Thank you so much for your lovely comments. I could not help but continue writing the story. So I wrote one more update today.
Hope you enjoy it.
PART 2
At office...
"Welcome, welcome Mr. Maan Singh Khurana. We are so glad to have you here at our office. I hope you are enjoying your stay here at Amritsar. What would you like...tea or coffee?" asked Mr. Chopra.
"Work, I would like to get down straight to work. I don't believe in wasting time in formalities. Shall we start with the presentation." Maan said in his total MSK style. "Sssure...absolutely Mr Khurana. Lets proceed towards the meeting room..." said Mr Chopra, while giving a fleeting look towards Pari. She gave a helpless "NO" to him.
"Geet tu to aaj gayi. You better be here before the end of the presentation, otherwise you are dead, no one will be able to save your job today"...thought Pari and left the place to call her up again.
"Nice presentation Mr. Chopra. I see you have good and talented employees at your organization. Your business proposal was also very convincing. I hope you have completely understood our requirements" said Maan.
"Yes Mr. Khurana. So according to your requirements, a dedicated team will be working to enhance the software according to your requirements and also we will be stationing one of our employees at your office who will overlook all the installation and integration work according to the needs of the software. She will also be overlooking the training of your employees to make them comfortable with handling the software. The whole process will be of 6 months duration"
"Fine, and about the other requirement that I had discussed with you"...said Maan.
"Yeh, yeh ... you also need the assistance of one of our employees in your Techno Computers project, to better understand their technical requirements. In that field also, our onsite employee will give her full assistance to you. She is good at what she does and has a good knowledge of our business requirements also. I have talked to her and she has agreed upon assisting you. "
"Humm... Even I am looking forward to meet Ms. Geet Handa. Her business proposal was pretty impressive"...said MSK.
"Sure sure, why not, if you want you can meet her now...there she is...Geet meet Mr. Maan Singh Khurana...MD of Khurana Constructions...and Mr Khurana, meet Ms Geet Handa, senior associate at our firm one of our best resources for software integrations."
Maan turned in his chair to meet Geet, who was standing behind him with a slight smile on her face and her hand already extended to shake his hand. Both were shocked to see each other. He suddenly got up from his chair and stared at her. A weird silence swept in the room. They kept staring at each other(For the first time in the history of Maneet, not a Mahiii moment 😆). Geet was gulping with fear and Maan, his anger was rising with each passing second, remembering yesterday's incident. Sensing the tension, Mr Chopra intervened " Do you both know each other?" Maan came out of his thoughts and said "No, absolutely not", he glared at her and saw her extended hand, which seem to have frozen in the mid air. So he took her extended hand and shook it (extra forcefully!!) "So you are Miss GEET HANDA...glad to meet you, really very glad" he said with grinded teeth. He was squeezing her hand hard, when she suddenly withdrew her hand from his grip, took a step back, passed a nervous smile and started looking down.
"Are you sure Mr. Chopra that your employees are competent enough to handle this responsibility. I mean you know the high standards of competency and efficiency that Khurana Constructions maintains. Will your employees be able to keep their ears and eyes open."...said Maan sarcastically still looking at her, referring to the yesterday's incident. She snapped and looked at him with a tinge of anger visible on her face.
"Don't worry Mr Khurana. We are best at what we do. We will give you no chance to complain." ...retaliated Geet with full confidence in her voice.
"We'll see..." said Maan in a low voice, just for Geet to listen, and smirked at her. Mr. Chopra was not able to comprehend, exactly what was happening. Maan broke the eye contact with Geet and turned towards Mr. Chopra.
"So I guess we are all settled with the deal here. I guess you can start your work at our office from tomorrow. I want to get this work started as soon as possible." And he started to leave.
Just before he was going to step out of the office, "One more thing Mr. Chopra, I hate indisciplined, late comers and garrulous people in my office. I hope you make sure that your employees keep that in mind while working at my office." He threw a last glance towards her and left the office.
"Sadoo kahi ka..." Geet cursed him under her breath.
Next Part : Part 3
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