Chapter 78: Get the lawyers over
After he overheard Daisy’s conversation with Ryle, his brain had frozen.
Never in his wildest dreams could he put the picture of the heiress Daisy Chen and hacker Dexter in one frame, let alone thinking that they were the same person.
Seeing Ryle’s expressions, he could tell that his Boss was not very pleased with how everything played out.
’’Boss, why didn’t you tell her that it was not your doing?"
Ryle frowned, ’’It doesn’t matter.’’
’’But it does not seem like that...’’ Benjamin pursed his lips when Ryle shot him a look.
"Are there any reports from the private hospital?" Ryle questioned.
’’Boss, the dart that shot Miss Chen...’’ There was a hint of urgency in Benjamin’s tone when he was asked about it. The investigation results behind the assassination attempt against Ryle were out.
’’It was laced with a lethal poison. The results show that the poison is extracted from one of the most poisonous scorpions in the world, deathstalker.’’
Ryle’s expressions faltered when he heard that. He pushed himself to his feet and snatched the reports from Benjamin’s hand.
It was as if Benjamin could see through his worries, he spoke up, ’’However, Miss Chen is fine. So far, her reports have been clear and according to the doctors, it is because of the timely treatment by your private doctors. The amount of poison was also negligible because the dart had just grazed past her skin. If the dosage was high, then it would not have been possible for her to regain consciousness, ever, let alone so early...’’ he trailed off when Ryle gazed at him.
’’Quiet.’’
Benjamin, despite feeling indignant, closed his mouth.
He had heard the details of that night from the pilot.
After Daisy lost consciousness in his arms, he had gotten his chopper over in the middle of the Spring Festival and flew the mother and daughter out of that place. They spent the first night in Shanghai where Ryle made arrangements for his private doctors after some emergency treatment for Daisy and he was the person who took care of Angel throughout the process with the help of one of his bodyguards.
The next day, the man flew back LA and made arrangements for Angel before he continued to stay by Daisy’s side.
And after all this, he let her think that he was the one who caused it. It was hard for Benjamin to not feel indignant for his Boss.
You do so much for the lady and then you even let her misunderstand you. What’s the point of it all then?
"Keep investigating it. Get to the bottom of the assassination attempt,’’ Ryle walked towards the glass wall, tucking one his palms inside his pocket, ’’Find information about the boat skipper, locate his family, see who he had met in the recent months,’’ Ryle spoke thoughtfully.
The man had died from the two consecutive gunshots that Daisy launched on him but he was the only lead in this matter at this point.
’’Boss, the man is already dead....’’ How were they supposed to investigate a seemingly insignificant man who was a corpse at this point? Benjamin wanted to ask that.
Ryle looked at the man from above his shoulder, ’’Ask Locke to resume his work.’’
Locke was one of the oldest and most loyal subordinates from Ryle’s elite guards. But from what Benjamin knew, the man was suspended from work back in Shanghai due to a few slip-ups.
’’But boss, even if they are back, how to...’’
’’If you can’t, I can replace you all with people who can,’’ Ryle’s voice was enshrouded in a layer of chill.
Benjamin shivered, ’’We can start from looking into the local people, the other boat skippers who are regulars there must have some idea about him. Even though there is no CCTV in that place... but... but... Don’t worry, boss. I will manage...’’
’’I need one answer, prior to anything else,’’ Ryle cut off the man’s gibberish.
Benjamin looked at the man’s back, almost wanting to cry. What answer now? Boss, why do you always have to have me doing all these undoable tasks?
"Find out who that attack was aimed at, me or Daisy.’’
Benjamin stilled. His eyes widened at the realization, ’’Boss, are you saying that there are chances that Miss Chen was the target?"
Ryle fell into contemplation, ’’Negligible but not impossible.’’
The chances of Daisy being the target of that attack were negligible but the possibility of this matter depended on people she had befriended or offended.
As for him, he had made many enemies. But never had he seen such a desperation to kill in any of them. Probably because he never gave them the opportunity to plot against him.
’’If a snake slipped, how?’’ Ryle whispered, looking up at the night sky, ’’Did I make a miscalculation somewhere?"
Benjamin could not understand the man’s thought process. But after a few moments of silence, he hesitatingly spoke up again, ’’Boss, if Dext... Miss Chen can assist us in this, then with her hacking skills, it would be...’’
’’No need to involve her.’’
Benjamin was stunned and then his eyes almost welled up with tears. Don’t tell him. No, don’t tell him that... ’’Are you firing her from the job?" he asked, eyes widening in disbelief.
Ryle turned around and leaned back on the glass wall. The man crossed his arms in front of his chest as he glanced at Benjamin with narrowed eyes.
Benjamin gulped, ’’I’ll leave now, boss.’’
’’Keep tracking the movement of the car until they reach their place,’’ Ryle uttered just as Benjamin turned to leave.
Benjamin nodded hurriedly. Even the car that Daisy left in was arranged by Ryle because it was hard to get cabs in that location, especially at that hour of the night. Still, the man insisted on acting like the villain here.
Benjamin shook his head mentally. Holy Moly, it must be a trend amongst the youngies.
Clueless about the thoughts in Benjamin’s head, Ryle walked back to the couch and laid down. The moment he closed his eyes, the images of the past week flashed in his mind, beginning from the way Daisy kissed him in the party to the way the mother and daughter explored the whole Spring Festival with him.
’Are you firing her from the job?’ Benjamin’s question reverberated in Ryle’s head.
He opened his eyes and looked at the ceiling as the lights from the chandelier sparkled in his eyes, ’’Fire her?"
He would not.
He would give her time.
To come back and beg for his forgiveness.
However, while Ryle was lost in his far-fetched delusions, he could not have expected what was coming next.
The next day in Harper Societies.
"Resignation letter?"
Ryle pushed himself to his feet as he glanced at the letter in his hand.
’’B-B-Boss, we can talk it out with Miss Chen.’’
Ryle observed the letter closely but every word of it was formally drafted.
The woman left his place in the middle of the night, she did not even have the strength to walk properly without support but she has the strength to get the resignation letter drafted and get it sent to his office.
She did not even turn up at the company to deliver it personally.
’’Who did you say sent this to the reception?"
’’Boss, it was young woman named... Ivy,’’ Benjamin answered.
Well.
Very well.
Daisy Chen, I truly underestimated your audacity.
Ryle’s fingers curled over the resignation letter.
Benjamin glanced at the man warily, wondering whether he should say something to break the tension in the air but then he did not want to face the man’s wrath by accidentally pushing any wrong buttons.
’’Get the lawyers over,’’ Ryle said after a long time before he sat back on the swivel chair, crossing one leg over the other.
Benjamin gulped. It seemed to him like Miss Chen was in deep trouble. He tried to deflect his Boss’s wrath a few times to save her but she kept provoking him and pouring gasoline over the inferno. She should not blame anyone at this point.
He closed his eyes and shook his head, burning three incense sticks for Daisy in his head.
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