#THE_LAST_MINUTE_GROOM
©Sir_Zach
EPISODE 62
“Bro– brother,” she stuttered.
Standing on the stage while staring at Piper with an undisguised disdain on his face, the young man who was almost of the same height as Maverick and Damien raised his gun at Piper’s head.
Piper bit her lips. She was sure he wouldn’t ki|| her but right now…
“Bang!”
The music was turned off by now and everywhere was as silent as a graveyard. Nobody was allowed to leave because there were guards by the doors, preventing anyone from leaving.
Piper, who docked due to fear, raised her head to see that the gun wasn’t pointed at her. She looked behind her and saw a dead teenager with his phone by his side. Without being told, she knew he was ki||ed because he was recording a video of her dancing.
With what she did, there were bound to be people videoing her.
“What you do with your life outside of Country M is not my business, however, what I will not accept is you ruining the reputation of my family,” Davis said coolly.
Piper stared at this handsome brother of hers. Tall, muscular, with straight legs and a well-proportioned face. If only all her brothers saw her as a sister, she would have been the happiest girl on earth. Even now, all he cared about was the reputation that the Xu family no longer has.
“Brother, I…” she stopped talking when she saw that he had turned around and was about to leave.
Piper felt humiliated. Maverick ignored her earlier and now, in the presence of so many people, her nephew was ignoring her too?
Yes, that’s right. She was his little aunt but h@ťěs to see herself that way. She preferred to call him ‘older brother.’
After Piper’s mother destroyed her first husband, she went to seek warmth as a Mistress in the hands of the Patriarch of the Xu family. She also ruined the Patriarch’s first marriage and made herself the legitimate wife, however, the Xu family, including the Patriarch, h@ťěd her for ki||ing the Matriarch, so the Patriarch ostracized her and her daughter from ever stepping foot into the Xu estate.
As for Piper, she was still a Xu, but only in name. She cannot use the power and influence of the Xu family. But because Piper was stubborn, she forcefully carved her presence in the hearts and minds of everyone in Country M. So even though her family does not accept her, everyone knows that she was the Young Miss of the Xu family.
“Nephew!” She screamed, halting Davis in place.
He was surprised that she called him that for the first time ever.
Piper laughed derisively. “You all are wicked. You are wicked!!” She screamed with tears gathering in her eyes.
“I am a daughter of the Xu family. The old Patriarch brought me into this world, yet he abandoned me and you too. Everyone abandoned me!
I am Your little Aunt, but even a servant in your family isn’t disregarded like you disregard me.
Alpha chaos and Rex are also my older brothers, but they too h@ťě me, all for a sin I did not committed!!”
At the mention of Maverick’s name, a few people in different private rooms that were watching the incident on the TV in the rooms looked surprised while one of them chuckled.
Private rooms were supposed to be quiet and these rooms are not excepted from that rule. Even though they could see what was happening from the windows, it doesn’t mean they could hear their voices, which was why TVs are placed in the rooms for different reasons.
Meanwhile, the person Maverick was holding a meeting with looked at Maverick in surprise. “She said she’s your sister too, right.”
“Not minding your business might get your tongue ripped out,” Maverick warned nonchalantly.
“Haha… forget I said anything.” The person laughed awkwardly. Was Maverick someone he could mess with?
Piper’s voice drifted over again. “Do you even know that today is my 21st birthday?” She forcefully wiped her tears and continued. “Why are you people treating me this way?! Other people have siblings and are proud of them but me? I’m made to hide my existence, but not anymore!!”
She got down from the stage and ran out of the club with her friends going after her. The guards didn’t stop her because, even though their Master might make it seem like he doesn’t care about her, he really did.
In fact, Davis liked Piper but was indifferent to her because he was scared of having a weakness. People like Damien won’t think twice to ki|| Piper just to provoke him.
As for Maverick and Rex, Piper’s life and death mean nothing to them.
After she left, Davis swept his gaze through everyone in the club with thr_@tening eyes. He dared them to go reveal what just happened to the world.
As he was about to leave, someone’s chuckle and taunting voice drifted into his ear.
“Dear Chaos, I thought your heartlessness would have subsided after your sister cried so much. She even went dancing with riffraffs just to get your attention, but still, you pretended to not have ears. Tsk. Tsk. Tsk. Your kind of heart is frightening.”
Davis curled his lips into a wicked smile and headed in the direction of the voice.
“Are you also going to keep me quiet, just like your sister?… Clap, clap, clap… I’m feeling bad now, right now Chaos, it’s making me want to ruin this place, what do you say?” The voice came again.
Maverick finally raised his head to look at the person standing away from him with a laptop that was showing Damien on the screen.
“Come out of your hideout,” he said languidly.
“Of course, not! You are crazy. Hehehe… You almost destroyed my legs with those bullets of yours. Now I’m receiving treatment and you want me to come out? You are wicked.” He frowned.
Maverick looked at the guard holding the laptop and commanded, “Get out!”
The guard was about to put off the laptop when Damien glared at the guard. “You dare!!”
The guard got a fright and immediately turned the laptop to face Maverick, but unfortunately, Maverick wasn’t in the mood for psychopathic play, so he picked up a knife from God knows where and flung it at the screen. The knife launched right into the middle of the screen, turning it blank.
“Now you can get out.” He commanded again in a flat tune.
The guard belonged to Damien, so he turned around and left without bowing.
Just after he left, Davis appeared and sat down uninvited. “Maverick, the Boss of Heartlessness, just as heartless as his name,” he said sarcastically.
“Thanks for the compliment,” Maverick answered without sparing Davis a glance.
“You dared to do that to my family in my absence.”
“Even in your presence, what revenge can you take?” Maverick finally looked at him with chilly coldness emitting from his chocolate eyes.
“Am I so worthless in your eyes?” Davis didn’t sound or look angry.
“Aren’t you worthless in your own eyes?” Maverick threw the question back to him.
“No,” he replied.
“Then you are blind.” Maverick stopped talking to him and continued doing his business with the man sitting beside Davis.
“Maverick, I challenge you to the bidding contest. Whoever wins, rules.”
Maverick looked at him like he was stupid and shook his head, “not interested…”
“Are you scared–”
“But Rex is.” Maverick cut him off just like Davis didn’t allow Maverick to finish.
“Maverick, are you looking down on me?” Now, Davis was getting angry. How could Maverick not put him in his eyes? Because of this attitude of his was why he experimented on his son, hoping Maverick would take notice of him and start to beg him for suppression pills but instead Maverick did something else than what he expected.
Maverick would rather talk to the old Patriarch than talk to Davis. To Maverick, Davis was still a child. What an insult to a thirty-year-old man!
Davis is thirty, just like Maverick and Damien, but Maverick considered him a child because Davis is very obedient to the Organization and dares not to denounce them like Maverick, or disobey them like Damien.
Davis laughed out loud. “Why am I complaining when you don’t put anyone in your eyes? Even the Organization is considered $h|t to you, but the reality is that if the organization wants you dead, you won’t know how you die.
“Go find yourself a woman. Your life needs a little spice.”
With that, Maverick closed the chapter with Davis. No matter what Davis said, Maverick kept Mute about it, angering the guy until he left.
“Alpha chaos, that was brilliant!” the businessman said with a smile, trying to suck up to Maverick.
“Do I need your validation? The deal is off, get out.”
One of the many things Maverick h@ťěd was for a man to lick someone’s @zz just to be in that person’s good books. To Maverick, ones ski||s and determination give them a point in his heart.
The man couldn’t believe he lost the deal he was about to sign because he said the wrong thing. Trying to apologize to Maverick would only make things worse, so he got up with shame and was about to leave through the door when someone blocked him.
Looking for a place where one could get all the tough guys in the Country? Then you are at the right place. ‘Drunk money.’ This is why nobody is surprised to see the big fish in the Country gathering here. But this guy who just came wasn’t supposed to be at a place like this.
“Mav, long time no see,”
A guy, almost as old as Maverick, walked into the space with a smile on his handsome face. He had his hands in his trousers’ pocket and from the cheerful look on his face, one would think he had no problem.
“Inspector Fin,” the businessman who was blocked, bowed slightly in greeting.
If the criminal world has the likes of Maverick and co, then the law has Inspector Fin who would haunt down his prey no matter how many years it took, provided Fin and the Criminal were both alive.
If he cannot get his hands on the Criminal, Inspector Fin would plant fake evidence around the Criminal just to get him and after that, he would torture the senses out of the criminal until they confess their crimes.
Inspector Fin might be with the law, but most people knew that his hands and legs were painted with evil from the bad side, which made people confused and can’t tell where exactly he belongs. Only Inspector Fin and his friends know where the ‘confused’ guy’s heart lay.
Inspector Fin smiled at the businessman and side-stepped to create a space for him to leave. He is a gentleman but must not be mistaken for a nice person.
Fin sat in front of Maverick who was typing away on his phone and sighed. “Mav, it’s been 7 years already. Isn’t it time you forgive me?”
“No,”
“But you do things for me. The other day, you sent me evidence of lawyer Smith’s under-the-table dealings. Last week, you sent me Oscar’s files, and just yesterday, you sent me Raymond’s. Why are you doing all that if you’re still mad at me?” Those guys mentioned are on the top ten list of most wanted criminals in Country M… except Lawyer Smith.
Maverick raised his head to look at him. “Aren’t you a cop? I’m a law-abiding citizen. Sending the criminals to the cops is my duty, isn’t it?”
The space was silent for a while before inspector Fin burst into a puddle of laughter. “A law-abiding citizen indeed. If you hadn’t caused so much trouble with the Xu family, I wouldn’t have gotten an order from above to pin you down by all means. Bro, you are making my job difficult.”
Maverick Ç0çƙed his brow and smirked, “how about you pass my message to your inspector general?”
“Don’t bother, I already sent him a package. The police force will be getting a new inspector general soon.”
“Why aren’t you stepping in?”
“Nah, I can’t handle the Organization. Those people are way tougher than me. I’m not as brave as you.” He rested his back on the sofar and sighed. “You know why I have chosen to remain a mere Inspector for so long. I love my peace and this position gives me that.”
Maverick nodded. He had been mad at this friend of his for almost 7 years for the prank he and Matt played on him and for that, he didn’t want to forgive them but after he found out all he needed to know about Jeslyn from Pink, Maverick got to understand that he can’t handle all the forces alone.
‘Those people’ were already proving difficult to handle, adding the second toughest organization would be too overwhelming for him.
“If you have time, find out all you can about the half-heart organization.”
“Oh? Why? Have you provoked them too?” Inspector Fin asked with a raised brow.
Maverick is so stubborn that they were all scared for his life. If he had obediently done what the Dark Age organization wanted, he would have been having a peaceful life, just like Davis and Damien but no, Maverick chose to build his fortress alone, detaching himself from ‘those people’ even if they already made it clear time and time again that Maverick cannot wash himself away from them.
The fights between the Xu family, the Yu family, and Maverick were all the organization’s doing. The unrest in the Country is caused by the Dark Age Organization which wants nothing but to rule the world…
No, they are already ruling the world. They control how the world works, how people live, what people say, where people go, what people should know, the level of wealth people could get, and so on. They are friendly dictators who have the government wrapped around their fingertips… They are the government.
Provided nothing is out of their grasp, the Dark Age Organization won’t mind but the minute a rebel roars his head, they immediately add him to the house or uproot him from the bud. But Maverick caught them by surprise, or rather, they allowed him to grow, hoping they could pull him in. Afterall, he already had a seat in the council, but Maverick had different plans for himself.
As for the Half-heart organization, they are just below the Dark Age and are pressing hard to take the crown from their rival. The organization is dominated by women.
Those women must not and cannot fall in love. The leaders of that organization have it worse. While the members can get involved with men all for the sake of bearing female offspring to carry on the legacy of the organization, the leader will forever remain a virgin unless they want to get an heir.
They must not test a man’s rod inside them. They can only get pregnant through AI– artificial insemination.
Curious about what they do to the male children they give birth to? Well, their hospitals have thousands of cases of ‘miscarriages’, stillborn babies, and male children who died after they were born.
The barbaric custom of that occultic organization that seeks to dominate and rule the world is so alarming and absurd that the people of Country M no longer want anything to do with their women. Once a woman is found out to be a member of the half-heart Organization, they are either ki||ed or sent to the police.
Although only around 10% of cases like that have been recorded in the history of Country M, however, it doesn’t mean that those caught were sentenced or punished by the law.
The half-heart organization is so protective of its members that they are hardly punished if caught by the law because their influence is as vast as the influence of its rival, the Dark Age organization.