*It's a dark book!!! Please read at your high risk*
A man was weeping holding his legs. "You want to see your son?"
"Oh, yes yes, I do" He cried desperately.
Manik pulled out his phone and played a video clip. "There's your son, can you see him?"...
"Okay guys, I agree the change will be impacting gruesomely, but we have no other choice than working overtime. Our CEO is not there, the managers are busy with the new management system and as it is the end of the financial year, we have to take a little bit work load." I was standing in the wide space on our floor, directing our employees.
Everything happened so suddenly that now we, the employees, have to face gruesome issues.
"It will be exhausting but we will give our best, won't we?"
"WE WILL, SIR!"
"SURE SIR."
"WE'RE READY, SIR."
I smiled at their reply which came in unison.
"Great then, let's get back to work." after two claps of my hands, I turned to leave for my own cabin.
As soon as I stepped in, "Huhh," the fake smile I had put on my lips, the fake cheerful expressions along with all the fakeness I had presented some time back, faded away.
I set foot inside my cabin with a fallen face, tired look and slumped body.
There were plenty of reasons behind this condition of mine.
First, our branch was undergoing a technological change. This was decided even before I joined, but was sought to be implemented later. After I joined, to he precise.
Second, I were forced to act as a departmental head as well as a team leader and a manager since the managers were occupied by the task of installing new technology.
It was a laborious task. It has started... Right from the second week after Nandini was attacked.
Though we didn't want to as our CEO was laying in bed unconscious. And when there was no sign as to when she'd wake up... We were compelled to carry on with our duties on Mr. Maheshwari's declaration.
He had come over right after the news of CEO Nandini's attack flared out in the city. And no matter how much we tried to keep all the tasks at hold, he insisted us on resuming our job. He believed that his daughter won't like it if we stopped in her absence.
But honestly, how could we work when something like an attempt to molestation and fatal attack was dawned on our boss. How could I, who was basically given the responsibility to handle the office till her return, work knowing that she was not okay.
"Jerry, get me the files I had transported to you last day."
But here, as you can see, I am... Doing my job while showing as if everything is okay. As if I am Okey.
The truth is, I have been living an empty and remorseful life repenting for being cold and a jerk to Nandini.
Though many people told me it was my mistake, I couldn't stop from taking it like that.
Oh yes, I told everyone that she had called me. I had to since the cops were here for investigation. I was bound to tell them the truth because I could not hide it in my chest.
They told me it wasn't me why she was in hospital, I couldn't agree to their thoughts. I was indeed guilty.
So guilty that I didn't go to meet her after she woke up!
Leave that, I didn't even send her flowers or a card. Let alone a message on her whatsapp when she got discharged three days back.
It was delightful to hear that she was discharged from hospital. She was weak but the doctors let her leave as she insisted. And since these three days, she is at her apartment with her father.
And I have been so guilty that I didn't even had the courage to even message her.
I was thinking about it when a knock came on the door and I allowed the person in, "Here are your files, Manik." Jerry walked in with the files.
"Ah, thanks so much, Jerry. I hope you corrected the mistakes I had asked you to."
"Worry not, they are done." he winked and turned around to leave.
"Well then, thanks."
"Mention not, mate." he reached the door while began to immerse myself in the files.
Huh, I will now be able to distract myself. I had tried harder and nothing could distract me better than work.
So I was about to begin my job when, "Heyyy, you read the follow-up message! Everyone is so excited about it." Jerry stopped at the door and turned around.
"Nope, what message though?" I asked.
His eyebrows flared up and his eyes increased, "Manik?"
"What, i seriously don't know." I shrugged my shoulder.
Jerry came back to my desk and pulled out a chair from one of the two. His eyes remained glued to my face all the while.
"Are you for real? Do you even check your whatsapp messages." he remarked.
I looked at my phone kept beside the file I was working on and nodded my head in no.
I have limited my conversations ever since this incidence happened with Nandini. I don't feel like talking to anyone. All that I have been doing in these two weeks and three days is only work.
I only take calls. No messages as I find them boring to go through. It feels more boring because I have 20k+ messages now. So it's another reason to avoid reading them.
"What is it, tell me?" I inquired.
It better to ask him than scanning through all 5k+ messages from the our official chat group for that one particular message that he's referring to.
Jerry narrowed his eyes and frowned but he eventually gave in.
"Hmm, I know you're too busy these days, hence I won't bark on you for being ignorant towards your messages. But dude, you must check them once in a while." as he said that, a notification for a new whatsapp appeared on my phone's screen.
"I will... Before that, you tell me what's the news?"
A small amusing smile came on his mouth as he said that vanished all my exhaustion and rather filled my heart with perplex and perturbation, "Our CEO dropped a message in our official whatsapp group, saying that she's joining from Tomorrow."
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Tbc...
Precap: Their (not so expected) encounter... And, changed feelings.
Haa so his reasons are cleared. I think he's not wrong on his part. Nobody would be able to face someone after they've seen them go through such incident. It's regretful.
But how will Nandini react after facing him. It's sooooo gonna be interesting 😈😈😈😈
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