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!”

tugged at Patrick’s arm and asked desperately, “What should we do

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

damned

out and slammed the door behind him. When Patrick left the house, Elissa’s knees buckled from underneath her and she collapsed to the

He dragged his

ignored the water. He rubbed

found out about our secret force. We’ll have to sacrifice

this, Ritchie and Elissa looked at each other and all the color drained from their faces. The

under-the-table deals in the dark. It had been there for the

and declared, “From now on,

better behave yourselves

stormed out of the room and slammed the door. Elissa and Ritchie were speechless. Elissa sat on the sofa wordlessly, looking dispirited. She was in deep trouble this time. In the hospital in Barnes, Sebastian had just gotten off the phone. His eyes landed on the TV, which was

dangerous lately. This sort of thing has been happening every day. I heard that the cinema collapsed because it was

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

force, which was a major blow

patriarch had failed to salvage what he had built over the last two decades. He was weak now. A trace of imperceptible contempt flashed in Sebastian’s eyes. But it was a pity that he was cooped up in the hospital and couldn’t

it were up to

and proceeded to put the basin on the bedside table. She dipped a towel in it, wrung out the excess water, and then strode over to Sebastian to

that you can leave the hospital in around two

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