Luke woke up the next morning, took his shower and left the house.
Luke walked towards his driveway and saw his car parked there silently, he climbed to the passenger seat Infront and John who was already in the driver's seat began to move the car.
Luke turned back to see a beautiful sexy blonde in black seated in the back seat with a blank face.
"Long time no see Victoria, how have you been?
I was beginning to wonder if you had gone missing but thank God you are here."
Luke said teasingly.
"I've assigned you to be part of my personal guards, do you have any objections?", Luke asked casually.
Victoria who had still maintained her blank expression turned and faced Luke.
"Why are you keeping me close to you?
you do know that am an assassin and I can hurt you at anytime so why Keep me close?
Honestly, when I bargained myself to you in exchange for the safety of my comrades, I thought you were going to throw me to your elite platoon of troops who do your dirty work for you."
Luke was surprised, how did she know of that platoon.
"Don't look so surprised, I know that you have a secret platoon which is not part of your private army.
What are they called again, Ahh yes I remember. They are called Phantom Shadows, am I right?.
Luke was impressed, not many people knew of the phantom shadows.
They were kind of assassins who did some errands for him. Phantom Shadows were kept a secret and only three people in his entire private army knew about them.
"I got to know of it because we met a lot during missions, they killed a lot of corrupt people around the world like us, so we would often meet on missions since we had the same targets.
I even helped a Commander of that troops once and we became friends, she gave me emotions palace address.
She told me to come there if I ever needed help and that's how I found you".
Luke finally understood how Victoria found him, he actually already guessed the person who helped Victoria find her.
"What should I do with this girl?" he asked a himself.
"No you won't join the phantom Shadows, you would become my personal shadows and protect me, from now onwards that's your duty."
Victoria nodded firmly, she took her promises seriously and since Luke had already fulfilled his end of the bargain she had to also keep to her promise and serve Luke.
Somewhere in the palace of Krustalia, the second Prince Willian paced up and forth waiting for news of the pauper death but there was still no news.
"Damn it, Harry has been there for three days can't he kill an ordinary pauper what's taking him too long?"
Though he wanted to call Harry so bad and ask about the progress, he didn't want to look too anxious Infront of Harry since he was a royal.
It would be uncalled for him to order the death of a citizen for no reason especially if the said pauper is not part of his country. It could cause a continental civil unrest.
Meanwhile Harry had just arrived at Krustalia, after being discharged from the hospital, he didn't wait a second and took off not wanting to infuriate Luke.
He sat in in his room with a complicated expression on his face.
He and Willian might be enemies now but it wasn't always so.
Infact they were best friends from childhood and had done everything together wheather it was being mean, acting spoilt, raising hell for the people around them or being mischievous.
They had done it all together, but after his family begun to gain more influence gradually becoming a threat to the Royal family their friendship also came to an end becoming only superficial.
They were once brothers but now they were scheming for the downfall of the other.
Tragic.
He wanted to warn Willian not to mess with the pauper but he knew he couldn't go against his father and besides wheather sooner or later his family will surely clash with the royal family, so if he could weaken the power of the royal family without doing anything it would be good for his family.
"If Willian was in my position, he would have f**ked me up already, so I don't need to hold back". Harry tried to convince himself with that excuse.
He took his phone and dialled Prince Willian number.
The call was immediately answered which left him stupidfied.
"How was your business trip Harry? you couldn't even call to tell me how you were doing so I was getting kind of worried about you.
So tell me how did it go?"
Willian immediately fired this questions in succession the moment he answered the call.
"The business trip was quite boring by the way, I went to see the pauper and had a chat with him,
but he was too boring for me, I also noticed how Beatrice cared about him so I don't want to waste my time.
Seeing how she loves him, I can tell that she would rather die than marry anyone else even if he dies so I gave her.
There are still a lot of women on the ranking in other continents, I would rather go and chase them which would be more entertaining.
Willian was stupidfied after hearing Harry.
So all that yapping was to tell him he couldn't kill the pauper and was giving up on Beatrice.
He clearly understood Harry's intention all to well.
Harry was aware of the fact that if he kills the pauper, the race would be between only he and Harry but he had a higher chance of winning.
The Alan family knowing this wouldn't want to kill the pauper since he being alive would rather benefit them more than his death so of course they wouldn't want to kill him.
The Alan family feared the royal family combining their power with Beatrice wealth and would do everything to stop it.
"You indeed had a boring trip but it's a shame you are giving up on Beatrice.
What a shame." Willian said sarcastically.
Harry stayed silent for a while before replying, "I would give up on her too if I wer...." before he could finish, Willian hang up.
Harry sighed deeply,
he did try to warn him but such a shame that Willian wasn't willing to listen.
"Let's hope the so called pauper is not too powerful", he didn't want to lose his friend.