On the same night, Bart was admitted to the hospital, and Mia had to pay the bills for his surgery because Bertha asked her with tears in her eyes.Though Bart had money in the account, he was not in a position to pay, or so Bart acted.Because it was a high-end hospital, it cost about 8000 dollars just for the surgery, and then an extra 2000 for other treatments.Had William admitted his son to a less popular hospital, it wouldn’t have cost even half as much.The next morning.Mia came to Woods Park to jog, which was her way to relieve her stress. She saw Gabe in the park, but he wasn’t lying on the ground this time. He was pruning the trees, and it seemed like he had been working on the park, trying to make it look cleaner.“Have you been working here since last night?” she asked.“Yeah,” he replied.“There are no lights here, so how were you able to see?” she couldn’t help but ask. “Wait, I think I know, so don’t worry.”“So many people used to come to this park when I was a child,
“The snake gang?” Bart frowned as he spoke with a friend on the mobile. His face was mostly bandaged up. “I heard about them, but are they really that dangerous?”“They are a nasty bunch,” his friend’s voice contained a hint of warning. “Stealing, killing, kidnapping, trafficking, and land grabbing. There is nothing they won’t do if they see money at the end of the tunnel. People have filed numerous cases against them, but everybody who tried to stop them found themselves sleeping in their graves before the court cases could reach any logical end. Police included. All the evil things they did were never proved. I’m sure they’re doing something nasty right now as we’re speaking.”“How big is that gang?”“They aren’t just restricted to a single spot. They have a big network that spreads throughout the northern part of the city,” his friend said. “They have gained more power since the governor came into power four years back.”Bart’s eyes widened. “The governor is behind them?” His heart
In the Woods park that was thousands of feet away from Gabe’s house, Gabe and Mia were just done with pruning and also cleaning a section of the park, and just this section looked good on the eyes.“Thanks for your support, my wife,” Gabe purposely teased her. “Do you want a kiss as a reward?”Mia chuckled and shook her head. “Stop with your husband-act when it’s not necessary.”Gabe kept staring at her without blinking. Her sweaty face looked oh so beautiful. He genuinely wanted to kiss her.“What?” she asked, feeling the tension growing between them.“You women have no idea how much it affects a man’s heart when women just look at them once,” Gabe said, trying to not break eye contact. “Men’s hearts and eyes speak the same, unlike those of women.”“What makes you say that, huh?”“Women… show only one side of their heart while keeping the other half hidden, just like a mirror,” Gabe said.Mia raised her brows slightly. “You think… I’m hiding something?”“M-Maybe, your feelings for me
A few minutes earlier.“Why?” Nicole asked, but there was no response.Elvis and his eleven men were all staring at her, most of them chewing bubble gums. While they were not looking at her lustfully, their gazes were still threatening in their own way.Nicole felt paralyzed. She wanted to go to the park and meet Gabe, but she couldn’t do that now.“Why aren’t you saying anything, mister?’ Nicole still tried to ask because this was the best she could do in this situation. “I don’t why you’re here for my son when I haven’t given birth to anyone.”“Mm?” Elvis’ expression changed. “You mean you don’t have a son?”“Yeah. My husband died long ago before we could have children,” replied Nicole with a straight face.“That’s why you still look so ripe,” some of Elvis’ men started snickered. “Want any help from us?”Nicole glared at them. “Mind your words. Do you want me to call the police?”“Police?” the men looked at each other and burst into laughter, further confusing Nicole. “Sure, lady.
Gabe sprinted faster than any professional athlete ever could. He covered hundreds of meters in a matter of seconds and arrived at his home moments after the gang members left.All Gabe saw was Nicole standing at the door, looking worried.“Aunt, are you alright?” Gabe hurriedly checked her everywhere. “What happened? I was told that some people were attacking you?”“They didn’t attack me, but they came here to punish you,” she replied in a sad voice.“Punish me?”“Yeah, they took your car,” she added and then told him that it was Hanley who brought the gang over so he could teach Gabe a lesson. “They look like a dangerous gang, so I’m not sure if we’ll get our car back, but we’ll go to the police station and file a complaint.”“Did they tell you what their gang name was?”“Snake gang,” Nicole didn’t hear about the gang until now.Gabe was a little startled. “S-Snake gang?”“You know about them?”“Yeah,” Gabe frowned. “That gang practically controls the northern part of the city from
Gabe stepped forward; the three men stepped backward.“I won’t even need five minutes to have fun with you guys, so don’t shy away, darlings,” Gabe uttered in a chilling tone. He looked like a predator that had been scratched where it hurt.One of the three men took out a knife and screamed as he attacked Gabe.Gabe effortlessly dodged all the quick thrusts and grabbed that man’s wrist and twisted it with brute force, making him scream painfully. The knife fell out of his hand, and his elbow and shoulders dislodged at the same time, making that man pass out from the sheer pain.The remaining two men turned and began to run away.Gabe kicked on the knife at an angle, and the knife flew up and fell into his hand. In a flash he dashed past the two men and slit one of their throats and pushed the other against the wall and thrust the knife up his ass.“AHH!” that man screamed at the top of his lungs. Tears and snot bubbles came down his face as terror gripped his face.“Shh!” Gabe hissed
Riding on the motorbike made it much easier for Gabe to travel around the vast Drummer Street which was as large as a village with over 10,000 buildings in its locality.“Why do they still call it a street where they can simply call this a zone or a sector or something?” Gabe wondered.[Let me check…] Systa used the internet to find out some information. [Ah, I see. The six bosses that rule the gang divided the northern city into six areas, and they chose to call them streets because the family name of their big boss is actually Street. I had to dig through a lot of old websites to get this information.]“What’s the identity of the Big Boss?”[I couldn’t find it.] Systa said with disappointment. [I can’t hack highly encrypted servers as that’s the expertise of the Hacking System.]“Are you saying that the bank’s servers are not highly encrypted then?”[No, they are, but let's say I’m able to do certain things because I sacrificed certain other things.]“I feel like you’re just making
“Kill him? I know he’s a bad guy, but my purpose of visit is to get my car back, not to go on a killing spree,” Gabe told Systa.[You’re being too soft.] Systa scolded him. [What if he bears a grudge on you and attacks you later. No, what if he attacks your aunt instead?]Gabe’s heart skipped for a second. “T-That’s all the more reason I shouldn’t pick a fight needlessly with the snake gang, don’t you think?”Systa was startled. [Well, right now, you are not strong enough to take on the gang and also protect your aunt at the same time, but you should at least show the gang just how much of a threat you are by being ruthless. There’s no better way than destroying a few subordinates. That way, they’ll take you seriously and try to resolve the situation.]“Or they might get utterly pissed off and come after me with full force,” Gabe said.“Sheesh…” Systa sighed. “Did you forget that I made you fight Bart when you were a nobody? But you have surely changed after meeting Mia.”“W-What?” Ga