Chapter 494 - Just Deserts
The cold sweat on Cleve's face immediately trickled down.
He was just thinking of putting all the blame on Lucas and framing him in front of Ethan. But the next instant, Ethan ran toward Lucas to apologize to him in a particularly respectful manner.
As long as his brains were working fine, he'd be able to figure out instantly that he had definitely offended the wrong person this time! Lucas wasn't someone he could afford to provoke at all!
At this moment, Lena walked in behind Ethan toward Lucas with a smile. "Hey, Lucas, it's been a while!"
Lucas nodded at her slightly.
In fact, only a week had passed since the two of them had parted in LA.
At this moment, Lena suddenly discovered to her surprise that there was a young woman dressed as a waitress standing still. She was absolutely gorgeous and stunning!
The beauty's face was still stained with tears, and she looked delicate and timid as she held the corner of Lucas's shirt with worry and panic written all over his face.
Lena couldn't help frowning and looked curiously at her a few more times. Who… exactly is this pretty woman?
But Lucas didn't bother paying much attention to Ethan or Lena and instead looked at Cleve, whose forehead was drenched in cold sweat.
"You just said that you were going to break my limbs and make me kneel on the floor and beg you?" Lucas questioned expressionlessly.
"No, no… It was all just a misunderstanding! A misunderstanding! I… just said it casually. I definitely wouldn't really dare to do it!" Cleve stammered as cold sweat flowed down his face, no longer as overbearing as he was just now.
Lucas sneered. "Misunderstanding? Just now, you said you wanted to crush all the bones in my body and make me wail in pain endlessly. You even said that you wanted to insult my friend right in front of me. Is this considered a misunderstanding?"
Cleve was utterly panicked. But before he could say a single word, someone at the side suddenly roared, "Bastard!"
Ethan flew into a rage. "Cleve, who gave you the guts to speak to Mr. Gray in such a manner?! Who allowed you to act so waywardly in my restaurant?!"
He knew that Lucas actually bore a slight grudge against him because of the Owens, so he was trying his best to help Lucas in every way. It wasn't just because of the instructions given by Chad Kennedy, the Huttons' butler, but also because he wanted to get closer to Lucas.
He knew that Lucas had been in the military before and that he absolutely hated evil, as well as those who bullied others. He especially hated people who bullied weak and vulnerable women. But when he invited Lucas to dinner at his restaurant, Lucas actually got insulted by his subordinate. What would Lucas think of him then?
The image he painstakingly maintained in front of Lucas had now been ruined by Cleve!
When Cleve saw how infuriated Ethan was, his heart skipped a beat, and his knees immediately went weak as he knelt down in front of them. "Mr. Sawyer, I know I was wrong! I'll apologize to this gentleman. Sir, please forgive me!"
Cleve was behaving like a completely different person from before. He was now kneeling on the floor and shivering in fright while kowtowing incessantly. He was hitting his head so hard on the ground that his forehead started bleeding, but he didn't dare to stop at all.
Cleve was well aware that Lucas was right about him being merely a lackey that many feared and tried to suck up to only because he was backed by the Sawyers.
But once he offended the Sawyers and Ethan's honored guest, his power and status would all vanish.
Moreover, nothing good would come out of offending the Sawyers!
So Cleve was really scared, and he would rather kneel and beg for mercy in front of so many people than be abandoned or killed by Ethan.
Seeing this scene, many of the guests in the lobby were dumbfounded.
They saw Cleve as an arrogant and formidable person earlier. But now, he was just like a dog in front of Ethan as he begged miserably on his knees. He was completely disheveled and embarrassing.
Apart from Cleve and his underlings, the most disappointed person present was Gisele.
She originally thought that Lucas would be beaten into a pulp by Cleve and his underlings. But before she could rejoice, Ethan had suddenly arrived and stopped everything. He even treated Lucas with so much respect and deference.
She couldn't understand why Ethan was suddenly treating Lucas with so much respect because he was just a good-for-nothing to her.
Facing Cleve's kowtowing and pleas for mercy, Ethan didn't have the slightest bit of forgiveness. If he hadn't arrived in time, this bastard would have completely offended Lucas!
He decided that he had to settle this score clearly with Cleve!
Ethan gritted his teeth and ordered ruthlessly, "Brazen dog, how dare you say you want to crush Mr. Gray's bones? Come, crush all of his bones and dump him at the entrance of the restaurant so that everyone can see his fate! And for all those people who dared to touch Mr. Gray earlier, break one leg of theirs each and throw them out. We'll see who dares to do this again in the future!"
Since he could be the richest man in Orange County, he was definitely not a kindhearted person.
The lobby was instantly full of cries for mercy.
These arrogant and muscular men all began kneeling on the ground like Cleve was.
"Mr. Sawyer, please let us off! We were just following Cleve's orders!"
"Yes, Mr. Sawyer. We're just Cleve's subordinates. We didn't dare to defy his orders to hit Mr. Gray!"
"Mr. Sawyer, please have mercy and let us off! I promise I won't dare to lay a finger on Mr. Gray again!"
"Mr. Sawyer, I really know my mistakes. Please give me another chance! I promise that I'll treat Mr. Gray well in the future and serve him to the best of my abilities. Please let me off and let me redeem myself!"
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Ethan remained unmoved as he instructed coldly, "Do it immediately!"
Soon, a large group of agile bodyguards rushed in from outside the restaurant and immediately pinned Cleve and his underlings onto the ground. Then they pressed down on them.
Snap! With the sounds of bones cracking, Cleve let out a miserable cry. "Ah!"
All his joints and limbs had all been crushed!
But the punishment wasn't over yet because he had made outrageous threats to crush all of Lucas's bones. So now, it was his turn to bear the consequences of this.
Snap!
Crack!
Crack!
With several more cracking sounds, the few elite bodyguards pinning Cleve onto the floor crushed all the bones in his body except for his skull and spine.
At this moment, Cleve couldn't even scream, and his body was drenched in cold sweat, looking as though he had been fished out of water.
His underlings didn't escape the punishment either. Each of them had one of their legs broken and was dragged to the entrance of the restaurant.
After the bodyguards threw all these people out of the restaurant, Ethan carefully asked Lucas, "Mr. Gray, those people have all been taken care of. Do you think this is fine?"
Lin Chen nodded casually.
Cleve and his underlings were crooks who often got up to malicious misdeeds, so they deserved this fate.
But… there was still another person.
Lucas suddenly looked at Gisele, who immediately became flustered.
Gisele suddenly felt as though a menacing beast was staring at her, and her body stiffened!