Doctor Gerald was already ready to turn around and leave. His head turned towards the door and his apprentice packed his things.Vincent groaned angrily. There was a place for sympathy in his heart for the old man. Besides in his opinion, the old man had only been standing in his way ever since.But now that he is gone. It was going to make things a lot easier for him.The board were now going to be the ones that would be doing the choosing and now that Mr. Anderson died in the hands of someone that Lina had brought to the family, there was no way that she was going to be elected."Cough! Cough!" A loud cough was soon heard throughout the hall like the loud sound of a horn.And from the direction that the sound came from, it looked like it was coming from Mr. Anderson.But after what everyone in the hall had seen just a while ago, it was difficult for them to believe this.Their hearts were still frozen.For a while, there was a pause in the hall. Nobody moved. Then the sound came aga
It was difficult for Lina to believe that Doctor Gerald had said these words. Since she has always believed that he was an upright man. Where did all of that just go in a flinch?Meanwhile, for Doctor Gerald, he felt that he did what had to be done. He was one of the best doctors in the city.Admitting that he was not able to treat Mr. Anderson was going to be a really big blow and Xander might end up taking his place.This was something that he could not afford."That you once again." Mr. Anderson had a really weak smile on his face as he spoke.Lina could not contain her anger anymore and she turned around towards Doctor Gerald, removing all the formalities that used to be added to his name."Doctor Gerald." She blotted out angrily, making everyone in the room shift their attention over to him."What do you think that you are doing? Taking the glory when you know that you had nothing to do with what happened?" She thundered but Doctor Gerald faked ignorance, claiming not to know w
Doctor Gerald's heart was shaky at first but hearing these words made him relax right on the spot.Meanwhile, Lina was still smitten by the shocks that held her. She knew that Vincent could be anything but adding the status of a liar to his name was something that she had never expected.Drawing a really deep breath, she clenched her teeth, hoping that one of them was going to be reasonable enough to stand for the truth but it turned out that she was wrong."Yes. We saw it with our eyes.""Xander is no more than a punk. How would he have been able to treat Mr. Anderson in the first place?""I can't believe that Lina would go gaga because of someone like him." The crowd kept on repeating, clouding Xander's and Lina's hearings.Heart raced. She could feel her heart beating hard against her chest as though it was going to burst through.Her hands were clenched against each other and finally, she turned around towards her grandfather."Grandpa. I have never lied to you before. Are you go
"And who gave you the permission to leave whenever you want?" He quickly responded with a thick frown on his face.Lina stepped forward. She never realized that her family would stoop so low."Stop me if you can," Xander responded as he continued to walk towards the herb.Mr. Anderson was tired now and could barely say a word. He was drawing weak even though he didn't know why. But he was sure that Doctor Gerald would eventually be able to take care of it.The only thing that he could do now was watch as he couldn't even muster enough strength to speak."He took the herb from the table and turned around to leave. Turning over to Lina."It was going to be stupid for her to call her guild anyway. Since with theirs combined, hers was nothing to write home about.Though Lina was looking calm from the outside, on the inside, she was in trouble. She would prefer Xander's life to that stupid herb for the most part.She drew a really deep breath, trying to control her rising emotions before
Henry had already recovered from the shocks that ran through his vines. He gritted his teeth angrily with a sense of anger rushing through his blood stream.This time, he knew that Xander was a martial artist, so he didn't take him anymore."Don't think of yourself as too highly punk... You were only able to face quite a dozen men. Let's see how you are going to face a hundred plus trained martial artists." He muttered with a dark look on his face.There was certainly no way that Xander was going to escape from this.The crowd that had fallen silent for quite a while were rejuvenated all of a sudden. Their scorn for Xander was brought back almost in an instant."Just because he was able to defeat just a few marital artists doesn't mean that he is even powerful.""I am sure that he was able to do that only because he had some dark arts. If not, how was he able to defeat quite several trained artists without even shifting a blow?" Another one of them said, their faces all twisted with s
Xander turned around towards Lina and said to her,"We should leave already."Lina nodded her head and they walked away from the hall. Meanwhile, Lina led her off to her mansion which was close to the beach with a splendid view.Xander was lost in his stare for a while as he continued to look at the spectacular sight that lay before him.It was indeed one of the most beautiful sights that he had ever seen all his life.He turned around, walking towards the herb that was lying on the table, and noticed that someone else was there.It was Lina and she was playing with it, staring at the raw beauty of this herb.She continued to stare at it. Her hands gradually reach out to it. Xander knew how dangerous it was going to be if her hands poked into one of those.He reached out to call her off from what she was doing but before he could get to do this, the deed had already been done.She had stretched her hands right into one of them. Xander's eyes popped out from his head as he continued to
Their lips interlocked and the sliding off of the door was the only thing that pulled them up apart.Xander looked forward to see who was at the door only to notice that it was a strange lady, kind of a prototype of Lina.He knew that from the looks on her face, she was not the kind of person that was going to allow him to throw questions at her.Once the time came, he was going to know everything. The first thing to prioritize at the moment was Lina's safety.He stared at her for quite a while, unable to dictate the action that he was going to carry out at the moment.But it seemed like he didn't have to do anything anyway. She sped off towards him with a deadly look on her face."You fool. How dare you molest my sister." She thundered at him.Raising her hand high up into the air, she attempted to throw a slap at him while he wasn't looking.But the energy that came from within him threw it all away. Her heart raced. The pain that she felt told her that Xander was powerful.But that
Lady Willow paced throughout the room, her heart racing fast while Helena sat at the far end of the chair, her hands sucked deep into her cheeks.Their family funds were running lower than ever, they had taken so many loans that no bank would even take a look at them anymore.They needed to get some other options as soon as possible so that their family would be able to bounce back to its initial position.But then again, they were short of ideas this time, not knowing what they were going to domA deep breath was the only thing that they could all draw. A family meeting was called but yet, the place was as silent as a graveyard.Helena could not stand the silence that filled the hall anymore and she went ahead to ask."Mom, what about Mr. Broker? The head of the All Back Association that you had a meeting with yesterday. Wasn't he able to help?" She inquired with a really weird look on her faceBut a sad wiggling of the head was the first response that she got and she went ahead to