Elissa gritted her teeth and dodged Patrick’s advances. She roared irritably, “Patrick Klein! What the hell are you trying to do?

Do you want to break up this family?”

Just as Patrick was about to swing the mop, the phone in the living room suddenly rang. Amidst the chaos, the boldest of the servants went to answer the phone.

“Hello, Klein residence. You want to speak with Mr. Klein? I’m afraid he’s… Busy right now.”

The servant glanced at Patrick, who was about to hit Ritchie with the mop. The caller seemed persistent so she handed over the phone to Patrick, her body trembling slightly.

“Sir, it’s your assistant.” Patrick was in a fit of rage. He snatched the phone from her impatiently and spat into the receiver,

“What?”

“The police have caught several of our men. The man who was sent to kill Sebastian is among them,” the assistant reported anxiously.

“Sir, we have to get him out of there. If the police followed this lead, they’ll trace it back to the Klein family soon.

We have to stop them!” The assistant was so anxious that he raised his voice. Patrick heard his words loud and clear. Ritchie, Elissa, and Patrick all froze in place with a look of horror on their faces.

Ritchie cursed, “Fuck! Sebastian moved really fast! Mom, we’re in trouble now!”

pale. She tugged at Patrick’s arm and asked desperately, “What should we

He hung up the phone and said through gritted

all your damned fault.

he stormed out and slammed the door behind him. When Patrick left the house, Elissa’s knees buckled from

He dragged his tired body to the living room and sank into the sofa. Elissa and Ritchie had been

asked anxiously. Patrick ignored the water. He rubbed his temples

has found out about our secret force. We’ll have to sacrifice it for the sake of the bigger

at each other and all the color drained from their faces. The

Patrick when they first came to Seacisco. It took care of the nasty, under-the-table deals in the dark. It had been there

and declared, “From now on, you

better behave yourselves from now

were speechless. Elissa sat on the sofa wordlessly, looking dispirited. She was in deep trouble this time. In the hospital in Barnes, Sebastian had

This sort of thing has been happening every day. I heard that the cinema

eyes on the TV. Sebastian pointed the remote at the TV and turned it off. “There’ll always be bad guys,” he said lazily. What

family’s secret force, which was

decades. He was weak now. A trace of imperceptible contempt flashed in Sebastian’s eyes. But it was a pity that he

work. If it were up to him,

shrugged and proceeded to put the basin on the bedside table. She dipped a towel in it, wrung

leave the hospital

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