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“Arianna, this is why I told you earlier that I will give you the full details later. I can’t start explaining everything to you because I will have to go into detail which takes time. What I can do is to tell you when I am done.”“And why don’t you hire assassins? I could help with that and it would be so much easier hiring real thugs to do that as long as you can pay them,” Arianna suggested.For a brief moment, Sarah thought about the idea of having assassins do what she needed to do at Doctor Lopez’s office but she changed her mind because even if she was able to render Doctor Lopez silenced, she still had to recognize the antidote. It was best that she did it herself then because she at least had a graphic description of how it was supposed to look like.“Don’t worry about hiring assassins. I would go about the task myself,” Sarah responded after having a lot of deliberation in her head.Arianna’s resolve crumbled with a weakening surrender. “Hmm, I just hope that this is not the
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Anyway, as much as she knew that it was going to be easier doing that in his house, she always knew that the antidote which was her main goal wasn’t going to be in his house. He gave a hint to that effect on the day that Lady Winston was injected with the virus.Sarah’s gaze was a clouded doubt and her changing features were a troubled canvas that revealed her inner conflict. The more she tried to keep her composure, the more she struggled woefully at it.“Are you visiting Doctor Lopez on behalf of Paul?” The secretary asked. “We haven’t received any directive from Mr. Leonard that you were going to be coming.”Sarah’s fingers twitched with a nervous energy with her posture unsettled. She had to say that she was from Paul, she thought. If she said she came on her own accord, she would be inviting a flurry of other questions that she might not be able to answer. Even though any answer she gave was always going to carry some risk, it was better to take the safer option.“I was directed
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“It’s been a project I had been working on for many years. That’s why if you examine Lady Winston's state, it’s very strange - one moment she is is still and unresponsive while another moment she is convulsing with so much torment.”Doctor Lopez was having fun hyping himself up. His gestures were a lively dance and physical manifestation of the playful enthusiasm that coursed through him. “I think I am a little too good with my mixtures. You know, there is something I am working on. It’s just a little secret,” he said, his lips twisting as if he didn’t want to walls to hear him.“There is a combination of organic and ionic compounds that if mixed in a particular way and you inject it into yourself, you might not need food at least for a week, haha.”Doctor Lopez’s laughter was a triumphant cackle and a bellowing roar in celebration of his achievements. “I am working on that mixture and that would be yet another wonderful research of mine. I can’t leak some of these things to the outs
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“But we can’t just fall into their hands just like that,” Doctor Lopez argued, his breath hitched with a gasping struggle as he fought the choking grip of his panic.“We are already in their hands at it stands, Doctor,” Sarah spoke.“I will stay here. I won’t come outside. After all, I like it very much in my new office,” Doctor Lopez suggested, his voice tinged with an intensity of his panic.“If I could get to you here from my office in just a few minutes, think about how much it would be easier for them to get to you?” Sarah reacted, her posture a rigid dominance as she sought to pressure Doctor Lopez into submission.Doctor Lopez’s face was a puzzle of bewilderment and uncertainty as he darted around nervously.“As far as I am concerned, I am not ready to let them get me again. I am ready to surrender everything to them as long as they would leave me alone. I advise that you do the same too or else, they are coming to kill us. I have a baby who I kept at the daycare who still need
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She quickly swallowed her embarrassment and pointed the gun the right way. After all, it didn’t seem like Doctor Lopez had noticed it - he was too scared to have noticed it and even if he did, he didn’t have the energy to jolt out of his shock.Sarah leaped away from her seat quickly and took a few steps backward but her gun was still pointed directly at Doctor Lopez and her eyes were narrow with a deadly squint of dread. She had to be as rigid as possible to get Doctor Lopez scared enough to hand over the antidote.Sarah moved her body like the stealthy cunning of a snake as she tracked the doorknob and locked it before someone burst into the officer and alerted the security that there was an intruder.The thoughts of how she would escape such a big building if peradventure she shot Doctor Lopez and other employees heard it was creeping into her mind but she waded it off before it gained more hold on her. It wasn’t the time to start thinking about all of that. If there was a complica
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She was too late when she landed on Doctor Lopez, their eyes stuck to each other in tension as it was as if both were waiting for each other to make the first move again.Sarah knew that even though Doctor Lopez was in his 50s and perhaps not as vibrant as when he was younger, there was a chance that she could still not square up to Doctor Lopez in physical combat.Sarah retraced her gaze to the bottle containing the antidote that Doctor Lopez flung to the ground. She realized that the bottle didn’t break after all, neither did the cover removed from its neck. There was no point engaging in a tussle with Doctor Lopez, she thought.Her posture was contorted with menace as she flailed her arms and darted toward the bottle to pick it up. That was her aim but if she could leave Doctor Lopez’s office without having to put a bullet in him as he had earlier tried to do, that would be even better.Doctor Lopez wasn’t going to have her get it so easily. He forbade in his mind that Sarah would
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Shit! How could she forget such an important thing? She had just left evidence of her offense right inside the office. There weren’t many people around and everyone seemed to have either left their places of duty or were stuck to their desk doing extra work. It might be a smooth operation if she went back. Should she go back to pick it up? She asked herself.The gun being there was going to leave a trace.She heaved a sigh of rejection of the idea. She wouldn’t go back, she reasoned. What if she went back and someone caught her? That would be disastrous. She had the antidote in her hand and she managed not to kill Doctor Lopez so that was some progress at least, she thought.The gun was not hers and she would have some exolainatuin to do to Arianna but she would also need to explain some things to her. Now, that she thought about it, Arianna probably made sure that there was no bullet in the gun and lied to her, taking advantage of her ignorance and inexperience in such issues.Perhap
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It dawned on Paul that his hunch was correct. Two out of the Kazitanis operatives sent to get the truck past the border had been eliminated. That was very positive for him, he reasoned.That meant that there were only two people left for him to deal with. He could surely take them on, he thought. At least, that felt like a more reasonable bout than having to go against four peopleBut, all of a sudden, his phone rang. Sh!t! Paul jolted in a panicked alarm as he scrambled to silence the intrusive sound, his eyes wide with terror as he realized that there could be consequences for that.He quickly turned the phone to silence but noticed that it was his ex-wife, Rose who was calling him.“Wait! Did you hear that sound?” Zilinzky asked, his hands hung in the air as he tried to get a grasp of the situation.“Yes, I heard something like a vibration or the ringing of a phone somewhat. Where could that be coming from?”“How am I supposed to know, Hoestes,” Zilinzky spoke. “We can't know unti
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Paul who was darting from side to side in confusion soon saw a figure in front of him. His ropes were cut off a lightning speed as he was escorted out of the hall by a figure.Paul gasped in shock when he saw the figure that had come to protect him.“Dane Michaelson?!” Paul gasped in surprise. “Is this you? What are you doing?”Dane Michaelson was Paul’s long-term friend and high schoolmate who had always been like a guardian angel to him. He always protected Paul from bullies when he was in high school and even had a young age, Dane Michaelson had impressive fighting skills that he used to defeat anyone who came across him to defy him or any of his friends. Paul learned a few fighting skills from Dane but their friendship was put to a halt when Dane had to travel far away for a scholarship. He promised that he was going to be back though and that he would always keep an eye on him.“I told you that I would be back for you, didn't I?” Dane spoke in a hurried tone, his words coming o
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He didn’t want Grandpa Leonard to suffer more than he already had and he was feeling as though he should have done more to protect Grandpa Leonard.Grandpa Leonard was also tied with bonds to the wheelchair and his face was set in a mask of grim determination as he endured the agony, his eyes narrowed with focus against the torrent of pain.“I am the head of the Imperial Society Syndicate, not him,” Pail spoke, trying to defend Grandpa Leonard.“Son, do not worry about me. This is not the time to speak of vain things,” Grandpa Leonard spoke sternly as if to tell Paul not to worry about him.The Red Witch erupted in a burst of laughter that echoed through the hall, her expression twisted into a malicious smile as she took pleasure in her evil deeds. It brought her so much joy to see Paul and Grandpa Leonard sit side-by-side and have their faces contorted with grief.Her smile curved into a malicious grin as she turned towards Paul. “Long time, no see Paul Leonard. Don’t tell me that yo
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Paul could hear their voices and it was mixed with laughter and merriment. The stench of alcohol filled the place and Paul was wondering if it was the same person that was tied to a chair that everyone was celebrating about.But there was something else that caught Paul’s interest. He kept hearing them call out a Red Witch. He had heard the word more than twice already since his eyes fluttered open and from the conversation that his ears were able to pick, it seemed as if the Red Witch wasn’t just an ordinary person.It could be one of their leaders, he thought. Or could it be the person that was assigned to kill him and render whatever punishment they had against him?Paul was suddenly shocked when he received a huge flow of water attacking him on his face. He spluttered and shuddered as his body shook violently, expelling the water from his lungs. His throat was constructed painfully as he tried to draw breath. He shook his face repeatedly so that the water could fall off his face a
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Sarah couldn’t help but defend herself. She wasn’t just going to keep quiet and allow things to happen to her. She had to speak up and defend herself, she thought.“I brought the antidote that is now the reason why you are alive. I suffered a lot and risked a lot to get the antidote. I had an agreement with Janet, Frank, and Thomas but they haven’t told me anything,” Sarah stammered in panic, her words tumbling out rapidly as she tried to explain herself. “I don’t deserve this treatment and I don’t understand why you have to force me here as if I shouldn’t be one of the partakers of the good things of Winston Corporation. If you knew what I did to get the antidote for you, you probably wouldn’t be treating me this way. What else do I have to do to prove that I deserve my previous position back.”Janet retorted. “Liar! Liar! You cannot get your previous position back. You are a rotten piece of dirt!l Janet retorted.”Janet was always upset by the fact that Sarah was desperate to get h
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Sarah’s voice was breaking because she wondered what she said that was wrong. “Y-e-s.”“What?!” Arianna fumed. “What exactly are you still doing at the inner chamber? You have already made the mistake of giving them the antidote but what business do you still have there?”“I just think that maybe they would—-” Sarah’s voice was breaking with tension.Arianna spoke over her in a loud frothing. “You think what exactly? What exactly do you think? Are you still delusional enough to think that Lady Winston would give you the requests that you asked for?”Arianna’s tone was insistent and her expression furious as she rendered a warning. “What exactly are you still there for when they have already shown you the writing on the wall? Oh my goodness!”“You had better start running away from there because if the history of your family’s wickedness is anything to go by, then it won’t be long until they arrest you and even do much worse to you than they wanted to do before. Do you think Lady Winst
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Arianna’s voice was tinged with a hint of unease as she tried to communicate her fears. “Doctor Lopez? Wait, don’t tell me that you tried to get the antidote from him to help Lady Winston.”Sarah bit her lips again because she didn’t know how to answer the question. “That’s exactly what I did,” she finally spoke out.“My goodness!” Arianna spoke out loud, her voice ringing with a loud echo from the phone as she conveyed her disappointment. “I thought that Paul already gave you a new and improved job. What happened that would make you go back to the same mess that you were coming from.”“I just couldn’t find it comfortable there. I couldn’t stop thinking about Winston Corporation. I thought that I felt at home at Winston Corporation,” Sarah attempted to justify herself, her voice faltering because she realized the fault in her argument.“Can you even listen to yourself?” Arianna seethed, her voice rising with a cold anger and tinged with disappointment. “You are somehow trying to justi
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“Do you really think that I will listen to her deceits? She has seen that Paul can do no good for her and now she wants to return to where she made a life. Oh, how foolish does she think we would be.”“In any case, I am glad that she came right into our hands because now she will get the punishment that she escaped narrowly before. Who would have thought that she would come right under our nose so easily for us to dismantle her.”Janet's cheek flushed with happiness as she smiled brightly, her eyes shining with excitement.Of course, neither she nor her brothers had the intention of fulfilling the pact that they had with Sarah. They were all trying to get the antidote and now that Lady Winston was back in a healthy condition, they could do away with Sarah. In fact, Frank and Thomas especially were expecting Lady Winston not to suspend the punishment that she had earlier placed on her.“Come to think of it. Where is she now? Where did she go? “ Lady Winston asked. They all turned the
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She recalled that she had forgotten the gun that Arianna gave to her in Doctor Lopez’s office. That gun was the evidence that was going to stand against her if Doctor Lopez died. Her mind started reeling with desperate thoughts. What if she had committed murder all for nothing? Was she going to lose on both ends? How long was she going to keep foolishly trusting her family to back her up and then proving that they were always going to stab her in the back?An investigation was going to be carried out into what happened with Doctor Lopez, she reasoned. They were going to trace it to her and tell Paul about it. She couldn't imagine how disgusted Paul was going to feel to learn that she had betrayed him even much more intentionally this time.The inner chamber had high ceilings adorned with intricate carvings. The walls were lined with tapestries and brilliant decorations conveying a sense of power and prestige. Frank and Thomas led Lady Winston until she reclined on a sumptuous chair
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Lady Winston soon spoke, her words drowned with fatigue and her speech slow and deliberate as she feigned an extra bit of tiredness. “Hello everyone. I appreciate that you have all come here to witness this moment. I appreciate all those whose prayers and thoughts have been with me.”“But as you can see, I am recovering from a very delicate condition that would require that I have a long rest so I will be accompanied by my family - Frank, Thomas, Estevan, and Janet who I am sure must have been working day and night to ensure that I am back to normalcy.”The employees all erupted in applause, their faces contorted with nervousness as they gradually returned to their duty posts.Sarah’s expression was glazed, her eyes unfocused and her mouth hanging slightly open as she stared blankly, her features slack with confusion. Her haze was disoriented as she stared back and forth, her expression clouded with confusion and uncertainty. The applause was like a torment to her because it was cons
