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Author: Nancy
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..Grey pov

After talking to Richard , I stood up feeling some bit of satisfaction with the progress of things in just a nick of an eye . Things were for the first time in a very long time moving in the direction that I wanted them to be .

I was more than ready to see each of them getting what they deserved for everything that they had actually done .

I immediately pressed the blue button and a maid came in in just a blink of an eye.

“I want you to call the house management . I want you to organize a party too night .” she stared at me in a puzzled way but did not say another word other than just agreeing to what I had told her.

“Okay boss.” she said and immediately turned around getting out of the room . I felt as though my life was actually being filled with mixture of happiness and then sadness.

I up to this point still wondered how life how turned out to be this way. Things were in such a way that I could not even explain then at all .

*

(that evening)

I stood strategically as I
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