Rise Of The System Trillionaire

Lucas’s Resolution

Days later, Lucas lay in bed, his bruised and battered body a continuous reminder of his fight with Arnold at the restaurant.

The bruises, on the other hand, were healing and not quite as awful as the broken fingers and bones he'd endured or the lacerations that covered him from his legs to his neck, but they were a stinging reminder of what he'd gone through.

His face was also bruised, the skin breaking open on one cheek where a blow had struck in a fit of wrath. That punch was what knocked him out that fateful day.

He'd also lost a tooth, and Lucas couldn't help but wonder how much more he'd lost if Arnold hadn't let go of him when he did.

Damn!

Every time he closed his eyes, he was reminded of what he'd been through, and the events of that fateful day played over and over in his mind. Whenever he thought about it, his heart pounded like a drum in his chest, and his jaw clenched.

He attempted to convince himself that nothing of such had occurred and that Arnold Stone beating hi