Mr Clifford's complexion had become very grim. "I should fire him?" Mr Clifford asked Philip with an incredulous expression on his face. Philip looked at Ethan and nodded. He looked at Mr Clifford as though he was giving him the best advice in the world. "Get rid of him fast enough or you'll regret it." Philip replied as he looked at Ethan disgustedly. Mr Clifford clenched his fists in anger. "Mr Carnegie... I am trying my best to give you a modicum of respect right now. But you are going too far!""Too far? This is just friendly advice...""What is it that you want?" Mr Clifford roared with a loud voice. Philip was a bit flustered at Mr Clifford's outburst. Then he chuckled and turned to Ethan. "It's simple really... Get this bastard to withdraw the case he filed against the Waltons." Philip said with a piercing glare. Mr Clifford turned to glance at Ethan who shook his head subtly. "You must be out of your mind, Mr Carnegie." Clifford said in a subdued tone as though he was
Just like that, Philip felt a slap on his confidence as he was being ruthlessly bundled out of the company in the sight of Ethan who watched with a pleased expression on his face. He kept yelling and kicking to no avail until he was finally out of the company doors and tossed on the ground. Philip got up from the ground with a crazed look in his eyes. He approached the door as though he wanted to enter again but the guards pushed him back easily. "What are you doing? Let me inside!" Philip yelled in outrage. "No can do." The security guard said with a imposing voice as he looked down on Philip with his towering height. Philip shivered slightly in apprehension. But he still mustered up courage to talk back to him. "Do you have any idea of who you're dealing with? I'm Philip Carnegie!" "Oh really?... I don't care!" The security guard retorted. "Please leave." The other security guard said. The two security guards sturdily stood before the door of the company without any intentio
"Why did you do that?" Sophia asked with a weak voice.Their hot session had just ended and Philip was already up from the bed and dressing up.Seeing his lack of response Sophia's face scrunched up in annoyance. "Couldn't you have gone a little gentler at least?" She grumbled. Philip didn't even act as though he heard her but instead began walking out of the room with an annoyed expression. Sophia became increasingly annoyed and impatient."Is this because of Ethan?" Sophia asked through gritted teeth. Philip paused just as he was about to push the door open and turned around slowly. His expression was fierce like he was ready to murder Sophia for mentioning Ethan's name. "What do you mean?" Philip asked with a low but dangerous tone. However, Sophia was also boiling hot so she refused to back down. "The lawsuit that Ethan filed against me and my family... Don't tell me you couldn't do anything about it?" Sophia asked. "Did he do anything?"Sophia was already having a hunch. The
A couple of hours earlier, at Ethan's office. "You don't have to come pick me up, Andrew." Said Ethan. He sat behind his table with a somewhat uncomfortable expression on his face as he spoke to Andrew over the phone. "I am already planning to leave the office very soon. And I would also prefer to drive myself home today." He continued. "Okay young master. If you insist." Andrew replied. "I'll meet you at the house sir." "Yeah." Ethan said and disconnected the call with a heavy sigh. Ethan stared at the table and smiled faintly. He still clearly remembered what had happened that morning. He could vividly recall the expression on Philip's face as he was being bundled out of the company in a totally shameful manner. Just after Philip had been tossed out of the company, Mr Clifford had come to meet Ethan discreetly and was apologizing profusely. Luckily for him, Ethan didn't blame him at all and was actually rather pleased with the way Clifford had handled Philip. He only told Cl
Ever since Ethan had succeeded the empire that belonged to him by birthright, he had yet to fully understand the scope of the power that he wielded. For example, one of the things he was informed about but hadn't yet seen was these two bodyguards. They were his personal bodyguards that kept track of Ethan. They had been unable to show themselves or be by his side because Andrew had informed them that Ethan wanted to say unknown. So they naturally had to respect the decision and could only keep watch from a distance. Ethan had been quite confident in these guards and that was why he had dared to play a game of tag with the thugs through the abandoned district. He wanted to see them in action because Andrew had already boasted of their skills and capabilities. Ethan had felt that Andrew's claims were a tab bit too exaggerated but now he had seen it with his own eyes. They were unlike anything that Ethan had ever imagined. Ethan looked up at them with a sparkle in his eyes from insi
Sophia found herself heading back to her house. Her head was in a turmoil as she didn't know how to even feel about the events that had happened around her very recently. She recalled the phone call conversation that she had just overheard Philip having with someone else that he had probably hired to deal with Ethan. Sophia has no problem with that. The problem was that the attack on Ethan seemed to have failed. Why would Philip fail to cause any danger to Ethan?Sophia pushed open the door of her home and stepped in. There, she saw her mother seating down in the living room with a blank look on her face. Clara had been very reserved these days. She wouldn't go out to meet her friends... Or rather she couldn't. She didn't even have friends anymore. The last time she had tried to visit some of her friends, it had been very awkward and she ended up leaving her house that day. She who used to be the queen among her peers was now being gossiped about. Almost everyone knew of the sta
"Good morning Mr Philip." A womanly voice greeted. "What is the matter?" Philip replied grumpily. He was still in great embarrassment by the thugs that had happened to him of late. "My boss told me to inform you that there has been another development." The woman replied. "Your boss? You mean the judge?" Philip asked in a tone of bewilderment. "Yes.""Then what is the information?" Philip demanded. "She said that another case has been filed against you this morning." The woman replied. She was the secretary to the judge. "What?!" Philip grimaced. "Who is the bastard that dare to sue me?" "It's Mr Clifford sir." Replied the secretary. "He came to the court to file a case of violence and murder." Philip's face contorted in anger. "That's bullshit! I never attacked or did anything to Clifford. What evidence does he have for this allegations?" Philip roared as he stood up from the chair. "He brought some evi..""Tell your boss I'm coming to see her right now." Philip said and hu
Philip discovered that the situation was playing out according to the way he actually expected it to. The lawsuit that Mr Clifford had filed against him was a solid case, but there wasn't enough evidence to tie it to Philip. Philip had made it so that he wouldn't be traced back to those men. They had been beaten unconscious but they hadn't died. When the police had gotten to the scene of the place that Ethan was attacked, they had rounded up the injured thugs and took them in for questioning. They had tried to trace them back to the person that gave them the job but nothing could be traced down to Brick. Turned out that even Brick was merely middleman who had somehow linked up with the thugs and was using them as his disposable tools. He had been very careful and had made sure that they couldn't trace anything back to him too. Immediately after the thugs had told him what happened, Brick had severed all means of communication with them and disappeared like a ghost after taking al