“You can’t blame him for that. You can take the rat out of the sewer, but you can’t take the sewer out of the rat. Why would he care about these sort of technological innovations?” Mocking others felt very good indeed. I let out a sigh of relief, feeling more relaxed than I had ever been. The fearful feeling in my heart had disappeared completely.
Armond’s expression changed again, this time to a very ugly one. His humiliation gave way to anger, and he stood up abruptly.
At that moment, the other bodyguards were approaching the conference room. There were more than thirty of them, and they took out nearly a third of the room space, blocking the exit from view.
“I hate it when people trick me. You brought this upon yourselves.” As soon as he finished speaking, Armond nodded at the bodyguards, and they quickly got into formation, preparing to attack
“The Interpol and the special forces of Chanaea are already downstairs. I advise you to think carefully about what you’re going to do next. Are you going to stay here and bicker, or are you going to take the opportunity to escape now? You love making people choose, but it’s finally your turn to make a decision now.”
Ashton’s voice wasn’t very loud, but it reverberated through the quiet room. The bodyguards looked rather stunned.
Ashton would never forget his grudges. Armond had tried to trick us so many times, and it was time for him to get a taste of his own medicine.
He could go with the Interpol, or be extradited back to his country. Either way, he would be rotting in jail for many years to come.
Armond and the bodyguards exchanged a glance. After confirming that Ashton’s words were true, Armond gritted his teeth and shot us a rancorous look, before leaving under the bodyguards’ protection.
The large crowd created quite the commotion as they left the room. The room only returned to silence a full two minutes later.
“They won’t be able to get away this time,” I said, looking at the direction they were heading towards.
The Interpol would be guarding every single building exit, and searching every floor for a sign of Armond. Unless he had invisibility powers, Armond’s fate was sealed.
“If we were in K City, he would have left this building as a corpse!” John spat, his expression full of dislike.
Ashton didn’t reply. Putting his arms around me and the child, he said, “Let’s get out of here first.”
On the plane home, I couldn’t help but feel like everything had been settled once and for all.
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