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!”

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

gave Patrick a headache. He hung up the phone and said

is all your damned fault.

slammed the door behind him. When Patrick left the house, Elissa’s knees buckled from underneath her

He dragged his tired body to the living room and sank into the sofa. Elissa and Ritchie had been waiting for him to come home. They

he asked anxiously. Patrick ignored the water. He

force. We’ll have to sacrifice it for the sake of the bigger

and Elissa looked at each other and all the color drained

care of the nasty, under-the-table deals in the dark. It had been there for the Klein family for at least

expression, Patrick stood up and declared, “From now on, you two have little to no

yourselves

sat on the sofa wordlessly, looking dispirited. She was in deep trouble this time. In the

I heard that the cinema collapsed

of warm water, Natalie strode in and fixed her 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 he didn’t tell Natalie was that

family’s secret force, which was a major blow to

trace of imperceptible contempt flashed in Sebastian’s eyes. But it was a pity that he was cooped up in the hospital

most of the work. If it were

dipped a towel in it,

can leave the

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