You & Me ; Towards Our Forbidden Future

Chapter 23

In Spain.

Beside the seashore, at the head of the mountain, was a luxurious and magnificent mansion constructed in ancient French and Spain architectural style. There was a runway for landing private jets and helicopters. A beautiful and well-maintained garden was situated
in front of the mansion, giving extra elegance to the place.

Inside the Mansion, Living room.

An old man in his seventies was sitting in the sofa, with a malayalam newspaper in his hand. Even though he is old, he has maintained his body well throughout his life, so he is still looking like he is in past fifties or so.

His face has obvious marks of time, but eyebrows were sharp and eyes were deep, behind the gold rimmed glasses. His hair was all white, but as a person who 'love' to be young, he has long dyed his hair black. He was wearing a brown cotton shirt and white mundu* with a brown kasavu*, all neatly ironed.

He is Chandrashekhar, the founder of the mighty Menon Groups. Father of Abhishek Chandran and Anil Ramachandran.

Now, he was concentrating on the news which almost occupied the full front page.

#AUGUSTINS GROUP SETTING FOOT IN MEDICAL INDUSTRY! #

#6 BRANCHES OF A.G MEDICAL AND RESEARCH HOSPITAL OFFICIALLY ESTABLISHED#

#FIRST LAUNCH OF A.G MEDICALS IN KERALA, INDIA#

"Shekhar, here is your chaaya (tea)." Akhila extended the cup to her husband, and Chandrashekhar smiled and took it from her hand.

After an immediate and complicated surgery, Akhila's health was exhausted greatly. After years of recuperation, she finally recovered her health. Throughout the treatment procedure and recuperation, Chandrashekhar accompanied her, giving her immense hope to survive.

For a peaceful environment for spiritual healing, and early recovery, Chandrashekhar bought this mansion and for almost seven years, they both are here.

Akhila sat beside her husband. She was wearing a cotton saree matching with Chandrashekhar. She saw him, staring at a certain article in the newspaper and asked curiously.

"What's so interesting in this?"

Chandrashekhar showed the newspaper to her, making Akhila surprised as she read.

"Augustins... Their growth was truly beyond expectations..." Akhila said in both surprise and admiration.

"Yeah... Unpredictable!" Chandrashekhar nodded in agreement.

Augustins Group was founded in Spain by an Indian. In the beginning days, that is almost thirty years ago, it was started as a small tech company in the busy streets of Capital City.

No one can imagine that, today's astonishing and influential business group which has set his foot in almost all industries, has only one room of only three hundred square metres in the beginning.

They had heard someone say long before that, Augustine tech company has been on the edge of bankruptcy many times and at that time there was no one to help them in crisis.

It took years of hardwork and persistence of a person, to make the small tech company into a multinational company. From nothing to rule the economy!

"Have you even came across this Augustine's head?" Akhila asked curiously.

"Yeah... Only once." Chandrashekhar said and his eyes was focused as he went back to the past memories.

"Remember the time we lost Gayathri at the busy street in Capital City?" He asked.

"How can I forget it!" Akhila places her hand on her chest and sighed heavily.

Gayathri Abhishek Menon, their first granddaughter. She was four years old and was very naughty and mischievous. One day, they went to the Capital City Street with Abhishek and family. When they were sitting at a side and enjoying the scenery, Gayathri went away from them alone. By the time they realised, Gayathri was already nowhere to be seen.