“Beating around the bush like a cursed snake, huh?” William assumed a thinking posture as he lightly placed his fingers beneath his chin. “It’s funny that you mentioned that because your son, Timothy, was the one doing that. And you know what they say: the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.” He smirked slightly once he saw the deepened frown on Veronica’s face. “If you’ve done your research, which I’m highly certain that you did, you would know that I would have never been involved with the Camilla Charity Organization, not to even mention meeting Camilla, if your son’s greed hadn’t reared its ugly head in the day the charity organization hosted that event at BAU.”Veronica understood what William was getting at. Just like William said, she had truly done her research on how William’s interference in the charity organization had come to be in the first place. So she knew all that happened, which had them led to William meeting Camilla and ultimately getting involved in the uncover
Woodruff, who had been silent the whole time, frowned with widened eyes as he noticed this too late. “Mrs. Veronica, wait!” He had way more experience facing William when compared to Veronica. So the multi-billionaire could instantly tell this wouldn’t bode well for his partner.Unfortunately, it really was too late.Seven gunshots were released and a bunch of groans and short yelps were heard in the meeting room before everything went briefly quiet.Veronica glanced to the side to find Woodruff’s wide eyes on her, and she smirked wickedly, assuming that expression to be of astonishment. But then her gaze shifted to William and her smirk froze on her face. “Huh?!” She had expected to see the young man with his eyes closed and seven holes in his forehead, bleeding out profusely as he took his last breath. That wasn’t what she saw though. William was absolutely fine. He remained calmly seated in his seat and he wasn’t touched in the slightest. The chaotic scene she expected to be wi
An intense wave of fear gripped Veronica’s entire body as she heard these words. Her expression conveyed her immense shock as she gazed at William. “What…What did you just say?”William raised an eyebrow. “Oh? Are you absolutely sure that you don’t mind me repeating myself? After all, this has been one of your heavily guarded secrets from everyone, including the Parker family and even your son. Please, I dare you to tell me I’m wrong?”Woodruff slowly sat up straight in his seat with confusion in his eyes as he shifted his gaze to Veronica. “What is William talking about?”“Something that is most definitely none of your damn business, Woodruff!” Veronica had given this reply a little too quickly and with a harsh tone. She whipped her head back to William with a bitter expression. “How did you know about this?”William chuckled. “Do you mean how I found out that you run a highly dangerous ammunition factory that you sell to enemy military forces outside of the continent?” He then
Veronica wasn’t only getting furious now, she was getting really scared. Though none of the sniper's targets was placed on her or Woodruff, it wasn’t even the fact that she could get shot that scared her. The real scary factor here is the university student who is literally sitting through this chaos with the most unbothered demeanor. It wasn’t just this though. Growing up as a notable member of the Parker family, Veronica had been through multiple terrifying ordeal, like being a victim of kidnapping. She had also been at the throes of death so many times, that she had now gotten numb to the feeling. The difference here was that, for all those enemies she had faced before, those who had a calm demeanor always had a ‘base demeanor’ of lunacy underneath. In William’s case though, she couldn’t detect any such trace, but rather an unwavering confidence. William was fully confident in his security and arsenal, and that was much more terrifying than anything else to Veronica. For someone t
The female McArthur bodyguard shook her head. “We’ve been trained for situations like this. Don’t worry about us. We’ll be fine.” She then pulled William up from his seat. “Right now, your protection is our priority.” She turned William’s chair into its back before clicking on a switch that had been built into the chair this whole time.William had no idea that there was a switch under this chair. He began wondering what it was for when the female McArthur bodyguard’s action gave him the answer. William was truly surprised when he saw that, following the activated switch, the chair suddenly turned flat before it then spread upward into a flat surface. From his view, he could see the color of the furniture changing, and it was into something metallic. In a few seconds, the apparently simple wooden share had taken on the form of an oval disk. William truly didn’t and what to make of this at all.“Young Master, I promise your questions will be answered in due time.” The female McArthu
When Veronica turned her gaze around, she felt her heart stop as she gazed with wide eyes. She could see those bodyguards around her had now dropped to the ground, unmoving. She didn’t want to believe the logical conclusion her brain was cooking up but the longer she stared around, the more the reality settled in. Her bodyguards were now dead, with bloody holes in their foreheads. The dead bodyguards also had multiple bloody holes in their bodies. It was quite a desolately horrific scene for the Parker woman.“H….how is this possible?” Veronica Parker slowly crawled out from underneath the table where she had taken cover during the intense shoot-out. Rising her upper torso on her knees, she could see the other bodyguards lying around farther from her. They were truly all dead; every single one of them. She shifted her gaze about, as her eyes began searching for a familiar face. Within seconds, she spotted the face of the head bodyguard. He was surely dead as well.Woodruff sighed.
William smirked with a cold gaze at Woodruff’s question. “I simply called you two to properly recount the compensation fee I’m entitled to for causing this much damage to my property.” He then nodded to the female McArthur bodyguard in charge.The female McArthur bodyguard nodded in understanding of her young master’s silent order. She walked to the shelf standing against the wall to William’s right. She then retrieved two tablet phones. She gave them to the two McArthur bodyguards near her, and they tapped their fingers over the screen for a couple of seconds before they walked over to each hand, one to Woodruff and one to Veronica. The two were confused at first until they looked down to find an account that summed up to a total of $100 billion. Their eyes bulged and Veronica was visibly fuming as she glanced at Woodruff before turning a glare of hatred at William.“What is the meaning of this?” Every word out of Veronica’s mouth dripped with venom. If her words could manifest i
William was satisfied with this reaction. Apparently, he had done so much damage to this man over the past few months of their heated battle, that he was reacting to his words of provocation with so much importance. However, William wasn’t making an empty threat, so Woodruff’s scared reaction was valid.“If you want to know, I suggest you pick that tablet I gave you back up. There’s a link to the surprise that awaits you.” William shifted his gaze from Woodruff’s unsettled face to Veronica’s stubborn one. “You should do the same. I left a surprise for you as well.”Woodruff and Veronica felt their hearts racing as they picked their tablets back up. They found the link which was recently forwarded and they clicked on it. What they found had them confused for the briefest of seconds, only to turn into realization and utter horror as they immediately understood what they were looking for.Woodruff found himself looking at the statistics of the Camillo conglomerate’s assets, while Ver