Chapter 267: Can’t Make Him Stay

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

W-what’s going on?

The ten-odd bodyguards who barged in glared at Lucas like he was a great enemy.

On the ground, Preston gritted his teeth resentfully as he struggled to raise his head to look at the bodyguards and ordered, “Kill… kill him!”

The punch Lucas threw at his abdomen left Preston in so much pain that he was on the verge of throwing up all the food he had eaten for the past few days. The slightest movement made him feel intense pain in his stomach.

For the past few decades of his life, Preston had never been beaten up like this or suffered such a huge loss before!

If Lucas could still leave Preston’s turf under the siege of so many bodyguards, Preston would be thoroughly embarrassed!

The ten-odd bodyguards and Preston’s personal bodyguard acknowledged and immediately surrounded Lucas.

Lucas smiled coldly and raised his leg to kick the bald bodyguard who rushed in front of him, sending him flying!

“Ah!” The bald bodyguard let out a miserable cry as his body was propelled upward before slamming hard against the distant wall. He then bounced off the wall and crashed onto the glass coffee table.

It was the same for the other bodyguards. Each of them got kicked in the chest and sent flying. In just a few seconds, all of them were lying motionlessly on the ground and clutching their chests while wincing in pain. They couldn’t get up at all.

Even Preston’s personal bodyguard, whose proficiency in combat skills was better than ordinary bodyguards, was no match for Lucas at all. When facing Lucas, whose power was way above that of ordinary people, he couldn’t take a blow from him either. After taking a kick from Lucas, he spat out a mouthful of blood and laid motionlessly in the corner of the room, unable to get up at all.

Huddled on the ground, Preston stared at the scene in front of him with his eyeballs on the verge of falling out.

He didn’t expect that the numerous bodyguards he had hired for so much money would be that useless. Lucas kicked each of them away effortlessly, as though they were all inferior to ordinary people who didn’t know any combat skills.

“Good-for-nothings… Argh, all of you… a bunch of good-for-nothings!” Preston seethed and then let out a low, helpless roar of exasperation from his diaphragm.

Bang!

Bang!

Lucas walked towards Preston unhurriedly.

Preston had one side of his face lying against the ground, and his pupils constricted as he watched Lucas approach him bit by bit. He felt as if Lucas was a ferocious beast walking over toward him unhurriedly in a bid to rip apart his already defenseless prey.

He desperately wanted to huddle up and retreat back even more, but the space of the room was limited, and he couldn’t move any farther because there was a large and heavy couch behind him.

“You… Don’t come over… I-I’m the successor of the Taylors. If you dare to lay a finger on me, we won’t let you off!”

Overwhelmed with fear, Preston broke out in a cold sweat and struggled to say something threatening while ignoring the pain in his chest and abdomen.

The pistol was useless against Lucas, who had even twisted and bent it into a ball of scrap metal, while the ten-odd bodyguards were completely defenseless when facing Lucas, like children who couldn’t fight back. Preston no longer had anything to rely on, and he was truly scared at this point!

Seeing how cowardly and terrified Preston was, Lucas sneered and chuckled softly. Of course, he wouldn’t choose to do something to him now. Rather, he just wanted him to understand that he was not to be threatened or held back by force.

Lucas stood in front of Preston and looked down at him condescendingly. “Mr. Taylor, do you still want to hold me back forcefully?”

“N-n-no! I wouldn’t dare to!” Preston shook his head profusely. At this point, he was afraid that Lucas would kill him in a fit of anger, so how could he dare to continue to make things hard for Lucas?

“Okay, in that case, I can give you one more night to think about it. The condition I just raised will remain the same. Come to the Ocean Bathhouse at nine o’clock tomorrow morning and give me an answer. Do you understand?”

Preston obviously no longer dared to turn him down. He hurriedly nodded in a flustered manner.

Only when he saw Lucas leave the private room did he completely relax. His body was drenched in cold sweat, and he shivered several times.

While Preston was furious and aggrieved, Lucas called an Uber and returned to the villa in the middle of Pearl Lake.

At this time, the sky was already completely dark, and Cheyenne and her family had long since returned home.

“Lucas! You’re finally home!”

As soon as Lucas arrived home, Charlotte scurried out and held onto his arm while grinning widely. “Cheyenne cooked a lot of delicious food today to celebrate us escaping unscathed and returning unharmed!”

Feeling the warmth on his arm, Lucas subconsciously wanted to pull his arm away, but Cheyenne happened to hear the noise and walked to the front of the villa too.

“Lucas, you’re back!” The gaze in Cheyenne’s eyes flickered a little when she saw Charlotte hugging Lucas’s arm. But she soon walked forward with a beautiful smile and pulled Lucas away a little. “Hurry up and go wash your hands. Dinner is ready. We can dig in after you wash your hands.”

Lucas immediately said, “Okay.” He then quickly retracted his arm and hurriedly strode toward the bathroom.

Soon, all of them gathered at the dining table. Both Cheyenne and Charlotte were grateful that Lucas had saved Charlotte today, so they kept helping him to the food.

Seeing this scene, Karen was immediately displeased. “Hmph, you’re just a good-for-nothing who sponges off of us. Who are you to let my daughters help you to the food?”

Karen glared daggers at Lucas before yelling at her daughters in displeasure, “I’ve painstakingly raised the both of you, but I’ve never seen you helping me to food at all. Yet you’re so caring towards an outsider, huh?! You two are just ingrates!”

After hearing these words, Charlotte immediately flew into a rage. She had had such a dangerous encounter today, but Karen didn’t even show her any concern!

Ever since that incident in the hotel restaurant, Charlotte had been completely disappointed in Karen, who had broken her heart.

But deep down, she still had a glimmer of hope that her mother cared about her.

So at first, she had thought that Karen wasn’t aware of it. But she soon found Karen sitting on the couch and watching television, on which there were news subtitles about the incident that she was involved in at the Stardust Corporation today!

Feeling aggrieved, Charlotte asked, “Mom, why didn’t you ask me what happened to me today?”

But to her surprise, Karen merely rolled her eyes at her while chewing on a snack before asking in displeasure, “What’s there to ask? You came back in one piece, didn’t you?”

Her words made Charlotte so furious that she almost questioned Karen if she was her biological mother.

She had never seen anyone like Karen who didn’t show any concern for her daughter who had been held hostage and had almost fallen to her death from a great height! Karen’s attitude was worse than that of a stranger!

Now, Charlotte and Cheyenne were just helping Lucas to the food to thank him for saving her life. Yet Karen started making such sarcastic remarks, leaving Charlotte speechless.

“Mom, Lucas saved my life today. Can’t I help him to some food? Also, don’t forget that you’re now living in Lucas’s villa. Why are you always so mean to him?” Charlotte asked in exasperation.

Karen immediately rolled her eyes again. “Hmph, bullshit! This good-for-nothing didn’t buy this villa. It was a gift from Ethan Sawyer!”

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