Page 99 of Wicked Trap

Tanvi blushed. “Nothing. I was just thinking about my work.”

“Really?” Kavita asked. “You look more love-struck than anything else.”

Tanvi’s heart jerked. “No, I don’t!”

“Yes, you do. It’s the same look you and Rashmi accuse me of having from time to time.”

It was true. Kavita often zoned out with a dreamy look whenever she spoke to or spent time with her fiancé.

“Okay, spill!” Rashmi demanded. “Who is that man who put a dreamy smile on your face.”

Tanvi blushed. “No one.”

“Oh, please. Kavita and I guessed it a while ago. But we want you to be the one to tell us.”

Tanvi was surprised. “What?”

Rashmi grinned. “It was obvious when you spoke of seducing a man and showing up to our lunches with love bites on your neck.”

Oh God.

Her face heated even as she cursed the arrogant devil who put those marks on her.

Rashmi laughed. “Kavita and I knew it was inevitable when we saw the way sparks flew between you and Arjun the night we went to the restaurant. We knew you both would end up with one another.”

Tanvi was shocked. Even she hadn’t known at that time.

She shook her head. “I didn’t want to tell you both because you would worry. Arjun and I struck a temporary deal. It is only meant to be an affair.”

Rashmi frowned. “But it’s obvious that you are falling for him. And we saw that he couldn’t take his eyes off you when we met. Why can’t you both be together?”

Tanvi fell quiet. She couldn’t tell her friends the entire truth about her father. It might endanger their lives or put them in trouble.

“My father won’t approve of Arjun.”

Her friends looked shocked.

“Since when do you do what your father asks you to?” Rashmi demanded with a disbelieving laugh.

Her friend was right. She had always opposed her father in almost all things. But when she fought for her causes, she wasn’t putting anyone else in danger. If her father came to know about Arjun, he would immediately ensure Arjun was warned off. Arjun might even lose his job, and his family might be threatened.

After hearing so much about Arjun’s mother and a little about his brothers, she hated the thought of that sweet family being harassed because of her.

But her heart ached at the thought of leaving him.

She looked at her friends who have always rooted for her happiness. They had always given her moral support during any fight with her father or an outsider, and they would continue doing the same.

She took a deep breath. “I’m going to tell my father about Arjun just before the elections.”

Her friends smiled with joy. “Yes! That’s our girl!” Rashmi said with an excited squeal.

Tanvi smiled even as she began to plan.

She was hoping to gain complete control of her trust before the elections. Without the money from her trust and the source of his campaign funding being cut off, her father would be left powerless.

The source of her father’s campaign funding was the ruthless Prism chairman. The same man was also the main cause of the destruction of City Central Park.

If she could bring down that ruthless bastard on time, she would win over her cause and fight for the man she was falling in love with.

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