Chapter 383: Settling the past (4)
River and Rafael moved the second Travis was attacked by someone on his side. Neither cared why the man was betraying Travis. All that mattered was Travis not having the gun pointed at the two of them.
The sound of a bullet being fired was heard followed by Solomon falling back. There was a pain in his chest from Travis shooting him with the gun, but he tried his best to hold onto the weapon so the knights would get Travis.
Solomon was shot once more in an attempt to get him to let go of the gun before River could reach Travis. Solomon felt weak as he experienced a new type of pain. He continued to struggle with Travis for the gun with what strength he had left as this was his way of avenging Mack and all the others he took to Travis’s study to be killed.
If not for Travis’s sick games, there would be more guards to put up a fight against the knights. Travis was killing his guards and servants faster than he was hiring them and at some point, Solomon stopped looking for more help.
Solomon wasn’t a saint as the work he did was what got him hired by Travis in the first place. It was just his recent guilt over the people he lost while working for Travis that he felt the need to kill Travis.
Travis let go of the gun because fighting Solomon was giving time for River and Rafael to reach him. He grabbed Solomon’s sword which was dropped during their fight for the gun and ran up the stairs to get to his study. He could still get himself out of this as long as he reached his study to lock himself in and then come up with a new plan.
Travis felt a cold sweat as he ran because of how loud Rafael and River’s footsteps were behind him. Then he heard more which meant the knights were also chasing him. He didn’t look back for a second to see how close they were to him. His eyes were on his door which was not far away.
As he neared the study door, Travis reached out his left hand to hold the knob sooner to turn it and open the door, but as his fingertips touched the doorknob, someone knocked him sideways using their body, causing him to fall to the floor. He continued to hold the sword and pointed it up after he fell at River who was the one to stop him from entering his study.
"Fight me like a man one on one," Travis said, accepting River’s earlier offer. He was outnumbered now thanks to his men not living up to what they said they could do so he had to do this to get out of dying. The men he hired not being competent was exactly the reason he had been disposing of them.