Never Ever

Chapter 8

I went to the restaurant with Ms.Greene to have lunch, it was her break time.We ordered our food.The menu here needs to be updated, a lot of the dishes written on the card were not available.The menu mostly consist of American,Mexican, Italian,and Thai food.

Ms.Green was telling me how rude Mr.Silverstein is, most of his past secretaries were fired because of some stupid reasons like late for work by 5 minutes,couldn't arrange his table systematically,etc.And some were fired because they were trying to make a move on him.

He is known as a heartless playboy but he keeps his professional and personal life separate.Every other day there is a picture of him with a new girl.She told me that he sleep with girls and then left them alone the next morning.Every girl knows that but still couldn't resist his charm and let him use them.She knew all this because of the office gossips.

"Ms.Rathore, please don't tell Mr. Silverstein about all this, he will fire me and almost all of them who badmouth him", she requested.

" Don't worry I won't tell", I assured her.

"You know yesterday was a huge commotion in the hotel.A woman came and started to shout his name, she was looking so messed up.She went to his cabin and his suite, but he was off to Paris.Mr.Davis has to convince her that he will let her know when Mr. Silverstein arrives then only she left".I remember Mr. Davis telling me about a commotion.

Our order arrived and we dug into our food.She is a nice girl, she told me about herself. How she is alone managing her mother's hospital bills.She is working here for almost a year.

We were on the 39th floor at her desk when she got a call from Mr.Silverstein telling her to arrange a new cabin for me beside his.She was busy in her work so I decided to go back to my suite.The rest of the day I spent in outlining the necessary steps to be taken for the beginning of the project.Mr.Silverstein already assigned his staff to propose a close tender for the selected organisation.

The project needs brilliant architecture.
Physical appearance plays an important role in business.The resort should be unique from the other available ones. Being a graduate in finance,I will personally look the financial statements provided by the finance department of both the companies. Everything should be planned before we start.

After working for some time,I went to have shower before going to bed.

I woke up when my phone starts buzzing,It was an unknown number. I picked up,

"I didn't expected this from you,Hayati. You are in New York and haven't informed me yet", I recognized him, he is Khalid.As he calls me Hayati which in Arabic means life.

Khalid Ahmed is my friend from Harvard,we studied together. After my graduation, I went to London for internship.And Khalid joined his family business, a mutli billionaire construction company in New York.

"Hello to you too,I just arrived here on Sunday and yesterday I was busy with a new project, the reason why I am here".
I told him.

" Yeah, whatever.You could at least have messaged me, are we back to strangers?",
He complained.

"Khalid,we are still friends.So stop over reacting".

" Then when are we meeting,Hayati? ",he asked.

" Soon,how about tonight?".

"Fine by me, where are you staying? I will pick you up", he asked for the address.

" The Emeralds"

"Okay, I will be there at 7,we will be going to a club".He informed me.

" Where ever you want to, because you are my tourist guide here".

"Yeah,yeah".I can imagine his face scrunch his face at the mention of tourist guide.He ended the call.