The Marvelous Elijah’s Return

Chapter 99

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.

Jewel shrieked, turning

ill with something contagious and don‘t want others touching you

“You–”

as the realization of the knife on the table

glanced at Target and then back at her asking, “What do you exactly want from

eyes darting between the knives and him. “To kill a man for me. A

of hesitation, Madam Jewel finally lifted her gaze

face as she lied with bold

one for a client, lost it all, and

walks free… I have served my time and just

the one to handle this job… you are trustworthy.

have nothing to worry about. And once the job

Twenty

and Scorpio sat back in

seconds before asking,

triumphantly, Madam Jewel reached into her bag, took out a printed photo of

Scorpio.

narrowed his eyes and looked up at

target?”

firmly, smiling widely. “He‘s just a regular guy…

picked up the picture, looked at it for a while, and then tossed it back down, saying, “|| can. But I need a smoke

watching him stand up and walk around the

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

son, we are getting summoned again by this guy,” A lady whispered, frowning hard at the sight of Elijah. “What could

possibly want?”

to stay… After all, without

sustain the workforce salaries… so maybe he‘s going to plead with us to give him time.” The dude

both parties to turn around and stare at the other fellow as he mumbled, “Well, he‘s not going

Investistic Co,” Elijah announced in a loud

go silent from

a look that indicated that they thought Elijah was joking with them, but seeing him standing in front of them with a deadass serious expression didn‘t give them any more

say?!” A dude shouted in disbelief,

Elijah‘s words.

the Investistic Co. All the employees working here are free to clear your

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