Chapter 12

Adithya's Pov

"How dare you! How freaking dare you" yelled Vineeth into the phone and I just tapped my fingers on the dashboard
He ended the call and looked at me and shrugged

"She vanished! Our men did not Find her nor home" Vineeth said

Honestly, a few things reminded a mystery to us! The topmost was her home, her surname no matter how hard we dug it was impossible to find and for some reason, I was okay with it being hidden until she decided to take me.

"Now what? Shall we go back home?" Vineeth asked, poor man has no idea what he got himself into when he made me his friend

"We are going to My penthouse, Adam is waiting for us," I said and watched him look at me with such emotion that if not for his friend he would not have hesitated to kill me.

"It's about Vaishu!" I added and he immediately nodded and sat with a straight face.

Soon we reach My penthouse! And like I knew Adam was late, currently, I sat in my work chair while Vineeth went away to grab the whiskey bottle from the shelf

What a day it was today! Oh to have someone so innocent and sweet around. Shreya was naive but oh the mischievous glint in her eyes, those adorable eyes radiating nothing but love.

"Nice day it was isn't it?" I said and Vineeth said nothing but continued to pour whiskey into two cups. He did not open his mouth from the moment I told him it was about Vaishu.

As if something Hit him as if he realised what life has been...

He pulled the chair in front of me and sat not before pushing the glass to me

"What is it, Vineeth?" I asked looking at his disturbed face

"Nothing! It's just that we know Shreya for a month or two now and..."

"And what?" I asked

"And this is the month in years we have stopped searching Vaishu," he said

"Bullshit! We never stopped searching for Vaishu! She is here somewhere around the world and I will search the globe if needed "I almost yelled

"I know you would and we are searching the world but then don't you think you're something different now? You changed Adhi and it's hard to know if it's for good or for bad" Vineeth said taking sips from his glass

"You have a weakness, Aditya! And it's her" he said with utter seriousness, it was not rocket science to guess who he was talking about. The only her in my life was Shreya and for a minute I wanted to yell no and pull the feelings I felt in my heart for a minute just for a few seconds but instead, I laughed at him

He cannot be Right!

"You're Wrong! Shreya she- she is something," I said only to realize I was losing the argument when I struggled to describe what Shreya was in my life...

"Come on, Adhi. You've been spending a lot of time with her lately. You're practically glowing whenever she's around. Don't tell me you don't know what the feeling is."He added this time more seriously and I so badly wanna punch his face for making me go through this tough realisation.

Ignorance is a beautiful bliss until it's scattered in a brutal way bursting the bubble around you!

I lean back in my chair, folding my arms across my chest. as if it was my defence mechanism

"Vineeth, stop it. I don't have time for this. Shreya's just.. just someone Nice, someone who saved my life I agree I am attracted to her, I like her. I can cut down mountains for her but then, She..she is something vineeth but not the one who should drown in my darkness, she'll never know what is happening " I said and for an instant, I knew I was lying to myself and him cause I felt so void so empty when I uttered Those words.

I knew she would say words of comfort and encouragement to me if I say how fucked  up my life is right now. And holy heavens I wanted that I wanted to be seen as a human not just Aditya who can deal with anything and does not need help.

"We were talking about Vaishu, Adhi not how you feel about Shreya" he said with a smirk on his face a tint of teasing in his eyes.

I stood immediately and walked to him!

"Listen carefully, Vineeth! You very well know what Vaishnavi means to me, Shreya has nothing to do with her nor any shitty business of mine. You better keep her name out of this bloody business. " it was truly astonishing how dangerous my voice sounded

"There there! I have nothing against Shreya in fact, She is like a sister to me but Adhi... you need to be very careful, especially with That man on the loose. You don't want Shreya to be his victim in this game. Make sure we don't lose her like we..." I stopped him midway and gulped down the rest of the whiskey in a go

Suddenly I hated Vineeth so badly! I don't know if it was the warning or the concern or that freaking whiskey in his hand but whatever he uttered made so much sense and seemed so stupid both at the same time.

Soon Adam reached!

He sat in front of me with a bunch of papers like always.

"This is important Sir!" He started

"We tracked Vaishnavi's Phone" he said and with every word he uttered I heard my heart beating against my rib cage so clearly

Fuck the silence

"Our Team reached there Last week and..." he stopped talking for a minute pulled a mobile phone from his pocket and passed it to me

Fuck. fuck.fuck

It was hers! Vaishu's phone! She hated being away from her phone for an hour and to see this in my hand without her around felt so weird almost unreal.
My fingers shivered and dropped the phone back to the table while I focused on shutting my mind from imagining the worst scenarios

"Where did you find it?" Vineeth asked

"New York! From A local thief, he says he found it on the ground but it might be false too cause he is under police custody first some bigger fraud and we could only get this much information without being noted by the local police there" Adam added

He then took out a Yellow File and placed it in front of me!

"It's about Shreya! Everything My team could collect! Since it is just an information profile sheet, all the basics are here, didn't mind much and left it to my team" he said and then placed a blue file beside it

"This has Vaishnavi's Call details! Incoming and outgoing both" he said and after a grave silence for a moment

"The Last Call to her was from Hemanth Shetty," he said

my fist clenched hearing his name automatically and I knew if not now I would never find my Vaishu.  My hands brushed past the yellow file and picked the blue one.

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