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
WEAK Seeing that Samantha was unwilling to reveal anything, Samantha thought she was just too shy to share details, so she stopped pushing.She turned to Brian and asked.What's the matter? Are you unwilling to apologize and explain your behavior?Brian was in a bad mood and didn't wanna argue, so he went to the kitchen to cook dinner.Or is he cursed and sat down? How rude. Other than his cooking, we don't know anything else about him. He's really useless.After dinner, Samantha wanted to say something to Brian but hesitated.She wanted to tell him that there was nothing between her and Nick.But when she thought about Brian's attitude, she grew irritated and went to bed instead.After tossing and turning in bed for an unknown amount of time, Samantha found she couldn't fall asleep.Brian couldn't sleep either, and you could hear his wife's restlessness beside him.So you began softly.Do you wanna tell me about Nick and you as kids?We just grew up together. He always flirted with me, but
SHE’S MINE “Isn't Director Samantha already married? Isn't she married to that security guard?”“ Yeah, but he's a loser”. “Maybe she's finally realized she can do better, I mean, look at that handsome man who could turn him down.When Nick heard their chattering, he became even more confident.He strode in to Samantha and took out a small, exquisitely made box. “Samantha”, he said.“When you were seven years old, you told me that you loved necklaces. At the time I couldn't afford a very nice one for you, but now I want to give you the best”.He opened the box lid and held it out to her so she could see inside.He then asked smoothly. “Do you like it?” Everyone could see the courting behavior he was displaying.It was only one step shy of falling to one knee with a rose and a ring. The women around them gasp in admiration. Brian's expression darkened. “Nick is pushing his luck if he thinks he can just come here and start giving my wife presents”, he thought bitterly.Nick fed off t
NECKLACENick's mood had improved again. He was confident that his gift was of a higher caliber than that of Brian and if people saw it they would encourage Samantha to accept his gift and she would become his. He offered to follow them home, not fighting with Brian for dibs on who she would ride with.When Dorothy saw Brian's car, she scolded him again and even blurted out the matter of Brian having to borrow a car once more.Nick pretended to stand up for Brian and said. “Mrs Madison, you should understand that Brian's only doing this for fame”. “He borrowed a car so that he doesn't have to spend money.I'm sure it's a perfectly nice car “no, I'll never ride in it”, Brenda Complained as she also came for a visit. “Compared to your fine car, it's nothing”.When they went inside the house, Nick was surprised to find that Thomas was also there. Thomas and Nick embraced each other as if they were brothers by blood.Samantha felt a headache coming on.When she was young, Nick had often b