The next morning

Harish grabbed his bag to move inside the private jet alongwith Kim Taehyung who was on high alert to protect him.

As Harish had his light meal on the flight, Taehyung informed him that they would reach their destination in an hours' time.

"...Ok...wake me up when we reach..." Harish told him with the airhostess helping him to lie for a short nap. After making the bed, the airhostess moved outside the room to let the master have some sleep. 

Kim Taehyung stood outside the cabin door, guarding the man.

'...Shri!...Shri!...don't leave!...I need you!...your Pia needs you!...don't leave!...' the constant soft voice whispered in the sleeping man's ears in the process of waking him up.

The brown eyes, the plump lips, the long wavy hair. Vanilla. Her scent. His nose tried to take a whiff of her scent. But it couldn't.

His Pia was so loving caressing his hair. Just like the wind blowing from his ac air filter. Soft. Cool. Tender.

But he missed her touch. Her feel. Her smile.

She was moving away from him. His Pia.

"...no!...I won't leave!...Pia!...don't go!...Pia!..." he answered back in an attempt to not go away from her caress on his hair.

His Pia. She was calling him to help her.

"...Shri!...Shri!...Ssi...Sssi...Sir?!...Sir?!!..."

The voice suddenly changed an octave jolting the man. Harish saw a fair maiden with her make up clad smiling face, waking him up.

The air hostess.

Harish released the trapped air and nodded her to give him some space. The puzzled air hostess anyhow went outside as instructed to inform the guard on waking up the master.

Harish brushed his hair back and drank some water.

'...is this real?!...is she alive?!...and then what about the reports?...God!...help me to find my Pia!...' Harish would always tear up on getting such glimpses of his Pia.

At the Bordeaux airport, Mr. Jules was waiting for the billionaire with his assistant carrying the flower bouquet to welcome him.

After the initial catchup, Harish wanted to finish the meeting with the client and proceed to the much-awaited investigation.

Conference room

"...so, Mr. Joshi...I hope we can look forward to this merger?!!..." as Mr. Jules asked the young billionaire, Harish rubbed his chin with closely scanning the ppt.

He had his doubts on the merger being so easily conducted by the company which was only 10 years old.

Being on the verge of becoming the next trillionaire had its dos and don'ts. And Harish would need to watch out for the don'ts.

He huffed a breather and smiled at Mr. Jules.

"...Sure, Mr. Jules...we can proceed...but?!!" as the man tried to spell his set of plan for the merger, Mr. Jules's secretary scrunched her brows.

"...I have a new deal with you...if you agree...we can proceed..." the man's word made Mr. Jules steal a glance with his secretary who kind of negated the acceptance of the said deal.

But the Kansya Steel Industries was reaching new heights and capturing new and strong clients. So, being with them would only bring profit to the new start up kind of business.

"...sure...we are in!..." As Mr. Jules smiled widely accepting the deal, Harish saw the way his secretary gritted her teeth.

"...Mr. Jules?!...I hope you have the affirmation from your partners?!!...coz I don't want any problem...for us...hm?!!" Harish asked the man who glanced at his secretary and shrugged off the doubts with.

"...Of course not!...Mr. Joshi!...we are very much in!..."

"...Um...ok...but I need to talk privately with you...regarding the detailed blueprint of the deal...so, um...is there any way...we can meet...in privacy?!!" Harish asked Mr. Jules who immediately took his hands and shaked on fixing a meeting in one of his hotel suite.

In the evening at 6 pm. Hotel Vancouver.

Kim Taehyung followed his master who had a wide smile on his face from the time of leaving the meeting till reaching his car.

He immediately removed the sim card of his phone and replaced it with a new one.

As he dialled the number, he signalled the driver to move out and called in Kim Taehyung inside the car.

"...lock hotel Vancouver...at 7 sharp...no mistake..." saying in code, he glanced over Taehyung who immediately send the signal to his Chief who was impatiently waiting for the same.

"...Sir?!...our meeting is in the same hotel...if you command me...I can move it somewhere else..." as the bodyguard asked him, Harish shaked his head with changing the sim card.

"...we can't...the deal needs to coincide with the meeting...coz I smell something fishy..."

"...Mr. Jules?!!...I did his investigation...he is clean..."

Harish negated the words replying "...Not him...it's the secretary...did you notice she was wearing flats...unmanicured nails...callous hands...and not to mention...unwiped lips...with the pie crumbles on it..."

Kim Taehyung was amazed at the way Harish was able to check the intricate detail of the secretary. Wherein Kim Taehyung did not once see Harish looking at the secretary.

"...maybe she is a country girl...you know musky and rough!..."

Harish screwed his brow at Taehyung who strayed his eyes away but asked him on why he felt the suspicion on the secretary.

"...hm?!...Maybe...but still...we don't want to take any chances...so yeah...put the mic on her...and check her till the evening...ok?!" on the command, Taehyung nodded and signalled the driver.

Harish trusted the Chief's man to perform his duty diligently and relaxed with the driver taking him to his hotel for some rest.

But he still couldn't get his head to not forget the tattoo of the eagle in the secretary's right wrist. 

Paris.

Naik Villa

"...and you know Tai!...Eddy was so brave...oh my god!...you should have witnessed it!...he is really...*chuckles*..." Rashmi saw the way her baby sister was blushing every time, she would spell the name 'Edward' and sip some water.

Love or lust.

Rashmi didn't inquire much and resumed to listen to Sara's praises for her boyfriend.

"...Babe?!!...here you go!..." Monica jogged inside the room with Sara's phone, who perked sensing it to be Edward.

After a minute or so,

Rashmi saw the way Monica was squealing at the way her baby had wetted the girl's shorts.

"...ugh!!...babies are so gross!!...I need to shower!!..." saying so a giggling Rashmi saw Monica rush to the washroom.

"...*exhales*...*tsk*..." Sara sat beside Rashmi who asked her if Edward would join them for dinner.

"...It was not Eddy...it was Zack..."

"...and?!!" Rashmi asked while changing her babies dress. Sara tsked saying that Zack wanted her to take up the modelling assignment to Bordeaux.

"...modelling?...like you modelling?!...but Honey?!!..." Rashmi asked the girl who laughed saying that it was for photography and not her modelling.

Sara explained to her that Zack was pleading her to take up the assignment for the past few months. But as Sara was busy with the case and going on dates with Edward, she couldn't accept the offer.

"...but honey, Zack did help you at your lowest!...so don't you think you should help him out when he is in the dumps!..." her big sister's words made Sara think on the time when Zack did help her out with the timely salary which covered her new Canon camera and its accessories.

"...so should I?!!" her words made Rashmi shrug her shoulders with an assuring smile.

"...hm...I think I will call him up and check the dates...just so it doesn't clash with my plans..." saying so Sara went outside to call up Zack.

"...just hope this keeps you away from...*exhales*..." Rashmi worried for her sister and her involvement with whitewash.

Yes, Rashmi had her doubts on Edward and on another note, she still didn't like his closeness with Sara.

In the evening,

Bordeaux

Vancouver Hotel.

As Harish shaked the finale of the deal with a happy Mr. Jules, Taehyung was making sure to get the apt reaction from their suspect no. 1.

"...Mr. Joshi?...this calls for a celebration!..." as Mr. Jules laughed about, Harish saw an array of waiters bringing a huge cake with singing 'congratulations', making him glance at the agile Taehyung.

As they saw the splash of champagne to celebrate the merger, Mr. Jules was making Harish take up the drink.

Taehyung approached his master to stop but Harish avoided the drink himself.

"...um...thanks...Mr. Jules...but I need to catch my flight...Maybe at the party..." as Harish bid his bye, Mr. Jules ordered his men to escort the man.

Taehyung denied the offer and shielded Harish who excused with the hurriedness of his flight.

In the private flight area

Harish sat on the seat and found a masked man enter the cabin with Taehyung closing the door.

"...did you do it?!!..." Harish's word made the masked man nod with giving the access code of the Cam recorder.

An Asian man, with blue eyes, board shoulders, a pumped physique threatening to pop out of the black leather jacketed suit.

A built white skinned of a Kiume - a Swahili male.

He was distinct from the average Swahili male. But then again, what if you are not born as an Alpha male, you can surely become one.

Taehyung took the said thing with Harish keeping a poker face at the double agent who was doing his job too perfectly. 

"...utakutana na wewe huko paris?!...kuku anajenga kiota chake...muibe..." the voice enhancer on the man made it difficult to decode the message, but Harish had trained himself quite expertly in the language.

(*"...utakutana na wewe huko paris?!...kuku anajenga kiota chake...muibe..." – "...will meet you in Paris?!...the bird is building its nest...steal her..." in Swahili language.)

"...jina... kutoka kwa nani?!..." the short question made the man laugh but composed himself with another code for the master.

(*"...jina... kutoka kwa nani?!..." – "...name...from whom?!..." in Swahili language.)

The masked man neared Harish, locking his widened eyes and whispered. Taehyung caught hold of his gun in a protection mode.

'...jina la dada...'

(...the name of the sister...)

'... likiwa limepambwa na mpenzi wa zamani...'

(...being adorned by the past lover...)

'...jina jipya...roho iliyochanganyikiwa...'

(...a new name...a confused soul...)

'...kuwa na kumbukumbu zako...'

(...having your memories...)

'...mwenzako anakungoja...'

(...your mate awaits you...)

'...mlinde... kabla ya tai kushambulia...'

(...shield her...before the eagle attacks...)

Saying so the masked man tilted his eyes up with muttering some words and placed a linen cloth atop Harish's hand. 

"... jua litaonyesha njia ..." and moved out of the cabin in a flash not waiting for anyone. Taehyung ran outside to check for the man's transportation or any mode that he had used to reach them.

(*"... jua litaonyesha njia ..." – "...the sun will show the way..." in Swahili language.)

But he was nowhere. Being utterly confused, he rushed inside to check his master.

Harish clutched the cloth and held it to his tearful eyes, letting the sadness flow with her memories.

She was indeed alive.

The first real evidence.

Sitting atop the jet like an alert predator, the Kiume smiled at the way he completed his task as assigned by his boss.

"...jua liangazie roho zenu zilizobarikiwa!!.." saying so the masked man then vanished as he had come.

(*"...jua liangazie roho zenu zilizobarikiwa!!..." – "...let the sun shine on your blessed souls!!..." in Swahili language.)

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