An Early Morning Temptation
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'Why me?' Max mourned silently as many questions clamored for attention in his mind. 'Why did Dex bring her home? Why was he acting like a wimp in her presence? Why is she so mean to Deex but nice to him? Would this be the end of his twenty-five years of loyalty to the Logans?
"Max, don't keep the lovely lady waiting." Dex shot Max an annoying stare. "You heard her loud and..."
"I just corrected you about your rudeness to Max and you're doing it all over again. Don't you have respect for his grey hair?" Phoenix's eyes shot fiery darts at Dex.
"M...m...madam..." Max stuttered in mortification.
"Phoenix, Max! Call me Phoenix," She spoke softly to him. She gently took Max's excessively trembling arms and led him away from Dex. "Tell me more about yourself." Her voice trailed off as they both climbed up the stairs.
Dex stood transfixed on a spot, gawking at Phoenix's disappearing figure. He couldn't believe his eyes on what just went down. Phoenix has chosen to be nice to Max instead of him that was practically doing everything to please her.
"Does she have an interest in men with grey hair?" He mused incoherently. "Does she find me appalling? Did she mean it when she said she wanted to kill me? I think a cold shower will help me suppress these burning desires. Tomorrow, I'll find out what it is to know about her and the bomb explosion at Artlyn Palace." He took in a deep breath and walked slowly toward his room.
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Detective Ivan smiled as he was given a list of all the guests invited to the masquerade ball. Undestroyed security camera footage outside the Artlyn Palace captured about thirty guests leaving the event, before the time of the explosion.
"I can bet a million bucks that one or more of these guests knew about the explosion," Ivan spoke confidently to his partner, William.
"So how do we unscramble their true identity as they are all wearing masks." William quizzed with a puzzled expression.
"They came in cars, right?" Ivan smirked at Williams.
"Right."
"Good! Track all the cars that left the premises before the explosion, and we'll get what we are looking for." Ivan spoke triumphantly.
A vibration in Ivan's pocket jolted him. He swiftly removed the phone from his pocket and answered the call.
"Hello sweetheart, shouldn't you be in bed by now?" He spoke sweetly to his wife.
"Detective Ivan, your thirty minutes is up!" A stranger's terrifyingly hoarse voice spoke.
BANG!
BANG!!
BANG!!!
"Helen!" Detective Ivan screamed into the phone, attracting the attention of his concerned team of investigators. "Helen...Helen! What have you done to my family!" He boomed at the top of his voice as his eyes turned red with catastrophic anxiety and imminent tears.
Unfortunately for Ivan, the line went dead. Without listening to Williams's pleas and advice, he ran quickly towards his car, entered swiftly, and zoomed off, leaving a cloud of dust behind
When Ivan entered his home. He was met with a dreadful scene. His wife lay in the pool of her blood with three gunshot wounds splitting her head apart and two gunshot wounds on her stomach. His only child lay beside his mum with a single gunshot bullet wound on his head. As promised earlier, his precious pet dog was not spared in the slaughter.
Walking slowly toward the corpses before him and trembling vigorously, Ivan fell to his knees. Heavy tears, slimy mucus, and saliva flowed from his eyes, nose, and mouth. His lips vibrated as he tried to say, "sorry," to his dead wife and son. He slowly touched his innocent son's tainted head when a cold GM-22 suppressor pistol tapped the back of his head twice.
"Mr. David sends his best regards." The same brutal hoarse voice whom Ivan had spoken to earlier through his wife's phone whispered grimly behind him. "Now, join your family in hell!"
BANG!
BANG!!
BANG!!!
Three shots were released into Ivan's head, rupturing the back of his skull. His lifeless body slumped on the bloodied floor close to his dead wife and son.
Three shots to the head were the merciful execution style of David Kingston's evil empire. However, for a merciless death, thirty gunshots were emptied on the victim's body. After that, the dead victims were hanged by the neck and touched to ashes.
Before the assassins left Ivan's house, they broke the gas cylinder valve, thereby allowing gas to disperse through the entire building. After walking towards a safe distance, one of the assassin snipers shot a single fire towards the building, thereby setting off a massive explosion.
While Ivan's house was blazing, another group of Davids assassins was inflicting horrendous justice on the dead general's family.
Everyone in the general's massive mansion including all his employed house staff were brutally massacred. No one tied to the dead general's name was exempted. Thus, the peaceful and calm night in Duras city was transformed into a night of pain, misery, and death.
By morning, the entire city of Duras was blaring with police and paramedic sirens.
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Phoenix woke up early the next morning with a deafening scream. She was panting and sweating profusely. Her whole body shook with fright as the scary dream flashed before her eyes. It had been the same dream that had been haunting her every time she lost the chance of killing her uncle.
In the dream, Phoenix was walking down the aisle of a magnificent cathedral. She was dressed in an immaculate white wedding gown and a transparent white veil covered her angelic face. Master Lin took the place of her dad as he delicately led her in his arms, down the aisle.
The Atricon gang members were seated in the front row of the church with no disguise. They looked so happy and cheerful like normal people. The church was packed with over five hundred guests who were all smiling and cheering at her.
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