Partners in Crime

While girls are shopping at the shops on the 1st floor, in the same mall at 2nd-floor Eldest uncle was there with his wife. He looked around to check for any familiar faces and then entered the Rainforest restaurant. The couple entered the restaurant and took a secluded table at one side.

Eldest uncle of Akash looks around in the restaurant. This is the time of the afternoon and not many people are there. Eldest uncle called the waiter and asked him to serve them two cups of tea. He looked toward his wife who is looking toward him with a questioning gaze.

Eldest uncle looked toward his wife and said "What do you want to ask? Just ask away."

"When you asked me to come for eating out, I thought it was for lunch. Why are you ordering tea then?" Wife asked confused.

Eldest uncle smiled and said "I am here for meeting with one of our business partners. We have planned a collaboration which will surely be successful."

"Please don't do anything big again. Otherwise, the father will definitely be angry." Wife said fearfully.

"Don't worry. My partner this time is no small fry. He is a well-known person in the business field and all the legal documents are properly verified. I am not going to be cheated and also I am not going to fail. I am not going to handle business operation but I will be a partner and director and will have most shares in business which is 40%. The business operation will be handled by the partner we are meeting and he knows how to do his work." Eldest uncle said proudly.

Wife is still hesitating "But you still have to make sure that nothing goes wrong. Otherwise, we will make a loss from all side."

Eldest uncle looked toward his wife and said "Don't you see clearly? Varsha has reached 25% shares and after joining with her husband they will have a total of 35% shares and 5% from the will of the father make it 40% for Akash and Varsha. I on the other side only have 30% which will go to our sons 15% each. Akash at one hand has 40% while our Arpit will only have 15%. If I don't make anything while the family is working jointly, what will happen to our sons later?"

The arguments of eldest uncle have almost pacified his wife. She raised her head and looked toward his husband and asked: "What if we lost money in this new business?"

Eldest uncle smiled seeing his wife's almost convinced expression and said "There is no issue in that. I am not going to use my personal money. Our Patel family business is being managed by me currently. If there is a loss I can show it as a loss in family business and it will not be hard to manage. It won't even cost us equal to 5% of family business if I failed. Father will at least scold me again but I am sure there is no chance of failure."

His wife is almost convinced and did not ask further and Eldest uncle felt happy seeing this. The waiter also delivered the tea and couple sipped it quietly while waiting for another party.

After a few minutes, two people came and joined the group on the table and said across them. There is an elder man of around the age of 50 and a younger man of around 25. Eldest uncle welcomed them warmly an said "Hello Mr. Pawar, It is nice to see you again. Thank you for taking out some time for us."

Mr. Pawar laughed and said "Mr. Praveen is being too humble. This business plan we are making is no small matter. I also need to be serious about this."

Eldest uncle laughed and said, "I have to thank you then." He then called the waiter and then order two more cups of tea and said: "Tea here is good."

Mr. Pawar nodded on eldest uncle and then said while mentioning the young man beside himself and said "This is my son Mahat Pawar. He will be working on this project we are planning."

Eldest uncle looked toward the aloof and careless looking boy with Mr. Pawar and smiled "Good. Children should be given chance to work in order to experience so that they can be better as a leader when they work independently. I would like to see him and Akash compete."

Mr. Pawar laughed and said "That would be interesting to see. Mr. Patel has praised his grandson a lot and it will be a good experience for my son to grow fast and establish himself in the presence of such competitors." Mr. Pawar looked toward his son who is showing bored expression on his son and asked: "What do you say, Mahat?"

His son looked toward his father and said "Why do I have to compete? You already told me that this Akash has just passed from some Indian college this year and I have already passed my college 3 years back from London. I have also worked already on a few business projects. Why should I compare myself to him?"

Eldest uncle brought his phone and opened the image of Akash and moved toward Mahat and said "This is my cousin Akash. He has passed Masters in Business administration with the gold medal and IIMs are no ordinary colleges of India."

Mahat carelessly picked up the phone and saw the photo of Akash and then he swiped his finger on the phone and the photo changed and his eyes bulged out from their socket but he controlled his expression somehow. He saw a photo of Akash and Varsha. He found this girl with Akash very enchanting. He could not believe a traditional girl could be so beautiful and innocent looking.

Mahat put the phone on the table and then pushed toward Eldest uncle and asked: "Who is this girl in the photo with this Akash?"

Eldest uncle saw the phone screen and photo on this and understood the meaning of this boy. He did not understand his expression before but now he got this. He has heard before in business circle that the son of Mr. Pawar is well known for his arrogance, ruthlessness as well as low morality.

Son of Mr. Pawar once liked one girl and proposed her to be his girlfriend in front of a big crowd. But the girl rejected him saying she had a boy who she was going to marry. It is the event of a few years back when he just returned after completing his foreign studies. This arrogant man felt his pride hurt and applied all legal and illegal means and destroyed the family business of that girl's fiancee and forced them to move away.

Mahat Pawar has no morals when it comes to girls and has no qualms about pursuing them without any shame. No one tries to publish his deeds on paper or media due to his family's business and political influence. Once a newspaper published about a poor girl harassed by this boy but that newspaper's office was burned next day by some goons and police investigation was also stopped after few days due to no proofs but everyone guessed that they were ordered to stop by some higher level politicians.

Now, this boy is suddenly showing his interest in Varsha. Seeing the glint in the eyes of Mahat, even eldest uncle felt a bit conscious about what to say and finally, he said "She is Varsha, wife of Akash. She came from a village family who we have a long term relationship with. She was arranged to marry Akash ten years back"

Mahat Pawar smiled and said, "Seeing the shy appearance of the girl and the expressionless face of Akash, it seems their relationship is not great." And then he looked toward the Aunt of Akash instead of Eldest uncle and received a nod from the woman and his smile widened and he said: "I am suddenly feeling very excited to handle this partnership with Mr. Patel."

Eldest uncle looked toward his ignorant wife and could only shake his head and said with a stiff smile "That would be great for your experience." He suddenly felt like it might not prove to be a good idea to have brought his wife to this meeting.

Eldest uncle is scheming but this discussion is going in totally wrong direction and and person in front is using his wife to dig their family secrets. He wishes to separate Varsha and Akash but the interest of such a rake in Varsha might hurt family reputation which is also not good for him.