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

and don‘t want others touching

“You–”

head as the realization of the knife on the table came to her and

moment, Scorpio glanced at Target and then back at

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

hesitation, Madam Jewel finally lifted her gaze and stared right at Scorpio as he

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

until I took one for a client, lost it all, and

I have served my

this job… you are trustworthy. Also, He‘s just a nobody and no one will care about

about. And once the job is done, you can

bonus… Twenty thousand

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

few seconds before asking,

reached into her bag, took out a printed photo of

Scorpio.

his eyes and looked

target?”

just a regular guy… So, can you kill

while, and then tossed it back down, saying, “|| can. But I

mumbled, watching him stand up and walk around the table,

and Elijah stood in front of them, watching their faces as the mumbling

and his son, we are getting summoned again by this guy,” A lady whispered, frowning hard at the sight

possibly want?”

all, without the

he‘s going to plead with us to give him time.” The dude beside her

and stare at the other fellow as he mumbled, “Well, he‘s not going to know what hit him when we all quit

Co,” Elijah announced in a loud voice,

silent

him standing in front

in disbelief,

Elijah‘s words.

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