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2024-10-29 19:42:56Mr De’Luka started shivering with wrath. He was anything but a loser and a nobody like the man before him had no right to insult him.
Right there and then, he wanted to pull a gun and rip the man’s skull with bullets. Or maybe ask his bodyguards to break all the bones in Jordan’s body.
“What is going through your head now, Mr De’Luka? You want to kill me right here in the open? I want to believe that you are a bit wiser than that.” Jordan walked closer, closing any gap that separated them.
They were now bleeding their wrath on each other’s faces. Mr De’Luka felt the footsteps of his bodyguards coming to his rescue, but he raised a hand to stop them to which they obeyed. Jordan had a point. He could not afford to do anything to the daring, galling man in the open. That would be too much of a gamble.
“I will get you soon, Mr nobody. And when I do, you will wish you never crossed my path.” Mr De&rsq
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“I want you to stay the fuck off Ana!” Jordan said in a faint but a hilarious echo that drew the both of them into obfuscation.“Excuse me?” Mr De’Luka spoke with disbelief after recovering from the shock.Actually, he had not recovered from it. Just like his wife, he was thinking that he perhaps did not hear Jordan right the first time. The foolish man had no grounds whatsoever to even hint they stayed from their adopted daughter, not to talk of acting all serious like he meant it.“Speak up, young man! What did you just say?” Mrs De’Luka added.“You heard me loud and clear. I want both of your faces as far from Ana as possible until she asks to see you. Not even your useless bodyguards should stick their noses around unless you want to sacrifice them.” Jordan emphasized.“You can not just do any of that young man. Ana is our daughter. It is you who needs to get your pathetic self from this place and disappear into thin air if you can. You are digging your own grave with your hauteur
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“There is nothing more, father! It is nothing!” Edwin tried to lie with a strained boldness that sold him off.He was struggling to even breathe, and obviate his father’s eyes at all costs. Jordan found Edwin to be such a coward. He could not only acknowledge his mistake, but he was also afraid of telling the truth.“Yes, there is! Do you want to come out clean or do I let Jordan speak? I know he won’t lie to me like you two are lying to my face.” Mr Jonathan spoke.Now that stroked Edwin’s demons. How could his father trust a total stranger and a useless soul like Jordan instead of his son? He despised how his father was banking all his trust and affection on Edwin’s mortal enemy.“Would you rather believe a total stranger, a right-down fool like this man instead of your son?” Edwin asked. The heat of his wrath was burning his skin, making it flash with redness.“This man that you detest so much saved my life! I demand that you show some respect to him.” His father urged.“I don’t ca
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