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But not if they caught you kissing him.

Ugh.

She tried to go back to sleep. But as soon as she closed her eyes, a handsome face with an arrogant smirk began to haunt her along with their last night’s kiss.

Letting out a frustrated sound, she opened her eyes and sat up. She knew she would have to go about her day and keep herself busy so she could forget about the arrogant devil haunting her.

She picked up her laptop next to the bed and began to work on her articles she often published in various magazine portals. Her current article was about City Central Park.

The reach and reaction to her articles on the topic were tremendous. But unfortunately, she and the rest of the people wanting to save park were helpless. Prism Corporation was still going ahead with the plan for the mall.

Her eyes fell on the separate folder she created to add information on the Prism Corporation and the chairman. Unfortunately, she was yet to fill up that folder with any relevant information. There was only one piece of information that said the parent company was from New York.

Suddenly a thought struck her.

Oh God.

Why didn’t I think of it before!

Maybe it was a coincidence. But she did not want to take any chances. She immediately called her father. She knew he would be in a pissed-off mood, but she had to try.

“Hello?” her father’s angry voice spoke.

“Hello, Papa. I wanted to ask you something about this man you wanted to set me up with.”

“What?” he snapped.

“You said he is a billionaire from America. Is he from New York?”

There was silence. “How do you know who I was talking about?”

Her heart jerked with shock and excitement.

“It doesn’t matter how I know, but I’m willing to meet him like you wanted.”

There was another suspicious pause. “Why do you want to meet him when you claim to have a boyfriend? If it is to harass him to stop building the mall, then—”

“No. No. I won’t harass him. I promise.”

There was another ominous pause. “If you mess it up for me, I’ll make sure you regret it. And so will your boyfriend.”

The call was cut. She shivered at the not-so-subtle threat by her father of hurting her fictional boyfriend. Pushing away the threats and fear, she began planning for the event where she would finally be meeting the Prism chairman.

CHAPTER 18

“There is something very odd about Girish Shetty.”

At Aryan’s statement, both his brothers waited for him to explain. They were at Bhargav’s penthouse. Aryan paced the living room which held a lot of paintings and knick knacks from the Vardhaman Mansion.

“I’ve been to Shetty’s place two times now,” he continued to say. “I noticed there are still a lot of paintings and collections that Ma had designed.”

Bhargav frowned. “Maybe the man is too lazy to redesign. And Ma always had excellent taste.”

Aryan shook his head. “Ma does have excellent taste. But there are way too many things that are the same as Ma designed. There is Ma’s portrait too. Even though Ma had been nice to Shetty’s late wife, I doubt Shetty’s wife would want a portrait of Ma in her living room. Just Ma’s and none of our portraits. It’s just fucking odd.”

“What are you saying?” Yash asked.

“How did Girish Shetty have access to the Vardhamans? As far as I know, our father didn’t know Shetty before. We never met him except for the last year when he suddenly popped up and visited with his family. Rajesh Mohan and Anand Kashyap even made Shetty their partner during that time. According to the investigation, they didn’t know Shetty before either.”

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