After they finished dinner, Karan offered to drop Aditi back at the hotel.
"Aditi, can we talk for sometime before I drop you back at your hotel. I will try to not take too much time of yours.", Karan asked as they drove back to the hotel.
"Not now Karan. I feel stressed out after all the discussions. I don't think I am in a mood to have any sort of conversation now. Can we talk sometime later, may be tomorrow.", Aditi guessed what Karan wanted to talk about and she did not want to do the talking now. She wanted to have that discussion with a fresh and objective mind.
"Sure. Whatever you say Adi.", Karan said in a low tone.
Aditi noticed he had used her pet name and smiled to herself.
After dropping her at the hotel, Karan made a call to Rajiv. He was still not sure about why Rajiv had wanted to talk to the MD personally and he wanted to confront him directly. His thoughts were broken by Rajiv's voice.
"Hey Karan, can I call you back tomorrow. I am in the midst of something very important. Will give you a call tomorrow morning. Bye." before Karan could react Rajiv disconnected the call.
As soon as the call was disconnected, Karan received a text message from Rajiv. "Text me if there is something important."
Karan was sure Rajiv knew why he was calling him. He felt he was avoiding him intentionally.
Karan was upset with himself. For the second time in the last few minutes, his intentions were clear to the people he was talking to - first with Aditi and now with Rajiv. It was as if his thoughts were exposed.
He felt X-rayed.
Brilliant use of X!! Story rounding up well, da. Very interesting indeed. :-)
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