The bus stopped for five seconds before speeding off again. Leon was no longer there. In his place was the grocery bag he had been holding which had fallen on the ground with half of the things inside spilled out. The bus drove into an alley and Leon was roughly pushed out of it blindfolded, then two men alighted from it and pushed him down to the floor, his back against a wall. They had tied his hands behind him inside the van so he wouldn’t struggle so much with them. While he could’ve easily escaped from them, he didn’t want to get into a fight in the middle of the road. Furthermore, he had decided that Kevin Larol wasn’t worth keeping around. For some reason, Aria couldn’t recall what happened on her date last night. She was so worried about it that she couldn’t sleep the whole night. Then she woke up and went to work as soon as day broke even though the day was Sunday, just because of how troubled she was. If she bumped into him one of these days, it was very likely that her
It wasn’t that he couldn’t just yank it off, but he didn’t want to risk getting a mark on his hands. That’d only make Aria worried as she would think her family bullied him again. Kevin’s first reaction on seeing his hands were free was to instinctively retreat behind the bulky men he hired as an emergency warning instantly went off in his head that he was in danger. Now this was the terrific voice of the man who had broken his fingers and trampled down at him at the guesthouse.His body also reacted, trembling on its own as Leon raised his cold eyes to look at him.However, Kevin suddenly burst into a mocking laughter. He laughed like a maniac for several seconds to his heart’s content before he stopped and sniggered, “Hey, do you take me to be a fool?” “I knew the talks about you being an idiot was a lie, so I refused to believe them and hired these guys. Yes, look at them very well.” “They are not as weak as the other guys from the guesthouse. In fact, one of them can take down
Kevin's eyes shook in horror and he subconsciously stepped backward. Leon had his fingers wrapped around the throats of the bulky men as he squeezed the life out of them. From where he stood, Kevin saw the men wheezing as they desperately slapped Leon's hand to get him to release his grip on them all to no avail. "H-how is that possible?" Kevin stuttered fearfully. Leon's dark eyes on him paralyzed his entire body with fear causing him to forget how to move. Leon shifted his eyes to them and spat out icily, "Professionals? Yes. But you can never compare to someone who was trained to defend himself from the young age of 2 up until when he was casted out. Think about that in your next life if you get any. Now, get lost!" Krack!He applied pressure on their throats and crushed their windpipes, instantly killing them before he tossed their limp body aside. People like them who would hurt the less privileged just because they were paid to do it didn't deserve to stay alive. And fro
Leon went back to the grocery store to get another set of groceries. Because Aria would get notified if he bought the same thing with the card she gave him, he paid with the allowance she gave him every month to get whatever he wanted.Then he walked out of the store, hailed a taxi and got in. When he got home, he found the door ajar. Dean was in the living room with two of his friends as they played an online shooting game with the TV. “I didn’t know you had a brother, Dean.” One of his friends murmured seeing Leon walk in. Dean briefly tore his eyes away from his game to see who he was talking about and snorted. “I don’t have a brother. That’s my sister’s husband. He looks normal, but he’s an idiot who thinks like a child.” “How is it I’ve never seen him before?” The second boy asked, pausing his game to look at Leon as well. “He’s always up in their room or working around the house. Besides, my mother banned him from loitering around the living room when we have visitors.” Dea
Grant gathered every member of the family into the living room of the Larol residence. He sat in the middle of the room while the rest of the family surrounded him.There was a pin-drop silence in the room as no one wanted to do anything that’d offend him. But after a while, someone voiced out cautiously, with carefully chosen words, “Family head, I hear it was a lowlife who dealt us this tragic blow. We shouldn’t take this lightiy!” “Kevin was your beloved son, are we just going to sit on our hands while that lowlife makes fun of the Larol family?” Another person chipped in. “No, we shouldn’t. The other families are already getting informed of what happened to us. Once they find out we were humiliated by a lowlife and are doing nothing about it, we’ll become a laughingstock to the people of Wentworth.” The third person butted in as well. Gavin Larol clenched his hand into a fist and raised his bloodshot eyes to glare at them, “I’m trying to think here, shut your damn mouths!” O
After Leon got off the phone with Grant, a breaking news came into his phone. He was going to discard it as always when he sighted a familiar name on it. He frowned slightly seeing it said Kevin Larol was dead. Did the thugs go after him? No, they wouldn’t dare. They were ready to beat him to a pulp just to get on the Larol family’s good side. If it wasn’t them, then who was it? A thought suddenly struck Leon and he frowned slightly. The last person the Larol family knew Kevin was with was him. In that case, that means they’d definitely pin his death on him. The thought had just occurred to him when a call came into his phone. It was Wentworth’s country code and not a restricted number. He didn’t need to answer it to know who it was. But he answered it just to be clear. As soon as he did, the caller threatened, “Leon Bartlett, if you do not want to die a miserable death, get into a taxi and bring yourself to the Larol family residence in the next five minutes. Failure to do so
Everyone's eyes immediately shifted to Jeff, while Gavin's pupils dilated a little. However, Jeff didn't seem flustered at Leon’s words like a guilty person would. He knew better than to control his emotions. His eyes darkened, and he snickered in response, "Do you think pointing fingers at me and accusing me of killing my brother will work in your favor?" "Yes, Kevin and I were at odds with each other all his life, and I hated him sometimes, but I never wished him death." "So stop trying to paint me in a bad light in front of the rest of the Larol family!" Some member of the Larol family turned to Gavin and voiced out impatiently. "Family head, this lowlife keeps saying disrespectful things about our family. Someone like him doesn’t deserve to be in your presence!” “Yes, he shouldn't even have the privilege of meeting a member of our family, let alone exchange words with us!" "Where are the men Jeff hired? We should have them rip out this lowlife’s foolish tongue before anyth
Leon stared down at rhem with icy eyes and the men, who were still unconscious, trembled in fright and tried to crawl backward, but there was no strength left in their arm to do so. “We are merely hired fighters. We were just acting on orders!” They quickly cried out when Leon began walking towards them. Leon, who had no intention of doing anything else to them, looked away from them and settled it on Gavin. “What part of, I didn’t kill your son, do you not understand?” “You were the last person my son was with and you have every reason to kill him. Do you take me as a fool?” Gavin gritted his teeth in annoyance and anger. Leon looked away from him and turned around to leave, but paused and shrugged without glancing back at him, “Whether you believe me or not is none of my business.” “I came here to make that clear. Furthermore, since Kevin is now dead, it is no longer my intention to go ahead with the bet I made with him.” Then he continued on his way out. Everyone quickly tu