Stay With Me

2.

Afterglow was filled with the hustle bustle of employees working around, getting their job done, when in the chaos, they heard utter silence enter through the main doors.

The CEO of Afterglow, Nurvi Rao, just entered with a neutral face void of expression, calm and composed but with a powerful auro around her which made a shiver run through them even after working for her for a long time.

Carrying herself gracefully, she entered in the special elevator, reserved only for the boss and her P.A pressed the 25th floor, to her cabin.
"Call the designers team and advertising team in the meeting room in 10 minutes.", Sanvi nodded at the command, delivering a message to the head manager of the specific teams.

The elevator dinged, indicating their arrival, and walked through the hallway towards her cabin, all the while her P.A hot on the tail.
"Get me the final reports of the collection that is to be shown in the fashion show, I've to make sure it's upto the point.", "Sure ma'am."

After going through all the files and making sure the designs were done with only final touches left, she made her way towards the meeting room where the teams waited for her.
Making sure the teams were almost done with their work and were ready for the fashion show which was in 2 days, she made them understand the gravity of this project and how important it was for the company, which is why no nonsense behaviour will be tolerated during the time being and got a positive response from all.

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"Ma'am, we have a problem!", she heard her P.A as she did her work and looked up to find her frantic and fear written all over her face.

"What is it?", she had made sure to check any loop holes in the show and cleared them all, knowing well her enemies were all after her collection, mainly a man which seemed to get over her nerves every fucking time. She could not bear any minor inconvenience now, when the fashion show was in 2 days.

"One of the 5 models we had hired from the Style Icon Models company have met an accident and although there isn't much damage done, she won't be able to participate in the fashion show.", heaving a sigh, she looked at her P.A as if she saw an alien.

"Hire a new one then.", she said in a matter of fact, yes it will be a load of work to hire a new model and explain her about all the work but that is something she expected her P.A to go through, not something to be informed to her.

"That's not possible ma'am", she started, " I talked to the manager about the same, but he said there wasn't any model available, not even any new ones. We can't even hire someone from other companies or we will violate the clause of the agreement with Style Icon Models.", she added when she saw her boss not convinced.

"How's that possible?", "Ma'am he informed that the rest of the models which were before available were now hired by someone else."
She saw her boss chuckle and thought whether the news had some impact over her mental health, that she's acting this way over a serious situation.

"Arman Arora", the CEO of Arora Designs, the company of her rivals. The only man who would have the nerve to mendel in her matters and who would go to any extent to create problems for her.

"Hire any model from any other company, I'll have a talk with the CEO of Style Icon Models and explain him the situation.", she sighed already tired with all the situation she was thrown into.
"We'll have to pay a lot of penalty ma'am, we may even face loss if we go beyond the clause of their agreement."," Then find any solution, god damit!", banging her hand on the table and startling her P.A, she walked towards the glass wall behind her desk and looked outside, to compose herself back.

She was known for her calmness and maturity towards any situation she faced, but this was her dream, nothing could go wrong or she's done for.
Muttering a small apology, she asked her P.A to look for any solution, "Ma'am we do have a solution", Sanvi said when her boss turned around and looked at her with expectations. "I would suggest you to model instead, you had done it in the past and this way we will not even violate any clause.", she added suggestively.

"That's not possible, I haven't done it in a very long time, the last time I did was in the starting of this company and it was a small project. But this is a much bigger and important one, I can't mess it up.", been working for her boss from the very starting, Sanvi knew what she was talking about and remembered how when they had received a big project, at that time, they didn't had much funds to hire professional models to show case their collection which is why her boss herself had taken the task upon herself.

Even though her boss came from a wealthy background, she didn't wanted to rely on the family money, but to do it on her own, which is why she never excepted her family luxury, and she loved that about her boss and which is why she was her role model.

"Ma'am this is the only way, or else we'll have to remove some of our piece from the collection.", she informed about all the pros and cons of what she had suggested.
"Ask any one of the 4 left models to do two rounds of walk, there's no way I'm removing even one piece from the collection.", no way she was leaving  this opportunity of showing her work to the world and no way she will remove any piece which may attract any possible investor.
"That's against the rules ma'am, each company can only hire 5 models and no one can be repeated, and we have been only given 45 minutes. Two rounds will be time consuming even if we somehow managed to convince the judges. I really suggest you to do this ma'am. This is our last option. Please think about it.", she informed and left the cabin, leaving her boss to dwell upon the suggestion.

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Hey guys!
So here's the second part of "Stay With Me". I hope you enjoyed it.

What do you think, will Nurvi do as she is been suggested or she'll find any other solution? Comment your thoughts.

Also Nurvi and Iman are gonna meet in the next chapter most probably, so stay tuned.

Enjoy reading.
Bye 👋🏻
KM