"W-where did you get this?" Ansh stammered and said with widened eyes. As his every swipe on Varun's phone screen, his face becomes paler. The anger on his face from earlier disappeared, and now fear could be seen dancing in his eyes.
"You don't need to know that. You only have to tell your parents that YOU can't marry Somya because you are in love with someone else."
"A-And why would I do that?" Ansh said with a layer of sweat on his head.
"It's your choice. If you want me to let people see this, then I can do that favor for you too," Varun said so calmly that it sounds like casual talk rather than intimidation. But only the person who knew what is at stake could tell the severity of the threat.
"Why are you doing this all? For her. Is she even worth it?" Ansh asked, pointing towards Somya. Ansh actually wanted to ask him who he is and how he found something so confidential against him, but he changed his question to this one in the end.
"More than worth," declared Varun with a straight face
"She isn't as innocent as she looks. I am telling this for your good, she betrayed me, her fiance, and she can betray you as well. She is just like any other bitch, seeking benefits from a man as you can see yourself. Why do you still want to be with her," Ansh threw a look of disdain on Somya.
Somya behaved as if she is only a spectator here and she has nothing to do with anything.
But Varun's eyes darkened, and he replied, "She is using me because I am capable of providing her! And I have no problems with her receiving benefits from me. If not me, who else should she ask for help? I would have a problem if she asked someone else for help instead!"
Ansh: "..."
Somya: "Savage."
Varun felt this isn't enough, so he added more, "I am with her because I believe I could never meet someone that could really compare to her. I could see all sorts of people, and no matter who they are or what they do, they can't capture my attention quite the way she does.
I could talk to all sorts of other people, yet I always found myself thinking how they are not quite as charming as her, or they don't make me laugh quite as genuinely. Isn't this reason enough for me to let her use me as much as she wants because I am doing the same to her," he mocked him.
His words stirred Somya's emotions. Varun had always been a man of few words, but today he spoke so much just because he wanted to help her.
She doesn't know why but it sounded like a love confession to her. Did he really mean it? Naah. How could he! Weren't they acting together to fool Ansh, so it must be his plan to make him believe them? But no matter how hard she thought, those lines he said were not necessary here. They had already tricked Ansh, so there was no need for him to waste his breath on him. She really can't understand him sometimes!
Ansh was disappointed by his reply. He was planning to make Varun leave Somya's side by breaking their relationship. He still doesn't want to let Somya go as he can extort more benefits from her, but only if he could persuade Varun.
"Before tomorrow morning, I want you to end this marriage otherwise you would be all over the news tomorrow." Varun left with Somya after that.
On reaching back to his car,
Somya lunged towards him to grab his phone, but after getting it, she found it locked.
"Hey, what's the password?" she said while pouting and tapping the phone screen again and again. Bangs of her hair were on her face now, hindering her view while she was sulking after not getting his password.
For Varun, she was looking more beautiful today than ever, and her every little action was looking adorable in his eyes.
"What? Are you no longer able to suppress the troublemaker inside you," he teased her for her impatient behavior.
Somya bit her lip in anger and turned to glare at the window.
"God! What a strange partner I have! Who doesn't even tell his own partner in crime about the plan before executing it? Now that everything got settled, I am still sitting here, clueless as a sheep," she snorted.
Her words made him laugh, and he told her, "It was nothing. Just a few things to blackmail him like photos and videos of his affairs and some other data. You don't need to worry about them." Actually, there was much more than that, but he can't explain them after telling her about them.
"What do you mean videos of his 'affairs.' You never told me he was involved with many girls, and how did you get them?"
"I didn't tell you because I thought you would be more heartbroken after it," he murmured.
"Huh? As long as he doesn't insist on marrying me, he can go, have an affair with a female pig. I won't mind!" she said with a shrug.
Her reply set Varun's heart at ease. But her next question again trapped him in a different situation.
"But how did you get your hands on that stuff?" she asked, staring deep into his eyes.
~I always wonder
what crosses your mind
when your eyes meet mine~