But Victor doesn’t give him any reply. He simply touches the button number 23 to set his destination to the highest floor in that office building.
“Floor No. 13, please!” says Leonard.
But Victor just ignores him and then takes a step back, letting Leonard set his destination himself, and then replies sarcastically. “Can’t you do it yourself? Didn’t you say you are already an adult?”
Leonard shakes his head with a bulging neck as he holds his anger. He keeps repeating the same words in his mind, about how he hates the youngsters these days.
Since the very first day he worked for Counterbrand, his relationship with Victor has never been good. After all, they both haven’t met that often so far.
And Victor never has any intention to be a buddy-buddy with him either. The fact that Leonard has once despised
Leonard shakes his mind, and then takes his leave with a darkened face. He gets out of the elevator, and turns back, showing his cold face to Victor as the door starts closing.But Victor only puts on a plain expression. There isn’t any sense of satisfaction in him for humiliating and despising that Mr. GM. There isn’t any sense of hatred either. It’s really not his passion in despising or humiliating people.His expression is just flat and plain, like he never considers that Leonard ever exists in front of his eyes. Indeed, he has gone tired of being despised and underestimated.As he reaches the 23rd floor and gets out of the elevator, he takes out his phone and makes a call. He seems annoyed, for the fact that Mike just left without telling him.“Dude! You kept talking about how dangerous my situation is, yet you just left without saying anything.&rd
He begins to speculate, Victor might have found out who had attacked him before, and suspected it to be the men from Fazio’s faction.And so, another misunderstanding occurs on Jimmy’s side, thinking that Victor might have been trying to pay back what those people did to him.But then, he is curious, as for the reason Fazio attacked Victor in the first place.“I couldn't understand what Fazio wanted from Victor by trying to kill him?” he mumbles.“What are you talking about?” asks Bobby with a confused face.“Are you thinking about those people who attacked that guy? No, man! That one attack was Albert's doing,” says Marco.Both Jimmy and Bobby are looking a bit startled to hear Marco's words. And Marco immediately closes his mouth, looking so regretful for almost babbling out about Albert Wilson's role in La Marca to those two.“Albert who?” mutters Jimmy with a curious face.“Ah, please! Forget about that. I shouldn't talk about this to anyone else. Not even to Bobby here! You never
As they reach the Counterbrand office building with two cars, they all get out and observe their surroundings. One of them opens the door of the back seat, and then Saul gets out with his long black blazer.Mandy, who happens to notice their appearance, knows so well that they are not just commoners. Her face turns so serious as she immediately approaches them.However, she deliberately changes her facial expression before greeting them, acting like an ignorant security girl in serving customers.“Excuse me, handsome gentlemen. Is there anything I can help you with?” she asks with her usual cheerful tone and face.“My boss here is going to have a meeting with the CEO of this company,” replies Gimbo with his heavy and deep voice.“Have you made an appointment before?”“Nope. Should I make an appointment first?” asks Saul.“I’m afraid, yes! We are not so sure if the president of the company is available to meet with you at the moment. It’s better to make an appointment first,” says Mand
Of course, Vincenzo wouldn’t easily buy that kind of scenario. He can’t understand why they would do that far only to save Victor.He is silent for a moment to think about those possibilities. After all, he finds it hard to accept a mere hard laborer like Gambino to have such influence on the other gangster group to stop their assassination attempt on Victor.It leaves him one possibility that Jimmy might have only told them some kind of silly joke.“So, you think that lawyer was lying just now?” he asks.“It’s not necessarily like that. He might just be telling us the truth. Which left us with another possibility that is even harder to accept. It’s possible that Gambino guy could be the real leader of La Marca. This is the only possibility for him to be able to do all those scenarios I told earlier,” says Mike.&nbs
Only then does Saul avert his attention toward Victor. He smiles as he walks slowly to the front of Victor’s working desk.“Do you really think I came here only to ask you to accept me as your servant?” he replies.He then pulls the chair, as if intending to have a seat without waiting for Victor’s offer.“What do you want from me?” asks Victor coldly.Saul is stopped for a moment before having a seat. He then slowly puts his right hand into his long blazer, seeming to take something from it.But Victor just stays composed, even though he knows the risk that Saul could just take out a gun. After all, he has also prepared himself a gun under his table.However, he hasn’t changed his sitting position in the slightest bit. He just plays with his luxurious pen between his fingers. It&rs
Victor immediately grabs Saul’s collar and pulls that man to him after he takes back the pen harshly. And Saul is still cursing in his agony as he holds his bloody hand. The blood is already dripping all over his luxurious long blazer.“Aaargh! Fuck! My hand!”The three of Saul's men already take out their guns.But Victor has also already turned Saul toward them as if using him as a meat shield.His left hand is now holding Saul’s chin to force him to open his neck wide. Meanwhile, his right hand is holding the pen by pointing the sharp tip to his neck.It halts those three men immediately. They can only point their guns without any option to make a move. Meanwhile, Saul keeps cursing for the pain on his hand.“How dare you, you motherfucker?!” He curses by spewing some saliva from his mouth as he finds
A little chuckling occurs from Saul’s mouth despite the fact how dire his current situation is.“Now what? Are we going to stay like this until Santa comes?” He asks by forcing his cunning smile.“Yeah, we will stay like this until all my men come here,” replies Victor.That’s when Saul remembers about what he just heard through the speaker on Victor’s collar before. He now realizes that he is in the losing ground. But he tries to keep his composure.“Hehe. I thought so too. But then, I’m getting curious, why would someone like you not just call the police to come here? Or maybe the securities below,” he says.“Don’t think you can gain control over the situation here just by babbling out any stupid talk. Now, tell them to drop their guns,” Victor issues.
In fact, with Victor suggesting Saul to take his family out, has emphasized to him that it’s a risky and dangerous thing to do. It’s like he was making sure that he won’t let him do it without taking any risk.“I might not be able to pull the trigger here. But I can send someone who can do it for me,” says Victor.Saul is looking so pissed to hear it. But he admits it, that he is indeed losing for this one.It’s almost like Victor has always been two steps ahead of him since the beginning. He might be underestimating Victor as a naive and clean businessman. But he realizes that he can’t just take Victor’s wit and intelligence too lightly.“Thank you for the reminder, Mr. President!” replies Saul before taking his leave.“Just save your thanks for yourself. You might need it later!” Victor denies.And so, Saul joins his men who are still waiting outside the office. After he leads the pack, only then do those scary looking guys follow him from behind.When Saul and his men walk toward t