CHAPTER 201

Chapter 201: Preamble

“You have a company already, a big one at that, what do you want to use the recipe for?” Beatrice

asked, still unable to wrap her head around the fact that she was being forced to choose between

her daughter and her boss.

Hattie smiled slightly. “Not enough, and this recipe should have been mine. You cheated nature but

that’s over. You will get me the recipe because I promise to do all I can to achieve my aim,” she

swore.

” You will not get away with this, Hattie.” Don expressed with hatred.

Hattie looked at Don. ” Or what? Are you going to involve Grey?”

One of the men rushed inside and moved to whisper into Hattie’s ear.

Hattie looked up at him, with a shocked look on her face. “Escort our guests out, Henry,” she

ordered and one of the men bowed in response.

Hattie stood and followed the guy out of the room.

Actually, Don wasn’t able to mobilize the guys to check around Hattie’s house because her security

men caught them the moment they parked.

Beatrice looked at Don. “Do you think Richard has found his way inside?”

Don looked at her, disturbed. “Why would you think so?”

“Don’t you think that something is up somewhere? That’s why Hattie left hurriedly. We need to get

back to the car,” she suggested.

Don nodded quickly. “Yes, let’s move.”

They both walked out of the place. Some men were moving towards the back of the house as they

walked to the car.

Richard was standing in front of the other car with the men at alert beside it.

“Did you smell it? It smelt like something was burning,” Don observed.

Beatrice nodded briefly. “ I thought it was Richard.”

Richard shook his head quickly. “No, not me. I didn’t do anything. I didn’t even

leave this place, what’s happening inside?”

Don didn’t answer and instead looked ahead. The two followed the path of his

gaze.

“Is that not Jimmy?” Richard voiced out.

“Jimmy?” Don was skeptical for a moment. “You know him?”

“Yes,” Richard nodded briefly. “He used to be Audrey’s man but he now works

for Hercules,” he explained.

Don looked at Richard as realization hit in. “Does that mean Hercules is here?

Or is he the one inside the building?” he reasoned.

Beatrice shook her head slightly. “That’s not possible.” she took out her phone

to dial Grey’s number while Don and Richard moved closer to Jimmy.

Jimmy sensed that they’d not seen him, so he quickly move back to the car, and

picked up his phone to call Grey. He did say that Jimmy was supposed to call

him after Beatrice and Don had walked out of the building.

Jimmy dialed the number several times but he didn’t pick up.

“What are you doing here?” a voice jolted him out of his thoughts and he whirled

around to look at Don and Richard.

Jimmy swallowed harder. “I-i’m s-supposed-,” his voice faded away.

Richard took his phone forcefully and looked down at the dialed number, “why

are you calling Hercules? Is he really here?”

Jimmy sighed in defeat. “He told me to call him.”

Don raised skeptical brows, “who?”

Jimmy regarded him for a moment. “Hercules.”

Beatrice moved closer, “where is he?”

Jimmy pointed at the building. “There.”

“What!” Don yelled, “You let him inside alone?”

Jimmy kept mute.

“You fool! ” Don launched towards Jimmy quickly and caught him by the collar.

“How dare you!”

“There I-is nothing I could have done. I don’t have the power to stop Hercules

after all.” he expressed and Don reluctantly let him go. Though, he was still

boiling with rage.

“He must have been the one causing the havoc,” Richard supplied.

“We have to do something, what if he’s unable to escape?” Beatrice panicked.

Grey took one of the bags, which was burning already, and threw it outside the

window.

His phone couldn’t stop vibrating but Grey didn’t want to pickup. He didn’t have

the time to anyways. He needed to get out as soon as possible.

There was sudden noise coming from outside and he knew that the guys had

gathered together and were coming towards the room.

Grey raced back towards the dead men and fell flat in their midst.

The door opened suddenly and some men rushed inside. Some stopped around the burning bags.

“What the fuck! Do something!” he yelled in anger.

“Where is he? Where is the intruder?”

And Grey felt soft footsteps advance towards him.

“He’s here,” the voice responded. “But I think he’s dead,” the voice added and continued to move

closer.

Grey opened his eyes slightly and saw that the man was pointing a gun at him and was still moving

closer.

The other men were by the bag of drugs and trying to quench the fire.

“He has a face mask the other time. Is the mask still there?” someone asked from behind.

“He’s still with the mask,” he responded. “I’m going to pull it over to look at his face,” he revealed

and his hand touched the mask.

Grey opened his eyes and stared up at the man. He went into shock and the hand on the mask

froze.

Grey held his hand and squeezed it quickly so that the gun would drop from his hand forcefully. He

took it and realized that the others were pointing at him.

He pulled the guy closer to him as the guy fired the shot at him. They were with shotguns, so Grey

knew it wouldn’t be able to penetrate one body. owns all content.

“Kill him! ” someone yelled with frustration.

Grey let them shoot again before he pushed the man over and shot at the guy next to him. The

bullet hit the side, piercing through the skin and the man let out a loud cry.

He used the opportunity to make a run for it.

He climbed over the wall, just as Hattie showed up behind him. she looked up at Grey as if she

could see through the mask.

Grey smiled, mocking her slightly. He knew how pained she would be by what he did.

Well, it was the preamble and he would do more if she laid a hand on caramel