THE EXILED LORD

CHAPTER 7

Luca Ashford stepped forward and held the thug's hands mid-way.

“Are you asking for death? How dare you touch me, you filthy thing?” The thug uttered.

Hearing this, June was scared and felt she needed to act fast, so she decided to throw Luca under the bus as he was inviting more trouble to the Thornton family.

“Please kind sir, this man is not part of this household, do whatever you want with him.” She uttered, pointing towards Luca.

“Boys, attack!”

They all charged forward and amid the chaos, Jason Stewart crawled behind a cupboard, he still hasn't recovered yet from the pain.

Amelia yelled, and bent down covering her ears in fear.

As for June she hid behind her husband, her hands were trembling as she watched the fight.

'I hope you get killed, you are nothing but a worthless bastard, you deserve to die. Trying to be the hero.’ She thought.

As the thug’s subordinates charged towards Luca with all their might.

Luca Ashford began to fight, he kicked one in his belly; “Ahh!!” and that one kick sent him crashing into a table breaking an expensive vase with it.

Leon was surprised at the strength Luca possessed, the way he kept throwing those punches around, made him even more impressed.

'He has truly grown, he is no longer the child he once was.' He thought as he smiled to himself that he made the perfect choice for his daughter.

He immediately rushed to pick up a wood which he sighted close by in an effort to help Luca Ashford with the thugs.

But before he could help, they were all on the ground groaning in pain.

Realising that the threat has been tranquilized, Jason Stewart crawled out of his hideout, like he never left.

Ahh!!

“My leg!” Some of the thugs who were on the ground groaning in pain uttered.

"We are so sorry!” They pleaded with Luca but he was already too furious to be begged at this moment.

Luca then turned to the leader who was burly scarred and asked;

"Who sent you, why are you here?"

"We... We!"

Luca squeezed the hands of the leader even harder and blurted out coldly;

"I will not ask again, who sent you?”

“Ahh, I will tell you. The truth is, we weren't here to collect any debt. I lied and I am sorry, let me go.”

“What do you mean, you bastard?” Mr Leon Thornton asked as he was very enraged that they even dared to lay a finger on him for nothing.

“Speak you coward!!” Luca Ashford yelled.

“The truth is, Mr Wilson Brown… our boss, asked us to bring the young Miss Amelia of the Thornton family to him.”

Amelia, upon hearing the mention of her name, stood up still a bit shaky from the chaos, stood up and asked; “What the hell did you say?!”

“Our boss asked us to bring her to him, because some powerful figure of some sort has set his eyes on her. Please let us go, we promise never to come back.”

“Get the hell out of here… I'll give you ten seconds!”

The gang members, despite the pain and gnashing of teeth accompanied with broken bones, ran out of the villa. They didn't want to anger Luca any further.

Seeing that they had all scurried away, June came out and began to scold Luca.

“How could you do this Luca? You have succeeded in beating up the gangs of Brown Group, not just them, you've also angered this new mysterious powerful figure, on your first day of arrival? What would happen to the Thornton family now, all because you want to play the big hero! Are you proud of yourself now, huh?! You have succeeded in making everything worse!!” June blurted out.

Jason, straightened himself, despite the fact that he was in pain, he didn't want Luca Ashford to make fun of him, so he stepped forward and calmed Mrs June.

“Aunt June! Don't you worry about any of this.” He uttered with a smirk on his face.

“I know you are kindhearted Jason, but no this arrogant ingrate has just caused more troubles for us. The Brown Group is not to be taken for granted. They are known for their ruthlessness, our family is so done for!” June lamented with worry.

“Aunt June, relax okay, everything will be fine, I will personally have a one on one conversation with this mysterious man to sort all this out, there must be a misunderstanding somewhere.”

June's eyes sparkled with joy, “You will do this for our family?”

“But of course aunt, anything for you, you are practically family.” Jason Stewart said with confidence.

Amelia on the other hand was dumbfounded for being the topic of the day from all sides, she just couldn't fathom it.

Luca Ashford remained unfazed by the hateful comments and glares he was getting from June and Jason, he straightened up his outfit and said;

“I think I have to have a conversation with Wilson Brown myself, I need to get to the bottom of this.”

“How son? Mr Wilson Brown is one hard man to reach, he is not someone that can be threatened or easily accessible, he is heartless. I fear going up to him would put you in harm's way.” Mr Leon Thornton uttered, he was worried about Luca's safety.

Jason with furrowed brows, scoffed and said;

“Tch… come on now, you don't have to act all tough like you could possibly locate Mr Wilson Brown, he is not some low life, that you could meet whenever you want to.”

“Wilson's men, won't even let a low life like you cross his gates not to talk of allowing you see him. You dream too big and aim too high. That is what I hate about you. Acting all high and mighty doesn't change the fact that you are nothing!”

“He is all talks!” Jason Stewart mocked.

“And a copycat too apparently, just because Jason here said he would find who the mysterious powerful man is and put an end to this, doesn't mean you should do the same, you are just a lowly quarry employee that's all you will ever be. And he is the heir to the Stewart’s family fortune, you shouldn’t dream of competing with him.” June uttered making fun of Luca.