In the relentless pursuit of truth and justice, a set of people from various walks of life join forces to set things straight. As they collaborate, they each carry their hidden motives and personal struggles, intertwining their destinies. Beneath th...
Vardhan looked at the girl he'd come to adore, care, and respect perched on the desk staring out of the massive glass walls completely unbothered and unfettered by his presence. No full-blown smiles, over-the-top greetings, or the hyper-focus that makes you feel like the center of the universe even when you are not more worthy than the trash.
He's been standing here for 10 minutes and has yet to get any reaction. Were all those months just a facade or is it just the Karma thinking it was the right time to make him pay for all the unjust he's done to so many people in the name of justice? He thought, no, he was sure he didn't regret doing all those things because, in the end, it's the intentions that matter. Right? Wrong. Now standing here looking at her makes him want to go back and slap his past self.
But he doesn't think she's holding any of those things against him because after all that was what bonded them together.
Both of them were a little bit unhinged and morally ambiguous. They both were known for driving people up the wall.
He couldn't stop himself from asking, "Don't you think you have some explaining to do? "
No response.
When he walked around the desk to stand in front of her the hatred and disgust in her eyes nearly would have knocked him off his feet if it weren't for the distant look that accompanied it which said the malicious look hadn't originally been directed at him. It would have been really impressive if he weren't at its receiving end of how quickly those emotions disappeared, he sure would have missed it if he hadn't been paying keen attention. The way she switched to looking at him with that same smile and hyper-focus attention had his mind reeling with the thoughts that just how many times this girl had hidden her true intentions and emotions with those soft gestures.
"You should have been celebrating your success but look at you wasting your time here," she said softly.
He took out his phone and dialed the cursed number which had managed to mess up his mental peace. And then he heard the blaring ringtone of a phone that was lying on the table completely unaware of the catastrophe it had brought upon him. He looked back at her just in time to watch all those walls that were never present slamming up and her face taking up a very guarded expression.
"Meeting me wasn't a coincidence, was it?", he grimaced at how his voice sounded shaken.
Getting off the desk she went ahead to stand near the windows. Then with one hand inside her pocket and the other one tracing the window along the path a particular raindrop was taking on the other side of the window, she said after what felt like an eternity, "It took you long enough."
Before he had even recovered from the shock that her statement had given him, a chill passed through his spine when he heard a burst of unhinged laughter along with her voice.
"Life is a roulette."
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