Camilla’s frown deepened as she briefly stared down at the ground beneath her. “William, I can’t stop you from meeting my aunt, but I can warn you to be very careful of her. Based on what you told us, I’m certain that she has taken your invitation as a threatening one, and she’ll be coming with some powerful backup.” She allowed a moment of silence. “William, you don’t know this, but our family….um…has a lot of dark secrets, including dark hidden weapons. Unfortunately, I can’t give you the specifics of this hidden weapon.” She then placed her hands up. “Trust me, it’s not that I don’t want to tell, but that I simply can't. There’s a tight and very difficult criteria that a member of the Parker family must meet before they’re privy to these secrets. Unfortunately, despite being the heir to the family’s business empire, I haven’t met the criteria, so I don’t know much. Aunt Veronica, on the other hand, not only knows these family secrets but I heard from my father once that she also h
William arrived back at The Sand Club Estate an hour before Woodruff and Veronica arrived there.“Young Master, they’re here.”William was seated in the meeting room with two McArthur bodyguards behind him. “I see. Kindly lead them here. I’m sure they know their way though.” He tapped on his in-earpiece, which he was using to communicate with the McArthur bodyguard who had just relayed the information from the Sand Club estate’s main gate.When Woodruff and Veronica were allowed into the club estate, they didn’t come alone. There were two large trucks with them and a convoy of twelve black jeeps right behind them. The two were seated in the rear seat, looking out at the unchanged condition of the club estate properties.“He hasn’t done anything to clean up this mess? That’s quite unexpected.” Woodruff frowned as he gazed out the tinted windshield on his side.Veronica chuckled as she heard those mumbled words. “He’s probably raking up his savings for the renovations. My sources h
Woodruff felt slightly offended by that statement. “Exactly. So why would I surround my home with lazy security? I had over two hundred security guards around the estate, along with over fifty personal bodyguards protecting me and my family. That demon spawns brought in support in the form of masked mercenaries, and, worst of all, those bodyguards of his. That night, every single one of my men was left with human meat passed for hands. They had to quit working for me and I had to pay them enough to keep them afloat for the rest of their lives.”Veronica didn’t need to hear the rest of Woodruff’s story, especially when she heard that William brought his bodyguards along. She could now understand how William was truly the culprit of the Camillo mansion explosion. “Damn! Those bodyguards of his, they’ve fought against my creatures and defeated all of them. If it wasn’t for his bodyguards, I wouldn’t have lost those creatures that day. They were all taken away to God knows where. It was
The female McArthur bodyguard looked absolutely unbothered as she stood in front of the management tower entrance. Despite the large amount of bodyguards surrounding Woodruff and Veronica, along with those two large trucks behind them, she held no expression of hesitation as she walked toward the crowd.“I believe you’re the ones my boss has been waiting for. Next time, try not to take up hours.” She didn’t wait for a reply as she turned. “I’ve been sent to welcome you guys in for the meeting.Everyone who heard these words from the petite young woman was too stunned to speak. It wasn’t her words, but rather her unbothered demeanor the whole time. There was no trace of fear in her eyes. It was clear that she didn’t see them as a threat.Woodruff was not angered by this as he had expected something similar to this. Through his months of rivalry against William, Woodruff had learned the hard way that facing such an enigmatic young man like that with an inflated ego would surely lead
There was a moment of stifling silence after William spoke. Those with a cute perception could feel the anger brimming with Veronica.It was quite obvious that the Parker woman was not expecting William to go straight to the point. She had anticipated being the one to rile him up, perhaps using his destroyed properties as a catalyst to make William lose his cool, and yet, the opposite was happening.Veronica smirked wryly as she shifted her gaze to Woodruff seated to her left. “Can you believe this foolish boy? He actually has the guts to act like he didn’t know what he did.”William sneered internally while maintaining an outward nonchalance. “I don’t know what you’re talking about, but I’m really not pretending. Look, the truth here is that I tend to forget a lot of my actions if I deem them unworthy of remembering at all. I’m not gonna say that I’m not guilty of whatever you think I did. Rather, I’m letting you know that I’ve probably flushed it out of my memory since the event
“Beating around the bush like a cursed snake, huh?” William assumed a thinking posture as he lightly placed his fingers beneath his chin. “It’s funny that you mentioned that because your son, Timothy, was the one doing that. And you know what they say: the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.” He smirked slightly once he saw the deepened frown on Veronica’s face. “If you’ve done your research, which I’m highly certain that you did, you would know that I would have never been involved with the Camilla Charity Organization, not to even mention meeting Camilla, if your son’s greed hadn’t reared its ugly head in the day the charity organization hosted that event at BAU.”Veronica understood what William was getting at. Just like William said, she had truly done her research on how William’s interference in the charity organization had come to be in the first place. So she knew all that happened, which had them led to William meeting Camilla and ultimately getting involved in the uncover
Woodruff, who had been silent the whole time, frowned with widened eyes as he noticed this too late. “Mrs. Veronica, wait!” He had way more experience facing William when compared to Veronica. So the multi-billionaire could instantly tell this wouldn’t bode well for his partner.Unfortunately, it really was too late.Seven gunshots were released and a bunch of groans and short yelps were heard in the meeting room before everything went briefly quiet.Veronica glanced to the side to find Woodruff’s wide eyes on her, and she smirked wickedly, assuming that expression to be of astonishment. But then her gaze shifted to William and her smirk froze on her face. “Huh?!” She had expected to see the young man with his eyes closed and seven holes in his forehead, bleeding out profusely as he took his last breath. That wasn’t what she saw though. William was absolutely fine. He remained calmly seated in his seat and he wasn’t touched in the slightest. The chaotic scene she expected to be wi
An intense wave of fear gripped Veronica’s entire body as she heard these words. Her expression conveyed her immense shock as she gazed at William. “What…What did you just say?”William raised an eyebrow. “Oh? Are you absolutely sure that you don’t mind me repeating myself? After all, this has been one of your heavily guarded secrets from everyone, including the Parker family and even your son. Please, I dare you to tell me I’m wrong?”Woodruff slowly sat up straight in his seat with confusion in his eyes as he shifted his gaze to Veronica. “What is William talking about?”“Something that is most definitely none of your damn business, Woodruff!” Veronica had given this reply a little too quickly and with a harsh tone. She whipped her head back to William with a bitter expression. “How did you know about this?”William chuckled. “Do you mean how I found out that you run a highly dangerous ammunition factory that you sell to enemy military forces outside of the continent?” He then