Riya's POV
Since the second Will entered my apartment, I've been acting my whole evening with all the skills developed throughout the years. It was hard to maintain but I managed and shooed him away for his own life. I can't afford destroying another life in front of my eyes and it was totally useless to drew him knowingly into my mess.
I made him leave my place and it was me and my isolation all alone. 'I should really get used to this now' my mind thought. Since the moment he left my heart was feeling so heavy, I was breathing ununiformly. And here we go again, eyes started to shred tears. I hate when my body won't listen to me. I was hating myself for this, it really disgusting. I watched over the place where all my memory was settled. It was the living room's most beautiful corner that I decorated for just my memories. All the photos frames of my family was alined properly. Headed towards there and my heart started tremble again. Unknown sobs escaped my mouth as all memories flooded my mind and vision was blurry. "You know, I always use to think that in this selfish world you guys won't hurt me like this or at least you'll stay but..." more heavy sobs escaped again with few tears. I felt like my whole body was numb and at any moment I can collapse so I knelt down infront of the photos and buried my face in my palms and cried my heart. "I never thought you would leave me alone like this when I needed you guys the most. You know I was all set to call you hear and to give you the life that you ever dreamed of. I was just one step away from the dream but, never imagined you would do this to me." I supported my back to the wall beside the table and pulled my knees near my chest and buried my head into it and don't know how long I've been there for.
I woke up from the loud noise that my phone made, notifying me about the call of director Ellery. "Hey director, how are you?" I said avoiding the sadness in my voice. "Good morning Riya. I'm good. You?" she said avoiding her stress. "I'm okay too. At least for now. Is there anything I can help you?" I asked her professionaly. "No, I mean yes you can, but tell me a about a thing for your resignation mail I got this morning. Are you resigning? Why?" her tone was full of concern. "Um....." I was about to say something but she cut me. "Anyways we've organized board meeting this morning for you and we're expecting you to show up her." she announced in authority tone. "But director I've resigned already so there's nothing to be discussed...." I tried to explain but she continued "Whatever you want to say come here and explain to everyone of us so be here at sharp 11" with this she hunged up. "Ohh man! What's this now?" I sighed to myself.
I got ready myself for the meeting. And sharply at 11 I arrived straight to the meeting room. All of the board directors and department directors were present. By seeing all this my heart was beating faster and stomach was churning. I was never this nervous about anything. It was weirder than ever and I got the call to enter. I bowed to everyone and subconsciously acted professionaly. "We heard from your director that you mailed us your resignation. Any specifics reason behind it?" one of the member from the desk asked. "Nothing specific but, I don't think I can work here anymore with everything that happened, so its better to leave it. Of course whatever happened wasn't good in terms of company reputation and I felt it would be justic to the company to resign before and clear the company name." I choosed my words wisely and showed myself strong. "Do you really think it was your fault?" the question came from the HR head. "Absolutely not." I answered firmly. "So its company's?" he asked again mockingly like they want test my intelligence. "Not that either." again with the firm answer. "Then why you're leaving? We weren't expecting you to leave, neither the company so?" this time director Ellery spoked in not so professional but concerned tone. "Actually I was leaving cause even if you decided to hire me again, I can't promise you that I'll be able to give my all, as I used to do it earlier cause all that things will come back to my mind again and it cause the disturbance in my targets. I really don't want to be trouble for this company and you of course. So I resigned for the sake of company." I told them straight forwardly truth. I know myself. When I get disturbed I tend to ignore the passion I used earlier, it was my weird behavior. After my explanation they asked me to wait out as they were discussing few things. I was in lobby and there was no one other than me and the receptionist. After a while receptionist said they've called me in and I entered composing myself. Inside the atmosphere was colder than before and that got my nerves to tighten up. I was asked to sit and one of the authority stared talking. "We appreciate that you thought so good of our company and we're glad to have you here and sorry that you got to face this in here. But you shouldn't had got this far to mail us your resignation. Have you found another job?" they asked as like they're testing my reaction. "No, I'm still searching." I answered swiftly. "Oh, all the best for your search. But tell me one thing are you sure you won't work here at any cost?" with this my face was full of confusion. "Do you seriously wanna hire me after whatever happened?" I forced for straight answer. "No we aren't gonna give you your post back but, we would love to have you as for the Production Manager of team A." he said with a geniune smile on his face. "Huh!? Can you please pardon me?" firstly I was speechless for few seconds with eyes widely open. "The board has decided to hire you as the Production Manager of our company as accepting your resignation will be to rude as you thought of the company. So its our duty to keep so efficient and talented employees like you." I was feeling overwhelmed by this and everyone present here was smiling genuinely. Soon the meeting got over and everyone took there leave while congratulating me. It was me and my director Ellery and she pulled me in bone crushing hug. "I'm so gald that your back. So happy." she said with tears of happiness in her eyes. "Me too. Thank you so much for being at my back." I thanked. "No that's your hard work silly. Now work hard and prove yourself as a great manager, okay?" and I nodded.