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Grant’s assistant gave Aria his contact card which had the email address on it just before they left. Theo had planned to use the opportunity to get close to Aria, but after being humiliated like this, he didn’t have the face to continue sitting with her. Mia followed after him. When he was about to get into his car, she tried to get in as well, but the man stopped and shot her an angry look. “What do you think you’re doing?” She stopped and swallowed nervously seeing how angry he looked. “You said you’d take me to your hotel after we meet with Grant Wyatt. And you hit me twice today. Will you not apologize for doing so?” The man who had wrapped his fingers around the car’s door knob, retracted it and burst into a hearty laughter. He laughed loudly for several seconds while Mia watched him the entire time in confusion. After laughing to his heart content, he stopped and sneered, “Apologize for hitting you? Don’t make me laugh, Mia Miller! You want me to apologize for hitting y
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While this was going on, Aria and Leon headed back to the garage where they had parked their car. Dean and Emma were already there waiting for them. Dean rolled down the window and yelled at Aria when he saw her, “Do you have any idea how long we’ve been waiting for you?” Emma got into the backseat without sparing Aria and Leon a glance. “Your brother didn’t like the oil they used in making the foods at the cafeteria, so he hasn’t eaten anything since morning. Hurry up and get us back to the hotel so I can make dinner for him.” “Sorry to keep you waiting, mother. Dean.” Aria apologized as she got into the passenger front seat. Leon got into the driver’s seat and started the car. Dean ignored Aria’s apology and asked instead, “Were you able to do it? Were you able to meet with Grant Wyatt?” Aria nodded as she fastened her seatbelt around herself, “Yes, he said to send him the proposal as soon as I get home. He promised to look into it. If it’s good enough, we will see it on the
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Aria couldn’t sleep that night as she was too nervous about the listing. Grant Wyatt was obviously a busy man. Which meant he’d have a lot of emails. Important emails. Overlooking the email of a mere candidate from a small family like hers wouldn’t surprise her. When Emma woke up that morning and went to the kitchen to get coffee, she found Aria shuffling around the kitchen. “What are you doing in the kitchen so early in the morning, Aria?” “Good morning, mom. I just thought I’d make coffee for you since I woke up early today and have nothing to do.” Aria said as she picked up a coffee capsule and placed it into the coffee machine “Coffee for me? When was the last time you made coffee for me?” Emma asked in confusion as she watched her reach for a coffee cup. Aria said nothing and just dropped the cup under the mouth of the machine before turning it on. When it got filled, she handed the cup of coffee to Emma and left without another word. She went to the room the same time
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Aria walked down the stairs to find Emma and Dean holding onto their phone nervously. Even Dean who liked to eat was too nervous to touch his food. The only people eating without a care were Leon and Anthony. Leon wasn’t supposed to know what was happening and since the only person he cared about wasn’t worried, he wasn’t worried. Dean raised his eyes towards the stairs and saw Aria down. He hurriedly got up from his seat and rushed towards her. “Are you sure your proposal will get accepted? Mr. Wyatt took a liking to you, right? So he’d surely have the Miller Group listed, right?” Emma got up from her seat as well and walked towards them worriedly. “I’ve never heard of a company’s name being listed after meeting with Grant Wyatt.” “Are you sure the man you met was really him? Mia and Ryan could have pulled a fast one on us because we got to stay in this penthouse instead of them.” Aria shook her head as she walked past them to sit beside Leon. “I confirmed the o
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“What do you think you’re doing, Emma?” Joseph tried to keep his emotions in check, but the fury in his voice couldn’t be hidden as he glared hard at her. “I’ve not seen him before.” Theo casually butted in when his eyes settled on Anthony, who had his eyes lowered to his phone. “He is Aria’s father and my father’s elder brother. He’s incompetent, so he doesn’t have a place in the Miller Group.” Mia quickly replied, not forgetting to degrade him as she did. Theo’s eyes lit up slightly and he dramatically got up on his feet and slightly bent his face towards the ground. “It’s nice to meet you, Mr. Miller. I’m Theo Humphrey.” Usually, when he did this, he would get praised for being polite and a gentleman which was rare to see in people his age. However, Anthony didn’t bother to look up at him and just kept staring at the phone in his hand. The awkward silence from him caused Theo’s ears to redden from the embarrassment. Emma grimaced from across the table while Dean, who was
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Leon tore his eyes away from Jeff and settled it on the food in front of him. Without warning, he suddenly looked at Theo and his cheeks stretched into a gentle smile.“Mr. Humphrey, do you really not remember the way Mr. Wyatt’s manager kept pushing you away when you said you knew him?”“When you finally got his attention and asked him if he knew you, he said he didn’t. So why are you keeping silent when you should be telling everyone here the truth?” “Or is Mr. Humphrey too ashamed to admit that he was bluffing when he told the Miller family that he was close with Mr. Wyatt?” Theo hadn’t anticipated he’d be outrightly dragged into the conversation. He was relaxed seeing how Ryan and Joseph refused to believe what Anthony Miller said. Furthermore, Mia was on his side and from the looks of it, Aria wasn’t ready to tell them the truth which assured him his lie wouldn’t be revealed. When he was silent for over ten seconds, Leon giggled and lowered his eyes to the table again. “Mr.
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When the video ended, Mia and her family stood rooted to the spot in disbelief. Dean was only stunned for a brief moment before the uncultured man burst into a mocking laughter. “Hey, Ryan, how could you be fooled by this fraud? My God! I haven’t laughed this much in a long time!” Emma, who had been nervous a few minutes ago, chuckled quietly before she turned to Joseph and feigned sadness. “You shouldn’t be too disappointed, Joseph. He may have lied about being close with Grant Wyatt, but he’s from a billionaire family in Westwood.” Ryan scoffed at her words. “Don’t be smug with us, Aunt Emma. At least my sister will be marrying into a billionaire family. She’ll be the daughter-in-law of a billionaire!” Dean chuckled and couldn’t help saying, “Yeah, right. She’s getting married to an abusive man who didn’t mind slapping her in a restaurant full of people. No, thanks, I’m fine with an idiot like Leon who adores my sister.” Mia’s face flushed in embarrassment while Theo remained
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“No! No, you won’t do such a thing!” Mia didn’t know when she shot up from her seat and yelled. “Don’t you dare!” Theo didn’t know when he panicked. Dean turned to Leon and nodded proudly. “That’s a brilliant idea, Leon. Do it.” “Aria, tell him not to. We know he only listens to you.” Mia swallowed, sounding really desperate. Joseph thought of something and suggested, “I said I’d tell your grandmother about how your brother and mother did nothing as the hotel attendants harassed us when you won the penthouse in the lottery” “However, if you delete the video and the recording, i will not talk about what happened here today.” “In fact, even if our Miller Group doesn’t get an investment, I’ll defend you in front of your grandmother.” Aria’s eyes darted to every corner of the restaurant except to the faces of her family. She soon tilted her head to look at Dean, but he quickly moved the phone away from her reach and shook his head. “Forgive me, Aria, but I’m not giving you the v
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“Yeah, it’s Aria.” Ryan’s eyes darkened as he said dispiritedly. “Aria, hurry up here. These gentlemen have better things to do than to stay here.” Joseph urged her, forcing on a wide smile. Aria gripped the hand of her bag tighter and swallowed hard when her eyes met the furious look in Stella’s eyes. Nevertheless, she lowered her eyes to the floor and strutted towards the men. “Miss Aria Miller?” The second man repeated, raising his brows questioningly as she got close to him. She nodded, “Yes, I am.” As soon as the words rolled off her tongue, the one with the invite reached into the pocket of his suit jacket for it. He handed it over to her with a gentle look on his face. “Ms. Miller, you’ve been invited to Carolyn Jensen’s fundraiser which is being held tonight.” “The venue and time is written in the visitation. Ms. Jensen looks forward to seeing you tonight. Have a nice day.” Then they left immediately. As soon as they walked out of the door, Joseph snatc
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Aria hurriedly closed her eyes to shield the water from getting in. Then, she wiped it off with her palm and slowly opened her eyes to gaze blankly at Ryan.The corners of his lips hooked up into a mocking smile as he dropped his hand and snorted, “What is that scary look for? Is this your way of thanking those who do good deed for you?” Some staffs who were lurking behind him chipped in with a huff, “She can’t even thank you for giving her water.” “How ungrateful. If I were Ryan, I wouldn’t give her anything ever again.” “Look how hard she’s glaring at him after what he went through to bring her that water.” When she kept looking at him without saying a word, he scoffed in contempt, “You still won’t thank you? I just saved you from dying from thirst and you repay me by glaring hard at me?” “Honestly, if I knew you’d be like this, I would’ve saved myself the time and energy of bringing you this water.” “No one even remembered you were standing outside except me. Yet, this is how
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“Mr. Bartlett, this is not somewhere I can be. Keegan Gyst isn’t someone that I can just cross into his territory.” “He may not be around now, but when he returns and finds out I crossed into his territory, he won’t take it lightly with…” Rex Mercer was saying, fear laced into his voice as he walked into the basement with his boys, but instantly fell silent when he saw the sight in front of him. He didn’t know which was more shocking; the sight of Keegan’s men heaped onto each other as they groaned in pain or the sight of Keegan himself lying helplessly under Leon’s foot. The shock in his eyes disappeared after a few seconds and he rushed towards Leon unable to hide his excitement. He stood above Keegan, his eyes wide open in disbelief. “Y-you defeated him! You defeated him!” “Do you know anyone called Carolyn Jensen?” Leon blankly asked without turning to look at him. Rex Mercer’s happiness dwindled a little and his brows knitted into a small frown. He was silent for a moment b
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Keegan Gyst’s brows perked up slightly when he saw Calvin Heinz. But he only stared at him for a second before he threw his face to the side again.Calvin was bulkier and more muscular than Leon, but there were several of Keegan’s men with the exact same built. “It would take more than one backup to save you from dying today.” Leon stood behind Calvin and slipped a hand out of his pocket to look at the time on his wrist. Then he probed Calvin stoically, “Hurry up, I don’t have all day.” Calvin nodded and began advancing towards the thugs. Robert Weathers saw this and cackled loudly. “Don’t let those muscles in your arms fool you into thinking you can get out of this room alive.” “Instead of running towards the cause of your death, shouldnt you be running out of here? Seems you’re all muscles but no brains.” Calvin’s eyes shifted to him. The coldness in them made Robert flinch in fear and subconsciously huddle closer to Keegan. Calvin snatched the axe from the first thug he got
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Robert Weathers sneered and turned on the light switch. The basement illuminated instantly, revealing the dozens of thugs wielding daggers and axes in the room. Leon’s eyes landed on the bulky man sitting in their midst. He had a gruesome knife scar which slanted from his left eyes down to the right side of his lips. Had he whoever gave him the scar slanted his hand a little further and they would’ve damaged his eyes and cut off a side of his lips. “I’ve worked for Mr. Gyst for over 10 years now and I’ve encountered worse scenarios that threatened to end my life, but I never gave up.” “Did you really think a retard like you was capable of making me turn against the man I revere with everything in me?”Leon listened to him with an indifferent look on his face as his eyes roamed the basement. Keegan Gyst stared at Leon intently before he scoffed in disbelief. “So this is the man who beat those bulky men I sent out with you earlier? I expected someone taller and muscular.” “But g
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Leon still didn’t respond. The silence was killing Robert. Every second that went by, the more the back of his shirt got soaked sweat. He peeled his eyes open and swallowed dryly when he saw the blank, unimpressed look on Leon’s face. He couldn’t take it any longer and cried out, “I’ll do anything you want me to. Anything. Just name it!” Leon’s expression finally cracked into a small smile. “Go meet my father-in-law. He’s the one who cares about stuffs like this.” Robert nodded without hesitation before the thugs dragged him to Anthony. Anthony would’ve jumped in fright seeing the thugs and Robert walking towards him had Leon not been with them. As soon as he got to him, Robert pointed at the woman, who was still sprawled on the ground sobbing quietly. “I will return this woman’s child to her and also lead you to Keegan’s next big transaction. I will also tell you whenever he’s about to take another kid. I’ll help you put him out of business.” Anthony stared at him with a susp
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Robert Weathers scoffed seeing Leon maintain his confident stance. He looked away and slipped out his phone from his pocket, opened the camera app and started video recording. “I’ll record you being beaten up so I can watch it when you’re long dead to remind myself someone as stupid as you lived before.” Leon ignores him and slipped his hands into his pockets, sizing up the dozen thugs running towards him with his eyes. They all had their daggers and axes raised high up in the air. Their movements were erratic and uncoordinated. No doubt, these were just average people who were recruited by Keegan Gyst and given weapons. The first thug to get close to Leon charged at with a wild overhead swing of his axe. Leon stepped to the side at that very moment, just in time to save his arm from being hacked off.As the thug stumbled past him, Leon grabbed the his wrist, twisted it, and disarmed him in a single fluid motion. “Arghh!” Before the others could react to their colleague’s pain
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Anthony was speechless and had no idea what to do. This was the first time he was facing something like this. He had been doing this work for the past 25 years and none of the men he rescued children from ever found him. He reasoned since they hadn’t found him for the past 25 years, they would never be able to. So now that it finally happened, he had no plan in mind. He clenched his jaw tightly and glared hard at the restaurant owner, “You can’t do that! Don’t you see the weapons they’re wielding? If you send us out there, there’s no telling what will happen to us!” “To say the least, you and everyone in this restaurant will become an accessory to murder. That’ll be bad for your business, so you should hurry up and call the police!” The restaurant glared back at him and retorted, “You offended Keegan Gyst, he may not be the most dangerous person in Wentworth, but he’s someone you do not want to cross and neither do I.” “Furthermore, he has people in the police. If he finds out I
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Thanks to the tempered glass, Robert Weathers could see the people inside the restaurant. His eyes flickered across the place for a moment before he turned to the van again and dragged out a severely bartered woman. Her eyes and cheeks were swollen and her lips were bled from all sides. The state of her face almost made it impossible for Anthony and Leon to recognize her. After a few seconds, Leon recognized her to be the mother of the boy they had rescued from Robert and taken back to the rescue home. .His eyes dimmed slightly and he pointed it out to Anthony, “Father-in-law, it’s the woman from the rescue home.” When Anthony recognized her, he panicked and shot out of his seat. He was about to stroll towards the door of the restaurant when he saw a dozen thugs holding axes and daggers climb out of the van to stand behind Robert. Robert pulled the woman by the hair and barked something into her face. Unfortunately, they were outside and far from Leon and Anthony. Hence, they
