Chapter 244: METHOD
Viper glanced between his phone and Erika again before he returned to his position.
"I don’t think there’s anything for us to talk about anymore, right Mr Viper?" Erika suddenly said, bringing Viper’s attention back to her. She only wanted for him to leave her alone.
"I only have one thing to say to you, Erika. The next time I come over, I might not listen to your answer and take you along with me." With that, he stood up and walked away from there, heading towards the door of the house. Erika heard the engine of the car come alive and then he zoomed away from there.
"Who does he think he is to order me like that?" She questioned herself through gritted teeth. "Now coming back to that picture, who could that woman be, and how come she looks exactly like me?" She frowned.
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In the hospital, Michael was giving medicines for Ethan to swallow, hopefully, it would reduce his migraine.
"So tell me, how did the whole thing go?" Michael asked the others. They had been awfully quiet since they got back from the police station which only bothered him.
"Someone bribed the police officers to change the fingerprint result," Daniel informed. "They are now in prison and so is Adrain now but that fool has refused to speak."
"But wait, why did those people change the results? Are you working for someone?" Michael asked, confusedly.
"They are," Felix replied. "And the most annoying thing now is that they don’t know who bribed them. They only said it was a man, apart from that, they can’t give any more descriptions," he hissed in annoyance, resisting the urge to kick the couch.
"And Adrian? Is he willing to finally reveal where he’d kept Erika?" Michael asked with the hope that he would get a positive reply.
"What do you think?" Felix glared at him and he immediately clamped his mouth shut for asking such a stupid question.
’If Adrian was willing to reveal Erika’s whereabouts, of course, she would have been here,’ he thought to himself.
Suddenly, the room went quiet. Everyone had their thoughts to think about and their possibilities to figure out and then Edward spoke.
"I think we need to stop going to the police station and getting them involved in this case."
His statement earned him both questioning looks and glaring ones too. It was as if, if he didn’t complete his sentence as soon as possible, shoes would be thrown at him.
Reading the inaudible message, he quickly continued.
"The police are acting too slow for my liking. It’s almost three weeks now that Erika has been kidnapped but even after all our evidence, they are still too slow. If we keep on following the police method, then we might only be able to find Erika after a month, is that what you want?" This question was directed towards Ethan and the latter replied by slightly shaking his head. His migraine had refused him the permission to speak. "That’s exactly the reply I was expecting from you," Edward added.
The three brothers glanced at each other, trying to understand where Edward was heading with his idea of his.
"What do you mean?" Felix asked.
Edward stood up from the chair and started pacing about as he explained his words.
"We need another method," he concluded.
They all glanced at each other once more, but this time, they were more familiar with what Edward was saying.
"Okay, we will change our method but there’s something that bothers me though," said Felix. "How did Adrian find out that Ethan was already alive? I mean, I was expecting him to be shocked since the media had spread the news of your fake death."
"That’s right," Daniel added. "From the look in his eyes from earlier, it was as if he had something planned."
Edward rubbed his chin as he tried to think of an answer to this mystery. Facing Michael, he asked, "Is it possible that someone comes here when we are not around or did he perhaps visit this place himself when no one was here?"
"I have no idea," he replied genuinely. "The only people I know who come here are our family members, Dave and the nurse," he added. "Do you think that one of Adrian’s men was able to sneak inside this hospital and spy on Ethan?"
Edward didn’t reply immediately but his silence already gave his answer.
"But how could that be possible? The security of this place is quite tight so how could one of his men get in here so easily?" Daniel asked. The whole revelation was starting to confuse him and he also found it hard to believe that Adrian could be so skillful to do all these things and even more.
"Normally, if Adrian tries to visit the hospital, the security men will recognize him which only means that he sent someone to do the job for him," Felix concluded.
Without any more words said, the three men left the room, leaving Michael to attend to Ethan while they went run their most important errand.
"The surveillance cameras are stored here," Felix led the way.
They got to the officer and Edward immediately ordered, "We want to see the camera footage."
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"Any update?" Viper questioned his men as soon as he got inside the hideout.
"Well boss, it seems it’s going to take a while before Adrian is going to be released from jail," Mamba informed.
"And why is that?" Viper snapped.
"I was wondering why Adrian had not been released till now so I went to the station to see if I could find something but then I saw the four offers from the jail boss. They are in the same cell as Adrian, "Mamba explained. Now things were only going to get harder for all of them. "Adrian has been caught and in no time, he’s going to reveal all of our crimes to the police officers," he cried.
