Before Ezra could finish his sentence, he felt a tightly clenched fist smashing into his jaw, dropping him to the floor and replacing his words with moans of pain.
Shaun's hand was stuck in mid-air, trying to block the punch, but he failed. Looking at Ezra wriggling on the floor and clutching his face in pain, Shaun turned to Charlie and pleaded, "Hey! Let's talk it out like civilized men."
"This is the price you have to pay for mistreating Evelyn," said Charlie with fury.
Blood pooled in Ezra's mouth as he gagged and spat it out. Gritting his teeth, he wiped the blood from his lips with his hand leaving behind a red smear on his face. Eyes narrowed in determination, for a brief moment he caught his breath before sprang up and delivered a surprise punch to Charlie's stomach.
"Revenge is best served cold!"
Stumbling apart for a moment, they dived back at each other, growling infuriatedly. Shaun helplessly scrambled around to stop them. His concern wasn't about them fighting, but rather about the place where they were fighting in.
"Hello, I don't care if you kill each other, but can you not destroy this place?"
"Bang! Dong!"
Just as the words left Shaun's mouth, Ezra kicked a porcelain vase, causing it to shatter as soon as it touched the ground.
Shaun gazed at the broken items on the floor and felt heart-broken. "I paid over one million for that in a private auction. Who's going to pay for all this?"
"Charlie will pay for you!" Ezra shouted. Then he punched at Charlie again.
The two got to know each other properly because of a misunderstanding that resulted in an epic fist-fight. That day they both realized how good they were at fighting. Although it lasted longer than most would believe or anticipate, in the end, neither of them emerged victorious. Strangely, after the fight, they became good friends. Five years later, Ezra became a successful lawyer while Charlie was close to graduating from college. However, because of Evelyn, they had quite a number of quarrels. But this was the first time that they had the fight since the time they fought when first knowing each other.
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