Only a fool would cut off his escape route.


    Rnd immediately nodded. "Alright! You want to buy me off, huh? Then my price is fifteen million dors in cash! Also, get me a sports car, and arrange for me to leave the country immediately."


    Monica rolled her eyes internally. ''This guy is the epitome of greed! Fifteen million in cash? Can he even carry that much? Huh! Tell me you''re poor without telling me you''re poor.''


    "I''ll give you a maximum of two hundred fifty thousand dors in cash. The rest will be transferred to your ount. Otherwise, with so much cash, you won''t be able to take it with you," countered Lucas. After thinking about it, Rnd found Lucas'' reasoning making sense, so he nodded.


    "Fine. Now both of you slowlye towards me. I need to ensure I can leave this ce!"


    As both sides were slowly exchanging positions, they could not have anticipated that Shaun and the producer would suddenly appear at that moment.


    "Rnd? How could it be you?"


    Both of them were extremely shocked. They hired two certified diving instructors to act as safety personnel to ensure Melody''s safety. No one could have predicted that one of the safety personnel would turn out to be a perpetrator.


    Moreover, he was holding Penny captive! The reason behind it was undoubtedly connected to the incident that urred that day.N?velDrama.Org content rights.


    Rnd felt a sense of shame and lowered his head when he heard Shaun''s voice.


    Shaun had some knowledge of the things that happened between Rnd and Tracy. At that time, he even advised him not to invest all his emotions in such a woman like her.


    Rnd knew that Shaun had offered him the job of a safety personnel partly because he had been unemployed for quite a long time.


    "Sorry. I didn''t mean for things to turn out this way either," apologized Rnd remorsefully.


    Seeing Rnd on the verge of going berserk, the producer immediately intervened. "You must have a reason for doing this. We''re friends, so why don''t you tell us if you''re going through some difficulties?" Rnd did not know what to say. All of this was his own doing. He would not have ended up in a situation like this if he had not met Tracy or turned a blind eye by pretending to have a cramp to what happened to Melody that day.


    "Shut up! All of you, just shut up! I''m sorry. It''s toote now, so I can''t turn back anymore. Move!" He pointed the knife at them. "Go over there. I need to get down the mountain." Everyone raised their hands.


    "Alright, alright, we''ll do as you say. Just don''t do anything rash," said Shaun calmly. "Rnd, we''ve always treated you as a brother. When the crew needed people, we immediately called you over. Plus, think about your elderly mother waiting for you to go back home."


    He wanted to both persuade Rnd to put down the knife and to genuinely consider his own future.


    Rnd''s elderly mother would be distraught if he were to harm Penny. He could not be selfish and only consider himself.


    Rnd''s hand started to shake at the thought of his elderly mother waiting for him back home.


    "I don''t want to do this either. I really don''t want to do this. She forced me..."


    Lucas had profound disdain for Rnd. First, he talked about the injustices he faced, and he then med everything on the woman he imed to love. Who else could force him to do all of this if he did not want to?


    Ultimately, it was because of his ipetence. He was only pushing the me onto others to make himself feel better. Little did he realize that the master of his destiny was none other than himself. In other words, he had no one else to me but himself.