His Lordship Alexander Kane

Chapter 196

Chapter 0196

Drake stared at the call from Acela, not picking up right away, lost in thought.

His bond with ‘Acela’ was tangled and tough.

Back in his heyday, he had carved out a name for himself in Woolpackton, eventually rising to the top

of the underworld’s heavyweight division. After years of spilling blood and making enemies, he had too

many scores

to settle.

His wife was murdered by his adversaries 20 years ago. He sent his only daughter overseas with a

web of fake IDs, all to keep her safe from the life she led.

In Province Town, only Ghost Sword, close as a brother, knew the truth about Acela.

It was a bitter pill to swallow, but as his daughter grew up, she came to despise everything about him.

She

saw Drake as the worst kind of criminal, and she even blamed him for her mother’s death. Then, Drake

and

Acela were practically strangers, their father-daughter bond all but broken.

“Why on earth is Acela calling me out of the blue?”

Drake cradled his phone, lost in thought for a moment before he exhaled and picked up the call.

In Ol’ Mare, just a stone’s throw from Belmont Hills, at Lifestyle Hotel, Alexander was holding Acela’s

phone, a dial tone humming in his ear. A slight smirk played on his lips as he whispered, “Is this Mister

Hardy from

Woolpackton?”

The question hit Drake like a thunderclap in the quiet of his bamboo garden. His voice turned frigid.

“You have Acela’s phone? Who are you, and what’s your connection to her?”

“We just met by chance.”

tonight, unwinding with some friends, and I ran

drink, but she’s

you could come

The address

the hotel’s location, then added with a hint

Alexander.

Alexander?!

split second, his gaze flicking to Harry and the others nearby. He scrunched

close, and spoke with a gravity that

heard your name’s been on everyone’s

had a hunch you’d be

Friends?

Lifestyle Hotel, Alexander mulled it over briefly before flashing

“Sure!”

Yaser and said with a grin, “Yaser, kick back

safely.”

+15 BONUS

the still-groggy Acela out of the hotel, hopped

and tore off toward

hours ticked by, and the clock struck

lady back

behind Rectewald Mall, maids escorted Acela to her

seated on a stone bench among the bamboo,

Sword strode from

Hardy, you can breathe easy. Miss Acela

bringing

seat.”

stood before the

slight arch of his brow,

mentioned? Sorry, they

he spun on his heel and

“How dare you!”

air around ‘Ghost Sword’ grew tense as he shifted

heartbeat, he was before

pressed

steel” Alexander remarked, locking eyes with

Here’s your one chance-put the sword away, or it’ll be

Hm?

sparkled with

Ghost Sword, a man whose

dark ocean, and whose skills were a

all remembered the

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