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David didn't wipe away that smug smile on his face and looked at Raymond. He understood that Raymond was already suspecting something. He could read the way he was looking at him, trying to read his mind.

"What happened Raymond? Just give him that file and let's end this whole charade."

Saying that Katherine turned towards the car.

"Wait, Katherine. Don't you want to see you dream come to reality? The crowd has already been waiting for more than an hour. And as you can see that certain people have so much interest in the inauguration that they have come here themselves."

Saying that David looked behind Raymond and they all turned to see Vikram walking towards them. He had a weird look on his face. An expression of triumph mixed with hatred.

As he came closer, he looked at Akira and then looked at Katherine and asked in a mocking tone,

"What happened? Aren't you going to cut open the ribbon Katherine? Or did something happen? Are you just escaping? Or did someone ruin your dreams?"

Saying that he gave out a smug smile and then came close to Raymond and said,

"All these years, trust me all these years, I really regretted my actions. When I saw her broken because of you, I really thought that I had done something wrong. But today I feel that I should have just hit the bullet through you. And I regret that I just couldn't."

Saying that he turned towards Akira and said,

"Of all the people in the world Akira? Seriously you? You sided with him to the extent of destroying my life. All that I have, everything that I could ever have, you just needed to ask me once. I would have given you everything. But you..."

"You decided to take it all away from me because of this man. A man who just entered your life and you decided to forget everything that was between us?"

"What was there between us Vikram? Trust, respect, and honesty. But you urself broke them all. I gave you a second chance. I wanted to belive in you, but you stabbed in the back by trying to harm the one person whom I treasure the most in the world. You tried to take away my entire world and you think what I did in return is injustice?"

"You have the guts to be speaking like this Vikram."

Saying that Akira shook her head in disbelief. She had nothing but utter disgust smeared all over her face. Raymond came next to her and slowly wrapped his arm around her waist, looking straight into the eyes of Vikram.

And it exactly had the effect that he intended.

Vikram's face turned sour in the flash of a second but in the next, the fire of revenge ignited his heart. Looking at the man standing next to David, he said,]

"Mr. Mitiyoshi, I hope we are not wasting too much of your time here. I guess we can leave now as we have nothing more to do over here. And as for these people... Let them face a bit of the scary facade of our media."

Saying that Vikram turned towards Raymond and said,

"Now that's what I call as match point."

Saying that Vikram started marching back confidently towards his car, expecting Mr. Mitiyoshi to follow him. But after a few seconds, he realized that he was walking all alone. So he turned back and was surprised to see Mr. Mitiyoshi still standing next to David.

"Mr. Mitiyoshi, we can leave now."

"Erm... Mr. Vikram, I have... I have changed my mind."

"You have what?"

"Erm... I have decided to sell that land to this lady."

Mr. Mitiyoshi's words got stuck in Vikram's throat like a fishbone. He suddenly felt like someone was choking him down. Getting all flustered, and agitated he started reprimanding him.

"What the hell are you talking about? Didn't we discuss about it yesterday?"

"That was yesterday Mr. Vikram and this is today. And as of today, he has decided to sell the property to Katherine."

Saying that David took the file which was still in Raymond's hands and gave it to Katherine whose blood had already boiled after seeing the treacherous face of Vikram. So without even wasting an extra second, she signed the document and then looking at Vikram she said,

"Now let's face the so-called media that you were talking about."

Within a minute the entire set had changed for Vikram. A minute back he was ready to walk all over them but right now they had cornered him and were ready to reduce him to dust. Unable to understand where things turned he charged towards Mr. Mitiyoshi and thundered,

"This will not go well. Do you think your company can survive after stabbing me? Let me see who will come to save you and your company from bankruptcy. If this man has promised you with business support then let me tell you what mistake you have done. You have probably signed a deal with a guy who has turned his entire empire public yesterday. So he has neither a dime nor a nickel to support your company Mr. Mitiyoshi. So I guess you can very well realize now in what deep waters you have landed yourself."

Hearing his words, Raymond felt bad for Mr. Mitiyoshi, and he turned towards David and said softly,

"We have unnecessarily dragged Mr. Mitiyoshi into this. Now how do we protect this man from Vikram? "

David smiled and turned a few pages in the file and showing the end section to Raymond he said,

"Like this !!!"

Raymond stared at the paper for a second. Then looked at the signatures at the end of the paper. One by Sebastian Walker and the other by himself. With a face filled in utter disbelief, Raymond said,

"Is this for real David? Do I still ... ?"

"Oh yes, Mr. Raymond. It's very much real. I can vouch for that."