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Chapter 25 - Maha Episode

Maan sat in his cabin and thought about MC. One person who was an asset to MC was Geet. He just couldn't get her to leave. And even Vicky had moved but he was new in this field. Plus they had Adi. He was Executive MD. Maan was sure Adi had a good hand in the progress of MC. Before the party, Maan wanted to meet Sohan Mishra. The guy just never showed his face. If he knew who he was he might be able to handle him better in front of the clients. He asked Dev's secretary to make an appointment.

"Didi, I just had a call from KC. Maan Khurana wants to have an appointment to meet you."

"Me? He usually just turns up at my door, why appointment."

"Actually he wants to meet the MD" Geet looked up. Muskaan hesitated. The secretary had actually asked for Sohan Mishra. She wasn't sure if to tell Geet or not.

"Muskaan, is there anything else you want to add?" Geet had noticed the hesitation.

"Yes, actually, they said the MD as in Sohan Mishra." Geet dropped her pen. Yes, officially Sohan was still MD. The news of his death did not reach the press as Geet wanted to save Riya and Armaan too much pain. For people other than MC staff Sohan still ran this place.

"Tell them that the current MD does not wish to meet with Mr Khurana. No need to tell them that Sohan ..."

"Ok, don't worry. Sorry didi." Muskaan made an apologetic face and left.

"WHY THE HECK NOT? THIS MAN IS SO ARROGANT." Julie, Dev's secretary flinched and held the phone away from her ear. She was intelligent enough not to go and tell Maan personally that his request was rejected. Luckily she worked for Dev so he wouldn't fire her.

Maan barged into MC. He sprinted up the stairs and opened the MD's office without knocking. The cabin was empty. He looked into the next one and a girl was sitting there. The board read Muskaan Grewal, PA.

"Where is your MD?" Maan asked her getting in an angry tone. Muskaan got scared and got up.

"Sorry sir but the MD is not in right now."

"I can see that but where is he?"

"At home." Muskaan got even more scared when Maan came closer, closing his fist.

"Don't tell me any lies. I want to know where he is." Muskaan couldn't control her fear and tears started to escape her eyes. She did the only thing she could think of and called Geet.

"Mr Khurana is here to see the MD" Geet was worried. She could clearly hear Muskaan crying. What was Maan up to now?

"Mr Khurana, what are you doing here?" Geet saw Muskaan and Maan.

"I am not here to see you; I want to talk to Sohan Mishra." Geet closed her eyes. She indicated Maan to follow her. Geet led him to her office and closed the door.

"You can't meet Sohan. Not now, not tomorrow, never. If there is any problem, tell me."

"Geet, I don't think you are getting it. I want to meet this man. Arrogant and rude you called me, didn't you? This man is nothing better. I asked, actually ASKED for an appointment to meet him and he refused. He doesn't show his face, the bloody coward." Geet hard a hard time controlling he feelings. She knew Maan was angry and probably didn't mean half the things he just said.

"I will repeat. He is not meeting anyone. Not even the great MSK."

"Special is he Geet?" Geet's head shot up. He was reminding her of her comment ("you are nothing special")

"Stay in you limits. You have no right..."

"Really? First Vicky and then Sohan. Geet you are making good use of your working space. I am sure you accepted my offer to work at KC to spy for your dearest MD. What did he offer you Geet; tell me, money, and good position in his office or personal life? I will give you more, as much as you want." Maan had grabbed Geet by her shoulder and was shaking her badly. There was a limit, Geet thought, a limit to endurance and it just broke. Say as much about her she wouldn't care but Sohan was a sensitive point. They all heard it as Vicky opened the cabin, alerted by Muskaan. Geet had raised her hand and given Maan a tight slap. There was a pin drop silence in the office.

"Mr Khurana GET OUT. Get out of this office before I lose my control completely and have you dragged out of this place. You are nothing special, I was right when I said it the first time. You are disgusting, heartless and arrogant. Not even worth a dime." Geet yelled at him showing him the way out. Maan was caught by surprise. He had rather expected Geet to cry or give in but raise her hand on him? Vicky pulled his brother out. He had had enough from him. Adi and Muskaan rushed to Geet as her legs gave away and she fainted.

The shoot up in blood pressure had caused Geet to faint. When she woke up Vicky was pacing the room in anger and Muskaan was at her side. Adi had told everyone to continue to work and not let anyone know about the incident.

"Vicky, call a meeting right now. I want every one I repeat absolutely everyone present there. NOW" For the first time Geet ordered Vicky and her tone suggested that she hadn't calmed down.

They held a meeting. Geet looked at their faces. Never had they seen Geet so enraged.

"Thank you everyone for coming. I have here an invitation card." Geet held it up.

"Khurana Constructions has invited Mishra Constructions for a friendly gathering as they put it. They want to check us out, see why we are so good and slowly beating them. At first I thought to reject but after today's incident I am not letting go. Maan Singh Khurana has to learn that every member of Mishra Constructions is worth more than his entire company. So we are going, all of us." She stopped as everyone turned their heads to the next person and started talking. Geet could guess what was going on in their minds.

"Are you afraid?" She asked into the crowd. They fell silent. They knew they could be honest with her. She never told them off for telling her the truth in her face.

"Geet, I worked at KC for some time now. They are all a league higher than us." Seema said standing up. Geet nodded.

"Really Seema? You worked as a receptionist although you had a first class degree from a very good university. And if I am not mistaken many people that work there don't know head or tails of their work. Then how come they are better?" Seema sat down again. Geet was right.

"A company is run by the MD but what really makes a difference are the employees. Every single one of you is responsible that Mishra Constructions is out of the pit and back at the top. Every single one of you can pat themselves on the back for doing a good job, not because I am saying that, but because OUR clients tell me how much they value your work. Tell me what makes you all work here?"

"The friendly working environment." One said at the far end.

"Does KC have a friendly environment?" Geet asked loudly.

"NO" they all shouted.

"What else, come on" Geet was moving around the table now, she was bursting with energy.

"You give us freedom of speech, we can be open to you Geet" Yash said.

"Does Maan Khurana give his employees freedom of speech?"

"NO" they shouted again. They were starting to feel better.

"You don't fire us when we do mistakes" Adi said laughing, he was enjoying it. He wished Pinky was here. He had, unknown to Geet, recorded their meeting. He might need it later.

"I got fired because I came one minute late" Muskaan said. They all looked at her. She was always quiet and shy but even she felt more confident.

"And we all know that one mistake and you are out of KC, don't we?"

"YES"

"You employ us seeing out talent, not our qualifications" Romeo said cheerfully.

"And at KC? Just remember Seema and her degree."

"I work here because of you Geet. You are the best darn boss I could ever have" Vicky said.

Geet had made a round and came back to her place. Every one agreed with Vicky, Geet was one major reason why no one wanted to give up their job here.

"Does KC have GEET?" Geet asked with a winning grin, folding her arms and raising her nose.

"NO, only we have you" They all yelled and then they laughed as Geet laughed.

"See. We are special people. Every one of you makes MC special. They are a bunch of sharks: dominant, dangerous and feared. But we are dolphins and we will show them that we need only one of us to get them to their knees."

Geet had achieved what she wanted. The confidence level was boosted and as long as they remembered that they were special, no one could frighten them.

Vicky and Adi were proud of Geet. They had respected Geet for being professional towards Maan, knowing him and his temper and later also that he was Vicky's brother. But Maan had crossed his limits and Geet was going to show him who she really was.

"Vicky, Adi and Muskaan, I have certain ideas I want to suggest to you. We will make this a big entry. I want everyone to know who I am. All this time I have hidden myself behind you guys but it is time to come out of the hiding." Geet told Vicky and Adi about her plan. Muskaan made notes and later typed up letters with full instructions to everyone. It took a while as Geet had insisted every letter to be addressed personally.

Maan had walked into KC like a storm.

"SASHA, DEV" he barked. Dev and Sasha came running out of their respective offices. Maan was red in the face but Geet's hand had left an even darker print.

"What happened to your face MK" Sasha asked. Maan's eyes were conveyed to her the message that she should not ask again.

"I want you to listen carefully. I want Mishra Constructions to lose their face. I want everyone here to know that they should corner the employee's of MC, I want to see them frightened, scared and more over they should not want to work with that BLOODY company anymore." He was so restless that Maan kept pacing back and forth. "We have one chance to get this right and if anyone here does not obey my orders I'll personally make sure that they not only lose their job here but also never find a job somewhere else. Now leave" As both were going out Maan held Dev back.

"Dev, I don't know how but I want Vicky out of that company. I will get him his own company if he wishes but I don't want him to work there any more." Dev nodded. He would try and find out what happened back at MC. Maan was shocked, angry and hurt at Geet's behaviour. He had liked her but a few incidents the past couple of weeks made him doubt Geet.

"Vicky, what happened there?" Dev had locked himself in his office and called Vicky from his phone." Vicky narrated as much as he could without revealing too much. Dev was shocked to hear that Geet had slapped Maan.

"Dev bhai, don't be surprised. Maan bhai had really crossed his limits today. I mean everyone knows he says stuff without thinking when he is angry but one can not always tolerate him."

"Still, don't you think slapping him was a bit too much?"

"No. I rather think it was like cold water thrown over fire."

"Water or fuel? I have never seen him like this Vicky. I just hope he doesn't do anything stupid."

"Time will tell."

Maan's words and Geet's slap had caused a war. Maan's ego was hurt big time and Geet's weakness had been attacked. Both things they were not going to tolerate.

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Precap: Maan finally meets the MD of MC!