The Illegitimate Heir

Chapter 181

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The pain throbbing inside Adrian was not visible in his expression. 

Yet it festered like an unrelenting cancer.

That night, he found it hard to sleep as he checked the details he got over and over again.

Maybe this Dahlia was linked to his aunt somehow.

Yet despite the bleary eyes gotten from a sleepless night, Adrian couldn’t find any useful similarity as dawn painted the sky in its glorious hues.

The only similarity was that this Dahlia had changed her name from Sue Robert to Dahlia Kingston.

Adrian only knew Dahlia had changed her name. He had no idea what she changed it to. 

The fear he had been trying to tamp down reared its head again.

What if…something had happened to her?

What if he was already too late?

He succeeded in dismissing the impossible thought.

Yet the simmering anger stayed ripe in him.

He directed it firmly at the original cause.

“I told you you would regret this. You shouldn’t have done it, Chairman Cross,” he muttered that dawn in the concealed room he had turned into his strategy room.

He immediately logged into the untraceable Spider Network site.

The information he needed was all compiled and ready for him.

He clicked on the folder marked Garret Han.

He opened the folder, scanned through the man’s deals, and smiled when he saw the one that involved Daniel Cross.

A brief glance had him shaking his head with a humourless smile.

“Golden son, indeed,” he muttered as he sent Garret’s most recent deal to the Aurion Anti-Corruption Bureau.

Some of his anger eased as he saw the mail delivered.

He leaned back and stared at the screen as the image of Dahlia sprang into his mind’s eye.

“I will find you, I promise. Please, hang on,” he muttered as he thought of the fact that this was the first time he had actually used the data gotten through the network for his personal reasons.

The network had come into place because of Dahlia, yet it had grown into something bigger than Adrian’s initial intention.

Adrian scoffed. He had helped countless others with the network, yet the reason he created it remained unsolved. 

Only a few people even knew Spider Network existed, and Adrian rarely accepted requests. 

Many made the mistake of thinking the network could be bought.

Adrian had only helped those he found deserving.

Spider Network had enough information to shake Zerovia to its core.

It was one main reason why Adrian was discreet with its operations.

The greedy could wreak serious havoc with an agency like Spider Network.

Its reach rivalled the intelligence agencies of entire nations.

In the wrong hands, Spider Network could become a nightmare.

Yet Adrian was only interested in finding his aunt.

Knowing the Bureau would go a long way to easing his anger and showing Richard that there are consequences for all actions, he headed to the gym to burn off the remnants of his fury.

Somewhere across the city, Bureau cars pulled up in front of Garret Han’s villa.

Doors opened in unison just as a balding middle-aged man stepped out of the house.

“Garret Han,” a voice said coldly. “You are under arrest.”