On the Run

Chapter 28: The Fox's Lair

7:00 pm, Anjuna, Goa.

"Shit! This...stupid...thing...refuses... to...come...off!" Manik huffed in anger, as he made yet another attempt to make his car's number plate come off by kicking it.

I giggled slightly upon seeing his frustration. His irritated expressions made him more adorable!

A few seconds later, I walked up to him and held his shoulder, in order to stop him from breaking the plate forcefully.

"Manik, stop! You'll hurt yourself!" I said, as gently as I could.

"Really? Then, how do we take this off?! Now that the police know that I'm in Goa they can track my car easily using this!" Manik said in annoyance.

Honestly, he had been in a bad mood ever since I'd revealed my plan to him! Well, I couldn't blame him entirely...it was fairly risky...

But this was the only feasible plan to get our hands on that recording!

According to the plan, it was me who would try to enter the Singhania mansion instead of Manik! And that fact alone was enough to make Manik's blood boil!

I was to go to the mansion and pretend to plead with them to give me another chance! I had to go and act like I was shattered that my engagement to Madhyam had been broken off! I knew it was going to be tough to pull it off, but I had to reach the mansion and create enough of a ruckus to attract the attention of Madhyam's grandmother-Meenakshi aunty!

I'd met aunty only once, and she seemed like a genuinely friendly and warm person, unlike the rest of the members in her family! After all, if she was one of Amm's friends, she had to be a good person, right? I was almost a hundred percent sure that aunty had no idea of Mr. Singhania and Madhyam's shameful actions! If she had truly approved Madhyam's alliance with Soha, then she had definitely been fed a bunch of lies by both of them! All I had to do was try to convince her that I was innocent of what the media was accusing me of! Frankly, I was certain that she didn't know that these lies had been spread by her own family!

All I had to do was be believable enough, so that aunty would let me stay over at the mansion for just one night...one night which I would use to steal the recording from the Singhania family's safe, while everyone was blissfully asleep!

When I first narrated the whole plan to Manik, he absolutely lost it! He said there was no way in hell that he'd let me go into the mansion alone! I spent practically an entire hour convincing him, and he eventually agreed that it was probably a better idea than entering the mansion by force! After all, the guards might try to throw me out, but if Manik tried to enter, there was a huge chance that he would be fatally injured or shot! And I could let that happen under no circumstances whatsoever!

Consequently, Manik and I had spent the afternoon, gathering a few things that I'd need to execute the plan. First of all, I'd bought a morning after pill and consumed it immediately. I knew that the chances of me conceiving were practically nil! Especially since my cycle was so screwed up! But I didn't want to take any chances, and Manik shared the same opinion as me. After that, I'd asked Manik to buy a few special screw drivers, miniature drills and pins, which could help me break into the safe and get the recording! After all if I couldn't guess the code, I'd have to try to break it open!

"Manik, like I said, sometimes brute force isn't enough to get what you want! You have to be smart..." I said, as I pulled out a new screw driver that we'd just bought a few hours ago.

I bent down instantly and used the tool to unscrew the number plate with remarkable ease!

I stood up, handed Manik the plate and said. "Here! Now your car won't be tracked that easily!"