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CHAPTERS 686 - 688
CHAPTER 686
He knew that even if he could make Edwin come to him, the possibility of killing him was very low, but Ed still did it because he had never expected that he would be able to go back alive.
"Oh... then I'd like to see what other things you have up your sleeve." Edwin stopped and looked back with a faint smile at Ed, who was kneeling on the ground.
Edwin rarely smiled at strangers. If he smiled, it was most likely a sneer. No one wanted to see him smile like this. Because it could make one's blood run cold.
"Since you are so excited, how can I let you down?" Ed tried to stand up and wanted to be on equal footing with Edwin, but before he could stand up, he fell back down heavily.
His blood seemed to flow faster out of where he was shot. If it continued to flow like this, Edwin wouldn't have to kill him. He would just bleed to death.
However, Ed was not afraid, because Edwin and his family would be buried together with him.
Three people for one! It was well worth it.
At this moment, he didn't need to do too much. What he needed to do was to delay Edwin and make the three of them stay there for a few more minutes. That would be more than enough.
He would take Edwin and his family to another paradise. Although he might die in the process, and his body might be obliterated, it wouldn't really matter. They will be dead anyway.
He would no longer be the Young Master of the Yates Group, Edwin would no longer be the chairman of Shengtian.
Who cares how they looked? When they arrived at Satan's hell, everyone would be little demons. It would be a new start, nothing else would matter.
"Edwin, I used to treat you as my good friend, but changes are inevitable. God really makes fools of people. Who made you so excellent? So excellent that even I, a man with great ability, envy you?"
Ed was injured at several places, his whole body was bleeding, his whole body was in pain, and his consciousness was getting blurred.
However, he was still forcing himself to provoke Edwin. He came here today not only for himself, but also for his mother and the whole Yates Family.
Even if Old Mr. Yates had a lot of extramarital affairs and even several other children, he was still Ed's father, and the man that Ed's mother cared about most in her life. If anything happened to Old Mr. Yates, his mother wouldn't have survived.
Therefore, even if Old Mr. Yates had done unspeakable things to him and his mother, Ed still shouldered the heavy responsibility of stabilizing the Yates Group in critical times.
And also, Ed was adamant to go on this path, because it was his greatest wish to defeat the seemingly almighty Edwin.
"Edwin..." Ed kept going. He was purposely stalling for time. Knowing what he was doing, Edwin had an idea.
Suddenly. he realized something and shouted, "Jeremiah, open the door!" As soon as Edwin gave the order, the sound of an electric saw immediately came from outside. His men cut a hole through the iron wall to let them escape.
"Edwin, it's too late. You don't have time to get out of here... Let's all die here today... Hahaha." Ed laughed and lay on the ground face down, ready to go to another, more tranquil, realty.
"Chairman Carter!" Jeremiah Sam immediately grabbed Edwin and his family and helped them escape.
"Ask everyone to leave immediately. No one is to be hurt!" Even though he had figured out that Ed had installed a time bomb, he was still calm.
He turned to look at Jane beside him and said, "Jane..."
He wanted to say something to comfort her, but as he turned his head and looked at her gentle eyes, she smiled at him gently and said, "With you around, I am not afraid of anything."
Yes, she was not afraid of anything as long as Edwin was there! Even if there was a mountain of swords and a sea of flames in front of her, she would not be afraid as long as Edwin and Janell were by her side. Edwin needed to hear that. He needed Jane's strong and defiant attitude.
He smiled at her. No matter what kind of thorny road was in front of them, as long as she and their daughter were there, nothing could be too difficult for him.
Edwin patted the little child in his arms and said, "Baby Janell.."
"Daddy, can I come out yet?" She had been obeying her father's orders. If her father didn't give the order, she would stay still in her father's arms.
"Yes my baby, you can come out now." Hearing her soft voice, Edwin felt a warmth seep in his heart.
"Daddy, I knew that you would come to save Mommy and I, I was not afraid!" She didn't remember how scared she was before her father came. However, when her father came, she was not afraid at all.
"You have always been so brave. I am very pleased!" At the same time, he held her with one hand and held Jane's in the other. They quickly evacuated the place.
"Edwin, don't waste time and energy. Be just like me, accept all this and let's go to another paradise." Behind him, Ed's voice was still like a fierce ghost, but they ignored him.
They only had sights for each other, they could only hear what each other said. In this world, as long as they had each other, nobody else mattered.
"Edwin, Edwin, you are too f*cking self-righteous. Do you really think that I am bluffing you?" Ed was so angry that he punched the hard floor and shouted with hatred.
He sat up on the floor and suddenly laughed crazily. "Ha, ha, ha, ha... Edwin, I must make you pay for your stupidity and arrogance." Ed roared as he counted, "Three, two, one... boom..."
His voice was drowned out by the roar of the explosion. As Edwin and his group of people were on the only way out, there was a loud explosion.
Through the deafening explosion, a fiery light shot up into the sky. It was several meters high. Ed was lying on the ground, looking out from the door that Edwin's men had made.
He could see people being blown up into the sky. After a beautiful rotation in the air, they fell down.
"Hahaha... Edwin, Edwin, I finally beat you once. I told you not to leave, but you insisted on leaving. If you had been blown up, what should I say to you?"
Ed laughed with tears in his eyes. He seemed to have won this battle, but it didn't feel like he had won anything either..
CHAPTER 687
Three months later. The cold winter had passed. Now everything came back to life, and the spring flowers bloomed. It was the best season of the year.
New York.
In a luxurious private hospital. At the entrance of the hospital, the door was heavily guarded. Without the approval of the superiors, even a fly couldn't enter the building.
Luis George got out of the car, passed through security, walked in and entered the elevator, and went straight to the high-end ward on the eighth floor.
Standing in the elevator, he watched the numbers on the elevator rise. In a few seconds, the elevator had reached the eighth floor.
He stood in the elevator, took a deep breath, tidied his neat suit, and then stepped out. He walked out of the elevator, turned right, and walked to the end of a corridor.
Next to it was a luxury suite. Room number 8. Looking at the thick, heavy door, he stood still and took a deep breath. He waited for a few seconds before slowly raising his hand and knocking on the door.
He waited for a few seconds until he heard a deep voice from inside the room, beckoning him to "come in".
Then he pushed the door open and went in "Chairman Carter!"
Luis looked at the man standing by the window, wearing a white shirt and pants, his back facing the door. Luis greeted Edwin Carter with respect.
"Oh?" Edwin stood up straight, his body motionless. He looked out of the window into the distance, looking at nothing and everything at the same time.
"Chairman Carter we have finished all the tasks according to your orders." Luis handed over the document in his hand, but Edwin still did not look back.
Luis maintained his posture as he was waiting for Edwin to take it. After a long time, Edwin withdrew his gaze from the window and turned around.
Under the golden frames of his spectacles, his eyes were as sharp. Very quickly, the piercing quality dissipated away.
"Everything is done?" he asked. His voice was low, but it carried a certain authority.
"Ed Yates is a hard nut. Even if we beat him to death, he won't tell us the truth about what he did, but his mother is different. His mother adores him. He still has a little conscience and doesn't want to see his mother suffer."
Speaking of this, Luis stepped forward and handed the document to Edwin with both hands.
Edwin still didn't take it. Luis maintained his posture. His heart was pounding furiously. He didn't know if the director was satisfied with what he had done. After all, the victim of this incident was not anyone else, it was the woman that their chairman treasured the most, his wife.
It had been three months since the explosion in New York, but the effects still plagued them until today.
On January 5th in New York, a warehouse near a container in the suburbs was blown up by a bomb. The fire spread and burned for two days and two nights, burning up the whole warehouse completely.
This incident immediately attracted the attention of the authorities. When they knew that this incident was related to the chairman of Shengtian, the authorities immediately classified this incident as a terrorist attack.
In a terrorist attack, even if Ed Yates had nine brains, he could not escape punishment.
Three days later, the authorities announced that the mastermind behind the incident had been captured and would be sentenced to death.
However, Ed, who should have been sentenced to death, did not die. The authorities automatically handed him over to Edwin. After all, no matter how bad the impact of this incident was, it could not be compared with the impact it had on Edwin.
Shengtian international influence was very great. Even the government had to give Edwin some face.
After a long while, Edwin reached out to take the documents When he opened it, he laid eyes on the many gory photos in the folder.
After turning several pages, he found that every picture was full of blood, bright red blood, and severed bodies of human beings. No, they were no longer human. At least not completely human.
There was one photo that was very special. It showed a limbless Ed, lying on the ground, squirming as hard as he could.
The expression on his face looked very grim. He looked like he wanted to end his own life immediately, but he didn't even have the ability to kill himself.
He wanted to knock his head on the wall, but he couldn't. Because everything in his surroundings were soft, if he knocked on something, it would be as if he was knocking on cotton.
He thought of biting his tongue to commit suicide. That would be even worse. His teeth had been pulled out one by one, and there were none left. He couldn't bite his tongue even if he wanted to.If he could, he really wanted to bite his tongue and commit suicide.
After reading all this, Edwin's face did not change at all. There was only a dark light flashing in his eyes, like a bloodthirsty demon.
"Did he admit that he sent people to kill George Michael?" Edwin asked. His tone was still as indifferent and cold as usual, without too much emotion.
"Yes, he admitted it himself and confessed to the crime. We have verified it. It's true." Luis replied respectfully. His tone sounded calm, but his heart was trembling.
He had been by Edwin's side for more than a decade, and he had always thought that he knew the Chairman well.
However, after this incident, he realised that he never really knew the chairman at all. The chairman always had a cold look, but he used torture very efficiently.
And for Luis, as someone who did many unspeakable deeds for the chairman, he admitted he was beneath the chairman.
After a long silence, Edwin gave another order. "Get someone to keep an eye on him. If he dies, you deal with it."
"Yes." Luis immediately accepted the order. He sighed with relief. Fortunately, he was only loyal to Edwin and never had any other thoughts. Otherwise, he might end up like Ed.
He thought of what Ed was going through. A "living hell" couldn't give it enough justice. He was neither dead nor alive..
No matter how many years he could live, he no longer had the ability to speak or move. He was a living corpse who only had one breath left.
Every day, he would have to endure all kinds of pain until he could no longer bear it and end his life.
"When you settle everything with Ed, I want you to fly to Santorini on the Aegean Sea and keep an eye on the wedding preparations. Don't make any mistakes."
After that, Edwin waved his hand, indicating for Luis to leave. Luis obeyed. He gently closed the door behind him, not daring to make a sound.
After closing the door, he let out a long sigh. His chairman's temper was getting stronger and stronger. The chairman's tone had never changed when he talked to him, but it made him feel scared.
He patted his chest to make his heart rate return to normal, and then he went to do what he was asked to do..
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CHAPTER 688
In the room. As soon as luis George left, Edwin Carter's facial expression changed instantly. He became gentle, yet not entirely. His eyes were glazed with pain from blaming himself.
For a long time, he had always been able to plan everything at work. No matter what tricks his opponents used, he could always figure out their tricks and keep ahead.
For many years, he had been standing at the highest point and looking down on everyone, but he had miscalculated again and again on matters regarding Jane.
The more you cared, the more chaotic it would be, was this what they'd always say? Because the more he wanted to protect Jane, to protect her from any harm, other people would put in a lot more effort to hurt her.
A few years ago, her belly was ruthlessly sliced open and her child was taken away. He was not with her, so she had to bear so much panic, helplessness, and fear alone.
This time, he was by her side. He could protect her, but she had been severely burnt under his care. At this moment, when he thought of the day of the explosion, he could still feel a wound in his heart.
At the most urgent moment, he instinctively wanted to protect his wife and child. He hugged Janell to protect her, but failed to save Jane...
At the moment of the explosion, Jane shook off his hand. Just like many years ago, Christopher Greyson sent his men to hit them with a car, but she chose to protect him.
Although she was petite, she did not hesitate to use her body to block the flames that were spreading over Janell and him.
Before she went into a coma that day, she gritted her teeth and said to him, "Edwin, I'm sorry! All this bad luck is my fault. Just let me end it."
She said, "Edwin, I'm sorry! I'm so selfish, so selfish. I'm afraid of losing you, so just please let me go.
She added, "Edwin, I know I chose to divorce you. But in fact, I didn't want to. You don't.know how much I like you, I like you so much that you are more important than my own life. Because I left you, I didn't know what else I could do. I can only make myself work. Only work can make me feel less pain, only work can distract me from the pain of losing you."
She said, "Edwin, if it's possible, can you engrave Mrs. Carter on my tombstone?"
Because being Mrs. Carter was the happiest time of her life. She wanted to leave the world with this identity. However, she did not know that the divorce agreement was fake, and the two divorce certificates were fake.
She had always been Mrs. Carter, Edwin's wife, and it would never change in this lifetime.
She added, "Janell, I'm sorry! When you were young, Mommy was not with you, and now I can't stay with you anymore. But you must grow up healthy, Mommy will guard you from far away."
In the end, she said that the person she was most sorry for was the baby in her belly. Because of her selfishness, the baby did not have a chance to come into this world. The baby didn't have the chance to see the beautiful sun, the rivers and the mountains.
She had a lot of things to say to Edwin, but there was only darkness left in her world. Moreover, she could feel the life of the child in her belly fading little by little.
"Baby, I'm sorry!" She said to her baby. However, she believed that her baby could understand her. The baby's thoughts should be the same as hers.
They would protect the baby's father and sister together. At least they had to let their father and sister live well and let the two of them have a good life with their blessings.
She said that she was selfish and she didn't want to live alone, so she gave them the chance to live. What she said most were the words "I'm sorry".
She didn't know, those were the words he hated the most, especially when they were from her. He needed her. He needed her to stay with him. He needed her to enjoy striving in the business world with him.
She said she wouldn't know what to live for if he wasn't with her. But she should know that without her, what would he be living for?
Edwin clenched his hands by his side and gritted his teeth, trying hard to calm the rolling pain in his heart. After a long silence, Edwin shifted his gaze from the door of the room to inside the room.
In the room, Jane was lying on the big hospital bed, in a coma. The wounds on her body were almost healed, but there was still no sign of her waking up. She was lying on the hospital bed with her eyes closed, looking quiet and serene.
If it weren't for the fact that her face was very pale, so pale that there was no trace of blood on it, he would probably think that she was just sleeping.
A lot of times, Edwin thought she was asleep. He felt like as long as he waited a little longer, she would wake up. She would open her eyes and look at him, smile at him gently, and call out his name-Edwin.
Other than her, almost no one called his name like this. The elders in the family and his classmates and friends all called him Leon, but she was the only one who would call him with that tone - Edwin.
He didn't know when he had fallen in love with this name, he liked to hear her call that name. Every time he heard her call him, he always felt that their relationship was closer.
It seemed like only she could call him that and he only belonged to her. Just like how he always calls her name, he would feel like she belonged to him and him only.
"Jane" He said in a hoarse voice. It took him almost all his effort to call Jane's name. He came to her bed and sat down, holding her hand carefully in his palm.
"Jane, is your heart really that cruel? You don't want me, but don't you want our Janell? Can you bear to see that she is only four years old yet she doesn't have a mother anymore?"
"After Janell was born, until she turned three years old, she had never seen her own mother. When she saw other children in their mother's arms, she kept blinking her beautiful big eyes and asked me silently, 'Why do other children have mothers? Why doesn't she have a mother?"
"Every time this happens, I can't even look into her clear eyes because I don't know what to tell her."
Speaking of the past, Edwin felt the pain in his heart becoming more and more intense, like endless waves of sharp stabs. It was so painful that he could not speak without long pauses.
"Jane, I'm going to set our wedding on the 20th of the next month. I'll leave twenty days for you to prepare. Don't miss it."
The wedding had entered the final stage of preparation. 20th of May was the date Edwin had chosen. The weather would be perfect, and the venue was her dream destination.
It would be the day he could finally show her how much he loved her. And he would love her, forever!
Even if Jane did not wake up, he would carry her to their wedding. She had been absent from his life for so many years. This time, no matter what, she would not miss their long-awaited, star-crossed wedding..
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