Krone couldn’t believe what had just happened. He was quite sure that his champion, Lincoln Park, was going to come out of this second challenge victorious once more. The whole time he was feigning calmness, he was anticipating the prize he would win. After all, Miles had ended up adding a second import channel to the stakes, along with $60 billion. Unfortunately, he ended up losing the first import channels and the $5 billion he had won in the first round.“Damn it!” Krone stomped his foot on the floor as he glared heatedly at Miles. He hated this man. He berated himself for not trusting his own guts in the first. Miles, truly, was a cunning man. At first, the Edgewood-Ave jewelry tycoon had suspected that Miles was a crouching tiger waiting to reveal himself, but when Miles had offered that second import channel and $60 billion as stakes for a chance to challenge Lincoln Park, he was pulled in by the greedy, and thus, he ended up agreeing. Plus, Miles had passively threatened him an
“You must be fucking joking, right?” Caleb stared straight into Krone’s chilling glare with no fear and a sneer spread across his face. “You actually have the audacity to demand respect from me? After the multitude is sick and twisted plots you executed today? Your brain must be deeply deprived of oxygen.” He shook his head slightly while making sure that the disdain was evident on his face. “You shamelessly brought your goons into my city to humiliate us. Now that you’ve lost so miserably, you can only blame yourself.” He turned around and was about to head back to his side of the stage when he recalled that there was still something more he wanted to inform the older man. This, he turned around to glare at the man with a cocky smirk. “Oh, by the way, I will be reporting you to the Gemstone Appraisal Association for what you did today, or at the very least, what you tried to do today. They will be the ones to decide what kind of punishment to give you for what you did today.”Krone w
Miles chuckled as he watched this younger man acting his age. “Thank you for the compliment, Lincoln. I appreciate it. As for the weighing capabilities you witnessed, it’s actually a talent that I found in myself. As I grew up though, I utilized it in my family life without realizing that it would come in handy in such a grand way. As you can see, I’m a newbie in the artifact appraisal world, so all that happened today, I guess I can just say that it was all destiny.” He shrugged his showed to convey that it was all a mystery to himself as well.Lincoln Park sighed in slight disappointment, but he nodded his head in understanding. “Alright, thank you for your time, Mr. Miles. Today’s challenge was an eye-opener for me. I definitely need to work harder on my skills, and do so with humility.” He turned around and spoke a few words to Krone before leaving the stage and disappearing out of the hall.Miles smiled as he watched this man leave. What no one here knew was that there was someon
“Mr. Miles Creek, it is time for you to sign up the appropriate papers.” Caleb’s boosted voice through the speakers in the hall brought everyone’s attention back to the stage.Caleb ordered for the appropriate papers to be drafted in minutes and once he confirmed that the stipulations were accurate, had them moved to Miles who was still standing at the center of the stage.After what had happened, Miles had unknowingly gathered a lot of power. When Edgewood-Ave City had won the challenge, with Lincoln Park defeating Justin Fallon, the import channels had already been taken out of Caleb Autumn’s hands. In that situation, Dominion City had already lost the import channels to the regional raw materials that they owned. Also, when Miles challenged Lincoln Park, he didn’t receive any support from Caleb Autumn, while all of Dominion’s important and influential merchants denied him as well. Miles had to create an opportunity for himself by staking $60 billion, along with privately owned impo
“For now, I am not obligated to sell the import channels to anyone. First of all, the import channels were won with my ability, and that’s without the support of Dominion City. Most importantly though, I’m not an indigene of this city.” Miles spoke with a loud and clear voice, making everyone hear him. His voice was deep and sturdy, conveying his alluring masculinity. A lot of the women here were now lusting after him in secret despite seeing the ring wrapped around his marital fingerOnce Miles was done here, he walked towards Jonathan and Lesley under everyone’s gazes. “We should leave.”Jonathan could only smile proudly, seeing as Miles was taking this chance to let everyone here know that he was part of his family. He nodded. “Of course, my son-in-law, let’s go.” He got up from his seat.“Yes, let’s go, my dear brother-in-law!” Lesley shamelessly yelled these words out so everyone would know, as she ran forward to wrap her hands around Miles’s arm. “I’m ready to leave as well.”Jo
“Of course!” Lesley nodded her head resolutely. “If you don’t believe me, you can ask Dad.”Lola smiled brightly, feeling her heartbeat brightly for her husband. Every day, she keeps finding out more amazing things about her husband, uncovering his enigmatic appeal one later at a time. It made her fall deeper in love with Miles Creek. Right now, she just wanted him near her so she could wrap her arms around his neck while confessing her love to him over and over again like they just met each other for the first time.But then Fiona sneered as she saw the happiness on her daughter’s face. “Don’t be too proud yet. Have you forgotten the part where Lesley mentioned that stupid husband of yours offending the Webber family?”“Oh, c’mon, Mom.” Lesley rolled her eyes. “Miles only dealt with Collins Webber, and that guy deserved everything Miles did to him.”“Shut up your rotten mouth!” Fiona suddenly got really mad at Lesley. “I see that you’ve started standing up for that useless excuse for
“My goodness, Miles, where the heck are you?!” Lola was angry and worried as she kept pacing the small of her living room, back and forth while her head was down on the phone in her hand. The phone was ringing with ‘My Husband’ as the caller ID. She had been trying to get in touch with the man ever since she got back home and tucked little Kelsey into bed. “Damn it, Miles. Why aren’t you picking up my calls.” The man’s phone had been switched on but he wasn’t picking up for some reason. This only made Lola’s heart fill up with greater worry, as she couldn’t help but wonder if Collins Webber had gotten to her husband. Her heart raced furiously as all sorts of negative scenarios filled her head.It was at this moment that Miles picked up his call and she could feel herself taking in a breath. She placed the phone over her ear. “Where the hell were you?! Do you have any idea how worried I was?! Why wouldn’t you pick up my call?!”There was a brief moment of silence from the other end of
“Oh shut up! You scumbag! I can’t believe you even have the audacity to claim that you could stand against someone like Collins Webber, or even the whole Webber family for that matter!” Fiona was yelling with fury while staring at her son-in-law with disgust. “Who do you think you are?! Do you think I would believe everything that went down at that antique fair was anything other than a hoax?! Oh please, you must be kidding! I don’t know how you fooled my husband and daughter, but your pathetic tricks won’t work on me! I know exactly what you are – a poverty-stricken piece of rag who would resort to fraudulent acts just to appear like he’s something important!”Jonathan was angry at the way his wife was behaving right now, but he loved her too much to yell at her. “Fiona, for goodness sake, will you calm down?”“No, let me get my piece out of my mind, Honey!” Fiona quickly rejected her husband’s attempt to calm her down. She resumed glaring hatefully at Miles. “Pathetic piece of trash