Her eyes widened,and she looked confused. However, she only allowed herself to stay like thisfor a second before regaining her composure. She grabbed her things and hurriedoff the plane. She had to catch up with Darius.When Kate sawthem moving, she got ready to get off the plane as well. Before she could doso, someone appeared before her. It was a man with blond hair and plainfeatures. She knew who he was—Darius’ bodyguard, the surgeon. The captainpractically worshipped him and treated Darius nicely because of him. So, shetold herself to be nice to him.She forced out asmile and said, “You’re Edward, right? May I know why you’re stopping me fromgetting off the plane?”Edward looked ather seriously. “Because I’m a bodyguard. I can tell that you want to get closeto Mr. Reid, and that’s not something that I can allow.”Kate resisted theurge to roll her eyes. She was starting to dislike Edward already, but shecouldn’t show it. As she pondered this, Edward said, “Mr. Reid w

##Her angerdidn’t bring about the results she wanted. On the contrary, the security guardsburst into laughter. One of them said, “I think you need to get thisstraight—you have no right to make any demands of us because your employer’sonly driving a car that’s worth half a million. In fact, youdon’t even have the right to come up to us and talk to us. If not for thatpretty face, you would already be flat on your back.”Their eyestrailed over Erin’s body lasciviously. To their surprise, this didn’t even makeher flinch. The security guard who’d spoken wasn’t happy with this, so heraised his voice and said to the guard opposite him, “Look, I was right. Thiswoman’s not the proper type—why would she be getting out from the back seat ifshe were that guy’s secretary? Unless, of course, she was giving him some extraspecial service.”His meaning wasrelatively covert, but everyone presents still understood what he was gettingat. They turned to look at Erin with pointed gazes, but

“Don’t worry, Mr.Reid. I’ll settle this.”Darius nodded,then closed his eyes and fell silent.Viktor wasterrified. He cried, “Darius, let me go this once, please! I didn’t doanything—I didn’t even speak to the woman! I merely agreed with what Lyonsaid.”Lyon’s eyesbulged. He spat on the ground and growled, “If you had the least bit of shame,you wouldn’t have said that. When we came across situations like this in thepast, it’s not like you didn’t get anything out of them. Now that the shit hashit the fan, you’re pushing all the blame on me so that this dude will vent hisanger on me. I’m not going to take this lying down, and you’ll pay the pricefor what you’ve done!”His tone wasresolute and firm. It made Viktor’s face turn ghostly pale.Darius’ gazetraveled between the two of them. Then, he narrowed his eyes, seemingly havingunderstood something. He took a deep breath before putting his hands behind hisback and walking into the hotel.Edward followedhim while dragging

Edward looked into his eyes and found that Lyon meant what he said. He believed that he had the ability to turn his words into reality. So, he narrowed his eyes. He could not understand this, but he didn’t say anything. He merely looked at Darius.Only when Darius nodded did he turn his cold gaze onto Lyon. Before anyone realized what was going on, he flicked his wrist and snapped Lyon’s bone, making him let out an anguished cry.Darius stretched his neck and looked at Viktor. “I know that everything that’s happened today will make your life difficult. If you need me to break your arm as well, I’ll be glad to be of service.”The blood drained from Viktor’s face. He had yet to recover from his last bout of terror, so he remained rooted to the spot, trembling uncontrollably. His jaw went slack, but he didn’t say a word.When Darius saw him like this, he chuckled and said mockingly, “This guy’s essentially the same as Lyon. In fact, he’s worse. At the very least, Lyon has the guts to own

“Now, I want you to change these four rooms into a presidential suite.”The receptionist bowed at Darius politely again before reaching out to take the key cards. Before she could, an unpleasant voice rang out.“If my memory serves me right, anyone who wants to upgrade from a normal suite to the presidential suite has to fork out an additional thousand dollars. Since you’re upgrading from four normal suites, you’ll need to pay four thousand dollars. I doubt you’ll be able to afford it, judging by the rags you’re wearing.”No one would be happy to suddenly be criticized or insulted by a random passerby. Darius narrowed his eyes and turned to look at the person who’d spoken. However, a hand caught him by the arm. He subconsciously looked at it and followed it upward to see that it belonged to the receptionist. He exhaled and said, “I don’t think we’re well acquainted enough for you to be doing this. It’s not very appropriate.”The receptionist’s face turned crimson. She let go of him and

To her, Dariuswas basically her lifebuoy. He was the only thing she could hold on to as shedrowned.When Darius sawthis, he wanted to help her relax. He nodded and smiled, saying, “I think thatanyone with the money and power to go up against the Gillette family wouldn’tthink of this as an issue. The reason you couldn’t resolve this before was thatyou had neither. Now, with me around, you have both. I need someone to help metake care of some things in Almiron City. So, this is the time for you toshine. I’ll give you a chance to prove yourself by resolving the issue thatwe’re facing now.”Alicia’s eyeswidened again. She never would’ve expected to come across such an opportunity.Her eyes reddened, and she nodded vigorously. “I’ll definitely prove that youmade the right decision by trusting me, regardless of my age.”She wiped hertears away, then strode toward the entrance. She wanted to make things clear tothe security guards, but she was surprised by the fact that there we

With that said, he turned to Erin. “It’s been a while now. I think we’ve been standing here for at least half an hour. It’s probably time for you to give me an update.”Erin’s fingers paused on the keyboard. She turned to look at Darius, then smiled and nodded. “Yes, sir. We can see some results now.” As she spoke, she turned the laptop to face him. “Mr. Reid, as you can see, we already have 10 percent of Umbrite Hotel’s shares. Our business partners provide 8 percent, and the remaining 2 percent is from the share market. Now, we’re the fifth largest shareholder. I’ve already contacted the third and fourth largest, and as long as they hand over their shares totaling 35 percent, we’ll own 45 percent of this hotel. That will make us the largest shareholder.” When she got to the end of her report, her gaze went from Darius to the lobby manager, and she smiled.Darius nodded. “That’s about as good as we can get. Continue working on it.”Erin nodded, but she didn’t do as he said. Instead of tu

Darius’ ears perked up, and he realized he could hear several cars coming from a distance. His expression immediately turned icy. “I think I know why she’s doing this.”Erin looked at him blankly.He sucked in a deep breath, then said, “Because the Gillette family will be here in ten minutes, at most.”Erin and Alicia both frowned. They quickly got to their feet and hurried to stand before him, wanting to shield him with their bodies. They ended up standing shoulder to shoulder.Darius lowered his head and looked at them with a smile on his face. “There’s no need for you two to be so nervous. It won’t solve the problem. If anything, it’s just going to increase the time I need to spend on resolving this.”The two women shared a look, but neither of them said anything since this was only their first meeting. Then, they averted their gazes and breathed deeply. As they fell deep into their thoughts, Darius stretched his neck. “Honestly, there’s nothing to worry about. The person behind th

As she spoke, shepointed at a guy lying on the ground.Darius looked at him and raised an eyebrow. “You’re worried about the Gillettefamily coming here.”Alicia nodded.“Yes, sir. They’re extremely unreasonable and act based on their whims andfancies. There’s no way we can predict what they’ll do.” She looked at Darius.“If we stay here, we’ll put ourselves in grave danger. Also, the factthat Samantha did a one-eighty worries me. It proves that she knows they’realmost here. We’ve kept an eye on her all this time, so I have no idea how shefound out about that.”Darius took inher frustrated expression, then walked into the courtyard. He put his handsbehind his back and looked in the direction that the Gillette family’s carswere coming from. “You’re worried that because the Gillettes know we’re here,they’ll be able to swiftly come up with a counterattack against us.”Alicia didn’texpect him to understand her so well. She widened her eyes in surprise. Dariusdidn’t turn to loo

“After all,you’re Darius Reed. I’ll do anything I can to help you.”Darius looked athis watch. “I don’t have much time left for you. The Gillette family’s going tobe here soon.”Shelvin’s eyeswidened as he looked at Darius in disbelief. “How’s that possible? Shouldn’tthey have their hands full right now? Why would they show up here?”Darius glanced atSamantha. “I think the answer to that probably has something to do with thiswoman, but I don’t know exactly what it is. You can look into the matteryourself and tell me the answer once you have it.” He stretched his neck.Erin hurried overto him. She sized Shelvin up, then frowned. “Mr. Reid, what’s he doing here?”Shelvin was alittle hurt by her question. He raised his voice in dissatisfaction and said,“Hey, you may be beautiful, but you can’t be so contemptuous of me! I’m a greatguy, and plenty of women were interested in me even before I became anenlightened martial artist. They were practically dying for me to marry them,