Chapter 264 - Did you find out where we messed up?

Time ticked by and the sun slowly set. The sky went dark… and the whole field was quiet except for the rustling of the wind.

But after a few minutes, the silence and the night sky was broken by a car approaching with their lights glaring and horns blaring. The car stopped just short of the car Shreya was sitting in right now.

Dharsh alight the car swiftly. He looked agitated and he came out. As soon as Shreya came down from her car, he went ballistic.

"What the f.u.c.k do you want now…?? I did every damn shit you asked… I even sent you warning messages… why the f.u.c.k are you still torturing me with pictures??"

But before he can reach Shreya, Zack restrained him back.

Shreya just rolled her eyes…

"I just asked one of my guys to take a selfie with her… they never even approached her or harmed her hairs… I just needed some information and the pictures are just incentives…" Her voice was nonchalant and sarcastic at best without any care.

All Dharsh could do was swallow his frustration and give her a blank look.

Zack let go of Dharsh as Shreya approached him.

Shreya extended a tablet with the email they had received and asked, "Was this Naren?"

Dharsh frowned for a second before taking the tablet and his eyes focused on the mail and became confused.

"When did this happen?" Dharsh asked.

"Little more than an hour's time past…" Shreya replied.

"Where are they?" Dharsh asked once again.

Shreya took a minute but then came to a decision and answered honestly, "It's a private island… off the coast of Bahamas… about a day's flight from here…"

"This is not us… Naren is still reeling on how to save his own ass… he is still hoping to get out of this alive… He is pulling every last string he has with all his might… He does not have the brainpower nor the manpower to reach outside this city let alone outside this country…" He said handing the tablet back to Shreya.

Shreya tapped away on the tablet and gave them back to him and asked, "You recognize any of the people here?"

Dharsh took a minute as he swiped through all the photos and shook his head.

Shreya took back the tablet and said, "Thanks for your help…" She then got back in the car and was out of the field without a trace.

When she came back to the office, Akash and Adam were there…

"Did you find out where we messed up?" She asked without really greeting them.

Akash and Adam stayed silent with their head hung down slightly.

Shreya waited, tapping on her fingers impatiently.

After a lot of deliberations, Akash extended a photo of the head maid. It was taken out of the CCTV footage.

"It is probably her. But we still don't know who she is… all the other people checked out. But the head maid we hired and checked out was someone else… She was killed just hours before the take-off… Her body was discovered only when our guys knocked on her doors to check out an hour ago… And this lady went in her place," Akash explained he showed Shreya whatever they found or to be precise, he showed her what they couldn't find.

"Problem is we couldn't find her…not in Abishek's records nor in our records. Nobody knows who she is or where she is from…" Adam continued after him.

Shreya's hands fisted in anger.

"You are telling me we know nothing about who it is or what is their purpose?" Shreya's voice seethed.

Silence ensued after that…

"Were you able to contact them?" Shreya after a while…

"Nope…" Adam answered.

"When is the meeting with the minister…?" She asked next.

"In an hour… in his office… You should know… he is pissed… after all, he was due for a meeting abroad tomorrow which he had to cancel without notice because of us…" Adam answered once again.

"Well, he is going to be more pissed after the meeting… He just has to learn to live with that!" Shreya said flatly.

Right then Pritham walked in.

"Did you find Abishek?" Shreya asked him as soon as he came in.

"Almost… don't worry… I will have his location in a couple of hours…" Pritham said confidently.

Shreya nodded and said, "Keep our guys ready… but don't make the move until I say so…" Shreya instructed.

Pritham nodded diligently as always but did not make the move to exit.

"Something else?" Shreya asked.

"This is the guy who sent the photos…" Pritham said showing her a photo of a guy…

Shreya took the photo and blinked at Pritham.

"He served in the army in Karthick's squad and he was Karthick's best friend…" Pritham elaborated.

Shreya's eyes twitched slightly but she did not react.

"Find out more information on people in that squad. And locate them… Also, keep an eye on this guy but do not make a move on him until I say so… Ask our people to quietly walk out if they get discovered."

Everyone in the room nodded.

"Now get out… I need some time alone…" Shreya said and dismissed them.

Everyone quietly left the room. Seeing the distress on Shreya's face, Akash stopped at the doors and hesitated to leave but then he too left without a word.

Shreya's face crumbled as soon as they left as she rested her head on the desk… her mind kept showing her all the worst-case scenarios that could happen to Charan and his family… the kind of scare Akira could get.

Tears ran down her cheeks without her knowing… She took great effort to compose her emotions. Blood dripped down her palms as she clenched them tightly with her nails almost breaking in half.

But Shreya did not feel the pain at all…

She just stayed like that for a long while before exiting to room… she went straight out where Zack was once again waiting for her. She got in the car and the car drove off in a jiffy.