Page 41 of Wicked Trap

She opened her mouth to refuse, but he cut her off. “I’ll invite Sameer too, princess. So you should be safe from me.”

“I’m not scared of you.”

He smiled. “Oh yeah. I remember your threat of breaking my nose if I misbehaved.”

She knew he was making fun of her threat because he was easily able to pin her against the wall in their apartment hallway. Instead of getting annoyed, her stomach fluttered as she once again recalled how his hard body felt against hers.

Ugh. You hate him, remember! Stop thinking of him.

She forcibly pushed away thoughts of his body against hers and focused on the food. It was hard to ignore him, though. The man was a nuisance. Ever since he crashed into her life, she felt his presence constantly even when he wasn’t around.

“So are you going to tell your father about your new job?” he asked.

Of course, she wasn’t going to tell her father. She would keep it a secret until her father discovered her new job on his own. And since he was going to be busy with the upcoming campaigning, she knew she had enough time to face the crisis.

“Why wouldn’t I tell my father?” she asked.

“Why indeed.”

She frowned. The man in front of her knew way too much about what went on in her mind. The fact that she couldn’t read him similarly annoyed her.

“Tell me about the company,” she demanded. It was to change the topic from her personal information and also because she did want to know.

He raised his eyebrow at her demand. “Sure. What would you like to know?”

“I would like to know more than what’s available on the internet.”

His mouth twisted. “I’m just a lowly security guy who knows what everyone knows. You are the one who is going to work for my boss’s boss’s boss and more. So, I think you would discover quite a bit soon.”

She was annoyed by his teasing non-answer. The guy was too arrogantly smart to willingly offer any confidential information. She would have to rely on Sameer and the people she would work with to get the information.

She looked at her phone to check if Sameer had left any messages. She blinked in slight shock when she realized well over an hour had passed since she had been eating lunch with Arjun while exchanging taunts.

“Looks like Sameer won’t be able to make it,” she said. She could see that the lunch break was nearly over, and most employees were leaving the cafeteria. “I’m going to have to leave. If you see Sameer, tell him I had to leave for a different appointment.”

“Sure.”

He took her outside from the cafeteria’s side entrance, where there were fewer people. He accompanied her to the taxi stand where many taxis were waiting. She got into one.

He looked at her through the window. “Well, I guess I’ll see you at my place tonight,” he said.

She narrowed her eyes. “I didn’t accept the dinner offer at your home.”

Slowly, a smirk formed on his face. “Too bad. Then I guess it’ll be just Sameer and me having the slow-roasted mutton curry and apricot pudding.”

She gritted her teeth. “You are evil! Do you know that I hate you?”

He grinned. “I know, princess. I know.”

She turned away from his handsomely arrogant face and let the taxi take her back home. But the strange flutter inside her stomach warned her she might not hate him as much as she thought.

***

“Mr. Munshi. I will not be available to come in person to sign the papers for a few weeks. Can you please email them to me so I can put my electronic signature on them?”

Tanvi was speaking to the lawyer in charge of her trust. The older man looked surprised since he knew she had been very involved in every aspect of the trust since she turned eighteen. She looked into every transaction and questioned anything out of the ordinary. She still intended to do the same, but since she would be starting a job, she couldn’t oversee things personally.

“Sure, Tanvi. Are you travelling somewhere for a few weeks?”

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