Bruises| Abhira FF ✔️

CHAPTER 05

Third Person's POV

Finally, the day he'd been dreading was here. Last night was the only one when he couldn't sleep due to nervousness. And this morning, he couldn't halt the dawn, ebbing its gradual way into daylight. His sixth sense was giving him the signal that he did something wrong and what's done cannot be undone. Due to all this chaos in his mind, he couldn't think straight this morning.

He was losing control so much that he put his mobile phone in the wrong pocket and then panicked when he couldn't find it. His hands spread like a pale-starfish around the coffee cup, and they were cold too, resisting the warmth that struggled to seep into them.

He pushed the breakfast away, which was served to him by his servant. With his head buzzing with possibilities, there was no way on Earth he'd swallow a bite, let alone a whole plateful. Wearing his usual black three piece, he ordered the driver to start the car as he sat in the passenger's seat. The whole ride was full of nail-biting. To him, it felt like the route was much longer than it was supposed to be.

His strong thoughts, which led him to another world, were broken by the vibration in his side pocket. He took his phone out and saw Neil's number flashing on the screen.

"Yes?" he attended the phone within seconds.

"It's 10:30! Where are you?" Neil asked him.

"I'm on my way to someplace important." he replied as he put his shades on due to sharp rays of sunlight.

"What? You're not coming to the office? But everyone's waiting for you." Neil almost yelled.

"Who's waiting for me?" Abhimanyu asked him, confused.

"You organized an interview session!" Neil reminded him, to which Abhimanyu mentally slapped himself.

"Gosh. I forgot!" he closed his eyes in frustration.

"Seriously?" Abhimanyu could feel Neil roll his eyes on the other side of the phone.

"I'll tell you what, tell Aarohi to conduct the interviews." Abhimanyu told him.

"Aarohi? But you always choose your secretary by yourself. After all, your taste in women is different from all of us." Neil replied.

"It's not a big deal, Neil. Just tell her to select the hot one. It's that simple." By saying this, he hung up the phone.

After forty-five minutes drive, which felt like hours for him, they finally reached the orphanage where his lawyer was already standing outside, waiting for him.

"Can I come in, Aaru?" Neil knocked on the door of Aarohi's office.

"Ughh... Not again!" she rolled her eyes and motioned him to come in.

"Actually, I just come here to tell you...." Before he could finish his sentence, Aarohi cut him off.

"Neil. Can you please cut it out? I've had enough of your bullshit! Can't you see I'm not interested!" Aarohi yelled at him, and the wide smile that Neil had on his face while coming in immediately faded.

"I-I didn't come here to bother you. Abhimanyu told me to tell you to take the interviews today. That's it." he spoke softly, his eyes gazing downward. She immediately felt bad for bursting out at him.