Chapter 54

Too many things had happened in the last few days and she felt overwhelmed. Her brother’s visit, his plans, something Pryag had said last night which she could vaguely remember, and her brain going crazy with expanding plans and her dream about Akshar that did not make any sense and left her confused the phone call she had before she left her house about some shipment problems and water leakage in the building. She was almost there and Lisa was already there taking care of a couple of things and she wondered what she would do without her. She couldn’t remember when the last time Lisa took a day off was and decided after all theses issues are resolved she was going to give her a vacation.

She looked at the clock and it showed 8.45. She guessed her thoughts about Akshar were mainly due to the fact that he had a great impact on her business decisions and she had actually enjoyed the conversations and his presentations. She contemplated weather to call him or not. Decided maybe she can give him a call, reached for Akshar’s number and picked up the phone and dialed his number. After six rings, the answering machine answered on his behalf. She didn’t want to leave a message so she disconnected without leaving a message and saved his number on her organizer and threw the paper in the trash and concentrated on the work for the day.

She could hear voices outside and knew that Lisa was working with the contractors. She was waiting for Mike to come in, and looked at the time it was 8.55, five more minutes to go since usually Mike will be in by 9.00. She had to discuss regarding the shipment problems and was going over the ledger and other related documents before her meeting. Mike came in as expected and knocked on her door and by the time she had already come up with a solution and was working on it. He took a seat in front of her, and working with her for the past two years, he also knew that she would have already gone through it and maybe even come up with a solution. She smiled at him and started talking and he was listening attentively. She summed up the things that he need to do and handed him the ledger and other documents etc and added, “Anything else?”.