The Upper Hand

Immediately, The twenty burly bodyguards charged towards Madison with great speed.

"Hahaha" Madison laughed maniacally, clapping her hands.

"Stop there!" She shouted in a commanding tone and instantly, the bodyguards froze on the spot as if bounded by a spell.

Madison turned to face Leonard.

"You actually think these things you call bodyguards can hold me down and teach me some lessons? huh? Besides who do you even think you are to teach me any lesson"

She then turned to Patrick.

"And you, at first it started with your foolish and mannerless daughter. I was still planning to advice you to teach her manners and morals, but little did I know that the father was no better. I didn't know that it was a case of 'like father like daughter'

"What exactly is wrong with you Madison!?" Leonard shouted in exasperation. He was stressed out and felt that Madison was likely to be possessed by some kind of evil spirit with the way she was talking"

"Or do you think you can actually beat up 20 bodyguards? Do you think they're ordinary bodyguards? You must be dreaming to think so"

"Ok! let's see what our powerful Miss Madison has for us. boys!!" He called the bodyguards for the second time again.

"Dad!, what are trying to do?" A voice asked.

It was Alex. He had been sitting quietly, thinking about how his mom had lied to him all those years. But then, he heard his father calling the bodyguards to beat Madison. He initially thought he was joking, but now that he repeated it, he was sure that his father was being serious. And he couldn't just sit and watch Madison getting hurt. He had to stop his father.

"Even you mum, you can't even stop dad from hurting Madison!" He started walking towards his mother, probably to urge her to beg his father, when Leonard said;

"Shut the hell up, you! if you hadn't slept with her back then, all this wouldn't have happened

It seems like you still care about her"

"Well, let's see how you or Mr Adrian will stop me!"

"Wow! This is getting interesting!" someone said.

The crowd found everything happening very interesting, and they were enjoying every bit of the show or whatever it is. There was great murmuring in the hall. In most people's opinion, being on Leonard and the vice president's side was better than being on Alex or Adrian's side.

Even though they liked and respected them, compared to Leonard and Patrick, they were nobodies. They were only powerful here in Calgary., so it would be foolish to take sides with them.

"if I were her, I'd rather apologize than face such severe punishment." Another person said.

"She's really a fool to go against such big figures"

"Teach her some lessons sir!" Someone from the back suddenly shouted.

Some other persons joined in and started urging and cheering Leonard to deal with Madison.

"Punish her sir!" Alice added.

This went on and on. Different people started taking sides with Leonard. And as Leonard also didn't want to disappoint the people, he commanded the bodyguards to go and deal with Madison and whoever that is stopping them.

The guards dashed towards Madison, Alex and Adrian with full force. Madison whispered in Adrian ear that it was going to be fine and that she could handle those little fries, but Adrian didn't fall for it. He looked at her as if she'd gone crazy. How could she possibly handle 20 men let to talk of 20 powerful bodyguards. He refused to leave her side. At least he was a guy, he could still handle about two of the bodyguards.

As the bodyguards were approaching them, Adrian and Alex still stood by Madison's side. Madison knew they could not handle the twenty men, and may end up getting hurt, so when the bodyguards got closer, she quickly pushed Adrian and Alex away, not caring if they fall or not.

The first man that got to Madison swung out his fist to deal Madison a massive blow. Many people watching looked away, as they felt bad for Madison. They couldn't look at her face, as it would be deformed by the blow.

The man's fist was close to hitting Madison face when,

CRACK!!!!

The noise of breaking bones filled the air, and a body fell to the ground. Many people started feeling sorry for Madison only to discover that the body on the ground was actually not Madison's. It was the body of thee bodyguard.

How come? How was this possible? The man clearly hit Madison's face. How did she manage to avoid the blow. it was like a magic and the people just couldn't believe it.

Even the remaining bodyguards could not believe that a lady actually beat one of them. This annoyed them and they became more furious and determined to deal with Madison.

The remaining bodyguards dashed forwards at once. They surrounded Madison and started throwing their fists at her. Just like the first man, Madison managed to dodge all their attacks which caught them unaware, as they had really underestimated her.

Soon, several other bodies were on the ground, lying unconscious, while few others scurried away with either an injured arm or leg.

This made everyone present dumbfounded, including Alex and Adrian that were trying to protect Madison earlier. They were truly surprised at Madison strength. Even the two of them put together cannot defeat such heavily built twenty bodyguards. But Madison actually managed to pull that off. Adrian was marveled. He never imagined that his cousin possessed such great strength. He started to feel very proud of her. Indeed, she was powerful.

The only person in the hall that seemed not to be surprised was Max. He had been with Madison for almost five years now, so he knew what she was capable of doing.

Those that were urging Leonard to deal with Madison became so scared that some of them wet their pants. They started hiding their faces behind others.

" No need to hide your faces, I've already made a mental photocopy of your faces. You guys should watch your back, from now on" Madison said as she made a sign that said 'my eyes are on you'

Tracy couldn't believe her eyes, she was extremely shocked and totally surprised.This was not Madison. Madison couldn't possibly do this. This was obviously magic. How on earth would an ordinary lady defeat twenty powerful professionals without even using much strength. She must be daydreaming or something.

"How did you........?" Tracy couldn't complete what she was saying as she passed out from shock.

The house servants quickly carried her and put her in the car as they rushed down to the hospital.

Leonard on the other hand was feeling extremely complicated. Madison had put him to shame. He had wanted to teach her a serious lesson that was why he ordered all their bodyguards to beat her up but they ended up beaten up to a pulp by Madison and he ended up being taught by her, which is never to underestimate a lady.

He and Patrick was now alone with no bodyguard to protect them. His only hope now we're the security officers, and he even doubted if they could fight and win against Madison. He was now very scared.

What if she decides to beat him up?, what was he going to do? He was already old and he isn't even good at martial arts. He never felt the need to train himself since he always had bodyguards around to protect him, but now, he wished he had trained himself in martial arts. He was really worried but decided not to show it.

Alice also was not left out, she was now really scared of Madison. She regret even meeting Madison in the first place. She should've known not to trifle with someone like her. And Madison had warned her outside, earlier not to mess with her. She should've known that the lady wasn't an easy person. It was this her hot tempered self that wouldn't calm down, she only wanted to deal with Madison, she didn't know it'd get to this. If Madison should slap her again she'd just die. Her cheek still hurts from Madison's slap earlier, getting another one would mean straight death.

With all those thoughts running around her brain, Alice started weeping in fear.

Madison could only laugh inwardly when she saw Alice crying like a baby. So she knew how to be scared.

Patrick also was studying Madison from where he was standing. He didn't look too shocked. His face showed that he was intrigued and fascinated by what Madison did.

Madison noticed that he also had an underlying expression on his face that she couldn't decipher. He was doing his best to hide it.

'Only God knows what is going on in that old brain' Madison thought.

She shrugged away the thought and walked up to Leonard, while the Latter involuntarily started moving backwards.

"Listen, I don't have any intention of harming you, old man. I'll go now and come back some other time. Be prepared for me or else you'll be dealt with. I want my daughter back!"

With that, she started walking towards the door when a Patrick suddenly spoke up,

"Who said you could leave? And where do you even think you're going?"

A the vice president of the country, Patrick couldn't just take such insult. He had to prove to Madison that he had the upper hand. He purposely wanted to test Madison power that was why he didn't stop the bodyguards earlier.

But now that that he was sure about how powerful she is, he became more interested in the Lowells' affair with her. Although he was fascinated by how much strength such a young possessed, he still had to punish her for messing with him.

He brought out his to make a call.

"Come in" he ordered over the phone.

Almost immediately, the door opened and five uniformed officers entered. They greeted him and he pointed to Madison.

"Arrest her!" He ordered.

Two of the uniformed men walked to Madison holding handcuffs. The first man held her while the other one handcuffed her.

To everyone's surprise, Madison didn't protest, she only asked calmly,

"Where's your warrant and why am I being arrested?"

"Miss Madison, we are arresting you without warrant for inflicting bodily harm and attempted murder. You also have the right to remain silent, as anything you can be used against you in the court of law"

"Attempted murder? wow!! The police is great!" Madison laughed, then added,

"Let's head to the station then"

She quickly turned to face Adrian, and made a sign that he shouldn't worry and that she was going to be okay.

With that, Madison was taken away from the hall wearing handcuffs.