A Tale Of Schemes... #1,#2,#3

Chapter 13

*Anitha Pov*

I smiled looking at his expression after I said those words but calmly finished the lunch feeling this is enough for now.

We both turned hearing a knock on the door and found his manager entering the room with an awkward smile and also a worried look.

"What happened? Is there any problem?" Prathap asked realizing the same.

"When Ms.Anny was sitting inside the kitchen, one of the staff took a picture of her and posted on the internet. So, there are a lot of people here who are wishing to see her and even the media." He explained before glancing at me.

"Oh!" Prathap mumbled frowning before glancing at me as to wait for my reaction.

"It's fine! I will just take leave. Thank you for lunch and where should I pay?" I asked opening my bag to take out the small kit I didn't forget to bring.

"No need to pay. Do you want to stay at my place until they leave? I will ask him to inform them that you already left." Prathap offered and I stopped my hands from taking out the lipstick.

"There are people inside the restaurant too. So, it is better to stay here for some time before going to your place through the kitchen side. It is better to do it when the staff is taking a break otherwise any one of them can post again and do not let Bharghav know about it too otherwise he will keep on talking about it." His manager made a plan and didn't stop talking until he laid out the whole thing before staring at us.

I smiled after listening to all that and turned to glance at Prathap who is slowly nodding.

"Yeah! It is our fault to not warn the staff properly because of which this happened. So, let's do what he suggested. Or you need to go back to your place?" he asked looking at me.

"No! I am fine with this." I assured him remembering Keerthi who warned me to finish choosing the three among the list she prepared.

After his manager left, Prathap gave a guilty look before saying, "I didn't think that far. You must have wished to not meet anyone that much but this happened."

"I should thank you for letting me stay. I would have stayed outside at some other place until night time after leaving this place." I explained while closing the kit and taking out a book from the bag.

"I even brought my script with me and happy to stay anywhere but it is intruding for you." I pointed out and he shook his head.

"I will be staying here until very late. So, there is no issue for me." He assured me and I nodded smiling.

After that, he stood up to remove the trays from the table and stepped out of the cabin while I sat without thinking about my posture being alone in the room.

I can't believe I shared everything like that just because he asked but these few days I was feeling bad about that incident and mainly after checking the car and they lied to me saying it's just the back headlight when the side was also damaged.

I got the compensation and it is getting repaired but still, I got scared and tried to reach Kanika but her phone is just switched off and I don't know if something is wrong with her.

Somehow, when he asked with that caring voice I couldn't help but burst out everything without hiding much.

Now, I miss Kanika more after talking about her like that and took out my phone to message her once again asking whether she is fine.

I widened my eyes when I got an immediate reply saying, 'Sorry for not being available recently. My phone was damaged and I got a new one just today.'