RETURN OF THE SHADOW - Chapter 213

She never took these things to heart or pitied the victims. She knew that these victims had enjoyed the riches and blood money earned by their loved ones. So, she always believed that they had to be aware of it at some level. She just considered it as a clearing of weeds required for the others to survive. Unexpectedly, she found herself on the receiving of it today and she felt her beliefs changing.

She wondered if her brother and family really were unaware of her activities. She felt that they must have at least had a few doubts about it. She definitely wouldn’t have completely believed that her brother believed her reasons and excuses for some of her behaviour, but she did knew that he accepted that she kept secrets from him and let her have those secrets as he loved her. It was then, she understood that the ones she killed might have been in similar situations.

“You were one of Parvati’s death squad. So, I need to suggest you the things she intends to do to your loved ones,” said Bruce interrupting her thoughts. “The more trouble she faces from me, the less she would be concerned about your loved ones. So, I will give you a one-time offer. Tell me something that would trouble her, and I give you my word that I will let you and your team free. Depending on your information, I might even help you save the ones you care about.”

“Like I would trust your word. You do remember telling me that you had no intention to fight me, right?” replied the woman.

“I do, and there was no fight. You might have been confused by your rapid discharge of your sidearm, but there was never a fight. You fell into my trap and I took you down. The same happened with your team. You are a death squad. Do you honestly think that there would be no casualties if there was a fight?” asked Bruce.

“No,” he continued as his voice became louder and angrier. “There were not even the slightest injuries to any personnel involved in the incident. You, your team and even Parvati are not qualified to fight me. Even her father wouldn’t have such stupid thought. And for the same reason, I know he isn’t involved in this. So, I suggest that you talk. The faster you talk, the better it is for you. I recommend that you start with your name.”

“C.o.c.ky old man,” she thought hearing Bruce’s dialogue about them not being qualified to fight him. “But it is best if I co-operate with him for now. Ever since, Parvati gave the command to kill him by blowing myself up, all relationsh.i.p.s between me and her are torn. I would go down and probably my family even if I stay loyal to her.”

“Name is Janet. Janet Goldspot,” said the woman finally revealing her information.

“Goldspot? Huh!” said Bruce. “Haven’t heard that name for a long time. You know there used to be a candy by that name. Of course, one wouldn’t have seen one for a few centuries.”

“You all right?” asked Janet surprised by Bruce’s blabber wondering whether it was a sensible thing to join him.

“Yes. Just felt that I heard the name some place before. So, I guess your dad was one of the managers of the Banerjee’s stores. Toby is your brother,” said Bruce looking at a screen on which he looked for associates of the Banerjee’s with that name.

“That was fast,” said Janet.

“We could estimate your age. Expecting your time of death on official records with a certain range and we know that you would have been involved with Banerjee’s at some level to have this position at your age,” said Barbara. “It wasn’t hard to search after knowing your name. Would have been easier if you didn’t have such extensive facial reconstruction. Probably done after the accident in which you and your father were proclaimed dead.”

“Ok. Now, what do you want to know?” asked Janet. Now, she was the one in a hurry. It was important for her that she get out and save her brother as soon as possible.

“What is her plan? Who are all involved?” asked Bruce.

“Don’t know. She hardly tells anyone.”

“Is her father involved?” asked Barbara.

“Probably, she does have someone who advises her, and she even takes commands from him, but no one know who it is,” said Janet. “He keeps himself hidden and all she hears in our presence is a voice. Could be her father.”

“I told you that you trust him too much. He must be involved. She couldn’t have done this without his help,” said Barbara.

“If he betrayed me, it wouldn’t have been such a roundabout means of attack. He would have done better, even if he did it alone without involving any of his family,” said Bruce waving his hand before his daughter continued about her suspicions of Bharat Banerjee.

“Anything else?” asked Bruce. “It is best that you be as forthcoming as you can. The more she gets distracted by me, the better your chances.”

“I have something else, but I am willing to only do it if you help me secure my family,” said Janet.

“Anything else?”

“You accept that?” asked Janet surprised that the man immediate agreed to help the person who had discharged a weapon in an attempt to kill him a few moments ago.

“Yes, but they will be under my custody. You will help me, and I am even willing to let you work for me after this is done,” said Bruce.

Janet found it extremely hard to believe his words, but it was her best option to save her family for now by co-operating with him. She hardly had other options and if she refused it, she didn’t know what else she could do.

“I don’t need you to trust me, but you are injected with a proprietary pico bot tech which can disable your motor functions as you are currently experiencing. With it, I can make sure that you don’t do anything stupid and one of my men will have control of it when you go to save them,” said Bruce. “Frankly speaking, I am sure that Parvati and her backer would be under duress by the end of the day. I don’t even need any of your help, but I would like to preserve as much of my forces as I can. So, I am asking for information from you.”

“What gives such confidence? I looked into your details, but nothing apart from a regular soldier who got out of the armed forces and provides security services to industrialists,” asked Janet.

“That is what you were meant to know when you search about me. Only a select few know more than that and you don’t get to know more. Maybe later, but not now. Now I own you,” said Bruce as he changed settings of the pico bots he injected her with to enable her motor functions. “You destroyed my property and tried to kill me. I need to get even. So, you get your family and you work for me till that debt is paid. We can discuss those details later, but you can go ahead and tell me whatever you think would help.”

“Don’t inquests usually involve more violent means?” asked Janet.

“Sure, that is true but only in cases where the inquest is being done by your enemies. Right now, we are being collaborators and you know your enemy is someone else. I know your first priority is to escape. You value your life. To tell the truth, I don’t understand how someone like you is in a death squad. You aren’t suitable for it,” said Bruce.

“You are good, but don’t act like you know me,” said Janet.

“I don’t know you, but I know enough about you for you to do as I want,” said Bruce. “Now, stop wasting my time.”

“Fine, I know a name, but he is supposed to be dead. He is someone so important that Parvati killed one of my team for overhearing it. Bhagvat,” said Janet.

Bruce eyes grew large almost popping out when he heard it. “He kept quite a few secrets, didn’t he?” he mumbled to himself.

“Barbara arrange for extraction of her family. I need to call for a meeting,” said Bruce leaving a confused Barbara with Janet.

“I guess it was useful to him,” mumbled Barbara as she set to work. “Though it is enough for him. I have more plans for you.”

“Aren’t you supposed to listen to him?” asked Janet.

“He wouldn’t mind. I just need to know more, but not about Parvati and her secrets. Let him be involved with the secrets. I want to know about the things you are expected to know. How you got your resources and any other people involved in the attempted murder of my father,” said Barbara. “Also, any forces she had previously deployed personally and not involved with the Banerjee’s telecommunication services business, the organization structure of her forces.”

“Oh! Sure. At least you are making more sense than your father. It was like he hardly cared about the organization,” remarked Janet. “You sure that he hasn’t gone senile. He is known to veteran of the war a few decades ago. People involved in the wars before the alliance got control tend to be a bit off.”

Janet expected that Barbara would at least consider her words, but the only response her words garnered from Barbara was a stare that made her extremely uncomfortable. “Talk such things about my father again, I will break your jaw,” replied Barbara. “He has concerns about things we are not aware of. Stick to answering the questions you are asked. Don’t mistake your situation just because he was a bit friendly. You are still a captive and you will be even during the mission. Any of the men her you talk smack about my father, they would beat you up. Don’t cause unnecessary trouble by talking crap.”

Barbara led her to another room where she and a bunch of other men were gearing up for a fight. Janet was asked a few questions and she replied as much as she knew while they got ready. After that Barbara left Janet with a crew after giving them instruction on how to handle her.

On the way back, she contacted her father through her wrist device. “What happened? What are you doing?” she asked as Bruce’s face appeared on the screen.

“ShadowCard. There is a chance it has been infiltrated. Prepare for a silent war. Get to a safe place. Quit all communications with D.i.c.k. He is with Balthazar going after the ones responsible for the attack of that moon. The two might be involved,” said Bruce.

“You are kidding?” asked Barbara. “Don’t we need to inform D.i.c.k and get him to safety, if the Shadow Card is infiltrated?”

“No. It is just a doubt. Taking precautions. If it is really so, we don’t want to let them know we are onto them.”

“But that is true only if Parvati doesn’t know that the girl didn’t know that name, Bhagvat. If she is aware, they might have already taken action against D.i.c.k,” said Barbara concerned for her husband.

“He can handle himself and more than that. Stop worrying about him. I have given him instructions already and he is with the Blyths, armed and on a covert assignment. No information on the Shadow Card accounts or anything. Only case we need to worry is if someone is still working for them within the Blyth family. He is already on lookout for that,” said Bruce. “Now, get to a safe place and don’t get out unless I or D.i.c.k contact you.”

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