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Two people had walked out of that building since Juan’s tea from the footprints, they hadn’t returned

Either Juan and his creere about to become hunters or they were the hunted

EIGHTEEN

INDIA

Romir Mallik watched in silence as Xavier Carlton continued to make his case for Lionel Gupta’s treason Gupta had reht-lipped up to this point, and Mallik certainly wasn’t going to throw hirip on the vial in his hand when he realized he wasn’t the one being confronted

Mallik initially hoped it would be the Colossus 5 dae that was pinned on Gupta But to Mallik’s surprise, it was the destruction of his own satellite launch that Gupta was being accused of

“We all know that Romir’s satellite system is critical to the functionality of Colossus,” Carlton said “That’s why Lionel had to keep the Vajra constellation fro completed”

Finally, Gupta spoke up “I did no such thing”

“To prove it, I even know the name of the man you had on the inside Eshan Chandra” Carlton looked at Mallik “Is that correct?”

Mallik couldn’t contain his shock at hearing the name and nodded “We discovered that Chandra altered the fuel feed software, which caused the engines to fail When we questioned him, he told us he didn’t know the name of his employer He took the job after a million dollars ired to his account”

“Where is Chandra now?”

“He co by an overzealous interrogator, but Mallik wasn’t going to mention that

“I’ to do with this!” Gupta yelled

“Please, Lionel,” Carlton said with utter disdain “I have records of your correspondence with Chandra instructing him to destroy the rocket”

“Whatever ‘proof’ you have is faked”