Reyansh

Krish made a quick miraculous recovery while, I gave my 24/7 attention, support and care to him.

He was my main priority.

But thoughts of Kyra plagued me incessantly, our last interaction, our fight, the look of absolute betrayal in her eyes.

After the one and a half weeks, I devoted to Krish's recovery, I needed to immediately work on the marriage contract, time was slipping away and I was a mere 3 1/2 weeks away from my deadline and if I didn't act now, my plans, the retribution  and solace my family deserved , the promise/vow I had made to seek vengeance , would all be destroyed.

I would not let that happen in any circumstance and I will do anything, absolutely anything that I have to, to achieve my goals. Absolutely nothing and no-one would be allowed to be a hindrance in seeking my revenge upon the Oberoi Empire and family.

Especially now that Kyra wholeheartedly hated me, I didn't have to worry about being tactful and find ways to get her to voluntarily marry me, she despised me and honestly even though it hurt, it was easier this way for me to go ahead with my plans. We were going to be married before her 24th birthday, by hook or crook, voluntarily or involuntarily on her part.

But I realised that I owed Kyra the complete truth as to what happened that day on the street (the Holi incident). I decided to send her the CCTV footage with video and audio recording. In it, I also mentioned that things got out of hand and I didn't mean for her to get hurt at all, I only wanted a unique introduction and I wanted to be the one to save her, so that we would become acquainted and I would find an opening to get my company hired by the Oberoi Empire. Also, because her previous security system had various lapses and I had actually rectified them,

Also, because I'm not a naive moron, I enabled the video to be automatically deleted and erased from the server upon opening and viewing it once, there was no way to retrieve it once erased and hence she would not be able to use it against me.

Kyra and Abhay's marriage had been scheduled for 2days prior to her 24th birthday.

I decided to spend every waking minute, immersing myself in finding loophole's to exploit and annihilate the contracts.

Kyra

All the preparations for my upcoming marriage were going on in full swing, it was a mere 21 days away.

It felt surreal. That I was actually getting married, that too not for love but a business arrangement, a marriage of convenience.

My younger self would be extremely disappointed in me.

I tried my best to remove Reyansh and his betrayal from my mind, I couldn't believe he was capable of doing such a horrible and despicable thing.

Even though he was the one who saved me, reprimanded the goons, took me to a hotel room and treated me with the utmost respect and care and provided first aid. It did not absolve him, he knowingly put me in danger and risked my life.

The means do not justify the end.

He could have found another way to make my acquaintance, he could have  tried to get the security contract of the Oberoi Family and Empire a different way, but no he chose the extremely morally questionable route. I had seen the video he had sent and he had rigged it to self destruct upon viewing it once, clever asshole.

Also, I realised that using physical violence against him in the elevator was a mistake but I was just extremely pissed off at him. But he had more or less retained his temper, and only lashed out when I spoke ill of his parents.

So far he had even kept my one time affair with him in the lounge, a secret. He had not even mentioned that or the fact that he had seen Abhay in the men's washroom in a compromising way.

I kept my mouth shut regarding the Holi incident and how he was the one had orchestrated it in the first place and used it as leverage to get his company hired. Only because I did not want to provoke him to reveal the above things to my family or god forbid the media.

Mistakes were made on both sides, more on his part than mine, but nonetheless I was going to ignore him completely.

I spent my time working, and doing the many - many last minute wedding tasks to be done.

Also, because of my upcoming marriage and the various pre marriage rituals (According to Hindu tradition) which started a week before the actual marriage ceremony, my birthday, my 2 weeks long honeymoon in Switzerland. I would be extremely busy during that whole period and would not be able to work at all, so I decided to finish as much work now as possible, so that, there would be no problems then.

I also had to go get my designer Lehenga (Indian wedding dress), my jewellery, finalise my hair and make up, the trousseau, the last minute venue and decoration arrangements.

At such a time I wished I had a girl best friend (a bridesmaid) who could help me with all this, it was difficult doing it all on my own, I wished I had someone to bank on and to be there for me, because of our high society status (the richest family in the entire city) I could never make true friends, everyone was out to make connections and garner favours.
I didn't even have any close cousins I could rely on, and to speak of my mother, well she was highly self absorbed and more worried about herself and her personal preparations to give a damn about me.

I'm not sexist, I wouldn't even mind a brother, or guy best friend to help. But I had none because of the same reasons as above. The one true best friend I had, had been Abhay, I'm sure if circumstances were different and we were not being coerced to marry each other, or if Roman was alive and Abhay was not addicted to drugs, then Abhay would go back to being my childhood bestie Abhay, who would have happily helped me and been by my side.

But we did not live in an ideal world, and the reality was Abhay's father had sent him to some far off remote rehabilitation centre (with no cellular or internet access) to tackle his drug problems and he would return back a few days before the wedding, just in time to take part in the pre wedding rituals, I hoped.

Our wedding date was fixed for just 2 days before my birthday because our priest had declared that particular day as a very auspicious day to get married and my superstitious family had instantly agreed.

With the time so short I had just wanted to get the marriage over with and move out and focus on my work (my one true love).

I was going through our side of the guest list and saw Reyansh's name, I instantly wanted to rescind the invitation but it would raise a red flag so i ignored his name, and knowing his strange obsession with me, secretly I wanted him to see me marry another guy and hoped it would affect and torment him, hopefully.

I spotted Mr. Alexander's name, he was one of the people I had personally invited but unfortunately he would not be able to attend because he suffered a stroke and was bed ridden until he made a full recovery, I had sent him flowers and a note wishing for his speedy recovery. I actually like him and he was very kind and considerate to me after I was attacked on Holi. He had a very grandfatherly vibe to him.

Reyansh

Time was rapidly ticking, only One week was left for the wedding, time to make my move, I just discovered a loophole to break Abhay's contract with his parents and get him his fortune and independence from his family.

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