Chapter 521: Finis.h.i.+ng Up
Aaliya soon reached the door. As she reached out her hand to open the door, she kept praying that she wouldn"t be shot in the back.
Bang!
Her fingers touched the doork.n.o.b, and simultaneously, a big sound came from the back. She couldn"t help but close her eyes as she felt like her heartbeat had stopped. She had thought that Ryder had shot her.
"Huh?"
There was no pain in her body. She wasn"t bleeding. There was no pain. She realized that it wasn"t that she was shot.
She wanted to turn back to see what that noise actually was, but she didn"t dare. She pushed the door open and ran out, not even daring to look back.
Only after she stepped out successfully did she breathe in relief, but she didn"t stop running. She needed to bring people here. She needed to bring security along with more people.
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"That"s right! Come!" The woman came back after some time. Tens of guards were following behind her, all with big weapons.
As she had left, she had made sure to place a man here who was to keep an eye to make sure that Ryder didn"t leave.
"He didn"t leave, right?" she asked that man.
"No, mam. Only Alex had left," the man answered.
"Alex? My personal guard? What do you mean only he left? He is already killed by that b.a.s.t.a.r.d! Whatever!" Aaliya rolled her eyes as she reached the rooms. She stood in the back and watched her men enter. The men were already commanded to shoot Ryder at sight.
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A few minutes had pa.s.sed since the armed men entered her office, but there was no sound of shooting.
"What happened? Why is there no sound?" She wondered as she stepped inside as well, initially hesitant.
As she entered, her face turned pale at what she saw.
The room... It seemed perfectly fine. There was no blood anywhere. As for bodies, there were no bodies either. It seemed like nothing had happened in the dream.
The new guards were also looking confused. They were wondering if their boss had gone crazy. There was no way a shooting took place here. Did she hallucinate something? They wondered, frowning.
"How is this possible?" Aaliya exclaimed, shocked.
This room didn"t have a camera so that she couldn"t prove anything, but she knew that her men were probably finding her crazy.
"So what if this room doesn"t have a camera? The outside hall has a camera. I"ll find him there. The window is perfectly fine. He didn"t leave from there. There"s no way to bring bodies out except through the main hallway. That would reveal everything!"
She walked over to her laptop, which was placed on the table, perfectly neat.
After unlocking the laptop, she pressed a few b.u.t.tons to go to the footage of the last hour to see what took place outside.
"There I am, leaving."
She saw her running. She was sure that Ryder left after her. She was waiting to find that guy. Unfortunately, she didn"t find him. That guy wasn"t there at all.
Who left the room after her was none other than Alex! It was her guard that was killed first by Ryder.
"How! How could he be alive! No! It was Ryder Flynn! I"m not crazy!"
She kept playing the footage. After that, not a single person left the office until she came back just how. But how. Where was Ryder? What happened to him? Where were the rest of her men? Was a ghost here? Or what?
"Yes! I should have the footage of him coming to my room. I can prove that!"
She was determined to prove that Ryder was here. She started rewinding the footage to before she had run.
She wanted to see Ryder entering.
"What?"
Her head was spinning as she saw the footage. She saw her worker coming to her office and leaving after that. Ryder wasn"t there with him. Ryder wasn"t there. How? From what she remembered, that man brought Ryder here; how could he not be seen in the footage.
"Was he actually a ghost?"
Frowning, she ran outside her room. She needed to make sure by asking that man that Ryder was here with him. Footage can lie, but he won"t, she thought.
She soon found that man in the cabin on the lower floor. She was still breathing heavily as she had been running. Her guards also ran behind her. At this point, almost everyone was certain that their boss was not feeling right.
"Tell me! When you came to my office, you brought Ryder Flynn to me, didn"t you?" She asked.
"Ah, boss, do you mean that man I was told to bring? I came to your office to tell you that the man returned from the lift saying he didn"t want to meet anymore. So I couldn"t bring him. That"s why I apologized to you as well," the man replied, confused about what she was talking about.
"You b.a.s.t.a.r.d! How dare you lie before me!" Furious, Aaliya slapped the man before she dropped to the ground, feeling that her head was going to blow up. Was she going crazy? Was this all a dream? Just what was happening? Why was everyone lying to her?
"Madam, I think you"re not feeling alright today. Let me take you to a doctor."
A manager stepped forward to help the woman.
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Outside the building, Ryder was standing before his car, gazing at the building. A calm smile was on his face.
A piece of paper was in his hand which contained the confession of Aaliya. He was going to approach her again. If she didn"t accept the truth, this was the option.
"But first, I have someone else to deal with," Ryder muttered as he entered the car.
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Ryder"s car stopped before his office. Stepping out of the car, he walked inside the building amidst the many greetings.
He went straight to the office of Aleson.
"Boss, You"re here. I was just about to call you. I believe the research was stolen the same day we conducted experiments since the footage of that day is missing. I don"t know who messed with it, but it seems like an elaborate scheme. It"s going to be pretty tough to find the culprit.
"Don"t worry. I already know the culprit," Ryder said as he sat before Aleson, sighing.
He placed the piece of paper which was in his hand towards Aleson, who picked it up and started reading it.
"It"s him?"
Even Aleson seemed shocked, but Ryder could see that Aleson probably was already suspicious of him. He just wasn"t saying anything since this guy was hired by Ryder himself.
"Yeah. It"s this b.a.s.t.a.r.d. So tell me. How do you want to deal with it? Going through the legal route and ruining his life or the easier path?" Ryder asked Aleson.
"What"s the easier path?" Aleson asked, wondering what Ryder meant.
"The easier path will make that b.a.s.t.a.r.d disappear from this company forever without legal troubles," Ryder answered.
"With that explanation, the easier option sounds better, but I have a bad feeling about this," Aleson muttered as he frowned. He was suspicious of this easier path.
"Easier path it is. Stay in your office and continue working. I"ll handle things my way," Ryder said as he stood up and started walking away. "These people really think they can dance over my head just because I don"t do anything here."
Leaving Aleson"s office, Ryder entered a different office where he spent only ten minutes. After ten minutes, he stepped out and left.
That day... An office became empty as a person disappeared forever.
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Dealing with the small things, Ryder left the building and walked downstairs. He didn"t spend any more time there than what he needed to.
He directly went back to the mansion to rest now that he had finished everything.
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What Ryder didn"t know was that Alice was also doing something when he was outside.
She had decided to accept the offer of Necrosis and take part in the billion dollar tournament that was going to take place soon. For that, she needed to send her information. And she was ready to do that. She hadn"t thought about it twice as she did everything.
She knew that this was the only option if she didn"t want to be blocked from divinity. Moreover, she can have a chance of winning a billion dollars to help Ryder as well. She was willing to take it.
She had sent her information, and she was already back, resting when Ryder returned after handling matters outside.
After coming back, the first thing he did was to meet Alice. He had killed Alice in Divinity. He needed to apologize to her.
Coming back to the mansion, he went straight to her room and told her everything. He told her that he didn"t know it was her and apologized to her. But he didn"t say anything more than he needed to.
"Oh, right. You"re blocked now, right?" Ryder asked her.