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.

shrieked, turning around and shooting him

you ill with something contagious and don‘t want others touching you before you pass it on

“You–”

her words stuck in her head as the realization of the knife on the table came to her and she

and then back at her

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

tense pause of hesitation, Madam Jewel finally lifted her gaze and stared right

a look of slight reluctance on her face as she lied with bold eyes, “Well, my driver. He claimed that you are

the best until I took one for

free… I have served my time and just got out. Now,

are trustworthy. Also, He‘s just a nobody and no one will care about his

you have nothing to worry about. And once

Twenty

fell over the room again, and Scorpio sat

few seconds before asking, “Who is

triumphantly, Madam Jewel reached into her bag, took out a printed photo of Elijah, and placed it on the table in front

Scorpio.

Scorpio narrowed his eyes and looked up at

target?”

widely. “He‘s just a regular guy… So,

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

him stand up and walk around the table, then left her in shock, walking out

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

Dean Hayes and his son, we are getting summoned again by this

possibly want?”

all, without the Hayes‘s continuous pumping of money

not sustain the workforce salaries… so maybe he‘s going to plead with us to give him time.” The dude

parties to turn around and stare at the other fellow as he mumbled, “Well, he‘s not going to know what hit him when

Investistic Co,” Elijah announced

go silent from

that indicated that they thought Elijah was joking with them, but seeing him standing in front of them with a deadass serious

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

Elijah‘s words.

employees working here are free to clear your desk and

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