But his luck had finally run out.

Srinivas looked at the retreating figure of Zeenath through the corridor with a complicated look. Her boots echoed through the walls as she took each step forward. He just shook his head and went inside Shreya's office after a knock.

"What is it?" Shreya asked. The atmosphere around her did not change yet. She was still reeling on what Zeenath had just uttered. She had known Zee the longest of all the people here other than her own family but Zee was that one person she couldn't really reach on an emotional level. She knew that and understood that to an extend. But it still stung when Zee told her that Shreya had no right to meddle in her affairs. It left her feeling alienated somehow.

After her parents passed away, Shreya's world wholly revolved around these people she had trusted until Charan came along. She considered them family. But when one such person told her she was not, she did not know how to feel or react.