Anurakti

60: Tragedy

"The talwar Gang is under me."

"WHAT?!"
She yelled, standing up from the bench in front of him.

"Yeah. The men I told you about..........they are the Talwar gang. I-"

"You do realize what you are saying right? The Talwar Gang?"
She asked and he nodded. She looked around and they were all looking their way and she cursed herself for panicking and making it obvious that she knew.
She has never panicked once in her six year career.

"Tell me truthfully Sahaj, are they after you? Are they threatening you? I promise I'll kill each one of them if that's the case. Are they threatening you about killing Radha or Aditya Uncle?"
She asked calmly, trying to make him believe that she would help him.

Sahaj shook his head and chuckled awkwardly, rubbing his neck. What was it with her obsession of killing. She talked about killing as casually as people talk about the weather.

"There's nothing like that Samidha. I mean what I say. The Talwar gang is under me."

"How the hell am I supposed to believe you?! You were terrified of me till the day I told you about Rishabh's sister just because I killed some nobody's! You think I don't know how terrified you were to ask me for coffee? How am I supposed to believe that you are in a gang which has killed people?"
She whisper yelled at him and he stood up, causing her to do the same.

"They only kill the corrupt people who trouble the weak! Some brutal murders, yes. But you know they all deserved to die! And it's not like I kill people. The Talwar gang was in function way before I even knew what a gang was. All I did was fund them and make them from the state, to a national level gang. Plus people love the Talwar Gang."

"You fund them?"

"Yes. All I do is fund them. Nothing else. And I can bet on my life that not one good person has ever been caused even a microscopic level of harm by my men."

Samidha sat on the bench and held her forehead.

"I.........I know everyone knows Satyam Reddy is the leader of Talwar and he holds immense power in his hands and people absolutely fucking love him. But that doesn't mean he is safe. You know how many times he has been attacked right? You know how dangerous all this is right?"
She asked, shaking her legs and looking at him with her big eyes which probably held the universe.

He crouched down in front of her and nodded.

"All I did was give money to Satyam Reddy to continue doing justice. He made Talwar big by the money, he helps the poor and he eliminates the bad. I do nothing. And he probably won't even need my money in the next few years."

"That doesn't make you safe."

"Then you can keep protecting me."

"Till when?"

"Forever?"
He asked and she snorted, pushing him away, causing him to lose his balance on his toes and lightly fall down on the ground, standing up herself.

"Are you trying to make me forget that you kidnapped me by being this cheesy?"

"I didn't kidnap you."
He said, standing up and trying to wipe his pants.

"Yeah yeah. All you did was give me sleeping pills, take me here, two hours from home and put me in the midst of goons with some guards here and there. That's not kidnapping at all."
She said and he sighed.

"Fine. What do I do to make it up to you? Get on my knees and beg you to forgive me for doing something which you like?"

"Clever. Trying to make it sound like I am at fault. But anyways, I want ice cream. Let us get some ice cream and I won't tell anyone that you kidnapped me."