Chapter 293 - Two Hundred And Ninety-three: Youre Welcome (2/2)
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 me, 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 camera 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 time to wrap up the loose ends,” He gestured to his men to take care of us.
”I guess this is goodbye,” I said to Eden with a wry smile.
”Yeah,” He acquiesced, ”Let's meet as lovers in our next life,” He joked.
”In your dreams,” we teased each other while staring death in the face.
I began a mental countdown to when my life would finally be snatched away from me.
”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 me with the same amount of confusion. Huh? What was going on?
Then we saw two of my father's men drop to the floor. A shootout began.
Everything happened too fast that we took cover behind heavy-duty machinery - none of us wanted to become 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 someone came up from behind us. Thinking it was one of Adam's men, 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 meant to believe. Adam tried to kill me 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 me the past seven years.
”Your highness,” some group of men appeared before him and bowed, ” We couldn't find him but the rest of his men are down,”
”Your highness?” I heard that one clearly.
”I'll explain later,” Judy said to me when he saw my questioning look, then turned to his men, ”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 men rescued her on time,” Judy informed 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 something 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 came 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 emerged 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 come from and saw Sakuzi blowing off the smoke from his gun. He threw a salute at us.
You're welcome.