Against All Odds by Aarti V Raman

Author:Aarti V Raman [Raman, Aarti V]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Karou Publishing
Published: 2019-08-30T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

Nakul Kulashreshtha always had plans for his future. Dreams even, if you wanted to call them so.

There had been a leggy redhead at Penn State who’d been impressed with the way he played basketball, the pansy ass way, since he wasn’t built like Kobe fricking Bryant and knew how to play the damn game. He’d wanted to work for a Fortune 500 corporation, make his own way in the world instead of taking over his dad’s investment firm after Rajeev’s retirement.

He had time, so Nakul assumed, years and years to build his own future.

He was catastrophically wrong. So, Nakul put all of his dreams, including the lovely Heidi, on permanent deep freeze when his dad bit the bullet.

He’d dropped out of Penn State and come back home like the kortobyoporayon – obedient and dutiful – boy that he was. The son his father actually had instead of that piece-of-shit addict slash genius coder, who’d dragged his father down to hell.

Nakul had come back and taken over dragging the business behemoth uphill - the broke, almost out-of-business business his dad had successfully managed to destroy by betting on startups, ninety percent of which were headed for failure.

Sure, he understood the basics of tech – he wasn’t a coder but he knew what a petabyte was. He read the tech blogs and The Financial Express so he knew that data – decentralizing it, democratizing it, leveraging it - was going to be the next big tech innovation and leveraging it was a billion dollar idea.

But he’d never understood his dad’s fascination for investing in small and emerging businesses.

What was that about? Why couldn’t he have invested in blue chip stock like Infosys and Reliance, piled the money away for future generations of Kulashreshthas so Nakul didn’t get insomnia worrying about extending their line of credit?

After two years, he’d stopped being bitter with his dad because he was just so fucking exhausted from running the day-to-day ops of a dying company. In fact, it was a wonder he’d managed to keep it afloat as long as he had. It did help that his dad’s buyout share from JoyXS had kicked in in year three and they’d sold off the Lutyens’ property for a hefty three crores.

But the thing that really saved them all? Nakul understood numbers and could play the blue chip stock market better than his father ever had.

But, for six long years, he’d never forgotten Bharat. Never forgotten the single person responsible for the plight his family was in. The person who’d taken away his sister’s dreams of working in Washington D.C., taken his father’s life. The person who had turned him into this angry, anxious, vengeful and bitter man.

If he hadn’t been so occupied with trying to save his father’s legacy, Nakul knew he would have made it his life’s mission to go after Bharat Shrinivasan. As it was, it was inconceivable that Bharat was, at this moment, enjoying a second chance at success and the golden ticket while he, Nakul, still suffered.

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