Chapter 1999

Blood gushed as Geon's head landed on his desk, his eyes wide in a peaceless death! "What?! He's dead?!" Frank's heart skipped a beat at the sight, not quite believing what he was seeing. After all, he had seen many guards in the residence on the way in, with many of them being elite forces under Hans Schnee's command. So how was Geon killed, and it had to be now of all times? Frank turned back toward the body and saw the handle of an exquisitely crafted dagger sticking out of the back. And it was a dagger he was very familiar with. "Stanley!" he exclaimed as he realized with a start, as he took the dagger given to him by Stanley Durban as a token. They were identical! "How did this happen?! Was Stanley the one who set this stage?" Frank's mind was working rapidly, but the puzzle pieces were incomplete—he only had a hunch Stanley was involved, but not how he did it without alerting any of the guards, including Hans' elite forces. What's more, why would Stanley want to frame