Albert knew a secret of Pepe which might ruin his family reputation, so he threatened him that he will not expose this secret only if he keeps his military power but he will resign as the military governor. Pepe agreed because of the secret, he has no choice but to agree So Albert became the real winner between him and Pepe because he can still fight for the military governor post.
Now he has a more important task to do he heard that Richard and Arci are inside the plane, he should send them a big gift.
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Richard and Arci came out of the plane, his soldiers and Lincoln was already waiting for them at the airport.
"Dad, how come you came here?" Arci asked.
"My little girl has grown up you are bold and smart" Lincoln said.
Arci smiled, "Lets go back home" Arci held his hand and walked out of the airport together.
When Richard noticed a gunman pointing gun at Arci.
"Watch out!" He shouted.
He quickly moved her and shot at the gunman. Lincoln also noticed a man with knife coming towards Arci he quickly went to try to stop the man. And the man shook him with a knife on his stomach.
He is dying.
Richard noticed this and fire gun at the man.
"Dad!" Arci also noticed and ran towards him.
Butler Calvin and Richard also grabbed him so he won't fall.
"Dad!"
"Call a doctor! We need a doctor!" Richard shouted at his soldiers.
Lincoln opened his eyes but he is about to die.
He held Richard's hand and Arci's hand. He put their hands together.
"Commander Richard, Please take care of Arci for me"
"Dad!" Arci cried.
"Don't… Please don't talk"
"Arci, I'm relieved that Commander Richard will take care of you for me I'll be waiting for your wedding day when am with Your mother and Neo in heaven"
Arci shook her head with tears on her face, "No dad. Don't talk anymore we will send you to an hospital now"
Lincoln took his last breath and died in peace.
Arci widened her eyes when she saw this.
"Dad! Wake up dad!"
"Master!"
"Mr Lincoln!"
Arci burst into more tears when he didn't respond.
A week later.
They buried him and did his memorial.
She went to pay respect for him with Richard.
"I'm sorry it is all my fault the two assassins came at me i didn't expect…."
"It is not your fault otherwise, my dad wouldn't have asked you to take care of me"
Richard stared at her and hugged her.
"Arci, i can't wait any longer i want to stay with you at every moment. I want to protect and I'll take care of you i want to be with you forever, Will you marry me? Let's fulfill your Father's last wish, shall we?"
"My dad just passed away while I've been observing mourning"
"I know, I'll avenge Mr. Lincoln's death for sure but he said he would be waiting for our wedding day in heaven we can't let him wait Long"
Richmond entered the house.
"Commander we have found the identity of the assassins"
Richard stood up and stared at Richmond, "Who is he?"
"He comes from San Jose and he must be Albert's subordinate"
"I knew it was him I'll go kill him this time" He lost his cool and was about to walk out of the mansion.
Arci quickly stopped him.
"What are you doing?" Arci asked
"I'll go kill him" He said and turned to leave.
Richmond quickly stopped him.
"Commander, Mr Lincoln died so Albert must be on the alert now"
"Richmond back off, no one is going to stop me this time!"
He struggled to shook Richmond off.
"What are you going to do after killing him? Can you come back alive? My dad askes you to take care of me but you are trying to risk your own life" Arci said.
She walked closer to him and held his hand.
"You said you would marry me, do you remember it?"
"Of course i do" Richard looked down remorsefully he knew he acted in an impulsive way.
"You are the only family i have in this world now if you die I'll be alone"
Richard hugged her tightly when he heard this.
"I'm sorry i won't be that rash anymore, i won't let you worry about me anymore I'm sorry"
"We have had vengeance for what happened ten years ago and we will avenge my dad's death sooner or later"
"Yes"
He sent more of his soldiers to protect Arci at home.
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Albert smiled when he saw the news about Lincoln death because he was not shocked.
"I didn't expect Mr Lincoln would get involved in this" Alfred said when he saw the news on the television.
"Lincoln knew he couldn't live long so he would like to sacrifice his own life to save Richard who can take care of Arci for him"
"Richard is with Arci will he be ruling Los Angeles alone? Military Governor should i try to assassinate him myself this time?"
"Nope we must get rid of Richard but you can't be the one to do it I've resigned and i am reflecting on my misdeeds in private. All that I'm doing now is to reestablish some reputations of our family and then we can stage a comeback one day if you were to fail this time. Pepe would use this chance to attack us. Then the efforts we made earlier would be in vain"
"Then should we step aside without doing anything?"
"In fact there is someone else who doesn't want to see Richard Bush gain power the most. I'll send them a big gift soon" Albert said with a sinister smile on his lips.
"You can leave" He dismissed Alfred.
Alfred bowed and left.
Albert took his phone and call someone.