“What can never happen?” Jordan asked.Liya had been battling with conflicting emotions and disbelief for a long moment, leaving the two men puzzled.“Miss, can you tell us what is worrying you like this? If it is about us, we assure you that we are not bad people. We will cause you no single harm.” Jonathan explained.They would not cause her any harm directly, but the people they had messed up with would surely kill them all if they found out what they had done. She understood their oblivion though. They didn’t know what kind of hell they had evoked. Fear stung her tenfold. Martin would spare no soul if he found out. Their lives were in greater danger. Even hers, for hosting them.She gathered her trembling self from the couch and stood up, trying to amass as much amount of air in her system to calm her nerves. A fruitless attempt it was. She knew there was nothing that could calm her down in the situation.“And you?” She stared at Jordan, speaking with a voice that was too weak. Sh
The man who was listening behind the door took out his phone after gathering the information he needed. He dialed his boss’s number.“Speak, Tony. What have you found out?” Martin spoke, a puff of smoke emitting from his nose and mouth.“Boss, your hunch was correct. I heard them talking. The old man was Gabriel’s target last night. The other guy is the one that rescued him and also killed our men.” Tony explained as he walked out of the compound.Martin roared in emotional arousal. He knew those men were not to be trusted from the moment he saw them. But now his anger and thirst for vengeance grew even more. An eye for an eye.“Those bastards!” He cursed. “Did you get any info about those two fools? Especially that cursed guy that killed my men. Who is he? How was he able to kill our three men that easily?” Martin asked. He wondered how a single man was able to kill his skilled killers that easily.“The guy is a nobody as far as I heard. He has no family nor does he have work.” Tony
“You both better hurry if you want to escape them. They will not spare you if they catch you.” Jordan was still engrossed in thoughts when the voice of Liya startled her.Jonathan nodded his head. He appreciated the girl’s honesty to save their lives. He still remembered his promise to reward her for her help and generosity. He inserted the combination into the briefcase and it opened. It was fully ladened with bulks of dollars that Liya’s naked eyes could not count nor could her mind surmise their exact figure. She had never even dreamed of such kind of money in her entire life. She even forgot how to breathe while her eyes tried to corroborate whether all those notes were fake or real. She swallowed hard.‘There are really some rich people in this world.’ She thought, snapping her eyes out the briefcase as the man pulled out a bunch of denumerable notes. He shut the briefcase and turned to Liya who was sweating from the kind of wealth she had seen with her naked eyes. She wondered
“I am sorry I didn’t think of that at first.” Mr Jonathan explained.Lia felt a bit relieved with the idea of the two men not leaving. She was so apprehensive of her safety. She just didn’t want to stop them or vex them.“So, what do we do? Those men will kill us the minute they find us.” Jonathan directed the question to Jordan.Jordan paused to think, while the two individuals waited patiently for his decision. They trusted him with their lives.Jordan thought and thought. He knew his martial arts skills would be of great use, but he knew it would be difficult to fight a whole gang all at the same time. He needed a good plan.“It is me that they want, so we will lure them into a trap but outside of this neighborhood.” Jordan stated, puzzling Jonathan and Liya even more.Lure them? Did he want to trick them?“What you are thinking is dangerous. How will you trap them? And what will you do? You can’t fight them.” Liya said. She was getting so worried by Jordan’s hazardous plan.“You w
Jordan walked in swiftness and traced his way back to where he had rescued Mr Jonathan the previous night. The first shock he got was the missing bodies of those goons he had fought at night. The ground where he left them lying half-dead was crystal dry. No single drop of blood was traceable. The lack of blood rang an alarm for him. It meant that someone had taken them and cleaned up the blood. For someone to do that, it meant they had a motive.“Looking for something?” A deep voice spoke from his behind.He could agnize that arrogant voice. He had heard it a few minutes ago. He turned around slowly, portraying zero signs of nervousness or fear. The belligerent face of Martin greeted Jordan’s arctic one, and behind Martin was a battalion of armed goons with all-ready armor. The acuate blades and guns made Jordan deduce another plan. Fighting a battalion of militarized men would be a straight ticket to the grave for him.He had to think of a plan B fast.Martin walked closer in drawn-o
“Okay. I will grant you your last wish on this world! But it has to be only one request.” Martin stated, still washed-up in the muddiness of the man before him.Jordan took a minute to think. He needed to buy time for his back-up to be alive and he needed to be extremely careful. He needed to outsmart those people.“If you do not speak in a minute, I will forget about your damn last-moment request and rip your stupid brains apart!” Martin said when Jordan took too long to speak.He knew the bullet was an easy way compared to what he had in store for the man, but his impatience had conjured his gun to Jordan’s forehead. His goons behind him also cocked their guns and pointed them at Jordan.Jordan found them pathetically lame. He was all alone, yet they could not even attack him with bare hands. He didn’t know how he could fight all of them if they chose that option, but at least they would portray a flyspeck bit of manliness.“I want to die a heroic death, and I am sure you want to be
“What should we do?” The goons murmured amongst themselves while their eyes remained glued to Jordan.Their boss was still wriggling in pain on the floor with his broken leg and the lower part of his face drenched in blood.“We can’t make a mistake or the boss will be killed right before us.” One of them said.“Then what?” Another asked apprehensively. “We have to do something. This man can not get away from us. He killed three of our men and now he nearly killed our boss. We have to finish him off!” Another one said.“But if we shoot, he will definitely shoot our boss!” Another one argued.“Sometimes, we have to sacrifice some people in battles to safe our own asses.” Another one stated, summoning everyone’s attention.“Are you trying to suggest we sacrifice our own boss? Are you insane?” One man asked on behalf of everyone. That was the same question lingering in everyone’s head.“We don’t have a choice! We are not even cognizant of what is going through that guy’s head right now, d
In a moment, a girl ran into Jordan’s arms, encompassing him into a hug that left Jordan’s companions jaw-dropped. They remembered him saying that he had just divorced, and then there was a bimbo clinging to him like a long-lost lover. They wondered who she was, especially Liya. She could not help the tinge of jealousy that molded within her.Ana, on the other hand, had not rested the entire night anticipating seeing her savior again. She was over the moon after finding him again, but the reason behind their re-encounter was weighing heavily on her every sense.Her father, after paying off the damages that Jordan had inflicted on Edwin at the hotel, had taken the inaugural mandate to teach Jordan a lesson. Having noticed the profound fondness that his adopted daughter had developed for Jordan, he had decided to use her to lure Jordan into his vicious trap. And Ana, compelled by the delight of seeing Jordan again and the fear of going against her parents, had to agree.Jordan pulled th