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Chapter 17

Krish had gone home after getting fired and Shivaay eventually showed up after completing the photoshoot.

"What the hell is going on inside your brain?" asked Krish. "Why are you working at Nirvana?"

"Why? Do you have a problem with me having a job? You and Akaash and Shravan all seem to think that I'm good for nothing lazy bum when it comes to helping out at our law firm. Hence, I joined Radhika's company. And why did you yell at Radhika?"

"Why specifically her company? You were aware that I quit my job to join her company, so why did you tag along? I yelled at Radhika because she was being rude to Nisha." asked Krish.

"You have to understand. It is because she needs people to be polished and efficient! She's the authority. Radhika tells you what to do because she's your boss. And to give an answer to your first question, because I like her."

Krish was flabbergasted. "What did you say?" he barked.

"I like Radha."

"Stop calling her that," whispered Krish dangerously.

"Why? Do you have some specific right over her where you get to call her by that name?"

Krish closed his eyes in exasperation and glared at his brother. "Listen. I'd rather not have an altercation with you right now. I just got fired and I need to find out how to get my job back or I'm in deep shit."

"And why are you in deep shit if you don't get your job back? You could just go back to being a lawyer." prodded Shivaay.

"It is none of your business," Krish mumbled.

Krish walked out of the room and Shivaay spoke under his breath so he wasn't audible. "It is my business, Krish. You don't know what the hell is about to go down."

A plan up his sleeves!

•••

Radhika's photoshoot went successful besides what happened with Krish. On a rather disturbing note, he showed up to work despite being fired. After much persuasion and convincing from Krish, Radhika hired him back on one condition.

"What's the condition?" asked Krish.

"You need to make a presentation on what strategies we should use to reintroduce and rebrand our company. You have the entire day to do so but then on our last meeting of today, you need to present what you have."

Krish said nothing and left which surprised Radhika on how he didn't return her order with a witty remark. She was quite interested to see what Krish came up with so she continued trying to concentrate.

No words!

•••

Nisha was meanwhile at home because being Radhika's personal assistant, she had the flexibility to show up to the office a bit later. Actually, that usually wasn't allowed but Radhika permitted it for today due to certain commitments that Nisha had.

Nisha was researching about Radhika and her background and found out about her past. Her husband Arjun and his cause of death was a brain tumor. She found out since Radhika was so famous that most of her life's events had been published in many articles.

"That is why she is so devastated all the time. Poor woman went through a lot!"

Shivaay sat next to Nisha and was also reading articles about Radhika and her past.

"Thank god I like her, hence I applied to the company for a job, and now I'm going to try and..." Shivaay trailed off.

"Be careful. If you mess with her, she might come after your ass." Nisha snorted.

"Very funny. Listen, Nish, please help me. You are Radhika's personal assistant. Convince her to you know.. warm-up to me."

"I can't make any promises Shivaay! But I'm sure she's going to ask me to schedule an appointment between you and her since you asked her out on a date."

"So you can make her warm up to me?" asked Shivaay hopefully.

Nisha simply sighed and nodded her head to say yes.

Nisha and Shivaay are on the same team!

•••

The end of the day had reached but Krish had yet not finished his presentation due to which he asked Radhika for more time.

"I need to make edits and also change around a few photos," asked Krish politely.

"I'll give you till tomorrow morning but that is it. If it is any further late than this then there will be consequences!" said Radhika suspiciously. Radhika wondered how and why Krish was acting so tranquil with her.

She sat inside her car and shook her head. "There is a storm about to come," she remarked aloud to herself. "That man is acting incredibly inscrutable. Can't even fathom as to what he is up to."

Radhika drove home and opened the door to her house. Leaving her belongings aside, she warmed up leftovers from last night along with a cup of milk to help her sleep. She sat down on her bed and began to type on her computer.

"Oh damn. I think I forgot to instruct the guard to close the doors of the office. Let me see if he is still there." mumbled Radhika to herself. She tapped open the office security cameras and looked at it.

People were packing up and leaving, meaning that the guard should still be standing outside. Soon Radhika was about to tap out of the security camera when she looked at the camera which showed her office and the conference room.

It was a pigsty. Her table had been completely knocked over and as she looked even closer, her laptop was on the floor and her furniture was haphazard. Radhika's office door was open and there was Krish walking over to her desk and further knocking over files and important papers.

Radhika always had a penchant for keeping things spotless. And as she witnessed the animated conversation that was going on between him and another worker, she closed out the device and her nostrils flared in anger.

She had never dealt with situations like this. Radhika thought of herself as a tenacious person, in a good way. And she knew exactly that she wasn't going to let Krish go so easy.

•••

"YOU DID WHAT." yelled Shanaya at her Krish, her brother in law.

Shanaya hit Krish really hard.

"Ow! What was that for?"

"Idiot! She can see you on the security cameras. If she sees you knocking over files and important documents then how would she assume that you had planned an apology party for her and that you were trying to remove stuff from her office for the party."

"It was a very dexterous task. How can you blame me? On top of that, I needed help so I took some of the other people's help."

"She's going to think you were trying to make her office filthy place considering the security cameras probably caught you wrecking her desk and computer in order to replace it with party items."

"What now?! I couldn't even set the surprise party up last night because Nisha refused to help after a while."

"I have an idea! Let me call Nivedita."