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A Man Already At The Top Chapter 75
Klimt was scared for a moment before a bold thought occurred to him. Ever since they met, Leon had been trying to talk to him. Even when he beat up the bulky men and Samson, he had done so without harming them very much. It made him conclude that Leon had received orders from Grant Wyatt not to harm him and his people. In that case, Leon only said he’d let Elliot hit him with the metal rod just so he could scare him into talking. He became calm immediately and snickered mockingly, “You’re giving me one chance? What a joke.”“Do I look like I’m scared of you? If you think you can take the heat of laying your filthy hands on me, then do…” Krack! “Oww!” The mocking look on his face was quickly replaced by that of a painful one as Elliot calmly swung the metal rod at his leg. His eyes reddened from the pain and he began breathing heavily. “That is for breaking the leg of the security guard. And this…” Elliot paused and raised the metal rod again, “…is for saying the wrong thing.”
A Man Already At The Top Chapter 76
Inside the Bertrand family mansion, two men sat in the living room drinking and discussing. One of them was a bald-headed middle-aged man dressed in a formal blue suit. While the second man looked a bit younger than him. He was putting on a leather jacket and casusal blue jeans with his hair styled backward. Suddenly, a man in security uniform ran into the living room breathing heavily. He stopped before them before reporting, “Mr. Bertrand! There’s a man causing trouble in front of the yard.” “He pulled down the gate with a truck and now he has the guards on their knees as he aims a gun at them!”Nathan Bertrand didn’t raise his eyes to look at him immediately. Instead, he unhurriedly reached for the opened scotch in front of him. After taking his time to fill his glass to his heart’s content, he finally paused and looked up at the security. “What does this person look like?” The man went silent for a moment before he parted his lips and said, “He seems to be in his mid twenti
A Man Already At The Top Chapter 77
Leon’s lips hooked into a frightening smile as he watched them drop their guns. Derrick Bertrand saw the smile tugging the corners of his lips and grew even more infuriated. “What are you being so smug about? Your younger brother has more stamina than you. Or do you think I don’t know?” “Everyone knows the elderly son of the almighty Bartlett family is a weakling. His younger brother surpasses him in everything.” “Your parents cast you aside and made him their heir because of your weakness. Then you ran away because you feared he’d try to harm you to secure his position as heir.” “But even if you still know some moves from your time in the Bartlett family, the guards stationed to stay at the back aren’t just guards.” “They were sent to us by the Bartlett family to make sure we capture you. So if I were you, I’d say my last prayers right now.” With each passing word he said, Leon’s smile grew colder. Finally, he parted his lips slightly and said slowly, “I see. That’s what they
A Man Already At The Top Chapter 78
It was at this moment that Derrick suddenly realized what was happening. Even though Leon had his fingers wrapped around his throat and was squeezing it, he still spoke up stubbornly. “Yo-you didn’t move earlier, did you? My body reacted and rushed towards you when I thought I saw you move, but all these while you’ve been messing with my mind.” “But that’s just impossible! Not even the highest instructors at the Bartlett family can train one to be this efficient. The last person who was this good was..he was…” He suddenly stopped talking and his eyes bulged in disbelief and realization.“No! That’s not true. That’s not impossible. They said there was no one else who became the…” Leon moved his eyes away from him and settled it on the men in front of him. “I believe I do not have to tell you what to do if you want your master to remain alive.” As soon as he said that, the men began dropping to their knees in surrender. Once they were all down, Leon began strutting towards the h
A Man Already At The Top Chapter 79
“Overwhelm him however you can.” The man hissed behind the men. They nodded and began advancing towards Leon. Leon felt the back of his neck gently and looked to the side. The eyes of the men subconsciously did the same. A second later when they returned their eyes to the man in front of them, they realize he was no longer standing there. The man behind them frowned tightly and strutted to the middle of the room to look around. “What is this? Where did he go? Darn it! Hey, find him. He couldn’t have gotten far!” “Find me? Why find me when I’m right here?” Leon’s voice filled their ears. It was also the last sound the men with him heard as they began blacking out one after the other. As the last one fell, Leon stood behind him with his hands slipped into his pockets and his eyes pinned on the man in front of him. The man’s body trembled all over in fear as he stumbled backward. Leon took a step towards him, but stopped when he whipped out the pistol he had used to kill the
A Man Already At The Top Chapter 80
When Leon returned to the warehouse, they found a few of the security guards gathered around someone. Elliot got out of the car in panic thinking another person had come to cause trouble. “Hey, what’s going on here? You better get your arse out of here before I call…” The words died in his throat when the security men heard him and moved away in fear only to reveal the person they had been crowding over was a badly battered Klimt Fischer. He was covered all over in blood with a swollen face and split lips. They had tied him to a pole like he tied the security man who challenged him earlier then they beat him with the rods they found lying around. When Elliot realized what was happening, he frowned slightly. Upon seeing this, the security men gulped down nervously thinking they were in trouble. “Who did this?” As soon as the words left his mouth, one of them stepped forward and said, “Me. It was all my idea, sir. If someone will be punished, that should be me.” Elliot parted
A Man Already At The Top Chapter 81
When Leon and Aria got to the penthouse, Dean was sprawled on the sofa in the living room munching down on some snacks. He was doing it so noisily and sloppily that a mouthful of them fell on him and on the chair instead of entering his mouth. When he saw them come in, he raised his eyes and immediately looked disappointed when he didn’t see a scratch on Leon. No, Leon looked even more energetic than when he left earlier this morning. “Hey, did you hide away while your boss did your job for you? Why are you without a scratch when you should be fighting for your life right now?” Leon stared at him blankly like one who didn’t understand a word he was saying while Aria paused and glanced at Dean coldly. “Do you have nothing else to do but to pick on Leon?” Dean sat up immediately and huffed, “What? Are you supporting him doing nothing when he was with Mr. Larol?” “What if it was really Mr. Larol who got hurt instead? Will you take responsibility if he asks the bank to return his m
A Man Already At The Top Chapter 82
Aria exhaled heavily and shook her head, “Thank you, Mr. Keal, but my answer remains the same.” James Keal stared at her for several seconds before he shook his head slightly and walked away without another word. Only then did Chloe release a breath she didn’t know she had been holding. Then she glanced around to see if anyone had seen them. When she saw everyone was busy finding a seat or too nervous to care about anyone else, she scurried to her seat as wel. Soon, the program began. Elliot came to the podium again. “After more than 24 hours of evaluating the proposals of the candidates whose names were on the list yesterday, the company has come to a conclusion on who the finalists are.” “Not only were the proposals read through and vetted by someone other than the Chairman, that person will also be the one announcing who the winners of this year are.”Almost immediately, a ripple went through the crowd as they began murmuring amongst themselves. “Not the Chairman? Don’t tel
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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
Chapter 96
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
Chapter 93
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
Chapter 92
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
