Chapter 416 Chapter 416 Relief
He was on the verge of losing his mind, but in front of her father, he was maintaining his calm or the consequences would be severe.
"You hate him, you hold a grudge against him and to protect the honor of your family, you planned to kill him. Is this reason not enough for you to tell the truth?" Tiffany yelled at Wood for hiding his crime and gave a reason why he would try to kill him.
"We can keep doing this the whole time, but nothing is going to be changed because I did not try to kill Nexus. Tiffany, you better get your facts straight before putting a blame on me." Wood calmed down and gave Tiffany a dark stare.
Calvin fired and looked back at Tiffany. "Do you have proof against him?" Since Tiffany made such an accusation on Wood, there must be proof which made her angry.
"Sorry?" Tiffany got zoned out but pulled back by the sudden questioning from Calvin.
"You are sure about Wood being the culprit of Nexus's assassination? There must be a proof against him which frames that he tried to kill that man. If it is true, I will kick him out of my house." Calvin seemed pissed off by Tiffany's allegations against his son, so he dropped the fake smile from his face and wore the same dark face Wood had earlier.
Tiffany realized she didn't have any evidence to prove Wood guilty for his actions. She came up to confront Wood with her own hypothesis, where there could be other possibilities of the same.
Now she had nothing in her hand to show Clavin. She felt awkward about putting his son in that situation. Tiffany cursed herself internally for reacting wrongly at the wrong place.
"I don't have any proof at the moment. The investigation is going on and the police department is working day and night to find the killer." Tiffany responded in a lower tone and Wood had his evil smirk returned on his face.
"Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Did you really come this far to confront me personally so you can accuse me of something that nobody knows about how it happened and who did it? You disrespected me in my house, Tiffany." Wood started angrily and his eyes were red from the stress in his mind.
"Tiffany, you shouldn't have made a mountain out of molehill, instead you should have brought a proof before defaming my son. I can tolerate anything but lies and cruelty." Calvin stated while looking at both of them. Tiffany rolled her eyes when Calvin mentioned cruelty, yet his son was the most cruel person in the town.
Surely, Tiffany got embarrassed that she claimed Wood as a killer without proof, but she wasn't done yet. She would bring evidence or a theory that would make him the criminal and Wood accept his conspiracy against Nexus. "Fine! I don;t have a proof at the moment, but shortly I will bring one here." She snapped at Wood and left the Klein mansion in haste.
Once Tiffany left, Calvin grabbed Wood's arm and dragged him in a room and locked the doors. Calvin took a deep breath as the atmosphere began to revive but suddenly, he stared at Wood with his dark gaze and demanded an explanation of it, "What did you do to Nexus, Wood? Tiffany won't be coming here without any reason. For now, I defended you because she did not have the proof but what will happen if brings one?"
"How will she bring one when I am not the culprit in this case? Dad, I know what you are thinking, but I have already sworn that I have nothing to do with Nexus. I do hate him, but trust me, I didn't plan any assassination for him." Wood gave his father a clarification of his innocence.
"I thought you were trying to save your ass when you swore earlier. I know you can kill for the honor of our family. That's why I was hesitant." Calvin started and rubbed his temples.
"Nexus is a popular guy in the town. If I try to kill him, I will put my family in danger. However, I would have killed him, but I no longer want to keep my hand dirty. All I wanted from him was her beautiful maid, but still it makes no sense killing Nexus to get the girl. Wood's word gave Calvin a relief that his son had no involvement in the assassination of Nexus. He patted his son's back and left the room easily.
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Nexus was sitting alone in the room, deeply indulged in his thoughts. From the day he got attacked by an unknown enemy, Nexus was taking precautions. Hundreds of thoughts were running in his mind as he couldn't gather the information about the enemy or find out who really wanted to kill him. The entire situation got him confused and with danger lurking outside, it made it difficult for him to find a way out of it.
His mind wandered who could want to kill him. So far, he did not make a lethal enemy or had a feud with someone powerful as a warrior or sorcerer to hold a grudge against him.
Still, it made no sense about someone trying to kill him. Nexus thought deeply about any enemy he made and his mind went to Flinch. He was the only enemy who wanted to kill Nexus for taking sides with the Russell family and the assassination of his son. But flinch was dead, Nexus saw flinch being swallowed by an octopus monster.
Only if he would survive and appear magical somehow, he returned to take his revenge on him. Nexus sighed deeply, as none of his assumptions had made sense. Many possibilities, but he doesn't know how to act sane at the moment.
The case had got him on his toes. In fact, Nexus's defenses were too powerful for him to handle in front of a veritable master who could manipulate its magical like breathing. Apart from that, Nexus recalled his encounter with the enemy and realized that he cannot use Reaves's orb against the enemy.
That orb's power wouldn't penetrate the killer's red blood cell wall, but he didn't think of using his heavenly flame against it. It might be able to penetrate the wall and he could get to the enemy. If he had thought of using his power at that moment but now it was of no use.
Whoever this killer was, Nexus realized that finding the killer in the town would waste a lot of his time. Thinking about him would bring mental chaos, so Nexus decided to find a way to protect himself. He had to leave his house and go to the town but he could not live in constant fear of getting killed by an unknown enemy.
To protect himself or people around him, he must prepare himself with a strategy to fight back the enemy and protect himself.
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The white paper in Tom's hands crumpled. Creases formed at the edge of the document as he gripped it tightly.
"Impossible–" he whispered unbelievably; "Deceased?!"
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