2023-11-02 01:54:14"Do you know who I am?" the beauty snapped. "I'm Natalie Anderson! How dare you try to scam me? Are you aware of my family's influence? The Mayor, the Chief of Police, and the Chief City Attorney are our family friends! Get lost, or you'll end up in prison for the rest of your life!"
The Anderson family was the wealthiest in Sapphire City and owned many businesses, hotels, and shopping malls. They practically bathed in money and, no wonder, had contacts in high places.Tyler narrowed his eyes. The cinematic bubble of running into an angelic beauty had popped for him. Natalie was just a spoiled heiress, and he hated such women with a vengeance.Billionaires who didn't raise their kids right created brats who thought they owned the world. Such ingrates believed their acts had no consequences; they trampled and abused everyone in their paths without mercy or sympathy.A tragic example of such a horrible brat was Trent Cooper, who destroyed his life and tortured his family over a petty incident."Are you a madwoman?" he snapped at the young woman. "Your rash driving could have killed the child!""What child are you talking about?" Natalie fired back. "Must be someone from your scam outfit!"Tyler pursed his lips. The girl was too arrogant and needed to be taught a lesson. He tried to move past her towards the vehicle, intending to flatten the tires.Natalie blocked his path, but as their shoulders collided, she spun around and collapsed like a toppled ballerina.Tyler reached the luxurious Lamborghini. He intended to flatten its tires so the spoiled heiress would have to walk home."What are you doing, you scoundrel!" Natalie hollered at him from the ground. "Don't you dare touch my car! It is worth $3 million! Keep your filthy hands off of it! Are you going to rob us in broad daylight?"Natalie's dress was ripped during her fall, and her thighs showed. As Tyler's eyes inadvertently fell on her exposed skin, she quickly covered herself up and shuffled to her feet."Not only are you a scam artist but also a pervert! I am warning you. This will not end well!"Tyler ignored Natalie's protest and readied himself by the back wheels to kick the tires flat. However, he was distracted by an agonized moan from within the car. He sensed something was wrong.The young man instinctively opened the back door of the Lamborghini. Inside, he saw a middle-aged man lying in a supine position on the back seat. He was trembling in pain, his hand clutching at his heart."What's wrong with him?" Tyler turned and asked Natalie. "Is he dying?"The young woman came rushing towards him in a huff. "How dare you touch our car? Leave my father alone! It's none of your business! Get lost, or I'm calling the cops!"Disturbed by the commotion, the old man in the back seat opened his eyes and slowly sat up. He was in a cold sweat, shivering mildly, and his breathing was rapid."Young man," he said weakly, still grasping at his chest. “I am Silas Anderson. My daughter was rushing me to the hospital because of my heart condition. If you are hurt or offended, I can offer an apology and monetary compensation. But please don't blame her. She only acted out of love for her father."Natalie stepped forward and stomped her feet angrily. "Dad! Please lie down and rest. We'll reach the hospital in ten minutes. There's no need to talk to this homeless fraud! I'll deal with him by myself!"Tyler gave the whiny beauty a cold shoulder and observed Silas. The billionaire was polite and kind regardless of his wealth. Moreover, Silas Anderson was renowned in Sapphire City for his humanitarian work. He built orphanages, schools, and retirement homes for the needy. The old man gave back to the populace and fulfilled his social responsibility.Tyler's anger towards Natalie dissipated immediately. He could relate to the turbulent emotion of a child for her parent's safety. The beauty had been driving rashly to get her father to the hospital in time.Tyler took a deep breath and scrutinized Silas. He activated his secret ability, Chiron's Eye. The young man had developed it through intense meditation under Butch Salvatore's guidance.Chiron's Eye helped him diagnose a patient within his range of vision. The ailments appeared to him in myriad colors and waves, communicating even greater insights than modern diagnostic devices.It was the first time Tyler had activated the ability outside of prison. He felt he owed the old man that much since he obstructed Natalie's path and caused a delay."Mr. Anderson," he told Silas in a somber tone. "I have bad news for you. You won't survive the trip to the hospital. I have discovered a severe congenital problem—a ventricular septal defect in you. In simple words, you have two holes in your heart. You'll suffer a fatal stroke within five minutes!"
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362 Hollywood Break
Eleven floors above the street, Ivy Solaris sat alone at one end of a long glass table.She looked exactly the way two hundred thousand dollars of preparation is supposed to look. The pale gold dress. The hair. The diamond studs LOVELIN had loaned her that morning. She sat with her back straight and her hands folded, and she had a folder open in front of her that she had already read four times.Across from her sat three men.All three were somewhere in their fifties. All three were smiling."I have to say it again, because I cannot get over it," the one in the middle said. His name was Curtis Vance, and he had produced eleven films that had made money and two that had made a great deal of money. "That voice. When you sang at the awards in March, my wife cried. I am not making that up to flatter you. She actually cried, right there on the sofa.""That is very kind of her," Ivy said."And the training." The man on the left leaned back and looked at her, and he took his time about it. "
361 Male Escort
The green room was on the second floor, and it was nicer than any room Tyler had ever slept in.There was a long table down one wall covered in food. Cold meats, three kinds of bread, fruit cut into shapes, little pastries lined up in rows on silver trays. There was a fridge full of glass bottles. There were fresh flowers in a vase, and nobody in the room to look at them.Along the opposite wall stood a rolling rack of clothes in plastic covers."Eat whatever you want," Raina Dustin said. "Do not touch the flowers, they are for the photographs."Tyler walked over to the table and started on the cold meat.Raina watched him eat for about ten seconds. He did not stack a plate and he did not fill his pockets, which surprised her slightly, because she had expected one or the other.Then she went to the rack and pulled a garment bag off it and unzipped it.Inside was a charcoal suit."This is yours for the day," she said. "It is a forty-four long, which I am guessing is close enough. There
360 Impostor
The noise of the street cut off the second the doors closed.The LOVELIN showroom was cold and white and quiet inside, all glass shelves and soft lighting, and it smelled expensive in a way Tyler could not put a name to. Somewhere above them a piano was playing through hidden speakers.Ivy walked fast.She did not take his arm and she did not slow down for him. She led him down a long service corridor behind the display floor, past two staff members who flattened themselves against the wall to get out of her way, and she kept four feet between them the whole time.Twice she glanced sideways at him.Both times it was the way a woman looks at a dog she has not made her mind up about.Tyler noticed. He was not offended. He was confused, and confusion was not something he had felt much of in six years."You are keeping your distance," he said.Ivy did not answer."I have been gone a long time and I know that changes people. But you used to follow me around that building like a duckling."
359 He Is With Me
Ivy Solaris did not move.She stood at the top of the steps with one hand still resting on the glass door, and she looked at the man on the sidewalk, and she did not say anything at all.Four hundred people were screaming her name. She did not hear a single one of them.Raina Dustin reached her in four quick steps and put herself directly between the girl and the street."Do not look at him, sweetheart." She was speaking loudly and clearly, and she was speaking for the three news cameras as much as for Ivy. "This man is disturbed. He has been claiming to be your brother for the last twenty minutes. He assaulted two members of staff and he refused money to leave. This is exactly why we have a security team."She took Ivy's shoulder. "Go back inside and let them do their job."The crowd agreed with her at once."She is right, Ivy. Go back in!""He is a lunatic. He burned three thousand dollars right here in the street.""Please, Miss Solaris. Do not go anywhere near that man."Ivy came
358 Lethal Force
Nothing happened.The taser screamed against his chest at full power. Blue light jumped and flickered across the leather of his jacket. The sound of it filled the whole street.And Tyler Grant stood there holding it in place, looking mildly bored, the way a man looks while he waits for a kettle to boil.He held it there for a count of five.Then he took it off his chest and switched it off, and the sudden silence was almost worse than the noise had been."See," he said. "Even at full charge, your toys are worthless."The crowd did not cheer. The crowd did not say anything at all.Four hundred people had just watched a man hold a lethal charge against his own heart for five seconds and then complain about the product quality.A young man near the barricade lowered his phone with a shaking hand."That is not possible," he said, to nobody. "That is not possible. That is not a thing that can happen."An older man beside him had gone the color of paper. "My cousin took one of those at a fo
357 Maximum
"Put that online right now. Are you filming? Tell me you are filming this.""He is insane. That man is genuinely insane."Behind the rope, Marcus Dolan stood with his empty hand still half extended, and his ears turned dark red.But it was Raina Dustin who had changed.She had not moved an inch. Her face had not moved either. But something behind her eyes had gone completely cold.Raina Dustin had grown up in two rooms above a laundry. She had put herself through school on borrowed money that took her nine years to pay back. And in eleven years of managing the most valuable young woman in Sapphire City, she had learned exactly one thing about people who burn money in public.They are not asking for anything. They are making a statement.This man was not a lost soul who needed a hot meal. He was a performer. He had chosen her client's showroom for his performance, and there were three news cameras thirty feet away recording every second of it.By tonight the headline would not say that
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