REAL POWERIt was Brian's turn to start laughing “You wanna kick me out?” Did everyone hear that? Mrs. Sinclair wants to evict me”.“That's right”, she replied “and my manager will back me up too, I've never let her down in the past and I don't intend to now”. She walked closer to Brian, Their noses were almost touching. “I could kick out a dozen customers like you and she still wouldn't fire me”. Are you sure the manager will listen to you?” Asked Brian.The surrounding people looked at one another, convinced that Brian was too arrogant and stubborn for his own good. He was in one of the most exclusive stores in San Clemente, and Eddie was refusing to do as he was asked, Some of them were even wondering if he knew who owned the store, convinced that he must have never heard of Elizabeth Ragnar and her powerful husband Lincoln. Getting on the wrong side of either of those two people could only end badly for him. By that time, several security guards had arrived. “Throws his man ou
THE UNEXPECTED“Watch it”, Brian muttered warningly. “Bite me”, Rory snapped back “Just look at how dumpy he looks, this is a high-end store and he's making the other customers uncomfortable and kick him out already”. Elizabeth took two steps up to Rory and slapped him across the face. The surrounding crowd gasped. The CEO had not only slapped an employee, but she slapped a customer as well. Rory stared at her with wide eyes. “But my father is one of her business partners”, he thought. “How could she do this? Doesn't she respect my family name?”“ Both of you need to apologize to this man immediately”, Elizabeth spoke angrily. “I don't know how much more I can say”, she thought.“Brian prefers to stay low-key, and that's his right. If I give away too much, he's going to be angry with me as well. She took another quick glance at Brian and saw that his expression had eased, and she breathed a sigh of relief. “Why Rory? he's not worth an apology, He's just some deadbeat we tried to
RIVAL“Something is really wrong”, Brian thought. “She was the one that gave me her bank card, how could I have messed this up? I don't understand”, he said.“Why are you so upset about the lipstick?” brian asked, “You don’t get it at all, do you?” Do you see this?”.She held the tube out in front of his face. “This is one of this season's limited edition colors. “This little tube is worth $250”. She continued to dig through the box.”In this nail Polish, also a limited edition and worth over $100. And this foundation”. She continued searching through the box, doing the math in her head.“Brian! This whole block contains over $5000 in cosmetics, I can't afford all these”, she thought angrily. “And that's more than the limit on the card I gave you” she said “Let me explain”, he said. “What is that to explain?”“ One box of cosmetics $5000 down the drain? I can't trust you to do anything right”!Samantha shouted. “I didn't even pay attention to the price when I swiped my card”, he tho
THE BAIT The following day, Brian got up to leave early It received a report that there was a new development regarding Duke..Brenda hustled out She didn't want him to be there when Nick showed up. Nick pulled up to their house and a brand new luxury sports car at eight o'clock.Brenda met him in the driveway and greeted him effusively. “It's so good to see you”, she gushed, It's been so long”.“Wow, I think you're taller and even more handsome than you used to be” Gary had followed her out. He grabbed Nick's hand and gave it a firm shake. “It's good to see you too ”, Nick replied. It was a little rush getting into town, so I hope you don't mind that I don't have time to pick up a real gift”. He handed an envelope to Gary. This card has $10,000 in it I hope that's OK Ohh, “we can't accept this”, Brenda said, flustered, but she took the envelope anyway. After all, she thought, to refuse a gift is to refuse hospitality and we wouldn't wanna hurt his feelings Gary was also in support “
THE AMBUSH“Frankie and Malcolm can handle themselves.But maybe I should pay a visit to the club” Brian said.At the nightclub, All of the guests had been cleared out to allow a private discussion between Frankie and Duke. Lincoln stood beside Duke, His heart was beating fast.”We are in Frankie's territory now, he thought. “ I know he had planned an ambush and we could be attacked at any time”.“Frankie, you said All these years I've treated you well i left you alone after the Three gang was disbanded i didn't need to do that, you know.And now I hear rumors that you're working against me.” Duke confronted him.“Hey, Duke, You've wronged me, Frankie said, feigning hurt I've done nothing but run my nightclub I just wanna stay outta trouble from now on”.“And that's the problem”, Duke replied. “Because I think you're in big trouble indeed.I know that you and stone's boss have reached an agreement And that you're planning to ambush me.” Frankie trembled internally, but he kept his expr
TRAITOR“Weren't we going to deal with Duke?” someone asked. “Where is he, Frankie? What happened?” Another ask. “Where's Danny? Frankie demanded. “Why isn't he here?” The men looked at each other. “Frankie, I haven't seen Danny all morning”, one of the men said. “I'm sure he just got delayed by something. “But that's not an excuse”, Frankie frowns. “He knew that today was a big day and he knew better than to be late, Find him”. He said. The men pulled out their phones and each one tried calling Danny. One by one, each man shook his head as a sign of Danny not responding, and Frankie got extremely furious.Frankie tore one of the couch cushions out of frustration “he betrays me like this!”. None of the men dared to speak. They stood around the room, eyes lowered, hoping not to be the target of their boss’s Anger. But Brian also saw confusion in their eyes. They did not know where Danny was, and they were astonished that he had double-crossed them. “Frankie,” Brian said. “Since Duke
THE ALLY“Who else besides you and Jack knew about our plans over the next few days?, How did Duke find out we were going to ambush him?”. Danny was speechless. He had no comeback, nothing he could say to change Frankie's mind. “Take him out of here”, Frankie said. “And get rid of him, i don't wanna see him again”. There were no questions about what that meant. Jack sighed and hauled Danny to his feet. “Wait”, Brian said, stepping forward.“What?” Frankie demanded. “Do you wanna plead for his life? Because it's not gonna work, I've made my decision”.“Nothing like that, But he might know more than he's letting on", Let me deal with him”.“And when you are done q”“when you’reuestioning him. I'll take care of this traitor””. Frankie shook his head. “ “After all we've learned, you're still determined to go up against Duke” Don't you see how pointless it is? If Duke could bribe my top Lieutenant, he could bribe anyone””. He said “ “Well, we won't know until we ask him, will we?Mayb
THE RIVAL“If that's true, why don't you join me?Stone and Lincoln” Brian suggested. “We can work as one,How about that?” Danny felt honored. Brian used to be a man who didn't have any previous street friends but he had moved to become a topic of gossip on the streets. However, they ignored the gossip and continued to do whatever they wanted.As people got used to having Brian around, Lincoln joined his gang and the gossip started all over again. Everyone wondered how Brian had nabbed a powerful fighter like Lincoln.“I'll think about it”, Danny said seriously. The two of them exchanged their contact information before parting ways. Brian went to the company's office for a while before returning home. When he pulled into the drive, he saw an expensive sports car parked in front of the house. Samantha was standing beside it, talking with a wealthy looking young man. Brian frowned. Although Samantha didn't like the idea of Nick wanting to spend so much time with her, she had been h