"I spy you!" - 13

She just thought for a flash of a second and rushed towards him and stretched her leg in front of his running feet.

He fell forward and the pistol went with a bang. She acted fast and held his hands behind him. As she had no handcuffs with her, she took the gun and ran from there.

She reached the woman who had stopped by hearing the gunshot and was trembling like a dry leaf.

She now took her hand and ran to the main road. She hailed a cab which came at that moment and pulled the woman into it too.

Vasupradha now took command of the situation. She asked the cab driver to drop them in front of a mid-sized hotel in a suburb.

Ensuring that there was no one who was following them, she entered the lobby of the hotel and went to the restaurant.

When they were sitting face to face, she asked the woman, “Now tell me what spying are you carrying out in our office”

The woman’s face became as white as the egg shell.

“Me? A spy? Who told you?” she asked with rounded eyes.

Vasupradha patted her right hand and smiled. Then started her narrative.

“You came inside the office. You took a room in the office. You went out suspiciously. You called someone and asked for your son. You went to the outskirts of the city. I followed you. You suddenly came out with a brief case and a man pursued behind you with a gun. The rest of the story you watched”

The woman sighed. She never told her name. It was not important felt Vasupradha.

She told why she has come and what her problem was. When she spoke about her entry to Intelligence office Vasupradha’s mouth was agape.

She took the woman with her to the Intelligence office.  Vasupradha assured her that she won’t be tried under any espionage law. But she has to pay the price for getting into the office under a fake ID.

It was getting about 6 pm and most of the officials had left. She could see lights in her boss’s room on the 10^th floor.

She went to the security room and found the security chief and beckoned to him.

He asked their IDs. Both produced their photo cards.

He said “you may proceed”.

Vasupradha asked the woman to sit there and called the security chief aside.