The Navel Madness

The Prelude to Madness

When Bashar got the email. His heart skipped a beat. What was this and it almost seemed like a trap to coarse him into an dangerous office scandal.

It seemed too obvious. How could she know and who is this girl, she is bright but I cannot imagine her being soo nefarious.

His heart was beating out of his chest. He did not know how to deal with it. He needed to find out the whole story. He cannot rush his professional and social reputation over this. Even though this feels like something he cannot simply let go without getting involved. It's too perfect. Or maybe its so perfect because it's a trap.

Maybe he was overthinking himself but he needed to know.

Right at that moment his secretary called and he jumped on the call.

"Yes, what's up sunita?" He inquired still revealing from the email .

"Sir it's a junior employee named Saima , she says you invited her to her office. Should I let her in"

" Yes, right away please " he stuttered.

That's when she stepped in, she was average looking and nothing stood out. But she is the brilliant girl who is supposed to be part of the team.

She seemed frozen and nervous . She just stood there head down and picking her nails saying nothing.

"I got this interesting email. This is a first for me. I want to ask a simple question. Why did you sent it to me?" Asked Bashar in a stern tone.

" I didn't mean to ss..sir, it was not ever supposed to be m..meant for you, it was for my personal email. It's was meant for my partner. It was personal and I never intended to send it to you" she said with her voice shaking.

" I cannot talk about the details of your emails in the office as someone might eavesdrop or walk in. But I'll ask you once again and I want you to look me in tho eyes and answer me earnestly. Did you send the email with any scheming intention?" He asked with a very very stern tone.

" Nn..no sir please I'm a hard worker I'm honest and I never mix personal life with my professional. I'm honored to have this job and be a part of your own personal team. I'm not gonna lie and say the contents in the email are lies...they are not. But I want you to understand sir it's your speech yesterday that helped me to come out of my shell and share all this about myself to my partner and to myself. I wasn't even gonna send him the mail, but then the creator punished me and now all this happened. I feel like dying from shame right now"

He glanced at her belly region to see if it was wet, no she really was earnestly ashamed and scared if her biological beautiful anomaly were to be true. And she seemed to be on the verge of tears.

" Okay calm down. I still cannot be certain of your intentions but I want you to come to my personal office today at 6 pm after work. This could've had stern effects on your career. If it was meant as a bribe for promotion"

" Bb..butt s...Sir it was never ever meant for that. I'm a very hard-working conservative Muslim girl I'd never ever think of such a thing I cannot apologize enough, I genuinely feel extremely ashamed." she stammers her words out.

" Ok fine, ill give you the benefit of the doubt. But I still need to talk to you about this mishap. Any other boss and he would have you fired on legal charges." He says in an stern but assuring tone.

He takes her directly in his car to his side office up the hill.

She starts panicking because they are alone here. Not a soul to be seen. But she soldiers on because she knows it is this or being fired from the best firm with sexual bribery charges.