Chapter 911 - Deal with Mr. Patel (1/2)

~ France, Chateau ~

Monday morning…

Aiden was ready for breakfast and waited for Sarah while checking his email on the laptop.

”Done.”, she announced victoriously when she walked out of the closet.

”Do you want to go and visit the White Mansion?”

Sarah paused at the unexpected topic. ”The one in Austin?”

Aiden bobbed his head and smiled. ”Jeff emailed. He and Anna plan to go and visit. If we want to join them, they will wait for us so that we all go together, otherwise they will go now.”

Sarah understood. She remembered that massive wedding cake which Aiden described as a decent replica of the White Mansion. And it was tasty. ”I would love to go and visit. If they can wait so that we all go together, that will be great!”

”OK.” Aiden likes Sarah's enthusiasm and typed the email response.

After breakfast, Sarah went to the tech room with her Sigma army members. Eliza went for a walk, Jesse agreed to follow her so that he makes sure nothing happens, and Aiden went to office to work on his work-work tasks (how he calls work done for White corp.).

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Aiden was going through his work emails while organizing what needs to be done when Sarah's phone rang. It seems that she left it behind. Aiden saw that it's an international call from India and he picked up quickly. Just how he guessed, it was Mr. Patel.

”Thank you for returning the call.”, Aiden said as soon as the call connected.

There was a pause before Mr. Patel spoke. ”I was expecting Sigma to answer.”

”She is busy. I am Omega. I hope you don't mind that I took the call, we are working together, and the request for contact was made by both of us.”

”I see.”

Aiden was able to hear mirth in Mr. Patel's voice while he spoke: ”Omega, my day is full and I don't have much free time. Let's skip the usual small talk. You reached out to me because you want something. Tell me what that something is.”

Aiden can appreciate that man is not beating around the bush. On the other side, he knows that they are the ones asking for a favor, so all that pleasant façade Mr. Patel showed few months back in Las Vegas is gone now.

Aiden took a deep breath and told himself to sound as polite as possible. There is no way to deny the facts: they reached out to him because they need something.

Few minutes later, Mr. Patel understood the situation.

”So…”, Mr. Patel lazily said. ”You want me to help you find a woman who was known as Tashi, and she was last seen in Serampore eighteen years ago? What will you give me in return?”

This is the part both Sarah and Aiden fear, that Mr. Patel will be greedy because he has the upper hand. But Aiden thought about this already. It's all about the wording. ”Since we are asking you this, you already know that finding the woman is not something that can be done by checking surveillance cameras or online accounts. She is either living off the grid or she died and her death was not documented. In case she is alive and has different identity, we would find her. You know how much effort will take for you to find her, name your price.”