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Chapter 88: Time to Play Dirty as Well!
The smoke still curled skyward like an omen, even after the flames had died. What once was a beacon of scientific promise now stood as a smoldering shell—blackened, twisted, and broken beyond recognition.Celestine had cried her eyes sore so that she had no strength to cry again. Her dreams had been reduced to nothing but ashes, a shadow of what they used to be, and she could only wish it was a terrible dream, even if what was right before her was nothing but the gruesome reality that her lab was gone and gone for good.The firefighters had fought hard for almost an hour. Water hissed and steamed as it hit metal and flame. They had finally subdued the fire, but what remained was nothing short of a war zone.But that was not the problem anymore as far as Celestine was now concerned. Her lab was gone, but she just hoped Isabel wasn’t inside the lab all the time the place was burning.She had called her line over and over again but it wasn’t going through. It was unlike Isabel to switch
Chapter 87: The Lab on Fire!
“No. No. No. Oh my God!” Celestine’s voice rose into a sharp scream, her eyes wide and wild as she stared at the screen in horror.She had just been informed by the Chief Security Officer who was in charge of the private lab where she worked, that her lab had caught up in flames, and they had no idea where the fire had come from.Jackson and Mr. Copper immediately stood to their feet.“Celestine? What is it?” Jackson asked, confusion gripping his face.She was already pacing, her breath uneven. “It’s my lab,” she gasped. “My lab is on fire!”“What?!” Mr. Copper exclaimed.Celestine grabbed her car key from the counter, knocking over a water glass in her scramble. “The whole place could be going up in flames! I have to see it for myself.”Without another word, she bolted for the door, dinner completely forgotten.The private lab was her life. It was the place where she made her living, and should anything happen to that lab, she was done for. It would mean she would have to start from
Chapter 86: Dinner at Moonstone Street!
The black SUV pulled up into the quiet Moonstone Street, a peaceful part of the city tucked away from the chaos of downtown Dubai. Elegant townhouses lined the road revealing an even more beautiful part of the city that Jackson was yet to see.He had been hearing tales of Dubai and how a place that was once a desert had become one of the most beautiful cities in the world. And even if his coming to Dubai was quite unplanned and not for tourist visitation, he still couldn’t deny the fact that the city had really lived up to the hype, and if he should come for a revisit, it would be for relaxation as a tourist and not as an heir fighting for his place in what his father had left behind for him.The driver turned off the engine and stepped out quickly to open the door. Mr. Copper got out first, then Jackson followed, stretching slightly as he took in the peaceful street.He had enough of the evening thinking about his father and how he had not been a good son to him, but now—now, he just
Chapter 85: The Things a Father Hides!
The memories of the life that Jackson once had came back fresh as he sat alone in his suite that evening as he looked forward to the dinner to which Dr. Celestine had invited them over for.Mr. Copper was out on the balcony, probably attending to important business matters, but none of that mattered to Jackson as he sat alone in that room. In just a couple of months, his life had changed, but in just a few days, he had seen the troubles that came with wealth and power. It had to take him stepping into wealth to understand that everyone has their own fights, and that was something he never understood with his father when he was still alive. At that time, he used to envy his classmates whose parents were rich and spent lavishly on them. And he had assumed his father to be a man who had been defeated by life and was not ready to make any difference with his situation.They had fought constantly. Over school. Over clothes. Over Jackson’s desire for more—more comfort, more freedom, more
Chapter 84: A Threat to Burn Down the Lab!
“Call Jerry,” Jackson said as the realization dawned on him that the game he played just to get back at Joanne Moore had escalated into something more serious than he had envisaged.All he wanted was to teach Joanne a lesson that not everyone should be mocked, and he had used Yvonne Tween’s fashion show as the perfect opportunity. But now, he had ended up putting Yvonne Tween’s life in danger.“I want to know how the kidnappers contacted them.” He added.Even if he had no concrete evidence, he knew Joanne and her father had something to do with this. Joanne had specifically told him that she was going to get back at him, and this must be her way of doing that.Mr. Copper gave a curt nod and tapped through his contacts. Within seconds, the phone was ringing. Jackson leaned in, arms folded, eyes fixed on the device as though willing the line to connect faster.A click—and then Jerry’s voice came through, calm but strained.“Mr. Copper. I assumed you’ve seen the news.”“Yes, we have,” Mr
Chapter 83: The Ransom!
The room was quiet except for the gentle hum of the central air system and the occasional beep from the secure laptop Mr. Copper had brought along. Jackson rested against the armchair, one ankle casually propped over the other, his fingers drumming softly against the wall.They had just returned from the Whitelists lab after Dr. Harrison told them that the DNA results won’t be available till the following day. He had tried to explain some genetic terms in trying to convince them why the results couldn’t be available immediately but Jackson wasn’t concerned about that, and neither was Mr. Copper.It wasn’t until Dr. Celestine confirmed it that they agreed to leave. Somewhere during the whole process, Mr. Peniel had left and didn’t return until the end of the lab procedure.Now, arriving back at the Imperial Hotel, Jackson’s thoughts had become clouded with a whole lot of stuff. The thought of the Whitelists Lab falsifying the DNA results kept crawling in at the back of his mind. He h
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