Fan Fiction: A Jealous Rage! Chapter Three

                                         Chapter Three

 Kapoor Industries Headquarters,

Ram was in his office, a bad mood was an under-statement,  he was in a damn fiery mood, as he called up his personal assistant, Jenny Francis, and barked out an order to her, get me Sushil Verma on the line now.   She knew when the boss was fired up and without delay she called him back, sir your call is on line one to Mr Verma.

Ram took the call with urgency, Sushil, its Ram Kapoor here, I have a job for you I need a briefing within the next hour on a Nikhil Advani.  He lives in New York I think there is some sort of family business there and Sushil cost is not an issue, just get me the information fast, he ended the call without bothering for the fanciness of goodbye.  A few minutes later Jenny came into his office and said, sir your 10.30 appointment is about to begin in the main boardroom.  Cancel the appointment he ordered, but sir we’ve been trying to set this meeting up for the past month we can’t cancel now. Jenny who’s the boss around here? You are sir. Then for god sake do as I tell you and cancel the damn meeting.

Just then Vikram Shergill, Ram's closest friend who was an executive member on the board, entered the office hearing Ram shouting at Jenny to cancel his meeting. Being the diplomat that he was Vikram quickly intervened and said Ram I am not sure what’s going on here, but these people are waiting for you in the boardroom, if you don’t want to go I will go handle the meeting and report back to you with their demands.  Vikram quite frankly I don’t give a shit with what the hell you do, for god sake just leave me alone.  Vikram was speechless with Ram’s outburst motioning to Jenny that he will meet her outside; after she left he looked at Ram and asked, what the hell’s wrong with you? Vikram I don’t want to discuss this just leave me alone. Vikram knew something was up, normally he would stick around until he got it all out of Ram because he wasn’t afraid of his outburst, in fact he knew how to calm him down, but right now he had to take control of a meeting that Ram was adamant to cancel, so he left the office without saying another word.

At precisely 11:15 Jenny buzzed Ram and said, sir Mr Verma is on line two for you.  Ram grabbed the phone off his desk taking the call immediately for which he was sitting here waiting for impatiently, yes Sushil what’s the dirt. Actually Sir there’s not much about Nikhil Advani he looks pretty clean from what I’ve gathered, 36 years old, a Harvard law graduate, he’s been offered a partnership with the law firm Blake and Associates to head their Boston division. The company specializes in Corporate Law and he’s handled a few of the big cases actually he was quiet impressive in the Johnson case.  His family business has a net worth of USD250 million dollars,  he is not involved in the business because he wants to make it happen on his own, away from the family business interest. 

He was engaged two years ago to an American called Stephanie Miller; however their relationship broke off due to family pressure for him to find an Indian wife. He is single and dates casually, there is nothing serious happening. I have also found out that currently he is on an Emirates flight to Dubai, there is a meeting set up with a company called Uni-Globe and then he’s heading back to New York.
Actually he was here as part of a delegation on an anti corruption charge against a Multinational chain. You met with him last night at Mr Gupta’s party, well his father is a close family friend of the Gupta’s.  Sir for now I’ve got all the stats, addresses, contact numbers, bank account details, so I will email you the brief within the next ten minutes. Is there anything else you want me to get you sir? 
Ram was impressed with the information he got, no Sushil, that’s all for now, thanks and good job done.

Ram ended the call breathing a sigh of relief, the bastard was out of his life heading back to the US and away from his wife that was all that mattered for now so he can get back to some sort of normalcy. God he hated fighting with Priya, he knew in his heart there was nothing in it, but his Jealous Rage when Nikhil had taken Priya in his arms just threw him off. Why the hell did he even agree to allow him to dance with her, at the time he wasn’t concentrating he was  having an intense business discussion, when Nikhil asked for permission to dance with Priya and then all hell broke loose when Ram glanced at the two of them together on the dance floor. 

Ram thought some more, this morning the bastard sent her roses, for fuck -sake; he even sent her almonds, which were her damn favorite.  How the fuck does the whole world get to know what she likes?  He took his white handkerchief dabbing the sweat of his forehead. Shit he needed to pull himself together, after giving himself a lecture he once again was in control and got through the rest of the day, but this thoughts never leaving Priya, tonight he had some serious groveling to do to make it up to her. While he was planning for the night ahead, on the other side Priya Kapoor was miserable.  Her head throbbed from all the pent up emotions that Ram erupted in her since last night. She decided enough was enough she didn’t need to put up with his male chauvinistic attitude, in- fact she was going to visit her parents, at least that would bring her some happiness for today. Let him stew in his bad mood and quite frankly she didn’t care because  annoying her even more was that he never called her today. Normally he would call her every day, sometimes even up to five times a day.  In her frustration she switched off her phone, go to hell Ram, she thought as she went to her parent’s. The Sharma residence was the best place to be for some tender loving care that she needed.


In the mean time Ram decided to leave the office early he wanted to sort things out with Priya face to face, because he couldn’t bear another day of silence, actually he was so tempted to call her now and knowing his soft spot for her, he dialed her number just needing to hear her voice, but all he got to hear, the subscriber you have reached is currently not available....  confused he tried again and got the same response, then he called the house and was told Priya was not there either, glancing at his watch it was 6PM maybe she was just finishing off her last class and that was the reason her phone was switched off.  Never mind he thought he was heading home now so he was sure by the time he got there, she would be home.