Chương 18: Erased past return with a glimmer 1
Nia grew impatient as there was no sign of slowing down in Rhianna's shopping pace. If that was not enough to piss her off, Mark Adam appeared out of nowhere. She suspected that it was Rhianna's so called superb ploy to bring Mark and her together. Both Rhianna and Mark acted surprised when they ran into him. Nia's eyes turned into cold lakes when she saw the person who threw at them the saucy greeting.
'Lovely ladies, huh! What the hell is he doing here?' She groaned. 'Must be Rhianna's doing, trying to play cupid.'
"Wow! sis-in-law, My Princess too, what a happy coincidence, to come shopping at the same hour and at the same place." He then flashed his whole sets of teeth at Nia.
Rhianna giggled like a little girl and offered to help him in choosing his clothes. 'Dude, why are you flashing your teeth at me? I dn't own the Colgate company to appoint you as brand ambassador.' Nia wanted to scream at the joker. He really looked like a joker with that wide grin. That was not the end of the beginning of the torture for Nia.
"Princess, aren't you happy to see me? Come on, don't be shy. We should better start seeing and get to know each other." Mark said with a smile which she found cheesy.
Nia decided to ignore him. Rhianna invited Mark to have dinner at Bamboo Grove Art cafe, saying that she and Nia were heading to that place after shopping. Nia could only grit her teeth in anger. 'Heading for dinner, my foot. First, you are dragging me along with you, after disrupting my work schedule and now you're adding an appendix to trail behind you.' Nia felt an urge to shout out her thoughts.
Instead she smiled cheekily at both of them and then sweetly reminded her friend,
"I'm going there on work, not to have dinner. I'm already running late. Finish your shopping in fifteen minutes or I leave alone."
Earlier she had the prudence to call Zubeen and inform him that she would not be able to make it in time to the center. She did not like to make people wait or waste their time and Zubeen Gohain was a busy man. It was already quarter to seven and she needed to reach the place by seven thirty in the evening.
To kill her boredom and the anxiety about the time which was walking as a snail instead of flying at the speed of a Peregrine falcon, Nia came out of the boutique where Rhianna was still trying dresses. 'Let the appendix accompany her and help her choose, since it was she who called him.' Nia thought with a vengeance. She felt no remorse now, leaving Rhianna to deal with Mark Adam's opinion on dresses.
She started strolling aimlessly along the lobby of the mall and finally came to sit in the arcade outside the mall. As she had nothing interesting to do, Nia decided to busy herself by observing the people. It was quarter past seven now. Still no sign of Miss Shopaholic Rhianna Gogoi. Zubeen would be waiting for her at the office. What they needed to discuss was urgent and could not be done over the phone.
Right on the cue her phone started ringing. She knew who the call was from without looking at the screen. Zubeen was worried that something had happened to her. Because Nirvana Sonowal was admired by whoever she worked with for her extreme professionalism and good work ethics. Nirvana Sonowal was never behind the schedule.
"Hi Z, I'm sorry. Looks like I won't be able to make it in time. Rhianna has even invited Mark Adam. Both are coming over to the cafe for dinner."
"Okay, dn't worry. One day won't make such difference." He tried to assuage her fear and guilt.
"Thanks for understanding. About the problem, you know, in the world of business one day is enough to change the equation." She did not know to what extent her opponent might go to grab the land from her. But she knew what measure she might resort to, to save it. At the other end of the phone Zubeen knew what Nia had been thinking.
"You know well, they can't do anything. All their threats are empty as far as we are concerned." He gave out a short laugh, that sounded cold and cruel. He knew Nia, she was his protege. She did not need his protection but he would protect her whatever be the consequences.
"Try to find out who are the people interested in the land, especially the one who is offering the highest amount. He may not be in cahoots with the real estate Mafias. If need arises we will pay him a visit or maybe do the honour to them all. Do it quickly. I'm not worried about a attack on the cafe and the training center. The girls will handle that."
Zubeen laughed heartily, imagining tough looking guys getting thrashed by a bunch of women. He curbed his laughter in the midway, Nia was saying something in a panicked voice. He was alarmed and tried to make sense of what she had said. Suddenly she hung up leaving him in a quandary. Then he realized what she said before she hung up on him.
He started laughing so loudly that a few trainees who were training at the other end of the hall stopped whatever they were doing. Nia said that she needed to go as she had to hide immediately to avoid the company of Mr Flirty. It had been a while since Zubeen learned that Mark Adam had been pursuing Nia. And that woman would have shoot him if she could.
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