The Consortium's Heir

Chapter 229

As she spoke, she pointed at a guy lying on the ground.

Darius looked at him and raised an eyebrow. "You're worried about the Gillette family coming here."

Alicia nodded. "Yes, sir. They're extremely unreasonable and act based on their whims and fancies. There's no way we can predict what they'll do." She looked at Darius. "If we stay here, we'll put ourselves in grave danger.

Also, the fact that Samantha did a one-eighty worries me. It proves that she knows they're almost here. We've kept an eye on her all this time, so I have no idea how she found out about that."

Darius took in her frustrated expression, then walked into the courtyard. He put his hands behind his back and looked in the direction that the Gillette family's cars were coming from. ‘You're worried that because the Gillettes know we're here, they'll be able to swiftly come up with a counterattack against us."

Alicia didn't expect him to understand her so well. She widened her eyes in surprise. Darius didn't turn to look at her, though.

Instead, a mocking and disdainful smile curved his lips.

ways to deal with us, but none of them will work against me. Otherwise, Hank wouldn't have died by my hands."

it did was bewitch

didn't receive a reply. He turned back to look at her and asked, "So,

"Nothing. I’m unbelievably reassured

moment, Samantha, who'd been weeping pitifully this whole time, suddenly stood up. She went back to looking like her usual self and moved to put her hands into

the disdain on her face. He knew that it was

impression of her. He felt that it'd be dangerous if he thought of her as

pockets and sticking her chest out. She held her head high and looked at him. "What, are you going to apologize

already forgotten about what happened earlier." Before he could continue, she cut him off

do you mean by that? What do you mean I've already forgotten about what happened? Are you mocking my memory, or are

were already narrowed, to begin with, and at her words, he shut them. He needed a silent environment to think. This woman's

the sound of someone panting outside, but the Gillette family had yet to arrive. The only thing that piqued his curiosity about this was the fact that he hadn't heard this slightly familiar pant

mussed up because

he felt that he could look worse. He ran toward Darius,