The raging fire, coupled with one after another loud explosion, terrified the surrounding resident’s, workers, and white-collar workers. They ran to the street to check what was going on. When they saw the Gomez family’s branch building engulfed in fire, they were all shocked.
It was such a big fire. How much negligence had to be involved for it to be created?
Soon, someone called the police. Of course, the police would have noticed it immediately even if no one made a report as it was such a big fire. Although the company building was not in the center of the Central City, it was also located in a densely populated area. If they did not do anything, they did not know how many more people would get caught up in this disaster.
The firefighters were dispatched immediately. After a whole night of rescue work, the fire was finally put out at seven o’clock the next morning. Thankfully, the fire in the building did not spread, and no one else was hurt. After the related headcounts and investigations were concluded, only Dominic was in the building, so only Dominic died. No one else died.
In such a big fire, only one person died, which could be said to be a silver-lining among the slew of misfortunes. Of course, the one who suffered the most was the Gomez family. Besides losing a deputy director, an entire branch building was gone as well. All the important data in it were also burned to ashes that dissipated into thin air.
One had to know that this branch was in charge of numerous important technologies of the Gomez family. This fire burned all of them, which was equivalent to burning the Gomez family’s decades of hard work. This would set the Gomez family back for ten years!
***
Early in the morning, the Gomez family’s villa.
Nicholas was wearing a thick coat. He sat on the garden platform at the gate and smoked one cigarette after another. Everyone could see that favonovel.com was in a foul mood. The old butler stayed by his side without saying a word as any comfort at this time faded into the background.
Nicholas could not understand why Dominic committed suicide. It was simply bullshit!
One could say that this move by Dominic completely disrupted his plans and messed up his deployment in all directions. There was only one beneficiary of this chaos, Thomas!
After a long time, Nicholas said slowly, “Dominic’s death means letting go of Thomas. All the plans I worked so hard to carry out have all come to nothing. This jerk actually chose to sacrifice himself to protect Thomas. When did favonovel.com become so mighty? Why have I never discovered that favonovel.com had such a quality? People are really not what they seem like…”
The old butler then followed up and said, “The current situation has returned to a state of pulling and pushing. We and Thomas have returned to the same starting line again.”
Nicholas frowned. “It’s not the same starting line. I lost an important pawn like Dominic, and I also lost a branch. At the same time, I also lost a lot of information and technology. The Gomez family has regressed by ten years.”
Dominic’s suicide had caused all of this.
Nicholas did all kinds of calculations, but favonovel.com never thought that Dominic would have the courage to choose suicide.
A wise man would make a mistake as well. No matter how cunning a fox was, there were times when it took a nap. Nicholas had sustained a lot of damage this time.
The old butler asked, “Master, what should we do now? You originally planned to tie the young master and Thomas and get rid of them together. But now, only the young master is lost, while Thomas remains unharmed. If Thomas cooperates with the Martin family and the Diaz family again, we’ll run into massive trouble when three parties surround and suppress us.”
In fact, the situation was already the case.
Nicholas put the cigarette butt on the edge of the table and flicked it. He said calmly, “Everything would be all right in the end. It may not necessarily be a bad thing to lose Dominic. I can finally use another pawn. The ace pawn.”
The old butler’s eyes flashed with horror. “Master, do you want to use him?!”
