Root Them All Out
It was still dark when they returned to Jadeborough. Nonetheless, Devin departed immediately for
Oceanic Estate.
“Mr. Cooper? Is something wrong?” the housemaid who opened the door asked.
“Where’s Sebastian? Is he asleep?” he asked, not wanting to waste his breath talking to the
housemaid.
To his surprise, she shook her head. “Not yet. He’s in the study. Are you here to see him?”
Instead of replying, he brushed past the housemaid and walked in.
He walked through the hall to the small building on the side. At first glance, he saw the room on the first
floor. There was a soft, orange glow inside it.
Although the light was not bright, it seemed warm and welcoming in the pre-dawn hours.
He strode over to the room.
The door creaked as he opened it, and a wave of warmth enveloped him. Tears stung his eyes.
It’s my first time back here after everything that has happened.
The people in the study froze in shock, especially the old, white-haired man by the fireplace. He raised
his head, and his drowsy eyes widened when he was who it was.
“Devin?”
He got up abruptly, put down the cup of coffee in his hand with a clatter, and rushed up to the doorway.
Devin could not hold it in any longer. Hot tears rolled down his cheeks as he stood in front of the old
man. “Grandpa, I’m back.”
“You’re back! My eldest grandson… is finally home!” Jonathan choked out, overwhelmed with
emotions. At that moment, the man who had never shed a single tear at the battlefield embraced his
long-lost grandson with tear-filled eyes.
After everything he had gone through, he finally understood that there was nothing more important than
being surrounded by family.
Meanwhile, Sebastian stood at one side, watching quietly.
After making sure that the two men had calmed down, he pushed a fresh cup of coffee toward Devin.
“Have you settled everything in Adonia?”
“Yes. Janice is dead.” Devin lifted the cup to his lips and took a sip. The mere mention of that name
brought a lump in his throat.
Sebastian looked slightly astonished. “Dead? How did she die?”
“She was severely injured while fighting with them, but I had no idea about it. When she got on the
speedboat, she realized there was no way she’d escape. Hence, she blew up the speedboat,” Devin
answered grimly.
Indeed, Janice had committed suicide.
Because it was dark when Devin and Janice left the villa, he could not see that clearly. As she had also
hidden it very well, he did not have the faintest clue that she was seriously wounded.
There was no other way out for her in such a state.
Rather than dying in the hands of others, she decided to take things into her own hands.
With a gloomy look in his eyes, Devin took out two objects and placed them on the desk.
Sebastian looked puzzled. “This is…”
“She gave this to me before her death. One of them contains the names of everyone The Coffee Shop
has dealt with while the other shows the hideouts of the firearms smugglers and the military factory’s
distribution point,” Devin explained.
As expected, Sebastian’s usually calm, dark eyes lit up when he heard that. He then grabbed the two
objects and stared at them in disbelief.
This is incredible!
Jonathan was dumbfounded. “She gave something so important to you? Did you already reveal your
identity to her?”
Despite shaking his head, Devin knew deep down in his heart that her last smile was the same as how
she used to smile at him.
There was a hint of gentleness in her smile as well as a sense of familiarity.
Once again, Devin felt a pang of heartache.
That night, Sebastian did not do anything with the USB drive and the map. Rather, he waited until the
next morning and had someone deliver them to Silas at the White House.
Jonathan stomped his foot in anger when he found out about it.
“Why did you give them to him? It wasn’t easy to get our hands on them! What if he destroys them?”
He fumed.
A sneer hovered on Sebastian’s lips, and he replied curtly, “He won’t.”
What happened after that proved that Sebastian made the right decision. Another crackdown began
two days later. Since the order came from the highest-ranking official in the White House, it was carried
out on a much larger scale.
Many different departments were involved, from the anti-corruption department to the armed forces.
The sight of so many people coming together was reminiscent of how they once united to set up a new
regime. They rooted out all the scums who had broken the law for years before they could even react!
Jonathan was dumbstruck.
He still could not figure out how Silas had become a weapon in their hands.
Meanwhile, after watching everything unfold, Sasha picked up a basket one sunny afternoon and went
into the garden to look for the man picking flowers with his daughter.
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