Chapter 213: Failed Extraction

"What was that?" Athena asked, stupefied to a spot, her voice almost a whisper as she met Ewan’s gazee. His facial expression mirrored hers: shock.

Ewan was about to answer when another loud bang was heard. This time, it was followed by a rampage of sharp sounds that could only be attributed to large guns.

"The gang!" Athena whisper-yelled, her legs instantly operating on instinct and adrenaline. She ran quickly, followed closely by Ewan, down the winding corridor into the elevator.

"Can this go any faster?" She asked Ewan, impatience notable in her voice.

Ewan shook his head. This was the fastest speed of the elevator; any more speed, and the machine might malfunction. It didn’t take long, however, and they were down at the lobby.

When the door opened, Athena and Ewan rushed out, both surprised to see a combination of workers of the company and non-workers—mere pedestrians—huddling fearfully around in the office. It would mean that the gunshots were exploding right in front of the building.

"Why do you think they are here?" Ewan asked as he and Athena hurried to the front door.

"For Alfonso and Fiona."

The matter-of-factness in Athena’s tone was surprising to Ewan.

"You talk like you knew this would happen?"

Athena nodded, opening the door and subtly peering out. "I was aware. My earlier panic was just reflexes. I think their last attack against me left more traumatic remnants than I had thought."

Ewan nodded slowly. "That’s okay. You will be totally fine in some days. But how did you know they were coming today?"

However, Athena had already opened the door fully and walked outside, almost giving Ewan high blood pressure since the bullets were still flying around.

"Athena, wait!!!"

the ground and moved fast

the gang. She smiled as she dropped a knock on the door, startled when

as the occasion demanded when a whiff of perfume crossed through her nostrils. There was only one

are you following

was there to say? That he followed her out because he wouldn’t be able to live with himself if anything happened to her? He didn’t think

rasp knock on the door. Twice and

Old Mr. Thorne could

in..." She added, sighting Ewan. She gave him a smile when he met her gaze with an

the car, which had a large interior

going? Did it happen as we had thought?" Athena started, reclining on the chair, aware of the decrease in the bullets

his plan had been foiled

smiling. "They attacked us head-on as they had planned. Only that they hadn’t expected us to be aware of the plans..." He laughed and shook his head, amusement buttering his

Alfonso would be pissing in his pants now." He laughed again; this time

being left out of

Athena and her group hadn’t known about this,

maybe he would have been

didn’t know that. But he was sure there would

a cottage. Well, it is a wired cottage, a fact only known to people in the

old man... I am a changed man now..." Ewan said then,

glances with Florence before looking out the

aware of this, or rather they guessed it right to an extent because they didn’t speak on weighty matters, rather communicating through their phones. But they didn’t know that their phones

his eyebrows. "They didn’t make that deduction themselves? They

since the court case. Even when Fiona threw down her phone to obstruct evidence collection, she retrieved it later when she recognized that the phone hadn’t

you didn’t touch their phones, how did you then tap into their phones? How did you even

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