Chapter 365 - 365. He Got To Her First.

"I don't want to be here, tell them to let me go!" Katherine yelled at the aged man sitting like royalty before her. What the hell was going on today? This was getting increasingly annoying and frustrating. She needed to be anywhere but here today gosh what the hell was this situation? Her heart was already beating like crazy and her emotions spouting all over the place she did not need this right now, she absolutely did not.

"You should be here though, it's safer that way. Your house must be crawling with reporters" Xavier Lee stated bluntly, smacking his cane on the hard ground.

"Reporters? Why would they be reporters at my house?" 

"Because of this," he said, gesturing to the man standing beside him, he walked forward and placed a large envelope on the oak table in front of her. Looking at the envelope she looked back at him with a small frown playing at her lips, she leaned forward and played with the texture of the envelope on her skin, folding the edges she opened it and pulled out a bunch of papers held together by hardcover paper file.

Inheritance contract... it read. Her gaze lifted to his once more and she opened the file. Her large eyes scanned the content of the book. "What is this?" She asked holding out the file.

"It is surprising you ask this after you have read the contents of the contract" he replied.

"I know right? Because the contents of that file are too mindblowing to be normal, so what the hell do you mean by I am inheriting your net worth? How much is that even?" She asked.

"Oh child you wound me"

"Do not call me that, I am not you child."

"Our DNA begs to differ, 2.3 trillion-"

"2.3 trillion?!" She exclaimed, looking side to side at the other participants in the room, her body jerked forward at the news, eyes wide and lips parted. "2.3 trillion, I thought the richest person in the world was only worth 270 billion or something?"

"Oh you are pretty naive, how can you think that there aren't richer people? Even both the Kang and Song families have more than 270 billion and you are so shocked?" He sighed sharply "perhaps it was a bad idea giving everything to her" he added quietly but Katherine could barely care what he was thinking this was big news! Sure she knew that she had an inferiority complex but she didn't expect so much money to exist around her. She should be jumping for joy at the news of finally catching up to those two but she didn't feel happy at all, besides who in their right mind would want to have anything thing to do with a family as toxic and explosive as the Lee family?

"Do you not have a carbon copy grandson? Why the hell are you giving your money to me? I am a doctor, not a business person. I don't know the first thing about running a business."

"Which is why you have professionals, hire the best from the best schools, you a rich it's what you do when you are. It's what the song family is doing to you, using such a talented doctor to grow their wealth." 

Katherine stilled, this was beyond anything she had expected, in fact, the past few weeks had exceeded her honest expectations. Seriously? 2.3 trillion? She felt both overwhelmed at swayed at the same time. This was life-changing "you do not have to make your decision right away although I should inform you it would be for the best that you do not waste any time. The news is already out there and it is dangerous to  drag out your decision."

"How long do I have?"

"I need an answer by tomorrow morning."

"What?! Tomorrow morning why the hell did you give me a chance to think if I only have twenty-four hours?" She exclaimed.

"Because that would be your life now, you can leave if you want to, or stay either way get thinking."

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"Oh my god" Jessie breathed out, staggering up to her feet, the shaky legs began to move one unbalanced step at a time... backward. Her heart thumped violently against her ribs and her lungs were lost for air, her head spun with both the impact of her prior accident and also by the overwhelming feelings she was experiencing as she watched him approach her. It was futile, she knew but what did say about human survival? 

She knew she wasn't getting anywhere but she thought she would still make it hard for him, only she did not consider that even though neither of them got any sleep last night, he was still in a car while she was on foot. The only person that anything was hard for still her, her body shook with the violent weight of his strong body against her, stuck in between him and the hard road she fought to breathe. 

And in an instant, she was no longer face down in the road but looking into the angry eyes of her captor. "Got you."

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Drive faster, drive faster, drive faster! That was the only thought on Jason's mind as he drove to Tony's grave, parking the car, well if leaving it diagonal in the middle of the road was considered parking then parking the car, he pushed his door open and ran out of the vehicle.

"Jessie! Jessie!" He yelled.

Running to Tony's tombstone, his breathing began to catch when he saw that there was no one there. He couldn't have gotten to her first, please please he couldn't have gotten to her first.

His phone began to ring in his pocket and he pulled it out, placing it by his ear. "Yes?"

"... I'm sorry Jason" were the first words he heard and they were mind-numbing and heart-wrenching. "He got to her first." 

Swallowing hard, he shut his eyes and tried to keep his trembling body at bay, "how do you know?"

"I gave her a bug, I'll send the feed to you, the audios files are life," Lenora said over the phone and his phone chimed as the link entered his phone. "It will take a while to get her location but it will happen only I don't know how long that might take."

"How long do you estimate?"

"More than twenty-four hours," she said and Jason's grip on his phone tightened.

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"Where the hell are you Kat?" Paul mumbled to himself as he stood outside Katherine's apartment. He had visited all the places he thought she might be, even went to the Lee building as well but nothing. After that very annoying conversation with Devon, he was more than fed up about now. 

"I can't find her if she doesn't want to be found." 

Jamie's words filled his head suddenly, and the thought entered his mind, perhaps she didn't want to be found. Guilt like never before filled his senses and he began to regret every decision he made concerning Katherine. Honestly, he didn't deserve her, he didn't deserve to want her right now. Not after hurting her the way he did, good golly was he a stupid person! how could she have loved him for so long and he wouldn't have known? He didn't deserve her yet he still wanted her, she didn't want to be found? Too bad he would be finding her either way. In the meantime, though he pulled  out his phone he called Jason "hey how- wait what?!" He exclaimed, "wait right there I'm on my way."

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Jason's breaths came out in short and heavy puffs, his lips parted as he huffed and huffed. His heart thundered in his chest throbbing painfully he struggled with the oxygen entering his lungs. Both hands were placed on top of his head and his eyes remained fixed in one direction. He couldn't believe it, he lost her, again. 

Soon the air supply became shorter and harder as his lungs collapsed in his chest, "Jason!" Paul yelled running to his friend, "Hey! Get a hold of yourself!" Paul yelled catching him before he hit the ground. "Jason, Jason listen to me, hey! Breathe already, damn. Call an ambulance!" Paul yelled eyeing his friend's pale and blue face, what the heck was happening?

Jason forgot to breathe, he forgot how. Suddenly something so instinctive and easy, something that happened naturally and unconsciously became too difficult and tasking. He didn't know what to feel besides the excruciating pain of his failure and insufficiency. 

"Jeez! You scared me there, get it together already man, you can't break down now, Jessie needs you."

"What is this Paul? What is this heaviness? This uncontrollable emptiness still weighs on me, what is this feeling that I can't describe? This desire to burn down the entire world and destroy everyone in it because no one matters anymore?" Jason stated looking into nothingness, his gaze was settled neither here nor there yet there carried such fury, such rage. Right deep in his brown pupils settled this intense wrath that threatened the extinction of the world. 

"I will kill him I swear I will!!"