All Yours, Stranger: Some Mysteries are Dangerously Sexy by Novoneel Chakraborty

Author:Novoneel Chakraborty [Chakraborty, Novoneel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: EBOOK4IN.BLOGSPOT.COM
ISBN: 9788184007145
Publisher: Penguin/Ebury Press
Published: 2015-07-09T18:30:00+00:00

14

Rivanah went to office an hour later than usual. From early in the morning she kept looking at her watch every minute. And with every second she only had one question in her mind: would she actually resign?

The protocol for resignation at her company was simple: anyone wishing to resign had to log on to their internal company portal, log in with one’s unique credentials and then click on the Resign button. The employee could revoke it only within twenty-four hours after he or she clicked on the Resign button. She kept staring at the button but couldn’t summon enough courage to click on it. Yet. At 11.30 a.m., she messaged all the numbers she had of the stranger.

Can we please do without my resignation?

The next second came a reply from one of the numbers:

Sure, we can.

For a moment Rivanah couldn’t believe her eyes. She relaxed, gulping down some water from the bottle on her desk. She finally started her work for the day. Sometime later she got a message from another number which too she had saved in the stranger’s name.

But whatever we do . . . has consequences, Mini.

Rivanah glanced at the watch. It was 12.01 p.m. Past noon! She looked around to see if she could spot something amiss. The stranger won’t circulate the video. He may say whatever he wants to but he isn’t her foe, she thought. It was precisely then she saw Sridhar walking towards her. Had the stranger forwarded him the video? Damn, she muttered under her breath, feeling her throat go dry.

‘What’s up, Rivanah?’ Sridhar inquired.

Rivanah stood up from her chair.

‘Why did you resign?’ he said.

‘What?!’

Rivanah turned in a flash and logged on to the company portal as quickly as she could. As the page loaded, her phone flashed a private number. The page loaded and she noticed her Resign button actually read Revoke which meant someone had already clicked on the Resign button. She immediately was in two minds whether to pick the call up or not. Slowly she answered her phone while taking the mouse to the Revoke button.

‘You click the Revoke button; I’ll click the Send button on the email with the video attachment.’

The line was cut.

‘Now don’t tell me someone hacked the system and resigned on your behalf,’ Sridhar said, expecting Rivanah to come up with a valid explanation.

A few seconds later, Rivanah removed the cursor from the Revoke button and looked at Sridhar guiltily. The latter shrugged.

‘No, it wasn’t hacked. I’ve actually resigned.’

‘What? Why?’

‘I don’t know. I’m sorry. Please excuse me.’ Rivanah stumbled to the washroom like a ghost and, locking herself in one of the toilets, cried her heart out. Her notice period would begin soon: a total of thirty days. After which she would have to stop coming to office. What would she do after that period?

When she went back to her cubicle, two of her teammates told her the same thing: This is your worst decision, Rivanah. Sometime later, another teammate came to her

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