“Mia!” Gabe loudly asked as he rushed over to her. “Are you okay?”His voice startled her and woke her up fast. She was initially scared, but after seeing Gabe, her heart stopped skipping. “Gabe, what are you doing here?”He felt that she picked the words right out of his mouth. “I came here to breathe some fresh air, and I saw you. Why are you here at this hour? It’s not safe for you to be alone here at night.”“I know,” she tapped the bench, as if telling him to sit.Gabe didn’t say another word and sat next to her. There was a foot distance between them, though. He briefly glanced at her, and she didn’t look alright. (Was she crying again?) He remembered the last time when she was crying in her bedroom, while looking at the photo frame of her parents. “Did you come here to feel the breeze, too?” he asked.“Kind of,” she replied and looked at the stars just for the sake of it. She then looked at him and said, “Can I ask you something?”“Yeah. Sure. Anything.” He put the mobile aside
Gabe was repeatedly punching the opponent even after he fell to the floor.“Stop!” Rica stepped in, grabbed Gabe by wrist and forcibly pulled his arm behind his back and then dragged him to the side. “What the hell are you doing? This time, the task was only to defeat and not kill the opponent. What’s gotten into you?”Gabe was gasping. He was bleeding from the mouth as it was an intense battle he just had. “That bastard scolded my mom. He deserves more beating.”“You can’t act like this. If people see you losing cool just because someone scolded your mom, then your opponents will use that to target you,” Rica said in a low voice. “You won 48 times with this. If you win two more times… you’ll cross the 1,000,000 rank and receive your golden badge. You don’t want to get the penalty by breaking the rules.”“I’ll keep that in mind.”Rica then raised Gabe’s arm into the air. “The winner is Gangsta!”The crowd had been erupting all this while, most of them rooting for Gabe.“He’s done it a
Gabe bought a new mobile and gave it to his aunt. This one was worth less than a thousand dollars, which was ten times less expensive than the last one he had bought for her.“What about the previous phone then?” Nicole couldn’t help but ask him. After hearing from the kids that the mobile was worth close to 10,000 dollars, how could she just give up on that? “I think either that child Draco or one of his friends might have taken it.”Gabe had already told her of that possibility, but she didn’t agree, not wanting him to quarrel with William or Bertha for the mobile.“Forget about that mobile, Mom,” Gabe said. “I’m earning well now, so fighting with Mia’s family for the sake of one mobile isn’t worth it.”“Mm, I understand, but if Draco really was the one who stole it, then I think we must at least tell his parents about it,” Nicole opined. “They will correct their kid.”“I’m not too sure about it, though.” Gabe didn’t think that Carrie or Freddy would punish their own for the sake of
At Tuna Waves.Gabe and Nicole were enjoying the delicious salmon and tuna meat. The tuna pieces, especially, were so juicy and succulent Nicole wanted to keep eating them.Normally, she didn’t have a great appetite after falling sick. However, right now, it felt like her appetite from her younger days was returning. After all, she was eating more than Gabe now.And Gabe was extremely happy to see his aunt eat like a child. Nicole wasn’t even having a discussion. She was just fully focused on eating and nothing else.Once she finished, she burped and then awkwardly looked around, wondering if others noticed. “Every table is full. And we are only on one floor. This hotel really is popular.”“Yes, Mom. The crab’s legs in other restaurants in this region cost anywhere between 300 to 1000 dollars, but in this hotel, they are just worth 30 dollars,” Gabe said. “And the quality is actually better than what you can get in other restaurants, or so I’ve heard.”“Yeah, every dish was delicious,
Draco played games on Nicole's mobile until morning and so got extremely tired. Just when he started to sleep, the door was broken open, and Draco screamed in horror.Bart rushed into the room. “Did you take my nose ring?” he was glaring at Draco.“No, Uncle, I didn’t,” Draco replied with all the haste in the world.Bart grabbed Draco’s shirt and lifted him up. “Give it back to me if you’ve taken it. Otherwise, if I find it with you, I’ll beat your ass black and blue!”Draco began to cry loudly.“Bart!” Carrie bolted into the room. “What are you doing! Put him down! He’s just a child!” she grabbed Draco into his arms, and Draco continued to cry.Bart began to search everywhere in the room. “You better pray that I don’t find the ring in this room.”“Why would he steal your nose ring?” Carrie yelled.Bart lifted the pillow and found a mobile there. “Mm?” He checked it. “Whose mobile is this?”Draco’s heart thundered against his chest. “T-That’s my friend’s mobile,” he hurriedly said. “I
Having eaten a wholesome dinner the other night, Nicole was sleeping peacefully this morning.Her room door wasn’t locked, and so Bart barged into the room and clapped twice. The loud claps startled Nicole out of her sleep. Seeing Bart the moment she opened her eyes, she was paralyzed.Bart grabbed by the hair and pulled her up. “Where is Gabe?”“Ngh,” she frowned in anger and anxiety. “What are you doing? Let go of me!”“I asked you a question!” He let go of her hair and held her throat firmly this time. “If you don’t want to lose your throat permanently, then speak!”The sheer pressure put on her throat choked her. She couldn’t even speak even if she wanted to.“Speak!” Blinded by anger, Bart wasn’t even able to see that he was not making it any easier for Nicole to respond.It was only when Nicole looked like she might pass out any second, he loosened his grip.“Tell your…” Bart was about to say something but paused and kept staring at her. She might be many years older than him, b
Gabe was standing in the ring, staring at his eight-foot-tall giant opponent, holding axes in his hands. His nickname was Big Daddy, and his rank was exactly one million currently. He came from another city just to fight Gabe and stop his winning streak.“This guy can perfectly split human bodies in one strike,” Rica whispered to Gabe without even moving her lips so as to not look like she was being biased. “Be careful. He intends to kill you.”Gabe clenched his fists as he fearlessly stared at this giant of an opponent who was grinning at him.It was a fight where killing was allowed.Gabe wasn’t planning on killing or getting killed by the opponent, either. He wanted to become an adept alpha as soon as possible, but right now, he had to focus on the fight at hand first, which wasn’t easy, at least mental-wise.“Rhino Killer is just a little bitch,” Big Daddy said while maintaining the creepy grin on his face. “Even though you defeated him, you’re no more than a bug in my eyes. If yo
Gabe sat among the Skinners, and they all kept giving him cold looks. Even though he had won, there was nobody to congratulate him, even though there were more than fifty people around him at the moment. But he wasn’t too bothered by it because he didn’t join UTS to make friends.Gabe watched the ongoing match because a gorgeous brown-haired girl was fighting a male boxer. He was quite fast, and he could have easily knocked down most female professionals with ease, but this girl was agile to the point she was able to efficiently dodge his attacks.Gabe could tell that she was stronger compared to the opponent, but his eyes were focused on her legs not just because those curvy legs melted his mind but also because the birthmark on the side of the knee was strangely attractive. He also had a mole on his knee, so he had a pleasant feeling while watching the girl fight. She dodged and dodged until a spinning kick to the jaw sent the opponent down.She might have won with a single attack,