Their End, My Beginning novel Chapter 18

*Kat’s POV

After the small celebration inside the meeting room, we all got out and were greeted by a huge congrats. All people from our department came bursting into the party poppers. A thrilled chief came and hugged, causing all of us to gasp. “What!! I do hug people.” Says chief knowing the reason behind our shocked expression. She never hugged anyone, never given handshakes to her subordinates her handshakes were reserved for our client and her superior.

Looking at me, she said, “You pulled it off quite well. I knew you could do it, but it was a little surprising to hear him say we got the deal. Congrats as a present take rest of the day off.” She said and barks at everyone except me to get back to their work. With one more pat on my shoulder, she left.

I was still shocked with everything, but mostly Ryder accepting our deal. By the looks on his face I knew he was having inner battle whether to accept, I guess it might be because of the rest of the men’s compliments which made him agree. I am sad, happy, shocked, anxious. Sad, because I thought when I see him again, I would get a tight hug from him and his explanation to why he acted as if he didn’t know me the day before the funeral and the reason why he didn’t attend the funeral but all I got was disgust and some emotion I can’t decipher. He always has been good with expressing his emotions, only if he wants the other person to know will they get what his face expression means. Happy, because I got the deal meaning I still have my job and also because I saw him again even if it was not how I imagined it to be. Shocked, well, it hasn’t been gone from my face since the turn of events starting from his acceptance. Anxious, because getting this deal means I will get to work with him, since I have to know what type of design and stuffs related to it and it will only be possible if I am in his company this has been how we have been working.

Some companies email us the exact idea so that we don’t have to work with them, but that also means if they wish to change later it can’t be done since it will be too late since we are not there in their company for them to let us know before we do something on our design. For some other companies they insist on us to work with them so that if any changes occur, we can make that changes since we work with how their idea develops and not on our idea, though there are some touches from ours as well. This is done so that our design can be flexible for them to change. And working with any company means headache for an entire year or months depending on the design.

And in this case, I will have to work with Waynst since that was already said when they asked for the presentation.

With all these thoughts on my mind, I went home.

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When I opened the door, I saw Mandy on the couch with curiosity written on her face. I closed the door and went and slump down in the chair.

“Okay, that is not happy face meaning something bad happened. What is it?” asked Mandy.

“Well, there’s two things: one is happy and one is sad.” I said, and she hummed to continue.