Inevitable

Ch-9. Decision

MARK'S POV

The room is long and feels nostalgic. It is utterly silent with just the rustling of the papers and clicking heels of shoes. Every one is seated and I can see anticipation on most of the faces, some seem to look at me with yearning, some regretful, others seem neutral.

I enter the boardroom, and am acquainted with the most esteemed, lush, and detrimental members of the company, with that being my father's associates. With the rumours spreading like wildfire it's not so hard to judge by there looks what they will be deciding for me today. The decision for them is nothing to be deciding for I was their only option, only future.

Mr. Linton, the co-chairperson is sitting at the head.

'So Mr. Harrison the board has taken the decision to appoint you as the next chairperson of Harrison Corporation.'

All I can remember is my father asking me -

'Mark do you want a ruined present just because of a sullied girl you are infatuated to, these things come and go in a man's life but once you slack your hold on your impending they will be gone and when you'll look back, it would be too late to grab hold of it, you only have one chance in your life and if you'll throw it away then nothing could bind you to it. You have everything that any person could ever wish for, a fostered future, a family which needs you to bind it together, and a company to run.'

I don't know what to do with those words, which seem to be full of wisdom and wise but have too many secrets hidden behind them which could make or break anyone.

He taught me not to think with my heart but with my mind and always carry myself but this company and this family too with myself. And I did what he said, I thought with my mind then and now I will too.

I broke the ice by saying what they wanted to hear.

'I hope I'll hold this position better than my father did.'

I hope this decision does not turn out just like the last one did because I hope to do some things differently this time. And wish to mend some mistakes.

Because someone dear to me once told me-

"Mark in life we always have choices, they are upon you to decide which one you choose, this is what makes people different from others. I have chosen my path, it's all on you now. Our lives will be different if you want them to be."

And with that the voice just fades away in the number of felicitations.