George felt as if his organs had shifted out of place. His stomach was churning, and he felt horrible.
He tried hard to get up but his entire body was limp and powerless. He lifted his head with all his might but could only see Jasper’s leather shoes.
Jasper took a step forward and squatted. He bent over to look at George, patting his face.
“You had a lot of fun calling me little idiot, huh?”
George gritted his teeth tightly, but at this moment, even if he was resolute, he did not dare to speak anymore.
“You kept saying that the stakes are high in Swallow Capital. Were you having fun acting like a poser?”
George was gasping for air while enduring the pain in his chest and stomach. He opened his mouth challengingly and said, “Just kill me or hack me into pieces if you dare!”
“How stubborn.”
Jasper smiled, and his eyes went cold instantly.
“You’re just a thug of the lowest level in Swallow Capital’s society, so why are you acting like a keelie in front of me?”
A keelie was a dialect and slang in Swallow Capital, meaning an old fox or a person unfit for society.
Jasper lifted his hand to grab George’s cheek and forced his head up to look into his eyes. Jasper said insipidly, “Yes, the stakes are high in Swallow Capital, but it has nothing to do with people like you. Don’t think that just because you’ve been in Swallow Capital for a few years that you’re a big shot here.”
George was shaking all over. He did not know whether he was trembling because of anger or pain.
He felt that Jasper’s statement had crushed his dignity into pieces before slamming them on the floor to get stomped on.
George wanted so badly to have a dagger in his hand so that he could kill Jasper for making him feel this way.
“Mr. Laine, let me remove one of his arms.”
When George heard this, the scenes of Julian fighting his five fighters until they were battered and bruised as if he was the God of War flashed across his brain. Then, he saw Julian walking over to him with eyes that were so icy they looked like they could kill.
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