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.

he stoically continued, ‘That's why I interrogated that middle-aged woman in the shortest time possible. Her answer proved that my

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

sat down on

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

contorted, revealing a complicated

what you mean now, Mr. Reid. You're right. I 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 years old. Thus, my memories of my parents and childhood environment

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

this answer. He reached out and waved

could have left at that point. However, he did not move,

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

found the situation odd due to his grandfather and Bruce's recent behavior. After all, he

such a person.

a word because of the latter's identity. He stood stiffly with his hands behind his back, his

went on for a long

ache throughout his muscles. He could not help raising his chin but kept his gaze downcast as he

you can ask me anything. The current situation makes me nervous, and

think

to Edward's surprise. Then, he voiced the