The Dark Side Of Fate by Karima Sa'ad Usman novel Chapter 283

~Leo~

"I can't believe we kicked ass like that," Dominic said, feeling happy about what we had achieved in the woods.

"I have never felt so strong in my life. Is this what the AgK32 does?" Dominic asked Erik, who was laughing. I could see the pleasure in Erik's eyes. He looked like someone that had made a breakthrough in research. It also made me realise we were his guinea pigs. I did not want to bring it up there until he was alone.

"Leo, did you see yourself? You were like Amelia. You were a blur," Vino said, and I frowned and looked at Devin, who nodded.

"The way you tore that wolf's belly was epic. One second you are under him, the next you are away from him, and his guts are on the ground," Theodore said, and I was surprised at myself.

"The AgK32 worked well; with your genes," Erik said, smiling, and I looked at him.

"I know we are the first people to use your stuff," I linked him, and his smile faded. I caught him.

"Do not worry, I won't tell the king but do not try this kind of bullshit on us again. What if it hadn't worked?" I linked him, and he shook his head.

"It would have worked. I had tested it before but not in a battle," he linked me back, and I dropped the matter so I do not end the joy of the moment.

"See who I found," Andrew said, and we all looked in his direction. It was a weird-looking guy. I did not need help to know he was a Stepanov.

"Melvin?" Erik asked him, and the guy looked away.

"Do you know him?" Sylvester asked Erik: of course he did.

"My former assistant," Erik said, walked to where Melvin was held and punched him in the face.

"What is the meaning of this?" Erik asked, annoyed. It seemed the man had snapped. This could happen to anyone after facing a near-death experience.

"What are you doing here?" Erik asked him, and the man cowered on his knees; it was clear he did not have the courage for a confrontation.

"We tracked your cell phone," he said, and I looked at Erik. We had all come with our cellphones.

"Why? Who put you up to it," I asked him.

"Yuri said we should bring Erik," he said, and I took comfort that it had nothing to do with Ighor.

"So you decided to ambush us in the woods. Why not come to the Estate?" Dominic asked him, and he shook his head.

"The security is strong at the Estate, and we did not know Erik was in the north until the hearing. That was when we started to track his phone. When I picked his signal, we took a helicopter to the woods where the signal was," He said, and I frowned.

"So, where is the helicopter?" I asked him, and he shook his head.

"We jumped off the helicopter. It did not land. We took out the Kappas in your helicopter and lay in ambush." He said, and I wondered how they could travel with feral wolves and jump off their helicopter. It seemed impossible and tedious.

"The hounds?" Erik asked.

"Normal warriors, but the collar turns them that way. We improved on the mechanism." He said, and Erik growled at him.

"You call that improvement? Turning normal people feral isn't an improvement," he said, and I agreed it wasn't an improvement but madness.

"So this was why you left me to go and work for Yuri, so you can steal my inventions and use them for evil. That collar was created to control and stabilise feral wolves, not run normal people mad," Erik said, sounding angry.

"Does Yuri know we are in the woods?" I asked him because he must know we had Ighor. If he did, the information we got from Ighor would no longer be useful because their position would have been compromised.

"No. We thought Erik came to run some experiments here. We did not know he was with the King and Lords. We just wanted to grab Erik." Melvin said, and I relaxed.

"What else do you know about our reasons for being in the woods other than our experiments?" Sylvester finally spoke.

"Nothing, your Majesty. I have no qualms with you. I was sent here to retrieve Erik, that is all," He said quickly with fear.

"And you decided to kill us while you are at it," Sylvester added coldly, and the man shook his head in tears. I could see his fear.

It was understandable since people close to Sylvester saw him as a monster and feared him. It was a good image, one I planned on building for myself.

"Very well. Let us take him back with us," Sylvester said.