hold me

“Stop the car,” Nayera said as she picked up her purse. Kush looked at her as he unlocked her side of the door.

“Adaa?” Nayera stopped in her tracks as she turned around, only to find him peeking his head out of the window.

“Ji, Kunwar sa?” She asked, teasing him knowingly.

“A pizza will be waiting for you at 5:10 pm,” Kush said as a smile made its way to her lips.

“Is that a bribe, kunwar sa?” She asked, walking back to his car.

“Is it working?” He answered her question with a question.

“Maybe, maybe not,” Nayera put the strands of her hair behind her ear. His gaze held something different today, something she could not pinpoint.

“Pretty please?” He asked with puppy dog eyes and forwarded his hand for her to hold it. She stared at him and then at his hand.

“If you accept me, hold me (he bites his tongue as she chuckled, that sounded so wrong ) I mean my hand, Adaa,” he said with a charming smile as a laugh escaped her lips.

“Hold you hm?” She asked with a teasing smile.

“Suck even if you wish so,” He winked at her as she made a face.

“Ishhh! Way to ruin the perfect moment,” She said, walking away. He quickly drove his car near her as she stopped in her tracks again.

“Aaeiyega zaroor,” (please come,) he said as she looked at him.

“I am not bound by promises, kunwar sa,” She said and walked away waving her hand at him as he waved back. Kush found himself smiling before he drove to the office. Somehow he had started trusting her. If she is with him, then he can save the company.

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Kush had just reached his cabin when his phone pinged, it was a message from Adaa aka Nayera.

‘Announce to your head managers about a new investor, the money will reach the company’s official account by 2,’

Replying with an ‘OK’, he pressed the button on the intercom as his secretary knocked on the door a second later.

“Your coffee, Sir,” She said, keeping the coffee on the table as he nodded.

“Inform all of the department heads that an urgent meeting will be conducted within an hour, I need their reports and outlet information and a draft to a presentation regarding a new investor,” Kush stated as she looked at him as if she had seen a ghost.

“What? Do I need to repeat myself?” He asked, taking a sip of his coffee as she shook her head and cleared her throat.

“N—new investor, Sir,” She said, putting a small smile on her face.

“Yeah,” Kush was happy, finally his company was going to be back on track.

“Congratulations, sir,” She said with a wide fake smile.

“Thank you and no delays this time,” he warned her as she nodded. The last time an investor left because his marketing manager and production manager did not arrive on time, they got stuck in traffic, causing him to miss a deal.

An hour later, he was in the meeting room with each one of the heads of departments.

“So, ladies and gentlemen, we have an investment coming in. I need a proper marketing plan from you,, Sneha,” Kush said, as Sneha nodded.

“I have the draft ready, sir, would you like to listen right now?” Sneha asked confidently.

“Go ahead,” Kush said as his phone pinged. It was a message from Adaa.

‘Keep your managers busy while I check their computers, two hours OK?’ it read as Kush took a deep breath, bombs, this girl was throwing bomb after bomb at his head.

On the other hand, Nayera dressed in the cleaning staff clothes before she entered the production department.

She hurriedly cleaned the floor before she walked towards the cabin, but before she could open the door, a person from the staff stopped her, “Why are you going into the cabin?” the guy asked.

“Fl—floor sweeping sir, I am new here,” She acted like an underconfident girl as the guy looked at her from top to bottom.

“Okay,” he said before walking away. Nayera went inside the cabin and looked around for any cameras around. Luckily there were none. She kept the bucket away and hurriedly plugged a pen drive into the computer.

Kush was hearing the plan draft from Sneha when his phone vibrated again, ‘master password to systems and your production manager’s personal password,’

‘hurry’ another message came as he quickly typed the keywords before keeping his phone away when the double tick turned blue.

Nayera hurriedly entered the pass key and hacked all the data into the pen drive. It was going to take a few moments, so she swept the floor and switched on the fan.

She kept the pen drive in her bra before she walked out. Nobody suspected anything as she walked to the other departments in the same dress and same drama.

Entering the marketing department, she looked around as she swept the floor and entered the cabin; she checked for any cameras. This time there was one.

Nayera pulled out her phone from her pocket before she messaged Kush again.

‘Disable your camera team,’ Kush read the message as he stopped meeting his R & D department head from voicing out his thoughts about the new plan draft.

“Call the security team, including the CCTV room staff, each one of them. A good company can’t run with poor security,” that was the heaviest line Kush had ever said in front of people. In a few minutes, the team was in front of him.

‘done,’ He texted back as she smiled and took out all the data from the computer, and walked out of the cabin.

Getting data from the rest of the team was risky but she managed with Kush’s help because if it was not for him, she would not have been able to hack into their systems this easily.

‘ Keep my pizza ready at five,’ she texted him when she reached back to her desk in the HR department.

“How are your cramps now?” one of the girls asked.

“I feel better after the injection, thank you for asking,” She said to the girl as they nodded.

“Back to work now girls!” the HR came and announced as all of them went to their respective work desks.

Nayera smiled as she plugged the pen drive into her laptop, “Let’s find the rat,” She murmured under her breath before going through the files.