“You’re damn well asking for death!”
Broderick sprang to his feet with a violent jolt.
But no sooner had he moved than there was a sharp slap.
Dark, standing behind him, delivered a resounding cuff, slamming him face-first onto the card table.
“What on earth are you all trying to do?”
By now, fear had taken root deep within Broderick’s heart.
Yet, summoning his remaining bravado, he bellowed loudly to bolster his courage,
“Upholding justice, righting wrongs for the people!”
Lord Alaric spoke brazenly, utterly shameless.
In truth, we had committed no righteous deeds worth mentioning.
But as we dealt with Broderick today, a strange, indescribable satisfaction welled within.
My gaze shifted toward the two half-dead men—the Zhongshan suit and the upturned-nose fellow—and I declared,
“The rest of this affair concerns neither of you. You two may leave—remember, if you dare breathe a word of today’s events, you will bear the consequences yourselves.”