"Did you enjoy your stay here? Did you like the conference? And I saw your interview yesterday as well, my child I'm so proud of you." Mrs. Elizabeth patted on her head.
"Yes I did. Thank you very much Ma'am. It wouldn't have been possible if it wasn't you who gave me this wonderful opportunity. Thank you very much Ma'am." Ivana expressed her gratitude.
"You totally deserve it my child. So, what are you planning to do for the rest of the day? You'll be returning back at late night today. How are you going to spend whole day then?"
"I'm going back to hotel now. I need to prepare the report from MERCHANT TEXTILE and submit it to Mr. Collins by six at the evening. So I guess, I'll be spending all my day preparing the report."
"I know you'll do that perfectly as well. You're very hardworking and talented. I'm really proud of you."
"Thank you very much Ma'am. I'll see you then." shre bid her goodbye and left for the hotel.
Ivana left to her
"I need to be back to the hotel as soon as possible. We have flight at eleven pm and need to reach at the airport at maximum nine pm. Oh it's just ten minutes left for seven. And the hotel is half an hour away from here. I have to do some packing as well. I'll go get the file fast." Ivana was thinking while entering inside the office.Two security guards were standing at the entrance of the head office. "Excuse me ma'am, what are you doing here at this time? The office is closed already.""Actually I need to get a file for Mr. Gray. Mr. Edward's assistant has left that file at the reception on his floor.""Wait for a minute. I'll check about it."One of the security guard dialled phone to the receptionist to confirm it.At the mean time, the other guard went to Justin's floor as he checked the time and was just few minutes left for seven pm. He went to the twenty fifth floor through lift and took deep long breaths before walking towards Justin's ca
"Oh, here it is. So this is the file Mr. Gray wanted." She picked up a blue file and moved towards the elevator. "I need to reach the hotel straight now. I'm feeling hungry too." She thought when she pressed the button for the last floor.At the same time, Justin came out of his father's cabin in twenty fourth floor after leaving the file and moved towards the elevator. He pressed the button and started using his phone.Ivana was shocked when she heard the lift opening. "Didn't the guard say the office is closed? Who is trying to use the elevator then?"But when the lift opened, Ivana was scared to death as if she saw some ghost. Justin was totally engrossed in his phone that he didn't notice Ivana's presence and just entered into the lift.As he was about to press the button for the last floor, he saw Ivana.That too with a file in her hand that had the stamp of "MERCHANTS" which is not allowed to any staffs except for the seniors and directors.
"What took you so long Ivana? It's already half past eight and we have to reach airport at nine. What happened? Why do you look so disturbed?" Mr. Gray asked immediately after Ivana came out of the car."Sir, I'll go get my things ready. I'll tell you everything on the way sir. Here, this is the file you wanted sir." Ivana knew that she wouldn't be able to control her tears if she started talking about it right now. She had to compose herself.After getting inside her hotel room, she moved to the washroom, locked the door and looked at her face in the mirror. She washed her face and took long deep breaths. After around five minutes, she packed everything as fast as she could and came out of the room with her belongings. She sat inside the car where Mr. Gray was waiting for her.On the way to the airport, Mr. Gray asked her again about it again but Ivana didn't explain everything in detail. She just said she got stuck in elevator but she didn't say anything about
"But... but Boss, these photos show nothing of which we wanted.""Exactly! These photos have nothing that we wanted as per our plan. In fact these photos have everything which we need to degrade Justin's image in a better way.""Wh... What do you mean boss??""You're really a fool. Okay okay, as you've done such a fantastic job, I'll explain it for you.We had planned to hire a woman and send that woman to Justin's cabin so that she'll try to seduce him. Of course, he is the Justin Merchant who wouldn't be seduced by any woman. But you would click some photographs that would look intimate before Justin throw the woman away.It would be really difficult to prove Justin guilty cause everyone knows he hates woman and wants no woman near him. There would be very less chance of Justin getting framed but I still wanted to take the risk.But that foolish woman denied at the last moment. And here comes another woman, who came as a gennie for me. Do
"Who is here at this time. It's only six in the morning please. I'm literally tired from yesterday's traveling. Why can't people just let me sleep? At least today is my day off." Ivana was talking to herself when the doorbell rang again."Geez! Comingggggg.." she shouted from her room.When she opened the door, Miya and Nancy were standing with sullen faces as if they've seen ghost."What are you guys doing where? And what's wrong with you people. Why do you have such expressions. Please you're scaring me early in the morning." Ivana said putting her hands on her chest.Miya literally dragged Ivana to the room and Nancy locked the door and joined both of them."What's wrong with you people? Why aren't you both saying anything?" Ivana was on verge of crying. Nancy and Miya took long deep breaths and looked at each other.Then Miya took Ivana's hands in her hands and said, "What I'm going to say might give you a huge shock Iva but you need to
"Good... good morning." Ivana greeted Mr. and Mrs. Merchant, all scared. She was standing in front of the couple and Edward. Miya and Nancy were standing behind her."Good morning Ms. Ivana. I'm sure you know the reason why I asked you to be here this early." Mr. Merchant said his hands folded at his back."Y... Yes Sir...." Ivana said in nervousness. Mrs. Merchant took a deep long breath and walked towards her. She took both her hands and said "My child, you don't need to get scared. We've asked Justin to come here as well. He must be on his way, we've asked you to be here so that we can make sure about one thing. Ivana, tell me honestly, did justin really misbehave with you?"Ivana was astonished with her question. She felt warm at her heart that she asked her first instead of asking her son, she didn't judge her which made some drops of tears roll down her eyes."You're crying? Does that mean.... that means he really.....""No... no Ma'am. It's.
"Oh my my, the great Justin Merchant is on the headlines again huh?" The man said going through the news."All the newspapers, tv news and even online news are about the great Justin Merchant huh? Oh la la! Look at the love people are showing towards the very talented Ivana Williams, I'm impressed. Well I'll personally congratulate this lady someday if I meet her. But but, let me enjoy myself right now." The man took a glass of rum and added ice cubes in it.Taking a sip of rum, he read all the comments of audiences."Hmm.... This is excellent. He's receiving more backslashes than I had imagined." He said with a evil smile on his face. He took out one of the photo from the photo album in the drawer.He took a marker and started painting his face on the photo. "Justin, Justin... oh dear Justin. You know what, I'm feeling so damn good right now. The eternal happiness I was seeking for, the happiness I wanted in my life is finally on it's way. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
"This is not important right now, talk about the problem in front of us. How are we going to solve all this?" Edward interrupted."Ma'am, here..." Angelo handed Mrs. Merchant her tablet. She looked over it and sighed before speaking, "We'll have to find a solution to this as soon as possible.""What if Ms. Ivana give her clarifications in front of the media? If she'll talk about the truth, everyone will believe. After all everybody trust on her and are supporting her. I don't think Ms. Ivana will have any problem with it." Angelo suggested."No, not at all. We can't do that." Mr. Merchant interrupted. "If we do this, this will create even more mess. Even if she will give clarifications, media will doubt over it. They will surely use it against us. They will make headlines on how we forced her to give clarifications and that she's being pressurized to give such kinds of clarifications.""And people will definitely believe upon it. We cannot take this risk.