Daniela was not just pissed off, but also super embarrassed. “That dude just slapped me, and now my face is all swollen."
Donny instantly raised his voice. "What? Are your guys a bunch of losers? So many of them are protecting you, and you still got hit?"
Daniela pressed her lips together, looking seriously upset.
Donny, "Did he really slap your face?"
Daniela nodded sadly, "Yes."
"Daniela, don't be upset." Donny's voice turned soft all of a sudden. "He hit your face. I'll make him pay tenfold, a hundredfold."
Daniela, "That guy's really good."
Donny, "So what if he's good?"
Daniela, "He also warned me and said his boss is really powerful. He doesn’t care about me and doesn't care about our Salazar family either."
Donny, "Who's this cocky bastard? Is it another one of the Dixon family's goons?"
Daniela, "Not from the Dixon family. My guys couldn't figure out who they are, and only heard that he might be a friend of Steven's."
Donny, "So what if he's a friend of Steven's, can't I take action against him? Kenny can't stand against our Salazar family, let alone this Steven. Tell me, who is this guy? I'll find him and let you teach him a lesson personally."
Daniela, "I don't know who he is. I just know he's really tall and has a scar on his face that looks like a centipede."
Hearing this, Donny's voice dropped a notch. "Is he at least six foot two, with a scar right under his eye, about a centimeter long?"
Daniela, "How do you know all this? Do you know him?"
Donny's soft tone instantly turned into a questioning one, cold and devoid of warmth. "How did you meet him? Do you know who he is?"
Daniela was beyond pissed at this point, she wasn't thinking clearly. “I don’t care who he is, he can’t hit my people, let alone hit me. He knows who I am and still dares to hit me; he’s looking down on our family…"
Donny coldly said, "If he hit you, just bear with it. Don't bring it up again."
Daniela yelled, "Donny, what are you saying? Your sister got bullied, and not only are you not helping, but you're also telling me not to mention it ever again. Since when did our family become so weak and useless?"
"Daniela!" Donny sternly called out.
She knew she had crossed the line.
Donny continued, "So what if he hit you? Even if he hit our father, our father wouldn't dare to mess with him."
Hearing this, Daniela finally felt scared. "Who is this guy?"
Donny, "Do you know how the Reese Group in Riverton disappeared?"
Daniela shook her head. "I didn't hear about them disappearing. I only found out the Reese Group was no more when it was mentioned again later. Heard that the people from the Reese family were involved in major criminal cases, and all of them got arrested..."
Donny said, "This is all because the Reese Group offended Marcus."
Daniela asked, "You mean the Marcus from the Hartley Group?"
Donny replied, "Who else could it be?"
Daniela asked again, "If he's really that powerful, why did the Hartley Group fall apart so quickly?"
Donny explained, "Even though everyone says the Hartley Group collapsed, it actually didn't. I just found out recently that his father took over the Hartley Group, but it's actually just a shell. He had already transferred all the assets of the Hartley Group. This is a huge project, I still can't believe he did it so quietly, and I can't figure out how he did it."
Daniela said, "He might be powerful, but he's dead now, why are you still afraid of him..." Suddenly, she seemed to realize something, "Bro, are you saying Marcus isn't dead, and the guy I met is Marcus?"
Donny replied, "The guy with the scar is Marcus' right-hand man. Marcus never appears in the media. I've only seen him from a distance a few times, and never got a good look at his face."
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