No one dared to utter a single word.
Nathan led Thomas away. When they walked passed the room, the men saw Ferlyn, who was covering her mouth with her hands, looking terrified.
They stopped in their tracks.
Ferlyn dropped to her knees in terror and pleaded in tears, "Please don't kill me!"
Nathan replied, "I'm not going to kill you, but I guess you'll have to get yourself a new boyfriend now. Also, regarding today's events, I hope that you would keep it as secret and don't let Penny know about it. I don't want her to worry."
Ferlyn was trembling profusely as she repeatedly muttered, "I won't say, I'm not going to tell anyone..."
Nathan didn't speak any further and marched off with Thomas.
The news of Theodore's death reached Alberesque very quickly.
Dip Turner gathered his two sons, Trip Turner and Philip Turner, and raged, "What's wrong with the both of you? The man you sent to deal with Nathan Cross got himself killed instead and his dead body was sent back. Not to mention that Nathan Cross even threatened us to quit the underground business completely and disappear within one month. He also demanded that I go to him personally and beg for forgiveness! If you don't settle him soon, I'll probably end up dying of embarrassment!"
Trip Turner did not take Nathan seriously at first, and had only sent Theodore, his right-hand man, to deal with him.
Never would he have expected Theodore to be killed, and Nathan had even demanded the Turner family to retire from all their businesses.
Trip Turner was completely enraged by Nathan this time round. With a murderous glint in his eyes, he said in a deep voice, "Dad, I have indeed underestimated Nathan Cross previously. But now, I will kill him with my own hands!”
As numerous proteges and followers of Dip Turner had already lost their lives in Channing, the man was more or less traumatized by the city.
Therefore, when his youngest son volunteered to take down Nathan himself, Dip Turner expressed his worry. "Nathan Cross is not easy to deal with, maybe it's better for me to handle him instead?"
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