Love or Revenge

Chapter 8

Aditya smiled to himself and said, "How long you get to play with my feelings? It's my time to make you feel, what I felt when you solicited and made me beg for your acceptance".

Aditya was lost in thoughts, after few seconds he realized what he just said. "No, I don't have any feelings for Zoya. I just wanted her to realize how much she made me to solicit to accept this offer", he corrected himself.

Pooja came to him and asked, "What happened? What so funny... you're laughing to yourself?" Aditya looked at her and said, "Nothing... Zoya accepted my offer... But I told her that I recruited someone else for the post and I heard remorse in her voice".

Pooja's face turned upset but she smiled and said, "Oh, that's good. Actually what are you planning  to do?"

"I'm going to wait for another one hour and then I will tell her to join whenever she feels like," Aditya said with smile. Pooja felt that someone has just poured some hot coal on her but she kept her cool.

"Okay, Aditya. I have some work to do. I'll meet you after I'm done with my job", she said and left him there.

He waited for another hour and dialed Zoya's number. It rang fully and Zoya didn't answer his call. He tried again and again but she didn't answer any of his call.

He texted her, "Hey Zoya, can you please swing by my office this evening?" He waited for her to reply him but she didn't reply to him. He thought, maybe she doesn't want to talk to me or come to my office after I told her that I gave that position to someone else.

He couldn't come to the conclusion what Zoya really wants. So, he called her again but this time it went straight to voicemail. He got worried and he didn't know how to reach her. Just then he remembered about Grace. He dialed Grace's number and she answered in second ring.

"Hey Aditya, what's up? Is anything wrong with the reports I gave you", she asked him. "No Grace, I didn't call you for that", he said. "Then, what's up?" she asked him. "I have been trying to reach Zoya for the last 2 ½ hours and she is not answering my calls. Can you please ask her to call me?" he asked.

"What? But she left home 3 hours before. She told me that someone from your office called her and told her that you asked her to come there to meet you", she said.

"What? No... I didn't... I mean I wanted to meet her in person but I didn't ask anyone to call her. Why would I ask someone to call her when I can call her by myself?" he asked.

"She asked that but they said you were in a important meeting, so that, you asked him to call her", she said in confused tone.

"No Grace, I didn't... I have been calling her for the past 2 ½ hours and I couldn't..." he trailed off when he realized something was wrong.

"Grace... Something is seriously wrong... Someone used my name and misled Zoya, I think and she might be in serious trouble", Aditya said baffled.

"What?" Grace said in shock. After sometime, she said so calmly, "Fine then, she will try to send some message through some means to me. Don't worry; she knows what to do at situations like this".

"Grace, are you out of your mind? How can you say something like this and behave calmly when your friend is in danger", Aditya asked. "Aditya, if someone mess with Zoya then they're in trouble not Zoya. You will understand when you see it with your own eyes", Grace said.

Just then, Grace SOS alarm vibrated. "Told you... She just SOS'd me", Grace said looking at her phone. "She is in Mulund. Okay Aditya I got to go, I just got the location. I'll let you know once I meet up with her", she added.