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Part 8

End of flashback

A/N: Please note the story has moved from past to present. Flashback covered how Samy and Sid met, their  plan to get engaged and the breakup. Story is moving to present .. after six months .. where Samy realizes Sid was joining her team and she was going to be his boss. Hope you are enjoying the story.

Six months later ...

Samy's POV

It was Friday. It was the slowest week of my life .. time was dragging .. I wanted the week to finish soon, so that Sid and all the new employees would start showing up in our office from Monday onwards.

I tried my best to shake away any feelings for Sid, but his shadow remained stuck in the back of my mind, torturing me every second with his memories.

As I walked into my office, I noticed Shenoy, our facilities manager, waiting for me.

"Samantha .. we are almost done with the cabling and installation of desktops for the new folks. I need you to go over the spots for everyone, one last time, before we setup the name boards and phones." He said, spreading the floor map on my desk.

I looked at the floor map and immediately my eyes settled on Sid's cube, at the opposite end of the floor, deliberately put in there by me. I had this debate going on in my head about the pros and cons of keeping him near me and I convinced myself, it was best to keep him as far as possible from me.

"If you don't have any more changes, I will finalize the floor plan." Shenoy suggested, moving to roll up the chart.

"Wait! One last change." I watched helplessly as my hand grabbed a pencil and switched cubes for Sid. I put his name right in front of my office.

"Ok, change noted." Shenoy rolled up the chart and walked away.

"Traitor .. my inner voice screamed - You spent the whole week convincing me to keep him away, but in the end you gave in." I didn’t plan on making the change, but couldn't help myself - in a fleeting moment of insanity - I changed his location, so that I can look at him directly from my office.

I knew, it wasn't a good decision, but as soon as I made the change, something deep .. something sweet .. stirred deep inside my heart. My mood changed and I felt good about it.

"I had the power to change his location .. so did it. Deal with it - I chided my inner voice."

Next important thing was to check his file. I requested HR to send over files for all the employees. I randomly checked others, until I got to his file.

As I scrolled down his file, my heart started beating rapidly, afraid of what I may find. As my eyes scanned his marriage status, my breathing stopped and only after seeing the single column ticked, I slowly released my breath. It was such a relief that I sat back in my chair and closed my eyes, thanking all the Gods for having mercy on me.

I knew, I rejected him and had no right to expect anything, but still, I wanted him to belong only to me. "Hmm .. There is no upper limit for your selfishness."  My inner voice chided.

I also checked his salary and was surprised - he was being paid more than his immediate manager. Though I made more money than him, it was only after my latest promotion. Based on his salary it was clear that the previous company considered him very valuable, however I need to make that determination going ahead.

Finally Monday came. I made sure to look my best. The reason I gave myself was to make good first impression on the new employees joining my team, however, my inner has been screaming at me for trying to impress one particular individual. I ignored my inner voice and was in office by 8 AM.

I noticed lot of the new employees were already in and checking their cubes. I tried not to look into the cube opposite my office, but was unable to stop myself from stealing a glance and felt the chills as I noticed it was occupied.

I entered my office and slowly turned my face in his direction. I could see his face clearly, but to look at me, he had to turn his body - advantage me.

I realized he was early bird and looked busy, his fingers flying on the keyboard. I was sad that he didn't bother to turn and look at me.

I took my time looking at his face and slowly go over his features, when my inner voice screamed at me - "Samy! You are not being paid to sit here and watch his face. Better get to work or get fired."

"Ok ..ok" I told myself and got to work. I decided to discipline myself, thinking of a way to earn points to look at him again. I came up with a game, where I awarded myself ten points for every 10 minutes of work done and I had to earn 60 points to enjoy the candy view. It motivated me to work hard.

I called for a floor meeting welcoming all the new employees and arranged free pizza lunch for everyone. Just as I finished my speech and moved towards the lunch tables, "Maam, I didn't know today was mismatched socks day." One of the guys commented.

"Oh yeah!, look .." Another guy looked at my feet, pointing to others.

For a second, I got flustered and raised my pants to look at my socks in front of everyone. Hearing everyone around me laughing, I realized, I had been pranked.

"Good one guys .. let's not make it mismatched project day." I replied back laughing.

They introduced themselves as Bunty Singh and Basha Khan, popularly known as bsquare. I came to know about their practical jokes and how everyone was scared of being their victim.

Later in the day I had separate meetings with each team lead and their teams. The last meeting was with Sid's team.

Arvind was Sid's direct manager and he stepped into my office with Sid and rest of the team. I looked at their project chart and discussed their progress with deliverables. Sid remained quite, listening to our conversation.

When I turned to look at him, while Arvind was explaining about the project, I realized he was looking at my chest, not at my face, increasing my body heat. His public gawking also infuriated me.

"Arvind I want you guys to deliver this project in eight weeks instead of ten", I demanded, looking at the team.

"That is not possible." Sid spoke for the first time.

"From management point of view, I don't like the idea of delivering at the last moment. We need some buffer time in case we run into unknown issues." I gave my reasoning.

"All that has already been baked into the project schedule, so I don't see any reason to work overtime just to make the management happy." He replied with sarcasm.

"I want your manager Arvind to say that - not you." I replied sternly.

"I think we should be able to cut some time.  I will talk to the team and get back to you." Arvind replied, trying to diffuse the situation.

"I will deliver my modules as per the current project plan as I cannot work any overtime hours. You guys can work it out and see if it is possible to reduce it other ways. It's four pm, my time is up. I will talk to you guys later." Sid replied and tried to step out of the room.

"Sid, I want to talk to you before you leave." I added quickly.

"Ok, let me grab my backpack", he said and stepped out.

"Arvind, why is he leaving at four?" I asked Arvind, as he was Sid's direct lead.

"He comes early and leaves early. Also he has always been against working overtime." Arvind tried to placate me, suggesting Sid's outburst wasn't personal.

"Oh yeah, it's personal ... very personal. You have no idea." I thought internally, as I dismissed them from my office.

Hearing a knock, I raised my head and saw Sid standing against the door, one hand holding the backpack and other leaning on the door.

"Ah .. sexy man" I thought getting up from my chair and walked towards him.

I closed the door after letting him in.

"Sid, I want you to understand, I don't have any personal grudges against you. I want you to forget what happened between us in the past and move on professionally." I spoke, without looking into his eyes. It would have been impossible for me to say anything to him looking into his eyes. They were like magnets, pulling me into his orbit.

"Sure, no problem." I was surprised by his simple reply.

"Also I want you to look at my face, not anywhere else, when talking to me, specially at team meetings." I couldn't let his earlier transgression slip.

"Oh! Sorry about that. I was looking at your new pendant, looks really awesome on you." His hand reached out and his fingers brushed the top of my bosom as he picked up the pendant, nestling at the top of the valley between my breasts.

I froze and stopped breathing, trying to control the electric currents his touch was generating as his fingers played with the pendant, turning it back and forth, rubbing against my skin. I knew I had to say something or do something to stop him, but a part of me held me back.

Then he bent to have a closer look, forcing me to close my eyes and cross my thighs as his warm breath touched my chest, hardening my nipples.

"Ok, see you tomorrow." He said, releasing the pendant, opened the door and walked away. I felt like a cold water dunk.

I stayed still for few moments, waiting for the blood to reach my brain. I let him walk all over me, without any objections.

I promised myself - it won't happen again.

I was already looking forward for the next day and wondered what lay in store for me.

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