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The Heir of the Family 338 - Misunderstanding
Vincenzo immediately raises both of his hands even before Victor manages to say something to cast him off.“Man, this is just a misunderstanding. I’ll leave now. But you better reconsider again after this, cause I’ll be sure to come back again. I was hired by your father to protect you,” explains.“Yeah, right! I don’t have a father!” Victor denies. “I was raised in an orphanage.”“Right! It was the Children of the Sun Orphanage. I know about it. See you later.”Vincenzo just takes his leave as he puts back his beanie hat.The thing that Vincenzo said manages to make Victor reconsider it again. Even though Victor still doesn’t remember about Vincenzo, he can’t just ignore the fact Vincenzo knows about his past.Until Emma asks him something and shakes his attention. “Did something happen between the two of you?”“What?” asks Victor with a confused face.“I thought he was your friend.”“You know him?”“Not really. But I’ve seen the two of you together before while I was still in Indian
The Heir of the Family 339 - I'm Coming With You
The sound of knocking on the door continues disrupting their quarrels. Emma ignores her father, and chooses to open the door herself to get rid of the police.However, as soon as she opens the door, it turns out that it is only Vincenzo who comes back to see Victor.“You?”“Where is he?” asks Vincenzo. He then averts his attention to the others who are all looking at him with curiosity, and then finds Victor there still with his confused face. “Victor! Our situation is quite complicated. You can't stay here. We have to get you back to San Francisco.”“San Francisco?” Victor mumbles, starting to feel convinced that Vincenzo must really be someone hired by his dad.Victor leaves the dining table with an unsure feeling. But Henry immediately rushes to pick an antique two barrels break-action shotgun which is hanging on the wall, and immediately points it at Victor right before Victor reaches the door.“Stay there! Now it’s clear that you are really the man named Victor William.”Vincenzo
The Heir of the Family 340 - Vincenzo's Dilemma
That girl named Leona approaches them. Her facial expression looks a bit cringed to find that silly quarrels between them.“Vincenzo! What’s wrong?” she asks.Vincenzo just sighs and turns his attention back to Victor. And Victor is still looking so objected to his suggestion to take Emma with them to San Francisco.“I don’t even know you? Why would I trust you?” He then averts his attention to Emma with an impatient expression writing on his face. “And I don’t even know for sure if we were really married before!”“No, you did marry her,” says Vincenzo.“Yeah, and she said she also cheated on me,” argues Victor.Vincenzo just raises one of his shoulders, tilting his head a bit with an uninterested face, as a gesture that he affirmed for the fact that they did divorce six months ago.“Yeah, that's the reason you both divorced and had a dispute about marrtal settlement,” Vincenzo affirms. Victor turns his face to Emma without hiding his disappointment, to learn that she even refuted wi
The Heir of the Family 341 - The Supernumerary Characters
They plan to reach San Francisco by avoiding Indiana and the nearby states around it. Because these areas are all in a strict lock-down, at least until the next few weeks.“It will be a long journey,” says Leona, trying to open the talk to break the gloomy atmosphere in the car. “It could be 3 days, or maybe four days with some rest. But rest assured, I’ve called some friends to make sure we get across the border without any problem.”Victor, who is now sitting on the back seat, doesn’t give any response to her. His mind is still so empty as he observes the view through the window to the left side. The same with Emma who keeps averting her face to the other side.Somehow, Victor remembers Vincenzo told him about their situation which is currently so complicated at the moment, which forces them to head to San Francisco.“If you are really hired by my dad to watch over me, you should know that I shouldn’t meet him unless the situation is really urgent,” says Victor.“Of course,” replies
The Heir of the Family 342 - Charles' Weakness
Catarina drops from the chair. She hasn't died yet, still trying her best to close the fatal wound under her mouth. Both her hands, neck and her chest are all soaked with blood. She isn't able to make a voice, let alone a scream. She looks so in pain and in agony, crawling on the floor leaving the kitchen. Meanwhile, that man just ignores her in a dire state. He doesn’t care if Catarina will be able to survive after that or not. It’s as if he knows there’s nothing Catarina can do in that situation, and let her suffer for longer. He goes to the basement, and then opens a hidden door in one corner of that room. There’s a hidden passage leading to a small building for the electrical power maintenance room of Charles' mansion, about 20 meters away from this house. He knows so well about this passage, because he used to live here in the past. However, he doesn’t intend to go to this small building. He opens another hidden door, with a tunnel leading to the basement of Charles’ mansion.
The Heir of the Family 343 - You Can't Die Here
Johann looks down at Charles flatly. But then, he grins so mad like a madman, to be able to see Charles in his desperation.“That’s it. You need to realize, this is all because of that naivety of yours. You have to cast it out. You have to kill your conscience, like when you kill my family. You did great that time, acting like a hero erasing the devils from this world. But then you turned so soft, and let me live.”Charles’ face looks so pale, crying so low with a hoarse voice. He keeps mumbling with an unclear voice, which attracts Johann’s curiosity.That man approaches him, and draws his face closer to Charles, seeming to listen to what Charles’ saying right now.“Hm? Can’t you say it clearer?”“Thanks for coming closer to me,” Charles whispers with a face which has turned so mad.He suddenly bites Johann’s left ear. It shocks Johann and makes him groan so loud because of the pain.That’s only when that commotion attracts the attention of the two nurses downstairs. Cooper William,
The Heir of the Family 344 - The Master and Her Lackeys
What happened to Charles has caught the attention of several gangsters around California. They have been so quiet in the last ten years because of Charles's influence, and have been patient to wait for that old man to die.In fact, they already see him as a fossil even before this incident, with the thought he is a solitude person without any family and son. Soon after this incident, they start making their move.Charles himself doesn’t have any interest in this affair anymore. The only thing in his mind is all about Johann. It’s a good thing that Viona is still alive. But he can’t ignore what happened to Catarina.“Is there the need to go this far?” asks Charles, sitting on a wheelchair while observing his surroundings. He finds so many of his henchmen around that cemetery. There are too many of them, as if the one being buried is the most important woman in America.“I only left for two weeks, and look what happened to you,” replies Denzel.“Like I said. He won’t kill me,” says Char
The Heir of the Family 345 - You Can Have Her Back
Victor lifts his face to show his discontent with what Viona said to him. But Emma immediately exclaims him to lower his gaze. And Victor has no choices but to keep his act together.“Damn! You are playing dirty,” he whines.“I don’t need to play dirty to beat a kid like you.” Viona turns around, and escorts him to meet his dad. “Come!”Victor follows her. But Vincenzo immediately pulls his back to avoid him to look too stand out by himself.“Stick together!”He tells the others to also go with Victor, to make sure that the four of them are in one group. Viona glances behind, looking so annoyed that Emma also joins them. But she keeps quiet about it and keeps walking.The thing is, Johann is indeed observing the situation of that cemetery area. Part of his head is covered by bandages to cover the wound on his ear. He is quite far, hiding in the woods about 1 mile to the east of that cemetery area, observing the procession of Catarina funeral through binoculars.It’s not clear if he co
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“So, we are going to live here now?” asks Judy, just as she gets out of the car right in front of a humble two-story house. “All of us? Together?” Victor averts his attention to Judy, and immediately, Judy changes her facial expression to her childish one. “Ah, never mind! Come Emma, we need to secure the best room for us.” Emma is still looking so unsure whether to stay living together with them. But Judy insists on taking her. Victor just lets Chappy take all his stuff inside. He just leaves, heading to one shop right next to his new house. There are several people doing some renovation for that shop. And the first thing that catches his interest is the two guys who are now installing a banner with colorful lamps, mentioning La Marca. “So you're really going to revive La Marca, huh?” Victor turns behind, and sees Jimmy coming to him. Yes, this one shop is exactly the same spot where La Marca started, and it is right across the street, in front of Jimmy’s office. “Are you inte
360 - The Good and the Bad (The End)
So, Victor stays there for a while, waiting for Lucas to come. Meanwhile, Fazio and Gambino are looking confused by him. “So, you have footage of all his vaccine projects all this time, yet you let him scheme all these bad things on you?” asks Fazio. Victor turns his face to Vincenzo with a stupid look for a moment before giving a reply. “Um, I don’t clearly remember about this footage before. After listening to that old man’s story, only then did I think about it.” “Well, he was just a naive kid that time. He didn’t have the heart to do bad things on others,” says Vincenzo. “Heey!” Victor voices his objection. “No, it’s not about naivety,” Chappy interferes. “I know my bro is a good man. You see, I once tried to rob him, yet he treated me like a brother now.” Gambino just shakes his head with a silly face. “It’s good you want to do something good for others. But you need to understand, you can’t be too good to anyone. Especially in this kind of thing.” “I know!” replies Victor
359 - The Price Of A Trust
On the other hand, the one who hired Lt. Schneider to kill Victor as a fugitive is now having a restless night. Not because he is worried, but simply because he is confused, who killed that fat cop.He is none other than Elijah Miller, the lawyer that Lucas hires, who also has a grudge on Victor.“Could it be that man? No way!”He thinks this might be Lucas’ doing. But he never told Lucas who the police he hired for that scheme. Can’t get enough of his thoughts, he just leaves his house and visits Lucas in the middle of the night.And to add more salt to his bitterness, he finds Lucas seeming to have a peaceful night. That man opens the door for him with sleepy eyes.“What? Can’t you just come later in the morning?”“Damn! Was it really you?” asks Elijah.“What is this?” asks Lucas with a confused face.Elijah pushes the door, and then checks on the situation inside just to make sure there’s no one else beside them. He then asks Lucas to follow him to his car.“Haven't you heard the n
358 - Zip His Mouth
Jimmy immediately whispers to Victor that they don’t need to do anything to defend Emma’s testimonies. Because Emma already finishes her role in clarifying about his memory loss. “Don’t mind them. They are just trying to create a ruckus. It’s clear they have nothing to use against us.” Meanwhile, the judge also tells Elijah to stop bringing that issue, because he sees almost no correlation between that matter with the current case. “Maybe she does this to redeem her past mistake, or maybe not,” says the judge. “Whatever her intention is, all you need to do is to focus on the evidence she brings, and the credibility in her story. Is there anything else you want to ask the witness?” “No, Your Honor!” replies Elijah. Soon after this, the judge adjourned the trial for a while. He asks both Jimmy and Elijah to come to his office. The judge delivers his sermons, advising Jimmy and Elijah not to send the trial into obscurity in order to avoid unnecessary public attention. But sadly, th
357 - Questioning Her Intention
After all, he has made an agreement with Frank for this one, and he doesn’t want to screw Frank’s scenario in attacking Adam. Besides that, Jimmy himself already prepared his own arguments to protect Victor from all the accusations.When it is time for him to bring his witness, he asks Vincenzo first, as someone who was hired as Victor’s bodyguard and accompanied Victor to Canada.“I believe it was the same day they found Atkinson’s body. My boss was invited to attend the funeral of his ex-wife. It was shocking news for him. So, without thinking much about that message, we headed to Canada the same day.”“And there was this cab driver, welcoming us by telling us he was sent by the Mayor of the Town of the Blue Mountains, the father of my boss’ ex-wife.”He tells everything about how this mischievous cab driver left them in the nowhere, and how some people came to kill Victor. But of course, Vincenzo didn’t tell the part when he killed them all by himself.“We got separated, so I told
356 - Weak Testimonies
The next two days, Emma receives a package from her sister in Canada. It’s the document about Victor’s medical condition including the CT scan report of his head. At the same time, Mandy also receives a package from Eusebio, containing Victor’s phone that is already busted after he fell to the river. But of course, Jimmy is confident he can still fix the phone, and secures the odd message that Victor received from Emma’s phone number. “How did you get this?” asks Jimmy. “Someone sent it to me from Canada,” replies Mandy. “Who? He must know that I might need this to defend Victor’s case. Who sent it to you?” Before this, Jimmy already learned about some people talking about Eusebio coming back to Indiana. In the end, he only learned that the one being talked about was actually Victor. “Mandy! Are you hiding something from me? Did Eusebio meet with Victor in Canada?” Mandy nods twice with an uninterested face. “He was the one who helped him. He already called me right when he foun
355 - I'm Out
Even Frank isn’t getting a peaceful night either. There are so many things that don't click with his beautiful mind. He has learned quite far about the background behind that serial murder case. He knows that Victor has something to do with this, and has already had a theory that this led to the death of Atkinson. “So, Adam got Victor and this Johann guy at the same time. Does that mean all your theories are true?” asks Morgan. Frank doesn’t answer him. He just sits there with a flat face, while busy rubbing his ring finger which no longer has any ring on it. His mind keeps working on the narration to conclude all the theory and deduction that he has made so far. “But this man, Cooper! He said he came to Lucas to warn him about this serial killer,” he says. “But Lucas said that it was Cooper who tried to kill him in the toilet,” argues David. “That’s the problem,” Frank refutes. “We have an eyewitness that this man, Cooper, had a fight with someone wearing Arabian outfits in the
354 - When Being Innocent Is Not Enough
He hits Victor again, while he is still pinned down on the ground. That hit only looks like a joking tap, as if he is agitating Victor to release his rage. And indeed, it’s effective to make Victor even more infuriated and mad. But then, just as Victor raises his left hand intending to continue his assault, someone just shoots him with a gun. Fortunately, it only hit his left shoulder from behind. But because of this shot, he is no longer in a mount position pinning Johann down. Weirdly, that shot only makes Johann infuriated. He gets up, and shows how annoyed he is with the one man who just shot Victor. “Yoou!!!” He grumbles with a low voice, before shouting out his anger. “You’ve screwed everything! That’s his moment, how dare you screw it!!!” Still within his madness, Johann recklessly rushes toward that man who is still holding his gun. And then… “Bang! Bang!!” Two shots in the chest put Johann down. That man approaches Victor who is now trying to get back up by holding his
353 - Release That Beast!
Weirdly, for whatever reason, Johann didn’t kill Lucas. Cooper finds Lucas still breathing albeit no longer conscious. He immediately takes out a phone, and informs Victor and Vincenzo about that situation. However, as he just intends to leave that restroom, one security guard and two cops appear. Yes, there are already several cops around this building, because Lucas had shared to the police about the possibility of Victor would attack him. There are also Officer Frank and a few of his team among them in the outside. As those two cops notice Lucas’s condition in the restroom, they immediately put Cooper down on the floor. They then cuff Cooper’s hand behind his back. Of course, Cooper tries to break free, looking so impatient to not let his target away. “You stupid! You got the wrong person. He is out there, a man with an Arabian outfit!” “Silence! Whatever you want to say, you can explain it later in the office. You have the right to call an attorney. If you are unable to do so,
