ch 8 Another Piece
something small glimmered on the polished floor a delicate silver anklet,
He bent down slowly, his fingers brushing the cool metal as he picked it up.
Aarav straightened, turning the anklet over in his palm,
First a bracelet. Now this.
His lips curved into a dangerous smirk as he slipped the anklet into his pocket.
"She's leaving pieces of herself behind," he murmured under his breath, voice low, laced with something between amusement and inevitability. "One by one... all coming to me."
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ashiana slumped into her chair, muttering to herself The weight of the morning still clung to her the elevator disaster, that man's grey eyes, the way her heart wouldn't calm down.
The sudden thud of files hitting her desk made her jolt.
she looked up, and there stood Ravi Dubey, her floor manager. His glasses slid slightly down his nose, his expression tight and professional.
"These reports need to be cross-checked and compiled before evening," he said flatly, tapping the stack once as though stamping authority. "You're the intern start from this."
she blinked at the towering pile, then back at him. Before she could even nod, he was already walking away,
she exhaled sharply, muttering under her breath, "Complete to aisa keh raha h jaise boss ho meraa... huh... aur h bhi." she said with cry face
With another sigh, she pulled the files toward herself, flipping the first one open, her pen tapping nervously as she whispered, "Chalo... kaam pe lagte hain."
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then at top most private floor
Inside Aarav Malhotra's private cabin,
Aarav sat behind his massive desk, leaning back in his chair with one hand resting lazily on the armrest, the other turning a silver anklet between his fingers. On the desk, beside a file marked with ashiana' s name, lay herbraceletplaced there deliberately, as if waiting.
The door creaked. Aditya stepped in, pausing when he noticed. His eyes flicked from anklet to bracelet.
"Bhai... you're keeping them?"
Aarav smirked, his eyes never leaving the silver.
"She's careless. But every time she drops something... it finds its way to me."
The metallic clink of anklet meeting bracelet echoed through the cabin.
Aditya raised a brow. "And when she realizes?"
Aarav leaned forward, voice calm but edged with inevitability.
"She'll come looking. And when she does..." His gaze darkened, sharp as steel.
"...she'll step right into my world."
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meanwhile at work floor
ASHIANA ' s POV
I was standing at coffee machine making coffee for myself the floor was humming with soft rustle of papers and files noises of keybord typing and chatters of employee here everyone works like a machine
sometimes i thinks how i got job here
with average qualifications but then i brush it off with my flicker of hairs saying
''huh.. i got it on my capability .. i m too talanted for my work.
. that why only i got this job or else if that badtameez admi.
. huh.. my so called boss have seen me for interview he must be made me dismiss by seing my face only huh.
. what else can someone expect from that chuchunder. ''. i thought and rolled my eyes
then my collegue HINA MEHTA comes to me smilling like always then she says, ''ohh ashiana what happening here.. again cursing our boss'' she said with knowing smirk
i stands at wall there lazily and adds,'' huh.. why not i curse him his harkate are like that only''
hina says while making her coffee '' now, what he did ''.
he did'' i shoock my head and added ask what not he did'', today in morning i was mistakenly ended up in VIP elevator''
hina almost about to spit her coffee from her mouth and says '' WWHHATTTTT''
''You... '' she swallowes hard and says ''you .. in.. elevator that too VIPPPP.. and you still standing here like its just a normal thing in world, ashiana what he said.. he definately scolded you.. no.. no.. he must have throwed you out.. ohh no. worst he FIREDD YOUUU''
ashian just casually sips her coffee and adds, '' RELAXX hina, he didn't done anything.. and can never too.. do you think .. Ashiana sharma the great k agee koii bol saktaa h kyaa... vo chuch.. i mean vo MR. Aarav malhotra ki itni himmat nhi h''.
Lier. in reality i got scared like hell.
Hina blinks her eyes in amazed. shock. terrifying and says, '' Ashianaa are you serious do you even knoww.. what you saying.. he The Arav malhotra in front of whom even ministers and presidents dont dare to speak he didnt said anything to you not possible''.
ashiana looks at her lazily and says, '' com'on hina.. its the truth.. and if you dont able to beleive then.. well.. what can i say.. i said and smile victorly and start to walk pass her
then hina from behind her gaze goes to my feet and says , '' Ashiana where is your anklet''.
i froze mid step and quickly sees my ankle and says ''ohh.. where it is kahi.. elevator m jab m gir ne wali thi tab whaa to nhi--'' i said murmering.
hina caught my words and says, '' what you fell in elevator.. she said with one brow up and comes to me and says Ashiana.. what happened , what are you hidding''.
then i looks at her but my thoughts are running thousand ways and thoughts then i pat my hand and my forehead and says '' SATYANASHHHH''
''abee yaarr, Hina in elevator' i was tripped and about to fall and..''
HINA : ''ANDD''
''he ... he caught me''
''caught you like how'', hina said like she enjoying the show
then i narrowes my eyes and says, ''nothing, he just caught me and i saved from falling'' i said with a sigh like i dont want to tell but i told more than to tell.
''ohoooo.. m yhaa tumhari arthi tayyar kar rhi thi lekin yhaa dekho elevator romance chal rhaa h vese kese pakda tumhe arm se hands se.. ya firrr.. waist se han . han.. ''she said smirking nudging me clearly enjoying my flustered state.
i said '' HINAAA DONT''.
i said with straight face but the blush on my face was telling other story.
''ohhk.. ohkk.. i think your badtameez boss seems intreting in you .. or may be lov-'' hina said but i cut her in mid sentence
''hina.. please yaar its nothing .. you understand NOTHINGGGGG..''
i said and huffed and runs from there towards me desk
''hmmm.. lagta h story getting spicy now..'' hina chuckles and walks to her own desk
A message popps on my phone i looks at it and gets shock