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CHAPTER 94“Can you move that thing faster than I can pull this trigger?” The ring finger asked cockily, pulling a gun on Laurel.Pinkie and the middle finger had filled the rest of the group on the kind of mystical power Laurel’s amulet contained. Pinkie called it the necklace of the devil, a talisman of death.“Why don’t we find out?” Laurel replied coldly, his eyes scanning every single member of the group.These were people that he hired and partnered with for a job. He even agreed to a 50/50 split with them so that they could do the job, but in the end, they partnered with his arch enemy and caused him to lose half of his company shares along with 21 trillion dollars to Jack Bolton.His anger was palpable and at that moment, he didn’t mind that the bullet would take him out, after all, he wasn’t immune like Jack but he just wanted to make them pay, even if it meant losing his life.“No need to do anything rash Laurel. We had no choice, he had us backed into a corner. It was either
CHAPTER 95“In your fucking dreams. You did this Jack. You did all of this! I hate you. I fucking hate you,” Laurel yelled. He felt completely powerless, useless and defeated. After months of terrorising and tormenting Jack, it only took Jack three days to take him and his brother down.“You think this is your fucking grand revenge scheme? Well you better hope we don’t get to see the light again because I promise that if we do, I’m coming for everything that you are,” Gregory spat venomously,Jack scoffed and shook his head. Their threats didn’t faze him. He had a plan much worse than prison for them. This was only so he could get the shares and not exactly to put them away.“No one has time for your baseless threats. Are you signing the papers or not?” Jack asked icily with a sneer on his face.The Smith brothers knew they had no choice. It was either they made some money from selling to Jack or they made absolutely nothing by refusing to sell and Jack would still be able to take thei
CHAPTER 96“Thank you so much Barrister Paul. We weren’t expecting things to go so smoothly or for the case to be so easily resolved,” Gregory said to the lawyer after the judge’s final verdict.He had hope. Since the case didn’t turn out as Jack probably wanted, they had a chance of getting back their shares from him. They may have signed the share transfer documents but there was a one week period for such transactions to be overruled.“You really shouldn’t thank me. It was Mr. Bolton who handled everything. Honestly, when the coroner’s first report came, there was no cyanide poisoning but then I got a call from Mr. Bolton in the wee hours of this morning to meet up with the coroner and his reports had changed,” Barrister Paul replied.Laurel and Gregory’s hearts suddenly started to pound hard in their chest. What game was Jack playing? What was his aim? Laurel immediately remembered Jack’s promise and he began to sweat.“So you mean Jack Bolton was the reason the coroner changed his
CHAPTER 97Several minutes into the drive, Laurel realised they were going in a different direction from what the GPS on his phone was saying. “Hey! Where the heck are you taking us?” He yelled but he got no response.He became frantic, knocking on the barricade. “Hey Mr. Man, can you hear me? The airport is the other way!” He yelled again.The barricade slowly opened. “Please be calm sir, there was a terrible accident along that road this morning, that’s why I’m taking another route,” Rojo calmly replied but in fact, he was driving them straight to their destruction.“Accident? There was no accident recorded on the road, I can’t see any congestion on the app here,” Laurel replied, knowing fully well that the GPS system worked in real time and if there was an accident, it would be on the app and there would be congestion shown on the route.“Are you sure sir? Maybe you should look again,” Rojo replied calmly still, a small mischievous smile on his face as he steered the car gently.La
CHAPTER 98“Why did you do it?”“What do you have to say for yourself?”“Such atrocities should be severely punished.”“They deserve death for doing such despicable things.”“We should lynch them. They deserve to die.”Press members and different people in the crowd questioned and expressed their grievances. The Smith brothers knew what was coming next for them wasn’t pretty. The agitated crowd slowly started to move towards them in anger.Gregory quickly shoved Rojo, who was standing by the driver’s door with a smug look on his face to the floor and quickly got in. As if on cue, Laurel got into the back of the car. They knew they had no choice. They just had to try and make a run for it. If they waited any more second, the mob would lynch them.“What do we do? Where do we go?” Gregory asked impatiently. He was totally confused and flabbergasted. It was he who admitted to all of their sins. How could he have known that Jack had such a sinister plan?“Drive straight to the airport. Go
CHAPTER 99“What are you waiting for?” Laurel asked coldly. Jack scoffed. “Relax boy, you are going to die but the way and when I decide. You do not get the liberty to choose the time of your death. I am your grim reaper and you will die when I say you will die.”“Then fucking make up your mind already, because if you think I will fold and beg like this pussy beside me, you have another thing coming,” Laurel replied.“So you really want to die eh?” Jack asked coyly.“Fuck off,” Laurel replied. “Do it!”“So if I…..” Jack trailed. He took out the bullet chamber and began to remove the bullets until only one was left. “Remove all the bullets and leave one and I gave you both a choice, I give you the gun. One bullet, two brothers. One lives, one dies. You’re not going to go for it?”The two brothers looked at each other sharply before their gaze quickly shifted to the gun Jack was holding. Would Jack really do it? And if he did, would one of them really kill the other? Sure, Laurel was e
CHAPTER 100While Jack was handling business, dealing with the Smith brothers, Alicia was handling a business of her own. Her meeting with Jack wasn’t as coincidental as she made it look, there was more to her story. What she told Jack was the truth but only partially.It was just coincidental that she was just the person Jack needed to solve the problem he was having with the Smith brothers. She presented herself as a perfect solution and she was now indispensable to Jack.“How far are you on our plan? Is Jack willing to fund our project yet?” A woman dressed in all black with a mean demeanour on her face asked Alicia. Her name was Bethany Fischer. The chairman and founder of the weapons manufacturing company, Ironclad Armaments. Bethany was not a woman to mess with. Great men cowered before her. She was formerly a mafia gangster in her early days and when she was arrested by the Authorities, she single handedly gave up ten Mafia lords and their trade networks in exchange for her fr
CHAPTER 101Alicia knew she couldn’t delay any longer, she needed to find a way to get Jack to invest in her software for Ironclad or risk getting in trouble with her master, Bethany.Bethany was a ruthless woman who would stop at nothing to achieve her ultimate aim and the last thing Alicia wanted to do was to keep standing in the way of that happening.“Tell me the truth Alicia, can you do this?” Borjan asked, driving away.“I’ve managed so far, haven’t I?” Alicia replied coldly.“You don’t have to be so hostile towards me. I’m not your enemy Alicia. I’m your team mate. The earlier you start to see me as that, the better this can go for us all.” Borjan replied.“I don’t care what you think you are or what you think you are not but when it comes to me and you, we are only one thing, Bethany’s puppets,” Alicia replied.She wasn’t wrong to say that. As far as Alicia believed, everyone of them was just a cog in Bethany’s big and heartless machine but she still owed the woman her life.It