From cameras to your heart

Chapter 18

A month passed by since that night, and both Inaya and Aditya have been spending time together. He tried to make up for the three weeks he had been away.

He didn't bring her chocolates or gifts, rather he tried to spend more time with her, the only thing she ever wanted. They had breakfasts and dinners together and on Saturdays he worked from home.

At the moment Inaya was working on her laptop when her phone rang. She saw Aditya's name flashing as she instantly picked up.

She answered while keeping the phone on speaker and typing on her laptop.

"We have a party to attend in the evening, I'll pick you up at eight" he said, and she could hear some paper shuffling sound from the other side. Sometimes she wondered how much he worked. Whenever she calls him he seems to be working on something or the other.

"Okay" she said and cut the call turning her attention back to her work.

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8:05 pm Singhania mansion

She got ready in a light green saree, as she was wearing her earings she heard the door of the room opening. She saw Aditya coming inside with some files in his hands.

Wearing the heavy earpiece she stood up to finally put on her heals. Seeing him going inside the closet she followed behind to take out her footwear.

She held her saree a bit up to put her feet into the heels when she saw him opening his shirt and taking out another one from the ones hung inside.

Seeing how his muscles flexed as he put his shirt on and buttoned it make butterflies run in her stomach. Looking away she walked out of the closet to give him some space to change his clothes while waiting outside.

A minute later she saw him coming out while he was wearing his watch. He looked towards her and forwarded his hand out for her to hold and said "let's go".

Both of them walked down the stairs and reached the car. She sat beside him in the backseat seat as the driver started the car. As he drove past the forest area Inaya looked outside the window waiting to reach the destination.

As they moved closer to the venue she should see cameras flashing and people shouting from around. The chauffer opened the car for them as they both got down.

It was a buisness event held by one of aditya's partner and childhood friend with a lot of different influential people invited, some singers, sportspersons, actors and people from the buisness fraternity.

Standing infront of the photographers they both posed from them for a few moments before moving to where the actual party was being held.

Aditya saw his friend coming towards them. Both of them shared a friendly hug as he introduced him to inaya.

"Inaya, this is my friend Arush kapoor, we have been friends since we were in school and Arush, this is my wife Inaya Singhania."

He said while wrapping his arm around her waist as she smiled and extended her hand forward for a hand shake. She saw his friend signalling him towards the bar area and saw some other people waiting for them near the bar. Aditya looked at Inaya wanting to make sure she won't feel wierd alone, nodding her head she gave him a light smile as he whispered something into her ear before walking to where his friend were waiting for him.

"Call me if something happens."

As he went away she walked towards the empty couch and sat there, occassionally sipping on the glass of her mocktail. After a few minutes of sitting alone she saw Riya, a bollywood actress who was also one of her good friends coming towards her.

"Hey Inaya long time huh." They shared a hug and sat down while chatting about random things.

"You got married and didn't even invite any of us." She said and suddenly inaya felt awkward about answering her. She gave her a half smile and said..

"Yeah, it was just very private."

"We'll congratulations, Aditya is a really nice guy."

After a few moments of talking to each other riya took her leave and went away to meet and greet a few producers. Inaya looked at the time, it was already eleven at night.

They have already been here for almost two hours and it was late for them to go home, it took almost one hour to reach the mansion. She stood up in order to look for Aditya just when she bumped into someone causing her phone to fall down.

She quickly picked up her phone and looked up only to see Giridhar Kapoor staring at her mobile screen. She immediately tried to walk away when he spoke.

"Inaya Singhania right?" His face had a hard look while he stared into he eyes. She felt wierd with his stare on her face and moved away only for him to speak again.

"There are a lot of cameras here sweetheart, what will people think if you walk away right now, I don't think you will like to see yourself on the front cover of tomorrow's newspaper."

She stopped on her tracks and looked around only to see photographers clicking anything and everything around. Deciding not to make a scene she fake smiled at him and said.

"What do you want sir?" He laughed, a creepy laugh that made her take a step back.

"On no darling I don't want anything, I'm just here to warn you about your husband."

She narrowed her eyes at that feeling anger at why he was even talking about Aditya.

"Oh no don't look at me like that, look there and see how your husband is laughing with his 'friend', I guess he hardly even smiles at you" she looked at where he was pointing at and saw Aditya with his friend group laughing at something. Looking back at the old man she decided to give him a piece of mind.

"I don't think it has anything to do with you at all, mind your own buisness." He again cockily looked at her and bent down a little to whisper near her face.

"You won't say that if you knew with whome your husband was for those three weeks in New Yor kalk" Inaya stayed mum at that while he smirked knowing that his words got into her mind. He gave her a disgusting look and walked away while she stayed rooted to her place.

Trying not to think much about his words she went where Aditya was standing with his friends. She slowly went behind him trying not to interrupt their conversation and patted his back.

He looked back and smiled when he saw her standing there. Pulling her forward he wrapped his arm around her waist and introduced her to his buisness partners.

"And this is a Priya mathur, a dear friend and a partner to our family buisness." Lastly he introduced her to the woman Giridhar Kapoor mentioned about.

Inaya shook hands with everybody while Aditya felt her mood being a little off. He excused them and took her to the side.

"Anything wrong?" He asked bending his head a little to look into her eyes while she tried to look away. Shaking her head slightly she mumbled a small "no".

He decided to talk to her about it after reaching home. Placing his hand on her back he gestured her to move ahead where they would have dinner.

Even when eating their food he could see her gloomy face and he wondered what would have happened to make her sad all of a sudden. He wondered if it was because he was away with his friends the entire time.

After having their food they bid their farewell to everyone and walked back to their car. Settling down Aditya decided to drive home by himself. Knowing that it would get late by the time they would reach the mansion he decided to drive to his penthouse instead.

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Ahem!

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