But her simple question drained all colours from Reshma's face. She gaped for a moment with a thought of an answer but words could not find their voice.
"Sanskar Sir? He... He is not in the office." Reshma murmured, still gaping at Swara's confused face.
"Did he go out for any client meeting?" 
"No. Actually Sir stopped coming to this office. He shifted his stuff to his other office." 
It was obscure to process her words for Swara. She could not comprehend the meaning of those.
"Other office?" Swara was still blank. She gaped like a fish.
"Swara" Ram called her from behind. He was going towards his office cabin when he saw his daughter in law in the middle of the foyer.
"Dad" Swara excused herself and moved to Ram to get her answers.
"What a pleasant surprise? I'm glad to have you in the office." Ram started walking towards his cabin.
Swara started following blankly.
"I came with Sanskar's lunch but Reshma said he ..." Her choked words momentarily halt to Ram's walking pace.
"Come inside, let's talk." Ram opened the door for her.
Her eyes went to the door beside Ram's cabin, which was supposed to be her husband's cabin. Today, it had some other name plate.
"Come inside Beta." Ram knew what must have been going around her mind.
"Dad, Sanskar shifted his office to some other office. What does it mean?" She asked the moment they were inside Ram's cabin.
"Karma Inc. He moved to Karma's head office." Ram replied, staring far.
"But he had merged Karma Inc with Maheshwari Inc long back then?" She was still clueless about recent change.
"Not really. He had merged only one subsidiary of Karma Inc with Maheshwari Inc." Ram's words added more to her confusion.
"When two years back he returned, his tactics, strategies and policies, his aggressiveness in the business field had drastically hindered Maheshwari Inc standing in the market. When you made him realise his mistakes, he stepped back but business doesn't work like that. By that time, our business had suffered severe loss. To cover up that loss, he himself invested in Maheshwari Inc. and also merged one of the subsidiaries of Karma Inc with us which resulted in a lot of benefits for us." Ram gave a clear picture about their old days.
"But then is he breaking the merger now?" Her heart thudded inside her ribcage.
"No... No. He is still on the board of directors panel for Maheshwari Inc as well as one of the major shareholders. But he also wants to concentrate on Karma's affairs as well." Swara could feel disappointment in her father-in-law's voice. 
"But Dad, he should be here working with you and Bade Papa. You both are getting old. Bade Papa had suffered a heart attack recently." Swara knew that, currently, only her husband could become the backbone for Maheshwari Inc.
"He is taking care of both businesses properly. But he is taking too much load on himself. He buried himself in work. He is keeping distance from family on the pretext of work." Ram took a deep breath. His eyes glistened with unshed tears.
Swara kept on staring at her father-in-laws face, it held a myriad of emotions but she could not decipher any of them.
Swara came back home still lost in her own thoughts, she had decided to confront Sanskar.
Next day morning, Swara found a perfect opportunity when Sanskar was working on his Mac before breakfast. He was on call.
Swara asked, the moment he cut his call, " Yesterday, I had been to Maheshwari Office with your lunch."