Royalty Embracing Billionaire

Chapter 5

His Life

Avikam Raichand

"She is going to be very angry at you Vik," Ronit snickered entering my office without knocking. He is one of my close friends and all of us barge into each other's personal spaces without any shame. Hardik is exception because unlike us he has a love life. We try not to barge into his spaces when we know his beautiful fiancee Mary is around.

I sighed listening to him, "I know. I told her I would be home last night but I got busy overlooking the budget details of our current project. I thought I will be there for breakfast at least and then you called. If it wasn't for your phone call, I would have taken the elevator ride five minutes earlier without any issues," I snapped with annoyance even though my anger was not directed at him.

He merely scoffed at me, "Don't blame me when it's your fault that you decided to work last night. We all have been already busy with Swadesh international project and everyone is working their asses off. I don't even understand why you would take upon another project when Swadesh is more important and even more stressful," he said calmly talking seat in front of my desk.

"Just because it is important and prestigious doesn't mean I have to keep my focus solely on it. We are not even sure if the minister will sign the project to us," I said with practical thinking.

He rolled his eyes sliding a pen drive on my desk to me, "We will get that project for sure. It's a life changing one for all of us. We drew up perfect figures and our presentation is going to impress him," he said in a confident tone. I know that, but I am not much of an optimistic person. I believe in logic and statistics.

Ronit, Kushal, Sachit, Yagav, Hardik, Tarak and I worked so hard for the Swadesh project. It's an Indian colony construction in Newyork for tourism purpose. Unlike any other colony this one is going to be huge. Our culture, our styles, our traditional food and fashion, everything will be represented. We don't know why they wanted to create a colony on our culture except that they wanted natives to construct and design every inch of it.

All the top business organizations were informed by the prime minister himself in a meeting two months back. By next month we all are going to give the presentation and few of us will get signed upon different categories. My friends and I decided to collaborate for this work. We all are best in different fields like constructions, Interior designing, tech, security, imports and exports, food chain, hotel lines and fashion.

If we get this project Hardik, Tarak and Yagav decided to move back to Mumbai and make this city their head office. Ronit will start his own security company and Sachit wanted all of us to merge our companies more permanently. We all loved that idea and are looking forward to it. The chances of us getting this project are high, because we are top in our fields.

The downside is we are submitting this as collaboration instead of individual companies. The risk with collaboration of six companies is, if a dispute arises sides will be taken and output will suffer. But the thing is we are not just six companies, we all are lifetime friends and brothers without sharing blood. We have been friends through high school and college, thick as thieves.

For business purposes Hardik, Tarak and Yagav decided to move to other cities after our education while Sachit, Ronit, Kushal and I stayed in this city. Our bond is so special we even bought an entire area outside the city few years back, to build our homes side by side. We can finally live in one area if we get this project.

Sighing wishfully, I took the pen drive and connected it to my system. "Is this the only copy?" I asked Ronit waiting for the file to open.

He nodded squinting his eyes, "I myself deleted the file and this is the backup copy. What's on that exactly?" he asked curiously. This was the recording of camera in elevator and I didn't want any of my employees to watch it.