A Slave To My Vengeful Lover

Anna's POV:

Mark: Okay, let's have breakfast, I paused the CCTV footage to watch with you.

(What? What he just said?

Did he just said about CCTV footage?

I didn't tell him anything about the CCTV footage fight that happened in my dream, but why he mentioned that he paused the footage?

If he wants to watch the footage, he should have mentioned, "let's watch the CCTV footage," but he said he paused the CCTV footage, so it is not a dream and everything is real, but he pretends and me to trust that it's a dream. I immediately raised my head to look at him with a serious note.)

Mark: What happened, Anna?

Anna: Why did you pause the CCTV footage?

(Mark immediately stared at me in shock for one second and immediately he fake coughed a bit to get normal and continued his explanation.)

Mark: I mean… I paused the footage to watch with you, that's it...

Anna: Why did you pause it?

(I asked him sharply, his face turned to smile, but he is trying to cover his laugh. By looking at his face, I understand he again pranked me that it's a dream. How dumb I am, I immediately get up and hold his neck with my hand and locked it with my elbow. He immediately burst out with a laugh and started laughing by looking at me.

Anna: How dare you to prank me when I am crying?

(He didn't stop his laugh and by looking at his laugh I feel more furious because I am got pranked again.)

Anna: You make me dumb again...

Mark: You are dumb, Anna; I no need to do anything to prove your dumbness...

Anna: You...

(I tightened my grip on his neck for his teasing.)

Anna: So it's all real, and you created the scene like it's a dream and make me fool...

(He continued his teasing laugh at me, so I didn't loosen my grip, but deep down of my heart I feel eternally happy by looking at his laugh and smiling face. He acted casual by laughing at me and didn't even ask me to leave him. After a few seconds, suddenly he pulled me close to him and make me sit on his lap and started kissing me on my lips by holding my head. I tried to push him away, but as usual, he always succeeds by throwing his love spell at me through his kiss, and after a few seconds, I surrender to his kiss and started kissing him, and we both went in to a different world by kissing to each other. After a few seconds of our kiss, he paused the kiss and looked into my eyes.)

Mark: I am so sorry, Anna, I don't mean to hurt you...

(The moment I heard his apologies, I am flattered and hugged him immediately. I feel very happy; because he understands that I got hurt when he shouted at me. It's not about who said apologies to others; it's all about strengthening the love relationship and now Mark strengthen our relationship more strong and I feel very happy that Mark steps down from his ego ladder by apologizing to me to maintain our relationship even more stronger. After a few seconds, we both looked at each other and laughed, and continued having our breakfast...

Mark: So how's my cooking skills?

Anna: Delicious..!

Mark: That's it?

Anna: it really tastes yummy, Mark, I loved it...

Mark: That's it?

(I didn't understand what he is expecting me to say, so I looked at him.)

Mark: Words don't give the best compliment, Anna...

(I didn't understand and looked at him in confusion, but by looking at his smirk face, I understand what he means and immediately I lean towards his lips and kissed him in my own style. I can sense he is enjoying it, and after a few seconds, I paused and looked into his eyes.

Anna: Now, how's my compliment?

Mark: Not bad, I will adjust with it...

Anna: What?

(I immediately pinched him on his waist he immediately holds me and screams.)

Mark: I can't answer to Mona again if she looks at your nail scratches...

(We both laughed and finished our breakfast and lead to the bedroom and started watching the CCTV footage of the entrance. Actually, the entrance footage is more important to identify the attacker or any other suspects who tried to murder Rubeus uncle through food poison. While I am watching the footage, I observe every guest hold the card, and the guards at the gate are swiping the cards and allowing the guests to enter the party. I didn't understand what the card is, so I asked Mark about it.)

Anna: Mark, did you arrange the Identity cards to the guests?

Mark: It's not exactly I'd cards, Anna. It's our engagement invitation card, which inbuilt inserted a unique barcode for every invitation in the name of guest.

Anna: Barcode?

Mark: Yes, I allotted a unique barcode for every guest's name. So, if there is no invitation card, the guests are not allowed to the party and I made this strict rule and requested all the guests to carry the invitation, which I built a barcode in it...

Anna: How it works?

Mark: See, if we find the attacker in the video, we can track him with the barcode and we can find on whose name he entered the party.

Anna: So, with the help of a barcode, we can understand who tried to help him. Right?

Mark: Exactly, and we all are suspecting someone close to us is planning attacks on us, so it's easy to find who is planning attacks on us.

Anna: Yeah, but there may be a chance of John too, and I am sure it's John.

Mark: Yes, Anna, but he doesn't come to the public parties, and particularly where the protocol of the party has strict rules like invitation cards, etc. and at the entrance, Tom appointed some cops to find if John or Lucus if they tried to enter the party.

(I am worried the moment I heard my dad's name from Mark, but I didn't ask him or argue with him about my father. I hope my dad should escape from John and came forward to prove himself against the alligations on him. in between my thoughts Mark interrupted me. )

Mark: Your dad may come to look at his daughter, Anna. There may be a chance he might know about his daughter's engagement party, and he may come to look at you. It doesn't mean I am targeting your father.

Anna: No, Mark, whatever you did is right, and I wish my dad to come out and prove that he is not guilty for everything.

Mark: Let's see, 

Anna: Mark, is there any chance that John appointed the attacker to attack on us?

Mark: Yes Anna, there are many chances, but he doesn't know that he is digging his own grave if he really tried to attack us, but I guess he doesn't take such risks because by doing so his friends got arrested and soon he may get caught if he tried to attack us.

(I am more worried after listening to Mark, because if the attacker is not appointed by John, then who might attack on us?

Is there any chance that Mark's business rivals are attacking on us?

If it is Mark's business rivals, then why will they attack on Rubeus's uncle?

It's really complicated to find who it is. Still, I am sure this CCTV footage and Mark's strict protocol at the party through barcode really helps us to find whoever tried to attack on Rubeus uncle, and we can easily track if the attacker attends the party or not. If he attends, we can find through which invitation card he entered the party and Tom can directly interrogate the person who registered on the invitation card. I immediately looked at Mark to compliment him for his security protocols at the party.)

Mark: What happened?

Why are you staring at me?

Anna: Great job, Mark; I am really impressed with the care you take at our engagement party.

Mark: I don't want to take risks, Anna, I want everything to be secured, and I don't want to risk anyone's life, so in every possible way, I arranged high protocol security but see how Rubeus uncle got attacked.

Anna: Mark, because of your proper precautions, Rubeus uncle is still alive and can you imagine how dangerous it is if you didn't take appropriate precautions like arranging ambulance, and the ambulance helped us on right time too, and now we can easily track every footage so we can easily find the attacker and we can easily track the person who tried to attack Rubeus uncle through food poison.

(After listening to me, Mark again feels relieved, and we both continued to watch the footage again. After a few minutes, we find a person, and he wears a hat, so we can't see his face at the entrance gate CCTV footage. Still, he entered the party through the invitation card, Mark immediately changed to another camera to follow up on him, and in the other camera footage, we clearly saw his face. Immediately Mark and I looked at each other in shock.

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