25 Times up (1/2)

”Sweetie, how to hypnotize the employees to listen to me?”

Aarvi punched his arm and checked time. ”Let's have lunch. Aeon Harmon will be here soon.”

Dax sat for lunch with her and hesitantly asked hearing 'Aeon Harmon', ”When are you going to tell us what happened that week?”

Aarvi almost dropped the fork from her trembling fingers remembering her haunting days. It was the past that even if she tries to ignore, she can't; if she tries to forget, it haunts her more, ”Dax, please...”

Dax stood up and hugged her, gently patting her head, ”Shawn already told me how President Rivas found you.” If he had known something was going to happen after her wedding dropped, he would have never agreed to leave to a different city on work.

Aarvi gently pushed him away, ”Let's not talk about it. Otherwise, I will not meet any of you again.”

Dax swiftly put on a playful face, ”Oh please, I don't have any plans to visit the graveyard again or see Shawn pole dancing.”

”Eat.” Aarvi said and composed herself.

Dax's fist tightened remembering whatever Shawn had told him. He couldn't even imagine what and all she went through those days. There were many groups like Aarvi's grandfather, Aaron, Shawn, Dax's men who were trying to know what had happened those days but nothing was fruitful. It was like a plain paper where even Aarvi wasn't there. They couldn't trace how Aarvi even reached that place.

If it was Leon Harmon, Aaron was enough to destroy him. If it was her ex-fiance, Dax was enough to crumble his business to dirty mud.

But they couldn't understand why Aarvi was trying to slowly revenge instead of destroying them. Nobody knew her plan other than Aarvi's Apple pie who was ambushed from the past two years.

Dax and Shawn both tried to reach him but it was like he doesn't exist in country A.

When Dax thinks back to that week, everyone who supported or stood by Aarvi was out of town, she was all alone in the city and ended up in a brutal situation. If Aaron hadn't mobilized all his force and his father hadn't requested a military search team, Aarvi would have been found dead.

Dax respected Aaron only for that reason. Everyone knew Aarvi was alive only because of Aaron but Dax and Aarvi think as Aaron did it on Shawn's pressure.

...

Aarvi and Dax went to the meeting room where Aeon was present.

”Congratulations President Harmon on meeting both of us. Nobody got this high privilege till the date.” Dax mocked him pulling a chair for Aarvi to sit at the head of the table.

Aarvi checked the time and coldly spoke, ”You have five minutes to say whatever you want.”

Aeon was dumbfounded. He had thought she would continue to mock him and send him out. He blankly stared at her expressionless face, the more he looked at her, he felt more mystic like she has buried a lot of things.

Dax knocked on the table seeing his scrutinizing gaze. ”Time is ticking.”

Aeon composed, peeling his eye away and spoke hurriedly, ”The post by my company wasn't by us. Somebody hacked in the network and updated it.”

”Proof?”