Chapter 476

Chapter 476: Chapter 476

Zach couldn’t help but feel slightly frustrated as he felt as though he couldn’t get to the bottom of it. It was as though he weas stuck in a maze and each time he tried to turn a corner he found himself at yet another dead end.

Bur he knew that this couldn’t be the end of it and that he did in fact have to find a way out. If he didn’t he wouldn’t be able to live with himself or with the fact that he had allowed Brittany’s murder to go unpunished.

"What if we find a way to get the people to defend us. What if we get them to become our alibis." He said to her.

He watched as she furrowed her brows at his words and he couldn’t help but also hear the low murmurs that seemed to come from the people that were in the room.

"Be our alibis how. How are you going to be able to convince them all and get them to be on our side." she asked him questionably.

He smiled slightly before speaking up. "Like you said the people are looking to us and they look to us as their role models and so because of that they see us as saints. We are the smiths family and we are the ones who were able to give them jobs and pull them out of poverty. They would never believe that we would be the ones who were able to commit any sort of atrocities and they know that we would never try to murder anyone." He said to her confidently.

"And what happens when they realize that isn’t true and that we were in fact responsible for killing Ronaldo do you think that they are going to continue to view us as the perfect set of people who seem to be incapable of doing any wrong. How long do you thing we can get away with it." Violet said to him incredulously.

Zach was quiet for a moment as he knew that she did have a point but the fact was that at this point he was desperate and like they said desperate times called for desperate measures and he did have to do something about it.

"Well that just means that we will have to find a way to convince them. We have to give them something that they won’t be able to resist and they will have no choice but to support us." He said to them.

"Like a bribe." Bruce asked through furrowed brows.

Zach was quiet for a moment as he knew why that sounded like he also knew that he was meant to play the role of a man with honor and integrity. That he was supposed to be the matriarch of their family and it didn’t seem very right or very patriarchal for him to be the one who was suggesting that they should take the shot of offering a bribe.

Bruce looked towards him incredulously as he shook his head at him before letting put a scoff.

"I refuse to believe that you are serious that you are hone4stly telling me that you are in fact considering the thought of offering them up a bribe." Bruce said to him and he watched as Zach shrugged his shoulders at him before letting our as sigh.

"I don’t know what you want me to say I am simply here trying to. Look for a way out of this mess for us. That is what you expect of me isn’t it. For me to be able to find a solution to it all and you can’t then come and blame me when the solution doesn’t fit your plan." Zach said to him as he raised his voice slightly.

Zach couldn’t help but feel slightly bad after saying that.

He hadn’t meant for him to show his anger towards Bruce but he was desperate and it felt as though he was the one who was grasping at straws he was struggling to find a way out for them but it felt as though each door that he opened was being slammed back shut in his face.

And instead of the family to be the ones who were trying to help him out they seemed to be the ones who were telling him that it was a bad idea and that were the ones who were pushing him away and turning it all against him.

They didn’t seem to understand the sheer weight that was on his shoulders neither did they seem to realize how much all of it was affecting him.

He felt as though he was the one who had failed. It was as though he had failed his family as well as everyone that he love4d and in the moment he felt almost completely hopeless.

"Look I know that it is your duty to protect this family and that you did make a vow that you would be there for all of its members but you can’t just do anything in your power to try and lose yourself just so that you can defeat your enemy. If you are4 to take Ronaldo down and it would result in you losing your path then it isn’t you that has won but him." violet said to him.

Zach knew for a fact that she was right however it gelt as though there was a heavy lump on his throat and the truth was that he didn’t want to admit the fact that she was.

It would mean that he would also have to admit that he was stuck on a plan and that he didn’t know where to go from there, that was the last thing that he was willing to confess.

He didn’t want to show that he had a weakness. He was supposed to be strong and he was supposed to always be able to. Find a way put for them and he was also the one who had all the answers that they required.

But now it felt as though he was a mouse caught in a trap or a man stuck in a never ending movie where it felt that there was no way out for him.

"What do you expect me to do now how so you think I will be able to solve this how do you suppose that I get myself and us out of this trouble. It seems as though each time I bring a new solution you shut me down. I believe that the idea of killing him would be perfect and I don’t see why we wouldn’t go with that plan." He said to them adamantly.

Violet shook her head at him in response before she spoke up. "You forget that there is no such thing as a perfect crime. There are always going to be a set of hiccups and several bumps in the road that is something that you are simply going to have to put into consideration and it is. Something that you can’t do without. You have to realize that." She said to him.

Zach knew that she was right but he didn’t know what he would do then. Her didn’t see where they could go from there.

He looked around the room as his gaze flickered between the worried facers.

However his attention was pulled away when he heard the loud buzzing sound fill his ear.

He watched as an insect flew right past his gaze before it landed upon one of the lit wax candles that were in the corner.

Before he knew it he watched as the insect inched slowly towards the ignited flame as it flapped its wings violently.

However soon enough its body caught fire. The creature buzzed crying out in agony as it tried to fly away.

However it managed to land on one of the neighboring candles and its inflamed body was able to light up the candle as well adding more light to the illuminated room.

The others thought nothing of the action but the sight of thew fly creating a chain of flames and its action leading to another caused something to flicker at the back of Zach’s mind.

He found himself suddenly being filled with the memories of a movie that he had once watched.

It involved a group of people who had managed to kill their target by creating a variety of different scenarios which led to the person’s dearth.

It was like a domino effect one action leading to another and so the pieces would fall into place.

They didn’t have to be the ones that would kill Ronaldo they would simply have to be the ones who lit the match or push the domino that would send everything falling right into place.

A small smirk made its way onto Zach’s face as something new was sparked deep within him. Something that he hadn’t felt in a long time.

The embers of hope. He was going to take Ronaldo down and he was going to make sure that he paid dearly for what he had done to them.

Zach knew that he had to think through things properly and he couldn’t simply rush into matters. He knew that if he wanted to be able to take Ronaldo down he had to do it with great calculation and a lot of precision.

That was why he decided that he wouldn’t do it in a matter of a few days and he knew that it. Was something that he would have to think through properly.