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6. Found the culprit?

Kunj's POV

"What the hell do you mean by the designs have been leaked? Do we have news of any company releasing them? Did you pull up the CCTV recordings?", I yelled walking towards the security room with Rahul trying to catch up with me.

"Calm down a bit Kunj.....the only news I got till now is that your P.A, Mr. Aakash, who was supposed to present them to the board after your presentation, had given them along with the contract, to the lawyer....."

"Then find where the hell is our lawyer? Find him and beat him up until he spills the beans", I shouted, efficiently cutting him off.

"Well the only problem here is that our lawyer says that 2 days ago, he received a call from your number, and he was told that today's appointment was canceled and he didn't need to come for the official checking of the contract today", replied Rahul in a much calmer tone, probably scared to anger me any further.

WTF!! How the hell did this happen? And then whom did my P.A. give the contract and designs??

I clenched my fists and took deep breaths in order to calm down, but nothing seemed to be working. I was really really pissed off. This situation was too fishy. I mean come on! The designs suddenly 'go missing' just 20 minutes before I had to present them to the board. And my phone magically decides that Oh I'm too bored, so let me call the lawyer. That would be a hell of a coincidence for it to actually be a coincidence.

I'm damn sure this is someone's ploy to tarnish my company's reputation. Not just it, since I was getting this award due to the innovative software our company had designed, it was sure that I won't be getting any award provided these designs weren't recovered in time. And if this was done by some of my business rival, which seems to have the highest probability at this moment, then I'll have to undergo a really long legal battle to prove that these designs actually belong to Sarna group of industries......the case could last fucking years.

I'm sure my team could feel the anger radiating off me, as there was pin-drop silence the moment I entered the security room. All the chattering had subsided.

My eyes scanned the room for Aakash, my assistant......sorry ex- assistant now. He was standing in the corner and averted his gaze to the floor as soon as he saw me glaring at him. I put my hands in my pocket, fearing that I might end up strangulating the boy, and asked him in an ice-cold tone, "Mr. Aakash........where are the designs?"

" Sorr...sorry sir. I...I realllyy don't kn...know siiirr.", he stuttered.

I swear this man was testing my patience. I raised my eyebrow and crossed my arms in front of my chest, indicating him to continue.

Taking a deep breath, he said "Sir a girl....a girl came and asked for the contract, and she said that she was recently hired by you as the company's legal advisor. I didn't fully believe her at first, but showed her license to practice law and gave me her employee card, and I ga....gave her the documents in return for the card."

"What was her name?", questioned Rahul, who himself was quite angry now.

"Sir the license was in the name of some Twinkle Taneja ."

"And the employee card?"

"I'm very sorry sir...." "Give me the damn card!", I shouted.

With shaking hands, he placed the card on my outstretched palm.

FUCKING HELL! The card didn't belong to any Twankle or whatsoever.......it belonged to some Ms. Anna Peterson. And not only that, this card had apparently been terminated and returned to the company last year, indicating Ms. Anna was no more an employee of the company.

Before I could cause any physical damage to the boy shaking in front of me, which trust me, I was just seconds away from, Rahul interrupted and fired him and asked him to get out this instant. Aakash nodded gratefully at Rahul and ran out of the room, aware of the fact that if it was me instead of Rahul, then it would be far worse. More than anything he could imagine. I would make sure anybody messing with this company suffers.

"I want all the details of the lawyer girl whose license was used. Maybe she knows something about the girl who took the documents.", I said looking at no one in particular. The door banged, and the guard, who I recognized from his uniform came in running.

"Sir, we took a look at the CCTV recordings and recognized the girl as Ms. Twinkle Taneja. You can see yourself.", said the security guard said handing me the tablet he was holding. Before I could see the recording, the door burst open again and another of my teammates came in bearing some very bad news, as his face so clearly stated.

"Sir a company has released our designs as their own!!"

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Oh no! Twinkle stole the documents??😱

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