Chapter 293 - Two Hundred And Ninety-three: Youre Welcome (1/2)
Niklaus point of view
I stirred, looking around my environment. We were in some kind of abandoned factory, the great spot for a big crime.
”Welcome to the party,” I heard someone say and turned around to meet 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 time,” He grinned.
It was somehow satisfying to know that I saved someone'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 members. 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 me 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 come 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 something before we're sacrificed,” Eden incited me.
”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 me even in the spirit world if I don't fulfill that
Adam made his way over to us, ”How are you doing, gentlemen?” 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 me, ”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 me? This is what I get for training my son!”
”Is quite funny because if I remember 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 me 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 men with him.
”What are you planning on doing?” Niklaus tried to get on his feet too but he was kicked back down.
”Let me 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 outcome.
”You have proven to be nothing but a waste of my resources and time, 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 extreme anger.
”You're about to die so your threat's useless,” Adam waved it off.
”So if I kill Niklaus, you'd kill me 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 me,” 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 come for this special occasion, did you think I was joking?” Adam picked the gun to hand over to him while the men untied Eden.
”I would kill you! ” Eden hissed out
”I'm sure there's ample opportunity for you to do that when we finally meet in hell. But before then, you might have to go there before me,” He replied nonchalantly.
Immediately the gun was handed over to Eden, he focused it on Adam but the four men available all pointed their weapon at him.
”Don't be stupid, Eden. Before you'd even get a shot at me, my men 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, ”