According to Frederick, he met Dominic a few years ago. Although both are arms dealers, Dominic's reputation is much more famous. Meanwhile, Frederick is a novice so no one knows.
Frederick has an older sister. His sister is an ordinary accountant and regularly volunteers in the Middle East. Although Frederick was an arms dealer, he always had his rule, which was not to sell weapons to terrorists. A mafia boss once contacted him asking to buy weapons for his organization but he did not agree.
A few months later, he bought thousands of expensive weapons and caused a series of terrorist attacks in Israel. One of them took the life of Frederick's sister. His sister, while volunteering in Israel, was unfortunately shot dead.
"I'm sure you can guess who sold the weapons to that mafia boss. It was Dominic Arnold." Frederick holds a pistol and wipes it with a white cloth.
I watched his every move, but my mind was filled with thoughts of Dominic. To be honest, I never imagined Dominic would be able to indirectly contribute to such a rampant evil. Sell weapons to the mafia? This is too scary.
Suddenly, I remembered the image of Dominic wearing a white vest with red blood, which scared me to the point of goosebumps.
"When I first approached you, I knew you were Dominic's woman. My initial plan was to approach you and then suddenly shoot you dead with a gun. That's enough to get revenge on Dominic."
Frederick pretended to raise the gun and aimed it at my left chest, where my heart was beating. Then he chuckled and put the gun down, continuing with a white towel to wipe it off.
"But then I changed my plan. First, because I found out Dominic had several snipers stalking me around all day. As long as I did anything out of the ordinary to you... Boom... My head is going to explode." Frederick put his finger to his forehead as if he'd fired a real gun.
"There's one more reason why I changed my mind. It's because you remind me of my older sister."
"Your sister?"
"Yes. She is as kind and beautiful as you. I have been conflicted a lot, I want to kill you to get revenge on your man, but I don't have the heart to do it because I want to see you. "
I looked at him silently. I used to be very bad at guessing men's real thoughts and feelings. But now I could see that he was telling the truth. Because in his eyes there are many emotions, both vague and painful.
"Okay, that's it for now. It's your turn. I want to know about my great-grandfather Joan."
"Great-grandfather Joan?"
I was quite surprised by Frederick's question. At first I assumed he would be curious about what happened around Dominic or me. But as a result, he wants to know about his great-grandfather Joan, who died nearly a year ago.
"You know, I don't know much about my great-grandfather Joan. I've only met him a few times."
"Weren't you the heir to his estate?" Frederick raised an eyebrow.
"How do you know that?"
The fact that I once received the huge fortune of the Joan family and almost became a rich woman was a secret that only the Joan family and a few Arnold family members knew.
"Oh, there are things that I can find out if I want to look up."
"Hmm... It's true that I received a lot of the estate left by Joan's great-grandfather, even though I'm not the granddaughter loved by many of Joan's relatives." I was embarrassed to have to say that to Frederick. "I'm not sure I can give you any information regarding my great-grandfather Joan."
"Yes. You can."
Then he handed me a paper file with a lot of documents inside.
"This is..." I was really surprised when I saw them.
"Here's something I got from a man named Kevin. I'm sure you know him too."
"Attorney Kevin?" In my head I pictured the noble and cold figure of that lawyer.
"It's him. Actually, you don't need to call him lawyer Kevin. That's not his real profession. He's just a famous con man."
I went through the documents Frederick had given me, most of which were copies of my great-grandfather Joan's inheritance and a few related papers.
"What did you give me these for?"
"At the moment, her father is holding this huge fortune, but the truth is that she still has a way to get it back."
"I don't need them anymore. Before, I used that fortune to give to my mother. But she passed away. And now that I am also a member of Joan's family, I do not want to aggravate the animosity between me and them. " I placed the entire document on the table, then slowly shook my head.
"You're wrong. The problem now isn't whether you want it or not, but you need to get it."
Frederick folded up the documents, but he didn't give it to me anymore, but placed it next to the gun he had just cleaned.
"Joan's great-grandfather used his life to guarantee the survival of the Joan family. It's no coincidence that he gave you all of that property."
"What do you mean?" I asked nervously.
"It's because I don't know that I want to ask you. I thought you would know something." Frederick smiled blandly, looking frustrated that he hadn't asked anything useful from me.
"Something like that, it's related to a pretty big criminal ring in the Lenox City. The Lenox City is my core work area, that's where I sell the most weapons. Anyone who wants to sell weapons in the Lenox City must have my permission. But someone was secretly selling weapons there without my knowledge. I just found out they were a notorious criminal group and your great-grandfather Joan somehow profited from them."
I sat down on the sofa and thought very carefully about what Frederick had just revealed to me. It seems that Joan's family is not naturally rich, Joan's great-grandfather has cooperated with a criminal gang in the Lenox City that specializes in weapons sales, so he has a lot of money.
However, the money was not 'clean' and must have been noticed by the government, so the only way to protect Joan's family was to pass the entire amount to someone else. And the chosen one is me. It seemed that it was not good luck to keep such a large fortune, but my father was unaware of that fact.
"So, in the process of investigating the enemy who is occupying your Lenox City gun-trading area, you discovered that my great-grandfather was involved in this case." I asked Frederick. After seeing him nod in acknowledgement, I continued. "Why do you want me to regain that fortune according to the plan of great-grandfather Joan?"
"Of course it's because I want to expose the person behind this. Great-grandfather Joan's death was so unexpected, and the will he left you with all of his assets is also questionable. If I were the boss of that gang, I wouldn't expect this to happen. Anyway, all of a sudden they've lost a great investment of Joan's family, and also lost a wonderful business relationship with your great-grandfather."
"So what do you think should have happened?"
"Your father should have taken over the money and continued doing business with the gang."
When he said this, I finally realized something. For some reason Joan's great-grandfather changed his deal with the notorious Lenox City gang and gave all his assets to me, a granddaughter who never even lived with Joan's family. And to get things back on track, someone stepped in and arranged everything, making my father regain his fortune and continue to do business with the gang in secret.
"Why do you look so confused?" Frederick frowned and watched me.
"When Dominic and I met at Joan's house, he once told me that he wanted three months to investigate the death of Joan's great-grandfather."
"Dominic Arnold? Haha, are you serious?"
"Um. He once promised to let me keep the inheritance that my great-grandfather Joan gave me, but when my father tricked me and took them, he didn't do it."
"Oh..." Frederick let out a breath.
Right now, we both have the same mindset.
Dominic was definitely connected to the Lenox City gang and to my great-grandfather's death.
"Wow, things are getting more and more interesting."
Just as he said this, his subordinates arrived.
"Sir, Dominic has found this place."
"So fast? What a formidable opponent. Maybe I should go, Miss Joan. Very interesting game, thank you. Your husband is coming to pick you up now."
He took the gun and waved at me. With the sound of a helicopter right on the roof of the building, Frederick had carefully prepared everything to leave safely.
"Wait." I called out to him before Frederick left.
"Is there anything else you want to ask me?"
"You... can you take me with you?"
My abrupt offer seemed to take Frederick by surprise, who froze for a moment, tilting his head to look at me as if to confirm if I was telling the truth.
"Oh my, look what terrible sin I've committed. I just sabotaged the big engagement ceremony of notorious arms dealer Dominic Arnold. And now I'm about to take his fiancée away. Dominic would probably want to kill me."
Frederick joked, but I couldn't be happier about it. It's not that I suddenly want to avoid Dominic. It's just that I can't face him right now. I knew Frederick had a thousand ways to investigate Dominic, and I wanted to know through Frederick about the things Dominic had been hiding from me all this time. I don't want after today when I get back to Dominic's side, I'll continue to be his side wife and watch out for women who want to be with him.
"Have you thought it through?" Frederick asked again. After receiving my consent, he politely took my hand and pulled me into the helicopter seat with him. "Then let's go to the Lenox City."