“Hey, handsome. Are you here to give me the bottles of anti-toxoid test reagent from Adam?”
The man in front of the French window turned around when he heard her.
When she took a good look at the face in front of her, the smile on Lana’s face suddenly fell. “Ryan, why are you here?”
Ryan strode his long legs slowly toward her, moving closer to Lana. “Why not? Did you forget what Adam said to you?”
“What? It was you? You and Adam… What do you mean?”
Lana was confused but did not forget why she was here.
“I don’t care when you and Adam colluded. I just want the anti-toxoid test reagent!” she said, putting her hand out to Ryan. “Ryan, Adam must have given you the bottles of anti-toxoid test reagent. Give them to me right now!”
Ryan’s eyes sank as he slowly took a gun from the inner pocket of his suit. He then installed the silencer. “I’m not here to give you the bottles of anti-toxoid test reagent, Lana. I’m here to send you to see Yorick.”
‘What?!’
Lana’s eyes widened in horror as she looked at the man in front of her in disbelief.
She felt that something was wrong and tightened the towel around her body as she turned to run. However, Ryan had already aimed the gun at her forehead!
Lana’s legs trembled. “Ryan! A-Are you really going to kill me?!”
Ryan’s expression was blank as he smiled. “You’ll find out soon, Lana.”
When she saw Ryan’s ominous gaze, Lana realized that Ryan was not joking with her.
She was worried and uneasy when she looked at the man who appeared to be such a gentleman but gave off an aura of darkness and horror.
“Ryan, w-why do you want to kill me? I didn’t do anything to you. You—”
“An idiot like you doesn’t deserve to live in this world,” Ryan said coldly.
“…”
“Lana, remember what I asked you the other day? I asked you if you knew why you got to come back to Glendale alive. Well, I’ll tell you now. It was because of me.”
“W-What?” Shocked, Lana looked at the man who was speaking slowly. “It was you? How could it be you? You and Kendrick teamed up to catch me just to let me go again? Heh! Do you really think I would believe in such an absurd thing?!”
Lana was full of doubts. She did not believe that such a thing would happen. When she remembered that Ryan was a part of Interpol, she suddenly was not afraid anymore. Instead, she raised her hand and pushed the gun that Ryan was pointing at her forehead away. Her red lips were curved into a smile.
“Ryan, you don’t have to do this act to scare me anymore. I know you won’t kill me.” Lana looked confident. “You’re part of Interpol, a senior commander. You’re supposed to put the interest and safety of the people first in whatever you do. How can you kill—”
Psst.
The bullet passed through the muffler and made a slight sound upon penetrating Lana’s calf.
“Ah!” Lana felt a sharp pain and slumped to the ground. She looked back at the man who was shrouded in darkness in disbelief. “R-Ryan! You—”
“I really hate egoistic women like you.”
“…”
Ryan stepped forward and walked condescendingly to Lana. The color on her face had faded away.
He then spat out inhumane words indifferently. “If I didn’t think you’d be of use to me, you would have died with Yorick long ago.”
“…” Lana was pale as she grabbed onto her wound that was flowing with blood. She looked at the man with the gun pointed at her. She was trembling and in fear. “How dare you shoot me, Ryan?! Let me tell you, if you hurt me, it’s not just me you’re hurting. The Stygian Johnson Gang isn’t dissolved yet. The person behind my brother will never let you get away with this!”
“Uh-huh.” Ryan smiled when he heard what she said.
With that chilling smile, Lana looked a little horrified. “What are you smiling about? Listen, if anything happens to me, you’ll be as good as dead! The guy will never let the Interpol get any peace!”
“Heh.” After listening to what Lana had to say, Ryan’s smile grew. “Since you’re going to hell soon, Lana, I’ll tell you who the man behind Yorick is.”
‘What?’
Lana’s eyes widened as she looked at Ryan’s confident expression.
Ryan said with no hurry, “That person is me.”
“…”
Lana’s eyes widened in shock. Her mouth twitched, and she could not believe what Ryan was saying at the moment.
While she was still in shock, Ryan shot her in her shoulder.
“Ah!” Lana shivered in pain as her facial features contorted.
Blood continued to drip from her wound as she lay in a pool of it. She was totally out of it.
“H-How could it be you…” Lana could not accept the fact. “It’s impossible. It’s impossible…”
Ryan looked at Lana who was struggling with pain, the smile on his lips growing wider. “Since things are this way now, I don’t see why I shouldn’t let you know before you die.”
“…”
“Yorick was just a pawn. If it weren’t for my relationship with Interpol, do you think that the transactions that Yorick made would go so smoothly?”
When Lana heard what he said, it seemed to make more sense to her.
It turned out things were this way!
That was why Yorick always listened to the man behind him.
Lana never thought that Ryan was the person!
’No wonder… No wonder…’
Lana finally figured everything out!
It was no wonder that every time she troubled Niamh, Yorick always scolded her.
It turned out that the order had come from Ryan himself!
Ryan liked Niamh, so he did not want her to trouble Niamh again and again!
It could also be that her troubling Niamh would ruin Ryan’s plan, so Ryan had asked Yorick to warn her again and again!
“Heh! Hehe, hahaha…” Lana laughed wildly. “It turns out it was because of this!”
She looked up abruptly at Ryan who was loading the bullets in the gun.
“Ryan, you’re way too good at hiding!”
“You guys are the ones who are too stupid to see it.” Ryan chuckled nonchalantly, lifting Lana’s chin with the gun. “Did you think that Adam was working for you? I mean, just look at yourself and your siblings. Did you really think that the Stygian Johnson Gang could have gotten to where they were without any help?”
As she listened to Ryan’s humiliating words, Lana gritted her teeth fiercely. “Ryan, if you kill me now, you won’t be able to get immunity!”
“Huh.” Ryan smiled disapprovingly and stood up. He pointed the gun at Lana’s heart. “Lana, it isn’t me who killed you. It’s Kendrick, the man who will never love you.”
‘What?’
Lana had yet to understand his words when the muffled bullet pierced through her heart.
Lana’s body stiffened in an instant. Her eyes widened, and in the very next second, she lost all senses before falling into a pool of blood.
Ryan took his time wiping his fingerprints off the gun that he was holding before tossing it onto the ground. Then, he took out his phone and called Niamh.
Niamh was on her way back to the family manor when she suddenly received a call from Ryan.
She answered the phone without hesitation and heard Ryan’s faint voice a second after.
“I’m going back to Interpol’s headquarters tomorrow. I’ll leave that box of reagents in the cafe where I met you today. You can go and get it now, but after you hang up, you must turn off your phone.”
Niamh did not know why Ryan had asked her to turn off her phone, but the thought of getting one month’s worth of reagents made her immediately turn the car back in the direction of the cafe.
After Ryan hung up the phone, he called Niamh again to make sure she had turned off her phone, and she had.
He curled the corners of his lips in satisfaction. He looked at Lana who had died with her eyes open and dialed another number.
As soon as the line was connected, Ryan said in a provoking way, “Kendrick, I’m in the presidential suite of Glendale Hotel with your wife now. What do you think we’ll do next?”
He continued saying with a smug smile, “If you don’t believe me, you can try calling your wife and see if her phone is off. It’s because she’s taking a shower right now.”
Ryan hung up the phone after speaking and took out the clothes he had prepared. He took a picture and sent it to Kendrick.
Of course, Kendrick did not believe that Niamh would do anything that would hurt him, but the picture of the clothes that Ryan sent him was indeed the clothes that Niamh had been wearing that morning. In addition to that, he could not get through her phone.
“Nia.” Kendrick’s heart began to ache, and he immediately drove out.
New Book: Back Home to Marry Off Myself
Loredana’s father left the family for his mistress, leaving them to fend for themselves abroad. When life was at its toughest, her father showed up with “good news” after 8 years of absence: To marry off Loredana to a paralyzed son of the wealthy Mendelsohn family.