the cabin, taking slow, hesitated steps while nervousness was visible on her face.
"Kiara." Rey let her name rolled off his tongue in venom dripping tone. He look at the girl before him, she was dressed in a blue colored salwar suit.
"Rey. How are you?" Kiara asked him in nervousness filled tone. She lifted her hand and tucked a strand of hair behind her ear.
"I was good until you decided to show up. Have a seat." Rey said to her in plain tone. He gestured her to take a seat, she thanked him and sat on the chair opposite to him.
"So what brought you here?" He asked her.
"I wanted to talk to you." Kiara trailed off hesitantly.
"About what?" He questioned.
"About whatever happened in college that day." She murmured softly.
"Do i look interested?" Rey narrowed his eyes at her.
"I know you are angry with me. You have every right to be but atleast listen to me once." Kiara pleaded to him.
"Listen, Kiara. I have no interest left in you or your explanations. I have moved on from whatever we had." Rey snapped at her.
"What if i say i have reasons for whatever i have done to you?" Kiara murmured in low tone.
"Still it won't change the fact you betrayed me. You stole information about my dad's dream project and handed over to your step father. I can never forget that." Anger got better off him and he shouted at her. Chill ran through him when he remember the evening he got to know about her betrayal and the look of disappointment his father gave him.
Something he could never forget and forgive himself for.
It was the evening before their graduation day. He was planning a surprise to propose his girlfriend of two years. He was happy. He was going to london next week for his further studies but before that, he wanted to propose Kiara. The girl he love.
In evening he returned back home after doing all the preparation for his surprise.
Lost in his thoughts of his love, he was going toward his room when his mother called out for him.
"Yes, Mom." He walked toward his mother who was in living area with his father, Ranvijay.
"Mom-Dad, what happened? You guys look tensed?" He questioned his parents out of worry seeing their tensed faces.
"Rey, did Kiara came here yesterday?" Without beating around the bush, Ranvijay questioned his son.
"Yes, dad. What happened? Is there any problem?" Rey questioned his father confusingly.
"So he was right." Ranvijay mumbled numbly, confusing his son further more.
"Dad, what happened? Please tell me clearly." Rey asked his father with desparate need to know about the truth.
"Your girlfriend betrayed you, Rey. She stole the papers about our new project and gave it to her step father avinash. We lost the kumar project to him." Ranvijay informed him. Rey look at his father in disbelief. No part of him wanted to believed his father, but he also knew his father has no reason to lie.
"Avinash himself told me about his step daughter's favor for him. She was using you, Rey. She was just using you as her pawn." Ranvijay added further, showing his disappointment to his son while Rey was too numb to react. Never in his wildest dream he thought, she will betray him like this.
Rey felt earth slipping beneath his feet. He couldn't meet his father's eyes and see the disappointment in them. He turned around and walked out of the house in hasty.
He wanted to meet her. A part of him hoped whatever his father said, was a lie. His kiara hasn't betrayed him.
After a rash drive of 15 minutes, he reached her house and his fears turned true when he found no one there except her step father, who informed him she has left the country.
"Her work is over, son. She got me the project. Now you are of no use to her." Avinash told him with a smirk playing on his lips.
And that was day his trust on the feeling called love, was broken. He hated himself for trusting wrong woman and being the reason of his father's distress.
"You will regret, Mr. Avinash. Very soon I will snatch everything from you." Rey spat harshly before he got in his car and drove away from there with a promise to never fall in love again.
His chain of thoughts was broken by the ring of his cell phone. He picked up his cell phone and glanced at the screen before his lips curved into a small smile seeing the fireball name flashing on the screen.
"Hello, ma'am." He picked up the call with a smile.
Kiara look at him, confused and curious to know who's call it is.
"Reyaansh, I am free till 2 in noon. Wanna meet?" Rey's smile widen when he heard her voice from the other side of the call.
"Sure. Lets go out for lunch. What say?" Rey suggested as he stole a glance at his watch, it was showing 11.30 in the morning.
"Sounds cool. So should i come to your office or you will pick me?"
"Tell me where you are, i will pick you up from there." Rey replied to her.
"Cool. I am in college right now. So i will meet in back side of my college."
"Alright. See you in half an hour." Rey ended the conversation, then he turned to Kiara whom he happened to forget completely while talking to taani.
Thats the affect taani has on him. He has noted. He seems to forget everything else when it comes to her.
"Kiara. I don't think we have something more to talk about. You can leave now." Rey said to her with sternness in his tone. He watched as her expressions fell and sadness was visible on her face as she got up and left from there. If it was 5 years back, he knew he had done everything to make her smile. But things had changed. He no longer felt affected by her.
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