Who is my target?

When the door cracked open, Scorpio stopped sharpening his blade and raised his gaze to stare at his man calmly walking inside, and then he asked in a dead tone, “What is it. Target?”

Lowering his gaze to the floor, Target hesitated and then mumbled, “There‘s an older lady out there asking

about you.”

from every time he rubbed a little too roughly against it.

Flinching, Target took a step back and then mumbled, “She wants you to do a job for her, and she claimed to have the money to pay.”

For a moment, Scorpio didn‘t even react or look up. Then he said, very softly but with enough annoyance in his voice, commanded, “Bring her to me.”

After a slight bow, Target eyed his boss before walking away without another word,

and Scorpio continued to sharpen his blade.

A couple of minutes later, the door opened again and Madam Jewel walked inside, clutching onto her purse with her face etched with a look of disgust. as her eyes darted about the room.

After her three bodyguards joined her inside, Target shut the door and eyed his boss, waiting for a reaction.

“What do you want?” Scorpio asked, laying his blade down and picking up another

one.

With a frown and a nervous glance at her bodyguards, Madam Jewel sighed, staring at him, and said, “I got a job for you.”

Pausing, Scorpio looked up at her for a second, and then at Target, and understanding his boss‘s signal, Target approached Madam Jewel and tapped her on the hand, saying, “Ma‘am, you can sit he-”

“Don‘t touch me!!” Madam Jewel lost it, jumping away from Target and glaring at the look of confusion on his face.

“Please refrain from touching, my madam!” Kent warned, his eyes cold as he glared at Target.

“Okay, Okay!” Target exclaimed, holding his hands up and backing off slowly.

Frowning, Madam Jewel reached into her bag for a hand sanitizer, taking some of it with trembling fingers, and dabbing it onto her hands and wrists.

Are you sick?” Scorpio asked in a deadpan tone, resting back in his chair.

Madam Jewel shrieked, turning

something contagious and don‘t want others

“You–”

stuck in her head as the realization of the knife on the table

Scorpio glanced at Target and then back at her asking,

eyes darting between the knives and him. “To kill a man for me. A clean job that will not

Jewel finally lifted her gaze and stared right at Scorpio

lied with bold eyes, “Well, my driver. He claimed that you are the best in

one for a client,

I have served

to be the one to handle this job… you are trustworthy. Also, He‘s just a

worry about. And once the job is

thousand bonus… Twenty

sat back in his

a few seconds before asking, “Who

bag, took out a printed photo of Elijah, and placed it on the

Scorpio.

Scorpio narrowed his eyes and looked up at her, “Is this my

target?”

Madam Jewel nodded firmly, smiling widely. “He‘s just a regular guy… So,

picture, looked at it for a while, and then tossed it back down, saying,

up and walk around the

the rest in the lobby of Investistic Co. and Elijah stood in front of them, watching their faces as the mumbling began

and his son, we are getting summoned again by this guy,” A lady

possibly want?”

beg us to stay… After all, without the Hayes‘s

maybe he‘s going to plead with us to give him

and stare at the other fellow as he

Investistic Co,” Elijah announced in a loud voice,

go silent

indicated that they thought Elijah was joking with them, but seeing him standing

you say?!” A dude shouted in disbelief, feeling like he was

Elijah‘s words.

employees working here are free to clear your

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