July was scorching hot, but I felt a bone-deep cold. We had been together for nearly twenty years. I had helped her build everything from nothing. We had been partners, friends, family. I never expected things would end like this?
She's destroying me because she feared me? How ridiculous.
I watched the guards close in with vicious smiles and closed my eyes for a moment.
When I opened them, killing intent showed in my gaze. “Finish them all!”
Before the guards could react, a group of men in black burst out from the corners and, in an instant, knocked the guards to the ground.
Amid the sound of cracking bones and screams, my friend Albert handed me a handkerchief, eyes full of restrained anger.
“Johnny, I’ll go kill those two bastards right now.”
I calmly wiped the blood from my face. “They worked so hard to prepare that wedding. It’d be a shame to waste it, wouldn’t it?”
“The wedding planner’s one of ours, right? Tell him to make sure Timothy agrees to hold the wedding at sea—use our most luxurious cruise ship. He loves to show off. He’ll say yes.”