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2024-11-25 18:58:29“Lucia! Lucia! your father just had a heart attack! Come to the hospital right now!”
“What? Heart attack? Mother, calm down. What happened? How did Father have a heart attack?”
Hearing those panic-stricken words from Lucia, Ezekiele quickly turned to look at her.
“This is all because of you!” Anna yelled at her daughter through the phone.
It happened like this. She and her husband, Daniele, had been hosting some friends for lunch. Naturally, they were bragging about how their daughter, Lucia, was going to marry Giacomo Hamiliton, a wealthy man, very soon, when a neighbor ran in suddenly asking if they’d seen the news.
As it would turn out, their daughter had suddenly gotten married to a nobody! Unable to bear the news, Daniele slumped from heart failure.
“We’re on the way to the hospital right now. Meet me there!”
Before Lucia could respond to her mother, the older woman hung up. The phone fell from Lucia’s ear, hitting the floor of the car with a loud thud.
“My father…My father.” In her panicked state, Lucia was about to open the door of the moving car. If it wasn’t for Ezekiele’s quick thinking to lock the doors, she might have succeeded in jumping out!
“Lucia, you need to calm down! I’ll take you there. Tell me the hospital your father was taken to.”
Amidst her sobbing, Lucia managed to call out the hospital name, and Ezekiele quickly changed their destination.
With Lucia having pulled herself to her corner of the car in a daze, Ezekiele took his phone out and dialed a number. The person on the call was Lupo Solitario.
“Meet me at this hospital with the Ammo Needle.” Ezekiele called out the name of the hospital before hanging up. The Ammo needle was a special tool which could only be used by one person, the Needle God. Ezekiele Moretti was an alias for the Great Marshal, but it was also an alias for the Needle God.
Once they arrived at the hospital, Lucia didn’t even wait for the car to come to a complete stop before she threw open the door and alighted. Ezekiele watched her enter the hospital building, but didn’t immediately follow after her.
There was a black military car parked by the side of the hospital. Ezekiele got into the driver’s seat.
“Great Marshal.” The tall, thin man, Lupo Solitario, brought five fingers to the side of his head in a salute. “Here is the Ammo Needle.”
With a sharp nod, Ezekiele collected the item. It was only then that he followed after Lucia.
The scene he came across was this: An older woman was kneeling on the floor, crying her eyes out. Lucia, also crying, stood beside the woman, trying to get her to stand up. Watching them with unsympathetic expressions were Emilia and Maddalena.
“No matter how much you beg, I won’t treat your husband.” Maddalena wore a sly smile. “You can thank your daughter for that. She thinks she can sabotage my precious Emilia’s marriage and get away with it? Think again!”
Ezekiele put two and two together. It looked like Maddalena was the attending physician, but due to what happened earlier, she was unwilling to operate on Lucia’s father.
On the ground, Lucia’s mother, Anna’s cries could be heard from down the hall. “Please save my husband.”
Emilia smugly crossed her arms over her chest. “Don’t make us out to be the bad guys. Listen, if you want your husband to be saved, ask your daughter to apologize. Apologize for ruining my life and purposely sabotaging my wedding. You planned all this for a long time, right? You’ve always had your eyes on Ezekiele…That’s why you stayed around me!”
“She’ll apologize right now!” Anna cried out.
“Although, an apology alone won’t be enough.” Emilia’s laugh was full of scorn. “Along with the apology, you also have to pay €300,000.”
This statement from Emilia made Lucia flare up with anger for the first time. “A person’s life is at stake here! Your mother swore an oath to save lives! You crazy witch!”
The scene had gone on for longer than Ezekiele liked. In three steps, his long legs reached where the women stood, catching Emilia’s arm that was about to slap Lucia for the second time that day. “Don’t ever try that again.” His eyes and voice were equally cold.
“Ugh! Get your hands off me!” With much effort, Emilia pulled her arm from Ezekiele’s grip before storming off with her mother.
With them gone, Lucia’s weak legs couldn’t support her any longer. She fell in a heap next to her mother. A part of her felt anger at the lack of professionalism Maddalene showed, while another part could only feel despair and hopelessness. In the midst of it all, she blamed herself.
“You must be Lucia’s mother.”
If Lucia had forgotten Ezekiele’s presence, she was then reminded when he spoke. If eyes could kill, with the look Anna sent Ezekiele’s way, he would have been six feet under.
“You’re the fool who led my daughter astray! She was supposed to marry Giacomo Hamilton! What crazy ideas did trash like you put in her head for her to act this way?”
Ezekiele listened without responding to Anna’s harsh words. He managed to send a reassuring smile Lucia’s way. “I’ll be right back.”
When it was just the two of them left, Anna shook her head at her daughter in disappointment. “You caused this, you have to fix it.”
“How?”
“How else? Giacomo. He has the power to make Maddalene carry out the operation on your father. He’s the one you should apologize to. Call him now.”
Although that was the last thing Lucia wanted to do, to save her father’s life, she had no choice but to do what her mother asked. It was true anyway. Giacomo was the only person they could turn to.
Taking her phone out, Lucia stared dejectedly at the screen for a few seconds before placing a call to her ex-fiance.
“Hello?” Giacomo’s voice was full of pride, almost like he knew Lucia was going to call him. “Took you long enough to contact me. I thought after today we no longer had a relationship? So why are you calling?”
Taking a deep breath, Lucia organized her thoughts under her mother’s watchful gaze. “I need your help.”
On the other end of the call, Giacomo laughed. “This is the first time I’ve ever heard those words from you. I can’t lie, I’m curious. What do you need help with?”
“My father needs to be operated on soon. Or he’ll die. The doctor refuses to operate on him.”
“Oof.” Giacomo blew a breath out. “We can’t have your father dying now, can we? Listen, Lucia, I can help your father, but you also need to do me a favor, don’t you think?” The insinuation in Giacomo’s voice was as clear as day.
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“Listen, Lucia, I can help your father, but you also need to do me a favor, don’t you think?”Lucia froze inwardly at Giacomo’s insinuation, but she didn’t make any reaction on the outside so as not to alert her mother. For the entire time they’d been engaged, which was less than six months, Giacomo had always made it clear what he wanted from her the most: her body. Lucia was fully convinced that the reason he remained engaged to her for so long was that. Confirming her words, Giacomo continued, “I’m at Palace Hotel for a meeting I have with clients in the evening. If you agree to spend the night with me, I’ll send a driver to pick you up.” The truth was Giacomo had no intention of helping Lucia’s father. It was as Lucia thought. Why he stayed engaged to her was not because her family had anything to offer him. Well, they had one thing, a pretty daughter who made Giacomo’s blood boil with want. He was never going to marry Lucia. Even now, after getting what he wanted from her, he
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“It can’t be!” One glance was all Anna spared Ezekiele before she willed herself to forget his existence. There was no way that man saved her husband’s life. How could it be when he wasn’t even a doctor. Moreover, it had to be Giacomo’s doing. “Right, Lucia? You called Giacomo not long ago, so it had to be him.”“Giacomo?” The hospital director perked up at that name. “Do you mean Giacomo Hamilton? That’s impossible! I watched Master,” he gestured at Ezekiele, “himself carry out the operation. I believe your husband can attest to this too.” At his words, Anna faced Daniele. Her eyes seemed to be pleading with him to refute the hospital director’s words. “No way. Lucia, call Giacomo this instant. Let’s get to the bottom of this!”Even before her mother gave the order, Lucia had begun to dial her ex-fiance’s number. Four pairs of eyes waited in anticipation. When the call connected, Lucia put it on speaker. “Hello, Giacomo, my father’s operation was successful and he has woken up. T
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As Emilia watched, she grew green with jealousy. Was Ezekiele such a gem? If he was, then she couldn’t possibly let him go like that. She had to find a way to turn the tables around. “Ezekiele, dear.” In front of everyone, Emilia rushed to Ezekiele, wrapping her hands around him in a tender embrace. “If I had known you were like this, I would never have let you go. Can’t you forgive my mother this once? Instead of this nobody, why don’t you make her the hospital director?” Lucy felt her heart pierce as she watched the two of them, but Ezekiele remained unfazed. Prying Emilia away from his body, he moved so that he was standing next to Lucia, showing ownership. “Did you forget that I’m married to Lucia?” Ezekiele asked in a voice so cold, it put shivers in the hearts of everyone who heard it. Not one to back down easily, Emilia forced on a fake smile. “Back at the wedding hall, I might have said a few things that I regret, but you did the same. You can have me back, all you need t
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Seeing the obvious defeat, Emilia didn’t need to be told twice to disappear from the scene. The confidence that had been present with her on the way to the steel mill disappeared immediately after seeing Ezekiele take two men down at once without breaking a sweat. The men Giacomo sent were all muscles and fat, with arms almost five times bigger than hers! So seeing Ezekeile take them out like they were nothing, fear went down Emilia’s spine. Maybe they were much weaker than they looked, Emilia tried to convince herself, but even then, Ezekiele took out ten men!As she drove away to a safe place, Emilia called Giacomo for the second time in two days. “So, how was it?” His sing-song, excited voice made Emilia forget her fear and flare up in anger. “How was it?” It was ridiculous just hearing that! “What kind of men did you send, huh? They’re so weak! Ten of them can’t take out a single man!”“Wait-Wait…” Giacomo seemed to be shuffling around. He was trying to find a quieter place. He
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Emilia had long since gotten to her feet and was now scheming. The business agreement with Giacomo didn’t seem to matter as much to her now. Her thoughts were solely on how to get Ezekiele to ditch Lucia and come back to her. “I will supply you with the steel you need at the regular price. There’s no need to pay me more than is due.”Emilia almost scoffed at those silly words from Lucia. If only she knew her eye was now on Ezekiele, then maybe she wouldn’t be so eager to help. Emilia didn’t appreciate Lucia’s kindness. In fact, she detested it. If someone treated Emilia the way she treated Lucia, there was no amount of begging that would make her accept her forgiveness. Was this how she seduced Ezekiele? With the kind act? Emilia wondered, eyeing Lucia with resentment. Lucia didn’t notice this look in Emilia’s eyes, but Ezekiele, who paid close attention to everything, saw it and knew what Emilia was thinking. He was about to burst her bubble. “Now that you’ve gotten what you want
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When Ezekiele returned to Lucia’s steel mill, he heard her laughing into the phone. He stood by the outer part of the office, listening.A couple seconds later, Lucia said, “Uncle Jeremy, thank you for getting the IGB off my back. I wouldn’t have been able to do it without your help.”Hearing these strange words, Ezekiele’s brows shot up. Who was it that got the IGB off her back? Her uncle? Impossible! Still, he didn’t react or alert her of his presence, and continued to listen to what else she had to say to the person on the phone.From where he stood, it was hard for Ezekiele to hear what the person on
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Upon hearing the charges that were brought against him, Ezekiele’s smile widened. He’d suspected that Giacomo would make a move soon, and sure enough, he was using Emilia to do his dirty work. And she looked very happy to be a part of it.Taking his eyes off of Emilia, Ezekiele looked at the unsmiling officer with the gun. “Be careful with that thing. You wouldn’t want to fire it by mistake, huh?”He acted like he didn’t hear, but the other police officer, who opened the door, then proceeded to put handcuffs around Ezekiele’s wrists. A bit overkill since he was already prepared to go with them, Ezekiele thought but didn’t argue.“Ezekiele Moretti, you’re being arrested under the suspicion of sexual and p
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“Will you be okay by yourself?” Ezekiele asked Lucia.A couple days had gone by since his meeting with Giacomo Hamilton, and so far, nothing out of the ordinary had happened, but it didn’t mean nothing wouldn’t. Ezekiele was on guard, but he didn’t expect Giacomo to try to attack Lucia or the steel mill. That would be acting careless.“Yes.” Lucia nodded. “The only thing I have to do here is supervise the workers. As you can see, it’s really busy out there.”And it was. Work had begun in full swing, meaning the steel mill was the most active Ezekiele had ever seen it. With its size, there were at least over three dozen workers already working, and more were still on their way.<
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The covering of the dark night followed Ezekiele as he went out of the Rovings house to the location Giacomo asked to meet at. In ample time, he arrived at a diner at the outskirts of town. At that late hour, the inside was bustling. As Ezekiele walked in, his eyes immediately fell on the table Giacomo was seated at the back of the room. Other than that, he took note of everyone else in order to ascertain whether or not there were any suspicious persons around. The other people seemed to be regular diners, but Ezekiele didn’t let his guard down. When he reached Giacomo’s table, he leisurely pushed back his coat and lowered himself onto the chair opposite with a carefree smile.It was a bit careless of him to be alone, Ezekiele thought as stared at the top of the other man’s head. Giacomo was typing into his phone with his head faced down, but Ezekiele knew he was aware of his presence. The silence stretched for some time before Ezekiele spoke. "You claim that I have something of yo
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“Giacomo was here. He’s willing to take Lucia back as his wife!”At Anna’s announcement, Ezekiele’s face went blank. He turned to Lucia, and saw that quiet tears were already rolling down her face. But he couldn’t interrupt. Anna Rovings was very similar in terms of the family Ezekiele grew up in.Merely seeing her greedy face at the sight of the gifts told Ezekiele that she couldn’t care less if her child was hurt by their actions. As long as her needs were met, Anna would sell Lucia out.“Mom, what do you mean Giacomo is willing to take me back? I’m already married! How can I go back to him?” Lucia cried out.Even aft
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An air of quiet fury descended in the room, and for those couple seconds, it seemed like nothing was going to happen. As Lucia looked from Ezekiele to her uncle, Jeremy, the two men only had eyes on each other, staring each other down.While there was fury on Jeremy’s face, Ezekiele had on a simple smile. Anyone just arriving at the scene would never know that he’d slapped someone just moments ago.“You bastard!” Jeremy, having had enough of nursing his bruised cheek and pride, made to rush an attack at Ezekiele. He was only able to move a few seconds before he stopped again with wide, shocked eyes. Next to him, Lucia’s mouth fell open with a louder gasp.The night had just begun, but Jeremy had already been slapped twice.
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When Ezekiele returned to Lucia’s steel mill, he heard her laughing into the phone. He stood by the outer part of the office, listening.A couple seconds later, Lucia said, “Uncle Jeremy, thank you for getting the IGB off my back. I wouldn’t have been able to do it without your help.”Hearing these strange words, Ezekiele’s brows shot up. Who was it that got the IGB off her back? Her uncle? Impossible! Still, he didn’t react or alert her of his presence, and continued to listen to what else she had to say to the person on the phone.From where he stood, it was hard for Ezekiele to hear what the person on
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“This is a VIP card. It gets you anything you want in Oakheart City.” Sensing Lucia’s confusion, Ezekiele explained. Understanding, Lucia’s mouth rounded into an oh. “How-?” Lucia had been about to ask Ezekiele how he got the card, when another voice spoke over her. “Why are you still here?” It was Anna who asked this question which was directed to Emilia. “My daughter agreed to provide you with the steel you need, so isn’t it about time you left?” The reason Anna had been silent for so long was because she had been trying to process what just happened. It was a lot to process, but Anna knew for a fact that Emilia wasn’t going to sit back quietly while a big fish got away from her, and she would try to sabotage Lucia. Anna took it upon herself to make sure that didn’t happen. “What?” Emilia sneered at the older woman. “I still have some questions to ask Ezekiele.”In response, Ezekiele was quick to shut that down. “Emilia, I believe I have answered all your questions, and I’m cert
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Emilia had long since gotten to her feet and was now scheming. The business agreement with Giacomo didn’t seem to matter as much to her now. Her thoughts were solely on how to get Ezekiele to ditch Lucia and come back to her. “I will supply you with the steel you need at the regular price. There’s no need to pay me more than is due.”Emilia almost scoffed at those silly words from Lucia. If only she knew her eye was now on Ezekiele, then maybe she wouldn’t be so eager to help. Emilia didn’t appreciate Lucia’s kindness. In fact, she detested it. If someone treated Emilia the way she treated Lucia, there was no amount of begging that would make her accept her forgiveness. Was this how she seduced Ezekiele? With the kind act? Emilia wondered, eyeing Lucia with resentment. Lucia didn’t notice this look in Emilia’s eyes, but Ezekiele, who paid close attention to everything, saw it and knew what Emilia was thinking. He was about to burst her bubble. “Now that you’ve gotten what you want
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Seeing the obvious defeat, Emilia didn’t need to be told twice to disappear from the scene. The confidence that had been present with her on the way to the steel mill disappeared immediately after seeing Ezekiele take two men down at once without breaking a sweat. The men Giacomo sent were all muscles and fat, with arms almost five times bigger than hers! So seeing Ezekeile take them out like they were nothing, fear went down Emilia’s spine. Maybe they were much weaker than they looked, Emilia tried to convince herself, but even then, Ezekiele took out ten men!As she drove away to a safe place, Emilia called Giacomo for the second time in two days. “So, how was it?” His sing-song, excited voice made Emilia forget her fear and flare up in anger. “How was it?” It was ridiculous just hearing that! “What kind of men did you send, huh? They’re so weak! Ten of them can’t take out a single man!”“Wait-Wait…” Giacomo seemed to be shuffling around. He was trying to find a quieter place. He