Episode 11

Finance department,

Since the moment reality struck her about Danish, Dishi had been feeling that several lightings had been striking her every moment. The only thing she could do now to save her life is that she should avoid Danish as much as possible, and never come into his sight ever again. Which means she should not attend the meeting which is held for the project of Grand Miraya mall. So, she must do everything in her might to avoid going to the meeting.

While she was just plotting her plans to avoid going to the meeting, her superior (Mrs Siya Kapadia) came out of her cabin and clapped a few times to gather the attention of employees, all of them including Dishi looked at her pausing her line of thoughts…..

Siya: alright everyone, it's time for the meeting. Is everything ready? Pakhi did you print 20 copies of the report?

Pakhi: yes, ma’am everything is ready (as she handed over the copies to Siya) …..

Siya: so everybody let's go for the meeting now…..

Everyone was preparing to go to the conference room on the top floor…

Suddenly Dishi said, “I am not going, never in my life”.

Her colleagues along with Siya, Pakhi, Risha, Tara looked at her surprised. When she looked at them all surprised, she got into reality and thought that she had lost her sanity to say out her thoughts loudly…..

Siya (raising an eyebrow): and why would you not go there, Dishi?

Pakhi (trying to handle the situation): ma’am I think she is nervous because it’s her second day of work…..

Siya (strict): no Pakhi, I need an answer from her. (Motioning her eyes towards Dishi…….

Everyone looked at Dishi with curiosity….. as to know her answer because it was a life time opportunity for many to work in such a large-scale project where the partnership is with Infinity Group. The success in this project will contribute greatly in the career of every single employee, every single worker…..

Dishi was scared that this attitude of Her’s might anger her superior and might get fired on the second day of work because Siya would think that she is lethargic and lazy towards her work as no company would be willing to keep such incompetent employees……

Dishi (stammering): ac….ac….actua…..actually ma’am I don’t think I can attend the meeting because I have a severe headache (while keeping both hands on her stomach)….

Pakhi, Tara and Risha put their hand on their foreheads as Phooti Kismat (broken luck/fate).....

Siya: oh….. really Dishi you are having a headache in your stomach…..

When Dishi heard Siya’s words she came into her senses and regretted saying those words and looked at Pakhi for help…..

Before Pakhi could say anything to cover up for her, Siya went near Dishi and tapped her shoulder and said, “It's ok, everyone has to do some work for the first time at some point in life to gain experience. So, you don’t need to get nervous because we are all here to help each other”.

Dishi was utterly speechless at her words…..

Siya: lets go guys…..

Now Dishi had no choice but to follow everyone to the conference room…..

Grand Miraya Mall was supposed to be the largest and the most luxurious mall in the whole Asian continent in the future. This project previously belonged to the Infinity group solely and Danish had thought of involving Orbis Global too but decided against it to tie business relations with other companies….

Many companies strived to the edge to win the project and have the chance to work with the Infinity group but the Oberoi group won the bid in the end. As the strategies were already given by the infinity group so, Oberoi group decided to finance and do marketing for the project and the infinity group decided to take over the construction and management.

Soon all of them were present in the conference room and there was a huge table with 20 chairs and two head chairs at the same end. There were more than 30-seater sofas which were kept at the edges of the room. Dishi urged Tara and Risha to have a seat together with her at the last sofa in the row to avoid the sight of Danish.

The seating arrangements were like, the right side of the table will be occupied by the employees of the infinity group along with half of the sofas and the remaining left side will be occupied by the employees of the Oberoi group.

Soon the conference room was filled with employees. Ritik was sitting on the left side of the table right next to the head chair followed by other employees from Infinity Group. Dhruvi was sitting next to the other head chair, and Siya sat beside her followed by Pakhi and other employees from the Oberoi group.

Soon there was a commotion at the entrance of the room as Dhruv entered alongside Danish. All the employees stood from their places to show their respect towards them. When Dishi saw Danish enter into the room she tried to cover her face with the small diary she carried with her to note down important points of the meeting, however Danish had already spotted her the moment he stepped in the room.

Watching her act like a child he could not help but form a deep but small smile on his face and said “silly girl” inwardly. He smiled but no one saw him smiling as they were busy preparing to start the meeting. Danish went and sat on the head chair which was next to Ritik while Dhruv took the head chair which was next to Dhruvi. Following them everybody else also sat and the meeting began.

Dishi was no less as she also peeked from the corner of her diary to see what Danish looked like in real life because she did not notice him earlier as she was getting late. Now she could not help but admire such a charming, handsome, dashing, and majestic man. She had not seen a man so gorgeous in her whole life. One could clearly see his muscular torso over his suit, he was tall, had a perfect jawline along with little beard which added to his great looks, sharp features and hazel eyes added on to his allure as a Greek god had Descended from the sky.

As Dishi was busy admiring him, he was also noticing her every movement. As her eyes were scanning his face, suddenly she cringed as she made eye contact with him as he was also watching her. Due to her instinct, she again covered her face with her diary.

Watching her react like this again he could not help but deepen his smile but this time his smile didn’t go unseen by Dhruv. Therefore, he also followed his line of sight and saw three girls. Dhruv was confused about which of them had entertained his brother so much that he was smiling so he leaned towards Danish and asked “which one”. Then Danish without averting his gaze from Dishi replied “no one is supposed to see her except me”. Now Dhruv could not do anything but shake his head as if saying “nothing can be done with this boy” and tried to focus on the meeting.

Now Dishi also thought of ignoring Danish and focusing on the meeting. In the middle of the meeting, she could feel an icy cold gaze on herself which was breaking her soul like pieces of glass. She had no choice but to endure it for almost three hours. Danish looked at her during the complete meeting and Dishi tried to make notes of the meeting to avoid the icy cold gaze….

When the meeting got over Dishi was the first one to leave through the back door……..

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