Chapter 150 - 149 Bad timing

Shreya stood there in front of a painting that looked like a car drove on it with paint on it tired. She was bored. The only positive point is probably wine. She was not saying the paintings were bad. It is just she did not know how to appreciate it and everyone else there was talking about paintings one way or another. SO that ruled out talking to others.

Charan was pulled out by the clients to settle some accounts. Shreya moved to the next painting and stared at it with the same blank look before downing the wine in her hands and reaching for another. Thankfully Charan arrived a little while later.

Charan mingled around for a while before leaving.

"See that wasn't so bad now was it??" He asked. Since the gallery was actually one city over, they had their dinner before going back. Thus by the time they hit the road, it was pretty late at night.

"For you maybe. I was bored out of my mind!" Shreya grumbled.

But all the bickering came to a standstill when suddenly the car behind then accelerated with its headlights blazing a tad too fastly for it to be an accident.

"Brace!!" Hank yelled from the front when he noticed the car as he simultaneously tried to maneuver the car away from the impact.

Shreya was the fastest to react and by instinct, her hands pulled Charan back against the seat, and just then the car got hit with a bang.

The whole car jerked on impact but the impact was not enough for the airbags. Even with Hank's maneuvering, the car swerved uncontrollably and went overboard the road.

Shreya's ears buzzed and blood dripped from her head. When her head stopped spinning, she was met with a very worried Charan hovering over her. Hank was already out of the doors and a few minutes later, he came back holstering his gun back into his waist.

First Shreya's got out of the car, followed by Charan. Once she got her footing back, she looked around. It was dead of the night and there were no other vehicles on the road.

���God damn it!! Of all the godforsaken hours, they choose now!!" She grumbled taking out two phones from her pockets. First was her usual phone and the other Charan hadn't seen before.

Just then a car rushing through the road came into view with their headlights flashing and horns blaring.

"We need to move…They might not be friendly…" Hank said leading them away from the scene into the farms. Sugar cane farms covered both sides of the road thickly giving them cover.

Once they were a good distance away from the road, Shreya stopped them.

"Shreya, we can't stop. We are not safe. There might be more people than we can handle in there. We need to find a cover until back-up arrives." Hank said anxiously while Charan looked carefully at her injuries concerned. He covered the wound with his handkerchief.

"I know, Hank. And it okay, Charan. This is nothing. It doesn't hurt." She answered both of them calmly while simultaneously tapping away on her phones rapidly. She did not really seem anxious about the whole situation one bit.

"Hank, I sent you a location. It's my contact near this area. You can trust him. I sent both of your photos and ID's over to him. So he will let you in and help. I want you guys to go there and stay… It's about a half an hour walk south of here…" Shreya burst away orders while simultaneously crashing her other phone into the ground and stomped with her boot heels. The glass cracked instantly.

If it had been only her, she would have stayed in the crash site itself. But since Charan and Hank were here, she had to revise her plan accordingly to keep them out of it.

Of course, by then both the guys, at last, came back to their senses and comprehended what she had just said.

Both frowned simultaneously and said in chorus, "I am NOT leaving you here alone!!"

If only the situation was not so tense and diabolic, Shreya would have probably laughed out loud. But ironically she neither had the patience to see the humor in it nor the time to explain.

"Can you guys just keep your machismo under wrap for one god damn second and do as I say without arguing. I do not have the time to explain. I know what I am doing!! Once you reach the place, call Zack, from the phone the guy will give you!! And hide here for 15 minutes before you start moving! I don't want you guys caught while fleeing… it would defeat the whole purpose!!" Shreya said then turned to Hank extending her hands.

She specifically asked him to call from that guy's phone was not really because there was something special about that phone but because she was stalling for time. She needed at least an hour before Zack could come and rescue her. But because of the tense atmosphere, Hank did not catch her slyness.

Hank sighed but then unhooked his gun and handed it over to her with two magazines.

"Nope… these are too loud!! I need your knife!!" Shreya said handing back the gun. But more than them being loud, she did not like the prospect of them both being unarmed and without backup. Anyways her backup was two minutes out. She had both Ayush and Nakul follow her today since she had to step out of the city and had Charan with her. So she was not in any real danger.

Hank hesitated but then seeing her stern look he took back the gun and place two knives on her hand. Both were combat knives made of black metal. One had a wooden handle while the other did not have a handle which made it easy to conceal.

Shreya took them both and started walking north of their position. Charan's hands caught her's involuntarily and pulled her into a hug as he literally begged her, "Please Shreya… Please don't do this… Just… Please…" He was terrified for her but he felt helpless looking at those cold calm eyes as if she had long anticipated it and as if she had encountered this type of thing every day. He did not like both scenarios. And he did not want to leave her alone now. And it had nothing do to with his ego as a man… maybe if it did, he could have let go of her easily.

But more than that he was terrified that something bad would happen to her and he wouldn't even get the chance to try to stop it.