His Contractual Mistress

"Well, you don't know me, but my friend here surely you know him very well."

The guy who spoke took off his sunglasses and hat. Now it displays his blue eyes and blond hair.

He went on, "I was the newly appointed Mafia Lord in the Northeastern States. And my first job is to clean someone's mess, and that is your Lord." 

Liam's men could not decide. They weighed things among themselves. They were uncertain whether their boss had prepared to fight against the U Continent Mafia Association when they haven't secured more territories yet.

So it means they were doomed, and their plans fail. Moreover, if it's true that someone ordered these people to check on them, that possibly be the Mafia Emperor. 

Avoid resistance, Liam's men choose to step back and open the door in the cafe. Upstairs, it upset Liam when his assistant rushed inside the room and made a stressed report. 

"What did you say?" 

"Boss, someone from the U Continent is here!" 

"What are you saying!? Why did you let them get inside!?" he stressed out.

"But, boss…" 

Not long, someone appeared at the door and greeted them cheerfully. "Hello!" 

"It was you?" Liam raised an eyebrow upon recognizing who it was. The guy walked toward the couch across from them and sat down without invitation. 

"Don't mind me, your highness. I'm only here to treat my friends with coffee." 

"Is that so? A bunch of U Continent Mafia visiting you at this timing? Is it you retire from the association a long time ago, Mr. Carl Johnson? How sweet of you then." Contorting his lips into a mocking smile, Liam's voice is full of sarcasm. 

However, Carl just curled his mouth into an amusing smile about how Liam is well informed about him. He leaned back and comfortably lounging on the couch. 

"Actually, I am also here to pick up my students." Carl paused; he then glanced at Hailey and smiled warmly. "Go ahead, Miss Hillson. You can join your classmates downstairs and get out of this building along with everyone." 

Liam didn't like how Carl acted in front of him. He snaps. "What are you up to? Telling each employee and employers to vacate the building because there is a bomb?" 

Carl laughs. He answered back, "Never think that you outsmart my cousin. He has his in control of this building, and his rules were executed smoothly at the moment. Why don't you check it down below? I guess most of the employees are about to clear the building." 

"What!?" Liam creases his forehead. He gestures at his assistant to check out the window. Not long after, his assistant came back and confirmed it. 

"Boss, it was true! The employees now gathered outside the building!" 

Liam clenched his jaw. He was pondering how they managed to warn all the employees that the building is not safe at this moment?

"Are you wondering, your highness? Let me explain, then! My cousin, Vincent Shen, not only constructed his building with strong foundations and installed a heavy security system, but he always performs mandatory emergency demos. There are days that they performed this demo in the middle of the day or during lunchtime, and even at night. Vincent makes sure all the employees and employers who took office in his building were knowledgeable enough to act calmly during emergencies. And we sent these warnings in a coded way." 

Carl went on, "And the floors where you sent your men to stand by, the employees leave casually, in which your men have no idea what is going on at the moment."

Liam remained silent. He admitted it caught him off guard. He was confident that everything would go smoothly because he will take Hailey by helicopter. 

Little did he know, Vincent has more tricks hid on his sleeves! But still, he has a card in his hand! 

"Don't you think I will let her go? Her friends' lives are in her hands. It's up to her if she'll repeat the past and choose her own safety, then abandon her friends." Liam said with a threat. 

Hailey gritted her teeth, she clenched her palms into fists. Liam is becoming a monster in her eyes. No. He is already a monster! He will do everything she losses her sanity! He wants her to suffer emotionally by blaming herself for the tragic incident her friends got into! That's why he's doing all of this! 

"Please, Liam. Enough already! Let them go and just leave P Country in silence! I don't want any dispute among the Lords or between my friends!" she begged. 

When he isn't listening to her plea, Hailey sat up, took a step, but Liam held her arm. Carl pulled out his gun and aimed it at him. However, he only beams at Carl.

"Wow. So the rumors are wrong? I thought Lord Carl Johnson had the anxiety to hold a gun after the death of his fiancee. Then, what is this?" 

As Liam sounded insulting, Carl sharpened his gaze. "Stop assuming that you know everything, Liam Huo." He ordered Liam, "Let her go, now!" 

"Is this really true?" Liam laughed. "It does surprise me, really... You left the Underground World and became a professor. Tell me... Is it because you didn't save your fiancee back then? Ah! She's a university professor. So? Is it the reason why you showed up here is to try saving your students as you did not protect your fiancee? That was sweet! But what's more shocking, you can hold a gun again! Is this because of the sake of your so-called students?" 

Amused by Liam's conclusion, Carl could not hold himself to snort. "Mr. Huo, I guess being a Mafia Lord isn't suitable for you. Why don't you change your career into a Talk Show host? You were too interested in gossip." 

Liam retorted, "I'm just interested to know the life of those people who I need to remove in my path, and that includes you, Carl Johnson. Putting your nose in my business is a huge consequence." 

"Is that so? Then I should pull the trigger of this gun before you could," he warned.

"Can you really do that? Don't fool me. I know you lost that will a long time ago, Carl Johnson."

Liam scoffs that only made Carl challenged his capability. He clenched his jaw and said,

"You are wrong, Liam Huo. My will is to protect the person who is dear to someone important to me. I am determined to pull this trigger if necessary. I could not take watching Vincent would follow in my footsteps, mourning for so many years which until now, still so hard to accept the truth of losing someone. Now, let Hailey go." 

Liam remained to stare at Carl with a dagger look. He didn't notice that his grip on Hailey's arm got tighter this time. 

"Liam, my arm," Hailey begged the guy with a hoarse voice. She grabs her arm, the pain is unbearable. 

"Are you really going to abandon your friends?" Liam hissed to her. He pulled her closer to used her as a shield. 

"You are a coward, Liam Huo!" Carl shouted while Liam only smiled at him. The guy's behavior truly annoys him.

"You just did say you wouldn't allow anyone harming the person who is important to someone dear to you. Tsk! I know you have not fully recovered yet. So, you will only fail your aim. You can't shoot properly yet. And if you miss it? Then ninety percent that you can't hit me, and ninety percent you will shot someone else." 

However, after he asserted this, he felt the mouth of a gun pointing at the back of his head. 

"How dare you hide behind in a woman's body?" said the man behind him. 

Liam moved his pupils to the corner of his eyes. He shrunk them after to see the man he hated the most that are now standing behind him. 

"So? You were here all this time, huh? Vincent Shen?"