Chapter 298: CRAZY
Erika stared at Viper, wondering why he always wanted her to come with him. He could just explain to her who that woman was but no, he wanted her to come to him.
"I’m not going anywhere," she objected to the idea, finding it completely suspicious and dangerous.
"You wanted to know who that woman was, right? Then come with me. Let’s settle down in a restaurant and have lunch as I go into details. I’m sure you are very curious to know who she was right? Let’s go," he tried to persuade her but Erika already made her decision. She should have known that following him was a stupid idea and now he wanted her to come with him. She would only do that if she was drugged.
"I’m not going anywhere with you," she concluded and started her engine. "I’m letting you off the hook but when you see Adrain, tell him that he should watch his back because if I see him again, I’m going to create a hole in his head with the help of a bullet," she said and without waiting for him to utter any more nonsense, she drove away.
A sinister smile pulled up on Viper’s lips, and with his hands still in his pocket, he stared at her car and only released a sigh.
"You are driving me crazy," he mumbled under his breath.
Walking back towards his car, he got inside and drove until he got to his destination.
He got out of the car and a man who was armed with a gun walked towards him and bowed respectfully.
"Boss, the new armed weapons that we ordered have arrived but they are back at the hideout," the armed man informed, following behind Viper as he walked inside the house.
"And what about Adrian?" Viper asked.
"He’s in the house just as you ordered. I made sure that he didn’t leave this place no matter what," the man reassured.
Viper walked inside the house and found Adrian watching the news, completely oblivious to his presence in the living room. He glanced at the TV channel and found Ethan’s face on it. He was dressed in a good-looking suit that matched his pale skin and he was collecting an award.
Viper turned to look at Adrian and found the latter completely engrossed in what was going on in the TV. But it wasn’t because he was amazed that Ethan won an award, but definitely because he was still furious about what happened to him three months ago— how Ethan snatched Erika from him the day he wanted to get married to her.
"No matter how much you glare into that screen, it still wouldn’t hurt him so you shouldn’t strain your eyes too much for no good reason," Viper said to grab Adrain’s attention.
Adrain stared at Viper, wondering when he entered the living room.
"Has it been long since you arrived?" Adrain asked him.
"Yes! Long enough for me to see how much you were admiring Ethan’s success with your eyes and clenched fist," Viper remarked, a pinch of sarcasm in his tone as he took a seat for himself. "Get me some whiskey," he ordered the armed man who had been standing behind him, patiently waiting for orders.
"Yes boss," he responded and wandered off to the kitchen.
"He just resumed back to his work and he already got an award," Adrain voiced out with a bitter taste in his mouth. The ounce of jealousy that engulfed him at that moment only wanted him to end Ethan’s life but with the help of Viper who had been getting him back to his senses and preventing him from making any stupid decisions, he had been able to keep his anger and jealousy under control but after seeing Ethan’s appear in the screen again, he only saw blood.
"If you want, you can go there and collect the award for yourself," Viper responded with another sarcasm. When the armed man came back with the bottle of whiskey, he opened it, sipped directly from the bottle, and felt the content burn his throat before he continued. "By now, you should have learned to not be angered by frivolous things like this."
"And why shouldn’t I be angered by it?" Adrian snapped. "Three months have already passed and I think that it’s time for us to strike. I’m sure that they are no longer looking for us anymore," he added, staring at Viper as he waited for him to speak. He depended on Viper and his men at the moment and for any dangerous actions that he wanted to take, he would have to ask for Viper’s permission first.
"And what exactly do you plan to do?" Viper asked him, amused by Adrain’s strong will to strike already. Again, he seems to have forgotten about the people whom he had a beef with.
"It’s simple. Get Erika away from Ethan," Adrain replied with his hands spread out. "You already know that she belongs to me and no one else but he stole her from me," he added, determination laced in his tone.
He’d been waiting for three whole months, waiting for when Viper would give him the go signal but so far, he hadn’t received anything from him which only annoyed him beyond any bounds but he knew that he had to endure it since he was using someone else’s source and power.
"Do you think it will be that simple to do all of that?" Viper asked Adrain, glaring at him for thinking that he would be able to get Erika after he helped him out. The both of them were after the same thing and that was what Adrian wasn’t aware of. ’I wonder what his reaction would be when he finds out that I’m also in love with his ex-wife just like he is,’ Viper thought to himself.
"It should be easy since you are helping me with everything," Adrian replied. "Your men could easily adopt her."
