They were met by an inky darkness. Jovian's eyes was assaulted by a slight throbbing pain in the first few seconds of trying to adjust to this unseeming environment.Reynold however… He threw the body to the ground and walked away uncaringly. Like he could navigate the darkness with his eyes closed. A second later flames were birthed from the edge of a stick. He threw the stick into a barrel and in less than three seconds, the flames had spread and was burning fiercely inside the barrel.Thanks to that a soft glow of illumination bathed the place, causing the thick darkness to retreat away to the far corners of the building.Jovian looked around with a slight frown on his face. The place reeked of metal, the smell was almost choking… but maybe that was because of the dust. Also he could see tools here and there with the unstable illumination that was being casted forth by the fire in the barrel.There was a large fork, shovel, machetes of different kinds. He frowned and looked at Rey
“Please… I beg you… this makes no sense.”Reynold narrowed his eyes. “What position do you consider yourself to be in Jovian?”Jovian's face became terrifice with a scowl at Reynold. He stared for a few seconds and retreated.“Yes that's what I thought.” Reynold uttered and reached Tate's front.Seeing, fuming rod in Reynold's hand, Tate laughed awkwardly and looked up, his brows twitching.“Wh…wha…what are you do… do…doing bro? What is this?”“This is a determinant of how many marks you will leave this place with. Or if you will ever leave at all.”Tate face narrowed then frowned.“Are you crazy…?”Reynold lost it… “Ah fuck it” He swung the rod in reckless abandon. But before it could land on Tate’s midsection, it stopped midair. The hands that had managed to stop it was being fried intensely.Reynold scowled at Jovian.“Are you mad? What do you think you are doing?!”Gritting his teeth Jovian responded, “I can't allow you to do this. I know there will be repercussions and if all inv
“What are you talking about?”Jovian strained his expression a bit as he looked at Reynold. His hand was clenched and it was so obvious that he was trying to hold in so many emotions, despite all that effort… they still sort of spilled off on his face.“You know that the Johns family cultivate a unique culture of matching their kids from the age of five.”Reynold's eyes narrowed, “I'm not really sure but Kayla mentioned that Lei had been with her for a long time. What are you talking about?”Jovian sighed and started:“From infancy, kids are collected from their mothers, of course always at a favorable condition. The company does not participate in anything illegal, all they do it build an orphanage and accept infants that can't be taken care of by their parent or those that lose their parents during the process of childbirth.” He paused and continued, looking at Reynold carefully.“When these infants reach the age of five years old. The Johns children are brought to the orphanage to l
Reynold sank into his bed, very tired after the long night. His faces told the tales of too many emotions. He seemed sorrowful and pleased at the same time. A lot of thoughts ran back and forth his mind and fear gripped his heart.It was not the fear of just anything or anyone… fact is he didn't even care, he wasn't scared about anybody. He was sure that he would be able to protect what was his when it came down to it. This was after all the reason why he had given himself to so much training and decided to change at all cost.But what scared him was losing himself to his demons in the midst of protecting the lady he loves. This family was a very disastrous one, a kind of family that sanity cannot exist in–it was not news that every kid from the family had their insanity to deal with… even down to his wife he had to admit.And if one wanted to deal with such a monstrous family, they needed to be more insane than any of the family members are. That very notion was a definition of Reynol
The morning was up earlier than usual… or maybe he was just very tired from the long night he had with Tate and then with Kayla—who had gone out of his bed hours before he finally woke up. She did a little morning jog and was just arriving when he stepped out of the room.Reynold grinned with a sleepy face.“You look way too sexy for me to pass.”“Uh uh. Don't even think about it. I still feel drenched in whatever you put in me yesterday, if you come onto me like that I don't know if I'll eventually be able to make it to work.”Reynold leaned on the head of the triple-seat sofa and looked at Kayla with a seductive smile.“What?” She responded with a stern face.“It's not a bad idea to not go to work today. We can have all the days to ourselves.”“I see… that's a nice one, very tempting actually but no. I don't have the luxury of time to do that… besides, I've left my company unattended for about three days now. I'm sure Lei will he overwhelmed by work and I still need to find the culp
It'd been over a week since Reynold kidnapped and dealt with Tate, however, he was very shocked to not have seen any retaliation. He was sure that Sean would know of what happened and when he did, the hotblooded scion would target him as soon as he could.There were two possibilities to the reason why both of them had been silent. Either Tate had told Sean of how he divulged all the information after being kidnapped and tortured which will warrant that Sean act with carefulness or Tate told nothing to Sean at all about the kidnap because he was scared of revealing the fact that he ended up spilling all the information.Which ever one it was, Reynold didn't really care. Their silence only gave him ample time to prepare and execute his plan. Just like they had done to his wife, he was going to return the favor.A part of doing that was what he was going to see through today. Eyes fell on him as he took a majestic stride through the scattered arrays of table and chairs.The restaurant wa
“Are you seriously not gonna talk to me?”“Talk about what?”“What happened to you?”Tate sighed, his face was plastered here and there but compared to last week it was presentable. Because of it, Sean had been the one going forward for him and meeting with the representatives of the Zhang Corporations.He persistently disturbed his brother to tell him who did this to him but Tate kept his peace and did not say anything apart from being in a skirmish with some neighbor while he was drunk.Sean had told him right that instance. “You can try so much, Tate. But you can't hide it from me, I know something happened that night and I will find out whether you like it or not.”“Yea sure… I've heard you. Can we proceed now?”“Tsk.” Sean clicked his tongue and walked rudely out of his brother's office.Sean strode out to his sleek black sports car, irritation still simmering from his brother's evasiveness. His aide jumped to open the door and Sean slid inside, jacket riding up against the cream
The Orion conference room overlooked the skyline, sunlight streaming in to bathe the long glass table surrounded by over 20 well-dressed executives. At the head sat the chairman, his chin raised as he initiated the proceedings. "Good morning everyone. As you know, we are here to discuss the proposed acquisition of Zhang Corporation by my family's holding company, The Johns."His cool gaze swept the room before landing on Sean. "Representing The Johns in these negotiations are my sons, Sean and Tate. Unfortunately Tate could not be with us today due to a medical situation. But Sean will be presenting their proposal for how our companies can combine forces."Sean met his father's eyes unflinchingly as he continued. "The Johns brothers have been heading up acquisitions for the past three years with great success. I’m sure they have an intriguing vision to unveil.” Was that a subtle dig? “Sean, please.” He extended a polished hand toward him.Gathering himself, Sean approached the table