Callum looked at Vivian quietly. "I'm sorry. Could you let me touch the child, please?"
Vivian backed up decisively. "No way!"
Callum's raised hand gradually fell and a smile of relief appeared on his face.
"Forget it, I guess this is karma!" Turning his head, he looked at Fabian again. "I'm sorry, Mr. Nolan. I can't protect you anymore..."
"Callum..." Fabian shouted.
"Don't move!" Vivian took the gun and shot at Fabian's feet.
"I knew that you were the one who made Callum into what he is today. I'm going to kill you!"
"Vivian!" Eudora called after her hurriedly. "Don't be silly! He's not worth it."
Fabian was already as good as dead once the police catch him. However, if Vivian were to shoot him now, then she would be a murderer, and the one going to jail would be her. It would not be worth it for her to suffer so much for the likes of him.
However, Vivian would not listen to her with the state she was in at that moment. She was on the verge of a breakdown.
She took two quick steps forward and ran towards Fabian. She thought there were still bullets in the gun, but she realized that the gun was empty when she came to his side.
Vivian was stunned for a second, and her neck was clasped by Fabian's backhand before she could even react. He stood in front of her, his gaze menacing.
"You've killed Callum. What do you think I would do to you?"
Vivian gritted her teeth. "Kill me and be done with it!"
Fabian glanced at Callum, who had died in vain, and snorted. "I'll bury you alive with Callum!"
He wrapped his fingers around Vivian's neck.
"Fabian!" Eudora shouted. "Don't!"
Fabian turned around and looked at Eudora with a smile. "You're willing to plead for an outsider, but why won't you grant me a shred of pity?"
Eudora sneered, "That's because I know that Vivian is a good person even though we've only known each other for a while. But you, you are heartless. Why should I show mercy to a heartless bad guy like you?"
"Heartless?" Fabian laughed. "Yes, I am heartless. I have watched my mother being beaten by my father since I was a child. It's not that I have never tried to help her, but she still wants to stay by his side even after getting beaten up by him. As for me, I would become the target of my father's fury after helping my mother. I, too, wanted to be the good guy, but who would give me such an opportunity? This world is unfair. Only a fool can be a good person!"
He slowly tightened his grip on Vivian, whose face was turning pale gradually.
"It's... O...kay...." Vivian smiled as she shook her head.
All of a sudden, a flurry of police sirens could be heard outside. "People inside, listen, you've been surrounded. Put down your weapons and surrender!"
Fabian snorted, "Finally. Come in, bring it on!"
There was a beeping prompt on the walkie-talkie, and an anxious voice could be heard from the other end, "Mr. Nolan, we are doomed. Our underground bank and organization have all been raided, and everyone has been taken away. This time, we really have nothing left..."
Fabian was stunned as the speaker's voice slowly faded away.
"Nothing?"
Callum had just told him earlier that morning that he could still start afresh if he were to go abroad and that his failure this time would not impede his chance of starting anew.
How did it all become nothing all of a sudden?
"It's you!" Fabian stared at Amos. "You're the one who plotted against me. That information..."
"Obviously! I knew from the very beginning that you instructed Kesha to pretend to be Eudora to spy on us."
"You..." Fabian gritted his teeth and suddenly burst into laughter. "I lost. I finally know why I lost! You know Eudora too well. I have underestimated you!"
Amos shook his head. "No, you're wrong. It's not that I know her well, it's just that... she is my everything."
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