2025-01-20 14:15:47The security guards, tall and imposing in their uniforms, approached quickly.
At that moment one of them stepped forward, his expression neutral but authoritative.
“Sir, we’ve received a report of an assault. I need you to come with us.”
Raymond raised his hands slightly, showing him the card, his voice steady.
“I didn’t assault anyone. I’m here to conduct business at this bank.”
Seeing the card in his hand, the security guard was shocked and stopped immediately.
“A Supreme Black Card?” his eyes widened, skepticism clear in his tone. “Is this true?”
This was the highest level card in this bank and this was the first time that he had ever seen it in person.
But when looking at Raymond again, he hesitated. He didn’t look like a man who could own such a card at all.
At this moment, Dahlia’s mother’s laughter rang out, sharp and cutting through the air like a blade.
“Oh come on, stop lying! The supreme black card belongs to the most powerful people in the world. Do you really think anyone’s going to believe that’s yours?” she said, her voice dripping with scorn.
Raymond’s cold gaze locked onto hers.
“Believe it or not. It’s none of your business,” he said, his voice steady.
“Oh, please! Look at you. A waiter. A nobody. Do you even realize what holding a card like that implies? It screams fraud!” Dahlia's sister snickered.
“And thank God Dahlia finally got rid of you. Imagine the embarrassment if she were still tied to you when this comes out.”
At that moment Dahlia’s mother turned sharply, gesturing to the security guard again.
“ This man is pretending to own a Supreme Black Card. What are you waiting for? Arrest him before he causes more trouble!”
Immediately the guard approached again. Compared to Raymond, Dahlia’s mother clearly looked much more like the client of this bank.
And after hearing what she said about Raymond’ job, he was quite sure that Raymond was just a swindler now.
“You loser,” the guard sneered, his voice laced with mock authority. “Hand over the card. I’m sure the police would love to know how you got it.”
Dahlia’s sister crossed her arms, her smirk curling into something even more malicious. “Honestly, it’s pathetic. A fraud trying to pass himself off as someone important? How desperate can you get?”
At that moment the guard puffed out his chest, emboldened by Dahlia's mother and sister, and reached for the card. “Let’s not make this harder than it needs to be,” he said smugly. “Just hand it over and spare yourself the humiliation.”
“I’m not handing anything over,” Raymond said evenly,standing his ground.
“Then you’re asking for trouble, you bastard!” the guard shot back, grabbed Raymond’s collar by force.
Raymond’s eyes darkened, and when he was about to resist, the heavy glass doors of the bank swung open with a sharp thud.
“Let go of your hand, you stupid thing!”
The sound silenced the scene immediately, and every head turned toward the entrance.
The senior director of the bank Malisa went out, her commanding presence instantly filling the space.
Her tailored suit hugged her frame perfectly, and her sharp heels clicked against the polished floor as she strode forward.
Her gaze fixated on the card in Raymond’s hand and her heart raced. ‘The Supreme Black Card.’
That wasn’t just any black card.
It was one of the legendary Supreme Black Cards—an exclusive symbol of global power, wealth, and influence.
Only nine existed, entrusted to the world’s most elite figures. To see one here, in the hands of a man who appeared so unassuming, was unthinkable.
The security guard tried to explain, his tone dripping with caution. “Ma’am, this man was trying to swindle-”
“Shut up!” Malisa’s voice cut through the scene like a blade, sharp and icy. She marched toward the guard and slapped him hard, her eyes blazing with fury.
The guard stumbled back, clutching his face.
“You’re fired. Leave. Now.”
The guard paled, his mouth opening and closing as he tried to form a protest, but Malisa’s sharp gaze left no room for argument. He stumbled away, humiliated, as the crowd watched in stunned silence.
Dahlia’s mother, however, refused to back down, believing there must be a mistake somewhere. “You must be mistaken,” she said, her voice rising with indignation. “This man is a fraud! He has no business holding that card, let alone being here.”
“Exactly,” Dahlia’s sister chimed in. “It’s an insult to your institution to let someone like him through the doors.”
Malisa turned to them, her lips pressing into a thin line. “Enough,” she said coldly, her voice freezing the room.
“You seem to misunderstand the gravity of your actions,” Malisa continued, her tone sharp. “Your baseless accusations and blatant disrespect are not only unfounded but deeply offensive. And I will not tolerate it.”
Dahlia’s mother opened her mouth to speak, but Malisa cut her off, her voice unyielding. “As of this moment, your membership with this bank is revoked.”
“What?” Dahlia’s mother shrieked, her face flushing with outrage. “You can’t do that!”
“Oh, I can,” Malisa replied, her voice like ice. “And I am. Furthermore, your qualifications to conduct any business with this bank are permanently canceled. You will no longer be welcome here.”
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For a moment, even the cemetery seemed to go quieter around them.There were still murmurs nearby, still movement from mourners repositioning themselves around the grave, still the distant sound of shoes on gravel and low prayer from the front of the gathering, but within the small circle of tension that now existed between the three of them, everything had sharpened.Damian simply stared.He had not expected resistance. That much was plain. He had expected awkwardness, perhaps embarrassment, perhaps defensive politeness from a man dragged into some social arrangement above his station. What he had received instead was the kind of flat, clean dismantling that men like him never saw coming because they spent their lives being surrounded by people who measured every word around them carefully.Raymond had not merely answered him. He had stripped the scene of its social costume and left Damian standing there in the full, unflattering truth of his own pettiness.The effect of it showed.F
Chapter 461
The man on the rooftop did not move again, not immediately, and for a long, suspended stretch of seconds, Raymond simply held that distant gaze, refusing to be the one who looked away first, refusing to grant even that small concession to whatever silent test the moment seemed to represent. The pressure of the stranger's presence remained constant throughout, vast and unhurried, settling over the warehouse lot like weather rather than threat, and Raymond found himself cataloguing it carefully, memorizing its particular quality the way he might memorize the shape of a blade before deciding how best to counter it.Then, without warning, without any visible gesture or shift in posture that might have explained it, the man was simply gone.Not retreated. Not descended. Gone, in the way that candle flame is gone the instant breath passes over it, leaving the rooftop as empty and unremarkable as if no one had ever stood there at all.Raymond exhaled slowly, the tension in his shoulders easi
Chapter 461
The man on the rooftop did not move again, not immediately, and for a long, suspended stretch of seconds, Raymond simply held that distant gaze, refusing to be the one who looked away first, refusing to grant even that small concession to whatever silent test the moment seemed to represent. The pressure of the stranger's presence remained constant throughout, vast and unhurried, settling over the warehouse lot like weather rather than threat, and Raymond found himself cataloguing it carefully, memorizing its particular quality the way he might memorize the shape of a blade before deciding how best to counter it.Then, without warning, without any visible gesture or shift in posture that might have explained it, the man was simply gone.Not retreated. Not descended. Gone, in the way that candle flame is gone the instant breath passes over it, leaving the rooftop as empty and unremarkable as if no one had ever stood there at all.Raymond exhaled slowly, the tension in his shoulders easi
Chapter 460
His phone rang. He answered it without looking away from the two broken operatives at his feet. "Raymond," Melissa's voice said, steady, deliberate. "I'm just calling to let you know. My grandfather's brother is being buried today. Given everything we discussed, I'm fairly certain his old associates will be there. You'll likely see some of them yourself. Are you coming?" Something in Raymond's expression sharpened at the question, the strategic weight of it settling into place immediately. "I'll come," he said. "We've already decided to take the war to them. You have nothing to worry about. I'll be there." Melissa did not respond with anything beyond a quiet acknowledgment, and a moment later, the call ended. Raymond lowered the phone slowly, looking down again at Tobias and Ren, turning over the full weight of what their presence here actually meant. Black had been strong. Melissa's grandfather's brother had been strong as well, strong enough to warrant real caution before
Chapter 459
Raymond saw the attack coming straight at him. He just smiled. It was not the smile of a man confident in some clever trick, nor the smile of someone taunting an opponent for theatrical effect. It was quieter than that, almost private, the smile of a man who had spent so long calculating exactly how much of himself he needed to reveal in any given fight that the rare moment of simply letting go, of answering overwhelming force with the full, unguarded truth of his own strength, had become its own small pleasure, separate from the violence surrounding it. He caught the attack with one hand. Tobias's strike, rebuilt from whatever reserves he had managed to claw back after being driven to the floor minutes earlier, carried behind it the full, concentrated weight of a technique meant to end fights outright, a technique that had, by his own account, succeeded four times before against opponents who had no answer for it. It met Raymond's open palm and simply stopped, arrested mid-motion a
Chapter 458
The shockwave from the collision rolled outward through the warehouse in a visible ripple, dust and loose debris thrown outward from the point of impact like water displaced by a dropped stone, and for a moment, both Raymond and Tobias stood locked against each other, neither yielding, the air between them still humming with the aftershock of forces neither ordinary steel nor ordinary flesh had been designed to withstand.Raymond felt it first in his forearms, a deep, bone-level ache where he had intercepted Tobias's strike, followed almost immediately by a colder, more unsettling sensation spreading outward from the point of contact, as though whatever technique Tobias had gathered carried with it something beyond simple kinetic force, something that sought to settle into the body and disrupt it from within.He broke the lock deliberately, stepping back and exhaling sharply, forcing the strange, creeping cold outward through controlled breath, a technique of his own cultivated across
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