The Accidental Wedding novel Chapter 22

I was ogling her when I heard someone clearing their throat beside me, it was Daniyal. Fuck, he had caught me staring at Mia, I really felt embarrassed to have got carried away like that.

"I wonder who Ben's date doesn't look like from my firm", I said looking in their direction. Daniyal just shrugged his shoulders and walked away. Dammit, he must be mad at me, I followed

Daniyal and pulled his arm and stopped him.

"I am sorry, I didn't mean to. I don't know what happened to me", I apologized. Daniyal kept looking at me for some moments and then said.

"She is about to get married, and I would advise you to stay away from her".

I just nodded in agreement, I wanted to go to Mia, sort her out and speak to her and apologize for being

such a dick in our last meeting, but I realized it won't go down well with Daniyal. Mia was avoiding me, probably because of the way I behaved the last time. l kept myself engaged with Shah and his partners.

Food was arranged in a buffet, I noticed Mia sitting lonely, at a table in the last row near the beach. I looked around for Daniyal, he was busy chatting with his wife, I planned to approach her and then turned and went to the table where Daniyal and his wife were sitting.

Daniyal was back to normal again, we started discussing a project when his wife got a call and her expression changed to panic.

" Daani, dad had had a heart attack. He has been taken to the hospital", She said panicked.

And before I could realize they both left apologizing to Shah and his wife. I finished lunch and just strolled to the spot where the columns were finished digging and the first column had been filled with concrete by Shah.

I stood there for nearly half an hour without any reason and went back when one of my employees told me the partners were looking for me.

People had started getting dispersed, everyone was going towards their vehicles, I bid them goodbye and went to the cabin. It was empty, I sat there sulking about what happened earlier and all of a sudden, I remembered Mia was still here, she hadn't left with Daniyal.

I came out of the cabin and looked around for her, mostly everyone had left barring the employees of the company that arranged the lunch.

There was an engineer from my firm, walking towards the parking. I strolled towards him and asked if he had seen Mia leave with anyone. He replied he didn't know if she had left or not. I looked around but there were no women around, maybe she left with some of her colleagues.

"Reema's father had a heart attack, they left in a hurry", I informed her.

"Ohh, I see" "My other colleagues have also left, I don't know how I will go back", She looked worried.

"I will drop you", I replied.

She looked at me with gratification, there was no need for it. I would have done this no matter who the girl was. I couldn't leave her there in the middle of nowhere.

"Thanks", She replied.

" I need to use the restroom if you don't mind", She said.

I went back inside the cabin and she followed me, I gave her directions for the restroom and sat on the couch waiting for her.