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HANDS OF RETRIBUTION CHAPTER 148
Eric glanced at his watch as he sped through the streets. Fifteen minutes had passed since he last spoke to Adam. He feared that he would be too late to help him out. If Deputy Behrens was behind this, then they weren’t safe. They had to make sure that he didn’t get to them. And by then, he meant Adam. Adam was still at the precinct and locked in the records room. It meant that Deputy Behrens had access to the room as he wished. Which also meant that he had access to Adam as well. Eric stepped on the brakes and brought the car to a halt. He was stopped by the lights. “This is very bad timing,” Eric said as he tapped the wheel impatiently. He glanced at his watch once more and the time read 6:45 pm. Another five minutes had passed since he had driven. This evening was moving faster than he expected. First, they found out that Roman was missing. Now there was this suspicion about Deputy Behrens. If Behrens was indeed working for Viper Don, then the integrity of the police force wa
HANDS OF RETRIBUTION CHAPTER 149
Ben pulled the black SUV into the driveway of the estate and halted the car. He stepped out of the car and headed towards the porch. He was on a mission when he got a call from Lydia that they found the artifacts. He found it hard to believe and wouldn’t until he saw it himself. Ben swung the doors open and stepped up to the house. In the living room, Lydia and Selena sat together looking into a box that was on Selena’s lap. He shut the door and walked slowly towards them. Selena looked up at him and smiled. She was happy that she had found it. Why would she be when her father had sacrificed his life to protect whatever was in that box? It was crazy that they had managed to find it without Roman’s help. And as for Roman, he was working tirelessly to find him. The closest he had come was with Billy and Alicia. But they didn’t seem to know anything about it which upset him. They were his last hope but they had failed him. How was he going to find him? Ben wondered what Roman was do
HANDS OF RETRIBUTION CHAPTER 150
“What?” Roman yelled, sitting up erect. He refused to believe what Florence was telling him. Florence appeared to be calm. She didn’t sound like she was lying at all. They have been having this conversation for over two hours now and she has been nothing but honest with him. Why would she choose to lie now?“It’s true, Roman. I swear,” she pressed. Roman was thinking now. He was trying to digest what he had just heard. Florence had told him that he had a mole in his crew, and it was no other person than Lydia. But it didn’t make sense to Roman. Why would Lydia try to betray him? They had been through so much together. She had treated him when he was paralyzed. She had also made sure he was safe when they had both gone to Shanghai. Lydia was the one who had stuck by him after everything he had done to her. He admitted at the beginning he had been very rude to her. He had been a jerk, but that didn’t change her mind about him. Lydia had worked with him and made sure that he got the
HANDS OF RETRIBUTION CHAPTER 151
“Why are you doing this?” Selena asked. She was in a car and the driver’s seat was Lydia who seemed focused on the road. She had one hand on the steering wheel while the other was a gun pointing directly at Selena’s abdomen. If she made any false move, she was going to end up dead. “Why wouldn’t I?” Lydia asked. “You have what I want, and apparently it’s only you who can read the map.”Selena was puzzled by this. The first time she had heard of the map was when her father spoke to her just before he was taken away. She had no idea where the map led to or how to read it. Lydia and Viper Don were in for a big disappointment. “I hate to break it to you, but I can’t read the map,” she said nonchalantly. “I don’t even know where it leads to.”Lydia swerved the steering wheel to the right dodging a speeding truck. She chuckled after that which had Selena sort of confused. “All you need is a little bit of inspiration, and you will know,” she said. Selena didn’t speak after that. That wa
HANDS OF RETRIBUTION CHAPTER 152
“Is he going to be okay?” Roman asked Florence had just finished applying a bandage to his gunshot wound. Her hands were stained with blood, and she was eager to wash it off, but the unending questions from Roman were beginning to irk her. “He’s going to be fine, Roman,” she said, walking towards the kitchen. “He’s lucky that the bullet grazed the ends of his abdomen. He’ll be alright.”Roman was relieved to hear that. Ben was lying on the couch motionless, and he was worried that he was going to wake up. That was until Florence assured him of his health status. When they first found him on the ground bleeding, Roman was scared that Ben was dead. He had rushed to lift him from the ground, and luckily for him, Florence had been around to stitch him. He was going to be fine soon. After that, Roman searched for Selena or Lydia, but none of them were around. There was no doubt that this was Lydia’s work. But Roman didn’t understand why she would want to kill her uncle. Or did she?Rom
HANDS OF RETRIBUTION CHAPTER 153
Viper Don smiled widely as he watched Lydia step into the room. Recruiting Lydia turned out to be a better plan than he had initially thought. She had done the job she had been asked to do impeccably, which was impressive. It was safe to say that there was no doubt that she was his best work in recent months. Standing still beside her was Selena Rhoades, who looked particularly frightened to see him. Viper Don could vividly remember pulling the trigger and boring a hole into her father’s head. It was sad that she was going to go through the same thing. He hated thieves, and he was going to make sure that he wiped out all of them, including their families. It was the only punishment deserving of them. “Did you bring what I asked for?” He asked, looking at her left hand, which was clutching into a box. Lydia gave him a sinister smile. She took away her gun from Selena and shoved it behind her belt. She walked towards him with the box in both of her hands. “You bet I did.”Viper Don
HANDS OF RETRIBUTION CHAPTER 154
“Wait. What?” Roman yelled in surprise. Ben was chuckling now, while Florence looked surprised by his outburst. “Are we just going to let Viper Don hand both Selena and the artifacts?”Ben stopped laughing now and was gripping his bandaged abdomen in pain. Florence who was watching regretted helping him. She wished that she had let him die. But she knew Roman needed him, and if she wanted to be on his side, she had to do what he wanted. That was the only way Roman was ever going to trust her.It seemed he had begun to do so. Well, that was until his butler had tried to brainwash him again. Florence was now getting impatient. “I don’t know, Roman. But do we stand a chance now that he has the artifacts?” Ben asked. “If what Florence is saying is true, and he has Selena with him who will read the map for him, then he is going to be unstoppable. He will reach the end of the map and will get his hands on whatever treasure the map is hiding before we can even find him.”Florence sighed.
HANDS OF RETRIBUTION CHAPTER 155
Deputy Behrens washed his face in the faucet before looking at his reflection in the mirror. His hands were trembling as he gazed at them. He had messed up badly. His secret was now out. Eric and Adam now knew that he was the mole. He was lucky to have made it out alive with Eric coming in to take him by surprise. Never did he know that Adam would be the one to figure everything out. It had all happened in a flash. Behrens knew that he was in trouble ever since he had seen Eric with the file from the first murder case many years ago. He thought he had hidden that case file perfectly. How they had found it was still a mystery to him. But none of that mattered now. He had been caught, and it was only a matter of file before the news spread throughout the precinct. What would he do? Where could he go? He had no clue. Going back to meet Viper Don would attract attention to them and ruin their plans. But that didn’t matter. He had to inform them that their plan was in jeopardy and they w