Rowan looked at Lillian coldly. He was unmoved by his daughter's desperate pleas.
"Lillian, if you really want to die, then go ahead and die! Don't delay my great cause because of you!"
"Father, is power really that important? Are you gonna give up your family?" Lillian cried out in despair.
"Family?!" Rowan sneered, "There are so many family members, one more or one less won't make a difference. Do you think your mother died accidentally all those years ago? It was because she got in the way of my development!"
"Father!" Lillian screamed from the depths of her heart, "How could you be so insane?"
"If I wasn't insane, how could I have developed to where I am now?! How could I have given you such good conditions? My brothers would have killed me long ago. How else could I become the only heir to the Collins family?"
Rowan was completely unaffected by his daughter's accusations and revealed his true face at this moment. He continued cruelly, "Lillian, don't try to threaten me with yourself! To me, if you die it's like a dog dying!"
"Rowan!" Lillian screamed.
Rowan gave a cold smile. It was a terrifying face that Lillian had never seen before. She never knew that her father who had always been very good to them siblings would treat them as mere tools.
Her tears fell uncontrollably. At this moment, it didn't matter if she died, but Una would be implicated and even Oscar would suffer.
She regretted everything.
Rowan didn't care about Lillian's emotions at all; he turned around and prepared to leave.
"Mr Collins, something bad has happened!" A subordinate suddenly rushed over quickly with a trembling voice.
"What happened?!" Rowan's face darkened immediately upon hearing this news.
Something big had happened.
"We're surrounded!"
"What?!" There was panic on Rowan's face for an instant.
"It's Commander's men who did it; they've already surrounded us completely! I tried contacting our people for support but we can't reach any of them now. I suspect we've fallen into his ambush!" The subordinate spoke quickly and urgently.
"Damn it!" Suddenly cursing loudly, Rowan turned around readying himself to leave immediately. As he turned to leave, Rowan suddenly spun around and faced Lillian.
"You betrayed me, you bitch!" Rowan roared.
Lillian laughed sarcastically. She wished it was her who had betrayed her father, but it wasn't. In fact, she was even helping this insane man. However, his father still fell victim to the scheme.
It could only mean one thing-she had been played for a fool, being used by Oscar too.
How ironic!
She thought her father loved her all along. And she thought Oscar truly cared for her as well. But in the end, she was nothing more than a tool for them.
Rowan might have wasted time on Lillian, so he quickly left instead. As he walked out of the hall and looked through the video surveillance screen, he saw that outside there were guards surrounding him tightly.
Suddenly his phone rang.
"I don't want to be too extreme about this, since if something happens to you, it won't look good for me publicly either. Of course, if pushed too far then maybe killing you would be necessary, using force against force; there is nothing that can't be suppressed." Oscar said lightly, contrasting Rowan's anger, "But if we can find a way where both of us benefit then there's no need for either of us to suffer."
"What do you want?" Rowan asked harshly.
"It's simple. Surrender now without any resistance and we won't harm anyone or anything under your command." Replied Oscar calmly, "Afterwards, I'll send you abroad with enough wealth to ensure a peaceful life during your old age."
Rowan didn't answer back immediately.
Oscar didn't say much more either.
"I'll give you half an hour to think about it; otherwise we will attack!" said Oscar.
The phone call ended abruptly without any hesitation from Oscar, who left behind just one hint of his attachment towards Una, which wasn't lost on anyone listening in on their conversation, including Rowan, who looked extremely unhappy now.
Matthew beside him was anxious beyond words, "Father, what should we do now? We can't just switch sides like this."
"Absolutely not!" Rowan said fiercely, "Oscar may sound nice but he definitely won't spare me! He will go all out until every last root is destroyed! If he has come this far then there's no way he will stop halfway through!"
"So what should we do?" Mathew seemed scared out of his wits
He had thought they would make Oscar pay the price this time around. But little did they expect, they were about to be taken down by Oscar instead.
"We're surrounded by Oscar now, and there's no way we can escape unscathed. But, Oscar can't just kill me like this either. I have support from other countries. If things don't work out in Northfield. As long as we leave safely, I'll come back even stronger!" said Rowan.
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