Stand By Me Darling
Chapter 147: Attempt To Stage

Chapter 147: Attempt To Stage

Arthur looked at the picture deeply once more and that creepy woman with psychotic eyes and frothing in her mouth, couldn’t be unseen by him. He’s seen this picture a lot of times and it is weird he never noticed this clingy gum being there before.

I cannot let that likho ruin this otherwise perfect picture for me!

A cold shiver ran through his spine seeing her face and he immediately walked to the drawer and got himself a black marker and started blackening that figure.

As he was meticulously scribbling on the picture not to let the black marker touch Iris’ picture, he heard a a slight screeching noise from the balcony.

Arthur is someone who grew up with danger lurking around him and he had developed a sense to these kind of things. It could be the noise made by the door... Or someone might have accidentally tripped at the lounge chair in the balcony. It is dark outside anyways.

He got alerted and he could see through his peripheral vision a shadow near the balcony door. He looked at the coffee table and in the reflection of the glass, he could identify a well-built man with a wire in his hand.

Wire...? Are they going to stage my suicide? And who’s they?

There was no sound in the room except the distant crashing of the waves and the sound of friction between the paper and the marker. Arthur still with his head bowed, scribbling on the paper, extended his left hand into his socks and pulled out his gun slowly and not alerting that man lurking in the dark.

But before anything happened, his room was banged open by his bodyguards.

"Get him alive," Arthur ordered.

With weapons in their hands, they shouted at the man and the next moment, that dark figure in the balcony jumped from the second storey and Arthur’s bodyguards followed him too.

"Are you okay, Arthur?" Jordan who was still in his suit trousers and blue shirt he wore in the morning, entered the room flustered.

"I’m fine," Arthur said calmly and stood up and walked to the balcony after switching on the lights. He watched his bodyguards chasing the assassin.

"I was in my room and saw him jumping from my balcony to yours. I notified the security immediately. Thank goodness we got him before he tried anything," Jordan explained.

"Will you believe that I killed myself if you find me dead these days?" Arthur asked lighting a cigar.

"No!" Jordan blinked his eyes curling his lips, "Not by a long shot. I know how much you want to succeed to get what you want and I know you won’t kill yourself now, especially when you are still a virgin!"

Arthur almost choked in the smoke as he puffed the cigar when Jordan said the last part with utmost certainty. But then, he couldn’t refute him.

" You know me well, Jordan. Now I might consider forgiving you for giving that woman my private number," Arthur’s smile turned a bit sinister.

" I’m tired. I’ll go sleep now... "Jordan’s lips twitched as he tried to yawn. Seeing Arthur silent Jordan slowly turned to leave.

It is not good to poke the bear!

That Sophia nagged him day and night for his number. A grim reaper would be better than a nagging woman. How would Arthur know his plight?

Plus... It’s Sophia... How could he let her beg?

Arthur walked to the balcony once again and found that guy got caught.

That was too easy! He came all the way here and wanted to stage a suicide and now he got caught? And he could’ve shot me in the head from a distance. Why try to get close to me and use a wire when I’m awake? It would have made sense if I was awake.

Somehow he found this fishy. Who wants to stage his suicide now? What good does that do? No one will believe it anyway!

As Jordan got out of the room, Arthur found his phone ringing once more and his eyes darted to his phone rather unhurried. He thought it might be that woman again.

But it was Cyril!

Why is he calling me this late? Could Iris be in danger? Is she hurt?

Arthur’s mind went through a lot of scenarios; most of them negative, in that short five steps he took to get his phone.

"We got him!" Cyril said the mement the call connected. "Arthur, we got Jared Cooper! His entire operation went down and so did his surveillance on you!"

Arthur could feel the joy Cyril suppressed in his heart. So, if the surveillance on my phone went down, can I speak to Iris without worry?

As Arthur wondered, Cyril continued.

"Jonathan Cooper was the son of Obediah Cooper! And guess who asked Talia to cross the creek that day her mother died? Jonathan Cooper! I’m ashamed how we didn’t figure out his connection with Esteria even after running a check on him when we knew him as Stacy’s father. Not to mention when his sister was the one who kidnapped Talia before!"

Arthur was surprised Cyril was talking this much but his mind wasn’t at these details but how Jared Cooper who seemingly put a hit on Talia recently was caught suddenly, and if Iris is safe.