The Outlaw

I stood on the side walk with my mouth wide open in shock and embarrassment. He knew. He KNEW. HE KNEW!!! LILITH YOU FUCKING IDIOT!!! HE KNEWW!! YOU BRAINLESS BITCH, OFCOURSE HE’D KNOW, HE ISN’T AN UNEDUCATED SHIT! HE KNOWS YOU CALLED HIM ATTRACTIVE!! STUPID FOOL!

I screamed at myself standing there for a solid ten minutes, the pedestrians must be looking at me weirdly. But did I care? No! Because he knew what I meant!!!!! YOU FUCKING DUMB BITCH!! HOW CAN SOMEONE BE SO STUPID?!!

After I calmed down, I went back to my office, the receptionist looked at me in shock making me raise my brow at her.

“What?” I said checking into the machine with my id.

“Nothing” she said timidly, a blush coating her cheeks. I rolled my eyes and went to my floor.

As I entered my floor all my juniors wished me good morning, I nodded back at them with a polite good morning. Before I could entre my office my assistant came infront of me, “Ma’am, Mr. Malik has asked for you.” She said fixing her glasses. I nodded back at her, “Make sure my office is ready by the time I am back and also I need all the files of my new cases.” I said handing her my bad full of documents.

“Yes ma’am!” She said as I walked to the CEO’s office, Mr. Asher Malik, my boss. I knock on the door, only when I heard ‘come in’ did I enter.

“You asked for me sir?” I asked sitting on the visitor’s chair.

Asher looked very troubled, his hair was dishevelled, had bags under his eyes and looked really sick over all.

When he didn’t say anything and just kept on shifting back and forth on his chair and avoided all eye contact, I became really worried.

“Asher, are you alright?” I asked softly getting up and getting him a glass of water. He gulped down the water as soon as I kept the glass on the table.

“I am not okay and you’re not going to be okay either. Sit down we need to talk!” He said seriously. I nodded back and sat down on the chair, he seemed to be contemplating how to tell me.

“They know we are digging up their dirt!” He finally said confusing me more before I could say anything my mind went back to that CM (chief minister [they are the state government])

My heart dropped to my stomach, CM Mason Shawn. One of the most known CM of all time, people see him as a noble man. Kind, generous and progressive, people treat him like a king but there are very few people who know the truth. He is like any other minister; a manipulative terrorist who can go eny extend for power and money. He has caused damages to the extend that they’re irrevocable now, but the way he hides all of the hideous crimes he has done is honestly baffling.

From murders to rapes to riots to genocide to human trafficking, that asshole doesn’t give a fuck about what age or your gender or anything. If he finds you remotely attractive enough to be sold or profitable, he will fucking kidnap you and do whatever he wants to do. He has done so many awful things and people who know his true face are very scared to come out and get the justice he deserves and all because of the sheer power he has.

I have always hated that man’s guts and if it were upto me I would throw him in in a pit of fire with his hands and legs toed so that he cannot do anything other than scream in pain. I loath that man so much, I’d go to any level to bring him down.

“How did you know?” I asked him after a while of thinking over it.

“Sources.” He answered back

“You sure those sources are reliable? Because apart from the you, me and Mrs. Mary and your father, nobody knows that we have been building cases against him!” I told him but he just shook his head.

“They are reliable because they were talking about some lawyers building cases against him. They brought it up when we were in the bar!” He says and my eyes went wide.

“You have someone working with Shawn as your source? Are you out of your mind? For all we know he could be keeping an eye on you for him!” I yelled at him getting up from the chair and walking up and down to calm my nerves down.

“Excuse my language but what the fuck is wrong with you, Asher?? How do you not know he could be getting out information from you??” I growled at him in fury. My entire body was shaking in pure rage, it was finally time to take my revenge and this could all go wrong because of this idiot!

He looked shocked by my outburst then fear crossed his face, “Fuck I didn’t think about this untill you said it!” He said too getting up from his chair.

“Dude! You’re one of the most experienced and eligible lawyer, how could you have not thought of this before?? And make such a blunder out of it? You know you have put a lot of lives at risk!!” I yelled the part on his face.

“My daughters and wife were all in my mind. I am really scared for them!” He said pushing his hand through his head. I shook my head and sat on the chair to think about it for sometime.

“All they know, is that some lawyers are building cases against their boss. And they have you to recheck their doubt, all I hope was you didn’t freak out or do anything suspicious for them to catch on. Did you do anything suspicious?” I ask looking at the distressed man. He shook his head negatively, “I was rather calm but acted shock at the same time. So that they wouldn’t get suspicious of me in any way!” He said sitting on the other visitor’s seat beside me.

“At least you have that much brains!” I muttered to myself.

“Did you say something?” He looked up at me.

“I said it’s a critical situation now! We have to be very precise with our move and be under the radar as much as possible. Don’t talk about this situation with them at all and if they bring it up just go along with it. Don’t cancel any events with them or try and get closer. Act the way you’ve been with them as much as possible!” I instructed him.

“For now it’s better if we don’t work on the case and hide the documents very safely so that if they do try to sniff around us, we’d be clear!” I said looking at him.Nôvel/Dr(a)ma.Org - Content owner.

“We should do that!” He agreed with me, we decided on getting the files somewhere out from the country where they can’t possibly think it’d be.

“But we can’t give them to anyone, it has to be someone who is very trustworthy!” He said scratching his beard.

Gerardo’s face crossed my mind, he is a billionaire and has no agenda against Shawn so he will be under the radar but he is already doing so much for us. Above all I can’t and won’t put him in danger but I have sworn to revenge years back.

As much as I don’t want to put Gerardo in danger, I have to do this, I owe this to myself and.. for me to finally move on. I like Gerardo a lot but my vengeance weighs more.

We decided that I’ll keep all the files and it’s better for them to not know where I will be keeping them.

My talk with him lasted for two hours and when I got back from his office to mine, I was a little more perturbed than usual. As soon as I got to my office I started with the heaps of cases sitting on my table and before I knew it,, it was already 6 p. m.

I packed all the files quickly, and locked my office before heading out of the building. Gerardo would be waiting for me outside, he would be thinking I’d bail on him for what happened in the morning. I tried to call him as I stood in the side walk but it kept on going to voice mails.

Where the hell is he? I checked my watch and it was 6. 20. I have been waiting for him for so long and he doesn’t even has the decency to let me know that he won’t be picking me up. Asshole. I dialled Flynn’s number and in a few rings he picked up.

“Hey Lilith! You called me in a difficult situation.. can I call you back in a few minutes?” He said sounding out of breath. I rolled my eyes, “Your brother was supposed to pick me up and he has my car, he didn’t show up! Can you ask someone to pick me up?” I tell him making him groan.

“Can’t you take a cab? I am in a very tight spot right now and I can’t le–” before he could finish, “Let my man fuck me, Lilith!” Layla shouted from the other end and cut the call. I looked wide eyed at my phone, my lips twitched up a little in humour. He said he was in a tight spot! Without warning I started giggling. One idiot he is!

I hailed a taxi and soon I was on my way back to my apartment.