Page 167 of The Royal Beast & His Queen

Isha sat in the meeting followed by Avyan and Ranveer and she was then introduced to the HR personnel for their den staff by Bhairav. Isha requests Bhairav to ask someone to get some snacks for Ranveer and Avyan to eat and after Bhairav arranged for it, she asks him to take a seat, but he says he prefers standing, as he isn't used to sitting at the same table with the royal family but Isha insisted he sat.

"If you don't, I'll stand", Isha said sternly... Bhairav quickly took a seat.

Avyan and Ranveer smiled at how much the man loved Isha and cared for her well-being.

As soon as the snacks arrived, Isha signaled her brother to jump on them mocking him, Ranveer glared at her but maintained the decorum of the conference room.

"So... You will look after their appraisals and benefits? on what basis do you provide the pay rise to them ?", Isha asked and the man looked here and there, whether to say it in front of their queen or not, as according to what he heard the queen is kind and Abhyansh is extremely protective of her. So he thought Isha to be soft so he didn't want to mention about the performance metrics for the men in the den.

"Should I guess? Maybe on the number of lives they took or people they injured huh ?" Isha said shocking the HR team and their head. "And how do you measure the creativity? By how many new ways of torture they have introduced into the system?", Isha asked and HR nodded looking down, imaginingIsha would scold them or get disgusted by it.

Even Avyan and Ranveer expected her to do the same but she surpassed everyone's expectations.

"Fair enough... Include more such parameters into the system, analyze their skills in a diverse perspective", she said and Ranveer looked at her agape and then pinged his beast of a brother-in-law for making his sister like that. "Ashley and Natasha here will help you formulate a proper performance index for them, and help them increase more creativity...", Isha said looking at Ashley and Natasha, who nodded in response. "Great... That's all for today, you can leave, except for Ms. Parker", Isha said and everyone left one by one except for the family and Ashley.

"So, Ashley, along with all this, I want you to organize a weekly contest to submit their creative ways to get the truth out of some people, and help them get innovative with their punishments and send their ideas forward", Isha said, Ashley kept staring at Isha, wondering if she was the same timid woman she once met...

"Yeah sure, Your Royal Highness, Will create an outline and get it approved by evening, Will that be okay ?", Ashley asked, coming out of her thoughts.

"Works", Isha said and Ashley greeted Avyan, Ranveer and Bhairav before leaving the conference room.

"Bhairav... The weekly winners of this competition will get to apply these techniques themselves on Rana sa's dearest guest. After all, he should get special treatment", Isha said talking about Kailash Rajput and Bhairav nodded with a smile.

"True, Rani sa", Bhairav said and went to communicate the same to Ashley, to include the rewards for the Weekly competition as well...

"Ishu... I can't digest you suggested something like that", Ranveer expressed his displeasure after everyone dispersed except the family.

"I'm still the same, bhai... But a few people bring the worst side out of me and they deserve it too", she said mentioning Kailash Rajput, Ranveer understood his sister didn't even want to take his name.

"He is getting his punishment, I'll make sure he suffers 1000 times more than he made all of us suffer", Ranveer said holding his sister's palm who nodded with welled-up eyes.

They looked after other operations in the CD the rest of the day, Abhyansh texted Isha and she replied saying she was fine, but despite that, he called thrice to check if she was fine, and she knew he might be getting impatient and anxious with every passing second she wasn't home so, she patiently answered him she was doing fine which surprised him, he was well-prepared for her outburst, but she showered him with much more love citing how much he loves and cares for her, shocking the BEAST. He just shook his head at his wife's mood swings before hanging up.

In the evening, Ashley got ready with a detailed presentation on how they were trying to gauge the performance of the employees and developing growth trajectories in their careers, followed by a Weekly competition to increase innovation in employees.

"One more way of rewarding you could use is 'Loyalty Ranking'. The employees here work for their salary less, but for loyalty more, they are extremely loyal to Maharaj and want to prove it every second, so create a loyalty ranking", Isha suggested

"Loyalty Ranking ?", Ashley questioned

"This is indeed a good idea, reward them by promoting them to the higher ranks with their increasing achievements, and eachlevel going upwards, has more access to the king's close allies, with this kind of promotion, their zeal and motivation would be doubled", Avyan added

"But before we implement this, we have to discuss the accesses that should be restricted even for top levels", Ranveer interjected and Avyan nodded.

"Okay then, Bhai and Avyan will give you the details about restricted accesses till tomorrow ?", Isha said looking at Ranveer and Avyan, to ask if it was possible to submit till the next day, Avyan nodded before Ranveer could object so Isha continued. "Great, it's decided, they will give you the details by tomorrow, and you can start developing this program", Isha directed Ashley who nodded and after taking final instructions from Avyan regarding other things, she left the conference room.

"Huh... I'm very tired... Let's go home", Isha said and got up followed by Bhairav.

Ranveer and Avyan too got up lazily, stretching their bodies before walking out. They reached home.

"How was your day ?", Abhyansh asked as soon as he saw his wife entering their chamber... She quickly settled on the couch nearby, leaning on her back as her legs and back started aching badly due to all the sitting and traveling. Abhyansh quickly tended to her, sanitized her, and cleaned her hands and feet with wet wipes before helping her change into comfortable clothes. He helped her lay on the bed before carefully observing her feet which are now swollen.

"You must be happy now huh... Tiring yourself for the whole day, this is why I refused you", he chided, gently massaging her feet, she didn't protest like every time as she genuinely needed the massage more than anything and anyways, her husband wouldn't listen even if she protested, so she just enjoyed his rough hands providing comfort to her almost dead feet.

"True, I'm really happy today, I feel like I have done something productive after ages", she said with a wide smile, and just by seeing her smile, his anger dissipated.

"But, you should take care of yourself too... Look at your feet...", Abhyansh softly said this time...

"What happened to them ? They are at their best place, getting a wonderful massage from you... I feel like I'm in heaven... um...", she moaned at the end when he pressed her sole...

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