James' boisterous laughter filled the night sky.
"You dog." James punched Leonel's shoulder. "You actually disappeared for half a month with my sister-in-law, since when were you two moving so fast?"
Leonel laughed and shook his head. It seemed that James was still the same old James.
"We had to save your ass. Who asked you to be so useless." Leonel rebutted.
James stumbled backward, putting a hand to his chest as though he had truly been hurt.
Leonel's banter with James was light hearted and fun, but it made the officer's break out into another cold sweat barely moments after surviving through their first bout.
Though they didn't know who Leonel was, they definitely knew who James was.
Beneath the Governor Duke's family, there were several other supporting families of great, albeit lower, standing. James' Bennett family was one of these forces, or how else could he be coming out from the Governor Duke's mansion?
