CHAPTER ONE HUNDRER TWENTY-SEVEN:
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At the same floor but different place, Althea hid in a room while holding her breath as if that will make her invisible. The situation of Kai keeps running in her mind and worry and anxiety was not a good combination.
Nonetheless, she did not let it show. She tried sharpening her hearing, listening to every sound her ears can pick up as much as possible. Beads of sweat traced from her forehead to her chin. Hearing nothing but stillness, she peeked from the crack of the door.
No one was there.
It has been long since Dino and the mysterious man sent by Silver had ceased, but she did not know which side was the winner. To be safe, she made Kai go by himself and stayed behind. She realized that running away was not the ideal thing to do in this situation.
She has to remain and somehow deal with Dino, if ever he is still alive, so that he can stop chasing them.
Althea had no idea how, but even if it cos
CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-EIGHT--“Charlotte,” Tyler called out unconsciously, he stood up from sitting and approached her, puzzled at why she was there. “What are you doing here-“He was not given a chance to finish his words when a sharp slap landed on his face, the loud sound of the contact of their skin sounded throughout the hallway they were in. Tyler face turned to the right after getting hit by Charlotte’s palm.She was a frail looking girl, with a small stature and delicate figure, there was no way that it was her strength. But the situation of his cheeks begged to differ. Tyler’s cheek was throbbing really bad at the contact. He felt that it was swelling and blood started to rush to that side of his face.He looked back at Charlotte with disbelief in his eyes. They haven’t meet for years and this was the first thing she did when they finally met? Slap him? He tried recalling everything he said o
CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-NINE:--They had a daughter, they had.It was like someone had pressed the rewind button, he saw right before his eyes the scenes as they continue to drag backwards, like a broken clock that rotates counter-clockwise, until it stopped in that particular moment.Tyler felt like he drank a potion that made his memories as clear as day as if those things just happened yesterday- he watched, as he continued to glue his mind in that exact piece of memory while fully knowing how it ended, he still tried stopping it, he still tried changing the predestined ending.But nothing happened, even the pause button was broken- and the story continued to flow like water of a broken pipe.Tyler weakly laid his forehead on his arms that were on the stirring wheel.He had no idea how and when did he got inside this car, he just knew that, after everything Charlotte said to him, he mindlessly wandered around and somehow ended
CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED THIRTY:--TW: VIOLENCE, BLOOD--“I heard that she told you everything.” Althea stated right after the door closed. Aside from her, Tyler was left alone inside, standing on the feet of her bed like a nail. Althea waited for him to answer, but her sentence was left hanging in the air by his silence.“…”Althea looked down, her expression was obscure, but when she raised her head again, her smile still remained the same. “Tyler, you don’t have to be guilty, everything’s fine now…”“NO!” Finally, he spoke, and like his appearance, he shocked Althea with his yell. He advanced and in no time, he was by her side and clasped both of her shoulders. Startled, she looked up to see his eyes bulging at her. “Don’t say that- please don’t just casually say that and ignore everything that happened in your past-“His sentence
CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED THIRTY (2):--Although Sheryl had that look of innocence, it was icy cold and there was a hint of indifference as if she was not bother by the slowly dying man on her feet.“Oh, it’s just you, Dino…” a smile- she let out a smile.It was eerie and sinister, he shivered, but not from fear.All his life, he lived a boring and repetitive lifestyle. So, when he was suddenly transferred here, he did not care. All he did was live quietly while learning and serving them.But the sight of her made the long dead excitement in his heart stir. It made his blood rush on his veins wildly and they palpitated. The blood, its horrible smell, the fact that a girl, younger than him at that, just killed a human- Dino was not bothered at all. Rather, it stirred something very, very different inside him as he watches her stand in front of the corpse while holding the murder weapon in her hand-Admiration.
CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-ONE:--“Till this day, you haven’t said anything about who your employer is.” Tyler stated towards Dino as he watched him through a thick glass of wall, they were inside a room that was only separated with tall, thick, and heavy glasses. Tyler sat on his chair in an upright manner, while Dino was sitting languidly with his chin on top his palm. “It’s better to sing the name unless you don’t want to ease the punishment you will get.”Dino, on the other side of the room, snickered at his words. “Even if you’ll let me go, I’ll never betray my employer.”Tyler frowned as his emphasis of the word ‘never’. Is he loyal, or is he lying through his teeth?“On the other hand, even though if you will give me a pardon, or you will imprison me here for the rest of my life, my fate is already decided.” Dino adjusted his posture on his se
ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-TWO:--“I can’t do that!” Tyler expressed his disapproval. “You earned and treasured the organization the most to just give it like that!”“Just giving it away?!” Victoria frowned. “You got it wrong. I never thought of just giving it away to anyone. You are my son; you have all rights to inherit what I worked my ass for.”This thrown him into silence. Victoria gazed at the maids in the room before waving them away. After making sure that no one was there to listen on their conversation, her expression turned solemn. “You don’t need to feel bad; I am retiring anyway. I’ll be giving you everything I owned one way or another, so does your father. You know this would happen, right? Ever since you were born, every asset we have are yours- everything will eventually fall on your hands.”-Victoria stood beside the t
CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-THREE:--“He’s on the run,” Tyler asked immediately after stepping inside her office. Victoria didn’t turn to look at him and continued to peer outside through the window wall. It was night, the light of the buildings that stood tall was shining splendidly against the dimness. “As expected,”He didn’t hear her reply but that doesn’t matter. He invited himself to sit on a single couch. “What do you want to do with him?”Laughter echoed throughout the room. It was coming from Victoria. She laughed like she just heard something ridiculous. “You should ask yourself about that.”She whipped her head to lock her gaze with him. “What do you want to do with him?”Tyler perused Victoria’s expression, trying to find something off, but all he saw was a vacancy. It looks like she truly doesn’t care. 
ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-FOUR:-There was war.The ground shook as the soldier marched, on their hands were the guns that fires to kill the mortals. Missiles launch and eradicate buildings and houses. The battle cries of the soldiers were drowned by the pleas and begs of the civilians.“Quick, hurry!” There were two people in front of Emmanuel, extending their hands towards him with expression urgent.Emmanuel, with his seven-year-old body, attempted to get a handle on their hands. They took it and ran.They ran, and ran, and ran like a horse galloping on the solid ground. Their feet and their bodies were tired, sweats started to form on their foreheads. Their throats were hurting from its dryness, and their stomachs were boiling in hunger.Emmanuel wanted to stop, but his exhaustion was making his mouth shut.Suddenly—He fell on his knees, his hands slipped from their grasp. He grunted, h