The Consortium's Heir

Chapter 243 I Can’t

##Darius heard some noise on the other end of the line, then his grandfather’s resolute voice rang out.

"Tell me everything you know."

He knew there was nothing to hide about this, so he told James everything he and Borisin had seen and experienced.

James sounded even grimmer after listening to him.

"So, you mean to say that neither of you came into contact with anyone? No one injected anything into either of your bodies or force-fed you anything? Yet this still happened?"

Darius rubbed his temple.

"Yes, Grandpa. I’ve tried my best to recall every detail, but I haven’t come across anything that seems out of the ordinary."

"Alright."

James hung up.

Darius put his phone down and looked at Edward.

"That drug you researched—how is it administered?"

Edward met his gaze.

"There are plenty of ways. One can drink, touch, or even breathe it in."

"When do the memory lapses start?"

was the reason why it wasn’t thrown into production—there was no way to control the time it took to act up.Some saw the effects earlier than others, but there were some lab rats that only showed effects three to five

deep breath

take to

"Another eight hours, sir."

leaned back while

don’t have any updates on that matter, we can look into something

"Something else? Is it..."

head after some

I can’t think of

him with a faint

down your talents when you’re with me.In fact, I want all the people around me to be worth ten of someone

his head, not daring

us away, didn't

what had happened to himself.He suppressed the urge to give

to be busy for some time, so I’ll leave this up

things to turn out this way.He

"S-Sir, thank you."

so he

when I joined the Reid Consortium, I decided to

at the resolute look on his

reason for that, I’ll agree to it.But you need to understand this—you’ve turned down an order of

but Edward knew he meant his words.He

had given him two choices, but neither of them was what

was obvious there wouldn’t be a third option.He sighed and shut

experiments.After a few of the drugs that I’d worked on achieved success, more people started to know about me.They wanted me to work for them, but I'd never thought of leaving because a