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Lucas Anthony's Pov.

I watched her hovering in fear as I asked her again, my voice was louder this time, and the echo of it occupied the entire room. 

We are in the living room, Olivia is in my front, her face buried in her palm. Emily was also there, she had turned her attention back to her phone after I angrily told her not to interrupt me again.

I continued to pace to and fro in front of Olivia for what seemed like a long time, eventually, I stopped. A part of me doesn't want to scare her, and at the same time I don't want her to think that I am an easy target, but at the look of things, the only way to go about this is to bring her family into the picture, that's the only way to make her standstill, I thought while he stared at her blonde hair.

I cleared my throat.

" Should we do this the hard way?" I gave her forehead a slight push, revealing her Desolated face. 

" No, please," She answered in a gloomy tone. I chuckled. I got closer to her and forcefully cupped her face in between my hands. At first, it seemed like time stopped at that moment, I nearly lost it all while I stared into her deep green eyeball. As if I was compelled, one of my fingers moves on its own and brushes away a strand of hair from her face.

Even with her face being in my hands, her eyes are somewhere else, she was moving her eyes everywhere but never for once landed on my face. Yes, this is how I like it, the fear is there, and I can sense it. Only the sound of her fast-beating heart and the rhythm of her warm breath filled my ear. It was very obvious that she was afraid, the only thing I can't tell is whether it was because of me or something else.

" If you don't want it then pick up the fucking phone before I do it for you!" I spoke through gritted teeth. I don't like the way I'm feeling right now, I feel like a different person. Why am I being like this? 

" I told you I will not do it! They are not part of this. Just kill me!" She screamed at my face, and that only woke up the devil in me. Without thinking twice, I angrily pressed her head to the couch rest before I pulled out a gun from my back pocket. 

" As you wish," I grumbled tonelessly. 

 I positioned the gun to her head, my finger was already on the cock, but when I was about to pull the trigger, a hand from nowhere suddenly snapped the gun out of my hand.

I inhaled slowly.

" Emily," I mouthed without looking back. 

I gently released the hand that was resting on her head and then turned back to Emily who was now staring at me blankly.

" Do you want to pull the trigger?" She asked in surprise.

" The gun is not loaded," I replied nonchalantly, I trudged back to where Emily was previously sitting and took my seat.

Before Micheal left this morning, he gave me an update on finding a way I could get out of Alaska, but I rejected it. I want to be here, I want to clear my name and I don't want to be on the run. If I think running away now is the best solution, then I will be on the run for the rest of my life. That's not who I am, I'm not trained to be prey but to be the hunter, and not until I finally get to the end of everything, I won't step back. 

I told Micheal to look for a secure place in the outskirts of Alaska, we can't stay here for long and in the next couple of days, her family is likely to start feeling suspicious about her. At least if we managed to survive the fifth day here, we are good to go. 

" Really, that's odd. you are not the type to carry an empty case," Emily blinked, her eyebrows creasing in disbelief. 

" I never plan to shoot her in the first place," I answered before darting my eyes to Olivia. She was still lying down, her eyes looking at me intently with hatred. 

" That's true, I guess this is my first, and might also be the last," I muttered softly, I didn't bother to take my eyes off her face. After a while, she looked down again.

" You want me to deal with her?" Emily retorted. 

" No need, Michael landed in Texas about thirty minutes ago, and he will soon......" The phone I was holding started to ring before I could finish my sentence.

A smile formed on my lips as I glared at the screen, here comes the Devil. I jumped on my feet before picking up the call, not after I put the phone on loudspeaker. I walked to the middle of the room and then dropped the phone on the center table.

" Boss, are you there?" Michael called from the other side.

" Tell me," 

" Mrs. Mark was presently giving a lecture at the inauguration ceremony, I'm only waiting for your command. Target is on sight."  Just like I expected, she jumped up from the couch on hearing this, her face lightened up in confusion. 

"What! How....h??" She stammered.

" Hold on," 

"You can't do this, please! She has nothing to do with this..... Okay, I will do as you say, I will call her for the last time...Just please don't hurt her please....." She cried out, her body dropped to the tiles, and she started crawling towards me.

" You bitch! I thought you are eager to die," Emily grabbed her hair, and dragged her back to the couch.

" Call her now or never," 

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