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22.

Shreesha and I shared a glance, and I saw her smirking.

Getting out of Ayansh's hold, Shreesha fixed herself.

"Oh hey, Shrutika, how have you been?" I exclaimed, walking towards her, leaving Veer behind.

"Hey, Mehta! Long time, huh?" Shreesha joined me.

I could sense the sarcasm in her voice and laughed internally.

"I'm fine. What about you?" she asked.

"We're fine as always," Shreesha replied, and we greeted each other 

We were engrossed in conversation when she suddenly looked behind and asked, "Who are they?" referring to Veer and Ayansh.

We turned to see them staring at us with blank expressions.

Veer seemed displeased, while Ayansh remained composed.

"Uh-oh, we forgot to introduce them," Shreesha squealed and walked towards Ayansh. "This is Ayansh, Ayansh Suryavanshi, my boyfriend," she said with a smirk.

I glanced back at Shrutika, who now wore a shocked expression.

"Ayansh Suryavanshi means the chairman of Modish!?" she exclaimed. Shreesha nodded.

Meanwhile, I walked towards Veer and held his arm. "And this is Veer Advani, my boyfriend," I said.

Shrutika looked at us for a while, as if contemplating something.

"You mean the owner of BioMed Pharmaceuticals!?" she again exclaimed in shock, and I nodded. There was a moment of silence as she looked at us, and then she mocked, "Kuch hua nahi toh last option yahi bacha, huh?"

We exchanged confused glances.

"What do you mean?" Shreesha asked before I could say anything.

"Ameer ladke fasa liye, huh?" she said again with a mocking smirk.

"Listen—" Veer began to say angrily, but we heard a voice.

"Shrutikaka, what are you doing? Let's go," came a man from behind her.

We looked at him, and it was one of our employee, Vinod.

"Oh, ma'am, what are you guys doing here?" he exclaimed, looking at both of us.

Shrutika asked him, "You know them?"

"Yeah, they are my bosses," he replied.

Her face turned pale as she looked at us.

We had never revealed our faces to the media; our company was famous, but no one knew about the owners, except the people who worked with us.

"We were here for an event, but how do you know her?" I pointed at Shrutika.

"Oh, she's my fiancée. We came here for her college's reunion party," Vinod said with a smile. Shreesha looked at me with a smile.

"Oh, fiancé, huh? You never told her about us," Shreesha exclaimed, smirking at Shrutika, who was still in shock.

"Oh, actually, we didn't get to talk to each other much. Our marriage was just fixed a few days ago, but she knew where I work," Vinod explained politely.

"Ohh, I guess you would be surprised to know that we and your fiancé were classmates and good friends at some point," I added.

"Oh, is it? My pleasure knowing that," he exclaimed.

"By the way, what are you doing these days?" Shreesha said mockingly, looking at Shrutika, who had come out of shock.

"Uh, actually—"

"She is actually finding a job right now, but she can't find one," Vinod said, cutting her off.

"Ohh," Shreesha tsked, looking at Shrutika, who looked down embarrassedly.

"Let's go inside," she said, pulling Vinod with her and not letting him speak.

After they went out of our view, I couldn't control my laughter.

"You saw her face," Shreesha said, laughing loudly with me.

We were laughing when Ayansh chimed in, "That was the best way to shut her up without doing anything."

"Vinod ne toh usko apni aukat dikha di," Veer laughed.

We were laughing like crazy and after composing ourselves we headed inside.

Our evening started like this, and god knows what this evening held for us.

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