Not to mention about Naomi’s beauty which is far surpassing hers, causing the naïve girl so awry for losing her man.
“Oliver! You know her?” Sylvia inquires.
Oliver is shaken from his anger, and immediately puts on an ignorant face before averting his face to his fiancée.
“Not really,” he denies. “I just know her as a fellow business person.”
“Oh, how cruel of you,” Naomi sulks childishly. “Didn’t you once whisper in my ear that you never tired of fantasizing about my beauty before going to bed? Well, I don’t mind if we never end up together. But how cruel, now you act like you don’t know me?”
Sylvia glares her eyes straight at Oliver, causing Oliver so scared. And Naomi, she looks so amused, noticing that she has successfully sparked a conflict between them.
“Is this the girl you try hook after the failure in seducing me?” she teases. “It really saddens me that you give up too soon! You were so brave and bold last time, you know?”
“Naomi, please!” Oliver laughs awkwardly. “Stop with the joke already! How could I possibly dare to say such reckless things to someone like you?”
Unlike Oliver, Thomas is still baffled with Naomi’s antics. “What’s the meaning of this?” he whispers.
Naomi brings her face closer to Thomas’ right ear and whispers, “You’ve saved my life! So please, allow me to salvage your dignity for now!”
She leaves Thomas, and approaches Sylvia and Oliver with elegant steps. The showdown has also attracted the attention of several people from the second floor.
“I've seen all the bad things you've done to my boyfriend. Now I demand an apology,” utters Naomi with so much dignity.
Oliver forces a smile. “Please, don’t be mad, Naomi! I didn't think that a bumpkin like him would be your boyfriend. If I knew he was something so dear to you, I wouldn’t dare to treat him that way. But still, I apologize for what I did!”
“Not to me! Apologize to him,” Naomi denies. “Aren’t you ashamed of yourselves, treating a disabled person that way?”
Oliver glances at Thomas. Somehow, he finds all the ingredients to resent him.
That’s the man he likes to mock and ridicule. But the man is now a boyfriend to Naomi, the girl he could never conquer. There’s no way he is going to apologize now. His pride is too big for him to swallow.
Naomi clearly sees the hatred in Oliver’s face. Hence, she threatens him with a low but intimidating voice.
“Or..,” She comes closer to Oliver. “Should I break your legs here, and then kick you out of my property so that you know how it feels to be treated like a dog?”
“You go this far just for that rag shit?” Oliver squints, grumbling with a restrained hoarse voice.
Out of nowhere, Naomi slaps Oliver in the face, right on his left cheek. It’s quite hard that the man is staggered to the right. Thomas looks so stupid, not expecting that the girl would be so brash and bold.
“How dare you call him rag shit? He’s saved my life once. That’s enough to gain my respect. I respect him more than third rate people like you.”
Oliver rubs his left cheek. Anger is clearly seen in his face. He is fumed, but doesn’t dare to do anything.
Naomi then takes a glance at Sylvia, who is currenctly petrified in fear after witnessing how her fiancé got slapped.
“Unlike you, I know how to be grateful to my savior,” Naomi frets, her chin slightly up with so much dignity.
“Do you have any idea what you have done?” Oliver grumbles. “By humiliating me here, you’ve sparked a conflict with my family and the Gregory!”
“I will defend his honor,” replies Naomi without showing any doubt. “I will lay down my life if it is necessary. So, are you ready to wage war with the Saunders to protect Gregory's honor, Mr. Golden-haired Prince?”
Fear is now clouding Oliver’s face. Despite coming from a wealthy family himself, he knows that the Saunders Family is not the kind of people he should be meddled with. He believes his dad wouldn’t want this.
“Or you could just end this by apologizing to my boyfriend now,” Naomi suggests.
Persuaded by Naomi’s words, Oliver lets go of Sylvia’s hand, intending to confront Thomas to apologize. But Laura immediately interferes by holding Oliver’s hand from behind.
“Don’t ever think about apologizing to him! As a man who will become the son-in-law of the Gregory Family, it is not right for you to lower yourself to a lowly, despicable bumpkin like him.”
“Hey, Laura!” Joaquin grabs his wife’s left hand and shakes it once. “Look at the situation first. You have no idea who you're dealing with.”
“I don’t care who she is,” Laura rebukes, before she comes to Naomi. “Look! I am Donovan's niece from the Gregory family. I am here as a client that you should respect. We are interested in buying this house, 1.2 million dollars is a cheap price for us. I would not mind paying 2 million dollars, as long as you kick that man out of this house right now.”
“Aunt Laura! 2 million dollars for a house is not cheap. Have you talked to grandpa about this?” asks Sylvia.
“Your fiancé is going to buy the house for us, not your grandpa,” says Laura.
Now it is Oliver who looks so opposed to that idea. “Hey! I was willing to buy this house for only 1.2 million! Why would you raise it to 2 million?”
“Is your self-esteem that low?” asks Laura before she draws Oliver’s attention to Sylvia. “Look at her and how she sees you! This matter was originally between her and that man. But now she begins to have a change in mind, because her fiancé doesn’t seem to have any power to fight for her honor. Don't you see that girl is trying to insult my niece and the Gregory family?”
She then comes closer to Oliver and whispers right before his face. “The Gregory could just cut ties with you if you can’t even protect our honor here, and your engagement could be called off.”It puts Oliver in a big dilemma. But then again, it’s just another $800k from the previous price he has agreed on with Laura and her husband.He then turns back to Naomi, intending to make a deal based on Laura’s condition. However, Naomi already shows him her brand new phone, with a serial number of her bank account displayed on the screen.She has just learned that Oliver is buying the house as a part of the deal for his engagement with Sylvia, and sees it as an opportunity.“Six million dollars,” she states the price. “Transfer that amount of money to this account right now, and then bow down and apologize to my boyfriend. Only then will I consider all the problems between us solved, and this house will be yours.”Oliver stares at Naomi right in the eye with so much resentment. “You delibera
He recognizes the faces of the two men who just expressed their disappointment. He doesn’t know them too well, but he believes they had some business with his dad before.An awkward smile is the only thing he can give while receiving a long sermon from his father on the phone. He then takes a distance and continues the talk with his father away from those people.“What should I do now? Should I also buy this house for Joaquin Underwood for six million dollars?”[Son! Do you realize what stupid thing you have done? This is not only about your engagement with Sylvia, nor about the house or those six million dollars! You're going to put me in a difficult position with Adam Saunders. You’ve turned this into a bad business because of your ignorance. Go back to her and accept all the conditions. Pay it all with your own money!]“With my money?”[Or I’ll kick you out of the family! That’s the only thing I can do to avoid conflict with Gregory and Saunders, you understand me?]The father ends
The girl can’t hide her guilty looks, realizing that she has accidentally unveiled what’s inside her dirty mind.“Uh, I, I, I mean your body!” Naomi refutes in stutter. “I didn’t touch your body! Look! You passed out with wet clothes. I couldn’t just leave you like that. You could get a cold.”“So you took off my clothes?” Thomas asks slowly.Naomi nods a few times, so fast, with rigid movements.“And you saw everything?”Now the girl looks so guilty, crossing her fingers in her chest. Still with blushing cheeks, she glances to the left to avoid Thomas’s intimidating gaze.Thomas turns around, rubbing his head with a frustrated expression, and then limps away from her.“No, please!” Naomi rushes to him. “Don’t be mad at me! I had no other choice!”Laura notices Thomas getting out of the house with Naomi. Some greedy hope slowly creeps into her heart. She then gets out of the car, thinking that Oliver must have bought the house for her.She even shows so much confidence to confront Thom
Thomas grimaces, looking so stupid with their antics. He looks so uninterested in interfering with them, and walks away by dragging his weak legs.Meanwhile, Naomi is still finding the fun in making Sylvia annoyed. “Look at that! Your fiancé apparently loves me much more. He doesn’t want me to be hurt. It’s a testament of how much he cares about my pretty face.”“You shut up, ass hole!” Sylvia shouts by pointing a finger at Naomi. “Stop teasing my fiancé, you damned girl!”Not wanting to create another conflict with the Saunders Family, Oliver pulls Sylvia away from Naomi. But Sylvia isn’t stopping in arguing with her.“You’re a hoe! Dirty hoe!”“I said enough!” Oliver takes Sylvia inside the house and then closes the door. “You are going to put me and my dad in a difficult situation, you know that?!”“Why are you siding with her?” Sylvia pulls her hand. She looks so pissed off. “I’m your fiancée! You should be on my side, not her!”It makes Oliver frustrated. “I’m not siding with her!
“How would I know that he would be able to walk again? Even the doctors have given up on him,” answers Laura defensively.“Haven’t you realized it yet? Donovan matched Sylvia with him for a reason. He couldn't be just an ordinary man. Now he even has a connection with the Saunders.”“Well! You have to hire those people again to kill him. He must die!”Joaquin starts to look restless. His slick hair has become messy for being rubbed so many times.A moment later, he realizes that the situation has become so quiet. Oliver and Sylvia's argument can no longer be heard anymore.He turns around, and finds Oliver walking towards him, with Sylvia still standing in the meals room with a suspicious gaze.Joaquin becomes uneasy, afraid that Oliver and Sylvia might have heard his conversation with his wife just now. But…“Uncle Joaquin! Please excuse me! I still have work to do!”Oliver hands over the house keys to Joaquin, and then walks towards the front door.“Hey, Oliver!” Laura rushes to that
Just before arriving at Sommerchill, Alfred tells Thomas that he will drop him off on the road, because he doesn’t want to enter that district area.However, Naomi insists that Alfred take Thomas to his apartment. They even start an argument, with Thomas just silently watching them fight.“Are you scared? It seems like my father was wrong to hire you!””“Look! If something happens to you, the job is not the only thing I’d lose. Your father would kill me!”But then, Alfred turns silent. Confusion is clearly seen in his face as he observes his surroundings.“What’s wrong?” asks Naomi.Alfred doesn’t immediately give her an answer. They are now almost entering the Sommechill district, but the place is not like how Alfred used to know.There are many small street vendors, with people walking leisurely on the pedestrian. There are even teenagers walking along in peace without so much alertness. It is far from the scary impression as Alfred described.Indeed, he has not visited this place fo
Thomas gets inside the apartment building, and climbs the stairs with his weak legs. Once he gets to the door to his apartment, he issues a specific command.“Inventory! Box. No. 39! Take out key number 1!”But nothing happens. There’s no blue light appearing, no item dropping, nothing.“What’s going on here?” he mumbles as he rubs his neck. “My necklace? Ah, shit! I must have left it in that room! Daaamn!”He rubs his forehead with an awry face. Moments later, he bangs on the door, calling out several names in a hectic way.“Diego! Luca! Mateo! It’s me, Thomas! Hey, you guys! Are you in there?”No one answers. But he keeps banging on the door, until a slightly fat old man appears to greet him.“Mister Hendrix, Sir! You are back!”“Oh, Mr. Finley! Yeah, it’s just me! Didn’t I tell you to stop calling me mister or sir? I’m much younger than you!”“Why?” The old shrugs. “You are the boss, and there’s no one else here. Is there anything I can help you with?”“I lost my key. The other one
After finishing his conversation with Naomi, Thomas opens a small safe deposit box that is planted in a wall.There isn’t much in the safe, only six necklaces with unique amulets. For Thomas, these amulets are far more important and valuable than the $100 million in the coffin.He unsheathes the katana slightly, and lightly scratches the tip of his thumb with the blade. He holds one of the amulets, placing his bloody thumb on one side of it that has a pattern which looks like an electronic chip.Suddenly, a notification in the form of a blue hologram appears before him.[!][An S-rank hunter has been identified][Name : Thomas Hendrix][Age : 23][Condition : 87 % fit][Balance : 0 Gold Coins][The exchange rate today is $964 for one Gold Coin][To gain Gold Coins, please go back to Icalaterra and complete some quests]Thomas waves his hand on that hologram, and it immediately disappears. He issues a command to open his inventory, and then, another interface occures showing 40 small bo