On the rooftop where Ethan proposed to Chloe, four men were now standing on it. “Ms. William got home safely with her sister.” Levi Cruz stood in front of Ethan with his face lowered to the floor and reported. Standing beside him was Josiah Haworth. Unlike Levi who was calm and collected, the man kept clenching and unclenching his jaw every one second. Ethan stood with his back turned to them while Kane leaned on the railing behind him with a tablet in hand. He scrolled for over twenty seconds, but the same video kept popping in front of him with different write-ups and edits. He smacked his lips together and raised his eyes to look at Josiah.“It’s bad, Chairman Haworth. Each of these videos keep gaining views by the second. It’s almost as if the netizens keep rewatching every clip.” “There are also countless edits of it. Why is there so many videos of it? Weren’t you supposed to take it down as soon as you noticed people were beginning to upload it?” Josiah sucked in a deep b
When they got to the main road, the woman pointed for Ethan to drop her off at a gas station. Before she got down, she grabbed the pen and paper she found in the car and wrote down her number. She first glanced at his fingers before she smiled brightly and dropped the paper on the dashboard.“Please call me, sir. I’d like to repay you for saving me today over a cup of coffee.” Ethan nodded absentmindedly and drove away as soon as she got down. Matilda was still watching her soap opera in the living room when she heard the door open again. She frowned slightly when she saw Ethan walk in. “What is it with you three returning so early in the day?” “Did you quit your jobs? I hope you didn’t because I need your pay checks way more than you do!” Ethan was about to walk past her when he reconsidered and walked to stand in front of her, blocking her view with his body. Matilda’s mind flashed back to what he had said to her a few days ago and she stuttered fearfully, “Wh-what are you d
After Ethan and Chloe made up, she felt tired by the day’s activity and proceeded to rest. It was still a few hours away before Honey’s school would close, so Ethan decided to stay with Chloe until then.However, three minutes into their quiet time, he felt his phone buzz in his pocket and quietly got off the bed to the balcony to answer the phone call. He had just pressed the phone against his ear when he looked down and saw Penelope Whitmore standing outside the house, her eyes raised towards Ethan. “Commander, I looked into the family Josiah Haworth mentioned earlier. The Caldwell family has always been in Springdale, but they’ve never been in anyone’s face, so not a lot of people know about them.” “They don’t mingle with just anyone, but numerous families tries to suck up to them because of how how much control and influence they have as owners of a television station and the biggest social media app in the country.” “Frankly speaking, there’s no family in the city who can go
Despite the dozen men circling around them threateningly, Charles still asked, “So let me get this straight, you’re dogs for the Wellington family and they made you remain in the shadows?” Tristan’s jaw ticked at the question and he glared at him. “You don’t know anything about us, do you?” Charles shrugged and turned his attention to the men in front of him. Even though they didn’t seem like much, he knew better than to underestimate them.After all, these men had been around the whole time and he barely felt their presence. The men from the Caldwell family divided themselves into two groups with six of them circling each of the men.Charles eyes followed the men’s every move as they maintained a calm composure. Then one of the men made the first move. He lunged towards Charles, his fist aimed for a knockout blow. But Charles was faster, sidestepping in a blur and slamming his elbow into the man’s temple with deadly accuracy. The attacker dropped before he could even comprehen
Kane clenched his jaw tightly and waited to feel the gut-wrenching pain from being shot, his eyes wide open the whole time. However, he suddenly realized he was no longer standing in front of Tristan Caldwell. Instead, he was standing behind a familiar back. “Did I say you could die?” Ethan asked without turning to look at him. Kane felt a drop in his stomach and a lump formed in his throat. “C-commander?” Charles heaved a silent sigh of relief from where he stood and turned his attention to Tristan again. Tristan Caldwell was startled when he didn’t see a corpse lying in front of him. He hurriedly got up from his seat when he raised his eyes and realized there were no longer two men in the room with him, but three. No one in the Caldwell family knew what Ethan looked like. All they had was an old picture of Ethan as a teenager which was taken from a bad angle with poor lighting. Simply put, it was really of no use in identifying what Ethan looked like then and even now. But
“Why do you explain to him, family head? He’s nothing but a lowly bastard whom the Wellington family wants dead.” Came a very low voice belonging to the girl standing directly behind Isaac. She had her hair down and her eyes lowered to the floor as she spoke. Had she not been standing behind him, no one would’ve been able to find out who spoke. The people standing next to her nudged her by the arm and reprimanded harshly, “Don’t mention the Wellingtons so casually. How could a distinguished family like them be involved with trash like him?” “Even the William family didn’t want him, what makes you think you should associate him to an elite family like the Wellingtons? I ought to cut out your tongue, you little brat!” “Don’t ever say this again lest the Wellington family hears. They could have your head for calling this good-for-nothing part of them.” She hurriedly lowered her eyes to the floor and apologized immediately. “Forgive me, I’m just saying we shouldn’t be apologizing to
Ethan didn’t look fazed by his threat which caused Isaac Caldwell to grit his teeth in rage. “Do you really think I’m bluffing? Tsk! Why bother talking to a dead man walking like you when I can just lean back and watch them pound you to death.” He huffed and stopped talking. Ethan ignored him and glanced around the room again. “When I leave here today, there will be nothing but rubbles and most of you will be buried underneath it.” “That won’t happen of course, if one of you steps forward and brings me his tongue. Such a small sacrifice for the sake of your Caldwell family, don’t you think?” Isaac laughed in contempt. “What a futile attempt to save your life, Ethan. Just accept your fate and die now. I promise to send your wife and daughter after you in a few hours.” Ethan continued ignoring him as his eyes swept through the faces of the people standing behind him. “No one will do it? You made your choice then.” As soon as the words left his mouth, the six men in the room su
Ethan and Elsa Caldwell stared into each other’s eyes for more than one minute, each seeming to look into the soul of the other. After another one minute passed by, Elsa broke eye contact and snorted out a laughter. “The Wellington family told me you’d be a small fry to handle. Of course, I couldn’t take chances given how easy it was for you to wipe out a big family like the Lauthners overnight.” “Does anyone even know where they disappeared to? It’s like they disappeared into thin air.” “Only a few people can make that happen; wealthy families like the Wellingtons, the government and a high ranking army official like a commander.” “So I took the liberty to be careful when taking care of you. And because of that, I knew just when to stop.” “Had I pushed forward and let Isaac attack you like I planned, you would really make the rubbles of this house bury us alive, wouldn’t you?” Ethan scoffed and raised a questioning brow. “What makes someone as despicable as you think you have