"You had a good rapport with the queen?? Really?? God, I can't believe it... now I see, why you bravely wore such outfit on your first day", Shivam said and Isha sighed...
Their other colleagues who heard that she is close to the queen, rushed to her and kept asking her different questions until Ragini dispersed all of them strictly.
"These people might faint when they get to know the truth", Reetu said and Isha glared at him... they started arrangingthings and after an hour or so, they completed the work, and Ragini received a call from Ashley for the final verification of things with the merger, before the HR team of R Empire takes over the things...
They worked on things for the final meeting with Ashley....
"Finally, we'll get rid of that b**ch", Reetu said
"Reetu...", Isha said softly, trying to reprimand her friend
"Ishu... what wrong did she say?? She is a b**ch, she always picks on you", Ragini said and Isha sighed, she really couldn't defeat her friends when they both are on the same side, Ragini is usually sensible but when she chooses to rebel, no one can control her.
"Woah... look at whom we have here... Ma'am I think you misunderstood our office to be a function hall", Ashley Parker said walking towards Isha...
"No, I haven't, technically I haven't broken any rule of the company, also it's very normal for us designers to wear the designs we made and the saree I'm wearing is designed by me, personally stitched by me, so I don't find anything wrong in it, Ma'am", Isha said politely but her words surprised all her colleagues... she was coached by the king himself, so its pretty normal for her to behave that way... Isha's confidence surprised Ashley too...
"How do you know our rules and regulations even before entering our office?? You are still not aware of our policies", Ashley tried to trick Isha...
"Okay then, tell me which policy of yours I violated", Isha asked politely...
"You need to wear formals for office... and the outfit you are wearing is nowhere formal", Ashley said
"But that's for only Bands 1&2, I'm neither", Isha said
"That's not true...", Ashley tried to argue but Isha didn't faze... "who told you about all this, the person is definitely spreading wrong information, I'll make sure proper action is taken against him/her”, Ashley said throwing her power...
"I told her... what action will be taken against me Ms. Parker??", Avyan said entering inside the workspace allotted to Ragini's employees... Ranveer followed him...
"Sir... I was just trying to get the facts checked your highness, Apologies", Ashley said bowing her head but Avyan kept drilling holes in her head, how dare she question his Bhabhi sa...
"You don't check facts by lying Ms. Parker... you just attended a disciplinary committee last week, yet didn't change your ways... Bharat...", Avyan called for John's assistant...
"Yes Yuvraj...", Bharat said coming there...
"Make sure Ms. Parker learns her lesson this time...", Avyan said
"Wait Avyan... why are you troubling Bharat for this, we can teach Ms. Parker a lesson ourselves", Ranveer said staring at Ashley... Ashley so wanted to comment that with what right Ranveer is talking, but she shut her mouth up not to bring more difficulties on her head, but even if she asks, he had a befittingreply for it. Ranveer is not only present there as their queen's brother but also a partner to R Empire...
"Ms. Parker, apologize to Mrs. Isha for your behaviour...", Avyan said understanding what Ranveer wanted... also if Bharat takes matters into his hand, there is a chance of his brother knowing it and Ashley could lose her job too, and Isha will definitely hate it so Avyan agreed with Ranveer's idea...
"I'm sorry Mrs. Isha...", Ashley said, Avyan nodded and slightly bowed to Isha before leaving, Ranveer walked to Isha, Ragini, and Reetu...
"All the best to you people for reaching this milestone and also for your future endeavours", Ranveer formally shook Ragini and Reetu's hands as well as Isha's, Reetu observed he held Ragini's hand for a few seconds more, as he is reluctant to leave her hand... Reetu had to clear her throat to bring the couple out of their reverie...
Ranveer nodded at Isha and left from there...
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CHAPTER – 6
Ragini and her team settled down in the first half and started meeting. Because of the complications in the acquisition process, the HR team asked Ashley and her team to assist Ragini and others for a few more days since the acquisition is first on its kind for R Empire. Every acquisition done till now is only on paper, their team never attended the R Empire building except for official meetings, and they operated from their previous office buildings, but Abhyansh wanted Ragini and her team to work in his building for obvious reasons.
And because of that, Ragini and her employees are on R Empire's payroll, so the HR department needs more time to sort all these things, Ashley huffed and left from there leaving Isha, Ragini and Reetu to sigh.
"She would create more trouble for us", Reetu expressed
"Yeah, I thought the HR department would be taking control of things from Ashley and her team today, but they need more time it seems...", Ragini said. Isha nodded and recalled how the HR department apologized and said they would try to fix this sooner. Till then they asked them to cooperate with Ashleyand her team, Ashley didn't throw any tantrums, accepted the HR department's request which rang bells among Ragini's employees.