From Busboy To Iron Lord: The Almighty Rowan Lachlan Returns

Chapter 2

However, he was disappointed when he saw it was no one important.

The man wore a thick kkahi and a black coat, leaving its zip open to reveal the thin white shirt he wore inside.

His red hair contrasted greatly with his pale skin making him a sight for sore eyes… Leo’s sore eyes.

“I don’t care who you are, this is none of your business, get out.” Rolling his eyes, Leo shifted his attention back to the children.

Lowering his feet, he roughly pulled up Reese by the collar and raised his clenched fist to hit him.

But as he brought it down to Reese’s face, a firm hand gripped his wrist tightly.

Reese and Ryan’s eyes simultaneous lit up.

Gritting his teeth, Leon tilted his head to look at Rowan.

“Is it a thing with you redheads? Do you all crave for a beating?”

Rowan looked at him, then to his phone.

That woman finally used the burner after six years. So just like he promised six years ago, he was here to repay her what he owed.

But these were children, and as a soldier, it was his military duty not to turn a blind eye to things like this.

“What could a child possibly do to deserve a punch in the face?”

Leo’s face darkened.

Six years his sister had come begging to be let back into the Renard family and six years he acted however he wanted.

She was rarely around most of the time and let him watch the children, so he’d beat then threaten them not to tell their mother.

So despite everyone in the Renard family knowing what he did, he always got away with it.

At this point, he didn’t take them as children anymore and always beat them like he was beating a teenager.

Fuming, he shoved Reese away, sending the boy tumbling to the floor.

Rowan followed the boy with his eyes and only looked away when he felt a poke on his chest.

Leo poked him aggressively three times in the chest before waving a finger in his face.

“Who do you think you are to question me? These are my nephews and I will do them however I please.”

Rowan’s eyes immediately clouded over.

Nephews?

He was treating his young nephews like hoodlums?

Without thinking twice, he grabbed Leo’s hands and pinned them behind his back, slapping a handcuff on his wrist effortlessly.

The maid saw this and was relieved, then she panicked recalling Leo was a Renard.

The Renard family were number 7 on the ten list of the wealthiest families in The Imperial City.

If he was suddenly hauled to the station by a police officer, she’d be punished for standing around and doing nothing.

So to save her own neck, she quickly rushed into the house to tell the rest of the Renard family what was going on.

Meanwhile, Leo was struggling, completely speechless that he was suddenly now in cuffs.

“You bastard! You must be thinking you’re shit just because youre a police officer! Let me tell you.”

“This is the last arrest you’ll ever make! You dare lay your hands on a member of the Renard family, I’ll make sure you never get a job in the Imperial City after the station fires you!”

Rowan simply ignored and hauled him over to his car.

Shoving him into the backseat, he was about to get into the front passenger seat when he felt two tugs on his pant and looked down to see Reese and Ryan looking up at him with their bright eyes.

“Officer, help our mommy too. Uncle was on a call earlier and said a Mr. Locke could do with her as he pleased.”

He looked at them hesitantly before asking. “It’s my first time in the Imperial City in six years, so I don’t know how to find your…”

“The Grand Meridian Hotel.” Reese hurriedly said and Rowan nodded.

“It’s your first time coming here in six years, no wonder you had the nerves to arrest me. This isn’t too late. Uncuff and apologize to me and I’ll be sure to put all these behind me.” Leo huffed arrogantly from the back.

Rowan ignored him and hoisted up the two boys into the car. He placed them on the passenger seat and fastened the seatbelt around them.

Then he typed the hotel name in his GPS.

For a big city, there was only one Grand Meridian Hotel, so it was always packed to the brim with visitors who enjoyed its unique atmosphere.

“You’ll never find her, you bastard!”

Leo screamed from the car as the trio alighted and Rowan rolled up the tinted window.

Reese and Ryan flagged each of Rowan’s side as they hurried into the building.

As they disappeared inside, Leo began struggling to take out the phone in his back pocket.

When he couldn’t, he used voice command to butt dial Donovan Locke.

“Hello, Mr. Locke. I’m just calling to give you a heads-ups. There’s a wannabe police officer who arrested me and is coming in to the Grand Meridian Hotel now to disrupt you.”

“He’s tall and and has really red hair. Just position those boxing heavy weight champions bodyguards you have outside. Then come get me when you have him subdued. I want a pound of his flesh too!”

He was still talking when the door suddenly opened and the phone was snatched from the floor.

Leo’s eyes widened when he looked up to see Rowan and the twins.

“Leo Renard, you and I will be the best of friends, I just know it.”

Hearing Donovan Locke’s laughter, Rowan ended the call and reached forward to drag out Leo.

Leo was first taken aback before he snorted.

“I’m a member of the Renard family, you’re making a big mistake bringing me somewhere with this much people. Do you know what would happen if I scream that I’ve been kidnapped?”

Rowan paid him no heed.

After going inside, he realized this was a privately owned hotel and as such, they weren’t at liberty to give information about their customers.

“Donovan Locke has these bodyguards all over 7ft. Go an inch closer to them and they’d pound you to brittle before you know what’s going on.” Leo murmured to himself, smiling faintly as they went into the elevator.

He wasn’t the least worried.

Donovan Locke was a multi-millionaire known for his great taste in bodyguards. It was said his bodyguards were changed every two weeks from an underground boxing match and his new bodyguards were always the current champions.

Merely looking at them was enough to instill fear and even police officers felt intimidated if they pulled over Donovan and saw them inside.

This officer was just returning after six months. He knew nothing about how things now worked in the Imperial City.

But Leo knew that the moment they stepped onto Donovan’s floor, the man was as good as dead.

As the elevator opened, he immediately ran out out of it and toward the bulky bodyguards he saw standing guard outside a door.

At first, he frowned, realizing they were not the faces he had seen yesterday, but when he realized there were four of them, he hid behind them and leered at Rowan.

“Bastard, I don’t know where you’ve been, but here in the Imperial City, you don’t just arrest anyone you see!”

“Boys, he’s here to interrupt Mr. Locke’s peace, beat him half-dead!”

For a few days now, Donovan and Leo had met over to talk for hours. So hearing him speak for their boss, they did as he instructed.

As they took a step forward, Rowan frowned and ordered the children. “Close your eyes.”

Reese immediately released his toy, plastering both palms across his eyes while Ryan looked away.

“Don’t be in such a hurry to lose a limb!” Though his eyes were on them to make sure they had their eyes closed, Rowan sneered, stretching his arm toward the first bodyguard.

He gripped the outstretched leg of the first man and slammed his entire body into the wall.

He grabbed the second by the arm and pulled his arm over his head, kicking him in the back of his knee.

As he parted his lips to shriek in pain, Rowan grabbed the third person, shoving his wrist into the second man’s mouth.

Then he took the momentary moment of pain to slam a hand under his chin.

The fourth man tried to attack him from behind, so he swerved to the side, grabbed him in a chokehold and choked him until he fell unconscious.

These happened in a span of thirty seconds.

The smug smile on Leo’s face vanished instantly and he pushed the door behind him in fear.

He didn’t bother to close the door and directly revealed Donovan Locke, interrupting his forced action as he hovered above Nancy Renard, who was being pressed to the bed by him.