Chapter 248 - Broken Bond, and Grieving Heart (1/2)

|Innaya|

Once again, a deafening silence fell in the living room, making me aware of my quickened breathing. I could not believe what Arjun said, even though I knew he would not lie.

”Security? Why did you not tell me?” I asked, backing away from Eshan.

The new piece of knowledge was like a cold bucket of water dumped over my head. I struggled to make sense of the information. The kidnapping incident had happened very long ago, almost two months, and for two months, Eshan kept this away from me. I just could not make peace with it.

”Did not want to scare you,” Eshan answered simply. His hand gripped my shoulder, pulling me back to his chest.

I did not want to. How could Eshan hide such an important matter from me? There were people following me without my knowledge. Now it all made sense. How he got to know about Karan, how he always knew about everything concerning me when he was not in the vicinity. There were eyes and ears he had planted around me. He would obviously receive the report. Did that not mean he knew everything his mother had done?

I could not resist the sickening feeling of disgust rising in my chest. Here, I bore everything for... him. I did not want him to have to choose between his mother and wife, whereas he had already decided whose boat he was sailing. I could not be any stupider than this. For the past month, he had been putting on an act to deceive me, and yet he blamed me.

”Don't think too much without listening to everything,” Eshan said, his voice coming out a little stern, which I perceived as an annoyance.

Great, now he was getting annoyed because I found his play.

”Take your hands off,” I replied instead. His mere presence was causing me to feel choked. I failed to understand why I was having such a strong reaction. Logically, I should be listening patiently without reaching any conclusion. Eshan also said that he knew nothing, but I failed to distinguish when he was telling truth, and when he was lying,

Eshan remained quiet, restraining my unsuccessful attempt of getting away from him.

”When aunty came to meet you for the first time, there was a security breach,” Arjun said, explaining the details of that day.

”And, Eshan does not know what happened that day,” he added hurriedly as if sensing my growing displeasure with his friend. No wonder he could not see his friend getting hurt. He wanted to clear the suspicion on his friend as soon as possible.