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.

me?!” Madam Jewel shrieked, turning around and shooting him a

contagious and don‘t want others touching

“You–”

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

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

dollars…” Madam Jewel answered instantly, her eyes darting between the knives and him. “To kill a man for me. A clean job that will not

another tense pause of hesitation, Madam Jewel finally lifted her gaze and stared right at Scorpio as he asked,

her face as she lied with bold eyes, “Well, my driver. He claimed that you are the best

I took one for a client, lost

served my time and just

are trustworthy. Also, He‘s just a nobody and no one

to worry about. And once the job is done, you can get a

Twenty thousand

the room again, and Scorpio sat back in

before asking, “Who

printed photo of

Scorpio.

eyes and looked up at

target?”

a regular guy…

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

and walk around the table, then

of employees joined the rest in the lobby of Investistic Co. and Elijah stood in front of

summoned again by this guy,” A lady whispered, frowning hard at the sight

possibly want?”

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

alone can not sustain the workforce salaries… so maybe he‘s going to plead

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

from Investistic Co,” Elijah announced in a loud voice,

silent

but seeing him standing in front of them with a deadass serious

dude shouted in disbelief,

Elijah‘s words.

Co. All the employees working here are free to clear your desk and leave

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