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.”
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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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