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
Ethan got to Honey’s school a few minutes after they closed and got out of the car with a small smile on his face. However, his smile stiffened when he saw his daughter walking towards him with a happy smile on her face, her fingers interlocked with the boy walking with her. This same boy he had seen with her a some months ago. “Daddy, do you remember Honey’a friend?” Honey asked in a crisp voice as soon as she got to him. Ethan quickly got rid of the frown on his face when she raised her eyes to look at him. “Yes, I do. How is your friend? I don’t think I’ve seen him for the past few weeks. How have you been, little boy?” The bright smile on Honey’s face fell a little when she heard him. “Little boy? Daddy, did you forget the name of Honey’s friend’s name?” That was in fact what happened, but Ethan wasn’t ready to know how Honey would treat him if he she found out, so he quickly shook his head in denial. “Of course, not! Grown-ups like to call children his age little boy. Af
Matilda finally released her furrowed brows and glanced at the people behind her. Given that the bank manager was saying this in front of so many people without mincing words, then maybe she was right. “This card?” She hesitantly asked just to be sure as she raised it for everyone to see. The bank manager nodded. “Yes. It’s a black card ultimatum. Limitless, the identity of its owner isn’t shown to just anyone and if visiting a bank, its owner should never be kept waiting.” Matilda was silent for a moment before she asked again, “So you’re not taking me inside to arrest me?” “Why would I do that, ma’am? You’re the most important customer our bank has had in decades!” The bank manager hurriedly replied. After staring at her face thoughtfully and seeing it didn’t look like she was trying to deceive her, Matilda finally nodded and followed him into the bank. The bank manager led her straight to her office. As soon as Matilda sat down, someone walked into the office carrying a v