"Miss Patel."
What now?
"My office, right now."
no please, no request, just a damn order.
He can not even say a proper sentence without looking at it like an order.
My intercom started ringing the moment I entered my office. And by now you must have guessed who was on the other side.
The rudest man in Delhi,
no no!
The rudest man in the entire WORLD!
I went to his office with laptop in my hand.
You never know what that man needs.
I stepped inside after knocking.
"How may I help you? SIR." I emphasized the last word.
I smirked at seeing a crumbled piece of paper, well, that said why he was having a horrible mood in the morning.
"My PA is on leave for today."
So can't he even survive without PA for a day?
"Okay sir, I will tell HR to find a substitute for one day,
But sir, the problem here is that It will take time, HR will advertise, and after that interviews and selection. The process is quite lengthy."
"So how about you manage for today and from tomorrow your PA will join back?"
I said while faking my innocence and with a sweet smile,
Though I wanted to say, be independent you as*hole.
"Ms. Patel, There is no need for HR to do all the hard work, I can't make my employees do overwork, now can I?"
"The work he had given me yesterday was not overwork! Seriously?" I murmured.
"Did you say something?" He asked.
I smiled at him, as fakest as possible.
"No, not at all."
"But I have heard something."
"No sir you must be hallucinating."
"Right? Anyway, I already had found the alternative to my PA."
"Good, Then why am I here? Sir."
Can I smack this laptop on his head?
"Because you will be my PA for today."
I saw a twitch in corner of his mouth,
Did he smile? Like the Jayraj Singh Rathod Smiled. Not a complete smile of course but in his dictionary, It still was a smile.
"What?"
Did he just say what I heard?
Me and PA, that also his. Wohhh.
"I was loud enough for you to hear, Ms. Patel."
"Sir, I don't know what is PA's work."
"Oh, it's so easy. You just have to follow the orders, and I think you can do that right? The work will be different for you, fresh, challenging than what you always do."
I know something is going on in his mind,
"I haven't done master in IIM to pick your phones and arrange your meetings, Go find a dog who will follow your orders." By now my sarcastic smile was replaced by a damn strong glare.
"If you don't want to work as my PA then you are free to go from this building, permanently."
"Sorry?"
"I don't like to repeat."
"You just didn't threaten me?"
"I gave you options, you should consider yourself lucky, not everyone gets options to choose from me."
"Oh thank you so much sir for threatening me with my job, I will be grateful to you for the rest of my life.
But the thing is that there is something called HR, on what ground will you fire me?"
"For insulting a PA's work. Disrespecting other professions."
He stood up from his chair.
"I didn't do that."
"You called PA a dog."
"Stop twisting my words, I didn't say that."
He picked up the glass of water, which was beside my left hand, and his fingers brushed my hand.
He slowly took the glass to his lips and drank while looking me into my eyes.
Lucky you, Glass.
Fuck, No.
Stop starting, Aarna.
A small drop of water was glistening on his bottom lip, in my mind, I was licking that drop.
"Who do you think they will believe? My words against yours."
He replied as he drop the glass back into its place.
"You are an ass--"
"Careful Ms. Patel, you are not helping yourself by calling me that. And what's wrong with the job of a PA?"
"It's not the work, It's you. I don't want to work for you."
That leathery smell was clouding my mind as he stood very close to me.
You work for him, woman.
"Why? Are you afraid of me?" He bent down and spoke near my ears.
"No..." I replied instantly.
To him and to my rapidly beating heart.
"Why would I get afraid of you? Who are you?" I said while observing every damn inch of his empty chair.
"Are you intimidated by me?" He asked, in his oh-so-sexual voice.
I cleared my throat and replied.
"No... No one can intimidate Aarna Patel."
Until you.
"Your eyes on an empty chair and not on me say a different story."
I thought for a moment for a proper reply, but no, nothing reasonable came into my mind.
Did this ever happen to you?
Like whenever you are alone you have a thousand things to say and your mind works faster than a bullet train but when you actually need to reply your mind shuts off.
"Are you attracted to me, Ms. Patel?"
He questioned one hand on the backrest of my chair and the other on the table.
I internally banged my head for my mind to open up.
"You don't have anything that I will get attracted to." I finally replied,
If I was alone I would have done a victory dance at my comeback.
I looked into his eyes to see a stunned expression but instead, I found a knowing look.
As If he knew what I said was the biggest lie on earth.
"Liar, I think you are attracted to me, that is why you don't want to work closer to me."
And this is what we call being more open than a clothless mannequin.
"I am not."
"Then prove it. Be my PA for a few days."
He thinks he knows me so well, but Mr. Rathod you have just seen the trailer, picture Abhi Baki hai.
I blew out air and crossed my arms right over left underneath my breasts before answering,
"Fine. How may I help you? How this little me can be of any use to almighty you?"
I used the term he had used to address me.
His eyes went to my now pushed-up breast, but only for the slightest time, and he again came to his cold and rough composure and he moved back to his chair.
"Ohh... So you finally believe that I am the almighty? The one In power?" He asked as he set down on his chair.
This is what he is trying to do, to prove who is in power!
I will prove to you that I will not bend to your power.
"Respected sir, I think you need some class to learn the difference between sarcasm and a claim."
He stared and didn't reply.
He leaned his back to the leather chair,
Ohh he looked so sexy. His 9 o'clock shadow and strong jaw suit added to his chest.
I can lick that body, right now.
You traitorous body, He is the enemy.
"Miss patel, If your eye-f*cking-me session is over, I would like you to book a table for two in Mosaic for tonight."
Is he going on a date? With whom?
Why does it matter to you?
"Sir, It will take me a few minutes to book the table, anything else you need your one day assists to work on?"
I gave him my best fake smile,
"No, for now, this is enough, and Miss Patel, It could be for two, three, four days or a week or more than that."
He said in his best dismissive tone.
What the hell?
One thing at a time,
Let's think about today.
Booking a table, is it?
This is so easy. I have to just book a table. But why it seems like something is off? He would never give me such an easy task, specifically after the little note I left and my outburst that day.
With that thought, I went to my office which was on the floor below Mr. Rathod's office, on the top floor with Mr. Rathod's, we had Marshal sir and his PA's office with three other senior employees, of them 2 got fired.
" Where were you? I was calling you for the last hundred hours."
"Hello to you too Ria. And It's been hardly 10 minutes since I went to Mr. Rathod's office, He is such R.R.R."
"What R.R.R?"
"Yes, Rahasyamay Rare Rathod. listen I will call you later, okay? Have work to do. Bye..."
Sh*t, I forgot to ask her why did she call in the first place? Well, I will ask her later.
...
"Hello, good morning mam. How may I help you?"
"Morning, I'd like to reserve a table for two."
"Sure mam, on which date and time?"
"For tonight."
"Sorry mam, there is no table available for today."
"Mam, It's important, Can you please recheck, and I can double the price too."
"No mam, no table is available."
"Okay, Thank you."
"Thank you for contacting Mosaic."
I put my phone on the desk and took some deep breaths. Oh wait,
I put the two and two together, It's a very popular restaurant and It would be hard to book a table on short notice.
He f*cking knew it, Otherwise, he owned a restaurant and Hotel here, he would have gone there.
But I will not accept defeat that easily.
I called Ria, she has a great network here specifically in big, popular restaurants because of her work.
"Why did you cut my call?"
"The assistant me was ordered to book a table for two at Mosaic but couldn't book one. Can you help me with this?"
She laughed At that,
"Umm. Maybe Yes but on one condition."
Yup, chance pe dance.
"Yes, I will cook dinner, anything else."
She loves to eat homemade food but doesn't know how to cook.
"Table for two in Mosiac will be ready for you mam."
"Aye Aye captain."
We both laughed at that
...
After almost 30 minutes, I got a message from Ria that after requesting and using some favors, they made some changes and booked a table.
Wow... Now I want to see his expression.
I so want to bring him down to earth, If he thought that he is the Almighty and no one can defeat him then you are so wrong, Mr. Rathod.
If this is a game of power I will not let you win.
Should I go and tell him right now, or wait for him to call?
It would be orgasmic to see him lose. Or let him think he won and I will blast the bomb at the last moment.
Go or wait?
Go or wait?
Go or wait?
Okay,
Head I will go,
Tails, I will stay and wait.
Then I flipped the coin, Head it is.
"Come in."
There were two laptops open on his table. Who functions on two Laptops together?
"Miss patel If you are here to waste my time, I am busy."
He said without even looking up from his laptops and files.
How the hell did he guess that it was me?
"Of course, not sir. I came here to inform you that the table at Mosaic had been booked."
I didn't dare to look away from his face to notice his expression, the first surprise then shocks, and after that his cold usual grumpy face.
"Miss Patel close the door after you leave."
Okay, My clue is to leave.
"And Miss patel, I went to the storeroom in the morning, It took me 10 F*cking minutes to find a file, everything was so messed up. My time is so important and I would not like to waste it on finding a file.
Arrange the file in alphabetical order, with the year marked."
"I don't think that's PA's work sir."
I tried to control my anger.
"PA's work is to do all the office works that the boss orders her to do. And If you can not do it, then accept your defeat and believe I am the one in power."
That made me red with rage.
Without replying I went out of the room by slamming the door,
So immature of me, I know.