Chapter 243 - You are not much of a chitchat person, are you?

If anything, Shreya really hated surprises. Especially when it came to working… she needed everything under her control when she was doing anything. She absolutely makes sure that nothing happens without her knowledge under her nose. She just let some things slide knowingly… but if the same had happened without her knowledge she tends to freak out…

"Why the hell is Abishek Mehra sitting there in my corridor and I am just knowing about it?" Shreya asked in a slightly raised voice into the phone.

As always, Shreya did not really say any greeting or explain anything. So, Zack had a baffled expression on his face without really knowing how to reply.

"Ask our guys to escort him up to the floor below, conference room 7. I will be there in 10 minutes." Shreya passed on other instructions without giving Zack any chance to respond. And of course, she also cut the call without waiting for a response.

"Anne, I need the east wing of the floor below fully cleared. Nobody in or out until I say so…" Shreya ordered again.

So, 15 minutes later, Shreya was sitting in the conference room with Abishek sitting facing her on the far end of the table. There was absolute silence and no one around.

Even the corridors were empty because of Shreya removing all personals in this wing.

It was actually Abishek who broke the silence between them. He was once again impressed by Shreya. After all, in a battle of minds, the first one to start a conversation often gives too much away since it means he is impatient. But he was not here for any mind games, so he started the conversation without much hesitation.

"Sorry to have come here uninformed. And sorry about shaking off the tails you had on me… I just couldn't take the risk!" With his experience, spotting a tail is not really something he had to do consciously… but he let it be since shaking it off at the time would have only resulted in more people the next days.

He had a smirk on his face that irritated Shreya to no end but she still kept quiet.

"What do you want?" Shreya asked coldly.

"You are not much of a chitchat person, are you?" Abishek asked smiling. And this time it was not taunting but more like a tease from an elder to his junior.

Shreya sat back on her chair seeing as this wasn't going to end as smoothly and as quickly as she thought it would.

"Not particularly… at least not with the person responsible for my parents' demise… I would rather not make friends with them if you know what I mean!?" Shreya's voice was dripping with sarcasm all the through while her eyes kept at him mocking him slightly.

Abishek was actually left speechless. He did not answer it but took out his bag and unzipped it.

"Don't worry, there is no bomb in here…" He commented.

But Shreya just shrugged her shoulders. She was not really being cautious about the bag in the first place. For one, she knew Zack would have done his job… and of course, if Abishek really wanted to something to her, he wouldn't have walked through the front doors of her office.

"I am not really that worried. I figured you would have a million other ways if you wanted to hurt me… Not one where you end being the prime suspect and about a 10000 witnesses to vouch for it." Shreya shrugged nonchalantly.

Abishek just smiled before pushing some files and a hard drive towards Shreya. Shreya did not reach out at her but just looked at Abishek.

"Look at it…" He just said confidently.

Shreya just sat back without really touching it as she stared at Abishek. She was slightly put off. If it were something on her, she would be able to handle it. But if there was something they had found out about people around her, she was not really sure what she would end up.

But Abishek just stared back at her without urging her anymore.

Shreya sighed but leaned in to take the file and flipped it open after a bit of hesitation.

Her eyes immediately widened after giving it a quick skim. She looked up at Abishek completely shocked.

"Why are you giving me this…?" Shreya asked shocked. Not in a million years did she think she will be receiving something like this when she heard he was here to see her.

"You should know what happened to my granddaughter right?" Abishek asked. That is when Shreya actually noticed how tired he looked. He did not look well.

Shreya nodded her head. It was a tragedy actually. Just a random terrorist bombing… the police had been looking on to him but before they could actually catch the guy, he blew himself taking about a dozen people with him along with Abishk's granddaughter who was there with her nanny.

But Shreya really couldn't bring herself to sympathize or empathize with him since he was someone who had been responsible for things like that even if he did not do this particular one.

"I can almost hear the contempt in your mind just with the way you are looking at me…" Abishek commented staring at her eyes. But somehow, looking at her eyes actually put some peace of mind to him.

All the other people who had met up with him in all the days following, they always had a pitiful and sympathetic look in their eyes… which just made things so much worse for him. It was almost suffocating to be on the receiving end of such an expression. Because the more they empathized, the more he felt as if they were mocking at him… or maybe telling him, he had it coming. Or maybe it was his own guilt telling him that. It made him feel very ashamed to meet them. But Shreya's eyes… that pure contempt in them… you can see that she did not really have any sympathy for him…

Her eyes were just cold and stern. She was looking at him just the way he felt about himself.