The Consortium's Heir

The Consortium’s Heir By Benjamin Chapter 199

Chapter 199

By the time Darius located Erin, the woman had vanished. All that remained was the faint smell of blood in the air

Erin did not feel he had to hide anything from Darius.

"I broke her wrist and got her to admit why she did all that." While saying that, She looked at Darius, waiting for his response. Darius signed.

Erin reached out to look at his watch. "If we had found out about this 30 minutes later than we did now, we'd already be on the plane, facing a grave threat."

Darius and the two bodyguards shared confused looks before they asked,” What exactly happened?"

Neither of the three could imagine the severity of what was happening.

After pondering for a while, she decided to reveal the truth. "At first, I didn't think things were that serious, so I planned to give anyone involved with the earlier incident a warning. You know-give them a taste of pain.

However, along the way, I caught a whiff of a peculiar odor that only belonged to aircraft paint. Those guys were here as flight passengers, which meant they shouldn't have touched the plane. So, I got suspicious.”

The three's jaws hung wide open upon hearing that.

They never imagined Erin could detect something was wrong from such a slight detail. Utter respect and admiration oozed from the way they looked at Erin.

he stoically continued, ‘That's why I interrogated that middle-aged woman in the shortest time possible. Her answer proved that my suspicions were correct. That's what happened." Darius then looked at Edward. "Isn't there something

muscles stiffening while his brain went blank. In truth,

Darius felt that Edward was dense as a brick. He sat down

woman was here to cause trouble for you. Regardless of her motivations, you seemed to be

contorted, revealing

I differ—I didn't grow up under Reid Consortium's care. I joined when I was 21 years old. Thus, my memories of my parents and childhood environment run deep. That woman exists in my memory because she

parent's wishes when they were alive, I was supposed to marry and have kids with that woman's daughter. But that's not what I wanted. Plus, her daughter was reluctant when I tried to fulfill my promise to marry her. That's why I decided to go with Bruce after meeting him. I even told the woman and her daughter that I'd have nothing to do with them once I left with Bruce. Her daughter was quite pleased back then, so I have no idea why the woman

answer. He reached out

However, he did not move, despite the former's

you want to fire me, but I'm sorry. That will

if the latter was trustworthy. He also found the situation odd due to his grandfather and Bruce's recent behavior. After all, he knew

isn’t such a person. He can't even guarantee

Regardless, he dared not say a word because of the latter's

for

not help raising his chin but kept his gaze downcast as he was unable, nor did he dare, to meet

The current situation makes me nervous, and I'll lose

think Darius

wish," Darius said while nodding, much to Edward's surprise.

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