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

but she’s okay. If you’re not too busy, Mister Hardy,

you could come

The address

the hotel’s location, then added with a hint of a

Alexander.

Alexander?!

gaze flicking to Harry

spoke with a gravity

Alex. I’ve heard your

a hunch you’d be keen to

Friends?

the lounge of the Lifestyle Hotel, Alexander mulled it over briefly before

“Sure!”

at Yaser and said with a grin, “Yaser,

safely.”

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the still-groggy Acela out of

tore off toward

ticked by, and the clock struck one in the

lady back to

Mall, maids escorted Acela to

a stone bench among the bamboo, beckoned

known as Ghost Sword strode from behind Alexander to Drake’s

Hardy, you can breathe easy. Miss

“Thanks for bringing my girl home, Alex.

seat.”

Alexander remained on his feet. He stood before

others at the fringe of the bamboo. With a slight arch of his

‘friends’ you mentioned? Sorry, they don’t pique my

his heel

“How dare you!”

Sword’ grew tense as he shifted

he was before Alexander, his

pressed

locking eyes

one chance-put the sword away, or

Hm?

with

Ghost

skills were

all remembered the

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