25

The night was long.

Lander drove back to the small town and found that the fight was almost finished. Augustus' men were tying up lose ends.

As he stopped on the side walk, a man jogged towards him.

"Finished?" Lander asked as he light up a cigarette. He bit the filter and inhaled the smoke then blew out.

"Yes Mr. Lander. We were interrogating the ones who didn't die." The man answered.

"Where?" Lander began to walk towards the house.

"At the backyard Mr. Lander." The man answered.

Lander walked like he's on a stroll towards the backyard.

It was a simple garden with a lone tree.

Augustus' men were punching someone when he came.

He raised his right hand and the men stopped the beating.

He walked closely towards the man who was beaten beyond recognition. He bent down a little towards the kneeling man.

"Who sent you?" Lander asked in a cold tone.

"Your mother!" The man sarcastically answered.

"Then, brother, who sent you?" Lander scoffed and slapped slowly his battered face.  He had such guts to be sarcastic with him.

The man kept mum after he saw the way Lander looked at him.

"Not saying?" Lander asked.

The man kept mum. He ignored Lander who was calm throughout.

"Then, there's no use of you..." Lander pulled the gun on his waist and pulled the trigger.

The men looked at the falling corpse like a normal thing to them.

"Clean up the place." Lander instructed as he walked back towards the car.

Lander called Augustus about the situation.

"It's Whitney Du." He said. Lander were keeping the tabs on Du Group especially on Whitney and Stacy Chang.

"En. She's about to wake up." Augustus said on the other line.

Lander got a momentary shock but his face didn't reveal that much of emotions.

"I'm going back." Lander said and drove back to the city center.

***

Augustus went to the office after he settled Louise and Lucia to the manor.

Lander knocked on the door not long after.

"Come in." Augustus said.

Lander pushed the door and entered with documents on his arms.

"The plans are in motion. We just need to wait for Ms. Morgan to wake up." Lander said and put the documents on the table.

Augustus grabbed the topmost folder and read. He didn't say a word to Lander but the man didn't mind.

Lander knew that he is a man with few words and with his intelligence, he can understand certain things without much explanation.

The man concentrated on reading and Lander stood beside him not saying a word anymore.

Then, he saw Augustus circling out the flaws from the first folder with his fountain pen.

Lander's mouth twitched. It was a billion dollar contract.

Then he set it aside. He pulled another folder from the stack and began to read again.

The man intended to work throughout the night as he can predict.

"I'll go home. Sleep if you can. Don't tire yourself out." Lander reminded him as he walked towards the door.