Edward stayed rooted to the ground wordlessly as he did nothing wrong. He believed Darius was a justice person who would never let him suffer for anything he did not do.Everyone on board had conflicted thoughts, but none spoke except for Shelvin.He squawked with a pitchy tone, “Of course, Edward didn’t agree. However, he was very young and not a professional bodyguard at the time, so he had no idea that we put a tracking device on him once he entered the room. From that, we managed to track Darius’ every action accurately. The person then got Edward’s ex-fiancé’s mother to start trouble at the airport, delaying things so we could tamper with the plane and ensure Darius died aboard. Alas, things turned out to be different from what we expected—we never expected Elizabeth to get involved. She somehow got on this plane too. We never planned to kill her.”Darius’ lips curled into a frosty smirk. Shelvin knew Darius believed him when he saw the latter smirking. He calmly continued, “So when
Besides, I don’t want to, nor will I, allow them to live. After all, their recent schemes involve recruiting children to scam other families, which I can’t tolerate.” While saying that, Shevin boldly looked into Darius’ eyes. “I believe you’re also aware of these things. Otherwise, you wouldn’t have acted against them.”Darius’ gaze bore into him as he nodded. “I’ve said many things to you today, and it’s significantly more than my usual conversations with my secretary. Among everything we discussed, your last assumption is the most accurate. It’s what I like to hear. Thus, from this point on until the plane lands, I want you to shut up unless you’re uttering facts. That way, I might stay in a good mood and allow you to leave this plane alive.”Meanwhile, the captain had been on the ground in the row ahead, his fingers roaming over Kate’s head. After Shelvin and Darius’ conversation dwindled, the captain meekly reported to Darius, “Kate’s not doing so good. She has suffered trauma to her
Kate had neverimagined Darius smiling at her before, especially after she’d come onto him soforcefully.Darius shook hishead, then said, “I think you can stand up now that you’re feeling better.”She was stilldazed by his smile, so she stood up without a second thought. Then, she heardthe despair in the captain’s voice. “No, wait! You shouldn’t do that! It’s muchtoo dangerous now!”Unfortunately, itwas too late, and his despair grew as he looked at Darius. Now, he had twooptions—to go along with what Darius wanted or to go against him. No matterwhich one he picked, he wouldn’t be able to live a peaceful life. So, he choseto leave a good impression on the people who would make it out of this aliveand win himself a stellar reputation. He would show them that he was willing todie to protect his master no matter how dangerous it was, which meant that hewould stop Darius.He hurried overto stand between Kate and Darius, his expression mixed with fear and anger.“How can you a
“Therefore, canyou pretend nothing happened on this plane and continue doing what you’resupposed to?”The captainnodded without hesitation. He held a trembling hand out and said, “There’s noway I’ll turn down your request. May I shake your hand?”Edward shruggedand nodded. He relaxed a little and said, “If you’re willing, I can take aphoto with you.”The captain’sface glowed with excitement. His lips were trembling so badly that he couldn’tsay a word, and he’d even teared up. He shuffled over to Edward, then pulledout his phone with trembling hands and snapped a blurry photo.Darius saw thatthere was no way to tell who was in the photo, so he smiled helplessly and tookthe phone from the captain. Then, he aimed the camera at them and said, “Let’stake another photo. The other one was blurred.”Bridget walkedover to Erin with her hands behind her back as she gaped at the scene beforethem. It felt so surreal. When Erin heard how uneven her breathing was, sheknew Bridget was
Her eyes widened,and she looked confused. However, she only allowed herself to stay like thisfor a second before regaining her composure. She grabbed her things and hurriedoff the plane. She had to catch up with Darius.When Kate sawthem moving, she got ready to get off the plane as well. Before she could doso, someone appeared before her. It was a man with blond hair and plainfeatures. She knew who he was—Darius’ bodyguard, the surgeon. The captainpractically worshipped him and treated Darius nicely because of him. So, shetold herself to be nice to him.She forced out asmile and said, “You’re Edward, right? May I know why you’re stopping me fromgetting off the plane?”Edward looked ather seriously. “Because I’m a bodyguard. I can tell that you want to get closeto Mr. Reid, and that’s not something that I can allow.”Kate resisted theurge to roll her eyes. She was starting to dislike Edward already, but shecouldn’t show it. As she pondered this, Edward said, “Mr. Reid w
##Her angerdidn’t bring about the results she wanted. On the contrary, the security guardsburst into laughter. One of them said, “I think you need to get thisstraight—you have no right to make any demands of us because your employer’sonly driving a car that’s worth half a million. In fact, youdon’t even have the right to come up to us and talk to us. If not for thatpretty face, you would already be flat on your back.”Their eyestrailed over Erin’s body lasciviously. To their surprise, this didn’t even makeher flinch. The security guard who’d spoken wasn’t happy with this, so heraised his voice and said to the guard opposite him, “Look, I was right. Thiswoman’s not the proper type—why would she be getting out from the back seat ifshe were that guy’s secretary? Unless, of course, she was giving him some extraspecial service.”His meaning wasrelatively covert, but everyone presents still understood what he was gettingat. They turned to look at Erin with pointed gazes, but
“Don’t worry, Mr.Reid. I’ll settle this.”Darius nodded,then closed his eyes and fell silent.Viktor wasterrified. He cried, “Darius, let me go this once, please! I didn’t doanything—I didn’t even speak to the woman! I merely agreed with what Lyonsaid.”Lyon’s eyesbulged. He spat on the ground and growled, “If you had the least bit of shame,you wouldn’t have said that. When we came across situations like this in thepast, it’s not like you didn’t get anything out of them. Now that the shit hashit the fan, you’re pushing all the blame on me so that this dude will vent hisanger on me. I’m not going to take this lying down, and you’ll pay the pricefor what you’ve done!”His tone wasresolute and firm. It made Viktor’s face turn ghostly pale.Darius’ gazetraveled between the two of them. Then, he narrowed his eyes, seemingly havingunderstood something. He took a deep breath before putting his hands behind hisback and walking into the hotel.Edward followedhim while dragging
Edward looked into his eyes and found that Lyon meant what he said. He believed that he had the ability to turn his words into reality. So, he narrowed his eyes. He could not understand this, but he didn’t say anything. He merely looked at Darius.Only when Darius nodded did he turn his cold gaze onto Lyon. Before anyone realized what was going on, he flicked his wrist and snapped Lyon’s bone, making him let out an anguished cry.Darius stretched his neck and looked at Viktor. “I know that everything that’s happened today will make your life difficult. If you need me to break your arm as well, I’ll be glad to be of service.”The blood drained from Viktor’s face. He had yet to recover from his last bout of terror, so he remained rooted to the spot, trembling uncontrollably. His jaw went slack, but he didn’t say a word.When Darius saw him like this, he chuckled and said mockingly, “This guy’s essentially the same as Lyon. In fact, he’s worse. At the very least, Lyon has the guts to own