Chapter 227: FINGERPRINTS
In front of Club Midnight Mirage, several cop cars could be seen and so were police officers who interrogated the staff and some of the customers who had already arrived even though the club was not officially open yet.
Another car arrived and parked beside the other cars. Adrain stepped down from the car and strode towards the entrance of the club. As soon as he was seen, Mr Brown walked towards him and coughed to gain his attention.
"Mr Hart, I’m sure you know why you are here," said Mr Brown.
"I don’t," Adrian shrugged nonchalantly as if he had no clue why he had been called for. Mr Brown didn’t buy his reply and directly went straight to the point.
He called out to an officer who brought out a transparent bag that contained a gun and asked, "Is this your gun?"
Adrian stared at the gun that was in the bag. Subconsciously, he placed his hand in his back pocket and cursed silently but Mr Brown was able to hear him.
"Sir, you know that it’s illegal for an ordinary civilian like me to own a gun. I don’t own a gun so it’s not mine," Adrian tried to sway the commissioner’s accusations.
"Is that so?" Mr Brown asked as he shot an eyebrow at him. "If that’s the case, Mr Hart, I’m sure you wouldn’t mind following us to the police station to get your fingerprints taken, now would you?"
Feeling a sweat roll down his back out of panic, Adrian nervously gulped down his saliva that seemed to choke him instead and said,
"If that’s what you want sir, then there’s no problem. Let’s go."
Mr Brown was quite stunned when he heard that Adrain was willing to go to the station to have his fingerprints taken so that they could identify if he was the owner of the gun. He’d thought that Adrian wouldn’t agree so easily and that he would have to use force to drag him to the station.
"Alright, let’s go, Mr Hart," Mr Brown led the way. When he saw that Adrian was about to head inside his car, Mr Brown called him. "You will have to follow me in my car Mr hart. You can go in your car."
Adrian nodded in understanding before he followed me to his car. After getting into the cop car, Mr Brown drove towards the police station.
Getting inside the police station, Adrian was taken to get his fingerprints taken. His willingness to do everything baffled Mr Brown and the man couldn’t help but be suspicious about it. After the fingerprints were taken, Adrian was kept in the police station until the result of the fingerprints would be out, in case he would run away and they might never find him again.
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At the new hideout, Viper had been walking around the place, secretly searching for Erika’s room, hoping that he would see her soon. He suddenly misses her which was weird since he knows now that Erika and his late wife weren’t the same person. They were just lookalikes.
Suddenly, a lady stood in front of him. He sized Felicia up, who wore a flirty smile on her face as one side of her cheeks pulled up and teeth on her lips as she bit them before she winked at him.
"Hello Viper, what are you doing around here?" She asked as she turned around to watch the scenery before facing him back and continued, "Were you looking for something...." She took a step closer to him before she added, "Or someone?"
Disgusted was the understatement of what Viper felt at that moment. He stared at her the same way one would stare at a gum that had been stuck under a desk.
Avoiding her, he walked past her as if he didn’t hear anyone speak which infuriated Felicia slightly but she decided to brush it off instead of simply walking away since it was obvious that the man didn’t want to have anything to do with her, she followed behind him instead.
"Viper...." she called but when she was about to continue her sentence, she saw him stop in his tracks and she subconsciously stopped in hers too.
Turning to face Felicia, who still had a smile on her face as she placed a few strands of her hair behind her ear very coquettishly, he said with a warning tone that didn’t sound like he was joking,
"Don’t you call me by my name ever again?"
His words were short and firm and Felicia didn’t need for him to say ’or else’ to know that there would be consequences if she ever did.
Viper glared at Felicia who had planned to seduce him since he arrived. From greeting him when he entered the house and now, to calling him as if they had something important to talk about, it irritated him.
Feeling a loss for words, Felicia’s smile faltered as fear gripped her. She wasn’t well acquainted with Viper at all but from the clothes the man wore, she was assured that he was a rich man. Even though she had already planned to go with her plan of leaving here after getting her plastic surgery, she still wanted to have a little bit of fun before that happened. And since she and Adrian were together but only on paper, they didn’t crave for each other so Viper was the only one available.
From the times that she’d seen him talking to Adrian back in the other burnt mansion, she’d already guessed that he was certainly richer than him and those were the people that she wanted.
Forcefully pulling the smile back on her face to not make herself feel stupid, Felicia took a step back from Viper and said,
"Sir, I’m sorry for making you angry. I only wanted to stay by your side and give you a tour around the house."
"You don’t have to," Viper declined the offer. "I was the one who showed Adrian this house before he bought it," he revealed.
