The Devil Charming's
Part 9's

After Alena came home and forced Edward to be escorted by the driver and several bodyguards, Edward rushed into the meeting room. There everyone was waiting to start the event, no one dared to rebuke or protest Edward's delay. The man was fifteen minutes late because he fell asleep in the lap of Alena and Alena who did not know that her son had a meeting schedule. Even his secretary did not dare to knock on the door of his boss room because Edward had advised not to be disturbed. It was the first time in a few days that Edward could not sleep well.

Soon the meeting began and Edward's secretary began to explain some of the projects they would be working on. Edward just silently watched with a flat expression until a cellphone vibration in his pocket disturbed Edward and made Edward furious. The man disliked being disturbed at a time like this, Edward kept ignoring the vibrations of his phone until a warning tone like an alarm went off making everyone look at him. Edward himself grabbed his phone quickly and instantly his jaw hardened. Edward hurried to leave the meeting room with wide steps and said nothing until Victor was forced to whisper something to Edward's secretary, saying that their boss had urgent needs and the meeting was canceled.

“oh shit! Victor, get your men ready!”

Victor nodded and immediately took on Edward's duties. Edward himself went straight back into his room, picked up a few weapons and took his laptop for a while to make sure that his guess was not wrong. Edward groaned angrily, furious, the warning alarm that sounded on his phone was a code when something happened to Lizbeth. And now Edward can see that Lizbeth is facing five people who are certainly Robinson's men.

Due to Lizbeth's condition of exposure to the poison, the girl has been seen fighting her enemy alone, Edward knows that the poison has begun to work further than before. When initially it only feels like deep heat in the throat, over time the sensation of heat in the throat it will spread throughout the body like someone who is having a high fever.

“Mr.Ed, all ready.”

Edward rushed out of his room along with Victor. They immediately entered the emergency elevator which would not take long to reach the basement of the forty-floor office building. Edward gets into the car along with Victor who runs their car leaving the Estebat Group building followed by five cars behind them.

“They killed all of our people who were watching Miss Lizbeth,” Victor obviously tried to give information to Edward.

“And this time I will kill them,” sizzled Edward with a terrible expression.

Edward regretted ignoring the vibration of his phone before the alarm rang. Supposedly if he picked up a call from one of the men he assigned to watch over Lizbeth, at least Edward could act faster. Edward again saw the position of Lizbeth through his cellphone, the girl looks helpless when dragged to get into the car by two large people. Edward is convinced that the man attacked Lizbeth after the girl exited the New York airport.

Edward grinned at the sight of none of the bullets that could penetrate the car that Edward was riding with Victor m54 or the car that his men were riding.

“Stupid,” muttered Edward.

Even neither Edward nor his men retaliated against the useless attack, they did not want any casualties from people who could have been accidentally shot, because this was a highway. Look at! people began to panic and fear after the sound of gunfire.

Looks like Robinson's men realized that the bullets they fired were useless and would not be able to penetrate the car part of the American mafia troupe until they no longer fired their weapons, he said, but they also did not stop following.

The sound of gunfire was heard again by Edward's men shortly after they arrived in front of a former factory building that was abandoned. The place was far from the crowd and was also among the high weeds.

Edward did not care, let his men who overcome the people who followed them earlier, now he entered the factory building along with Victor and three other men. Edward's gaze spread until the corners of his lips were drawn to form a slanted smile seeing a man sitting casually on top of a pile of scrap metal as if already waiting for his arrival. The man smoked his cigarette deeply, exhaling his smoke slowly before turning him to the floor and stepping on it with a look that could not be separated from the cold figure who was giving a murderous gaze.

“Finally, I was able to meet in person with the notorious cold and ruthless head of the American mafia.” The man opened his voice first.

“Didn't you dislike searching and prefer it if your enemies get out of their lair by themselves? Then, why are you here now?” the man continued in a mocking tone that made Edward immediately point his gun and almost pull the trigger if only his sharp eyes did not see the figure of Lizbeth who was tied horribly with the muzzle of the gun pointed at the temple that girl's. Lizbeth himself could not open his eyes and his pale lips and cold sweat on his forehead. Seeing this made Edward darken his eyes and grow angry.

“Pull your trigger if you also want your girl dead.” The man chuckled at Edward who could only remain silent. The man is Robinson, the one who's after Lizbeth and Edward in a different but related matter.

Edward smiled back in a slant, if Robinson thought Edward would lose, he was wrong. Edward was not a fool who could not foresee such a situation, the incident where the hostages would be a threat to surrender was already very cliche for Edward. Such a way would not be able to make Edward not to turn on the time bomb or pull the trigger.

“You want to play with me? All right..” Edward grabbed his phone and snatched it for a while before the shrill voice of a woman's scream sounded bitter. Edward still put on his slanted smile to find Robinson who had been flabbergasted.

“How? Do you recognize this voice? what if.... I kill him and your future son? After all, the girl who is now your captive means nothing to me. You assume I can't get you out of the nest?” Edwar chuckles “...are you not aware that you are out of your safe zone and are in my territory?”

Lizbeth who had been dragged by Robinson's men to get closer to their boss position made Robinson immediately grabbed the girl's hair until Lizbeth groaned with closed eyes.

“Did he really mean nothing to you?”

Edward raised his eyebrows. “He's just bait for you guys out, don't forget that Eduardo Estebat never plays using feelings, you want to shoot him? Please, then we break even, because I will also directly kill two lives at once before we face each other.” Robinson tightened his jaw and kicked Lizbeth until the girl fell down and coughed, even the corner of the girl's lips was bleeding. Edward was still staring flatly, as if asserting that he did not care at all and that made Robinson even more angry. It turns out that he was wrong to assume that he would succeed in making Edward subjugate after using Lizbeth as a hostage, Robinson also just realized how cruel a heartless demon like Edward he knew as Eduardo Estebat. Edward glanced at Lizbeth's worsening condition, the influence of the poison he gave worsened the condition of Lizbeth's body, stupidly Robinson was not aware of the condition of Lizbeth's body exposed to the poison.

“Aaaarrgghhh...” Robinson's moaning sounds were heard after Edward managed to shoot his leg in the aftershocks by the gunshots between Robinson's men and Edward's men.

Edward continued to fire his bullet at the target of killing Robinson's men while still running to reach Lizbeth's body. Robinson, who was shot by Edward, arrived in the leg, now still trying to move to fire the bullet to Edward, but.. “Aaarrgghhh Robinson's moaning was heard again when Victor swiftly shot his hand, which was about to pull the trigger to shoot Edward.

While Edward has managed to carry Lizbeth's body, he takes her out of the place, followed by Victor, who continues to fire his bullets at some of Robinson's men to protect Edward. Before actually getting out, Edward turned around and threw a sesutau then ran along with all his men and immediately entered the car, advancing at full speed leaving the place until the next few seconds the place exploded, puffed up thick smoke that soared high with the growing fire.