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

had a bit too much to drink, but

you could come

her. The

with a hint of a smile,

Alexander.

Alexander?!

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

spoke with a

heard your name’s

a hunch you’d be keen to catch up with

Friends?

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

“Sure!”

Yaser and said with a grin, “Yaser,

safely.”

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behind, he helped the still-groggy Acela out of the hotel, hopped into his

and tore off toward

by, and the clock struck one in

the lady back

the bamboo grove behind Rectewald Mall, maids escorted Acela to

among the bamboo,

he spoke, Wilhelm, known as Ghost Sword strode

Mister Hardy, you can breathe easy. Miss Acela

his eyes softening. “Thanks for bringing my girl home, Alex. Come on,

seat.”

feet. He stood

of the bamboo. With a slight arch of his brow, he said,

you mentioned? Sorry, they

that, he spun on his heel

“How dare you!”

air around ‘Ghost Sword’ grew tense as he shifted his stance, a subtle dance of

his approach. In a heartbeat, he was before Alexander, his sword

steel pressed against

steel” Alexander remarked, locking

one chance-put the sword away, or it’ll be the end of

Hm?

away, Drake’s eyes sparkled with intrigue. Harry, Tommy,

challenging the Ghost Sword,

whose skills were a mystery even to the underworld

remembered the

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