Chapter 156 - 155 Get creative with your story.

"Retreat…" Shreya commanded over the phone and hung up.

Dharsh and Shreya stared at each other for one extended minute before he reverted his eyes looking down.

"What do you want to know??" He asked.

"Everything they know about me…" Shreya said resting her head on her knuckles sitting lethargically.

Dharsh sighed. He knows to accept when he was defeated. And Shreya was that one adversary you just can't hate. She defeats you so absolutely that you can't help yourself from admiring her a bit.

"Well, you already guessed most of it. Your ex- sent a word through the jail warden saying he knew who was behind Rakesh's downfall. But when we went in, he wanted to get out and huge pay… Killing him in jail would have been easy but extracting information was not really convenient and we hit a lot of deadends in our investigation on Rakesh's case. SO we got him out and he was very forthcoming when he talked about you. At first, they were skeptical saying you were just a little girl and was depressed after the broken marriage, and Prasanna was using them to take revenge on you and get out."

"But still they sent people to tail you… but none of them came back with anything fruitful. Even the people in the company said you just come over every day to play and goof around. That you would even sleep through most of the meetings. And that your title was a namesake given in honor for your dad.

As far as your personal life was concerned, all we got was you moved from media eyes after divorce and got depressed. Once they found a guy who took pictures of you with an older guy but then it turned out to be your personal bodyguard.

Then again you were Adithya's daughter. So they were scared about the evidence for The Prime Minister's murder. If you made it public, everything will get really painful to handle. So they wanted to be sure and Naren said the most efficient way was to take you out directly.

And we knew within the city, you had people all around you and we cannot touch you. Thus the minute you stepped out, Naren asked their people to take you out and sent me to extract information. He staged an accident on both sides of you making it impossible for any cars to reach you for about half an hour." He said the whole thing like he was reading them out of a book without any pause.

Shreya stared at him for a long time after he finished talking. Her gut told her he was being honest. Moreover, with Naren… He always behaved like such a prick that the people under him always despised him a bit… With him, integrity and loyalty came from fear rather than respect. So she could see that there was not really much love lost between him and Dharsh.

"You can go…" Shreya said waving her hand. "And remember, you don't know where your sister is but I do. So you better not say anything unnecessary about what you saw here." She said pointedly giving a look towards Charan.

Of course, Dharsh understood. But then he frowned and asked, "What do you mean, go??" He thought he would end up dead after confessing. That is why the words flowed like a river.

"I mean get out!!" Shreya said once again.

"Am I going to be shot on the back once I walk out of the door??" He asked suspiciously.

Shreya just gave him a look.

"Right… You won't do something that troublesome… You will just put a bullet to my head now…" Dharsh answered for her. "But I can't go out like this… if I go like this… I am a dead man… You might as well shoot me now."

Shreya pursed her lips for a second before lifting the gun in her left hand and said, "As you wish…" bang… the bullet pierced his shoulders. Her hands did not shake nor did her eyes flinch as if she does this every day.

"Argh… God damn it!! I hate bullet wounds…" Dharsh grumbled covering his wound.

"Get creative with your story…" Shreya said and got up from her place but she did not leave just yet. She approached him and took his right hand in hers. Dharsh looked at her confused but then meeting her haunted dark eyes, he knew he was not going to like what's coming his way.

Shreya pointed her gun at his palms callously and said solemnly, "That one is for your safety. But this one is for pointing a gun at my boyfriend!!" And she shot him right through his palm making him wail.

She then left him crouching on the floor in pain.

"And yea, you will find your best friend Vicky at the hospital south of here. He probably has a long list of complaints." Shreya said and walked out completely with Zack, Charan, Ayush, and Nakul hot on her trail.

Dharsh cursed under his breath. He couldn't digest why Vicky got away so easily after slicing her but then he got shot twice after doing absolutely nothing to her. But he couldn't do anything more than grumble as he got out.

It took them half an hour to reach their cars. Four cars were parked in succession.

Shreya got in last but she deliberately avoided sitting beside Charan. Thus Ayush drove as Charan sat on the driver side passenger seat while Shreya got on the back with Zack. The car zoomed through the highway at high speed. And the inside of the car was absolute silence. Charan rested leaned behind and rested his eyes for a while. Zack was in his phone dealing with things while Shreya stared blankly outside.

By the time they actually reached the city, they were caught in rush hour traffic.

When they neared their area, Ayush asked doubtfully, "Where to??"

"Akira's school…"

"Hospital!!"

Shreya and Charan gave different answers simultaneously. But given the mood, Ayush drove straight to Akira's school without a word.

When they reached the school, the entrance was filled with parents dropping kids. A while later, Andrew pulled his car, and Akira jumped down waving a bye at him. But he stopped her on her track and brought her to Shreya's car.

Shreya would have gone down, but she did not want to risk things. But even then she couldn't help but want to see her.

Akira's eyes brightened instantaneously seeing Shreya. She struggled impatiently to get in the car. Shreya chuckled and lifted her off her feet into her laps. She embraced her tightly. Relief swept in like a storm. She calmed down at last. Somehow, breathing on her scent she felt a peace of mind that no one else could give her. She did not know how she ended up depending on Akira so much.

All the way here, all she could think of was that today, this little bundle of joy would have lost her father too because of her. Just the thought was so terrifying to her that it actually hurt physically. But now seeing her smiling face, she was really thankful for all gods in the universe that Charan was okay.

"Baby, are you ready for your exam today??" Shreya asked still holding on to her.

Akira nodded her head over her shoulders and said proudly, "Of course. I will get a hundred in science even without studying…"

"That's my girl!!" Shreya said ruffling her head. That's when Akira noticed her wounded hand.

"What happened Shreya??" She asked in a slightly high pitched concerned voice taking Shreya's hand in her small ones. Her eyes widened seeing the blood.

"Nothing baby. I just fell down. Now go on and do your exams well." Shreya said taking back her hands and pecking on her forehead.

"Don't worry, baby. I will take her to the hospital. Now you go to school and ace your exams okay??" Charan said softly picking her up from Shreya's laps and walked towards the school gates.

By the time Charan came back to the car, Shreya had lost all her energy and fell unconscious. She had been running around on sheer grit for so long. But when she met Akira, all her anxiety flew away making her faint.

They rushed her to the hospital.