He had addressed him respectfully as "Director" from the very start, but from that same start, he'd had no intention of letting him go.
For the first time, the director of the Gene Research Institute caught the scent of death. He had never been so close to dying.
As he looked at the man standing over him, scrutinizing him, he was struck by how young, yet how powerful, the other was. It was only then that he truly realized Graces was no ordinary person.
'How could an ordinary officer come and go from the dungeons of Dark City as he pleased?' But it was too late for such thoughts. He knew with absolute clarity that from the moment he'd been brought here, Graces had never intended for him to leave alive. There was no possibility of him leaving alive.
And the reason for all this, it seemed, was simply that he had made Duke Lu Xia unhappy.
Such an absurd reason, yet so terrifyingly real.
He regretted it. He truly did. But it was too late...
