Pampered by my three brothers: the return of the neglected heiress

Chapter 1688: The EXIT

Tut... tut...

Deep lines formed between Atlas' and Dean's brows. The latter walked closer while Atlas stood frozen.

When Dean stopped, he turned to Atlas. "Tell me I didn't just imagine that."

"..." Atlas remained quiet, moving the keycard along the tiled wall slightly.

Beep!

Both almost flinched when part of the wall parted like a door. Atlas took a step back, eyeing the slight opening before the two of them looked at each other with wide eyes.

No words were said as Dean watched Atlas pull the door open.

As soon as the door parted to a certain degree, lights from beyond the secret door lit up. It was a hallway, big enough for two people to walk side by side. And from there, there were even more lockers-like those in a safety deposit box.

"What the hell?" Dean muttered, intuitively taking a step to follow Atlas.

Both of them were stunned, already accepting that there was no way out of here. But now, there was a way. If this were the world just testing the two of them, well, they were truly tested tonight.

Atlas didn't walk inside immediately but rather stopped right by the open door.

Earlier, they broke some tiles by smashing the tools. However, all they saw was cement and no hole they could crawl into. But now that the door had opened and he could examine it, the reason for that was that the door's surface was also cemented.

"This is the exit," Atlas muttered, studying how the door remained undiscovered. "He doesn't need to go outside to leave this place. Once he comes in, he's coming out somewhere else."

rocked his head, almost forgetting the fact that there were people trying to break through the entrance as

bathrooms. I thought it's to keep this place more chilly than it already is," he commented in awe. "It's actually to hide that this

admit it, but Jonathan-that man

Both men turned their heads to the door, their calm returning to

they had an exit, they weren't in a

eyes on the entrance. "Were all these

answer as he just

eyes sharp. "Does that mean it's

for him than it does for me.

lighter from his pocket, showing it to him. He smiled happily, as if he hadn't lost it just moments ago. "What about burning everything in here? We've got

his eyes were squinting. "I don't

is better than him. No

fell on the lighter. "Why do you carry around

word of advice, you should start carrying one around, especially in the office. It's a great conversation breaker, especially since William Pierson likes to smoke on

rocked his head while Dean casually walked away from the door. But before he could get farther, he stopped and pointed at

that card and never

not this one," Atlas kept the card in his suit

wall like madmen. They didn't care if they tore them as they pulled, gathering them all in the middle. They crumpled some of them, while others just tore in the process.

rummaging through the laboratory counter. The small notebook, however, was something he kept while he took the rest of the papers to the

the vault grew louder, Dean crouched down. Lighting the end of Naylani's photo, he watched the flame crawl and grow. He then dropped it onto the mountainof papers and notes,

a few steps back, eyeing the

we stay here, we'll suffocate from the smoke," Atlas remarked, standing near the open secret door.

flames before he turned his back on them. "I want to make sure they won't catch even a single letter. It's a

they already know

logic," Atlas answered before he started walking inside. "What's important is that they won't get to see the entirety of