I entered in the familiar house in which I stayed a few months ago. The memories are still fresh inside my little head, which didn't work during the meetings.
After a week of learning the basics about my job, I am going to do it. Like seriously, I have to do nothing; just make a schedule and follow him with a Macbook.
I just have to behave and nod. That is piuuuuuu!! The salary is in your hands at the end of the month. I like the job but not the Boss. I have to tolerate him for the rest of the day. I have to meet him at eight in the morning and don't know when I will be free.
As I took off my shoes, a masculine figure was sitting on the couch, braiding his daughter's hair. Ira is half asleep, and her back is leaning on Laksh's front.
"You are six minutes late, Miss. Trivedi" He says, and I turn my head towards the wall. Why am I admiring both of them?
"Momo?" I heard her, and my neck turned towards her. She slid herself from his lap and ran towards me with tears in her eyes.
"Mo-mo", She whispered, and here my eyes started filling with tears after seeing her.
I took her in my arms and kissed her forehead and cheeks. She sticks to me like a panda to the tree and digs her head in my neck. Her hands are in a fist holding my shirt fabric.
I caressed her hair and called her name softly. Only to look at her crying face.
"Why are you crying?" I ask and she shakes her head.
"I will never leave you alone in the house. You left me while I was going to bring flowers for you," She says, and I wipe the tears that were on her cheeks.
"I never left you, Ira. You are my child. How can I leave you huh?" I ask, and she shakes her head again, making a sad face.
"But you did. Everyone I met everyone left me. Everyone" She says and breaks into tears.
"Ira, I am here, my child, I am here", I say, but she doesn't listen to me and cries more. I sat down on the couch with her in my lap and kissed her head.
"If you don't stop crying, then I will leave you again,", I say, and finally, she wipes her tears and stops crying. I smile
"Promise me you won't leave me alone again" She asks while extending her hand towards me for the promise. I shake my head.
"Hmm, Ira, I have to I can't live with you under the same roof. I also have a family and a job" She lowered her head after hearing my words.
"Now let me braid your hair", I heard Laksh from behind. He came in front of me to take the Ira from my arms but she didn't leave me.
"I don't want to. Let my hair open for today," She says, and he shakes his head and tries to take her in his arms, but she doesn't leave my lap instead of holding my shirt in her fist tighter.
"Did you make my schedule?" Laksh asked, and I nodded without saying a word.
"Okay, then, I am going to get ready. Until you wait here" He says and leaves.
He was already ready, so why did he leave? Such a mental human being.
"I miss you so much," Ira says.
"I miss you more. Don't worry, I will meet you every morning. Okay?" I say and she nods with a smile.
"Only for a few minutes" I completed my sentence and she nodded with a pout.
"You say that you have a family?" She asked, and I nodded.
"Then me and dad are not family?" I feel deep thinking when she asks. What should I tell her now?
"Ira, I have some work. Do you have a charger for my mobile phone?" I asked and she nodded and left to get the charger. My phone is fully charged, but still. I just do this to avoid her questions. Which I can't answer.
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"I was assisted by your personal assistant, not by your personal driver, sir", I say, and he raises his head from the Macbook.
"So?"
"I will not drive," I say and cross my hands over my chest.
"You will now drive towards the new building that is under construction", He says while sitting in the passenger seat. Don't tell me that he doesn't know how to drive. Is he giving me the extra salary to drive for him?
I kicked the car door and sat inside the car in the driver's seat. I start driving. Like a personal driver.
"A personal assistant does every work", He whispered, and I raised my brow. Like seriously?
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"Here we are, sir", I say after stopping the car in front of the construction building. The dust is all over the place. The cement and the bricks are everywhere.
The pieces of words and tiles. The box electrical things are taken out of the trucks. Full of the different types of things.
"Let's go inside,", He says, and I take a deep breath before taking the Macbook in my hand. What the hell is inside that he wanted to go inside this construction building?
"We have to claim the stairs?" I ask while looking at the number of stairs in front of me. He claims that it's just a pre-workout for him. I am going to lose five kg today. Weight loss day.
"Are you seeing the elevator here, Miss Trivedi?" I shake my head.
"Then fucking claim the stairs", He says casually, and I roll my eyes while following him. Paise ke liye kya kya karna padhta hai
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"Give me the black file," He says, and I handed him the black files.
"Don't you know the difference between black and blue?" He asks, and I shake my head.
"Khud le lo", I say and put all the files on the table. He gave me the death glares but I ignored him. I have been working since morning and my back is hurting. And spending my whole day in this shirt and pants is annoying.
I used to wear beautiful dresses and comfortable clothes so it would not be difficult for me to work. But here I am. A shirt and pants are the last option. They are the ones who covered me from neck to ankle.
I sat down on the couch in his cabin and stared at the white marble floor. I have nothing to look at right now. I am very tired and want to go home, but here we are again in the cabin. I don't know what the hell stuff he is doing.
"Are you done, Sir?" I ask while pressing the word Sir. He doesn't deserve to be called sir.
"Not yet," He says, and I roll my head. And rest my head on the head of the couch. I am going to die.
"How much are you going to take, sir? I am hungry. I have a stomach" I say and press my lips in a thin line.
"I don't have any idea", He says, still focusing on the file.
"Okay, then, I am going bye," I say and take my bag from the table.
I stop at the exit of the cabin, turn my head, and look at him from my shoulder. Is he not going to stop me?
"Why are you standing there? Aren't you going?" He asked, and I didn't reply and sat on the couch back. What if he started crying? Even the whole building is empty. We are the only two alone in the building.
"Bethi ho toh kuch kaam hi kar lo" I heard him saying.
"Nhi karungi" I replied and picked up the magazine from the table and started reading it. But there is nothing to, read, only tall building pictures.
I look at her whose face is behind the magazine she didn't even move a bit from an hour. Probably,sleeping behind that magnize. I close my flies and laptop. And make my way towards her without making the sound.
I took the magazine and put it on the table. Her eyes are closed. A little mouth open her head is resting on the head of the couch. She has tiredness in her face.
"Miss. Trivedi?" I call her name to wake her up. But she didn't even move.
"Miss. Trivedi?" I called her again; she just moved her head to the other side.
"Wake up Shivi!" I shouted, and a punch landed on my soft cheeks I tripped on my steps, but thankfully, I didn't fall on my butt.
"Are you crazy!? Why are you shouting?" She yelled and sat straight with my hand on my cheek.
"You punch me. Shivi," I say while pointing towards my hurt cheek, which is aching after the punch without any reason.
"You broke my precious sleep. Obviously, You deserve a punch. Do you want it on another cheek?" She asks, raising her voice at the end of the sentence, and I shake my head, taking a few steps backwards. I will never wake her up again.
I sat on my chair with my hand on my cheek and squeezed my eyes to make her realise that she punched me too hard. But I heard not a single word from her.
"Are you done?" She asked, and I didn't reply. Let her realise.
"Don't cry", I heard her saying, and my head turned towards her. "I am not crying okay?" I say, and she nods.
"Did I punch you too hard?" She asked and I shook my head.
"It's my pleasure to get punched by you miss. Trivedi. I am in heaven right now," I replied in a sarcastic way of making an annoying face, of course.
"Thank you so much, Mr. Chauhan" " she replied, and I stood on my feet and left the office and her behind. I am done with her.
I don't know what she thinks of herself. She punched me without any reason. She didn't even realise that it was her mistake. If someone has punched me. I would have broken their teeth and bones for punching me. But it's her—
If she will do something like this again in the future, I will tell her. She literally punched her boss. Who gives her the salary.
Forget about the boss. I am the one who takes care of her like her husband, and now she is punching me and giving me tantrums. My ex-assistant was much better than her. He was doing a better job at a low salary.
I slid inside the car and was about to start it when I realised that she had not even come yet. She must have reached yet but she didn't.
I slid out of the car and looked at the exit of the building, but she was not there, nor a single sound was coming. It's already night and the whole fucking building is empty. She is on the twenty-one floor. Shit, shit, shit.
I ran inside the building pushing the buttons of the lift quickly. The sudden Adeline rush inside my body gives me goosebumps all over my body.
How can I leave her alone knowing that it's only been eight months of her— you are fucking stupid, Laksh. You are stupid.
The door of the elevator opened, and I ran towards my cabin, looking at my surroundings to find her. But she is nowhere to be seen. The only sound in this building is the heavy air touching the glass windows.
I pushed the door of my cabin, "Shivi!" I shouted, but she didn't come from anywhere. I check behind the couch behind my table and chair but she is nowhere to be seen.
I pushed my hair back from the forehead. I am breathing heavily and my eyes are looking at her everywhere. Where did she leave?
after checking the cabin perfectly. And not finding her inside i rush to look at her in the ladies washroom but she is not there also.
"Shivi!" I shouted and got no reply. My mind is making the worst imagined of her. Where are you shivi?
I left the washroom and checked everyone's place. Behind the chair and table and everything i could.
My breath returned to my lungs when I saw her figure under the table of someone's table. She is crying covered in sweat. Her eyes are shut. She is scared!
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Thankyou for reading
I know the chapter was short. Sorry for that but I told you earlier that I don't write long chapters in any book. Only a few chapters are exceptions. But I always try to make it perfect in a short way.
I hope you will understand.