Mysterious Oberoi

34

Usually doctor used to visit the mansion for my checkup but for a change I was asked to visit the hospital. According to doctor there were certain complications, things that needed to examine before I delivered the child.

I sighed as I was waiting outside her cabin. Ronald had walked inside to inform her about my arrival. I had requested Ronald not to mention to Mr Oberoi about the changes. He was behaving weirdly from past few months. He used to be always present, always available during my check-ups. Always keeping record on my progress, changing my diet with each result. His growing concern was making me anxious. His body language conveyed, he knew something. And for that reason I had arrived alone, to ask the doctor.

“What a pleasant surprise?” I heard a familiar feminine voice. She was staring at me, her orbs sparkling in delight. “You were finally allowed to walk out of the lions cave?” A mocking smile was playing on her beautiful decorated with pink lips.

I avoided her existence, staring at the numerous people surrounding us. “Oh! Here to meet the gynalogist?” She glanced at the name displayed on the cabin before us. “How is it going? Being married to Mr Oberoi?” She paused for a second as she leaned towards my ears. “Faking of being married to him?” She smirked, “is he regretting, already?” Anaya inquired, “of choosing you over me.” She laughed, “he didn't found it necessary to accompany you to the hospital.”

I didn't felt the need to correct her. To tell her that I had kept it hidden from him because if he knew, he would had being sitting beside me at the moment. I was stunned with the confidence I had about the matter, about the fact that he wouldn't had left my side because he hadn't left it.

“He had never being a family type of a guy,” Anaya continued, taking my silence as a hint that she was correct. “His job, his work come before everything in the world. Or he wouldn't be ruiling the world? Isn't it?” She laughed as she shook her head. “He must be regretting his choice in life. Rather than having me as his wife, he chose you?” She scanned me for a minute, “not a girl to be shown off to the world around.”

“Wife aren't an accessories to be shown to the world,” Ronald commented. His orbs were glaring at Anaya with displeasure. “They are to be treasured, protected and boss knowns his duty well.”

“Slow down your tone!” Anaya pointed a finger in his direction.

“So do you,” he muttered. “If you need respect, you should offer it as well.”

“This is ridiculous!” She groaned and took a seat beside mine. Ronald and I glanced at her in confusion before Ronald continued.

“Dr. had to urgently attend at emergency. We will have to wait,” he continued. “Will you like something to eat?” He offered, I wanted to deny but I was hungry and I didn't wanted to cause any harm to the child.

“Anything will be fine,” he nodded walking in search of canteen.

Silence prevailed around us for more than a minute before Anaya decided to break it. “How does it feel to take everything from me?” She questioned, I was taken aback with her sudden change in mood.

“I was the one to sit on your place, I should have being named as Mrs. Oberoi but you took it away from me.” She paused for a moment, “and not only that…” she mocked a dry laugh, a evil one. “You're also the heir of the Kapoor, the great Kapoor.” I was taken aback with her statement.

“Kapoor?” I stared at her in horror. I didn't wanted to know the truth. I wasn't one of them!

“Life had being cruel to me,” she wiped softly. “I desired of a beautiful life. Living a dream life! I was going to make my name in the glamorous world. I was going to be as popular as my father, taking the generation forward. I never wanted to marry Mr Oberoi until dad came forward with the purposal. He had some business with him. I was the debt he was playing Mr Oberoi off,” she laughed. “That's how my father showed his love towards me?”