Chapter 117: The Urgent Meeting
It was three PM in New York city. After the disappearance of Charles, the old man had called a meeting among his high-ranking men in order for them to discuss how they were going to bring Charles back to New York City and make him pay for betraying the old man, but that wouldn't be without him figuring out a way to apologize to Sarah and get her to accept to marry him.
As the men were gathering in the meeting hall, which is in the old man's mansion, Adrian too walked in, and without uttering a word to any of them, he went to one of the seats, sat down, and started manipulating his phone.
As he was busy manipulating his phone, the men started murmuring words about him to each other, especially those who were present the day he killed some of their colleagues in order to rescue Charles, but none dared say whatever they wanted loudly, but despite that, Adrian could still get a glimpse of what they were saying.
"As they were still waiting for the old man to come out, the men kept on whispering words to each other concerning Adrian.
Suddenly, Adrian banged the table angrily, causing the men to jolt in fright, and with that, he stood up.
"Do any of you have something to tell me?" Adrian asked them, but they all remained silent while staring at him.
"Well, I will take that as a no, so each one of you should mind his own f**king business and stop acting like cowards. If you have something to tell me or something against me, say it out loud so that I can hear it and stop saying it behind me," Adrian said to them. He was about to sit down, but immediately the voice of one of the men stopped him at the track.
"I have something to tell you," one of the men said to him.
"Okay, I'm all ears," Adrian said to him.
"Why are you always acting as if you are the second in command here? We don't remember the old man making you the second in command," the man said to Adrian, and immediately the others supported him.
"Well, I act like the second in command because I'm the second in command. Do any of you have any problems with that?" Adrian asked them with furrowed brows.
"Yes, we do," the man said to him in reply.
"After all, we don't see the reason why we should consider you the second in command," the man said to Adrian, and immediately he smirked at him.
"Well, why don't we do things as in the jungle, where the strongest rules? Since you guys think that I'm not qualified to be the second in command, why don't the person who thinks that he's qualified come and prove it to us by kicking my ass right away?" Adrian asked them with a look, but they all started looking at each other, not wanting to make the first attempt.
"Just as I had expected, cowards," he said to them, and he was about to sit down again, but immediately the voice of the same man interrupted him again.
"I will fight you," he said to Adrian.
"Perfect," Adrian said to him in reply before folding the sleeve of his shirt.
"Okay, tough guy, come and show me what you got," Adrian said to him, and with that, the man glared angrily at Adrian before rushing towards him while aiming to punch him in the face, but before his fist could even reach Adrian's face, Adrian's fist was already on his nose, causing the man's breath to cease for a little while. Before he could even realize what was going on, he was already on the floor, panting heavily with blood gushing out of his nose.
Who's next?" Adrian asked them, but they all remained silent while staring at each other.
"I guess I will remain the second in command as usual," Adrian said to them before sitting down, and at the same time, the old man walked in with his security guards.
Once he saw the man on the floor struggling to get up with blood gushing out of his nose, he immediately frowned.
"How dare you dirty the floor in my conference room with your dirty blood?" The old man thundered angrily at him.
"I'm sorry, boss, it's a mistake," he said to the old man while struggling to get up, and at the same time, his nose kept on bleeding nonstop.
"Please take him away and call one of the maids to come clean up the blood after the meeting, the old man said to one of his guards, and he nodded in reply before walking to the wounded man and pulling him up and dragging him out.
Meanwhile, the old man had already taken his seat, facing everyone.
"You are all welcome to this urgent meeting. As you all know, one of us decided to abandon us and his mission and flee to Italy, thinking that we wouldn't be able to find him. Well, not only are we going to find him, but we are also going to punish him so that others can learn from it," the old man said to them, but they all remained waiting for him to finish talking.
"Well, to begin, Adrian will be taking over ZENITH EXPRESS, but that will be once we are back from Italy with the traitor," the old man said to them.
"Are you following us to Italy?" Adrian asked the old man after some minutes of silence.
"Yes, of course," the old man said to him in reply.
"What about you allow me to go alone with some of our well-trained men?" Adrian proposed to the old man.
"Are you sure about that?" The old man asked him.
"Yes, sir," Adrian said to him.
"Ok, no problems; I hope you don't mess everything up," the old man said to him.
"Of course I won't," Adrian said to the old man, and at the same time, he received a notification on his phone.
Taking his phone, he opened the notification, which was a news story on an audio recording. Without hesitating, he started playing it before everyone, and behold, only what could be heard was Adrian and Charles' voice as they were discussing their plans to get married to Sarah and the rest of them.
To be continued...