24-01-2026, 11:40 PM
Chapter 54 – Prem's First Secret
The same one-month period ever since Nitin joined Prem.
Though Prem was getting updates from Vani (short, vague messages: “All normal here. No issues.”, "Just a business meet" "All accounts are clean"), his mind was increasingly with Nitin — who never missed a chance to impress him from the start.
Initially Prem thought Nitin wouldn’t be good enough — just a favor to an old acquaintance, a tech guy pushed into marketing via the deal.
But the first day Nitin entered the office he spotted an error in the backend code that had the entire engineering team breaking their heads for three days.
A subtle race condition in the payment gateway module — intermittent failures, logs misleading.
Nitin quietly debugged, fixed, deployed — all in under two hours.
He didn’t boast. Just sent a short message to Prem:
“Fixed the gateway issue. Logs attached. Should be stable now.”
Prem stared at the screen — stunned.
Usually Prem would crack those himself — he was the one who built half the core logic.
But that week his mind was occupied — Nivi’s sudden “headaches”, the odd timing of her absences, Rohan’s too-frequent “meetings” with her.
He couldn’t clearly think.
So he decided to give Nitin more jobs.
First small bugs — then full modules.
Nitin delivered — clean code, fast turnaround, smart optimizations.
Prem started calling him into late-night reviews.
Nitin never complained.
One evening — after a successful client demo — Prem slapped Nitin’s shoulder.
“You’re wasted in entry-level. Senior developer — effective next month. And I want you on business manager track too. You understand both code and client.”
Nitin — humble — “Thank you, da. I won’t let you down.”
Prem felt “winning” — Finally, things turning around. Nitin’s a keeper.
But irony: he’s empowering Nitin while Nitin’s wife is being seduced by Aadhil.
During one pitch trip to Hyderabad — client’s lab tour — Prem spotted a working model prototype: an AI-driven logistics optimizer that could shave 40% off supply chain costs.
He snapped discreet photos — mind racing.
This... this is the big one. Adapt it for our platform... millions... maybe billions in potential.
He decided to hide it from Nivi.
She’d want to loop in Rohan. No. This stays mine.
Meanwhile, the construction of his house was nearing completion.
Something kept bugging Prem — the doubts, the odd calls, Nivi’s “headaches”, her sudden glow.
He decided to receive final papers in only his name — not Nivi’s.
He doubted his Engineer, for unknown reasons like he got some feel he might be Rohan's man? So he asked his lawyer to bypass him..
He felt tough — guilt gnawing at him for hiding from Nivi.
But somewhere deep inside he wanted it that way — control, security.
If things go wrong... it’s mine.
He signed — alone in the lawyer’s office.
The house — his fortress.
But unknown to him, Rohan started his own plan, only thing Rohan now unaware is Prem doubt is bigger and house is already in his name.
Nitin helped finding a lawyer to secure things his way...
Though Nitin doesnt know much details why Prem wanted this way.. he was glad he is helping a friend.
Exactly the same day.. evening.. Vani came home with a request from ......Aadhil ... his request is tomorrow come to My guest house and make my EX Jealous...
The same one-month period ever since Nitin joined Prem.
Though Prem was getting updates from Vani (short, vague messages: “All normal here. No issues.”, "Just a business meet" "All accounts are clean"), his mind was increasingly with Nitin — who never missed a chance to impress him from the start.
Initially Prem thought Nitin wouldn’t be good enough — just a favor to an old acquaintance, a tech guy pushed into marketing via the deal.
But the first day Nitin entered the office he spotted an error in the backend code that had the entire engineering team breaking their heads for three days.
A subtle race condition in the payment gateway module — intermittent failures, logs misleading.
Nitin quietly debugged, fixed, deployed — all in under two hours.
He didn’t boast. Just sent a short message to Prem:
“Fixed the gateway issue. Logs attached. Should be stable now.”
Prem stared at the screen — stunned.
Usually Prem would crack those himself — he was the one who built half the core logic.
But that week his mind was occupied — Nivi’s sudden “headaches”, the odd timing of her absences, Rohan’s too-frequent “meetings” with her.
He couldn’t clearly think.
So he decided to give Nitin more jobs.
First small bugs — then full modules.
Nitin delivered — clean code, fast turnaround, smart optimizations.
Prem started calling him into late-night reviews.
Nitin never complained.
One evening — after a successful client demo — Prem slapped Nitin’s shoulder.
“You’re wasted in entry-level. Senior developer — effective next month. And I want you on business manager track too. You understand both code and client.”
Nitin — humble — “Thank you, da. I won’t let you down.”
Prem felt “winning” — Finally, things turning around. Nitin’s a keeper.
But irony: he’s empowering Nitin while Nitin’s wife is being seduced by Aadhil.
During one pitch trip to Hyderabad — client’s lab tour — Prem spotted a working model prototype: an AI-driven logistics optimizer that could shave 40% off supply chain costs.
He snapped discreet photos — mind racing.
This... this is the big one. Adapt it for our platform... millions... maybe billions in potential.
He decided to hide it from Nivi.
She’d want to loop in Rohan. No. This stays mine.
Meanwhile, the construction of his house was nearing completion.
Something kept bugging Prem — the doubts, the odd calls, Nivi’s “headaches”, her sudden glow.
He decided to receive final papers in only his name — not Nivi’s.
He doubted his Engineer, for unknown reasons like he got some feel he might be Rohan's man? So he asked his lawyer to bypass him..
He felt tough — guilt gnawing at him for hiding from Nivi.
But somewhere deep inside he wanted it that way — control, security.
If things go wrong... it’s mine.
He signed — alone in the lawyer’s office.
The house — his fortress.
But unknown to him, Rohan started his own plan, only thing Rohan now unaware is Prem doubt is bigger and house is already in his name.
Nitin helped finding a lawyer to secure things his way...
Though Nitin doesnt know much details why Prem wanted this way.. he was glad he is helping a friend.
Exactly the same day.. evening.. Vani came home with a request from ......Aadhil ... his request is tomorrow come to My guest house and make my EX Jealous...
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