"Weird…why isn't Mr M picking up?" Sam hung up for the tenth time. He also called Mr K but it was busy on his line. Sam scratched his head and turned to the struggling female on the ground.
"C'mon don't cry," Sam's eye smile only brought more fear to Seli. She was tied up and her tears ran along her face as her mouth was sealed with tape.
"Cinderella needs to suffer before getting to Prince Charming," Sam crouched and took Seli's face by the chin before he wiped her tears away.
Actually, Sam didn't want to do this. He didn't understand why he had to do this in the first place. What was his boss thinking? That girl Yana was already doomed and even if it was M.M's CEO, he couldn't help her, so why bother taking a hostage?
Yet since his boss said so, there was no other way. Nixo's CEO was always peculiar but thanks to this, Nixo's stocks and business soared higher than ever. So, Sam wouldn't just refuse him. On top of that, Sam and the other two managers already messed up more than enough.
The bleak room left a bad taste in Sam's mouth. There was nothing but cement walls, not even windows to disturb this moody place. Sam sighed as he recounted the plan. He had to take the staff hostage but already failed to capture one.
His boss was sure that Yana was trying to get herself out and Sam couldn't help but feel that this has increasingly come true seeing that the police still hadn't caught Yana.
So once he caught the staff, Sam wanted to contact Mr K and Mr M to threaten Yana together by holding the hostage, so Yana wouldn't be able to do anything. They were all in this together. If Yana refused, this cowering woman's life in front of him would be lost.
Sam wouldn't be the one to end her life, instead, there were special people for this kind of job. Sam neither wanted to dirty his hands nor kill someone.
This place was fairly isolated, so no one would be able to find or disturb them.
"Looks good," Yana smiled at Mr M who was tied to the chair like Mr K and just as Yana did to Mr K she recited all the dirty little secrets Mr M kept.
His face got paler and paler. He was already in his 50s, although he should've soon retired, greed made him want to climb to a higher position.
To the place of an executive yet Mr M never thought that such a small obstacle would turn out to be his boulder rolling him flat into his grave. Unlike Mr K, Mr M was more composed and didn't throw a tantrum, he gave in quite quickly.
Maybe because he already had nothing to lose and he was on his way to a boring pension life anyways that would be death regardless for an ambitious person like him.
Just like Mr K, Mr M didn't have a family. Since he was strict, imposing and heavily work-orientated, no woman could enter his eyes.
So unlike Mr K, Mr M didn't have a vile hobby that made him such an abusive scum. The biggest mistake Mr M made was to get involved with Yana and he regretted it. If he was never in this stupid project, he wouldn't have to do petty crimes and work with stupid people together. In the end, greed killed a man.
Yana didn't care if Mr M was less guilty than Mr K or Mr S, as long as he was in her way and opposed her, she had to get rid of him. It was as simple as that.
"Mr M, what do you say?" Yana wanted to applaud Mr M for being so calm, "A short while in prison doesn't sound too bad. After you're there, you're left to your fate."
Mr M knew exactly what Yana hinted at and closed his eyes. His old face full of exhaustion and wrinkles gave a short mocking smile before he said, "Whatever."
"Good, you're less trouble than a certain someone," Yana smiled at Mr K who didn't dare to move. Little droplets of blood already ran down his legs.
"Now, we just need Mr S to join our merry tea time, right?" Yana was about to pick up Mr K's phone when it began to ring.
"Talk about the devil," Yana stared at the display, "I take it that Mr S' real name's Sam?"
"Yes?"
Yana waved the phone in her hand and turned to Mr K and M who died and answered," Yes?" Yana repeated this time an ominous undertone was missed in.
"Yes, yes!" Mr K answers but Yana did miss the light sly expression on his face.
"Hmm, is that so?" Yana pulled out her phone and stopped the recording, instead she typed something in and then put the phone down after she pressed a button. Seeing the phone in her hands, Mr K's and M's eyes widened. Yana was right, they were hiding something.
Yans sat back on the bed and answered the call on speakers, Sam's voice ran though, "Finally, Mr K you answered! I tried to call Mr M numerous times but he didn't answer. Just what on earth were we doing? Well, leaving that aside, I've done my best."
"Oh?" Yana narrowed her eyes at Mr K and M who instantly felt things were dunked into a cold lake, "Do tell what plan it is."
"Who are you?" After a brief silence, Sam managed to ask.
"You have three guesses."
The other side stayed silent until Sam started to laugh, "This is really amazing, I can't believe it's really spot on!"
Yana didn't like how confident Sam sounded and her lips turned down but she still asked in her usual tone, "So what about the plan?"
"What happened to Mr K and M?"
"You can guess again. I'll give you three tires."
"Let them go and just obediently submit to your fate," Sam's cheerful voice irked Yana the wrong way. Just what did he plan? Just why was he so confident?
"Why should I do that? I'm innocent," Yana decided to play along, "If someone has to turn themselves in, it's gotta be you three right?"
"Ah, Miss Yana, it just shows how naïve you are. I don't know how you got both of them but your little game stops here," Sam laughed again, "If you don't do as I say then other people will have to bear the consequences."
Yana felt funny. From being the one who threatened to being threatened by others.
"What do you mean?"
"Miss Yana, you beg to be so clever, how about this? I'll give you three chances to guess."
This guy. Yana was immediately in a bad mood, "You're really bad at this. This is not how it works," But Yana's voice was surprisingly gentle, "You are threatening me, so shouldn't you lay out your cards and tell me what you're threatening me with?"
Sam was stunned but then laughed again, "Alright you won. Surrender or else Miss Seli here won't see the light again."
Then several seconds later Yana heard the ripping of a tape and then Seli's screaming before it was silent, "This is not all. The place where the lovely kids are staying is under our watch too."
Now he was talking like a typical B-rated villain. It was Yana's mistake that she didn't consider the possibility of this happening. Yana had to gamble.
"Go and turn yourself in and let both Mr K and Mr M free, If you don't they all die. You know what we're capable of."
Yana looked anxious at Mr K and M who now were amused before her lips gradually turned into a sneer, "Go, do what you want. Kill them all, I don't care."