Victor confidently puts his hands in his trouser pocket. He explains in detail about his evaluation to that one boutique.“I value this one for $135.000. Considering your previous offer, I take that the other six boutiques have the same value as this one. For seven boutiques, it will be $945.000. I’ll give you a bonus, and buy them for 1 Million,”“Bullshit!” Andrew vents out his objection. “This business chain has a gross revenue of more than 7 Million a year. And you are telling me to sell it for 1 Million dollars? Are you out of your mind? If you don’t have the money, stop acting arrogant in front of me.”“The question is, why would you sell this business if it’s really that profitable?” Victor raises one of his eyebrows with so much confidence. “I know you could collect 7 Million revenue a year. But not after your dad stops moving his dirty money from his money laundering to your boutiques cash flow.”Andrew is startled to hear Victor talking about his dad’s money laundering. He h
Just like before, Victor spends most of his time with Judy and Chappy at Benigno’s place. He will stay here for long, at least until the dark comes. And just like usual, he keeps inviting Benigno to join his PDS platform. And of course, Benigno insists on denying him. It has become a new trend in this pizza shop every time Victor visits this place. “Just give up already, Victor!” says Ivy. “You’ve been with us for so long. You should have already known better than us that he has a head as hard as diamond.” “What was that?” Benigno gushes. “Uw! Look, it sparkles,” Ivy keeps teasing him, closing her eyes as if she is blinded by Benigno’s sparkling barren head. It sparks some laughter from everyone else. Benigno distances himself and heads back to his office while grumbling with some annoyance. When he enters the office, he shakes his head with some peaceful smile. He is actually enjoying it, that his shop is back as merry as the old time before he had an issue with Victor. Not lon
It invites a short chuckle from Vincenzo. He shakes his head with a disbelieving face. But Victor’s facial expression doesn’t change in the slightest bit. That’s when Vincenzo realizes that Victor is serious with his intention. “Who is the target,” he asks. “I take that you’ve seen the two men who left Benigno’s shop, right before I got out of that place today,” says Victor. Vincenzo nods twice by taking his face in another direction. “I’ve been quite familiar with them. Mike and I have noticed them stalking you for a while in the recent weeks. We’ve also stalked them twice. Just saying, Mike also found someone else, a journalist, had been stalking you on a few occasions.” Vincenzo shares it as he keeps observing his surroundings. Victor takes a long sigh. Only now he understands the meaning of the warning that Benigno gave to him. He didn’t realize that he has been in the spotlight in these two months. “What about these two?” asks Vincenzo. “One of them has become an eyesore, t
On the way to Gambino’s house, Victor’s phone keeps ringing. But he keeps ignoring it, thinking that it’s just Judy who wants to talk with him about the issue with Ellis. And Chappy has been glancing at him for a while now. “Why are you not picking up the phone, Bro?” “It must be Judy,” replies Victor plainly. “It’s clear to me that you have been deliberately avoiding her. This is about that video stuff, right?” Victor just nods weakly with a plain face. And Chappy sighs confidently, acting like he is really able to read Victor’s mind. “I know you have the reason to not talk about the existence of that video. But at least, talk to her, Bro! Anything is fine, as long as you don’t ignore her like this.” “No, Chappy!” Victor denies. “Talking to Judy will only give her a chance to have a long debate. I’ve known her for so long. She would always understand the situation better when she tried to understand it herself rather than me explaining everything.” “But! For how long, Bro? I ha
Bobby nods a few times with an awkward face. But then, his awkward expression slowly turns serious as he notices something. Chappy intends to leave the car, but Bobby immediately holds him.“What?” asks Chappy.“Look at that! The dude sitting over there!”Chappy follows Bobby’s lead, and sees a familiar face to him sitting at an outdoor table of a food vendor.After that, Bobby also finds other familiar faces sitting in a car on the side of the road. They are familiar with those people, because Chappy used to buy drugs from them in the past.“What? Are you worrying that he will approach me with their stuff?” asks Chappy. “I’m clean, Bro! I just want to treat you with some drinks.”“Not that!” Bobby denies as he pulls Chappy back.He then just silent as he keeps watching those two people’s activities from afar. And it seems like those two men are indeed selling something in secret with a few people that are coming to them.Bobby observes the one man in the car. He sees that man barteri
Elsewhere, Vincenzo is delivering a box of pizza to one apartment building. It’s the building where Ellis White lives. He acts like a pizza delivery man, but he doesn’t change his outfit at all. He is still looking like a hit man, climbing the ladder like the angel of death holding the death note on his palm. At least, he covers half of his face with a medical mask. Whether it is naivety, or he just doesn’t care to disguise his appearance more than that. He pushes the bell once, and stands straight right in front of the door. Ellis takes a peek through a small hole on the door with a fish-eye lens for security purposes. His face wrinkles, believing that he never ordered anything so far. He then opens the door a bit to show his face, with a brass chain still holding the door. “Sorry, I never ordered anything!” he says. “I'm just delivering the order,” says Vincenzo before he reads a note on the pizza box. “It says, for Ellis White, and there’s a note for you. “Please enjoy your las
Nico then enters the manager room for that warehouse, which is usually occupied by Dominic Benson. But that masochist Dominic has gone since the incident with Victor, and never comes back to continue working with his gangsters. At the moment, there’s Elijah there, Jay and Ronnie who kidnapped Chappy, and one of the warehouse guys named Camilo who replaces Dominic’s position for the time being. This Camilo guy is quite close with Dominic. And somehow, he is nonchalantly sitting in front of Dominic’s desktop which is currently playing one of Dominic’s porn video collections. Nico approaches him, and slaps his head from behind. “Move!” And so, Camilo gets away from that place and lets Nico have a seat there. But Nico doesn’t immediately take a seat. He takes some time to lecture his men, giving them sermons regarding the situation in that warehouse, just because of the silly mistake of that new guy earlier. But because of this, Judeo gets this bit of information, since the watch worn
Nico picks the dollar again and rolls it. He is ready to kick his head once more with that white powder, without realizing it is not heroin. But then, that video player on the desktop which is still playing, starts playing Judy’s video. It attracts Chappy’s attention as he hears the voice that is so familiar to him. He lifts his face, and that face slowly grows so mad. The nightmare that he used to endure in the past when his lovely sister Moana died resurfaces again. Because what Judy experiences in that video is so similar to what happened to Moana from the video he had seen in the past. “Stop it!” he mumbles. It startles Nico a bit, just right before he takes that white powder. He turns his attention to Chappy, and finds the rage in Chappy’s face. After all, Chappy has been quite close with Judy in recent months. And that Video only pours more salt to his reopened wound. “Stop it fucker!” he shouts. “Heeh?” Nico shows his confused face, and continues it by giggling bemusedly.