2025-04-18 15:20:58First, it was the unfamiliar ache that came at the remembrance of how he had parted ways with his wife. Then the sudden realization dawned on him. He now had the power.
The heartache was replaced by rage, as ferocious as how hurt he had been when he saw his wife and her lover together.
And right then, he swore to take revenge on his wife and her lover. He would teach each of them a lesson that will make them upright individuals for the rest of their lives.
Nora was about to say something when Nicolas' phone rang in his pocket, catching him off guard.
He was disoriented for a while before he finally reached for it in his pocket.
His brows pulled down at the caller's ID on his phone's screen.
“Natalie?" He mouthed.
Unlike Sarah, his wife's younger sister always respected him and treated him like a human.
He wondered if she was okay. For a moment, he secretly hoped that she called on behalf of her sister. But even he knew that was very unlikely. Sarah hadn't looked like anyone who would beg.
Without hesitating any further, Nicolas answered the call, and at that moment, he heard her sobbing.
His grip on the phone hardened. “Natalie, are you okay? Why are you crying?"
"I need help,” she slurred. “Come l, please, take me away from here."
Nicolas frowned. “Natalie, are you drunk?”
A sound that sounded like a half laugh and a half cry escaped her throat. “Please, help me. Save me." Her voice seemed to slur even more, her words almost indiscernible as she moved them up.
What's happening? He wondered. “Where are you now?"
"Just come. Come, please, save me. I… need help.”
“I heard you, Natalie. I will be there. But I need to know where you are," he voiced his words slowly, “Where are you, Natalie?"
"Where am I?” She sounded confused as she muttered. “I think I'm…”
Her drunken words were drowned by the sudden sound of laughter in the background. He could not tell if they were laughs women or men. But they didn't sound nice.
“Natalie?” He called repeatedly, but there was no response.
Nicolas glanced at his watch and his worry heightened. It was almost midnight, and it was evident that Natalie wasn't anywhere safe.
“Natalie!” He tried again, but all he could hear was the sinister laugh.
He pulled the phone from his ear and turned to Nora, whose gaze was already on his, eyes widened in alarm.
“I need your help,” Nicolas simply said.
“Just give me the order, young master. What do you need me to do?"
He pointed at his phone. "I need you to track a location right at this moment."
For someone like Nora who had been meticulously trained by the Belford family. Hacking and tracking was the easiest things she could do.
“Yes, young master." Immediately, she got to work, demanding some information from Nicolas. Nicolas didn't hesitate to answer her questions.
In merely thirty seconds, Nora pinpointed Natalie's location.
“I've got it, young master."
"Where is she?” Nicolas said, impressed and glad at how swift she had been able to get her location.
“She's at a bar nearby.”
Nicolas muttered thanks to her. “Another thing.”
“Anything, master."
"I need you to get me there as fast as possible. Can you do that?”
Without hesitation, Nora turned on her heels. Nicolas didn't need to be told before he hurried after her.
At the garage, there were endless rows of sleek sports cars and many other kinds. They gleamed with so much exquisiteness under the lights.
Nicolas didn't have the time to admire them. “Which car will we take?" He inquired as his eyes took in all of them. They all looked fast.
Sensing the urgency of the situation, Nora pointed at a black car with intricate designs. “That one!” She said and began to walk to it. She stopped by a compartment in the wall, pressed in a passcode, opened it and grabbed the car keys.
“This is the fastest car available. In a few minutes we'll get to the location,” Nora explained as they both got in the car.
“Thank you,” Nicolas told her.
Nora's driving skills were smooth. She easily pushed the speedometer to 250 km/h.
Even Nicolas was worried, but he couldn't complain. He needed to get to Natalie as fast as possible. He just couldn't keep calm.
In just ten minutes, Nora parked the car before a rundown bar.
“This is the bar?" Nicolas' asked as he pushed the door open and stepped down from the car.
“Yes. She's in there."
Nicolas called Natalie's number as they both rushed to the entrance of the bar, but there was no response.
Nora was ahead of Nicolas and the moment she reached the door, she pushed it open. Nicolas burst in with fury, ready to deal with whoever had hurt Natalie. Maybe this was the time he'd harness this power that Nora had talked about without any help.
There was chaos in the bar. Everyone in there laughed and spoke in high volumes. It was evident that half of them were drunk. There were people on the tables and chairs, dancing and singing and fighting.
It was total chaos.
“Natalie!" Nicolas's eyes scanned the dimly lit room for Natalie while he called out her name.
Some girls wandered to his side, slurring and giggling, “I'm Natalie.”
"No. I'm Natalie.”
Nora pushed them aside and the girls giggled even more as they staggered to their next target.
Finally, in a dark corner, Nicolas spotted a different circle. He squinted at the group of leather jacket-clad men that formed a circle. These ones didn't look drunk.
And in their midst, slumped on a chair, was Natalie. She appeared unconscious. And they wickedly grinned down at her, each jeering at the other's joke.
“Is that her?” Nora followed Nicolas’ gaze.
Nicolas nodded as he stormed toward them. “What the hell are you doing!” He thundered.
The men's grin fell as they turned to him, each of their expressions shifting into glares.
The leader of the gang frowned at Nicolas then he sneered, “It’s none of your business, asshole.”
Nicolas ignored him and took a step forward and he said to the other men who still surrounded Natalie. “Step away from her.”
Their leader scoffed. “Did this asshole just ignore me?"
Nicolas did the exact same thing again. “I believe I'm talking to humans. Step away from the girl," he gritted out.
“Stay back!" Their leader barked. “My brother is the boss of the mafia—Iron Vultures. If you mess with us, you’re dead!”
The entire bar fell silent at that announcement, almost as if the name alone had sobbered them up.
Not only did the leader of the thugs look threatening, but everyone knew that the Iron Vultures were not people to be trifled with.
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CHAPTER 128
High Mother had been certain that she would be prepared, if Nicholas ever got it into his head to attack her. Despite what she had said to Jerome, she wasn't actually so indifferent about the prospect of Nicholas coming to take revenge on her. She had doubled her security, increased the surveillance, and sent out shoot on sight orders to every soul in her house.In the end, it still wasn't enough.If it was, she wouldn't be standing in her room right now, listening to her two closest guards tell her that she had to escape."He has almost taken over the entire mansion," one of them was saying. "He'll be here soon. You have to leave, High Mother. You're not safe here."High Mother gritted her teeth. The last thing she wanted to do was run away from her own house just because of that brat, but she knew she had no choice."Fine," she said. "But I will make him pay for embarrassing me like this."There was a trapdoor hidden at the back of her walk-in closet, which had been designed specifi
CHAPTER 127
Nicholas's silence had gone on for quite a while, so Kabuto decided to speak."Are you going to do something about it, or what?" he said. "She could be dead before dusk. You just have to say the word.""Why is everything always murder with you?" Nicholas replied, exasperated. "You do know there are other ways to handle a situation, right?""Oh, come on," Kabuto said. "I get that you want to be a good person or whatever, but this woman killed your father. And if you let her get away with it, she'll kill you too. I'm pretty sure she's fair game at this point.""I am not killing anyone, and neither are you," Nicholas snapped.Keeping his cool was hard enough without this man saying such unhelpful things.Clearly, Kabuto couldn't take a hint, because he continued to run his mouth."What, you're not even going to try to avenge your father?" he said. "The patriarch would be very disappointed, you know. If the roles had been reversed, he would have done everything to make her pay for—""Get
CHAPTER 126
Most people assumed that the reason Nora was one of the best agents High Mother's orphanage had ever produced, was due to her intelligence and combat skills. And while they weren't entirely wrong, nobody else knew about her greatest weapon: her intuition. When her gut told her something, it was never wrong. And right now, her gut was telling her Nicholas was hiding something from her.Something huge.Even worse, it had all begun that day he went to the orphanage.'Did the High Mother say something to him?' she wondered. 'Something about me?'But no, that couldn't be it.While she didn't doubt that High Mother was the type to do such a thing, even out of spite, she didn't think that Nicholas would continue to let her hang around if he knew with certainty that she wasn't truly on his side. Which had to mean that he was suspecting her. Somehow, he had found out about her ties to the orphanage, and the trust he had for her had weakened.Nora knew that she couldn't have that. This whole mi
CHAPTER 125
Nicholas froze, staring at the picture.He wanted to tell himself that it wasn't her. That it couldn't possibly be her. It had to be someone else. Some other girl who looked a lot like her. Maybe even a relative.What did it matter if her name— Nora Ann— was right there next to the picture?People looked like other people all the time, after all, and even shared the same name. Nora and Ann were pretty common names. Anybody could have them.Distantly, Nicholas knew that he sounded delusional. He just couldn't accept that this was Nora. That Nora had been raised at this orphanage. Because if he did, then he'd also be forced to entertain the possibility that she wasn't who he thought she was."Looks like your loyal guard dog isn't so loyal after all," Kabuto remarked, peering over his shoulder at the book."And what are you suggesting?" Nicholas snapped, whirling on him. "That she's a double agent? That she's only been pretending to be on my side this whole time?""Whoa," Kabuto said, pu
CHAPTER 124
High Mother moved to stand, but Nicholas's cold words stopped her in her tracks."Sit down," he said. "We're not done talking."High Mother seemed to forget that she was supposed to be expressionless, and her eyebrows rose up almost to her forehead in surprise."What did you say?" she muttered in a quiet, menacing voice.Nicholas watched her, his eyes daring her to disobey. After a moment, she settled back into her seat and gave him one of her icy looks."I've heard a lot about you, Nicholas Belford," she said. "So far, everything I've heard is proving to be correct. You're a disrespectful, arrogant brat, who thinks that he's patriarch material just because he joined the Belford family like two minutes ago. And yet, despite being the worst of scum, you somehow believe you're superior to everyone else. Superior enough to have morals, to declare yourself some sort of ethical murderer. Well, then. Let's see if there's anything to your stupid values or if they're just empty words like eve
CHAPTER 123
Nicholas waited, but no other bullets followed the first one. He and Kabuto rose to their feet, only to meet several laser lights fixed on them from multiple directions."There's more than one sniper," Kabuto said."How surprising. I didn't notice that," Nicholas replied in a sarcastic tone.The clicking of high heels interrupted anything else Kabuto was going to say. Both of them turned to face the front door just as it swung slowly open in a dramatic way that had to be intentional. A woman stood, framed in the doorway and flanked by two hefty goons. A beautiful woman, with the sort of ageless face that seemed to make her look both fifty and twenty at the same time. She was dressed in a flowing mink coat, her hair in an elaborate updo. She held a fancy vape pen between two gloved fingers, and her expression was carefully blank.Nicholas didn't need to be told that this was High Mother."You've come a long way from home…" she said to Nicholas, "boy."'She knows who I am,' Nicholas rea
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