The Consortium's Heir

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.

‘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

rooted to the ground, his muscles stiffening while his brain went blank. In truth, he had no clue what he needed to

was dense as a brick. He sat down

of her motivations, you seemed to be the weak

contorted, revealing a complicated

should've come clean about the matter with you. This is where Bridget and I differ—I didn't grow up under Reid Consortium's care. I joined when I was 21

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

nodded, feeling somewhat accepting of this answer.

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

want to fire me, but I'm sorry. That will only happen after we return from Almiron

silently narrowed his eyes at Edward, determining if the latter was trustworthy. He also found the situation odd due to his grandfather and Bruce's recent behavior. After all, he knew the two were highly cautious and would only pick the

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

the center of Darius’ scrutinous gaze. Regardless, he dared not say a word because of the latter's identity. He stood stiffly with his hands

on for a long

eventually felt an ache throughout his muscles. He could not help raising his chin but kept his gaze downcast as he was unable, nor did he dare, to meet

Reid, you can ask me anything. The current situation makes me nervous, and I'll lose the most basic ability of a bodyguard-

think Darius

Edward's