And then she said it!

PART 29

WHEN I SAID IT...

"Sir, your flight booking is confirmed.

It's at 6 in the morning."

"Thank you." I replied and cut the

call. I sighed, yet again. For the last

few days, I was trying to book a flight

ticket back to India. Due to the

weather, most of the flights were

getting cancelled and there was high

demand for the tickets making it

impossible to get one. So I called

some travel agency that my colleague

here recommended and as expected I

got the ticket.

"Mr. Mallik?"

"Yes?" I heard someone knocking the

door of my cabin. "Phill, please come

in." I walked up to him and shook his

hand.

"Oh, well I just came to thank you

personally. I heard you are leaving

tomorrow." He smiled politely.

"Yeah, I think the payroll system is

back on track, perfect this time. So

it's time that I get back." I said,

both of us taking our seats.

"In that case, I would say it was a

great pleasure having you here for

the last three weeks. Ankit did tell

me that you were married recently

and were looking forward to

celebrating the New Year with your

better half. I am sorry about that but

I hope you had a good time here."

He said, his voice slightly apologetic.

"No Phil. The decision was mine. I

am glad I came." I added. I didn't

know how he understood my words,

but he left after gifting me a small

hamper full of different types of

wines.

I was true when I said that I was

glad I came here. It did help me in

clearing my head, diffusing my

misplaced anger and then the guilt

at my misjudgement. It gave me

some time to think without any

distraction, especially Riddhima.

When I landed in Munich three

weeks ago, I had no clue as to why I

was running away and from whom. I

just knew that I couldn't face

Riddhima after the disgusting words

I threw in her face. I abhorred myself