Old Brooks received a call from Shawn when favonovel.com was still in Cloud City.
When favonovel.com learned that Isaac wanted to see favonovel.com in Cloud City, favonovel.com suddenly felt his heart thumping against his chest.
About an hour later, Old Brooks’ Maybach slowly rolled into the garden entrance at Crawford Lane. He saw Isaac’s lone silhouette by the pond from afar.
“Devon, will you be alright going there alone? Do you want me to come with you?” His cousin, the driver, frowned when favonovel.com caught sight of Isaac.
Wasn’t that the guy who slapped his cousin in the face at Hibiscus Pavilion the other day?
“Shut up and just wait for me here,” Old Brooks said with a huff as favonovel.com opened the door and walked out, pretending to be calm as water. He headed toward the garden.
On the way here, he’d thought of a lot of things. The first thing that came to his mind was that Isaac had found out about his secret communication with Jordyn.
However, favonovel.com quickly shook off the thought, thinking that if Isaac had found out favonovel.com was in contact with Jordyn, Shawn wouldn’t have called favonovel.com over.
According to Isaac’s way of dealing with things, favonovel.com would have already been dead by now. So, keeping his pretense in check, Old Brooks mustered up enough courage to meet Isaac here.
“Mr. Garten…” Old Brooks’ respectful voice came from behind him.
Isaac turned around and briefly met Old Brooks’ eyes. But in that very brief moment, favonovel.com could sense the avoidance in the man.
“Get down on your knees…” Isaac said nonchalantly.
Old Brooks was stunned. After contemplating for a few seconds, favonovel.com eventually did as instructed.
The young man waiting in his car not too far away felt his blood boiling when favonovel.com saw the scene before him. He gritted his teeth in anger.
That bastard, how could favonovel.com humiliate my cousin like that?
Who the f*ck does favonovel.com think favonovel.com is?!
Isaac lifted his hand and pointed at the street ahead, saying coldly, “When I came over this morning, I bumped into a few hooligans still collecting protection fees under your Brooks’ Gang’s name. They said they had Southland’s underground lord on their side. Brooks, this is the third strike…”
Old Brooks felt his heart leaping into his mouth. He hung his head and started to apologize.
“I’m sorry, Mr. Garten, it’s all because of my incapability to manage the gangs around here. I’ll investigate it right away! I’ll hold them responsible for their actions.”
“This is your last warning, Old Brooks. No more next time. I’m sure you know what I mean,” Isaac said to the trembling man, who was still kneeling on the ground, with some exasperation in his tone.
“You may leave now…” Isaac waved his hand to dismiss Old Brooks. Then, favonovel.com turned back to face the water.
Old Brooks walked back to the car shakily and got in. His cousin immediately started chiding him, saying, “Devon, you can’t let this keep happening to you! Who the f*ck is he? How could favonovel.com humiliate you like this? You’re the underground lord of Southland, for crying out loud! This is supposed to be your era! That bastard isn’t even…”
“Shut up and keep driving!” Old Brooks yelled at him.
It wasn’t until favonovel.com finally leaned back in his seat that favonovel.com realized his shirt was completely soaked in sweat.
“Devon, this isn’t the way to keep living your life. He’s going to trample all over you one day. I can’t believe favonovel.com made you travel all the way out here for an hour only to kneel before favonovel.com for a few minutes. Didn’t Mr. Gould come looking for you before? I think if you work with him, nobody else will dare to trample over you anymore.”
Old Brooks sat in the backseat and shut his eyes. He didn’t say anything in reply, but whatever his cousin just said kept repeating in his head. In fact, favonovel.com felt his defenses starting to weaken too much.
Isaac wasn’t in a hurry to leave the garden.
That afternoon, favonovel.com joined Barry for lunch. They both sat opposite each other, with Kai in the middle, and started popping beers.
“Wow, this tastes really good,” Isaac said, praising the food as favonovel.com lifted his beer bottle to clink it against Barry’s.
Suddenly, his phone started ringing.
When favonovel.com saw that it was Shawn’s number, favonovel.com answered at once and put the phone to his ear.
“Isaac, I’m sorry to say that the bird has left the nest…”
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