Chapter 330: OUT IN THE NIGHT
Viper glanced at Beatrice but didn’t comment anything since he was already aware of all that she said.
"You have to be nicer to her but I doubt she would love you the way you expect her to. I doubt she would even have feelings for you," Beatrice added, adding more salt to Viper’s wounds and the latter sighed tirelessly from having heard enough.
"Are you done?" He asked her, taking another puff from the weed to calm his throbbing nerves.
"I’m not," Beatrice replied, staring at the vast space in front of them. There was no light to brighten up the place and the moonlight didn’t little to brighten it up. "I’m telling you this viper, you are going to regret this. Don’t be like her ex-husband," she added. She tilted her head to look at him curiously. "Now that I think about it, what are you going to do about Adrain Hart?" She asked.
"I’m planning to kill him," he replied after a few heartbeats and he heard Beatrice sigh from beside him with her lowered head.
"You can’t be kidding me right now," she mumbled and tapped him on the shoulder. "Give me more weed," she ordered and Viper handed it over to her.
Beatrice took a bigger puff than what she took the first time and gave it back to Viper.
"I’m not sure if that’s a good idea though," she finally commented after releasing the white smoke.
"He stole from me," said Viper. "When i had employed him as one of my men, he stole from me," he repeated, turning to look at Beatrice but there was no expression on her face.
"And you want to kill him because he stole from you?" Beatrice asked, smiling which didn’t reach her old and wrinkled eyes. "How did you find that out in the first place?" She asked him.
Viper threw the weed away in the trees after he took the last puff from it and replied,
"Mamba was the one to tell me," Viper replied.
In the middle of the months that had passed while Viper waited patiently for Erika to give birth so that he could dive in and have her taken away, along with her babies, mamba approached him one fortunate day and revealed something that he’d caught Adrain doing.
At first, viper had wondered why Mamba hadn’t told on Adrian a long time ago and was only revealing the information now to him and the latter replied by saying he’d just found that information out when he’d asked one of their former clients who had not come to loan money from them for a while now and the man replied by saying that the last payment he’d made, Adrain had taken half and given the other half right in front of him.
The man was forced to pay more since Adrian had cut the money in half and the man was left with no other choice but to give more money and save his life. He didn’t bother to tell Mamba or Viper since he believed that they wouldn’t acknowledge his words. After his last payment, the man didn’t dare to play anymore and just continued with his life.
"I knew from the very first day when you told me about Adrian that he wasn’t a good man," said Beatrice after Viper had narrated the story to her. "Now, let’s go to my first question," she recalled. "Are you going to kill him just because he stole from you or because he thinks that he’s a threat?" She asked.
Viper scoffed, smiling before he remarked. "You are too smart for your age, Beatrice. I guess that’s why you’ve refused to allow death into your home."
"Thank you," Beatrice smiled, taking Viper’s words as a compliment. "Now answer my question."
"I don’t see Adrain as a threat. He’s so weak and stupid that I sometimes wonder how he was able to live until his current age," said Viper. "And if there’s anyone that I want to get rid of, it would be Ethan but I don’t want Erika to hate me forever," he added.
"So..." Beatrice drawled, getting impatient.
"I don’t want Adrain to bother Ethan and Erika’s life later on after I leave them to be in peace," he finally said.
Smiling, Beatrice clapped her hands slightly to not sound too loud and wake up Erika, she attempted to jump too but refrained from doing so.
"I don’t know if I should be proud of you or not. You want to commit murder so that the woman you love and her lover won’t face difficulty because of her psychotic ex-husband."
Viper frowned at Beatrice’s words. From the way she said it, he suddenly got goosebumps on his skin.
"You never cease to make me proud every day." Beatrice added.
"And I plan to go to jail afterward," Viper dropped the bomb and Beatrice quieted.
"You are going to surrender yourself?" She asked and Viper nodded his head.
"I will but none of those things is for now though."
"Don’t you dare use that excuse of wanting to heal," said Beatrice. "We both know that’s a lie and you just want Erika to be beside you."
"I need her." He said.
"Of course." Beatrice’s tone was laced with sarcasm and Viper couldn’t help but smile. "Anyway, it’s way past my bedtime and I need to go to bed. I just want to tell you something important real quick." Viper didn’t react but she continued nevertheless. "Erika isn’t a toy for you and Adrain to toy around with. Yesterday, Adrain kidnapped her, and today you kidnapped her. It’s starting to sound like a joke but that’s all for now. My head can’t think of any more advice but more should come by tomorrow morning. Goodnight."
"Goodnight," Viper replied, reaching into his pocket to bring out another stick of weed.
Beatrice opened the double doors, walked back inside the house and left Viper to continue with his thoughts.
