Everyone was busy preparing for the party, and no one even realized how quickly the day had passed. After work, Shantanu went to the mall to buy an outfit for tomorrow's party. After trying on multiple outfits for quite some time, Shantanu finally selected a white three-piece suit.
He also picked up matching shoes . when he was heading out of the mall, his eyes landed on a showcase displaying various masks.
"I was looking at masks over there."
Shantanu suddenly remembered that Rudra wanted a mask, so without thinking much, he stepped inside the store. There were a lot of masks, and they were really cute. There were even couple masks.
"Mr and Mrs."
"You and me."
"King and Queen."
"Hubby and wife."
There were many such masks displayed. Shantanu picked up two simple and cute masks. The store also had various other items like keychains, bracelets, rings, mugs, pens, and there was even an option to customize products.
While browsing through the items, Shantanu's eyes fell on cufflinks.
Seeing the cufflinks, Rudra came to his mind again. "Boss helped me a lot today, and he even gave me another chance to work with Pari and the third-floor team members. Can I gift him these cufflinks as a thank-you gift? But these seem really expensive, and I have already spent a lot of money."
Shantanu began contemplating his expensesâhouse rent, food, fuel for his vehicle, other bills like electricity, water and even the money he had to send home.
"Never mind, I'll just thank him verbally or maybe invite him for a meal someday to show my gratitude. Anyway, he comes to my place whenever he feels like it and never even says thank you for staying at my place. Just because he helped me once, what's the big deal? And if I had extra money, I would have definitely bought them." Thinking this, Shantanu left the store as he has a shortage of money and he was also not pleased by Rudra's dominating attitude.
Oberoi Corporation,
As Rajeev opened the cabin door, he saw a young man, around Rudraâs age, arranging files in the rack.
With a cunning smile, Rajeev stepped inside the cabin and walked up close to the young man, speaking in a deep voice "Ahaan "
Hearing his name suddenly, Ahaan got startled. When he turned around and saw Rajeev standing so close, he lost his balance. Ahaan was about to fall, but Rajeev caught him in nick of time by the waist.
Ahaan had shut his eyes tightly out of fear of kissing the ground harshly while Rajeev was thoroughly enjoying watching Ahaan in such a frightened state.
When Ahaan didn't feel any pain or hardness of ground, he slowly opened his one eye, and upon seeing Rajeev smirking mischievously, he opened the other eye wide and quickly freed himself from Rajeev's arms, stepping a few meters away.
"Mr. Rajeev, what are you doing here?" Ahaan's face showed clear signs of discomfort.
"Your Madam seems to be spending quite a lot of time with Passion Fashion these days. Can I know the reason?" Rajeev asked, keeping his eyes fixed on Ahaan.
Without looking at Rajeev, Ahaan replied in plain voice without any emotions, "Mr. Rajeev, you can ask Madam about this directly. I cannot provide you with any information."
Rajeev smirked sarcastically on reply of Ahaan and said, "Ahaan, I work in this company too, so you wouldnât be leaking any company information."
Ahaan, who had gone back to arranging the files which he had dropped earlier, paused for a moment upon hearing Rajeevâs response. His reaction lasted only a few secondsâsomeone a normal person wouldnât have noticed any changes in Ahaan behaviour but escaping from Rajeevâs observation was impossible for Ahaan.
Ahaan turned around with a forced smile and said, "Mr. Rajeev, I know you work in this company, which is why I am asking you to inquire directly with Madam."
Rajeev grinned back and mocked, "You are quite loyal to your Madam, aren't you?" Rajeev emphasized the word "Madam" in a mocking tone. Ahaan gazed at Rajeev and Rajeev moved forward decreasing the gap between the two.
He then leaned in closer and whispered into Ahaanâs ear, "I heard someone is leaking your Madamâs information to Rudra⦠Do you have any idea about that ?"
Ahaanâs grip on the file tightened, and for a brief moment, he clenched his eyes shut. Then, suddenly opening them, he forcefully shoved the file into Rajeevâs chest, pushing him back and said, "No, I donât know. And if you have nothing better to do than gossip then excuse me, I need to go home."
Ahaanâs voice was filled with confidence, and he looked directly into Rajeevâs eyes as he spoke.
By observing Ahaanâs attitude, Rajeev now understood why Sushma had never doubted her personal assistant. Rajeev was really impressed by Ahaan's performance.
He stepped aside and gestured with his left hand for Ahaan towards the door.
Ahaan walked out of the cabin normally, but as soon as he was entirely outside the cabin, he leaned against the wall, clutching his chest, and took deep breaths."That was a close call today. Mr. Rajeev was determined to get something out of me."
He exhaled heavily. "Just like Boss, Mr. Rajeev is terrifying as Well, and why not they are brothers, after all."
Meanwhile, inside the cabin, Rajeev kept staring at the door "Letâs see how long you keep escaping, Verma ji," Rajeev smirked cunningly.
Archit was relaxing in his flat after returning from the office and remembering the events of the day. The words spoken by Rudra and Prem were piercing his heart like thorns. Archit was very angry and in anger he threw all the stuff from the bed on the floor.
âAaaaaaaaaaaaa " Archit shouts angrily while hitting the bed and takes a deep breath and closes his eyes.
Two children of around nine years were playing in the garden and another child was watching them from a distance. One boy was running and the other was catching him. "Prem, I am Rudra Oberoi, and catching me is impossible!" the kid running ahead said laughing.
"I am Prem Kapoor, and I donât know how to lose! Run as fast as you can, Rudra. If I catch you, Iâll beat you till you turn black ! " Prem shouted playfully, increasing his speed.
The third boy watching them giggled in amusement. His face was round, and his cheeks were puffed. This little boy was younger than both Rudra and Prem.
"Rudra Bhai is the best! Prem, you wonât be able to catch him!" the little boy laughed cutely.
Prem turned to the little boy and said, "Archit, you are quite daring but you are supporting the wrong one. I will beat rudra first then smash you like patato." He playfully waved his hand at Archit.
"Hahaha! Then Rudra Bhai wouldn't spare you!" Archit answer with a soft laughter.
Hearing archit's teasing Prem changed his route to Archit. Seeing Prem heading toward him, Archit started running with his tiny legs.
"Rudra Bhai, save me!" But against Prem, his speed has no match.
Rudra turned to see Prem already reaching Archit. Prem picked Archit up and slung him over his shoulder like a sack of potatoes.
"Now call for your Rudra Bhai. Tell me, should I drop you?" Prem teased.
"No⦠No⦠Please, Prem, donât drop me!" Archit pleaded in a frightened voice while clutching Prem tightly.
"Then tell me, who is the best?" Prem laughed.
"You are the best! I love you, Prem! But please donât drop me!" Archit begged again.
Hearing Architâs response, Prem burst into laughter and started spinning in circles.
"Prem, I feel dizzy! Please put me down!" Archit panicked and closed his eyes tightly.
"Hahaha! You are such a scaredy-cat, Archit!" Prem teased while giggling in joy.
As Rudra moved closer them and he said, "Prem, let him go. Heâll fall."
Rudra had barely taken two steps whenâ
"Thud!"
Both Prem and Archit fell to the ground with a loud crash.
Archit started crying loudly. Rudra and Prem tried to console him, but he wouldnât stop. They finally had to bribe him with ice cream and chocolates to make him smile again.
Architâs face, still streaked with tears but lit up with a big grin on flashback of childhood memories with Rudra and Prem.
There was a tearful smile on Archit's face. "I donât know what changed suddenly⦠Why does Rudra Bhai hate me so much now?" Archit wondered.
"Earlier they used to talk very nicely but suddenly they started hating me, mom and dad. What changed suddenly? Why did they become like this ?" Archit was not able to understand why Rudra had changed so much and how could he understand because Rudra had never shared his feelings with him or anyone. Rudra did not tell anyone what he saw and heard in the bedroom of his parents, when he was ten.
On the other hand, Prem was trying on suit after suit but he did not like anything. The staff was very upset that they were not able to sell a pair of outfits to the owner of the most famous magazine of the country.
"Don't you people have a single good suit?" Prem said in irritation.
"Tomorrow I have to look my best, so good that no one can take their eyes off me" prem expressed his thoughts.
The staff members started looking at each other helplessly. They brought all the suits from the showroom and gave them to Prem, but Prem would find some or the other fault in them.
"Sir, can you tell me what type of suit you want so that we could search for it or customise for you" the manager asked keeping her patience as she was literally frustrated by Prem's behaviour but she couldn't afford to offend him.
Before Prem could say anything, his phone started ringing. As soon as Prem picks up the call, a harsh voice is heard from the other side "where the hell are you ? "
"Why are you shouting?" Prem said in irritation and careless tone.
"You had booked the hotel for the party, right? I had told you that we need the whole hotel, so why is there an engagement there tomorrow?"
"That's during the day bro," Prem replied pressing his forehead. He was already having a headache because of the party's outfit and now Rudra added more pain in his ass.
"Do you think they will get everything ready for our party so quickly?" An angry voice is heard from the other side.
"Rudra, don't bother me any more, I am already pissed off "
"What have you done now?" Rudra asked casually.
" Rudra yaar I am not able to find clothes for tomorrow's party " Prem said sadly and Rudra got angry at Prem's words, here they are not getting a hall for the party and he is worried about shitty clothes "Prem, are you crazy? You can wear anything, anyway girls run after our name... Our body, not after suits, and at the end we have to taken off and thrown away."
"Ha ha ha ha, you are right but there is someone for whom I want to look good. I want his eyes to never move away from me" Prem said remembering Shaan's face.
Rudra narrowed his eyes and asked indifferent tone "who?? "
"Is there someone, when you introduce me to your Mr. Joshi, I will also introduce you to my cutie. Now don't waste my time, let me choose a suit and slay in the party."
Rudra gave a thought to it for a second and then asked, " Is the suit this important ?"
"Very important, in tomorrow's party so many big people will come and I don't want to deal with anyone. I don't want anyone else to come in his sight and grab his attention." Hearing Prem's words, Rudra looks at Mona who was standing near him. Mona cursed Prem a thousand times in her mind and then started calling someone as she got what her boss wants her to do by a mere glance.
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