Can You Mend My Broken Heart?

181 The epic reveal - 3

He walked in, with his towering figure demanding nothing less than your complete attention. His aura so dominating, that it felt like he would literally overthrow someone from the throne.

His footsteps were heavy, his tone had the absolute resolve for he had arrived to save his damsel who was right now in utter distress.

He walked passed Vikram and both their raging eyes met each other as he crossed him and went straight to Akira.

He saw her sitting down on the floor all messed up looking like she had given away all her hopes to survive. Shawn was trying to hold her, to talk with her but it had no effect. She sat there all lifeless, still staring at the projector screen, without batting an eyelid.

He walked up to her and then knelt on the floor and covered her with a large trench coat that he had in his hand. With his palm, he softly brushed the tears away from her cheeks and lifted her chin up and said,

"Hey !!! I am here !!!"

She looked into his eyes and that one comforting look was enough to break everything inside her.

She crumbled in his arms and started to cry and said,

"It's all because of me. I am sorry Raymond !!! I didn't know".

No matter how hard he tried to comfort her but her tears didn't stop, so he slowly lifted her chin and brought her face close to his mouth and slowly touched her lips with his own and then said,

"You are my girl, so you are not going to cry. You will cry only for me and nobody else", he said and lifted her up, supporting her in his arms and started walking with her when Vikram thundered,

"Where do you you think you are taking her away?"

"Home... She is going home with me", Raymond replied with his eyes ready to tear Vikram part by part.

"So this is all your plot, right? What an elaborate plan to trap me with all this? And I am really surprised to see your ex-fiance joining the bandwagon. You really are something, Raymond. I underestimated your skills".

"My plan? You still have the audacity and shamelessness to say that it was planned by me? Tell me then, why do you have mine and Akira's phone tapped? Why you have our personal conversation recorded on your phone?"

Vikram was taken aback for he wasn't sure from where he pulled this information.

"Show him Katherine", Raymond said and Katherine moved a couple of slides ahead and showed the folder hierarchy of Vikram's phone which had day wise chat history of Akira and Raymond.

Akira closed her eyes seeing the screen and took a deep breath.

She wiped her tears and looked at Raymond and said,

"I need a moment".

She then moved out of Raymond's embrace and walked towards Vikram and held the lapels of his jacket and said,

"I was the one who told you everything about Raymond and myself. I hid nothing from you. I even begged to you to act as my boyfriend so that I could leave him and you let that happen? You told me that you will never leave me and you will always have my back, is this how you have my back Vikram? Is this how you have my back?", she said and started punching his chest with her fists with full force at first but then slowly she couldn't even hit him.

With her throat all chocking up she looked at him and said,

"I trusted you Vikram. I trusted you !!!"

"Akira listen to me", Vikram said and grabbed her hand.

"I admit that I did a background check on him, I tried to dig up the dirt but that's because I just wanted to show you about his past thinking that you will leave him, but I had nothing to do with getting this woman or her brother here, trust me. I did try to tap your phone because I was scared that you had already fallen for him and I just wanted to know if my fears were right or not. I have all the chat messages, but I stopped reading them the day you left his company Akira. That's it. That's all I have done because I was crazy for you, but all this which is being shown out here aren't my doings".

"Then why did you prepare a dis-association file to stop your funding to my brother's company?"

"What are you talking about?", Vikram asked.

"About this", Katherine said and moved to the slide showing pages from a file where Vikram had already signed for dis-association from Raymond's startup.

He was shocked beyond the limit to see them having a copy of that file because it was completely confidential.

"That's my business matter. You do not need to drag it out here", Vikram said and gave a demeaning look at Katherine and then tried to hold Akira who took a step back immediately and said,

"Then do it Vikram !!! Disassociate from Delphie !!! Take all your funds and make me go bankrupt",

"Make you?", Vikram asked all surprised.

"Yes me, because now the company belongs to me, not Raymond but me. So go on bring your A-game out and topple me over. I will also see how much you really loved me".