"What will you be doing tomorrow after work, bitch?" Priyanka spoke with Mitali over the phone as she walks out of the car.
"After work, I'll be home chilling. koee problam hai kya? [Is there a problem?]"
"Not at all." She stopped in front of Justin at the doorpost. "I'll be sending you a surprise package." She knew how to get her sister. Mitali is a very big fan of surprises.
She beamed over the phone, "Woohoo! Mujhe batao, mujhe batao, mujhe batao! [Tell me, tell me, tell me!]"
Priyanka rolled her eyes and shook her head helplessly, "Kal aap khud dekh lenge. Aasha hai ki ye aapako pasand hain. [Tomorrow you'll see for yourself. Hope you'll like it]"
"Are you crazy? I'm gonna love anything you bring for me!"
Priyanka shook her head. Oh how she wish her sheepish sister knew what she was sending over for her, she'd have snapped at her instead of beaming too hard. "Theek hai. Shubh raatri. [Okay. Goodnight.]"
"Shubh raatri, kaddoo. [Goodnight, pumpkin.]" She squealed and hung up.
"Aur tum kahaan se aa rahe ho, madhu? [And where are you coming from, honey]"
Priyanka startled for a moment. She can't believe the person that just question her in Hindi. Her brows furrowed as she look up at Justin, standing there shirtless with arms crossed on his hard broad chest. "Did you just ask me about my whereabouts in Hindi?"
He rose an eyebrow, "Are you shocked?" Priyanka was too stunned and tongue-tied to answer. She began to wonder where he leant Hindi from. Or have he been eavesdropping on her conversations with her India clients lately? He chuckled and pull her to himself. His eyes raking her face down to her chest. "What are you wearing and who did you went to meet?"
With her hands on his chest, she whispered. "Justin, stop holding me like this. We're outside, what will –"
"Desmond?" He called his personal bodyguard who were standing few metres away.
"Yes, boss." He bow like a loyal servant but Priyanka wondered why he answered Justin with the 'Boss' title. It's not supposed to be so. It's – She's the boss here not Justin.
"I want the others dismissed for a moment." He demanded and Desmond left with the other bodyguards governing the environment. Only Justin and Priyanka were standing outside the mansion. He tightened his grasp around her tiny waist and pressed her body against his. His eyes dark and narrowed. "Why did you lied and play me, Priyanka?"
Lied and – she pretended like she doesn't know what he was talking about. "What do you mean, Justin? I don't get it."
"You don't get it?" He chuckled nastily and let go of her. His eyes narrowed into hers like a spare. "How about you tell me how my Dad paid all those scums to support your lies and how your father never died or should I say how you collided with my friends to fuck me up! Answer me!"
"Ah!" She squealed in shock and jumped back when he yelled at her. For a second, Priyanka asked herself one simple question. How did he found out?
The truth started when Priyanka and her family where still locked up in prison. After Justin told Ben about the truth on how he met Priyanka starting from his dreams at the age of eighteen, Ben became guilty of what he did to the Abhishek. He went back a month after he had arrested them. He first of all set Rao free. He talked with him and his wife, unknowing to Priyanka, everything was played according to plan just to teach Justin a very good lesson. Ben did it as a way to tell him not to bite the finger that feeds him. Priyanka was his saving grace but he cheated on her first and hid the secret in his drawer while he claims that she was the only unfaithful one.
It happened like that, Rao took a long time off to Sweden. Only his wife, Urumi, hears from him. Nobody else, not even his kids, as they thought he was dead from a sudden heart attack. Adela played along with Ben and Rao too. She never hated Priyanka for real, she was just acting in front of everyone and when she told Ben about how Priyanka saved the Chadwick from so many disasters, it added more points to the plan.
Ben found Priyanka six months after in New York under the rain after the robbery at the bank that day. He spoke with her, pleaded with her and tried to reason out some stuff with her. She wanted to get back at Justin for the humiliation and what Ben offered her was an opportunity to do so. He paid few people to cling to the task before Priyanka framed Justin and the others. Those videos were only posted to Justin and his friends, it never got on web.
Ben talked with the board and they invited Priyanka over for an offer. Ben decided to give away his seat for a while so his son could learn from his lesson and his daughter, Francesca too. He also blocked Justin's account and Francesca's, not giving them access to log in or collect money.
It was tough! Until now that the lad had just found out the truth after his parents arrived with Rao. But what Priyanka did not know about is her father's fake death's plan.
And secondly, she never had a carry-over. Ben solved her exams issue for her with just one payment of clearance.
"You fucking bitch! You lied to me! You used me!" He gritted his teeth. The pressure of crushing someone was smelled from his tone and aura. He was ready to chase and catch Priyanka in his arms but he wasn't gonna hurt her or hit her until his friends and family showed up.
Priyanka took advantage of the situation as she ran to hide behind Tristan's back like a shield. "Justin…." Tristan wanted to say something but Justin was too furious to let him speak.
"Shut up!" He yelled. His muscles flexed, his voice loud like a roaring lion. "Just shut the fuck up!" He shouted again. His eyes narrowed and his finger pointed at Priyanka. "This is the second time you're doing something similar to the first. You collided with my family and friends so you can make me suffer for a while, huh? Then you put on that dress looking like a slut. You think I didn't track your phone? You went to Brimsley's place, true or false?"
Priyanka jolted and screamed when he raised his voice at her again. She knew hiding behind Tristan would not safe her. Justin is stronger than three men put together. But he doesn't show how mighty he is. She kept pacing behind Tristan as Justin thinks of a way of catching her.
"She didn't sleep with Brimsley's, Justin." Harry defended Priyanka. "She told me she was going to see him."
Justin let out a nasty laugh then kept his hands on his waist, "So she told you she was leaving, whereas we spend the time together on the same bed and she never told me where she was going. How is that so, Harry?"
"Justin….." Max stood poles apart from him. In fact, his friends stood metres away from him. He is smarter than them and they don't know what he is busy thinking in that head of his. "We couldn't tell you about the plan all along because we thought it would be best."
"Best for what?" Justin snapped and another masculine voice coming from behind him interfered.
"Best for you, boy."
Everyone's eyes looked at the same direction in unison. "Oh wow, Welcome to the show, Daddy." Justin mocked Ben. His eyes narrowed at his father like he was his worst enemy. He looked at his mother, Adela beside Ben. "Congratulations. You two needs an award and nomination or a big trophy for a job well done." He clapped his hands.
Rao walked out and spread his arms at his daughter.
Priyanka stood stunned for a moment. She don't believe her eyes. She blinked for couple of times to reconfirm her sight. When she still saw him standing there, she whisper, "Daddy?"
"Namaste betee. [Hello daughter]" He grinned.
Without waiting for one second, Priyanka jumped into his hug. Tears rolled down her cheeks. All these while she thought her foster father was dead. "Kahaan chhup gaye paapa? [Where have you been hiding, Daddy?]"
He caressed her hair and kissed the top of her head, "Ho sakata hai ki aapakee mammee aapako behatar tareeke se samajhaen. [Maybe your mommy will explain to you better]"
Priyanka pulled out of his embrace and looked up at him. Did she hear him clearly? So even her mother contributed in the plan too?
Justin still confused about the scenario and dramas, said, "This is a madhouse." He grabbed Priyanka's wrist and said to her, "You still remain my fiancée and I don't care if you approve or not but you still owe me an explanation of what you went to do at that coward's house."
Before Priyanka could say anything, Ben chimed in. "Not so fast, Justin. You owe her an explanation."
"Me?"
"Yes you." Ben stood in front of him. Priyanka could see where Justin got his tall heights from. "You cheated on her with that quack duckling and then you tried to cover up your shit and take out hers. That was so selfish and unfair, son."
"Dad –"
"No." Ben interrupted. "You are gonna apologize to her right now, right here."
Justin looked from his father to Priyanka and from her to his father again. With all the people standing here – his friends, mother, Priyanka's father – and all the bodyguards he drove away with Desmond – how do he do this great task? He's gonna let his pride down in front of all these people? "Dad, I already apologized to her before." He is looking for a way to escape the task.
But Ben is more intelligent than him. And more cunning. "That was for you, Justin. I wasn't there to witness it. Now am here and her father is, so do it." He paused for a while then added. "Now!"
Justin took a deep breath to convince himself, then he went down on his knees, still holding Priyanka's hand in his. He looked up at her. No one would believe this was Justin on his knees to apologize to a woman for the first time in history. A guilty guy with the innocent look.
"Priyanka, I'm..." He let out a deep breath as he thinks of how to compose his speech. He's trying to say something perfect but the words are just breaking inside him. "Priyanka, I'm...I'm deeply sorry for cheating on you and –"
"She didn't hear it." Ben wanted it to be more spicy. And Justin hated him for interfering in everything he tried to do. Claudia walked out with Francesca and that made Justin curse himself for making those mistakes in the past. If not, he wouldn't have been kneeing here in front of all these people that seem like a crusade to him.
He looked down as he's too timid to see her flawless face but when he remembered that Ben was still ready to chime in, he lifted his head to her. "Priyanka, I'm deeply sorry for cheating on you. It shouldn't have happened, it was a mistake."
He paused for a while, when silent greeted him, he freaked out. "Fuck me! Am the greatest animal in the universe. I had such a beautiful woman in my life and I broke her trust? Come on, baby, am sorry say something, tell me you've forgiven me."
The others couldn't help but laugh at his actions. Priyanka crackle softly and shook her head, "I forgive you."
Justin still waiting for his grumpy Daddy to interfere, the old man only laughed at him and clapped his hands. "You should have study theatre arts. You're a very good actor."
Justin's brow rose in a question mark, "Really? You're just gonna mock at me for –" He pressed his lips together, trying to keep a smile after seeing the look on his father's face. "I was just going to say –" He turn towards Priyanka again and grinned, "In the present of everyone and your Dad. Will you marry me one more time?"
She chuckled, seeing how cute he was begging on his knees like the first time he had purpose to her. She pretended to not answer for a while but when he mouthed 'Please' and winked at her, she blushed and agreed, "Yes, I'll marry you."
"Good God, my knees are swollen." He stood up and held her face in his palms for a kiss but Ben stopped him.
"Against the law." When Justin jerked his hand off and still proceed the kiss on his fiancée' lips, the others bust into laughter. And Ben rolled his eyes.