Plan In The Dark

[...Over my dead body!]

""Hyahh!""

Thud!

Miranda and the five-year-old fell down from their chairs with terrified expressions on their faces. John and Brad felt cold sweats on their backs as their faces grew tense from the sheer pressure of Sia's murderous intent.

This only lasted for mere 3 seconds before she retracted her aura and everything returned to normal. Sia quickly left the room and slammed the door behind her, she no longer wanted to breathe in the same air with these thieves.

A long while after she had left the room, John regained his composure as he looked around with a grim expression. Miranda and the kid were still frozen in fear, the latter may have pissed his pants, which was an embarrassing sight. Brad remained the same weirdo as usual, looking at the closed door with an excited face after returning to normal.

'This brat, how strong is she now?' John wondered while still feeling a bit creeped out by Sia's strength.

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Sia left the mansion feeling annoyed by what had occurred just now. She had wasted her precious time for those greedy fools for no reason whatsoever.

'Can't believe I hoped that they wouldn't talk about that matter.'

Ever since she inherited the inheritance from her late mother's will, that hateful family of hers had been constantly fawning, threatening, etc...her into giving them the property. She had always been extremely irritated by their hypocrisy but she couldn't simply get rid of them due to their standing within the upper-class of society.

Thus she had to endure them for the last 5 years ever since she was 18.

Sia got into the limousine parking outside, waiting for her. The driver greeted her and then quickly drove off into the sky. On the way back, a frown kept appearing on her face from time to time.

For unknown reasons, she had a bad premotion. She wasn't sure the exact reason why, but her instinct most of the time was never wrong, so she decided to turn on her watch and called someone.

{Good evening, Ms.Evernight. How may I be of assistance?} The other side picked up in no more than 3 seconds as an aged voice sounded out.

"Send someone to keep tabs on my family. I want you to monitor then report to me every action of theirs." She paused a bit, then continued in a slightly threatening voice: "....If I were to discover that you missed even the smallest detail....you wouldn't like the result."

{...Understood.} The voice spoke after a moment of silence which made Sia hang up after that.

The limousine flew for a while before reaching Sia's mansion and she got off at the gate.

'I should advance tomorrow then venture outside the city to hunt.' She thought about her plan in a passing.

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2 hours later, back at John's mansion.

John was sitting in the guest room with his wife Miranda and his child, along with his nephew Brad.

They all had angry expressions on their faces except for Brad and the kid. The atmosphere was gloomy until Miranda spoke up in a displeased tone:

"You need to show that brat her place, John. We can't keep letting her do as she pleases."

"...I know, but she couldn't be contained like she used to be anymore. I tried to convince her into giving Brad the position for the last 5 years, but she's simply too stubborn."

"So what are we supposed to do now?" Brad spoke up with a hint of anxiety in his voice. He wanted to have Anastasia as his property, and to do that he needed to gain control of the Evernight Corp so it was natural that he was worried.

"You should go back home for now, I'll think of some way." John consoled him in a neutral voice.

"I will, but...you'll promise you'll give me the position right, uncle?"

"How many times do we have to go through this? I will use everything I have to help you claim the Evernight Corp, you don't need to worry."

"Phew...thanks uncle, I know I can count on you." Brad breathed a sigh of relief before expressing his gratitude to his uncle.

"No need for the formality, it's natural that I would help you. Now go back home."

Brad nodded then quickly excused himself to leave the room. After the door had closed completely, Miranda turned to look at John and asked, her face became full of sinister:

"There's no way you would actually give him what he wants, right?"

"...He's a naive child, I will only make him take charge because he is easy to control. Once our child is all grown up, I will get rid of him." John returned the same devilish smile toward Miranda.

Suddenly, a shadow appeared in the corner of the room, alerting John and Miranda as they turned to face the shadow in the corner and asked warily at the same time:

""Who are you?""

"John and Miranda, I came here on the president's behalf."

"...He has a proposal for you two, are you willing to listen?" The shadow asked mysteriously after pausing for a second.