Billionaires' Runaway Brides

Chapter 49

Nandini Arora's POV

Someone was knocking the door but Katherine and I had no response to it because we knew who it was. Probably half of the hotel knew it by then as well. I was getting irritated because of the constant knocking after a while.

"Nial! She does not want to talk to you right now. Give her some space man. You can pursue her later. Right now, you are just irritating her."

"But I want to talk to her." He whined.

"Goodness, I know Manik is there. Manik, take him away." I shouted.

Manik dragged him before but he would come back few minutes later. "Wow, Katherine. You literally became a celebrity within few hours. Rejecting his ass was the best idea."

"I don't even know what I am doing. But I know that him and I, are not suitable together. He needs to show me that he is serious about me and he will never leave my side."

"Reasonable. You know him better so, I don't care what you will do in the future, I am going to be in your team always. But you need to check your sns accounts. They are flooded with people. Hey, I can use it as well!" I exclaimed excitedly.

"Do whatever you want." Katherine didn't really care. She barely update her account.

I posted a picture that I clicked with her on the show and tagged her. Our website was open for orders and I was waiting for the report. We decided to ship them globally.

Any type of marketing was good. Journalists are having a field day with all the drama happened on the show. Honestly even the scripted shows never had that much drama.

Katherine ordered room service for our dinner as it's super cold outside. "I wanted to have a night out before I go back but look at this, whole trip went cold. First I was sick and now can't go out in cold."

"It's okay. You are a well-known designer and you came to Paris before and you will come in the future as well. Nothing to be sad about. Anyway if Manik gets to know then he will come here and Nial will follow him. He finally got the picture and left so, don't bring him back."

We watched the show when we were having dinner. "You would look like a model if you were a bit tall."

"Did you just height-shamed me?"

"The what? Girl!" She was taken a back and I was laughing. "It's not funny." She hit me on my shoulder.

The fiasco scene came and I remembered how I had a bad feeling about it.

"Look at her face! Full of arrogance but for what! She is the reason why Nial proposed me like that." I laughed again. No wonder she hated her so much.

I checked my phone and it was overflowing with messages and calls. One message caught my eyes, it was a message from Hayat.

" Call me when you are free." It's been a while since I have talked to her. I was so busy that I almost forgot about her. I dialed her number but she was unavailable.

I sighed. So many things happening but I really want a break. I laughed when I saw the proposal scene running on tv. "Look at both of you. One look like an idiot in love and another look like a statue in shock."

"Because he didn't even confess his love to me but he proposed me for marriage. Of course I was shocked."

"Wait, what! Rejection deserved."

Hayat Aslan's POV

"So, you are telling me that you and Hayat actually have your respective partners and now you don't want to hide anymore?" Grandma raised her brows.

"No, I mean yes." We were standing in front of Grandma. Murat was standing with Aada and I was with Aayaz. After seeing Aada this morning, I remembered about the little Aada, Selim's daughter. I did not tell Selim that the name of his daughter did not match with the one I saw.

He told me that his daughter's name was Celina. But she told me another name. "It's so nice to meet you Grandma." Aada said but Grandma had a blank face. Aayaz and I were standing at the back letting them face the wrath.

"Is that your boyfriend, Hayat?" She asked and I was getting anxious. She had not recovered fully.

"Yes.. Ahem.. Yes grandma." I was ready to volt for the ambulance if anything happened.

She was silent for a while as if thinking something. Few agonizing minutes later she sighed with a frown. I literally thought that she was having a stroke. I was about to move when she started to talk.

"You all are adults. Since you decided it for yourself then what can I say. But as an guardian, I will see if it's really a good decision or not. Hayat and Murat, I need to talk with these two in private. Go and wait in the living room." She said but Murat was not having it.

"You can say or ask anything in front of us."

"Get out, Murat." I dragged him out when he was resisting.

"Are you mad? She is still sick and you are here throwing tantrum like a kid." I glared at him.

"You don't understand. I am sure she will try to convince them to leave us."

"So? We are paying them so obviously they are not going anywhere. If you really want to know what's going on then we can always eavesdrop." We both turned to look at the door and nodded.

We slowly went close to it and glued our ear on the door. Everything was silent inside and that made us frown.

"Aada and Aayaz, go open the door and if you see anyone there then don't say anything just slap them."

We hurriedly ran from there to the living room. She knew that we were outside listening. "She aged with experience. Are you sure we can fool her?"

"Probably. We can only hope." He shrugged.

"You..." My phone rang and I swallowed whatever I was supposed to say.

"My mother told me that you vandalized the house in a fit of rage." Selim said as soon as I received the call.

"Woah... She is a bit extreme because she realized that she can not go on with his abuse. I don't know if you believed me or not but I am getting that little girl out with or without you."

"There is no way I believed that Hayat but it's hard to believe that my mother doing this."

"She is sick, Selim. By the way you never told me that your daughter's name changed. I thought you said her name is Celina." I asked casually as I didn't want to alert him.

"It is. What did she tell you?"

"Aada."

He was silent for a while. "I have no idea why she said that. Let me ask my mother."

"No, I will ask her. We need some plan."

"I am coming in two days. We will do it then."

"Alright.. I will talk to you later." I cut the call as I saw Aayaz and Aada coming down.

Murat and I stood up together to ask them what went down upstairs.

"What happened?", "Where is Grandma?" Murat and I asked the questions together.

"She is taking rest and...." Aada took a pause.

"And she said that she will keep an eye on us. We need to act well all the time and can't be distracted in stupid fights." Aayaz said giving Aada an once over.

"What do you-"

She was cut off by Murat. "Did she say anything else?"

"She was talking about something like a party but I am not sure if any of us was supposed to hear that." Aayaz had a frown.

"Why do I feel like we are in trouble?" I asked Murat. He was the one who started the nonsense.

"You are not the only one."

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