Aryan's Lethal Obsession

Aryan

"Now, what is it, Ahaad?"

I couldn't stand his constant stare boring into me. The moment the plan to rescue the kidnapped girls was set, we stepped out of my study to send Jahanzeb off. The other reason to come out was to confront Ahaad, who was getting on my nerves with his silent judgment. The moment Jahanzeb's car left the driveway, I turned towards Ahaad.

"I never saw you in jeans and a T-shirt. I'm merely surprised," he shrugged.

"Surprised or curious?" I crossed my arms over my chest.

Ahaad was lean among us and hardly passed to be a fighter, but that was just a camouflage that he used in his favor. Standing 6ft tall and wearing fake glasses to hide his true self, he was no short of a panther among the beast. Fast, agile, and decisive. He wouldn't leave it if something stuck in his mind unless he found everything about it.

"Curious, yes," he confessed.

"About?"

"About why you are hiding everything from Mrs. Abdullah. Why are you not revealing to her that you didn't abduct her family? Instead, you are keeping them safe from Hammad and Nauman. Why do you force her to marry and paint yourself as a villain in her life when, in fact, you are doing everything in your power to protect her? Even from Sir."

"Do you think I'm in love with her?" I counter-question him to gauge him.

"I'm afraid that is something I have no clue of, but what I do know is you don't do anything without a reason," he replied, pushing the glasses over his nose.

I looked out the window to my study and said, "The more she believes I'm the villain in her story, the safer she will be from the ones ready to destroy me. The more she thinks I'm keeping her against her will, the faster my enemy will lose interest in her."

"I didn't get you," Ahaad said, frowning.

"It's not just the Pathan gang RedWa has infiltrated. My mansion security is also breached."

"What? Is it RedWa?" He was genuinely astonished since he did background checks for every new hire.

"I'm yet to conclude their involvement," I stated the question, the answer for which I have been trying to find. Whether Hammad was stupid enough to collaborate with RedWa for money.

"If I have to bring out the rat, I have to give them a treat as bait. Since they dare to use my wife to up their game, I would use their own tactics to find out who it is."

"How did you find out there is a mole in the mansion?" his question was expected.

"The fact that I was going to my island was known only to you three and Amma. Not even Sir knew about it. How did Nauman end up at the port near my island? It is too good to be a coincidence. I discussed the plan with you guys in my office. So, there is no way that someone has overheard it. That leaves me to believe when I was talking to Amma, someone was listening."

If it weren't for that information leak, Shariq wouldn't have sighted Adah, and she wouldn't have caught up in the mess.

My hunch was cemented when he boldly said that day, she would never be yours and always have me in her heart. That is my checkmate to you.

His hidden enunciation wasn't missed. Only when he knew Adah and I were sleeping in separate rooms would he have the confidence to utter the taunt. I couldn't say this to Ahaad. Truth be told, I couldn't say it out loud. It would mean I have to acknowledge that I was insecure by Shariq's word and had to claim Adah that night.

"Most staff have either lost their families or have grown up in an orphanage. I still can't understand how they were bribed to accept to become a mole," Ahaad said, the very question plaguing my mind.