บท 17: Chapter 16
"Tuk tuk tuk," Her boot heels clicked and echoed as she sternly strolling through the dark basement. The echo resonated through the long dark corridor giving away an eerie feeling that rose goosebumps.
She entered a room. The room was 10 floors under the Sri Corporation tower. Only way in is through an elevator and access is restricted to a hand full of people. When there was a need they had remote location but when things were not way too complicated, they simply used this basement for all their dirty works.
There was nothing there. It was just a huge open hall with concrete walls on all sides with a steel door and ventilators above.
Shreya swiftly approached the center of the hall were the hacker was sat to a chair. He had bags under his eyes but other than that he was untouched. There were guards all around the room inconspicuously standing in shadows.
A little while later, Zack came from behind her and place a chair for her. But he did not leave instead he stood guard just a few feet behind her.
Shreya leisurely sat down on the chair kneeling her hands on the armrest and crossed her legs. Her posture was extremely arrogant while her face showed extreme indifference as if she had dealt with such a situation on a daily basis.
"It's a pleasure to meet you Mr. Rajesh Aurora." Shreya said coolly resting her chin on her hands. She looked at him with a sweet sinister smile.
A chill ran through his spines. Even though she looked small and talked with a sweet smile his instincts said otherwise. He felt as if she was not someone he could actually handle. But then if he showed any weakness right from the start, he will be dead for sure. So he steeled himself and looked at her with faked calm eyes.
"Pleasures all mine." Rajesh replied sarcastically.
"Oh you do not have to flatter me." Shreya replied and let out a chuckle.
She was chatting with him as if he was some long lost friend rather than her hostage. Somehow this was more unnerving than the interrogations he had gone through with her subordinates. Even then he strived hard to keep a straight face.
After dilly dallying for a while Shreya got to the point.
"Look Rajesh, I appreciate your skill. And you obviously know your client and it should be easy to guess why they asked for the sort of information you have collected right??" Shreya asked still maintaining her relaxed posture.
Rajesh remained silent. Of course he knew the information he collected won't be used for anything good. But then he needed the cash. He had no choice. He wouldn't have taken the assignment otherwise.
Seeing as he was not replying anything, Shreya continued, "So… I thought about it and then I did exactly what you did. I simply found leverage just like you did." She then nonchalantly took out the tablet and tapped away on it.
Rajesh back stiffened immediately. He was in the verge of losing it already. He had been in here for what felt like years which already put him on edge since there were people who were waiting for him on the outside. So when he saw his daughter's photo on the tablet as she dangled it on his face, the surge of anxiety and anger surged through him. His eyes instantly turned red as his mind played all sorts of worst case scenario's that can happen to his daughter.
Rajesh lunged for her, "You bitch…" But his hands were met with iron grip while Shreya stayed in her leisure state without even bothering to bat an eye or move a muscle. She did not even flinch. She just looked up at him amused while people retrained him. He couldn't even touch her hair.
"When you do it, it's alright! But when I do the same, you suddenly feel unfair. Don't you think it's extremely hypocritical of you??" Shreya asked languish while letting out a sarcastic laughter.
Rajesh immediately froze. He realized he was beat the minute she walked in. He realized she was playing him like a game for entertainment. His façade of calm instantly crumbled as he stopped struggling, "Sorry… I'm sorry… I just had no choice. I… You should know why I had to do it." He started pleading instantly.
"Oh you surrendered already?? Wow. Pritham is going to nag me now. He had painstakingly gathered so much information and all it took was a single photo." She said lamenting to herself without giving regard to pleading voice of Rajesh.
Rajesh knew the moment she called his name, the person in front of her was not someone he cannot take lightly. He had covered his tracks pretty well. But she found it in a matter of two days. SO he knew he was screwed already. He was just trying to buy some time but when he saw his daughter's photo, what little will he had completely drained.
"I will tell you. I will tell you who hired me… I will do anything you ask for. Just.. please.. please don't hurt my little girl. She doesn't know anything." He begged.
"Speak" Shreya said simply and waved her hands. The guards instantly let him go.
Rajesh staggered and sat on his knees and started talking. "I don't know how they knew of my skill. I had stopped that line of work a long time ago when I got married. But somehow they tracked me down. The assignment came 3 months ago. But I just accepted it now since I needed the money suddenly. They made down payment. I traced the email and money back to S corporation. I have evidence and stuffs. I will show you. I am not lying."
Shreya did not ask anything else. She just turned towards Zack and said, "See?? It was so easy. For this, you guys sat with him for three days. Shame on you." She was obviously teasing him while Zack glared at her.
Shreya somehow exactly knew where to hit with just one glance. She could always say where it would hurt the most. She was too lazy for physical torture and she was pretty much an expert in psychological torture.
Shreya did not bother after that. She stood up to leave with Zack hot on her trail.
Once in elevator she turned to Zack and gave some instructions, "Just tell him to mail the evidence over and let him go. Take him to his daughter. She must be out of surgery any minute now."
"Once she recovers slightly, relocate them. When S corp. finds that he was released from our custody and he has no info for them, he is going to be caught on cross fires. Cover his tracks and relocated him."
When Shreya went through Rajesh background, she already lost the urge to keep him. He was a normal family guy with a normal job. He had kept his skills under wraps for a long time now. His daughter is around 18 years now and she needed a kidney transplant all of sudden due to some unforeseen circumstances. Shreya already guessed he must have taken the job by seer desperation. The people hired him probably used it to their advantage knowingly.
So she arranged for her daughter's surgery as soon as she came to know of it. She was planning to let him go today regardless of whether he told her anything or not.
She was just going to play with him for a bit, but she did not expect him to crumble so completely. She slightly felt guilty for it now.
'Anyways he will be happy to see his daughter safe and sound in a couple of hours and when that happen he will forget about her mental torture completely' Shreya mumbled to herself and brushed it off as she got out of the elevator strutted out of the building.
Zack gapped at her back. This is why nobody really dared to cross with Shreya. Coz if any of them truly pissed her off, none of them could survive her wrath. They would rather face her physical abuse.
Just her 'wanting to play' brought Rajesh to his knees. Imagine what could happen if she truly wanted to torture someone!!!
Simply put, Shreya was a she-devil in jeans and sweats.
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