As she walked through the office doors, Kabir and Ajay's jaws dropped.

She strutted through the office so arrogantly in her boots and denim. She had her head hung down doing something in her phone while a huge headphone adorned on top of her head. And her hair was pulled into a messy bun that was a little too messy for any formal setting with strands falling out of them all over her face. The highlight for her attire is most probably the skull pendent bobbing over her sleeveless t-shirt.

Charan joined them from behind.

"You are telling me she goes to her office like that??? Ajay asked to himself in disbelief.

"No kidding. According to my information, she attended and chaired a Board meeting like that." Charan replied from behind him.

Shreya reached them just then completely oblivious to the gossip. She beamed at them and chirped, "Hi…"

Charan grinned softly and introduced his friends to her bringing both Kabir and Ajay from their dreamlands.

Ten minutes later, they were all in Charan's office. Silence ensued as Shreya carefully scrutinized the contract in front of her while all three sat all around like statues biting their nails nervously.

She sat quite comfortably in the chair with her legs crossed. She was completely at ease and slightly arrogant even. Her expression and her whole being emitted the confident woman she was and it was almost impossible to look away from her.

Charan, at last, knew why no one ever complained about her dressing. Shreya did not really need formal attire and stuck up formal pants to intimidate others. She carried the aura with her without needing anything else to add to it. You will just be drawn to obey her without even realizing it. While Ajay was still trying to comprehend how a little girl in shorts and t-shirt was able to make him sweet buckets in a matter of 10 minutes. After all, Shreya was at least 7 to 8 years younger than him by his estimate. The only calm person there was Kabir. More than calm, he was fascinated by Shreya so he was busy fangirling without having the time or space to actually overthink.

Shreya was completely oblivious to the three people around her. After about half an hour, when she was done reading over every last detail, she signed the papers and at last looked up.

"Why are you guys staring at me??" She asked dubiously.

All three in sync cleared their throats and looked away finally realizing they have been staring at her this whole time.

Seeing as she was not going to get any reply from them, she stood up and shook their hands individually saying, "I left a number in there; contact that number for any further queries. It's nice doing business with you, gentlemen." Her voice was poised and emotionless completely different from what Charan was used to so far. It surprised him but it also made him feel giddy for being able to see a different side of her today.

And once out of the office, her demeanor completely changed all over again. All traces of the cold businesswoman were gone in one split second.

She suddenly stopped walking and stood right in front of Ajay with gleaming eyes and a mischievous grin. Ajay stood there perplexed without moving a muscle. He felt like he might piss his pants at any moment now. He did not dare to even look up at her face. He was so scared of her that he did not even notice the change of air around her. But Charan could clearly see the change of air around her… he saw the happy-go-lucky girl he had always known.

"Shreya, you are scaring him…" Charan said exasperated.

Shreya was bewildered.

"What did I do??? I was just going to make friends with them since they were your friends…" She said completely oblivious to her effect on the people around her.

Kabir instantly seized the opportunity and pushed Ajay aside and shook her hands.

"I will be your friend, Ms. Shrivastav." He said. His voice could barely cover up his enthusiasm. Kabir was actually the most rational person of the three but at that moment he did not know why he was so over his head. Maybe it was the way she was able to scare the shit out of someone like Ajay who was so tall and bulky with her small petite body and that too without really doing anything. It captivated him.

Ajay, at last, noticed the change in her and hurried to make it up.

"Me to… me too." He said raising his hands high up as if he was answering a question in his classroom.

"Okay, that makes me sound so old. You can just call me Shreya." She said completely amused with their reactions.

Charan's jaws dropped. He could, almost, imagine his friends waggling their tails for her.

"You guys free now?? You want to join me for lunch??" Shreya said excitedly.

Ajay and Kabir immediately scrambled all their pending work files and deposited them into Charan's hands.

"We are absolutely free. It's just Charan cannot join since he has a lunch appointment." Ajay said shamelessly.

Before Charan could even call out on their shameless lying asses, Shreya had already dragged both his dimwit friends out of his office and into her car.

He took out his phone and sent Shreya a text.

Charan: Hey… aren't you forgetting you have a boyfriend!!!???

The text was followed by a lot of angry emoticons. There were so many of them that it actually looked childish rather than angry.

Then he stomped to his office after picking up all the files needed for the meeting that his two idiot friends had shamelessly stuffed him with and went away with his girlfriend.

Shreya: I do remember but you wouldn't volunteer embarrassing information about yourself. So, for now, I am going to gossip and extract as much info as I can.

Shreya replied with mischief dripping out of each word.

He did not even know whether to laugh or cry at that moment. He could already see the colorful future he is going to have with her and he cannot wait to live it with her.

He just chuckles and went back to work.

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