Chapter 39 - Panic
Author: Benjamin_Jnr
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Meanwhile, while Nicolas was waiting for Joel to bypass the secured passcodes on the hard disk drive and cellphone, Jack Harvey was fuming seriously in his office.

"The origin of the fire is far from ordinary!" Jack Harvey cursed venomously as he looked at the empty, hidden compartment on the wall of his office.

Some hours earlier, Jack Harvey was in a very important business meeting with the upper echelon of Limbra Inc. It was disguised as a business meeting, but deep down, every one of them who attended the meeting knew that it was far from that.

Rather than being a business meeting, it was a meeting that was meant for them to fight for their own selfish interests.

None of the upper echelon at Limbra Inc. were innocent and naive. Instead, they were quite the opposite—ssly and greedy.

This was to be expected, as none of them would have climbed to the top of Limbra Inc. if they were kind and naive.

It was during the meeting that they heard the fire alarm ring throughout the entire bui
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