Chapter 245 Drinking!
Sarah was deeply moved by Ernest's words! She didn’t know that her father, who had been honest and weak for over twenty years, had had such a surprisingly tough side. Especially since he rarely expressed any fatherly love toward her. At this moment, she was finally feeling a bit of warmth from her family...
At this time, Dominic shouted, grabbing his collar, "Hey, Josh, did you hear that? My brother-in-law is willing to sacrifice himself for Sarah. Just accept it!"
Ruth chimed in, "He’s such a pathetic man, death is death. It's better for us to save ourselves!" Karen and Kyle remained silent, thus agreeing with Ernest's decision. Anyway, he had brought it on himself, it has nothing to do with them. They also felt relieved, as the ordeal of life and death that they had experienced for so long was finally coming to an end.
Just then, Ryder, who hadn’t said much since he entered, looked at Karen and others and spoke, "Are you sure you won't regret doing this?"
Karen pursed her lips and said, "Why would we regret it? When disaster strikes, everyone wants to save themselves. It's human nature, there’s nothing wrong with it!"
Dominic also said, "Stop messing around, Ryder. Hurry up and offer your body parts. It's too late to say anything at this point, just accept the outcome silently!"
Ryder Clark murmured, with an interested look on his face, "Hmm! Accept the outcome silently..." He asked in response, "But if the outcome suddenly changes, will you also accept it silently?"
Dominic proudly said, "No problem! I won't act as cowardly as you! Of course, the outcome has already been determined by Josh. Unfortunately, you can't change it!"
He turned to Josh with a fawning look and asked, "Josh, don’t you think I'm making sense?" He thought Josh would stand with them and speak.
But to his surprise, Josh stood up and walked toward Ryder, untying the rope that bound him and Sarah. With a very respectful tone, he asked, "Mr. Clark, what do you think?"
Mr. Clark?!
When Karen, Dominic, and the others, heard that name, they instantly felt their heads buzzing. They felt that it was a bad omen.
Ryder stood up, brushed off the dust from his body, and looked at Sarah.
Sarah nodded at Ryder with a complicated expression.
Ryder placed his right hand on Sarah's shoulder and said, "You should leave. Leave the rest to me."
"Okay," Sarah replied, then gave a cold look to Karen, Kyle, and the rest of Dominic’s family.
"From this moment on, I have no more familial relationship with you all. Our ties are severed!"
After saying that, she walked straight to Ernest and untied the ropes on him, much to his shocked and stunned gaze. "Dad, let's go outside."
"Huh?"
Ernest was still in a dazed state!
Sarah said, "There's no time for detailed explanations. Let's go outside and leave the rest to Ryder."
Ernest nodded, dumbfounded, and followed Sarah out of the basement.
Karen and the others were no longer calm and hastily exclaimed, "W-what's going on? Why did Josh let them go?"
Josh coldly said, "Shut up!"
Josh asked Ryder, "Mr. Clark, how should we deal with them?"
A cold smile appeared on Ryder's lips as he looked at Dominic and said, "The situation has now been reversed. Can you quietly accept the consequences that will follow?"
"Ryder, you..."
Dominic’s eyes widened, and his lips trembled.
Even though his mind was not particularly sharp, he could still see that Ryder was actually in cahoots with Josh. Everything that they had seen and heard earlier was part of Ryder's plan.
In other words, the lives these people were actually in Ryder's hands!
But... how could Ryder, a useless son-in-law, have such a relationship with Josh?
Of course, no matter how confused he was, it was useless!
Survival was important!
He immediately put on a different face and pleaded with Ryder, "Cough, well, it was all just a misunderstanding. Since we're all relatives, please let us go.
"Uh... I'll treat you to a meal later, and between us men, there's no problem that can't be solved over a drink, don't you think?"
Ryder, facing Dominic's shameless attempt to get close, commanded Josh, "Did you hear that? He wants to drink, so let him have a drink!"
Josh understood immediately and quickly gave instructions to a subordinate behind him. "You! Go to the warehouse and bring in a case of vodka, and bring a funnel too. Mr. Clark wants to offer a drink!"
The subordinate ran to the warehouse and quickly brought back a case of vodka, along with a funnel, and walked toward Dominic.
Dominic’s eyes widened and anxiously asked, "What... what are you doing?"
Ryder calmly replied, "Didn't you want to drink? Drink all that, and this will be resolved, right?"
Dominic's heart skipped a beat. There were at least eight bottles that large case of vodka. Just one bottle would make him very drunk, let alone eight. He could die if he drank all of them!
With a mournful face, he said, "Ryder, stop joking with me, I can't handle drinking so much vodka!"
Ryder coldly answered, "You've got two things wrong. First, Sarah just made it clear that she's cutting ties with you, which means I no longer have any relationship with you. So stop calling me you’re nephew, you're not worthy! Second, you said you could silently accept any outcome, so you should bear it even if you can't!"
After saying that, Ryder commanded the subordinate, "Make him drink!"
"Alright!"
The subordinate wasn't lenient. He grabbed Dominic's jaw and forced the funnel into his mouth.
Two other subordinates came forward, opened the case of vodka, and without any mercy, poured it into the funnel.
"Cough cough! I was wrong... sob sob... " Dominic struggled and rolled around, but the two subordinates firmly him held down. He was unable to escape.
His face turned red, and tears and snot streamed down his face.
He almost choked to death.
His wife Ruth didn't dare to make a peep, completely scared out of her wits.
She was afraid that she would be forced to drink!
As for his son Herman Simmons, he was still squatting there, laughing foolishly...
On the other hand, Karen, who witnessed the scene, was completely stunned.
She knew that Ryder seemed to have become wealthy recently and knew some influential people.
So when she had called Sarah for help earlier, she actually wanted to get Ryder here to resolve the situation.
After all, a tool shouldn't go to waste.