The Sparks Of Love | ✓

Chapter - 3

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Maithili Sankhla is twenty eight years old, unmarried and the only daughter in her family of six people. Her mother, Sheetal Sankhla is a homemaker and her father, Aman Sankhla is a B.S.F officer who stays out of town mostly because of the different postings once every few years. She lives with her mother, younger brother, Atharv and her retired grandparents.

Maithili has never been the pampered daughter but the eldest daughter who has to do everything right because Atharv will follow her footsteps later on. Atharv and she have a two and a half year difference between them.

Being babied by everyone has not been her fate in this life so far at least.

She has molded herself into a mature and responsible elder daughter over the years. Her father's absence at home plays a big role in it but that's how it is. Someone has to take the responsibility and Atharv has been a great support over the years especially after he suddenly went from a guava tree to being a coconut tree things have been much easier- except for the part where she gets a daily dose of annoyance everyday.

She envies the height difference between herself and her younger brother.

Her life, by god's grace, has been pretty normal. She joined Dahiya Groups after working in another firm for two years after her MBA. Now it's been three years since she has been working there. She has been working as a business analyst for quite some time and is now waiting for another chance for getting a promotion.

When it comes to promotion, Nikshit's elder brother, Vidhart Dahiya was promoted and became the President of the company two years ago and after that, Nikshit has been working hard for a promotion himself.

Competition between the two brothers has never been kept hidden. Everyone knows at the company and everyone talks.

Maithili is no different than any other employee either. Lunch and tea breaks give her an insight of a lot of gossip about everyone that's working at the same company, be it business related or personal life tea.

Since Viren Dahiya and Nikshit stay here, Vidhart has been taking care of the Panvel branch for quite some time now. Vidhart visits the company here in Delhi very rarely for very important board meetings only. They say his wife doesn't like her in-laws so she has been forcing Vidhart to settle down there separately but other than that, Vidhart himself has a very good relationship with his family here.

When it comes to Nikshit, he started from the lowest and he's about to go from being the Executive director to the Managing director of the company soon. His jumps haven't been favored just because he's a Dahiya either, it's quite a known fact.

Viren Dahiya's chest swells 56 inches when it comes to his children but the only itching problem under his nose these days is Nikshit's continuous denials whenever they're trying to introduce someone to him. According to Nikshit, his career has just started stargazing and there's still a long way to go to reach the pinnacle he has been aiming for.

He can't get distracted in any way for the time being.

Nikshit is not ready for such a huge responsibility as of now. Marrying someone is not the only thing to do to have a 'married' stamp on his head after all. He still has no specific plans and savings for the future he has always dreamt of since forever.

His life decisions will have to be taken after considering his partner's convenience as well.

He's right in his place. He has the right to take such a big decision of his own life and his parents decided not to put any more pressure on him anymore. Or so they said until Nikshit gave up resisting and told them to do whatever they wanted to do.