Page 80 of Twisted Alliance

“W-what?” she asked, not understanding why he was inside the SUV. She had thought he wasn’t in the mansion and must have left to meet a clan in the desert.

His darkly handsome face looked impatient. “Get in,” he ordered. “You mentioned you have to be in the city by noon for lunch. We are already delayed by fifteen minutes.”

She recalled telling him those details last night, but she thought he hadn’t heard.

“B-but why are you here?” she asked.

“I’m driving you to the city.”

She wanted to ask him why. Not wanting to argue, since it was getting late, she sat in the front seat next to him.

“No one can see you. You can take off your veil,” he said.

She slowly nodded and pushed it back. She felt oddly self-conscious, but knowing it was just him, she relaxed.

He put on his sunglasses before driving them out of the mansion gates. She saw the security team vehicles following them at a distance.

“Where exactly are we going to in the city?” he asked.

“I… I need to go to Kailash Ashram.”

He was silent.

She wondered why he wasn’t asking her about the person she was meeting. She hadn’t told him anything the previous night except that she was going to the city to meet someone.

Does he trust me?

Or maybe he thinks he can catch me in the act of conspiring against him and his family.

She felt conflicted about how she should feel. Shivay Thakvar was an enigma.

He cared about his family. He was a good leader to bring the clans together. But when it came to her, he behaved contradictorily.

He hated her and didn’t trust her, and yet when he touched her in the darkness of night, he gave her unbelievable pleasure. His lovemaking was rough, exciting, and passionate. But sometimes, he also made love to her as though she was precious and something he cherished.

It is lust and nothing more.

She knew she shouldn’t read anything else into it except for her desire for his lovemaking. He desired her the way she desired him. And even though she admired his ability to protect his family and be a good leader for the clans, she knew she shouldn’t fall in love with him. Not only would he not love her back, but they also didn’t have a future together.

Her priority was to get good medical treatment for her mother. For that, they would have to leave the Singoor region and be at a place with good mental health treatment.

Her mother was getting slightly better since the last visit. But it was not consistent. Sometimes her mother’s sentences were coherent and sweet, but other times her mother forgot everything and was in a drugged haze.

Her brother briefly mentioned he had taken the second opinion of a doctor to change the medications, but the other doctor had also insisted they had to get proper medical treatment at a facility outside the Singoor region. She hoped to find a good facility soon.

“I’ll join you soon. Wait for me at the office. Arrangements have been made for you there.”

She turned to see Shivay Thakvar speaking to someone on the phone. She assumed it was the security head. She saw the convoy of vehicles following them at a distance take a detour as they entered the city limits.

Wondering why he was sending away the security, she looked at him.

“Why did you ask the security to leave?” she asked.

He looked at her briefly before turning back to the road. “The person you are visiting is your old family priest, Kailash Kayastha. I’m assuming there won’t be a threat from him or his family.”

She was surprised that he knew Kailash Kayastha. She then realized he might have gotten the information on his headset from security.

“Y-yes, I trust guruji more than anyone.”

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