After a few more minutes, she bestows me with her attention. “Arya, how is it going? Chetna has been singing your praises.”
Surprise flickers across my face before I mask it with a grateful smile. “I’m glad she’s appreciating my work.”
“Oh, we have missed your dedication over these past months. See, that’s exactly why I couldn’t let you slip away. I can envision you leading your own agency one day.”
“Wow… It means a lot coming from you.”
“On that note, I have a very high-profile client I’d like you to handle after you and I convince him to choose us.”
I can’t contain my excitement this time, grinning at her eagerly. “I’ve been waiting just for that.”
“We will need to be discreet because the controversy surrounding him is a very delicate matter. One wrong move and we could make it worse. A lot is at stake for him. His image needs to be overhauled in the next six months.”
“I’m more than up for a challenge.”
“That’s what I love to hear,” she replies. Leaning forward, she shares, “If you succeed, I will be naming you for a promotion to senior publicist in the upcoming board meeting.”
Euphoria bursts in my veins, sending a jolt down my entire body. I’ve been dreaming of hearing these words forever. It will make me the youngest employee to earn the position so quickly.
“Thank you, Radha,” I cry out. Clapping my hands, I ask, “When do I get to meet the client?”
“Right now.”
My eyes widen.
“He’s waiting for us in the conference room.” Rising from her chair, she tips her chin toward the door. “Let’s go. I will introduce you both.”
I’m up from my seat before she can say it twice. “Let me grab my iPad and I’ll meet you there.”
“Be quick.”
Resisting the urge to sprint downstairs to my office, I calm down my racing heart. Once I reach my floor, I rush into the room and grab what I need. Thankfully, the conference room happens to be on the same floor as my office, so it’s less than a minute before I’m standing right outside it.
The corridor is dead silent, not a soul in sight, as I tap on the door before pushing it open with a welcoming smile.
“Hel-” My throat closes up, swallowing the rest of the word. All my organs malfunction and crash into each other.
No. No. No.
The man I never wished to see again rotates his chair in my direction, raising his head to pin me with intense gray eyes.
Nathan Singhania is my client?
It’s a miracle I stay up on my feet. Nathan takes up all the oxygen in the room, leaving me to suffocate.
Something else swirls in his gaze. A cold darkness that didn’t exist before. As if he’s living in a hell that nobody sees.
I’ve gone eerily still, while he gives nothing away. Almost like he’s seeing right through me. I forgot how unruffled he can be under any circumstances.
Not any, if he’s here.
“There she is,” Radha exclaims before introducing me. “Meet Arya, Mr. Singhania. She will be your publicist. One of our very best.”
The stupor bursts as my boss’s announcement registers, slamming into me like a bullet train. Every clue she threw my way in her office repeats in my brain. I guess right away why Nathan is here.
The news of his relationship being a sham.
Has it really put his position as the CEO at risk?
