Rich Brat: Sweet Revenge Of A Lazy Princess

Shreya stormed into her office extremely agitated. She was never good at dealing with this part of her job. She hated it when people around her put themselves at risk for her sake. It made her anxious and emotionally unstable. Even though, deep down she knew that Zeenath was right, she just did not want to admit it. Not because she was too proud but because she was too scared to send her in harm's way.

She never counted on the security to be so high within the organization. With her resources, it should have been a piece of cake to get the evidence to link those people to the syndicate. But somehow they were met with a wall. Unless they had already been breached in the past, these dense layers of security did not make sense. It was not like they were threatened by the government. If they were, it would make sense. But the organization actually had the government in their pockets. So it just did not make sense to her. And that just added to her frustration at the moment.

"Shreya…" Charan called out as gently as he possibly could and walked towards her cautiously. He saw that she had tightly fisted her hands as if she was getting ready to punch something or someone. She seemed to be making a great effort to control the urge. But that is also when he noticed the bloodied knuckles.

Charan concluded she must have already gotten to punching someone! But then from the looks of the dried blood, he guessed it mustn't have happened now but sometime before in the day.

He gently took her hands in his and c.a.r.e.s.sed her knuckles as softly as he could.

"Ssss…." Shreya hissed in pain and looked up. That was when she actually realized that Charan was there with her. When their eyes met, Charan could clearly see the walls she had built around hers. It was clear she did not want Charan to know her emotional state right then.

So Charan did not ask anything. He just pulled her to the couch and made her sit. He then went in search of the medicine box.

"You have a medicine box here??" He asked when he had tossed out every drawer in the table.

Shreya snapped out of it and just pointed at a far-end file cabinet. A few minutes later Charan came and tended her wounds carefully. While cleaning up, he saw that the blood was not hers but did not ask any question. He just wrapped a band around her knuckles and let go. All this while Shreya did not move an ounce. She did not even flinch. She kept staring straight ahead at nothing in particular. Charan went and returned the medicine box and came back and sat beside her.

Shreya immediately slumped and leaned on his shoulders. She snuggled in and closed her eyes. Her brains were troubling her greatly. It kept bombarding her with all sorts of worst-case scenarios she could possibly think of and that wasn't a pleasant sight!!

Charan brought her closer and c.a.r.e.s.sed her hairs and head trying to smooth some tension off of her shoulders.

"You want to get out of here??" Charan asked softly after a while.

Shreya took a moment and pulled away from his shoulders. Then she sat up with her elbows on her knees and ran both of her hands over her face quite harshly. She did not speak… she just sat there with her palms grinding her eyes. Charan did not really understand what was going on but he could sense that she was not really in a good head space right then and he was thinking of all possible things to alleviate it. But he couldn't do much when she wasn't really letting him in, except to be there beside her.

"Can you take me to the Imperial?? I still have something to do there…" Shreya, at last, said looking up at him.

Charan just nodded and quietly drove her to the hotel. Shreya stayed absolutely silent the whole ride. As soon as they reached, she just got out and walked out saying a very quick goodbye.

Charan hurried up after her and brought her into a hug. It just did not feel right to just sent her away like that. He held on to her tightly and said right against her ears, "You… you take care of yourself okay?? Call me if you need anything!"

Shreya just nodded absentmindedly taking a deep breath of his scent and walked in. No one dared to stop her as she sashed her way to the elevators without checking in with the reception. She had a permanent reservation on her name here. She used to sleep over here a lot. She did not like going back to her empty apartment. That kinda changed when she started going out with Charan but her reservation remained intact.

Charan waited and looked at her back with worry eating him away up until the elevator doors closed. Shreya never once looked back. Resigned Charan went back to his car and drove home. Just as he was about to get out of the car, he saw Shreya's phone sitting on the passenger seat. He let out a sigh went in to find his daughter.

They were still at his mum's place. They never got the chance to go back home. They were supposed to go today. But then Shreya's gloomy face kept badgering him every few seconds. So he went straight up to Akira.

"Hey, dada!!" Akira's excited voice greeted him as always.

His lips automatically spread wide and he crouched down to her level.

"Hey, baby… Look… Akira… could you stay at grans for one more night?? We will go back home tomorrow okay??" He asked her softly picking her up on his h.i.p.s.

"Why?? I miss Shreya… Please, can we go home today!??" Akira w.h.i.n.ed. After all, Shreya almost always came and stayed the night and slept on his couch whenever they were there but she can't exactly do that when they were at his parents' place. So Akira hadn't seen Shreya in about three days now which had been weird kinda torture for her. And that was also the whole reason why Charan went to her office in the first place. He thought maybe they could have dinner at his parents' and go home together. But then things didn't exactly pan out the way he wanted.

"That's the thing baby. Shreya is not really feeling well today. I am going to take care of her okay??" Charan explained.

"Why?? What happened to her?? Does she have a fever?? Can't I come with you please?? I want to see her!!" Akira fired away worried.

"No, baby. She doesn't have a fever. But I can't take you today. I will bring her home tomorrow. I promise. Please baby!!" Charan tried to convince her.

After another 20 minutes, Akira at last complied after giving strict orders to bring Shreya to her tomorrow night.

Charan sighed in relief and drove back to the hotel. He did not even know where she will be or whether they will let him in, but he wanted to try.