Chapter 276 - What is his problem?

Shreya on the other end reached the conference room very swiftly.

Everyone was present along with Abishek. It was not that she was accepting him or anything but she just felt things would go more with ease with him present here… after all, the people did not ask for money or anything but for Abishek… so, knowingly or unknowingly, he should know something or another.

And even if he was pretending, it was better to keep him close than far…

She did not bother greeting anyone. She just sat on the chair and asked, "Progress?"

And everyone around the table obediently started reporting.

"Well, we got the guys who sent you the mail as instructed. You can see him whenever you want!!" Akash first started…

"Identity?" Shreya asked once again not using many words. She was kind of impatient now… she wanted to get home as soon as possible. Even though she did not particularly want to hide this from Charan, she still was reluctant to talk about all this unpleasant shit as soon as they got together after such a long time.

She was not the one to hide things… but a large part of her wanted to keep Charan and Akira as they are without really dragging them into the dirty waters with her… this was part of her… something she will have to live with. Dealing with such things was inevitable for her. But is not so for Charan…

Pritham forwards his tablet as always bring Shreya out of her head and started talking as Shreya glimpsed and followed his information on the tablet.

"This is the guy… Ajay Prathap. We caught him trying to flee the scene. We almost missed him too… He is pretty fast"

"Very well trained. He has high-level survival skills and instincts. And he would have probably made it to special forces if he had passed the phycological evaluation." Zack continued.

"What is his problem?" Shreya frowned swiping through his career records.

"Lack of empathy and moral compass… He had no right or wrong way to achieve his end result. So, the army never gave him any place of authority and always kept him under tight wraps until he retired." Srinivas joined the party.

"And look who his immediate superior and trainer was?" He continued sitting down.

After all, this information was something he got from his former teammates who were there in the selection committee now.

Shreya frowned and zoomed in on his records and her eyes widened.

It was none other than Major Kathick, the convicted victim for the murder of the Prime Minister.

"He was the one who found the problem with him… He was the one who suggested to keep him under him to keep an eye on him. For most parts, they were best friends in any layman's view until you read the reports Karthick submits to the army every few months."

"Karthick made a thorough psychological evaluation on Ajay and wrote a report in periodical intervals."

"Did Ajay ever found out about this?" Shreya asked. After all, if he did… with his temperament, Shreya could already guess what he would want and the consequences of it.

"Yes… You can pretty much say he had been pitting Karthick for a while without luck until, of course, he was convicted that is…"

"And he had been loitering around you for quite some time… He claimed he was hired to keep surveillance on you…" Srinivas said. And he also handed some photos as proof taken from surveillance camera's around the city.

"Shreya looked over and arched her brows as she asked, "Claims? You do not believe him??"

Srinivas shook his head…

"I don't know what but he definitely knows more than he is letting out. He swears with his eyes closed that he did not know about Kathick's undercover mission… I mean, I can believe if he said he had only vague knowledge but not knowing at all does not make sense… I mean they were practically living together… neighbors. Even if Karthick did not confide in him, he would have noticed the obvious signs with his skill. It's almost not possible to not notice such things when you are trained. Especially given the amount of hostility he had towards Karthick." Srinivas elaborated.

And he had seen him too… and he was someone with a deep heart. After all, he was able to follow him and not be caught… which was not a normal feat to achieve. He should be someone who is trained to be able to lie under the worst of circ.u.mstances…

Zack evaluated further after a pause, "Only a person who has something bigger to hide will even lie about a dead cause… after all, we cannot persecute him for something that happened all those time ago…"

"Did he tell you who hired him?" She asked.

Srinivas once again shook his head and answered, "He said it was an anonymous bit online that he accepted but he did not have any cash on him…"

Shreya absentmindedly nodded her head but her brain was blank for a while. She felt like she was missing something obvious… but cannot figure out what.

She knew the maid got the information about the island from Susmitha… but she couldn't figure out the purpose of this whole ordeal.

She then turned to Abishek and asked, "What is your connection to all this?"

Abishek frowned and thought about it before asking, "When did he retire from the army?"

Pritham stated the answer and saw Abishek's eyes dim a bit as he lazily answered, "I was far out of the army by then and we never hired him for his services. It was just after Girish's death… we were in the cease operation then. NO hire, nothing. Your parent's thing was the first mission in forever…

But then he swallowed the words seeing as the temperature around the room was dropping. But then when he thought about Shreya's parent's affairs, his eyes widened in shock. He quickly scrambled and took the tablet in front of him for the first time and looked at the information…

The whole room was quiet as they watched Abishek go through the information.