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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
CHAPTER 102Alicia’s question was direct and penetrating. She wanted to know why Borjan would suggest a thing as daring and as deadly as killing The Man. Powerful forces have tried tirelessly and failed. What could the both of them possibly do? A hacker and a single male soldier.Borjan heaved a deep sigh before rolling the car to the side of the road. “I was five when I first met Bethany but she doesn’t remember it. All my life I worked hard, joined the special forces, and wanted to be a top investigator like my father. I did all the right things until by chance, I came across the woman who murdered my entire family in cold blood. It happened right in front of me,” Borjan said calmly, his eyes glistening with unshed tears as painful memories rocked his mind.Alicia gasped, turning her gaze fully on Borjan.“How—How did you survive? She let you live?” Alicia asked in a calm and concerned tone.“See this?” Borjan said, raising his shirt to show her a bullet wound on his torso. “She di
CHAPTER 103She quickly decided to take Bethany’s advice and lure Jack actively with her body. For the few months that she had been with Jack, she had not seen him with any woman. In fact, the only two women she had actively seen Jack with were herself and Jack’s sister, Mildred.She knew Jack wasn’t gay, during their research into Jack before they picked him as their target to fund their project, Alicia had found out about Jack’s previous marriage and how it all ended.“Do you feel hot?” Alicia suddenly asked, removing her robe to reveal her bare body which was covered by a short and very transparent lace nightgown.Her smooth, shiny and thick thighs were in full display and from the angle Jack was sitting, he could see her clearly, glowing under the warm light.It was the first time that Jack was seeing Alicia in this way. She was always modestly dressed and acted shy most of the time. It baffled him that she was bold enough to remove her robe, knowing fully well that he could almost