With the bell ringing, both Daru and Sonam looked at each other with varying levels of alarm.
Much less about Sonam getting caught sleeping with someone else without their knowledge. It would be a disaster if they found out it was him who was supposed to be dead.
Daru and Sonam hurried out of bed.
While Daru stepped into his pants, Sonam was pretty fast at getting her sundress back on.
Sonam looked at Daru; he too looked at her. "The back door," she said, and Daru nodded in understanding.
He went to the side and hid as he got his pants up, while Sonam walked out towards the door to open it.
He could hear the door open as he, after putting his clothes on, was walking slowly towards the back door.
"Hey."
It was then when he heard the voice that he stopped; he could identify this snarling voice anywhere, anytime.
'Jason.'
He went to a corner near the back door, still ready to bail at any moment but kept his ear out to listen.
This son of a bitch is the reason for his betrayal, so of course, he has to.
The point is not that he cuckolded him with the girl next to him. But was it necessary to have him killed?
"Why the fuck are you here."
"Hey, don't be like that."
"I don't want to see you anymore, Jason, please get out."
"Come on, that's not true, let me come in."
Sonam didn't seem to stop him as Daru heard footsteps walking into the hall.
'Fuck,' thought Daru to himself.
"Babe, what are these?"
"Don't fucking call me babe," Sonam screamed at him.
'How much more clarity does this simp need to leave her alone?'
"And you should know better about what all this is. I found them in my bedroom."
Daru was biting his head for being careless in leaving the bugs out, but as he heard the following conversation, he did not regret it anymore.
"That bastard… after all that I have done for him… and even when he kept that asshole at the top while ignoring me… he bugged my girlfriend's house. Fucker deserved to be cuckolded by him…"
'Ahh' now he gets it.
It was not Jason who was taking revenge and somehow convincing William, but it was William who had found out about Daru cuckolding him with Sydney.
Daru looked down at his crotch.
'Are you the root of all my problems?' he questioned himself.
Starting with Gloria, and then when he left joining crime, no, he can't blame that.
But it was when he was hooking up with some third-rate actress that he found out about the pink meth, then it was like he could see it everywhere.
It had become the craze; he marveled at the demand.
So when Michael, with whom he had worked on some security gigs, was found to be connected, he linked through him to enter this field.
'Now that I think about it, all my enemies are either someone I fucked up or some of theirs he had fucked.'
While Daru was having a moment of reflection, he still kept his ear sharp on the activity in the hall.
"Tell me for how long have these been there."
"I don't know," Jason replied as he picked up the bugs.
"You don't. Come on, I bet it was when we were still together."
"I said I didn't know."
"You suck up to him so much; did you want him to hear how you made love?"
'Oh damn, that's gonna hurt.'
Daru could clearly picture Jason's face becoming red with anger.
"I am not his bitch."
Daru almost let out a chuckle remembering how many times Jason had to say this.
It was not much of a secret that he is not really necessary but still part of the gang only because William lets him be.
"I am going to ask William about it, okay. Don't worry."
"Oh, I am not worrying, and please don't ever come back."
Daru can hear as Jason walks out in brisk speed and slams the door shut on his way out.
He walked out slowly as he saw Sonam closing the door.
Sonam then turned and leaned against the door and looked at him.
But before she could say anything, Daru shushed her.
He at least remembered he had not cleared the hall or other places.
Understanding his gesture, Sonam walked back to her bedroom as Daru signaled her in.
"So what are you gonna kill them all?" after entering, Sonam asked Daru.
"You don't seem all that confident."
"Well, you are alone, and they have 647's backing. Do you think there is even a question?"
"Well, time will tell," Daru replied with a smile and shrug.
Sonam snorted and folded her arms.
"Whatever, no skin off my back." Sonam looked back into his eyes and asked, "so tell me why are you here?"
She was not dumb or naive enough anymore to not know that he had come here with an agenda.
Daru, too, didn't pretend and asked her the question he had come to ask.
"I want to know about his lab and cook."