Chapter 293 - Two Hundred And Ninety-three: You're Welco
Niklaus point of view
I stirred, looking around my environnt. We were in so kind of abandoned factory, the great spot for a big cri.
"Welco to the party," I heard soone say and turned around to et my dear cousin, Eden.
"You're still alive?" I chuckled, " I thought he had killed you by now,"
"Oh, he tried but your annoying call saved my life,"
My brow raised inquisitively, caring for more details.
"He planted a bomb in my car, detonated at the wrong ti," He grinned.
It was sohow satisfying to know that I saved soone's life for once, not cause the end of one.
"Can you think of what your father has in store for us?" he asked.
"Death, no doubt," I replied blandly.
"Can you be a bit more specific?"
"Probably pit us against each other, it would make a good cover-up story for the press and our family mbers. Moreover, it would please him as he watches us beat each other's asses,"
"How are you so sure?"
"I'm my father's son. He's trained over the years and I must have been so stupid to think I could beat him -?a follower can never beat the master," I released a sigh.
"I don't normally pep talk but if I hear that shit co from your mouth once more, I'll bash your head against the wall. You knowing everything about your father gives us the advantage here - think of sothing before we're sacrificed," Eden incited .
"I'm afraid it's too late for that, "
"What is too late?" He raised his head as the door to the warehouse screeched open
"That is what I'm talking about," I referred to my psychopathic father making his appearance.
"Figures," Eden groaned, throwing his head against the wall. Well, none of us wanted to die anyway - I still haven't married Reina and she would kill even in the spirit world if I don't fulfill that
Adam made his way over to us, "How are you doing, gentlen?" He asked in a sing-song.
"Why don't you untie us and you'd know," there was an obvious threat beneath my word.
Father focused his attention on , "I gave you everything, Niklaus," he began the guilt trip lecture, "I built this great legacy so you could carry it on but alas, this is what I get in return - you trying to kill ? This is what I get for training my son!"
"Is quite funny because if I rember clearly, that legacy was supposed to be mine if you haven't ruined my father's life," Eden reminded him.
"Oh right Eric, my brother. The chosen one, the apple of my father's eyes, the golden child. I helped my father build Spencer Group to the level it is today. b
But in the end, they all voted my younger brother to be the head while I, the eldest, served under him? " he laughed, "Impossible!"
"So that's why you set the accident, even risking your own life in the process. How desperate could you get?"
"You can't be successful if you don't take risks. Moreover, your father was a goody-two-shoes and a stupid martyr, I knew he would protect in that clash. So I risked my life wisely - how's that for a teaching?" Adam mocked him.
Eden looked at him with disgust," You really are a monster, "
"No," Adam disagreed, " You have to be a monster to gain absolute power. This world is a power struggle and only the fittest would survive, the rest are below the food chain,"
"Get him on his feet," Adam instructed two of the n with him.
"What are you planning on doing?" Niklaus tried to get on his feet too but he was kicked back down.
"Let go," Eden strived as expected, a punch in the stomach silenced him at once.
"Now, listen," Adam began, " I would?have you untied and hand a gun to you which you would use to shoot Niklaus,"
"Great, you'd kill your son now," I groaned, not even surprised at the outco.
"You have proven to be nothing but a waste of my resources and ti, hence Isabella would take your place and I would groom her to be the perfect heir,"
"You wouldn't dare!" I growled, veins bulging in my head and neck from extre anger.
"You're about to die so your threat's useless," Adam waved it off.
"So if I kill Niklaus, you'd kill afterward and then wrap the whole thing up and sell it to the world as a case of a cousin killing the other out of jealousy. You're a great master planner, Adam, but what makes you think I would pull the trigger on Niklaus - I know you're not that stupid," Eden found the whole thing suspicious.
Adam laughed, a boisterous one that whacked his body, "I thought you might say that so I brought a motivation, "
Adam snapped his finger and a man rushed forward with a phone in his grasp, playing a video.
Eden's eyes widened," Anabelle?! "
"Father, save ," The video showed Anabelle strapped to a chair while a man had a gun pointed at her head.
"I cut my birthday celebration short just to co for this special occasion, did you think I was joking?" Adam picked the gun to hand over to him while the n untied Eden.
"I would kill you! " Eden hissed out
"I'm sure there's ample opportunity for you to do that when we finally et in hell. But before then, you might have to go there before ," He replied nonchalantly.
Imdiately the gun was handed over to Eden, he focused it on Adam but the four n available all pointed their weapon at him.
"Don't be stupid, Eden. Before you'd even get a shot at , my n would rid you with bullets and don't you love your daughter anymore or maybe I should let her watch this so she would understand where your love lies. That way, when you eventually die, she wouldn't even shed a tear on your grave, "
Eden's chest rose and fell, the hand holding the gun shook greatly, he was vibrating with anger.
"Do it," I urged him.
"Shut up!" The stupid bastard pointed the gun at , hesitantly.
"I said do it!" I instigated him.
"I said shut it!" he turned and pulled the trigger at Adam but nothing happened.
They gave him an empty gun.
Adam laughed to the point of tears escaping his eyes, "You didn't actually think that I would give you a loaded gun?" he laughed once again.
It dawned on both of us, we just fell into another of my father's traps.
"I just needed you to get captured in that cara pointing the gun at Niklaus, the rest I would take care of,"
"No... no... no..." Eden was forced to his knees.
"Having gotten what I want, it's ti to wrap up the loose ends," He gestured to his n to take care of us.
"I guess this is goodbye," I said to Eden with a wry smile.
"Yeah," He acquiesced, "Let's et as lovers in our next life," He joked.
"In your dreams," we teased each other while staring death in the face.
I began a ntal countdown to when my life would finally be snatched away from .
"Five... Four... three... two... one.."
Bang!?Bang!
Why does death feel painless?
That was when I opened my eyes to discover there was no bullet hole in my body. Was it Eden that was shot then?
But when I turned to the side, Eden too was staring at with the sa amount of confusion. Huh? What was going on?
Then we saw two of my father's n drop to the floor. A shootout began.
Everything happened too fast that we took cover behind heavy-duty machinery - none of us wanted to beco the collateral damage in this incident.
The shootout lasted for about ten minutes and Eden helped untie my hands with that opportunity. We didn't know who just saved our ass, an enemy of Adam or not, we are so grateful.
We were still in our hiding place, waiting for things to cool off when soone ca up from behind us. Thinking it was one of Adam's n, both of us - Eden and I - were set to attack this adversary when I got the greatest shock of my life.
"Judy?!"
How is this possible?
"You died!" My eyes widened to the size of saucers, pointing at him.
"That was what you were ant to believe. Adam tried to kill but I survived," he narrated.
"God, I'm so happy," I hugged him tightly. His death alongside Maya's had been a huge blow to the past seven years.
"Your highness," so group of n?appeared before him and bowed, " We couldn't find him but the rest of his n are down,"
"Your highness?" I heard that one clearly.
"I'll explain later," Judy said to when he saw my questioning look, then turned to his n, "He should not be far from here so keep your eyes open,"
"Yes, your highness," they all bowed and dispersed.
Eden was in a haste to leave, "I'm grateful for your help but I need to find my daughter,"
"Don't worry, your daughter is safe. My n rescued her on ti," Judy inford him.
Eden let out the breath he was holding.
"How did you know about all this?" I was surprised, he was so prepared.
"Emily sensed sothing was up with your sudden touching, emotional, inspirational talk at the party,"
"Oh," I should have known.
He added, "Moreover, I've been keeping tabs on all of you since I ca back - I have a score to settle with Adam. We should get out of here," He said.
I nodded and was about to leave when Adam erged out of nowhere shouting, "No one is going anywhere, you would all die together!" He had a grenade in hand.
Uh-no
"Horrified," couldn't define what I was feeling. There was no way out of this one, we were all going to die.
We were prepared to run, but just as my psycho father was about to pull the safety pin before throwing that stuff at us, one… two… three…four… five… six bullets pierced into his chest. The grenade fell from his hand without exploding, what a great relief.
We all turned our heads to look at the drawbridge in the factory where the bullets had co from and saw Sakuzi blowing off the smoke from his gun. He threw a salute at us.
You're welco.
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