HIS RETURN FOR REVENGE

Chapter nine: Anyone who stepped in the way

"Let me deal with the bastard!"

The bridegroom, Mason Goldwyn heir of the Goldwyn house, operating secret drug business barked. He'd been watching Jaxon speak to Elder Enzo like he put everyone of them in the hall.

"Securities!!!" He roared.

"Stop barking," Jaxon said, his voice flat. "They're all dead." Jaxon said flatly.

"What—" Mason gasped, eyes wide in shock.

Elder Ezno's expression cracked in mild surprise.

He didn't speak. He simply gestured at a male servant nearby and whispered to his ear.

"Go and check."

The servant nodded and ran out to check. In the following minute, he ran back into the hall with a different speed and stopped before Elder Ezno, shaking with fear as though he'd just seen ghost.

He didn't speak instantly. He couldn't. His breathing was heavy and fast, sweats suddenly pouring from his temple as fever without symptoms struck him, the air conditioning blowing on him hot air.

"Dead dead..." His voice cracked. "..dead bodies..they're outside... everywhere."

"What?!" Mason gasped.

Elder Ezno didn't react immediately. "Are you sure?"

The man nodded frantically, shaking in panic. "I am saying the truth. The securities are gone..With an ambulance..some are dead."

Mason's blood boiled.

His finger snapped at Jaxon. "You mutt! Had the gut to cause trouble on my wedding day?! Do you know who I am?!!" His voice trembled with rage.

"You aren't Daniel's blood are you?" Jaxon tilted his head, unmoved by his anger-stricken expression.

"Daniel?" Mason's anger doubled. "Are you speaking to my father-in-law like that?!"

He finally snapped, his suit rustling as his arm shot out in a punch packed with anger and everything he drank that morning.

It came straight at Jaxon's face. At the last second, Jaxon bent his head just slightly, the punch swept past his air— just a breeze of everything Mason mustered.

With one clean move, Jaxon drove his knee into his lower rib sending pain radiating through his torso— he staggered backward and doubled over with jaw dropped like the air inside his lung with everything had been forced out.

The attack was precise, surgical and clean.

Mason wanted to scream but everything died in his throat— not even air. His jaw was just left open like fish struggling for water at the coast.

"I'm not killing you because you're not Daniel's blood," Jaxon said, "but you'll be paralyzed."

Mason crumbled to his knees immediately after he finished.

The hall fell into silence.

Elder Ezno's expression became bloody murderous, his hand slowly coming out from the back, balled into a fist so tight his phalanges cracked.

He was supposed to monitor the wedding because Daniel knew he was capable, but one man had just disorganized the even, left the bridegroom crippled on the floor with just one clean move. Elder Ezno knew at once this man wasn't ordinary but he couldn't sense any energy from him which was why he'd underestimated him earlier.

Maybe he was just another stray dog.

But the dog wasn't barking. He was biting now.

The bride, Daniel's daughter dashed to her crippled lover, shaking his body with tears of pouring from his eyes.

"Please..mason, stand up..stand up.."

The hall held their breath, their expression pale as a ghost.

Then it started with a fierce protest.

"Kill him already Elder Ezno!!"

"Tear him apart!!"

"Feed his corpse to the dogs."

Each one fueled something inside of the old man's where temper was already waiting to burst. The air around him smouldered.

Jaxon didn't move.

He simply pulled out a dagger— sharp, silver, shining as it caught the roof light. He pointed it at the old man lazily

"Step out of the way old man," He said. "I came for Daniel's blood. And if you're one, you're going down with her too."

"You arrogant bastard!!"

That was when Elder Ezno changed his stance, one leg planted to the floor, his robe split in motion, his fist drove forward like a spear forced out by taut spring, murderous golden lights swirling around it sending sparks into the air.

"Get ready to bleed!"

Jaxon smirked, relaxed as still water. "I don't bleed, old man."

"That bastard is still talking!"

"Elder Ezno kill him!"

"Obliterate him like livestock!"

What happened next put the entire hall into silence that was heavy with shock.