When I saw the door, I was shocked. It looked exactly the same as the wall. No one would notice it as it blended in with the wall perfectly.
“Why is there a door here? When was this designed?” Linda blurted out in shock as she furrowed her brows.
I was shocked as well. However, there was more to come. Following that, a long pathway could be seen. As we walked down the pathway, we reached the warehouse and saw the stolen technology equipment.
Rachel said, “It seems like I was right. The equipment couldn’t be transported in such a short time since they were big and would attract unwanted attention. Even if they were meticulous about the operation, people would still notice it. So their only way of doing it was to move them here.”
Then she turned to Linda and clapped her hands sarcastically. “My, my, what a brilliant plan by the Murphy Corporation. Who would’ve known that the equipment would be in a hidden warehouse within the building itself?”
Linda frowned at Rachel’s words. She didn’t know anything about the underground warehouse. Wanting to defend the Murphy Corporation, Linda opened her mouth, but she couldn’t think of anything to say because she witnessed all these before her eyes.
On the other hand, I remained silent before saying, “These are all larger-sized equipment. Are those that launched overseas smaller ones?”
Rachel rolled her eyes and pursed her lips while speaking in a disdainful manner. “Well, duh!”
Even so, I thought little about it and turned to Anthony. “What should we do now?”
The man scanned the items in the underground warehouse and made a decision. “Contact the reporters and lawyers. We’ll have to file a lawsuit against the Murphy Corporation.” Giving a cold look, he was emotionless when he said that.
Upon hearing his words, Linda started panicking. She stopped Anthony and tried to reason with him. “Mr. Featherstone, aren’t you burning the bridge? Mr. Murphy is still locked up in Moranta. Shouldn’t you at least give him a chance to explain? This is way too sudden, and I believe Mr. Murphy doesn’t know about this. The architects and engineers were in charge of the construction, while he never took part. Maybe he was in the dark all along.”
I pursed my lips. If I didn’t go through the life-and-death situation in Moranta, I wouldn’t even know that Armond was a two-faced person or suspect that he was behind this. However, now that I knew what kind of person he was, I believed he had planned this for a long time.
At that moment, I was wondering if he was also behind my participation in the Featherstone Corporation’s bidding. It would make sense if he had probably planned everything from the start. After all, the Murphy Corporation had been dominating the AI technology field, and it wasn’t a desirable outcome for them if Featherstone Corporation’s AI technology rose to fame.
The man wanted to use this chance to gain benefit from the Featherstone Corporation’s downfall. He was playing the long game.
Recalling the time I almost got into trouble in A City, my trust toward Armond was broken. To delay time, he even laid his hands on me and set Nora up. This man was way more scheming than we thought.
I said, “Linda, let’s leave that to the police, okay?” Everything that happened after I met Armond surfaced in my mind, and instantly, I felt the temperature dropped a few degrees.
The woman looked at me and stayed silent for a while. “Let me call old Mr. Murphy. This matter involves the entire Murphy family, so I have to inform him about this. I’m sorry, Sienna, but the Murphys mean a lot to me.”
I nodded. “Alright. Go ahead.”
At the same time, the Murphys were in a frenzy at the moment. Hence, when Robert picked up the call, he directly asked Linda to handle the situation on-site. “I’ll leave it to you. Just try to minimize Murphy Corporation’s loss.”
Upon hearing his commands, Linda was stunned. Then, she nodded and said, “Okay.”
After hanging up, Linda looked miserable. She then glanced at me with a troubled expression. “Sienna, tell me. What happened to the Murphys?”
I figured she didn’t know about the incident in Moranta. It was a lot, so I collected my thoughts before telling her. “The gas released from the chemical factory under the Murphy family in Moranta was carcinogenic, and Armond was involved in a murder case. That was why he couldn’t return to A City to take care of these matters. Furthermore, the police officers were now investigating the Murphys’ property, so old Mr. Murphy had his hands full with that, and he could only leave this to you.”
Linda was rather intelligent, so she knew someone was behind this. “Is the Featherstone Corporation involved with the incident in Moranta?”
I didn’t intend to hide it. “The Murphy family wanted the import and export trading rights, but the Taylor family had passed the rights to Anthony. Armond then kidnapped Anthony and forced him to give it up. However, he failed, and the police officers are running an investigation on him.”
Upon hearing my words, Linda’s face was as pale as a sheet. Knitting her brows, she was at a loss for words.
Rachel glanced at Anthony with concern and turned to Linda. “It seems the Murphy Corporation doesn’t have boundaries as long as it makes them money.”
Hearing that, Linda stayed silent. After a long while, she looked at Anthony and said, “Mr. Featherstone, I know I can’t hinder your decision, but I’ll do my best to protect Murphy Corporation’s project in A City.”
Anthony glanced at her before turning to Rachel. “Contact the reporters and lawyers.”
With that, he led me out of the base, and we walked all the way to his car.
In the car, I kept quiet for a long time. However, I failed to suppress my curiosity and blurted out, “Anthony, did you know there was an underground warehouse before?”
Although Rachel said that the back wall was damaged by accident because of the malfunction of the machines. However, Armond had made the area behind the base off-limits to anyone else. No one would drive the excavator to the back unless someone actually planned to enter from the back.
The man continued driving and kept his eyes on the road as he smiled. “I knew it ever since you told me there was something wrong with the structure.”
I pursed my lips. “Then why did you only expose it now?”
Upon that, he glanced sideways at me and explained, “If I expose him back then, he’ll only change his plans to oppose me. I needed time to find his flaws, so I went along with it. With this, I’ll know what he was going for.”
Seeing how he was looking at me while driving, I yelled, “Eyes on the road!”
After pausing for a bit, I continued, “You knew that Armond was going to set you up in Moranta. That was why you wanted to come back as soon as possible when you heard that he was heading there.”
The man nodded. “But I never expect him to take action so quickly.”
No wonder Armond was completely unbothered when he was making a bet with Abe in the casino. He knew the latter wasn’t his opponent. Thinking about Abe, I couldn’t help but ask, “Do you think that Abe’s really dead?”
The man pursed his lips. “According to the police report in Moranta, the corpse’s DNA matches with Abe’s.”
I was stunned by his words. “Armond actually killed Abe?”
It was way too sudden. I initially thought that Armond faked Abe’s death with a corpse to confuse us. However, I was too na?ve. He actually killed his partner.
Anthony parked the car as soon as we reached the villa. Since we hadn’t been there for some time, Anthony hired a helper to clean the house. Right when we got off the car, the helper was done with the chores and was about to leave.
When she saw us, she looked at Anthony and reported, “Mr. Featherstone, a tall and muscular man came and looked for a woman called Sienna. He asked me to relay this message to you guys: Be careful.”
He’s looking for me?
I stopped the helper from leaving and asked her about the man’s features. After a series of questioning, I couldn’t think of a person I knew who matched her description, so I let her leave.
Then, I went to the living room and sat on the couch, thinking of the man the helper described earlier. Anthony looked at me and said, “Now that Abe’s subordinates know that he’s dead, they might be misguided by Armond and come looking for trouble. So from now on, you’ll have to report to me whenever you leave the house.”
I nodded, as I knew how dangerous it would be.
Suddenly, a man’s name came to my mind after I heard him mentioning Abe’s subordinates. My body trembled in shock as I sat upright and looked at Anthony. “I know who that man is now. He’s Danny, one of Abe’s subordinates. I helped him in Venria before. When he followed Abe back to the country, I gave him my contact number and address in case he needed my help. However, I forgot about this after I returned to K City.”
With these thoughts in my mind, I immediately called Nora. She answered after a while, and her voice was hoarse. “What’s wrong, Sienna?”
Hearing her voice, I was concerned. “Where are you? Why is your voice so hoarse?”
She answered weakly, “I’m in Moranta at the moment. For some reason, I couldn’t get hold of Armond, and you guys were already back in K City. I miss him so much, so I came to see him. I’d just arrived and didn’t have any sleep last night, so I’m at the hotel trying to catch some sleep. What’s wrong?”
I froze for a while as I was shocked at what the woman told me. “You’re saying that you go there by yourself without knowing where he is staying? Do you know how dangerous it is?”
Realization dawned on her, and she was stunned for a while. “Oh yeah, I was just about to ask you. You guys stayed in Moranta for such a long time, so you know where he’s staying, right? Can you send me the address later?”
I pursed my lips as I didn’t know how to tell her about the incident in Moranta. “Do you believe me if I tell you we don’t?”
She replied, “Hmm… Yeah, but it’s so frustrating, knowing that I have to look for a needle in a haystack.”
After pondering for a while, I said, “Nora, just think of it as going on a vacation in Moranta. Maybe Armond didn’t contact you because he was busy. There are a lot of things going on with Murphy Corporation recently, so I think he doesn’t have time to meet you. Anyway, you should return as soon as possible. It’s dangerous to be alone over there.”
New Book: Back Home to Marry Off Myself
Loredana’s father left the family for his mistress, leaving them to fend for themselves abroad. When life was at its toughest, her father showed up with “good news” after 8 years of absence: To marry off Loredana to a paralyzed son of the wealthy Mendelsohn family.
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