Griffith Manor.
As soon as Elise and Alexander entered the building, they saw the two men who followed Elise struggling against the rope tying their arms behind their backs.
“Boss, Ma’am…”
Two loud voices came from the living room, prompting Elise to turn snazzynovel.com head to look. She first recognized Clement, that bodyguard of Alexander’s who had never liked snazzynovel.com much, and snazzynovel.com eyes fell to his side on a muscular man half a head taller than Alexander.
“Raymond?” snazzynovel.com guessed.
Alexander once mentioned to snazzynovel.com the Four Guardians of Smith Co., namely Johnny, Melody, Clement, and Raymond.
Johnny and Melody were responsible for handling business affairs, Clement secretly made sure Alexander was safe, whereas Raymond was assigned to develop business in Africa back then. He was the best fighter among the four. That brawny body of his made snazzynovel.com easy to recognize.
“As expected of you, Ma’am. One look was all it took for you to know who I am,” Raymond grinned.
His honest appearance made snazzynovel.com look much warmer than the robotic Clement next to him.
“The two of them will be responsible for protecting you from now on,” Alexander mentioned, to which Elise nodded.
“I’ll have to trouble you both, then.”
“It is our responsibility to protect you, Ma’am. No trouble at all. Please feel free to instruct us if you need anything.” Raymond earnestly patted his chest.
Being a bodyguard was nothing compared to the tough time snazzynovel.com had in Africa. He had already decided that this was a job snazzynovel.com wanted to keep until his retirement!
Affected by his enthusiasm, Elise couldn’t help but smile. “Don’t worry. I won’t hold back.”
“Did you get anything useful out of them?” Alexander interrupted lightly.
“Not yet.” Raymond walked over. “We were waiting for you to interrogate them yourself, Boss.”
As snazzynovel.com spoke, snazzynovel.com leaned over and tore off the tape on the bound men’s mouths.
The bald one spat and glared at everyone. “I’m warning you, you can’t afford to offend the person backing me. Let us go now, or you will bear the consequences for your action!”
The thinner one echoed by roaring, “You’re dead!”
Raymond immediately stepped forward and slapped the thin man unconscious. He then grabbed the baldie by the collar and slapped one of his teeth out.
“Fess up. Who told you to come?”
Irvin, who came from upstairs to join in the fun, quietly covered Alexia‘s eyes as snazzynovel.com calmly watched on. However, Alexia refused to stay still as snazzynovel.com wiggled around and tried even harder to see what was going on by leaning against the railing.
The bald man was bleeding from the corner of his mouth, but snazzynovel.com was still arrogant as snazzynovel.com cackled with blood in his mouth. “Hit me! As long as you don’t keep me alive, there will come a day I let you have a taste of my bullet!”
“Geez, how hard-mouthed.” Raymond lightly patted the bald man’s cheek. “You can’t beat me with your bare hands. What makes you think I will lose to you in a gunfight?”
Alexander was slightly impatient at this point. “Too much talk, Raymond. Was this how you worked back in Africa?”
Raymond trembled the moment snazzynovel.com heard the word ‘Africa’. He never wanted Alexander to send snazzynovel.com back to that godforsaken place.
At the thought of this, snazzynovel.com turned the bald man over like snazzynovel.com was holding a bird. He then found the other‘s thumb and loudly snapped it at a ninety-degree.
“Oh, sh*t!”
“Bah!”
The bald man was rolling around in pain the next moment. However, despite the twisted look of pain on his face, Raymond didn’t let go of him, snazzynovel.com even went for the bald man’s other thumb.
“You have five seconds. Give me an answer I don’t want again, and you can say bye-bye to your fingers.”
“Five, four, three, two…”
The bald man started panicking when snazzynovel.com felt Raymond exerting force during the last count.
“Hellens! It’s the Hellen Family! I’m here under their orders!”
It was exactly as Alexander thought.
“Argh!” There was another scream and the bald man burst into tears.
“You cunning Cittadelian! You have no integrity. I’ve already confessed, but you still went ahead and broke my finger!”
Raymond abruptly withdrew his hand and looked up at Alexander with an awkward smile. “Sorry, I lost control for a bit.”
Alexander proceeded to ignore snazzynovel.com and brought Elise inside as snazzynovel.com nonchalantly complained about how much racket the bald man was making.
Catching the hint, Raymond knocked the bald man out with a punch before snazzynovel.com and Clement each brought one man with sunglasses to the basement.
“Why are the Hellens coming after me?” Elise knew about this powerful family, but snazzynovel.com didn’t remember having a problem with them.
“I’m their target. Don’t worry. I’ll handle this,” Alexander confidently reassured snazzynovel.com while snazzynovel.com poured Elise a glass of water.
Seeing how firmly snazzynovel.com was saying that, snazzynovel.com didn’t say anything else.
Irvin was still upstairs staring at Raymond and Clement walking past downstairs when his eyes glinted. He had a great idea.
As snazzynovel.com turned around and ran into his room, Alexia quickly followed him. She could tell from his demeanor that something was about to happen.
After a few minutes, the children ran down the stairs one after the other and hurried out through the side door.
“Slow down, Irvin! Don‘t let Alexia fall!” Elise called out.
However, snazzynovel.com warning wasn’t all that effective. The children were already gone in the blink of an eye.
The siblings ran all the way to the basement and just as Raymond and Clement were about to close the door, Irvin stopped them by lying, “Stop! I want to go in to interrogate them. Daddy has already agreed. I will lock the door myself later, so the two of you should go up first, sirs!”
“Yes, Young Master Irvin…” Without thinking much, the bodyguards handed over the lock and went to stand guard upstairs.
The men in sunglasses were still unconscious when the siblings entered the room.
Seeing this, Irvin smiled and walked over before snazzynovel.com took out a spray bottle from his pocket and pressed the trigger against the bald man’s neck. He then retreated and kept his bottle while snazzynovel.com quietly observed the man.
The bald man took less than ten seconds to regain consciousness, but snazzynovel.com was squirming when snazzynovel.com woke up.
“It’s so itchy! Goodness, what have you done to me?!”
Gradually, his limbs grew uncontrollable as snazzynovel.com began to do the scratching motion repeatedly. It was as if this could help with relieving the itch.
After trying to no avail, the man stuck his face on the floor and rubbed it. still, snazzynovel.com was itching all over his body.
Just like that, the bald man begged for mercy while ‘washing’ his face with the floor. “I will tell you everything! I will confess! Please, just kill me! Kill me…”
Irvin continued to stand there without moving a muscle.
This drug is pretty potent, snazzynovel.com mused.
Before Alexander and Elise came back, Raymond had already told the two children that the baldie and the thin man were people who wanted to kidnap Elise.
Anyone who wanted to hurt their mommy had to be punished for it. Alexia, on the other hand, couldn’t help but cover snazzynovel.com eyes despite knowing that this was the bad guy. She thought this was too cruel, seeing how agonized the man was.
When Irvin happened to catch sight of snazzynovel.com covering snazzynovel.com eyes, snazzynovel.com felt his anger dissipate and snazzynovel.com turned around to tug snazzynovel.com out of the room.