Chapter 259 - You failed to teach me that!

Things went from hectic to crazy after the day Abishek showed up. Shreya rarely left her office… no… scratch that, Shreya did not leave her office after walking into them the next day morning. She had been working like crazy.

They had to reach out to the authorities but had to filter out the one who could handle the caliber of the case they were handling and also someone uncompromising.

It was actually Abishek who suggested approaching the head of the Intelligence Department who was as straight assed as it can get… of course, Shreya did a thorough background which proved to be very difficult given his nature of work.

So, she met up with him, face to face, to get a sense of him… and he approached the current Prime Minister… even though Shreya was skeptical, given he was Girish's confident, she agreed.

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The biggest issue came when all the culprits ended up being people in high places on the corporate ladder. Taking them all out will result in the economy being crashed in days which would affect the country on the whole.

The economy was already shaky with the top 3 companies being under the weather in the past month or so. But was surviving because of Sri corp. pitching in and they gave the business to a lot of lower-level companies. But if the same were to happen on a bigger scale, it would end up in a disaster and the Prime Minister absolutely refused to take any action until someone could provide a foolproof plan to boost the economy up, after.

So, Shreya reached out to her foreign partners and got a lot of investments. Even that was not exactly enough, so she pulled in every last penny she could spare and pumped in.

All this resulted in a crazy shit load of work for everyone. Even when no one know what exactly was happening, they had a vague guess of the company being expanded further at a very large scale in a short amount of time which made Sri corp shares go up through the roof.

The problem was it brought a lot of suspicion on Shreya herself while everyone speculated on the 'Why's' and 'What's next!'

Like a domino effect, everything was falling into place. And of course, the very first action the authorities took was the freeze all the accounts that Malini had found.

Shreya made a deal with the Prime Minister to actually cease and let her personally oversee the distribution of the same to the relevant victim… which he was reluctant to agree with… but Shreya convinced him very gently… note the sarcasm.

Now, Malini was standing in her father's office looking as calm as ever while Abimanyu was looking at her condescendingly.

But Malini had a straight face. Her eyes were actually very clear. She did not flinch under her gaze. She had come to her dad when he was investigating the reason behind the accounts getting creased. They had hit a very dead end in the investigation.

What was an even more mystery was how did they find those accounts in the first place.

"You do not have to give me a look like that, dad. I know you are getting tired too… let it go." Malini said calmly while Abimanyu became furious.

He had one daughter… she had been his everything as long as he could remember… especially after he had lost his wife and Malini joined his company. They had been a team… He never thought that the same daughter would be the one becoming the stepping stone for his demise after all.

If it had been anyone else, he could have done something about it… maybe even killed them. But it had been his daughter… all he can do now is stay quiet and wish none of his other partners find out about this.

But for the life of him, he could not figure out why! Even if she had been threatened, he did not know why she never came forward.

"Why, princess? Why? Why did you have to be the one to stab me on my back? Why does it have to be you?" Abimanyu asked. His voice and face gave away the confusion and the complicated feelings he was going through at that moment.

A small part of him did not want to believe it… a small part of him was suspicious that her motives could be as simple as greed.

But a larger part of him knew Malini was not like that… and subconsciously, he even knew why she had done it. But he did not want to accept it because it would mean accepting the dirty nature of the work he had been carrying on all these years… accepting it means he would have to bear a part of him that he had been hiding from her.

And now even after knowing that Malini already knew, he did not want to accept it… he avoided thinking about it.

Malini just gave Abimanyu a self-deprecating smile as she answered his question.

"You are asking me why? Well, I guess the answer to it is probably that you had somehow succeeded in raising me right in spite of everything!! You have raised me to be someone doing the right things… a patriot!! So, you get half the credit for my actions!!"

Abimanyu gave his daughter a stunned look… Her words resonated with that part of him that he had long buried and forgotten all those eyes ago…

"I did not come and work in the company to end up becoming some high profile goon, dad. You just did not raise me to be one! Sorry…" Malini said rubbing her hands over her face.

"I love you… but I cannot stand here and do nothing after knowing what I know… sorry. You failed to teach me that! Do me a favor and do not fight it. It will just get so much worse…" Malini uttered and left the room without looking back. Good or bad, she was not ready to face his reaction just yet… especially if it was going to be bad. She was not ready to face a pair of eyes filled with guilt… especially from her father.

Abimanyu looked at her retrieving figure and unknownst to him, his eyes slightly filled with pride… of her and for himself for raising her as such even if it had brought them to such a junction.