Something in You Calls Me (Complete)

Chap_24. A Little Cut

While feeding Zareef, Ema turned to Nayeem, “Aren’t you going to the office today?”

He answered keeping his eyes on Zareef, “Yes. I just came to pick Maya up.”

“Oh. Just give me 10 minutes.” Maya left the room immediately.

When she was out of Ema’s sight, she turned to Nayeem, “Who is Arnav, Nayeem?”

Nayeem gave her a questioning look only to get her going on, “Do you know him from before?”

“Ye..yeah. We met at the reception party of Riya.”

Ema nodded but like she remembered something just then, she got asking him the next moment, “Weren’t you going to stay in London for few days? Why did you two get back early from there?”

Nayeem tried to act normal, “Just got some important things to do here.”

Ema nodded at him and concentrated on Zareef again.

When Nayeem and Maya left for the office, Ema kept sitting by the bedside of Zareef.

“What’s wrong, Zareef?”

Holding his hand, she tried to figure out his pale expression.

“You know Arnav asked me whether she is really our Maya. But why did he ask something like that? If she isn’t Maya, then who can be she?”

Vabi, do you know someone called Arnav?
Then do you know someone called Khushi?

Maya’s questions from a few days back popped into her mind.

Khushi? Who is she?

What's happening actually?

Ema thought in mind.

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“Where did you meet Arnav yesterday?” Nayeem asked while driving to their office.

Maya replied in her casual tone, “He was there at the company Mahmud Industries. Anyways we got the deal.”

Nayeem gave her a questioning look, “Why would Arnav be there?” but it seemed like he was questioning to himself actually.

Arnav Mahmud, the MD of Mahmud Industries.

The name came to his mind again only to get him stopped the car with a jerk.

Maya almost yelled at him, “What are you doing?”

Shrugging that, he got uttering under his breath, “Damn! How could I let this happen!”

Maya spoke up again, “Nayeem, where are you lost? What happened?”

Nayeem looked at her blankly.

“What should I do now?”

He shook his head, “Nothing.”

Maya knitted her brows not convinced, “Then why did you stop the car like you suddenly remembered something bothersome?”

“Nothing like that. Anyways Arnav signed the deal with us?”

“No. Why would he? Mr. Mahmud did.” Maya replied.

If it was someone other than Arnav, he couldn’t be more relieved, “Mr. Mahmud?”

Maya gave him a quizzical look, “Yeah. Esha’s father. Remember him?”

He didn’t get properly but tried to sound normal, “Oh, yeah. I will handle the deal onwards. You don’t worry.” and started the engine again.

“Why? I also want to work on that project. At first I was worried but they seemed to be very cooperative people to work with.”

Nayeem didn’t reply to her but he got planning what to do to stop her from going near to them if not getting the opposite way possible.