Chapter 97: Right In Time

Douglas made it to Colorado about eight hours after he left with the train. It was already late when he got to Denver, so he spent the night at a hostel and planned to go to the police station the very next day.

He lay down on the bed in his room and looked up at the ceiling, just thinking about random things until his sister's face appeared in his mind.

He took out his little bag and brought out a picture from it; *a picture of him and Lily that was taken a year before her death.*

"Hi, Lily flower! It's Douggy," he said to the picture.

"All this time, I thought the person who took you from me was already paying for his sins in the afterlife, but it turns out he's still roaming free while you're gone. It's wrong, it's wrong and I won't stand for it. He deserves to rot in prison and I'll make sure of it. For you, big sis," Douglas kissed the picture before falling asleep.

Peter and Chris got to Colorado a few hours later. At the train station, they asked different people about Douglas and if they had seen him or knew what direction he was headed, but no one had seen him.

"How the hell are we going to find him? He could be anywhere by now," Chris said in frustration.

"He's definitely not at the police station because it's way too late to report that kind of crime, so he's surely spending the night at a hostel or something, so we still have some time," Peter said optimistically.

"So, what do we do?"

Peter thought hard about what Douglas was planning to do and he played it out in his mind.

"Ok, Douglas is very emotional right now, but he's not an idiot, I hope. He should know that you can't just walk into a police station and accuse one of the richest and most influential men in the country of a murder that happened years ago. He will have to come up with a plan!" Peter said.

"What do you think he's going to do?"

"If it were my sister, I would probably approach the man first, see his face and know exactly who I'm dealing with before I do anything else," Peter said.

"Which means he's probably going to look for Addicus tomorrow," Chris added.

"Yeah, and the best way to find him is to go to his company and that's where we need to go too."

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Early the next morning, Peter and Chris found out the location of Worthington Enterprise in a newspaper stand. They read about the financial crisis of Modex and how they were confirmed to be partnering up with Worthington Enterprise and the signing of the partnership agreement was taking place today at the company.

There was also a picture of Addicus and Mr Andrew on the front page.

"There! That's the location and we have to get there now! Hopefully, we'll find Douglas before he finds Addicus." Peter said to Chris and they immediately headed to the company.

They got there just as the security men were opening the company for the day which meant that Douglas wasn't there yet.

They found a nice discreet corner and waited for Douglas to show up.

"Do you really think he'll come here first? He could have just headed to the police and reported Addicus," Chris asked Peter, unsure if his hunch about Douglas coming here was correct.

"I've been vengeful before, Chris! I tried really hard to convince myself that I wanted justice, but the truth was that I wanted revenge. I don't know what he plans to do, but what I do know is that he's not going to the police first, which means he has to come here."

"I really hope you're right."

"Yeah, me too."

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Meanwhile, Douglas was at the door to the police station. He entered inside and walked up to a desk.

"Good morning, officer!" He greeted a policeman.

"Morning, sir! How may I help you?" The policeman asked unenthusiastically.

"I'd like to report a crime..." Douglas began saying, but was cut off by the officer.

"Is the crime an emergency that needs immediate attention?" The officer asked.

"Well, it's... it's not really an emergency, but it's still very serious," Douglas answered.

"In that case, take a number and wait to be interviewed by an officer."

"Take a number? What do you mean by that?" Douglas asked with a raised brow.

"There are others in here that need to report something and they all came in before you. We use a numbering system to attend to people, so take a number and wait until you're called," the officer said rudely, pointing at the waiting area.

Douglas reluctantly took a number and went to take a seat. He didn't like waiting here but he didn't have a choice. A person sitting opposite of him was reading the morning newspaper and the large font on the headline caught Douglas's attention.

**\-WORTHINGTON ENTERPRISE AND MODEX TO SIGN HUGE CONTRACT TODAY-**

Douglas went to the person and asked for the front cover of the newspaper and the man gave it to him.

The article had a photo of Addicus and his name tagged under it. The journalist that wrote the article captioned the partnership as ***"a momentous occasion that would elevate both companies to the top and make them unrivalled as the most successful and richest in America."***

*Douglas was furious about this.*

"So, you're the man who took my sister away from me," he said to the picture of Addicus.

"You're doing great, signing huge money deals, enjoying your life and your success while my sister rots in the ground."

He was so upset, so much so that his hands were trembling. Then, a thought hit him.

If he were to report this rich man about a crime that happened five years ago, he's most likely to not be taken seriously, but if he was to show up at this contract signing and confront Addicus in front of all the journalists and all the cameras, then the news would spread like wildfire and it wouldn't be easily swept under the rug.

He got up and left the police station, heading straight for Worthington Enterprise to expose Addicus as the murderer he was in front of the entire media.

It took him a few minutes to get to the company. He found some journalists waiting for the arrival of Mr Addicus and Mr Andrew so they could get pictures for their various papers.

Douglas waited in a corner for Addicus as well.

Just then, Chris spotted Douglas and snatched the picture of him from Peter and looked at it to make sure it was the same person.

"Isn't that Douglas at the corner there?"

Peter also looked at the photo and was satisfied that it was Douglas.

"It's him! Let's go," Peter said.

"Douglas?" Peter said as soon as they got to him.

"Yes? Who are you supposed to be?" Douglas asked, inspecting the both of them suspiciously

"I'm the person who's about to stop you from making a terrible mistake."

**Author's Note:** *Peter and Chris have found Douglas right on time. Will they be able to convince him not to step on the tail of the lion?*