Lord Protector novel (Zeke Williams) novel Chapter 2470

“Argh!”

The pain made Yoshua cry out in agony on the ground as he thrashed around.

His desperate screams made the hearts of the others skip a beat.

Despite his pain, Yoshua could still curse relentlessly at Yannick.

Yannick tried to convince him otherwise. “That's enough. Calm down.”

Yoshua swore, “Calm down, my *ss! How can you ask me to be calm after my own brother betrayed me? Have you forgotten how I treated you back then? I've always let you flee first when we encounter danger, but what about now? You've encountered danger, yet you're dragging me to hell with you! Aren't you ashamed of yourself?”

Yannick said, “Yoshua, listen to me. Are you really going to follow Boss for the rest of your life? That's a path to hell, and there's no way you can escape its consequences. We might have a chance to live if we confess everything to the Great Marshal.”

Yoshua hissed, “Bullsh*t! We were involved in Mrs. Williams' kidnapping. Everyone knows that the Great Marshal loves his wife very much. Do you think he'll let us go?”

Yannick uttered, “We haven't done any misdeeds other than that. Moreover, someone else would have done the kidnapping if we didn't do it. I believe the Great Marshal will be merciful toward us as long as we come clean with him.”

Zeke then coldly looked at Yoshua and said, “Yannick's right. Even if you didn't take up the job, someone else would have. If you can tell me the details of the event and help me find my wife, I might let you go alive.”

Yoshua studied Zeke's expression and realized that Zeke did not seem like he was lying.

In the end, he sighed. “Honestly, I didn't want to work for him anymore, but we didn't have any other choice but to follow him down the path of no return back then. If you let us live, we'll cooperate with you.”

“Okay, I'll ask you some questions then. Did you join the Linton Group for the execution of this plan? Is this plan's main goal to steal Fortuna and kidnap my wife, Lacey Hinton?”

Almost in unison, Yannick and Yoshua replied, “Yes.”

“Tell me your story all the way from the start. If you dare to hide anything from me, you'll have to bear the consequences of that.”

“Of course we won't.”

Yannick then began, “Great Marshal, I'm sure you must have investigated us. We're just children from an ordinary farming family. Our family has been impoverished the entire time—we could never stay warm or full. It was all thanks to the villagers that we were able to study high school. However, after we graduated from high school, my mother suddenly fell gravely ill. She even nearly died a few times. How could we continue with our courses in university? If we did not use our tuition fees to save our mother's life, we would regret it for the rest of our lives. We brothers decided to drop out of the university to use the tuition fees to save our mother's life. However, she was far too ill. Even after we spent all of our money, her condition never improved. Right as we were at our wit's end, a middle-aged man came to us. He was strange with eyes like a hawk. He told us to call him Mr. Hawk. Mr. Hawk told us that he had a way of curing our mother, but we had to first listen to him and believe in Theos. Of course, we didn't believe him initially, thinking that he was a scammer. However, my mother actually looked much better after Mr. Hawk gave our mother a simple massage. In the end, he succeeded in winning our trust. We then believed in Theos and swore to serve Theos for the rest of our lives. We even made an oath to Theos' statue. As promised, Mr. Hawk treated our mother's illness. After that, Mr. Hawk found a job for the two of us. It wasn't tiring and was simple, but it paid well.”