Page 122 of Wicked Trap

The ride was tense, and she could barely stop from bursting out crying and going to pieces. But she held herself in check.

An hour later, they reached the lawyer’s office.

Mr. Munshi received them as she had called him from the SUV and let him know she and her father were coming. She had also asked for some of the trust board members to be present.

“Hello, Tanvi. Mr. Shetty. Please come in.”

They went inside the lawyer’s office. As soon as everyone was seated, her father handed her the documents to sign.

Tanvi barely glanced at them. Instead, she looked at the people in the room.

“I wanted everyone to come here to be witnesses to the decision I’m making regarding the trust.”

She turned and locked her eyes with her father. “Girish Shetty will no longer be the trust enforcer. I’m dissolving the entire trust and donating the proceeds to charitable organizations that I have listed. Mr. Girish Shetty cannot contest it because he is not my biological father. There are DNA test results from two years ago that support my statements.”

Shock ripped through her father’s face.

She looked at the man who murdered her father and mother. “I’m also reopening the case of my mother’s death because I am witness to the fact that Girish Shetty was home at the time of his wife’s death. They had been arguing about the Vardhaman family’s unnatural deaths before my mother fell down the stairs.”

Her father erupted in a roar. “You little bitch! You deliberately framed me!”

He was about to get up and attack her, but the security Mr. Munshi had arranged beforehand stopped him.

Her heart thudded. She wanted to confront her father and seek answers, but her mind was on the man she loved—the one she had deliberately shot in the chest, injuring him.

She hurried outside and called Arjun’s phone. The phone rang but no one answered. She badly hoped he had been taken to the hospital before he lost a lot of blood. The bullet she shot into his chest should not harm him fatally. She had seen it pass through his chest and hit the wall behind him.

She also knew he must have come with backup enforcements. But because she was alone with her father who had a gun, Arjun must have chosen to come inside the warehouse alone.

Oh God. Please let him be okay.

Her eyes filled with tears as she rushed out of the building. On her way, she crashed into something solid. She looked up to see the blurred form of a man in a business suit. Wiping her tears, she opened her mouth to apologize, but when the man’s face became clear, she was shocked. And confused.

She wondered if she was imagining things because she was worried about Arjun.

The man in front of her looked a lot like Arjun. But he clearly wasn’t. Although the man had the same high cheekbones, hard jawline, bold masculine nose and piercing eyes, this man had a scar on his cheek. He didn’t have hints of dimples either. Not that the man was remotely smiling. The expression on the man’s face was completely opposite of the devil-may-care attitude of Arjun’s.

Another man joined him who also looked similar yet with noted differences.

“Miss Shetty?” the first man spoke. “I’m Yash Varma.”

“And I’m Bhargav,” the other man added. “We are Aryan’s brothers.”

Her heart jerked. “Oh God. How is he?” she demanded. “Please take me to Arjun!”

Both men looked at her and must have thought she was becoming hysterical. But she didn’t care. All she wanted to do was go to Arjun.

The man named Bhargav spoke. “He’s still at the hospital—”

“Why! What happened! I thought the bullet went clean through his shoulder! Oh God! What happened! I shot him because there was no other way to keep him safe!”

“He’s doing fine, Miss Shetty. He had called us to let us know he was going to you at the warehouse. We got to him on time. He’s having the gunshot wound attended to at a hospital. And you did the right thing. In fact, you saved the life of our hotheaded brother.”

“Please take me to him!”

The man named Yash nodded. “I will take you.” The man looked at his brother. “Secure Shetty. Make sure he doesn’t get bail.”

Bhargav nodded.

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