Temptation

First Meetings

Amira's POV:

"Bye Papa! Love you!" I shouted as I ran out of the front door of our penthouse apartment. My driver, Aman, opened the door of the back seat to let me in. I started checking my outfit and all my belongings obsessively the minute our car hit the road and Aman noticed, "You look great, don't stress" I smiled at him as he tried to reassure me. Aman was like a big brother, he always looked out for me. When I was younger, he used to help me sneak out at night to meet my friends. I took his word for it and stopped fiddling with my outfit. Instead, I leaned back and tried to calm my nerves with the songs Aman was playing.

Today, I was joining one of the most renowned companies in Mumbai, Red Chillies Entertainment (RCE) and it was owned by Shah Rukh Khan and his wife. My father has been friends with SRK for years now and I remember meeting their family once or twice when I was younger. When I was seven my parents split up and I moved to Canada with my mother but when she passed away two years back, I moved back to Mumbai to live with my father. When I mentioned my interest in movie productions, my father insisted I worked under RCE since it would be a good experience and could kickstart my career. I was skeptical in joining my father's friend's company but I didn't want to let him down.

The car came to a halt and I peeped out of the window to look at the building of RCE standing tall in front of me. I hung my handbag on my left arm and confidently stepped out of my car while Aman held the door open for me. The second I stepped into the office, my jaw dropped. The interior designing was marvellous. Every corner of the office was perfectly constructed. I stood there for a moment, admiring the works of Gauri Khan.

"Beautiful isn't it?" I looked to my right to see who was speaking to me and I was met with a young woman, maybe a few years older than me, wearing a big smile on her face. "Yes, yes it is" I replied as I moved forward to introduce myself. "I'm Amira, Amira Malik. It's my first day today" She shook the hand I had extended and replied, "Ms Malik, of course, I was expecting you. I'm Layla, I'll be giving you, your tour of the office" She gestured at me to follow her as she led me around the office.

Layla brought me to my cabin, it was small but cozy and I was glad I even had a cabin. "If you need anything else, please do ask me." With that she was about to leave and I abruptly stopped her, "Wait" She looked at me strangely but softened her look when I asked her, "What do I get started with?" She told to check my email and all the details have been already sent. I thanked her and finally allowed her to leave my cabin. I was able to settle in quickly since I didn't bring much on my first day. Also, I couldn't wait to dive right into my work.

I stretched out a little as I got out of my chair. I had worked for a couple of hours and was honestly getting a lot done but I had a dire need for coffee and decided to take my break. "Hey Layla" I greeted her as I walked into the break room. She was having lunch with a couple of her employees and asked me to join them. "Oh thank you but I just need some coffee" I politely declined her. "You sure? It's your first day, you won't want to faint" said one of the guys sitting on the table, Sooraj, was his name if I'm not wrong.

I turned my head back to say, "See you guys around" while I stepped out of the room but since I wasn't looking, I crashed into someone and the coffee from my cup spilled all over. "Oh no, I'm so sorry" I expected the person to be upset but I was not ready to face the angry, stone-cold expression that rested on the face of the man before me. He was dressed in a white buttoned-down shirt which made the coffee stains even more visible. The man's jaw clenched and my heart was almost stopped by his glare. His eyes stared directly into my soul and I noticed something about them. His eyes looked very familiar.

Before I could ponder more on where I had seen those eyes, his loud, rough voice echoed in the office. "Are you blind?!" I jumped at his voice but couldn't say anything as he continued to shout at me. "Who the fuck hired you? You can't even walk properly how the fuck are you going to work in this company" He screamed at me with a stern voice and I was starting to get angry as well so I talked back, big mistake by the way, "Look I know I spilled coffee on you but that was an accident and I don't think you should get so worked up about it" The man's jaw tightened and he took a step forward and looked me in the eye to say, "What makes you think you can talk to me like that" I rolled my eyes and scoffed, "What makes YOU think you can talk to me like that?" He raised his eyebrow and was now fuming. Layla hurried over and said, "I'm so sorry sir, today is her first day, I apologise for her" I looked at her confused, until now I thought he was just a fellow employee.

The man was about to speak up again when we heard a woman's voice from behind him, "What's going on over here? Prince what happened to your shirt?" Prince? His name is prince? The woman walked forward and I immediately recognised her. Gauri Khan. She looked at me for a moment and big smile formed on her face, "Amira?" She asked and I nodded with a smile. "You know her?" The man asked plainly. The next sentence washed over any proudness I felt for standing up to the man and it was replaced by embarrassment and fear. "Sweetie this is Amira, Malik uncle's daughter, I told you she'll be joining us and Amira, this is Aryan, my eldest and of course, the CEO of our company" Oh fuck.

Author's Note:
Hello! I've just started my new story and hope you guys enjoy it. I wasn't planning on making another Aryan Khan fan-fiction so soon but his appearance at Apoorva Mehta's birthday bash almost made my heart stop😩❤️ My favourite part was that he gave the media a total of three seconds before he just walked off like a boss✨