Chapter 60: Paying the Price
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
Hearing his underling’s report, Douglas immediately stood up and asked with a glowering expression, “What did you say? Are you sure it’s those two from yesterday?”
The underling nodded profusely in horror. “Yes, it’s those two from yesterday. I wouldn’t recognize them wrongly! They’re currently smashing the things in the main hall of the first floor, and the guests are terrified.”
Douglas kicked the coffee table furiously, but he accidentally touched his hidden injury, making him fly into a rage. “Didn’t you say that Lucas Gray was knocked off the bridge? Why is he still alive?”
The one who came to report the matter earlier didn’t seem too well, and cold sweat broke out on his forehead. “He indeed… fell into the river. We saw from afar that he fell off the bridge and plunged into the river. The rescue teams rushed over, but they were stopped.”
Bam—Douglas slapped the underling hard on the face.
“Bullshit! If he really plunged into the river and drowned to death, are the ones here creating trouble ghosts? You trash!”
Douglas was just celebrating the fact that he had killed Lucas and took revenge. But now, they were here slapping him in his face!
“Let’s go. Gather everyone and go down with me. I refuse to believe he can defeat us!” Douglas exclaimed as he hurried downstairs with a furious and menacing expression.
At this moment, the people in the hall below were all badly bashed up by Jordan, and broken glass, wine bottles, ceiling lights, and shattered debris of furniture covered the ground. The initially luxurious hall was smashed and ended up looking like a garbage dump.
Today, Douglas had just hired more than ten henchmen, but they were all currently rolling in pain on the ground with broken wrists!
Seeing this, Douglas was overwhelmed with exasperation. Those bastards!
“Damn it! Beat them!” Hearing Douglas’s order, his underlings behind, who were all holding steel rods and weapons, immediately charged forward.
“Hmph, you must have a death wish!” Before Lucas said anything, Jordan picked up a chair and rushed over.
His movements were far quicker than Douglas’s underlings. Before the underlings’ weapons could hit him, the leg of Jordan’s chair had already slammed onto their wrists and thighs.
Bang!
“Ah!”
“Waaa!”
With Jordan’s fast and accurate hits, the dozen or so people who rushed up all shrieked in pain miserably as they dropped their weapons and started rolling on the ground, clutching their wrists and thighs and wailing loudly.
Seeing this, Douglas became terrified and furious.
The ten-odd people holding weapons actually failed to even harm Lucas in the slightest. Instead, they were beaten up by the other party!
“Stop! Lucas, what exactly are you trying to do?” Douglas gritted his teeth and glared at Lucas while the fear and horror in his heart surged again like yesterday.
“What do I want to do? Aren’t you aware of what you got someone to do today?” Lucas looked at Douglas with an icy cold glare.
On that bridge today, his wife and daughter had had a close shave with death. How could Lucas let Douglas off easily?
Douglas suddenly choked.
He had sent someone to run over Lucas and his wife and daughter with a car, but his plan failed, and Lucas was now at his door and seeking revenge. This was totally out of his expectations.
Facing Lucas’s icy cold eyes, Douglas subconsciously took a few steps back. “There must be some misunderstanding somewhere. Actually, there’s no unresolvable feud between us. Why don’t we sit down and have a good talk? What do you think?”
Despite saying that, Douglas didn’t really plan to bury the hatchet.
He would never forget the shame Lucas had brought him last night! He would never spare Lucas!
When they sat down to chat, he would have someone spike Lucas’s drink and then get his subordinates to make him have a taste of his own medicine!
Once he was done taking revenge, he would make him vanish forever!
Lucas sneered and glanced at Douglas in disdain, as if he had seen through his thoughts. “Have a good talk? Who are you to do that with me?!”
Lucas gripped the wine bottle on the table next to him and fiercely smashed it on Douglas’s head.
Smack!
With a crisp sound, the bottle shattered and cut open Douglas’s head. Crimson blood began gushing out from the top of his head.
After being stunned for a while, Douglas touched his bloodied head and glowered at Lucas furiously. “You… How dare you…”
“Hmph, you’d better remember this. If you dare to provoke me and the people I care about again, I’ll definitely make your life a living hell!” Lucas kicked Douglas in his knees, twisting his legs into a warped angle, and made him tumble out far, far away.
Without being able to utter a single word, Douglas passed out.
Everyone in the room was scared into silence, not daring to breathe a single word as they watched Lucas and Jordan leave. Too terrifying!
Only when the figures of these two people had completely disappeared did someone from the Luxe quickly take Douglas to the hospital.
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Soon, Brad Douglas’s father, Gordon Douglas, hurried to the hospital.
When he saw his son, whose head was wrapped in bandages and legs were covered with casts, Gordon Douglas was infuriated.
In Orange County, no one had ever disrespected the Douglas family or had the guts to beat his son so badly!
“Find him! Get someone to find him! I must take revenge and kill him!”
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At this moment, Lucas was already on his way back to the lakeside villa with Jordan.
He was covered in blood just now, so he didn’t want to go back to the Carters, lest Cheyenne and Amelia saw the state he was in.
Thinking about Cheyenne’s request for him to let the Carters off today, Lucas called Flynn Davis and gave him some instructions.
After taking a shower, Lucas stood by the railing on a balcony and looked at the sparkling lake outside with a bitter smile.
Previously, he proposed to Cheyenne at the Intercontinental Hotel but was turned down by her. Later on, he revealed his identity to her and wanted to return the Brilliance Corporation to her.
Unfortunately, Cheyenne refused to accept it.
Cheyenne had always had a strong backbone and wasn’t willing to accept favors for nothing. She merely said that she would go to the Brilliance Corporation, but she hoped to work her way up to her former position from the bottom.
Cheyenne was determined, so Lucas had no choice but to give in.
This was how kindhearted, intelligent, and independent the woman he loved was.
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The following morning, Dominic Carter, who had stayed up all night, suddenly received an excellent piece of news.
The Brilliance Corporation, which the Stardust Corporation had snatched away, suddenly gave the Carters an offer to become the guarantor of their debts and even decided to sign a cooperative contract with them!