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

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

“You–”

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

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

kill

filled the room, and after another tense pause of hesitation, Madam Jewel finally lifted her gaze and stared right at Scorpio

face as she lied with bold eyes, “Well, my driver. He

I took one for

he still walks free… I have served

you are trustworthy.

have nothing to worry about. And once the job

bonus… Twenty thousand dollars in

again, and Scorpio sat back in his chair, thinking it over

seconds before asking, “Who

a printed photo of Elijah, and

Scorpio.

and looked up at her, “Is

target?”

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

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

But…B–ut,” Madam Jewel mumbled, watching him stand up and walk around the table, then left her in

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

are getting summoned again by this guy,” A lady whispered,

possibly want?”

without the Hayes‘s continuous pumping of money into

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

around and stare at the other fellow as he mumbled,

are fired from Investistic Co,” Elijah announced in

go silent

all had 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

dude shouted in disbelief, feeling like he

Elijah‘s words.

all are hereby dismissed from the Investistic Co. All the employees working here

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