All Chapters of The Dragon General's Vengeful Return : Chapter 41
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When Stephanie dials the number. Roman doesn't pick up, and at this moment, she almost bursts into tears. She decides to leave him a voice note anyways. She walks to the farthest corner and holds her hand over her mouth so that Mister Joseph Morgan won't hear her. “Hello, Roman? I'm sorry I left the house without you knowing, I was trying to get a loan at City bank, but it took an unexpected turn and the manager is trying to forcifully sleep with me now. Please, come and help me.” She ends the call and says a short prayer. As soon as she turns around, she turns pale once she sees that Mister Morgan has even taken off his jacket, and undone a few of his buttons. “What's the matter? Your husband has abandoned you?” He mocks her. “He was too busy to pick his phone, but I believe he will get back to me soon.” Miter Morgan rolls his eyes. “Oh, stop wasting my precious time, woman!” Stephanie grabs her bag at this point and heads for the door. “Why don't I wait for my husband outs
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It doesn't take long for the entire city bank to be turned upside down. They can hear the commotion from a few floors above them, and everyone has abandoned their work to find out what's happening. “What's that noise? Isn't that the voice of the manager I can hear? So full of distress?" “He seems to be in so much pain. What the hell is going on?” Roman has taken the stairs because of two reasons. He wants to give the police enough time to come, and he wants Joseph Morgan to suffer all the way. The face of the workers turns white as soon as they see their boss tumbling down the stairs like an unstable barrel. His clothes are torn, his nose is bleeding, and his lips are busted. Stephanie is right behind Roman, too confused and shocked to tell him to stop.Joseph manages to get back to his feet and he immediately tries to smoothen his hair, trying to lessen this embarrassment. “This man is going to die in jail for this!” He yells in a thundering voice. “He dares mess with someon
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Joseph Morgan rubs his eyes to make sure that he is not in a nightmare. Is his uncle prostrating to the same man that he insulted and tried to sleep with his wife? “Go down immediately, Joseph! Don't you know that you are in the presence of a great man?!” his Uncle yells at him. Joseph has a lot of questions, but he has to do as his uncle has asked for now. The police are confused at this point. It seems they have been called to only come observe an ongoing drama. They turn to Mister Desmond, because he is a big name in the country, and this is his bank that they have been called to. “Sir, we still have to arrest this man and take him to the station for beating up your nephew.” Mister Desmond frowns. “Arrest who? Have you lost your mind? You are not going to speak to Roman Croft like that! Not in front of me!” He turns to his nephew and nudges him. “What did you do to Roman Croft that he had to beat you up?” Joseph looks down. “It doesn't matter anymore, Uncle.” Joseph knows
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Mister Desmond beats up his nephew with his golden walking stick until Joseph Morgan is hardly able to move. He trusted his nephew to take care of his business while he fought for years to get healed from all the kinds of cancer that plagued him. Not only has his nephew done the opposite of that, he also squandered over 800 million from the bank branches. “I regretted the day my lovely sister gave birth to you!” He cries. “I should have taken you into the foster home. I should have never taken you under my wing.” Stephanie is also crying from sadness for the man. He had to deal with his nephew's bad character, but he couldn't have any children of his own. That's why she wants to go back to school, to help people. Roman knows that the longer Joseph is here, the sadder with it would be for Desmond, so he turns to the policeman. “Take this wicked man out of here and luck him up for the next five years. I do not care that he is related to Desmond, he must pay for what he did.” T
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Stephanie has never been excited like this before. She has covered Roman's face in kisses because he is the one that has made it possible for her to go back to school. As soon as she goes back to the house, she sees Athena and picks her from the ground, turning her around with happiness. “Athena! You are not going to believe this, mummy is going back to school! I'm going to become a doctor!” “A doctor?!” Athena gasps in joy. Apart from when Roman came back to the city and took her and her mother for a full body check at the hospital, she has never been to a hospital in her life. She was born in that awful doghouse, by her own mother, and her birth was never registered with the government. She also never got any immunization or any sort, and honestly, it's a miracle that she grew up to be as healthy as she was…Athena kisses her mother's face. She secretly wants to go to school too, so that she can make friends, but she knows that she has to be happy for her mother. The truth
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Mr and Mrs Beerson feel on top of the world. The dragon general has sent the servants to pick them up in a private car, and they hid their wonder clothes under coats– they don't want Stephanie and her family to see what they are up to. They don't know what they are going to be doing, but anything for the great dragon general. The car stops by the back door, and the old couple rushes it and quickly takes off their coats. They expect to see the rest of the team that has come to help them expose Stephanie and Roman, but it's just the kitchen staff working to meet up with the demands of the buzzing night. Mr and Mrs Beerson look at each other with confusion. They turn to Winona, who has been the middle man between them and the dragon general. “Seems like everyone is already late to the party.” Mrs Beerson laughs nervously. “What's the matter? Where is the rest of the team?” Mr Beerson asks. “Are they being late? How dare they when the dragon general has asked us to do this thing for
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“Excuse me?!” Mrs Beerson stares at Roman defiantly. “Didn't you hear what I said, dear mother-in-law? Find a good towel and wipe my wife's feet squeaky clean.” Roman says without even blinking. Mrs Beerson inhales, feeling her blood boil within her. She wants to insult him before storming out of the place, but her husband grabs her hand. From the mere look in his eyes, she knows what he is asking of her. “No!” “We have to do this, remember what the dragon general said. This is a test that we have to pass.” “But people are watching us! Do you know how embarrassing this is going to be? We will never be able to raise our heads in society again!” Mr Beerson knows that his wife has made up her mind, but he can't fuck this up. They have to get on the good side of the dragon general. He pulls out a handkerchief from his pocket and goes down on one knee to wipe Stephanie's feet. She is as still as a rock, but it's mostly from a mixture of fear and shock. The last time her father d
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After one of the most mind-blowing nights of their lives, they return home with the booth of their car hardly closing because of the number of gifts in them. Stephanie is exhausted to the bone, but she still has a persistent smile on her face. Roman steps out of the car with a sleeping Athena in his arms. He has his jacket over her, protecting her from the cold. Carmen is their driver, and as soon as they come to the front, he takes Stephanie's hand bag. “Don't worry, ma'am, just go to bed. I am going to get the servants to take everything into the house?” “Are you sure?” Stephanie doesn't want to be a bother. “They are probably sleeping and i–” “Ma'am, it doesn't matter, they have to come and do the job they are being paid for. Don't even feel sorry, they want to do it.”He picks some of the gifts himself and starts to walk to the door. “Carmen is right. It's late already, and we should just go to bed.” He is heading to the door. Stephanie is hesitant at first, there is still
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It takes only five minutes for Roman to call Carmen and get the information that he wants. He returns to the kitchen and drops his phone on the table, face down. Stephanie is holding her breath, waiting for him to say something. She doesn't want her parents to be in any kind of trouble. “My suspicion is right. This is not a clean offer.” Roman tells her. “What?!” Her heart jumps in panic. “I don't understand what you are saying, Roman.” He gently sits her down at the kitchen Island, and he does the same. “Listen, Stephanie, I will try my best to explain everything to you. My man was able to find out that indeed your parents were broke, but yesterday, over one hundred and fifty million was wired into your dad's account.” He says. Stephanie gasps. That's a lot of money, and if there is one thing she knows about Kent, is the fact that John Kent is a very tight-fisted when it comes to money. Even with his wife, Finna. “You are right, there is something very suspicious about this.
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“You didn't know?” Stephanie sits up.Finna quickly wipes off the look of shock on her face. “Of course I was told, do you think my husband would take such a decision without me?” She snorts. Stephanie doesn't believe her for even one second. She knows her sister more than her sister is willing to admit. “So, you knew that your husband gave a hundred and fifty million dollars to Dad for a contract, and that Dad used that money to get himself a huge mansion?” This is so much shock to Finna that she starts to cough. John did what?! Why has he turned so generous towards her parents? Is he not the same person that refused to give them a place to sleep when they lost their first house? Stephanie pulls even more forward, so that she is sitting at the very edge of the bed, and she reaches out to take her sister's hand. “Finna, I can tell when you're lying. I know that your husband didn't tell you anything about this, and I can tell you why. It's because he is planning something evil