Falling in Love : I love you, Today and Forever

After putting Jared through a hell of mental torture, it was now his assistant's turn. The man looked petrified, and the moment he saw the three people enter the room, he sprang to his feet in fear. He did not have the same confidence and boldness Valerie had seen in Jared's previous assistant, and she wondered why Jared had even chosen him in the first place.

"Why have you brought me here? What did I do wrong?" He questioned, holding onto his courage that kept slipping away every once in a while.

Though Valerie already had the evidence that could send Jared and his men to the execution chair for good, she still had a few matters to find out which Maggie had been unable to during her stay at Jared's gang. All Valerie wanted was the man who had killed her father, for she wanted to kill him herself instead of pushing him towards the execution chair.

Also, Maggie had indirectly given her a hint about one of the men in the Intelligence working for Jared in secret, and she was yet to find out who he was. Until then, she decided to play the game of cat and mouse with Jared and his men to keep herself entertained.

"You tell us why you think we might have kept you here." Valerie threw the question back at him, smiling at him playfully. But the man was in no mood to play along. He was shit scared, and all he wanted was to go back home. He was still unable to comprehend how he had ended here when he was busy packing his bags to escape for the time being after the big bang that shook the entire nation at 8 p.m.

The assistant watched the woman in front of him take the chair opposite him before she gestured for him to take his seat. Frightened and baffled by the turn of events, the assistant looked at her for a long time before he eventually took his seat.

"Now, will you tell me why I am being detained here? What have I done? And where is Master Jared?"

Valerie chuckled all of a sudden on hearing the man's question. "Do you still not get what has happened here?" She sassed, her lips quirking up in amusement. "The master you are talking about has pushed you to take all the blame, making you his scapegoat."

"What? How is it possible?" The assistant was stunned to find out what had happened and why he was being detained here. "Master would never do something like that. He wouldn't." He shook his head in denial.

"Are you sure? As far as I know, he pointed to you, blaming you for all the crimes while he has escaped unscathed. If your crimes are proven, you will be sent to the execution chair." Valerie stated with such an innocent face that the assistant eventually ended up believing her.

"No, no, no, this cannot happen. How can he do this? How could he do this to me? I was loyal to him all these years. He cannot push me to take the blame all by myself when he was the mastermind."

Valerie smiled at her friends in victory, and they nodded in return with equal vigor. Though they had visual proof with them to prove Jared a criminal and send him behind bars, having an accomplice as a witness would only fasten the court proceedings and help them deal with him quickly.

"What mastermind? What are you talking about? But before that, what happened to Jared's previous assistant?" Valerie questioned slowly, lest the man should stop confessing the truth and return to denying everything, just like Jared had done. "Did you kill him?"

"What? No way. It was not I who killed him. It was Maggie who killed him." The assistant blurted out without thinking, and even when he realized what he had done, he did not regret speaking the truth.

"Maggie?" Valerie frowned as she wondered why Maggie had hidden this from her. Even Preston and Ryder were stunned to hear what she had done. But soon, their surprise turned into astonishment and admiration. Maggie sure knew the art of survival for her to have escaped from Jared's deadly gang without being unscathed.

"Who is that?" Valerie continued, lest the man should be suspicious of her for not catching onto the new lead he had given them.

"She worked for Master or that was what we thought. It was only recently that we found out that she was a secret agent." 

"I see." From his words and expressions, Valerie perceived the man to not know who Maggie actually was and her link to the Intelligence and her team. So, she too did not bring it up.

"She killed Master's previous assistant when she was trying to escape." He added.

"Let's get back to the topic at hand. Now, tell me all the crimes you have committed. Since we already have Jared blaming you for everything, it does not matter even if you do not accept your involvement. Jared will be your accomplice while you will become the mastermind." Valerie observed how the assistant's face paled in fear, and she was sure that he was just at the brink of losing his calm. All he needed was a push, and he would come tumbling down, revealing everything she wanted from him.

"While Jared will only face a few years of imprisonment, you will be sent to the execution chair directly." This did it. The man eventually broke down and shouted in fear.

"No, no. I did nothing. I am not the mastermind. It was Jared and his Godfather who plotted everything. It was they who did all the crimes. It was they who planned to destroy our country."

"Destroy our country? How?" Valerie leaned forward on the table, intrigued by the man's words. Though she had evidence against Jared, they were not detailed. It was only a few clips that Maggie had sent her. She was yet to receive all that maggie had collected during her stay at the gang.

"It was they who started the organ trafficking mafia, and to aid this scheme of theirs, they came up with a plan to send more people to the hospital. So, they contacted a biologist to create a virus that could push more people to the hospitals, especially to the ones that had signed up with Jared and his team. He also planned the poison attack a few weeks ago, trying to poison all the people using Sarin gas. Also..."

The assistant stooped suddenly, and Valerie raised an eyebrow at him. "Also?" She gave him a look that compelled him to reveal all that he knew about Jared and his crimes.

"Also, it was Jared's Godfather who instigated our neighbor to wage a war against our country but for what reasons, I don't know. They wanted our country to lose the battle. So, they had sent traitors within the army who would kill our men secretly. But that plan did not work and eventually, our country won the war. The entire plan was formulated by Jared's Godfather and Jared carried it out on his instructions."

The man revealed all that he knew about Jared, not leaving even one minute detail. 'Since the man had already pushed me to my death, I will not spare him too. Let us die together. Jared, just you watch out.'