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"I had almost given up my hope but that night I knew nothing was going on between you two and he would obviously not mind if I took you away."
I almost cried out of dread at his words. Only if he knew what I and Viaan had progressed to be, he would have caught some flames and burnt into ashes right before my very eyes. That would be really a sight to see but I felt the need to waste his time before he did anything drastic. All I could hope was that Viaan would have realized that something was terribly wrong by now and was working to find me.
"So it was you who tarnished my reputation in the eyes of the people?" I got my lips to speak as confidently as I could.
"Don't think like that, my love," I swear I felt the bed bounce a bit on my cringing at his endearment, nevertheless he continued, "I did it so that I could restore your reputation as my queen. Someone had to be a bit smarter to get the treasure from the crazy rat race. And I was the one who placed the treasure in a spot unreachable to other-" I interjected adding, "by bringing shame to my family," but nothing seemed to have mattered to him as he continued without paying any attention to it, "the only key was to wait patiently till your parents come back knocking at my doors. And it almost happened if those Raivardhans hadn't meddled with my business. But no worries, everything is going to be as it should have been. I have you here with me and that good for nothing husband of yours must be busy with that stupid interview. You must admit, wasn't it a clever move to grab you when they least expected it?"
"Well, it was," I hoped my sarcastic nod didn't look overdone.
"But how did you know that we were going to have a press interview when it was on such short notice?"
"I have my ways," His proud smile made him look even more of a grandpa that he was. Sensing that I wasn't buying his excuse of an answer he added, "I ain't that powerless before these Raivardhan kids. I have my own connections and my own techniques to get my job done."
He had just finished with that sentence when the loud bangs went off in the area making me jump in the process as well it made my heart feel like it had jumped into my throat beating furiously in there.
"What was that?" Nath mumbled the question buzzing in my head to which I eerily had an idea for an answer. Getting up, he called out, "Jimmy! Jimmy!"
A scruffy guy in black shirt and trousers walked in with a gun in his hand, "yes Sir?"
"What was that noise out there?" Nath enquired wiping his forehead with his handkerchief.
Wasn't someone losing his shit already?I smirked at my thought.
"Don't exactly know, Sir. Francis has gone down to check it out. He'll radio me," Jimmy shook his hand showing off his walkie talkie in it.
And as if on cue, the buzzing in the walkie talkie grabbed our attention. Jimmy pressed a button calling out, "this is Jimmy four two oh eight, requesting for an update on the situation. Francis, what was that noise?"
Except the buzzing nothing could be heard for some time making Jimmy repeat his question, "gosh man, what in the hell was that sound?"
In the reply came a loud thud followed by an ear-splitting high frequency screechy noise, making us all cover up our ears before it was all gone. Everyone looked at each other's faces in anticipation because one thing was for sure that something had gone horribly wrong or perhaps in this case terribly right. My heart thundered in my chest and I did not doubt that it was the same with these two men in the room.
Not even a few seconds later, the buzzing came again making Jimmy call out again, "Francis? What was that sound?"
The sound of someone's breathing came through only to increase our anxiety before a reply in a familiar deep velvety voice rolled in a calm, cold tone replacing the churning of the nervous energy with fearlessness before the walkie talkie was silenced again, "that was the sound of your death on its way."
Guess, my guess was right. That was my Viaan coming for me.
45. PAINTAALEES
Viaanfinished instructing the alpha team when his Bluetooth tinged indicating an incoming call. Pressing the receiving button, he said, "hello."
"Vikrant here. I heard about the situation and I am already into the system of traffic management," the voice of the other brother informed. It wasn't the first time that he had hacked into a government facility. So, he had a pre-made algorithm that he just modified a bit to suit his needs. Basically, it was merely a child's play to him.
"And I just received the associates in the kidnapping. I'll let you know what I find out from them," Neel's voice added, notified that the discussion was going on the conference call.
"Viaan, I found the car. Arranging the frames from different stop lights in the timeline," Just upon hearing that, Viaan signaled his alpha team to get into the vehicles while he hopped onto a BMW HP4 which he had borrowed from Abhimanyu. With the black helmet on his head, the coordinates entered into the GPS in the bike and that was all he needed. With a single powerful kick, Viaan ignited the beast under him letting its rich, deep roars echo through the alley. Accelerating it once with the brakes held, he accelerated it twice to check its strength before letting the brakes go, and swift like the wind, he raced down the streets.
Following the blue line on the GPS, he took a skillfully sharp turn making the bike bend at the forty-five degrees angle before overtaking the cars moving slowly on the road. Driving the metal beast in a zigzag motion, he gave a fright to many but he didn't give a damn about it. As his blazer flew behind him like a cape, he was soon out of sight of the alpha team that followed him in the SUVs. The bike was really fast but still not fast enough for him, what would have roughly taken about an hour, he had reached twenty-five minutes prior, not to forget that he had skipped all the stoplights. A gamble with his life but he didn't care.
In fact, he never did...
It had sort of become like a regular chore to him, just with a different purpose every time. He stopped at the start of the fork in the road since the coordinates stopped there.
"Where from here, Vikrant?" He asked in the Bluetooth.
"Just a minute," Vikrant mumbled, furiously typing over the keyboard.
"I'm hacking into the system of that registered car. These people have insane security. Remind me to buy one of their cars later," Vikrant added to ease Viaan's anxiety.
