Chapter 223: BURN THE MANSION
Felicia hated it when the topic of the baby would be brought up when she explained her plan. She despised it. She didn’t want to be held down just because she had a baby.
"We never agreed to stay together, Adrain. And besides, didn’t you want to divorce me earlier?" She questioned Adrain back.
"Yes, I want to. But that doesn’t answer my question. Who is going to take care of the baby when you are gone?" He repeated.
"You can get him a nanny or whatever. He’s your child," she replied nonchalantly.
Adrian could only facepalm himself in disappointment. He wondered how he was able to love Felicia before. Her attitude was cruel, even to her very one child. And the fact that she didn’t care about their son made him wonder why she didn’t abort the baby earlier when she still had the chance.
"How can you even say such a thing?" He questioned. "You are going to live with another man just like that, abandoning our son?"
"I’m not abandoning him," she replied. "You are here with him and besides, we are both going to benefit from what I’m going to do over there. Just like I said, it will be a win-win for the both of us," she added.
Adrian decided to give it some thought. He had planned to order his men to kill Ethan but he was waiting for the perfect chance. The hospital security was very tight even though the man he sent there was able to get in easily, he wouldn’t be able to get out easily if he were to kill Ethan. But this plan that Felicia had come up with, would make Ethan think that he is with Erika when in fact he is with Felicia.
"But would you be able to fool his family also after you get the plastic surgery done?" He asked her.
"There’s no one a proper plastic surgery won’t fool," she responded with a devious smirk. From the question that Adrian had asked, she could already see that Adrain was in.
"Hmm.... If that’s the case, then I will have to do some thinking about it. We will discuss this later because we need to get out of here. The police had started snooping around the jungle, and in 2 hours, they will find out about this place," he explained.
"What?" Felici gasped. "But where are we going and how can we pass the police officers?" She asked.
"There’s another route that we can use to get out of here," he replied.
He saw one of the men running towards him and said, "Boss, the police officers have started to walk around the jungle."
"Shit! We need to leave now! Go and get Erika," he ordered. The bodyguard nodded and left to go to Erika’s room. Turning to Felicia, Adrian said, "Go and tell Juliet and Mary to pack up quickly and go to the car. We will be leaving soon." And with that, he left to head upstairs while Felicia immediately went to deliver the message. She couldn’t believe they were running away again. It wasn’t too long ago that she left the hideout back in California to come to New York and now she was running away again, and only Adrian knows where.
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Adrian walked around the hallway until he arrived in front of a door. He pulled up a key from his pocket and worked the mechanism of the door until he opened it. Quickly, he went inside and shut the door behind him.
Standing in front of so many bags that had things filled up in them, Adrian smiled until it reached his cheeks. As if in a trance, he walked slowly towards the bags that lay on the ground. Squatting down, he reached for the zipper of one of the bags and undid it. There it was, so many bundles of money in cash came on display.
"I’m not going to leave without you," Adrian spoke as if there was a real person other than him standing there.
He placed his hands in the bag to feel the texture of the money as he closed his eyes to savor it.
After having had his fill, Adrian zipped the bag of money close and managed to carry three bags full of cash out of the room, leaving three more bags behind. Those, he would come back for later.
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"Why are we suddenly leaving?" Juliet questioned Felicia as she dropped her bags inside the booth of the car they would be leaving in.
"The police are on their way here," Adrian was the one to reply to her question as he carried the three heavy bags. He placed them in the other car to not get them mixed up with the other bags if he was to put them in the first car. "Where is Erika?!" He asked when didn’t see Erika seated in the car.
"The bodyguard you sent is bringing her," Felicia was the one to reply. She had her son in her arms as he slept peacefully. She could see uneasiness written all over his face, probably worried that Erika might have escaped again.
Without speaking another word, Adrain went back inside the mansion to grab the remaining three bags he left behind and by the time he arrived outside, Erika was already inside the car.
"Good, now burn the mansion," Adrian ordered and instantly, the four turned their heads to look at him with a shocked expression, including Erika.
"Why?" Mary asked with a furrowed eyebrow. She didn’t know how much Adrain must have bought the mansion but either way, one could guess that it was extremely expensive. And she couldn’t believe that Adrian would suddenly want to have it burnt.
"The police are almost here and definitely, they will see this place and in one way or the other, they will find evidence or two here to have me arrested and I don’t want to be imprisoned so to be safe, we are going to burn it and leave only ashes behind," Adrian explained.
