210

“ARGHHHH! WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED?!” Romero shouted at the top of his lungs as he cleared everything on his desk in anger. He just received the news about their failure to kill Dylan and worse of all, he lost a lot of trustworthy men to it.

“How could I have let them outmaneuver me in my own game?!” he seethed.

“Boss, it all went pear-shaped in the blink of an eye. At first, we were the ones with the upper hand, we had him in our claws and we were very sure that he was gonna die in our arms, Then, out of nowhere, a bunch of well-trained men showed up, heavily armed and outgunning us. They came for him,” one of the hoodlums recounted.

Romero’s frustration simmered, his chest heaving with rapid breaths. “Describe these men to me,” he demanded.

“We recognized one of them, boss. It was none other than the Azure King. One of the chieftains of the underground faction.”

Romero’s face went as white as a sheet. “Apex Conglomerate? Dylan Clifford had the backing of Apex Conglomerate, and not jus