Furious Badini: Fast And

And flush him out, they did.

"No," Badini said, pressing a detonator taped to his steering wheel. "He was the bait. And you just spent eight years driving right into my trap."

"Badini," Rani breathed into her radio.

Sultan leaned forward in his chair. "Let him think he has a chance."

The explosion didn't come from the briefcase. It came from beneath the garage. Vik, before he died, had wired Sultan’s entire foundation with racing-grade nitromethane tanks. Badini had just driven the ignition source right to the front door.

Badini didn’t think. He acted. He didn’t weave through traffic—he became the traffic. A bus lane became a straightaway. A staircase became a ramp. He drove with a broken hand and a broken heart, shifting gears with his left hand, steering with his knees when he had to. He pulled alongside Rani on the Sealink, both cars doing 200 kph. He looked at her. She saw his eyes—not angry, but empty. A man already dead inside, just waiting to collect.

They never found Badini’s body. But on the one-year anniversary of Sultan’s empire crumbling, a smoke-gray Skyline GT-R was spotted on the outskirts of Chennai, its exhaust growling a low, knowing rumble.

He didn’t cross the finish line. He took the off-ramp that led directly to Sultan’s underground garage.

The streets said Badini had finally crossed the finish line. He was just taking the long way home.

"Bulletproof glass, Sultan," Badini said, his voice a low rasp through a busted window. "Your elevator. Your penthouse. But your garage? That’s not bulletproof. And this briefcase? It’s not diamonds." He kicked the supposed prize out of his passenger seat. It clicked open. Inside was not jewels, but a fuel-air bomb he’d built from Vik’s old racing notebooks.