Chapter 154 - 153 Leave him alone

Dharsh's eyes moved between Shreya and Charan.

Charan's eyes were filled with concern as they fell in Shreya. And they turned to anguish when he saw her hand. Her hand was wrapped with kerchief but by now the white kerchief had turned completely red with her blood.

Shreya took a minute to compose herself before bringing the same indifferent arrogant expression back on her face.

But Dharsh saw right through her. He let Vicky rot on the floor before approaching Charan.

"Interesting… At last, something that could break the composure of The Shreya Srivastav… Very interesting…" he said looking at Charan.

"Leave him alone!!" Shreya commanded coldly.

Dharsh let out a laugh before drawing his gun out. With a loud click that echoed through the silent barn, he loaded the magazine. "Only when someone tells me not to do something… I have this urge to do it more… You should understand that better than anyone right?? Since you are the same!!" he said leisurely pointing the gun to Charan's head.

"What do you want??" Shreya asked. She wiggled discretely and took the knife from inside her sleeves. She had taken it out of her boots at the car itself.

Dharsh's lips twitched into a sinister smile and drew the gun point-blank to Charan's head and asked, " The evidence… where is it??"

Shreya shifted her hands towards the windows and signaled. She counted down… 3… 2… 1. And at one, the power to the barn was cut while her knife flew out of her hands and pierced on Dharsh's hands making him drop the gun to the floor and let out a grunt. It all happened so fast that one would have missed it if they had so much had even blinked an eye.

But Dharsh did not really have much time to dwell on his pain as Charan grabbed the gun and pointed then to his stomach and commanded, "Don't move…" Since it was aimed point-blank and of course, he had personally loaded it… Dharsh did not move… He hated gunshot wounds.

In the darkness, noises of grunts and wails filled the air. Exactly 30 seconds passed… the light came back on and Shreya was surrounded by Zack and Hank and all of Dharsh's men were knocked out except for two. Vicky was groaning with blood dripping out of his palm. But even he passed out after two minutes. And Ayush stood beside him wiping away the blood from his knife. While Nakul stood beside Dharsh pointing his gun at him.

Shreya looked around and took in everything. She did not bother with anyone. She went straight to Charan and took out the gun from his hands with her uninjured left hands.

Charan got up from the floor and engulfed her in a tight hug sighing in relief. "Thank god, you are okay!!" He said against her hair without letting her go. It felt as if his heart had, at last, came back to him and started beating when he felt her wrapped in his arms.

But Shreya's body stayed stiff. For the first time ever, she did not hug him back. Her hands stayed down limply on both sides. She emitted a coldness he had never seen before. She did not speak a single word to him as she pulled away from his arms without even looking at him properly and went back to Hank.

She stood in front of Hank gritting her teeth and glared at him coldly. Hank could see she was really really pissed.

"You had one job, Hank!! One f.u.c.k.i.n.g job. All you had to do was take him to a f.u.c.k.i.n.g shop and keep him there… How difficult was it to do?? Huh… Just because I give leeway and talk politely to everyone doesn't give you the f.u.c.k.i.n.g right to disobey my orders!!!" Shreya spat out angrily swatting harshly with the back of her free hand on his chests with her eyes flared up. Her voice echoed through the barn walls loud and clear.

Shreya had never established her authority with him… Not once. Since Hank was someone her father picked for her protection and since he had practically watched her grow up through puberty, she was always especially polite to him. She saw him more like an uncle than someone she employed. To make someone like that behave like this, Hank knew he had messed up big time. He suddenly regretted bringing Charan along and putting him in harm's way. After all, Charan had a family and a daughter.

Even though he did it mainly because he was worried about Shreya… he still felt no matter the reasons, he shouldn't have let his emotions cloud his judgments.

Thus a guy twice her age actually stood before her with his head hung down as he apologized, "Sorry, Shreya. I was wrong. It won't happen again." He did not make unnecessary excuses.

Charan felt bad seeing the scene. After all, it was he who had asked to be brought along. "Shreya, it wasn't his fault. It was I who…" He started but then lost his voice when she turned around and gave him a cold glare.

She turned back and extended her hands and asked, "Phone!"

Hank handed his phone out quietly.

She took that phone in her injured hand and took it to Dharsh and shot a photo of him. Then she dialed a number.

As soon as the call connected, Shreya spoke, "Adam, this is Shreya."

"Oh, thank god. Are you okay?? You scared us all!!" Adam said anxiously.

"Don't worry, I am fine. Don't tell Anand uncle just yet. I will come and explain it to him." At last, some semblance of softness came into her voice when he talked about Anand. But then it went away as quickly as it came as she continued, "I sent you a picture. I need everything on him in one hour…"

"Shreya, it's freaking 2 o'clock in the morning!!" Adam complained.

"I don't care what god freaking time it is. I need that information, Adam. On-time. Wake as many people as you need to. I don't care…" Shreya ordered sternly.

Her frustration and anger seeped into her voice making Adam have cold sweat form on his forehead. He could not even think about the state of the people right in front of her at the moment.

Gosh! Shreya was really scary sometimes… he thought to himself and did not dare to argue anymore.

"Okay… I will have them…" Adam agreed obediently.

"Concentrate on family… I want everything you can get on his family." Shreya continued and could see Dharsh slightly stiffening.

"Okay… got it. Anything else??" Adam asked cautiously.

"Yes… Take Andrew with you and stay at Charan's parent's place today. Stay outside for now but I want you guys inside at dawn. I don't really care what lie you have to come up with… I want you to stay over until we get there. And I want our people taking Akira to school and back. The same goes for Preethi and Bharath if they want to go out…" Shreya instructed.

"Okay… I will handle it. Nothing with happen to them." Adam said and hung up.

The fact that she was worried about his family even at a time like this… Charan really did not know how she did it.