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HANDS OF RETRIBUTION CHAPTER 171
Donald let go of Selena and walked towards Deputy Behrens. Selena dropped to her butt and held her neck as she gasped for breath. Donald’s group had been metallic. If Behrens hadn’t called him, he would have strangled her to death. Donald wondered what would be so important that Behrens would call him. He was about to squeeze the truth from Selena. There had to be an explanation for why his great-grandfather would hand over all their properties to the Rhoades. And of all people, a woman. “What is it?” Donald asked as he stood before Behrens. In Behrens’s hands was a piece of paper. Donald gazed at it in confusion. “You should see this,” Behrens said, handing over the paper to Donald. Donald, still confused, got the paper from him with his eyes glaring at him. He gazed at him for a few moments before bringing his eyes down to the paper. It was handwriting. It looked like a letter. It read;“My dear Tabitha, I hope this reaches you. My wife, Martha, has found out about our love,
HANDS OF RETRIBUTION CHAPTER 172
Roman looked around the room and realized that it was filled with guards. They all drew out their weapon and pointed it at him. Florence, who was by his side, was also watching this. They hadn’t expected that they would still be here. Donald rose from the couch with the document in his hand. He smiled as he gazed at Roman and by his side was his daughter, Florence. This made him chuckle. “Roman Lacroix,” he said. “You finally made it.”“And would you look at who it is,” he said, turning his face to his daughter. “My very own daughter.”Florence clenched her jaws as he gazed at her father. He had a document in his hand that caught her attention. “Stop this now, father. Nobody has to get hurt,” she said. Donald chuckled at that. “Get hurt? The only one who is at a disadvantage is you guys,” he explained. “I have my guards here, and also I have the treasure right here in my hand.” Roman gazed at the document Donald held him. He recognized it very well. It was a certificate of owne
HANDS OF RETRIBUTION CHAPTER 173
Roman ducked under the couch as two bullets whizzed over his head. The guards weren’t giving them any space to maneuver. This was because the room was filled with them. They didn’t have a point to start from. Roman took a peek and immediately a shot was fired at him, he immediately ducked to dodge the bullet. He turned to Florence who was watching him quietly. “I don’t know about this, Florence. I don’t see a single opening.”“Then let me,” she said and rose from the couch. “Florence no!” He screamed. Florence flashed her gun across the sea of guards and pulled the trigger in quick succession. She was able to take down two guards simultaneously. As she was about to take down the third, a bullet was fired at her and it grazed her arm. This forced her to hide under the couch. She gripped the arm that was bleeding now as it stung in pain. When Roman saw this, he became infuriated by her recklessly. “I told you it was too dangerous.”“If we don’t take risks, Roman, we aren’t going
HANDS OF RETRIBUTION CHAPTER 174
“What do you want from me? I thought I’d given you everything you wanted?” Selena asked as they stepped into the familiar room. Donald threw her to the bed and she landed on it softly. Next, he rubbed his forehead slowly as he tried to think of his next move. Roman was now coming after him and he knew he had to sign the document before he got here. But there was just one problem; he had left the pen in the living room which was now as hot as Vietnam. “You’re not going to get away with this,” Selena said, rising to sit at the edge of the bed. “Roman will stop you.”Donald clenched his jaws and walked over to her. He threw his hand across her cheek giving her a hard slap. “Quiet!” He ordered. Selena held her cheek as they stung in pain. She couldn’t do anything about it because Donald had a gun in his hand and once again, she was defenseless. Donald sauntered around the room thinking of what to do next. How was he going to escape from the old cabin? He couldn’t do that alone becaus
HANDS OF RETRIBUTION CHAPTER 175
Roman Lacroix walked slowly through the hallway clutching the gun with both hands as he headed towards the next room. Viper Don and Selena were in there and it was certain that she was his prisoner. She didn’t deserve any of this and needed to be set free. As Roman arrived at the door, he paused by the door and listened to the voices that were coming within. He could recognize Selena’s voice and also Viper Don’s. They were both intensely involved in a conversation. Roman didn’t know if it was the best time to be involved in such a conversation. With little impatience, he stepped into the room and found Donald standing by the other end of the room with Selena in his grasp. He was pulling at her hair with a gun on her temple as well. Roman looked into Selena’s eyes and all he could see was both fear and agony. She had suffered for too long and it was time he got her to safety. He wondered how she had been able to hold it down until he came. She was strong. Stronger than he had initia
HANDS OF RETRIBUTION CHAPTER 176
Florence placed her heel on the chest of the guard, who lay on the ground petrified. She pointed the gun at his forehead and pulled the trigger. The bullet burst his head open, spilling his brain matter on the floor. When she was done, she sighed and stepped off him, turning to meet Eric and Ben, who were looking at her in shock. “What?” She asked them as she tucked her gun away. “My people are on their way. They would be here pretty soon,” Eric announced. Ben looked around at all the dead bodies on the wooden floor. It was hard to believe that they had slaughtered them all. “I guess we are done here.”Florence smiled and almost nodded until she remembered Roman. “No. Roman,” she said and rushed towards the stairs. “I need to check up on Adam as well,” Eric said and headed up the stairs. Ben shook his head with a smile and watched them rush towards the stairs. Eric and Florence arrived at the hallway, and they both looked at each other, wondering which door their partners had
HANDS OF RETRIBUTION CHAPTER 177
Roman watched the paramedics zip up Selena’s corpse into a body bag before wheeling her away. He was standing outside the house now, which was swarmed with police cars and ambulances. Just above him, Twilight was fading, and the sun was coming up. It would have been a beautiful morning if Selena had been alive to see it. Roman didn’t know what to feel. Selena had risked her life to save him, and he didn’t know how he was going to repay her now she was in the grave. He failed this mission, and he couldn’t keep the one promise he had made to Jermaine, which was to protect his daughter. But if she hadn’t tried to escape, Donald would have gotten the certificate of ownership and would have been on his way out of the city. She had risked her life to make sure that never came to be, and he respected that. Florence was talking with one of the officers when she saw Roman standing by the ambulance completely lost in his thoughts. He had been quiet ever since they left the room. Ever since Se
HANDS OF RETRIBUTION CHAPTER 178
Lilian stared at the television as she saw the news. This couldn’t be possible. There was a reporter who was standing at an old cabin telling them about the events of last night. Viper Don and Deputy Behrens were revealed to be working together and they had been killed by Roman Lacroix and his men. This stunned Lilain. They had managed to do what she and David had thought about for so long. She knew that her father’s death wouldn’t have occurred if not for Viper Don. And realizing that Viper Don was Donald Weah made a whole lot of sense. His daughter was Florence whom he had been using to pull the strings from the dark. He had been the puppeteer and his daughter, his puppet. “David! You have to come to see this!” She shouted. “Coming, honey!” He yelled from the kitchen. Lilain watched the news and saw one of the officers she recognized talking to the reporter. He explained to them that Deputy Behrens had been working with Viper Don by closing the murder cases of his involvement wh