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
“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
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
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
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
“Rest assured that the President took his time to go through the proposals of every 20 candidates before he came to a decision. Now, let’s hear from him.” As soon as he finished speaking, the Jumbotron screens placed all around the place lit up with a view of an office swivel chair. They could all see the window which belonged to the office situated on the first floor. Five seconds later, Leon majestically walked to sit on the swivel chair. Earlier, he had positioned the camera not to show his face. All the people downstairs could see was his tie and hands as he flipped through the document he was holding. “Is the camera not properly placed? Why can’t we see his face?” “You’re right. I’ve been waiting for his face to come into view all this time. I think the camera wasn’t set up properly.” “Mr. Wyatt, please hurry up and inform the President we can’t see his face.” However, Grant turned to them with a small smile. “The President does not plan to reveal his identity just yet.”
Leon was watching the scene in the surveillance camera with his brows furrowed tightly into a frown when Grant Wyatt walked in with a phone. “You were right, President. It didn’t even take anything to get him to slip. He must’ve really done this so many times and gotten away won’t it.” Leon took the phone wordlessly from him and played it. Hearing James Keal boast of his family’s fortune and how fine of a mistress another man’s wife would be to him made his eyes cloud over with rage. He paused the video and turned on his camera again. “I hope everyone hasn’t left yet. I just came across this one proposal I overlooked as it was just brought to me by Grant Wyatt.” Everyone stopped talking and stared at the screen closest to them. “It’s the best proposal I’ve seen today. However, since the first position has been taken, I’ll be creating another position. It’ll be rarely used as it would only be for very brilliant proposals.” “That position is First Runner Up. And the first company
Joseph was taken aback for a moment. He was about to say something, but paused when he realized Grant Wyatt was being serious. Furthermore, every other person behind the stage and in the auditorium had their eyes pinned on him. The last thing he wanted was to insist on signing the contract only to end up embarrassing himself in public. He smacked his lips together and laughed awkwardly to make the situation he was in less embarrassing before passing the contract back to Grant. “Forgive me, Chairman Wyatt. I just thought I’d be a more suitable candidate to sign the contract since I’m a senior executive. My bad.”The staff behind Grant snatched the contract away from him and stretched it towards Aria directly. Grant looked away from Joseph without responding. He then flashed Aria a small smile and continued, “Like i said earlier, you’re free to take it back with you to Wentworth.” “Go through it with your lawyer and if you there’s anything you’re not comfortable with in the contrac