(This is the ninth part of the series that began here . If you like it, and would want to be updated whenever I post the subsequent parts, you might want to subscribe to the posts via email)
“No, I am worried about him, I don’t want him in that vehicle, if he does or says anything during the job, it might raise suspicion and then he will be caught, and if he gets caught, we all get caught… I have half a mind to take him out first, but we might need his help. He is a weak point though.”
“I agree. That’s why I asked.”
“And I really don’t know the answer, we will find out in five days, till then let’s follow our plan. I think it is the best we can do. Though I know one thing… Ramesh has his eyes set on the money, and he will do any thing to get his hands on it.”
“That I agree with, and that’s what worries me too, what if he gets too greedy?”
“There are always a lot of things that can go wrong, let’s just focus on the things that can go right for now, and hopefully it ends the way we want it to. Let’s just hope that Murphy’s Law doesn’t apply to us, at least not this time.”
“Murphy’s law?”
“Yea, the one that says, if something can go wrong, it will.” Vikas said and laughed.
Rahul joined him in the laughter, but it was an uneasy laugh.
“Let’s get on our ways, then, and you can meet me in at Ruktal at about 10 O’ clock… how long does it take for you to get there?”
“About two hours.”
“Good! So now I will see you there on the morning of the 1st at ten.”
“Ok! I will be there.”
Vikas got up and left.
Now since I could follow only one of them at a time, it seemed best to me that I should follow Vikas, for he seemed to me the most interesting of the three and one who, I thought, was the key to the whole plan. It was not a very interesting five days he spent at home. I couldn’t help wonder at the normal way hie was behaving even though he was going to rob a bank in about five days. One day he went out, and I followed him.
He went to a phone booth, and called someone. Though I was standing right behind him, I could only catch a few words of what the other person was saying.
“Hello, Raj,” Vikas said.
Something was said from the other side. “I might need a couple of guns at a very short notice, nothing big, just the basics, Can you arrange something for me in two days?”
…Continued.
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