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Chapter_53
Tiger stared down at the contents of the box, his heart racing. The chip he had been chasing, the one he thought would secure his future and the reward of a lifetime, was not what he expected. Inside the box was not a technological marvel, not some high-value piece of intel, but a simple, ordinary object—a tiny, gleaming toy, shaped like a small animal. It had a pink ribbon tied around it, almost mockingly.
His hands shook as he held the trinket in disbelief. His mind reeled, and for a split second, everything around him seemed to slow down. The weight of his failure hit him all at once.
“No…” Tiger muttered to himself, his voice cracking as he tried to process what he was holding. “No, this can’t be…” He had been so sure, so certain that this was the key to his freedom. His grip tightened around the toy, his fingers trembling in frustration.
As the Clemens bodyguards closed in, ready to take him down, Tiger’s desperation turned into rage. He could feel the anger bubbling up inside him like a volcano about to erupt. The idea that he had been played, that he had been chasing a worthless object while risking his life, twisted his gut. And the image of Nathan’s cheeky smile flashed through his mind.
“Damn you, Nathan… Damn all of you,” Tiger hissed, his eyes burning with fury. He was furious at the realization that he had been outwitted, that everything he had done, every dangerous move, had been for nothing.
The bodyguards were just moments away from closing the gap. Tiger knew he had no chance of escape. The life he had dreamed of, the money, the safety—everything was slipping through his fingers. He glared at the toy one last time, his heart filled with hatred, before he tossed it aside, as if the object had become the symbol of his failure.
“End it,” Tiger growled through clenched teeth, resigned to the fact that his life was now over. There was no more running, no more escape. The reward he had sought, the power he had hoped to gain—it had all been a lie. And the people who had been in his way, the ones who had turned everything upside down, were the ones he hated the most.
But as the bodyguards closed in, ready to bring him to justice, a thought crossed his mind—This is just the beginning. The chip, the object in the box, and the family he had cursed—they were all part of something bigger. Something more dangerous than he could have ever imagined.
And as the cold steel of the handcuffs closed around his wrists, Tiger vowed, in his heart, that the game wasn’t over. He had failed today, but the world he was tangled in was far from finished.
