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"Sir David, you haven't recovered from your condition yet. I highly suggest for you to stay in bed for now," the nurse assigned to take care of David hastily said, seeing his patient hurriedly preparing to leave.
"I know my body more and I'm fine now. I can't afford to be in this bed when something bad is about to happen," David replied quickly, taking the clothes from the maids he previously ordered to get him one. Five minutes ago, Diego Bronson called him in a hurry to tell him that his son might do something bad. Of course, Diego tried in his power to stop his wife from doing something stupid, he thought he made sure Jordan won't leave their current hideout while he was gone but alas, the Omega was just too sneaky and stubborn.
He thought until he could fully gain Mo Laotian's trust, that he'd slowly convince Jordan to forget about his hatred towards his father and the Mo household but now this had happened.
"Sir David, you may seem fine but your health has been deteriorating. If you force yourself, you might be in grave danger," the nurse convinced again, however his words were useless against David. So in the end, he didn't have a choice but to let the old man go with him following him in case something happens.
"Then at least let me go with you. My job is to assess your condition, I will not be able to face Mr. Mo if I let something happen to you," He said again and followed David to walk in a hurry. He worked really hard to be able to reach his position now, he can't afford to lose such a strong connection like the Mo household.
"Do as you please," David said, finally arriving at the service he abruptly arranged and not long after traveled towards the city. Even though he's just a butler, David was considered a well-respected member of the Mo family giving him power over all the personnel. Unless Mo Laotian purposely ordered everyone to not follow David's order, everyone in the mansion who knew him would without a doubt obey.
Meanwhile, sitting on a chair glaring at each other, Laotian couldn't help himself from releasing hostile pheromones towards the person across him; however despite being an Omega, Jordan didn't seem like he was affected by it in the slightest.
"Your pheromones are quite strong but sorry to disappoint you. I've altered my body too much for it to have an effect on me," Jordan said in a bored tone while matching Mo Laotian's glare. He had been in the mafia for almost half of his life, it didn't start pleasantly and it may have inflicted permanent damage on his body but he got to where he was now because of his experiences. He had no complaints about it even if he had to suffer from multiple miscarriages due to the changes on his body.
"What do you want to talk about?" Laotian asked, finally turning impatient with this staring contest. Usually, he wouldn't have talked but looking at the Omega further irritated him even though a minute had just passed since they sat. He had no problem suppressing the Omega physically because he would naturally be stronger but he is a level headed person, and at times like this he needs to be calm to be able to think of a strategy. Additionally, he trusts his men. They wouldn't be called elite without nothing.
"Nothing in particular. I just want to bury your face in my memory before you vanish from this world," Jordan replied leisurely with a smile, and as if on cue more than 10 men came in to surround them. Laotian looked around and he was quite surprised there were still a few people that Nigel wasn't able to capture. Looking at the situation, it does look like he's at a disadvantage with only two men on his side and him unarmed due to the event while they're surrounded by their enemy from afar.
"The people your men captured were decoys but I must say they did a pretty good job, for a cleanup," Jordan said with another smile on his lips to Laotian just ignored. He believed the situation was dire but it's not that he had no chance.
"For your husband, I feel terrible for him..." Laotian started, that quickly made Jordan frown.
"Shut up! Do you think I don't know what you're doing!?" Jordan gritted slamming his hand on the table, looking at Laotian furiously. He knew the Alpha was just trying to buy his men some time.
"He came to meet me..." Laotian added, ignoring the furious Omega but when he heard Laotian's words, his eyebrows frowned in confusion but didn't say anything.
"Begged me to spare you. He must have been fed up with your madness," Laotian continued to say, making Jordan surge up furiously. What he said was not a lie, it was not only Diego who begged him to spare Jordan but also David, and as much as he hated to let the Omega go freely, in the end, he agreed. He was in no way merciful but also didn't want to hurt David who he treated as his second father nor disappoint Daniel once he discovered that he chose not to spare his enemy even though he had a choice.
However, Laotian was never a pushover. Considering the situation, he won't just let the Omega take his life without a fight just because he promised someone. No matter what, he knows that both David and Daniel will understand why he needed to take Jordan Perrel's life.
"I would too if I were him," Laotian said again, further provoking Jordan, buying a little bit more time for Nigel and his team to settle on their positions.
"You think I would listen to your nonsense?!" Jordan scuffs and this time finally pointing his gun at Laotian's face, ready to pull the trigger. He does not believe that his husband would do such a thing because he knew how much the Alpha loved him and he would never betray him.
"Then ask your Alpha... that is if you survive from here," Laotian replied, a smirk flashed on his lips before suddenly on cue, the lights at the hall turned off, and without a warning, bullets started flying. Loud ringing noise coming from guns being fired instantly filled the dark hall as well as light flashing from time to time. It didn't take 5 minutes and quickly the whole room turned silent.
At the same time, David arrived at the venue when suddenly people started screaming and running away, coupled with multiple gunshots emanating somewhere from the building. Knowing full well who might be firing at each other at this moment, David didn't hesitate and ran inside leaving his nurse in confusion looking at the people running from all directions.
His heart pounded hard just thinking of his son and Laotian who he treated as his own, killing each other. His mind ran wild when he reached the hall but as soon as he saw the two, he didn't know if he was going to feel relieved that none of them were hurt or horrified seeing the two pointing at each other with a gun.
"Michael!" David called in a hurry, walking in between them. He faced his son raising his hands trying to stop both him and Laotian.
"I told you don't fucking call me that name!" Jordan yelled, not planning to put his gun down. "I fucking hated it! I hated it so much," Jordan yelled again. The fact that this name was given by David made his skin crawl with disgust no matter how much his mother told him that she liked it.
"Please stop this, if you want revenge then take me instead. Leave the Mo family out of this, I was the one who hurt you. I'm willing to atone for my sins, my failure as your father, but please don't do this," David tried to convince. He didn't understand why Jordan had so much malice towards the Mo family but he knew that this had all started because of him and his wrong past decisions.
"David, leave this matter to me," Laotian interrupted, his voice filled with authority, he didn't know how David knew they were here but clearly the Omega was already so deep in despair and there was no amount of words that could save him.
"Please Young Master, my son doesn't know what he's doing. This was all my fault so please let me atone for his sins," David begged, never in his life he thought he would be in this situation. He knew what he's saying was ridiculous but in order to save his only son's life, he would sacrifice his own for it.
"Shut the fuck up! Do you think I'm doing this because of you? Aren't you overestimating yourself? Whether you treat me as your son before or you neglect me my whole life, I don't freaking care. I'm doing this for myself! I've come this far and whatever you're going to say, I'm not going to abandon the only thing that has kept me sane all these years!" Jordan yelled, his voice filled with different kinds of emotions. He was angry and frustrated, he felt so much despair in his heart that nothing will ever calm him down except taking a Mo's life.
"You think I didn't know why you never treated mom kindly and why you never came home?! I knew all along, it was Mom's last words. She kept apologizing to me and you but you never came. You never gave her a chance to apologize, even if it was just pretending you never showed up!" Jordan yelled and this time he was crying out of anger but his gun never moved from the direction he was pointing at since earlier even when David was already blocking Mo Laotian's from his view.
"You didn't forgive her, she was wrong but she truly reflected on her mistakes but despite that..." Jordan continued to say but didn't finish as he finally wiped his tears. "So why should I forgive you when you didn't even give Mom another chance? Why should I spare the Mo family that you love so much from my said madness? I want them to suffer just like I did, is it that bad? It's the same as that man doing dirty jobs to achieve his position now. What's wrong with me killing a few people to achieve what I want as well?" Jordan said, indicating that he was only doing what Mo Laotian was doing as well all this time.
Listening to Jordan, David became silent, he couldn't retaliate because there was truth behind Jordan's words. This was all his fault and it wasn't as if Mo Laotian was clean as well.
"What's wrong is that you're involving innocent people in this," David finally said, stepping forward but he halted when the Omega laughed at his statement and acted like as if David stepped any further, he was going to pull the trigger in an instant.
"You think he hasn't killed innocent people? Don't make me laugh," Jordan said, he had been in this industry for more than a decade and although one can try, you can never avoid hurting innocent people at some point and that was true. Laotian indeed at some point put innocent people in danger, some even died especially when there's an encounter in crowded places, you can never avoid getting women and children getting hit by some of the stray bullets during a collision.
And although he tried to compensate the families of the affected, he knew he could never revive the people that had already died so at some point Jordan was right but Laotian didn't care. No matter what Jordan's reasons were, he won't stand idle and let it happen before his eyes. Even if the Omega was in the wrong or right, he would do everything in his power to protect his family from enemies that tried to harm it.
"David, Jordan Bronson is right! No matter what reason he has, whether it's justified or not, if he's going to harm me or my family then I will do everything in my power to protect us. He's not wrong for doing this and whether you like it or not, one of us will have to die tonight," Laotian said, he knew that this would never end without one of them dying tonight.