From cameras to your heart

Chapter 23

"Show me the cctv footage." his voice was hard and stern. The security personnel took out the footage and played it for Aditya to watch.

He could see an unknown man wearing black clothes going inside the study and a few minutes later inaya was pulled inside harshly.

His fists were curled up tightly as he watched his wife fight the man, how she thrashed and kicked him around while trying to get out if his hold.

The footage was fifteen minutes long, and with each second passing by he could feel the fury in him rising.

He saw what happened before he broke the door open. The man thrashed inaya aside and tried to take a file from the table but Inaya pushed him aside. But before he could do something the door thrashed making him scared and he jumped out of the window, in the same moment Inaya slumped down behind the table while her body shook with fear.

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The laptop was shut close as he walked outside the door and towards his room. Opening the door he found inaya sitting on the bed with a coffee mug in her hands. She was staring mindlessly outside the window as the coffee in her hands turned cold.

He walked up to the bed and sat beside her. She broke out of her trance as she felt movement beside her. He would have been able to coax her if she would have been crying but her emotionless face worried him. Wetting his lips he finally opened his mouth to talk to her.

"Inaya.." she looked at him hearing her name being called out.

"Yeah" her voice was soft as if she was trying not to have another breakdown.

Aditya wanted to tell her that they needed to go back to Mumbai because of the hearing at the high court regarding the orphanage case, but he knew how much she needed to be near their mother and especially dadi, so he decided to do what was the best right now. Giving her a choice.

"Umm, I have to go back to Mumbai for the case hearing in the afternoon" she immediately looked at him when she heard that he is going away. Her heart rate increased at the mere thought of being away form him but she held herself back.

"Only you?" Right now Aditya felt as if he was being accused as he looked into her eyes.

"Yeah bu-"

"I want to come along" she immediately cut him in between. Now way in hell she wanted to be away from him. She didn't know how but gradually in theses six months he became the most important person in her life. And the incident at the party left her shook leaving it impossible for her to imagine herself being away from him.

"Inaya, I will come back soon. You should stay here. You need mom, dadi-"

"I need you Aditya"

she felt her voice breaking as she whispered softly.

"I want you, here.....with me."

He immediately stopped talking and looked at her. Words, mere words but they have such a big impact. He knew this was not just about the situation but about life. It was her way of telling him that she needed him, she wanted him not just at the moment but for lifetime.

He thought about her injury on the arm and thought of coaxing her for the last time.

"Ina-"

"Please" he saw how she looked at him with vulnerable eyes and he knew he could not oppose it so he finally gave in.

"Okay" 

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Inaya stood in the huge lawn staring at the chopper landing as her white maxi dress waved with the direction of the wind. Aditya stood beside her talking to his dad.