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I was tempted to blow his stupid head off just to show him what I could do.
“Do you want a demo?” I asked sweetly.
He rolled his eyes in reply and turned back to stare at the little flashes of light in the distance.
When we came up by the slope of a dune, I got up and broke into a low run. Veer grumbled under his breath as he followed me.
“If they turn out to be tourists on a night safari, you’re going to be so embarrassed,” he muttered.
“Why would tourists crawl across the desert like that?” I demanded, and Veer shrugged.
“Maybe they paid extra for the sand-in-butt crack experience.”
I wondered if I could just knock him out with the butt of my rifle. It would be much less trouble than having to put up with his grumpy ass. I could bury him in the sand. To keep him safe, that’s all.
“I don’t like the look on your face,” he said suspiciously. “You’re plotting something nasty.”
“Yes, well… I don’t like you,” I snapped before I strode off up the dune.
I should have been paying more attention to our surroundings because I almost walked into a whole lot of trouble.
CHAPTER 6
VEER
Isha froze in her tracks and let out a little squeak as she peered over the edge of the dune.
“We have company,” she whispered, backing away.
“Do you know them?” I asked as she pulled her cell phone out of the pocket of her long, loose kurta.
She nodded as she crouched down and pulled me back when I tried to peek over the edge.
“Stop it. I’m going to take some pictures,” I hissed.
I clicked some pictures using the night vision mode on my phone and got back down next to her. Isha flipped through the dark images that showed three men lying flat on the ground, with huge guns and flashlights next to them. I couldn’t get clean views of their faces, but Isha recognised them and growled under her breath.
“The guy in the middle is Ranka, the second-in-command of the Goel family,” she whispered. “And the guy with the long beard is Swami. He used to be my father’s most reliable gun runner before he set up his own drug and arms cartel after Bhai Sa shut down Baba’s operations.”
“And the third guy?”
“I’m not too sure, but…I think that’s Arshad. He’s Swami’s lieutenant. I want to take one more pic with both the groups of men in one frame.”
There was just a really high mound of sand separating us from these thugs, and even though we were whispering, I knew sound carried far in the stillness of the desert. We needed to get back to our vehicle before they spotted us.
“No! You’ve done enough. Let’s go home and let Dheer deal with this,” I breathed as softly as I could.
She shook her head stubbornly.
“We need evidence to prove that they are violating the terms of the truce. These pictures just show them sitting in the desert. We need to prove that they are on our land near the border,” she argued.
Before I could stop her, she scrambled back up to the top of the dune and peered over the edge with the phone raised. I crawled up right next to her because I didn’t want to miss any of the action. The movement dislodged the sand, and some of it fell onto the men sitting below.
One of them looked up and squinted into the dark. We stayed absolutely still, with our heads down, hoping they wouldn’t think much of it. But the man started climbing up the dune from the other side to investigate and I couldn’t risk him finding us. I slid down the dune silently and grabbed Isha by the ankle as I passed her.
She gave a soft yelp as I began to drag her down with me. e crouched at the bottom of the dune for a minute, but there was nowhere to hide. I could see our vehicle in the distance, but it would take us a few minutes to reach it even if we set off at a dead run.
“Stay absolutely still,” I warned her. “And pray he doesn’t come all the way down.”
