Rich Brat: Sweet Revenge Of A Lazy Princess - Chapter 401

“You don’t have the right to ask those questions, Mr. Ram…? You lost that right when you tried to kill your brother’s little girl!!” Anand answered angrily.

“She started it!! Why did she have to ruin my son’s life… if she hadn’t done it, I wouldn’t have had to do such a thing in the first place!” Ram said self righteously. Anitha did not even dare to breathe loudly after Shreya threatened her. So, she just stayed behind Ram making herself inconspicuous.

“She never started anything… it was your son and daughter who started everything. They were the ones who started trouble in the company… there is a limit to which they can be arrogant in the name of being a Srivastav and a relative.” Anand sneered looking at Ram with a slightly disgusted look.

“They were not making trouble. They were just trying to get back what was mine! They would have not had to do something like that if she hadn’t played dirty tricks to drive me out of the company! If only she hadn’t been suppressing my company deliberately all this time, our family wouldn’t have had to resort to such tricks.” Ram answered arrogantly. This had been his greatest failure of all his life… being defeated by his bȧrėly ȧduŀt niece. He had never been able to swallow that defeat till this moment… Over the years this shame had turned into hate towards Shreya and had been eating him all this while… that was his turning point.

He had not been a saint but he had not been jealous or a greedy person before that… not to this extent at least. Not to point of being inhuman and disregarding the family as a whole. But life hadn’t been the same since he was driven out of the company…

Everybody he was gave him a mocking gaze for being weak enough to let his own niece defeat him… or at least, with the mindset he was in back then, that is how it looked. This slowly ate him. He started a company of his own but he had never been able to touch the heights of Sri corp. Not even close… that just proved how incapable he was.

Anitha always had been blowing over his pillow adding fuel to his fire. She always said the reason why his company never flourished was that Shreya had done something behind his backs and coveted his success. She always said Shreya was a greedy person and so on and so forth. After all, as a family, they always knew Shreya was a capable person and she never hide anything from them in spite of knowing they do not have good eyes towards her. And because he had already been unstable at that time, he believed it without doubting it. But he never knew the reality of the matter was straight opposite to it.

“Let’s get one thing very straight here… Sri corp. was never your’s. It was never any of ours… it always belongs to Shreya… It had always been Adithya’s legacy that he left behind for Shreya!!” Anand answered sternly. His voice boomed across the room. But before he could continue, Ram interrupted him.

“But I also contributed in making it… that is why Adithya left me the shares… I earned those shared justly and she took it away from me!” Ram argued back.

“Oh please… without Adithya, we both would have never made it this far… you and I both know that. You never would have made it this far even in your dreams… and Adithya gave you those shares not only because he was a generous person but also because he trusted you to protect his baby girl if he was not there… he gave you those shares to guard his little girl not to try to overthrow her because you have a bigger ego than your brains!! The minute you conspired on taking over the management in the name of seniority, you lost that trust and you lost the right to hold those shares… So, don’t justify your greed with your misplaced self-righteousness and push the blame on others… it’s disgusting.” Anand practically spat out when he said the last sentence. You can see the hate in his voice from miles away.

“I was not being greedy. I just wanted to protect Adithya’s legacy. I did not want it to go to waste in naïve hands… and she wouldn’t listen… she wouldn’t listen to anything I ever said. She ruled the company as if she was the queen of the place… she had no constrain whatsoever!! She had been blind with greed not taking into account anything! And she even suppressed me after I went out of the company because of petty grudge… how do you justify that!!?” Ram asked back.

Anand couldn’t help let out a dry chuckle at his naivety. He really wished to jump into his head to look inside to know whether his brains even worked. He was baffled by how much delusional Ram was at this point. Suddenly, he understood why he had been so weird all this while.

Anand and Ram had never been that close from small but they still got along fine. So, he knew him enough. But his actions never made sense to him. After all, even when Ram was never close to him, he had been close to Adithya… He can always see that Ram genuinely cared about Adithya. That was why he kept giving him chances. He was waiting for him to see some sense.

He had tried to do that back then too… but Ram was too caught up to even listen to him and he stopped trying after that. But now, he finally understood that Ram had been too wrapped up in this head all this time… He misunderstood everything from the start. He was wrong from the start.

Ram had not only been lying to others but he had always been lying to himself. He was too egotistical and self-righteous to see his own mistakes and faults.