A Tale Of Schemes... #1,#2,#3

Chapter 1

*Ashok Pov*

The sudden shrill sound of my phone distracted everyone in the room and I calmly picked it up only to frown hearing the words from the other side.

"What you mean there is a problem even after finding his location?" I asked gesturing the team to continue ordering the food.

Today it's finally the day when we recovered the losses because of a sudden accident at the company where the important dealings got sold to the rival company by one of the employees.

"Dead?" I asked frozen in shock after hearing those words from the inspector.

"My name?" I continued not getting any clarity and glanced at two people who are looking at me with questioning looks and immediately reached me catching my signal.

"Is there anything wrong, Sir?" Mohan asked after I cut the call.

"It's from the inspector regarding the culprit. They caught his location but he is already dead." I explained and they both were lost at words like me.

"I will go and deal with it." Pramod stated but I shook my head remembering their earlier words regarding my name being mentioned.

After asking them to deal with the staff regarding the treat and even passing some money, I left the place to reach the police station.

"Both?" I asked taking the letter into my hands and frowned while going through the contents.

"There is no money left which he got through these deals and both died using poison because of debts leftover. They didn't include your name as the reason but they included your name under the guardian for their son." I scrolled over the contents in the letter while hearing the officer's words.

All that includes in the letter is an apology for betraying my trust when I took care of his family in the past. I ignored the apology and glanced at a distance to see a boy sitting on the bench in silence.

"Funeral?" I asked still staring at the kid.

"Already done through the municipality, Sir." He replied and I nodded before gesturing to the kid.

"How old is he?" I asked not remembering meeting this kid in the past.

"He is ten as per the records. He is not saying anything when we tried to talk to him." I nodded walking closer to the kid.

"What is your name?" I asked reaching closer to him and he glanced up to stare at me.

"My name is Vikranth, Sir! I am sorry, Sir!" he replied making me frown.

"Why?" I asked folding my arms.

"My Mom asked me to apologize when I meet you, Sir." He replied without any expression.

I read a line of his Dad mentioning to collect their debt to me from his son. I sighed calling an orphanage and took him with me to that place.

"You will be living here from now on. Study well and do well for yourself." Saying that I dropped him off at the orphanage after signing him up and paying some funds for his sake before driving off.

When I reached the company, I found both of my employees still waiting even though everyone can leave after lunch today as I granted them leave for three days.

"Is everything fine, Sir?" Mohan asked and I nodded before thinking about what else the inspector found from this investigation.

"Phones are no longer allowed into any kind of meetings. They will be dropped at their own desks before entering the room. I don't want another incident where one of the employees records the details of crucial matters or makes a phone call to any rival." I stated and they both stilled hearing those words.