CH 22- Confidential Chaos!

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*To effectively communicate
With people, we must learn
To be sensitive to them.*

—Someone❤️


AUTHOR'S POV
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After a long day of exhaustion, Arjun was sleeping in bed. His face was tense, and he was sweating and breathing heavily as if he were seeing a nightmare.

In his dream, he saw himself as a ten-year-old child wandering through his eerily silent home, feeling scared and restless.

"Mumma? Where are you? Please, come out!"

He called out desperately. His voice echoed in the silence, but there was no answer.

He walked to his mother's bedroom, his small feet dragging with fear. When he opened the door, he was struck by a horrifying sight.

His mother was hanging from the ceiling. Her lifeless body swayed gently, and the scene was terrifyingly unreal.

Panic overwhelmed him. He reached up to grasp the rope, but it was too high.

"Mumma!" he cried out.

He tried to shake her, but nothing happened.

"Mumma! Please wake up! I need you mumma! Please," he begged, his voice trembling with fear and sadness.

Tears streamed down his face as he tried to pull the chair away from underneath her, but it was too heavy.

He felt a deep sense of abandonment as he realized his mother had left him alone in the world.

"Don't leave me, Mumma! Please come back!"

He sobbed, feeling completely powerless and alone.

The sound of police sirens, neighbors' pitying looks, and the house turning into an empty shell haunted him. He saw himself in a corner, crushed by grief and isolation.

The sharp buzz of his phone jolted him awake. Arjun's heart was racing and he was sweating. To calm down, he drank water and realized it was early in the morning.

No matter how much time had passed, that memory still haunted him.

Frustrated, he grabbed his phone, expecting routine messages or emails. Instead, he saw multiple missed calls and numerous messages from everyone, including Aarav.

The messages read:

"Arjun, pick up! It's urgent."

"Call me ASAP. A major issue with the project."

"Wake up, man! We have a disaster."

Arjun becomes tense reading them because Aarav never gets easily worried, so if he is panicking, it must be serious.

He immediately called Aarav, who answered on the first ring.

"Arjun, thank God. I've been trying to reach you for the past hour," Aarav said, his voice tense.

"What's going on, Aarav? What's the emergency?"

Arjun asked, sitting up.

"It's bad. All the details of our confidential project with Khurana Enterprises have been leaked," Aarav said, his tone grim.

Arjun felt a rush of panic.

"What? How is that possible? We had top-level security on that project. No one outside our inner circle even knew about it."

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