Broken Hearts, hima [books for 10th graders txt] 📗

weren’t any bruises.

“Watch where you are going…” I warned the driver and tried to disperse the crowd.

“Why should he, it wasn’t his mistake at all…”a strong authoritative voice demanded. The owner of the voice was dressed in black suit wearing eye glasses, broad shoulders held in confident posture, perfect skin that never caught tan, chiseled jaw that unclenched as he spoke, long nose that flared with anger.

“You can’t teach traffic sense to a kid so it is you that should be careful while driving…” I snapped and the crowd dispersed as our much awaited bus has come.
I ran glaring at the spoiled, rich brat. If he could turn me into ash with his looks, he would definitely do that now.

I was in time to the office fortunately…I ran to my cabin and gave a quick glance over the files before I finally met up with my boss. Veeru Sir walked in to greet me; he seemed to be a nice person.

“Sir, wants to see you.” He said. I picked up the notepad and a pen, I knew he called me just to make acquaintance with his new secretary but I wanted to make my impression so I carried them along.

“Good morning, sir.” I said a little bit too cheerful. His back was turned towards me and I noticed that he was on phone so I waited patiently for him to turn towards me.

I was appalled as he faced me in slow motion; he was the guy that I saw today at my stop. “You…”We both shouted at a time, mine was a little loud.

“What are you doing in my office?” his voice was loud but definitely not shouting.

“Your office?” my eye brows held in deep frown.

Veeru sir walked just in time. “Is there any problem, sir?” He stammered.

“What is she doing here?” He asked eying me with disgust.

“She is your newly appointed secretary, sir.” He replied. What? I’m his secretary, He is Mr. K then? God ! I’m definitely going to be thrown out.

“I want her removed at once…”he said.

“We signed up an agreement, we can’t take her away…”he said.

“Who asked you to seal the contract?” he asked icily.

“We spoke about it, sir and you asked me to sign in the contract…”he said.

“Just go…” he said turning his back to us. I stood there wide eyed not understanding what I should do, Veeru sir dragged me out of the room.

I’m still having my job but I don’t know how long I’m going to stay here. I sat contemplating the situation I was in when Pooja walked in with a load of files in her arms.

“Mr. K wanted you to sort out these files and fed them into database by evening…” she said a little awkwardly.

“What all of this?” I asked surprised. I understood his plan, If the company breaks the bond they had to pay up and lose reputation. He wants me to break the agreement instead so he is loading me with work so that I would just fear and walk away. I’m not going to give up that easily. I took it as a challenge and started to work on it.

He didn’t know about my typing skills, I started on the work and was done with half of them by lunch. Pooja asked me to join them for lunch but I denied knowing that it would waste some of my valuable time in this challenge.

I was pretty impressed by myself when I finished the work just a few minutes before my duty off. I stacked the files in the table neatly and packed my things to leave.

“Are you just leaving without doing the assigned work?” his deep voice startled me all of a sudden. He stood closer to my desk inspecting things on my table.
I showed him all the files with a proud smile playing on my lips… He rubbed his chin in wonder but soon his eyes went cold and expressionless… He just nodded and left without saying anything more. I definitely won the challenge.

I called Ria to talk about the exciting events of the day.

“So you are saying that your boss is not just some old man but a hottie… I wish I got that job.” she exclaimed.

“Didn’t you listen to one word I said; he is spoiled and arrogant…” I screamed at her.

“There is always a thing about arrogant guys…” She smirked.

I nodded my head in disbelief; she is always playful and sees the life like a jolly ride while I’m the exact opposite to her, even when I was a child I knew my responsibilities growing up without father gave me a serious outlook on life, but don’t take me as a geek, I’m vivacious and funny once you get to know me. Mama always said that I speak a lot.

Back in Khanna’s residence, Mr. K aka Raj walked in with a grim looking face only to be stopped by an old lady, gray hair, round body, beady eyes, and staunch features.

“Did you see her?” she asked with face full of excitement.

“Yes…She needs to learn manners.” He replied curtly and walked away.

But the old lady followed after him. “Did you say…?” He cut her off. “Granny, All in good time…”he said sitting her on his bed and assuring her with his confident smile.
“I wish I was there for her when she needed me…”Two tiny tears slipped through her eyes.

“Do you have a picture of her? I would love to see my granddaughter…”she said wiping away her tears.

“I don’t have one now… but I’ll get you one tomorrow.” He promised trying to cheer her up.

“How does she look?” she asked eyes far away probably imagining how she looked like.

“She is a good looking girl with some temper issues…”Granny smiled at his supposition.


I’m late today by five minutes, I rushed into the building looking at my watch, I hit something hard and stumbled a bit before I fell on the ground, two strong arms caught me, I peeked at the person and let out a gasp as I saw dark, hooded eyes staring at me.

“Watch out, gorgeous…” his voice was cool and flirtatious.

“Um…sorry.”I mumbled and ran into the elevator followed by him closely behind. From the coroner of my eye I could see him checking me out. I felt awkward and ran out as soon as it hit my floor.

“You’re late…” Veeru sir said looking at his watch. “Sorry, caught up in traffic.” I made a lame excuse and hurried to my cabin.

“Sir has asked for you…” I could see the anxiety on his face; he is definitely worried about something.

“This is the second day of your office and you are late by five minutes.” Mr. K’s voice was rigid.

“I ran into her, bro and held her up…” The guy from the lift walked in.

“Dev…What are you doing here?” Mr. K walked towards his brother with a surprised face.

“You may go…”he said. I left thanking Dev for coming to my aid.

I’m so immersed in the file creation that I didn’t notice Dev coming in. “I didn’t know that cute girls are working in my bro’s office…”he said winking.

I blushed at his flattery. “When did you join?” He asked conversationally.

“Two days back…”

“I guess why I didn’t see you here before…”he said smiling.

“Um… thanks.” I mumbled.

“Cute girls shouldn’t say thanks…” I frowned.

“You can thank me over a cup of coffee someday…” he left without waiting for my reply rolling the keys on his finger and with a wave of his hand he is gone. He is so different from his brother. Though Mr. K is kind of cute, he had an attitude and his grim expression set him away from others. Dev is cool and charming.

The rest of the day passed without anything unusual, thankfully Mr. K had no tests for me to burden me with extra work. He stopped by my room as he was about to leave.

“Company cab will be picking you up and dropping you from now…”he said.

“Thanks…” I said.

“You can thank me by making it on time everyday at least from now…”He replied grimly.

I heard a car honk as I was half munching the cornflakes in my bowl. I gulped down last of the milk and hurried outside locking the door. It wasn’t a company cab; I walked slowly towards it wondering what Mr. K’s car was doing here.

“Are you going to walk faster, we don’t have much time…” His voice startled me. I scurried towards the car. The driver opened the door for me, the cool air and some floral scent hit my face with a blast as I locked the door.

Mr. K sat right beside me, he sat up straight, I wonder how he can sit so straight all the time, his shoulders were never down, they were always held in confident pose, his familiar cologne filled up the air around me. I sat nervously counting my breath waiting for him to talk or more likely make some snide comments.

The car skidded to a halt at the Viceroy hotel; I scurried after him carrying all the files he dumped on me previously in the car. We met with the delegates, he went straight on to business after greeting them, I liked the way he carried himself around, confident and proud. He gave a few pauses to seek from me the necessary files. I could see the same admiration from the other members in the meeting except for one guy who seemed to be about my age, he was staring at me all the time. The person who sat next to him poked him and gestured him to listen, he did for a while and then continued staring at me. I leaned back avoiding his eye contact that seemed to bug me.

He peeked at me even then, it was like we were playing hide and seek. It was hard to ignore him but I tried and thankfully the meeting ended. It was decided that we should discuss the deal after lunch. It felt awkward to eat with so many different people; It felt like I’m suddenly all alone here. I picked on the food feeling really out of place.

“I see that Mr. Raj has got a new and beautiful assistant…” the guy who stared at the meeting winked, checking me all over.

“I’m Rocky…”he introduced. The way he said his pet name gave me full impression on this guy. He seemed to be dragged into this meeting by his dad and he doesn’t like one bit of it so he is just hitting the only girl in the meeting. Rich kids, I rolled my eyes in frustration.

“Nina…Let’s go.” Mr. K walked just in time and giving one all over look at Rocky before he walked me away.

The agreement was finalized, it was really a big deal, it would take our company’s reputation to great heights, my face lit up at the very instant they started signing in. My eyes darted over to Mr. K, he stood calm and composed not affected by his great success, seriously I didn’t see him even smile.

It will sure be one