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"Sir! Ye yahaan hai! Catch him!"
The police didn't hesitate. Seizing the opening created by Arohi's shout, four officers lunged through the thinning smoke. Kabir, usually a whirlwind of lethal motion, stood strangely still. His eyes were locked on hers, processing the name: Arohi Malhotra. One of the two doctors they were sent to protect. The very woman whose file sat on the mahogany table back at the villa. Rough hands slammed Kabir against the hood of a police cruiser. The axe was kicked away, clattering across the asphalt. The metallic click-clack of handcuffs echoed through the intersection. Kabir's arms were pulled behind his back, the steel biting into his skin. Arohi stood back, adjusting her saree, watching him with a look of cold triumph. She didn't look like a victim anymore; she looked like the law.
As the officers forced Kabir's head down to shove him into the back of the car, he twisted his neck to look at Arohi one last time. He didn't look angry. He looked... impressed. A dark, bloody smirk tugged at the corner of his mouth.
"Arohi Malhotra," he murmured, loud enough only for her to hear. "You really are a piece of work."
The door slammed shut, and the police van sped off, sirens wailing, leaving the "Ghost" leader in custody and the team leaderless in the middle of a crime scene.
The street fell into a tense, vibrating silence as the police van's sirens faded into the distance. Heyin stood frozen behind the concrete pillar, her gun still lowered, her mind racing to process the absurdity of the last sixty seconds.
"What did just happen?" she whispered into her comms, her voice trembling with a mix of shock and budding fury. The legendary "Ghost" leader, a man who had survived international black ops and the casino massacre, had just been hauled away in a standard Delhi Police Mahindra Bolero because of a girl in a red saree.