<h4>Chapter 60: Paying the Price</h4>


    Trantor: As Studios Editor: As Studios


    Hearing his underling’s report, Dous immediately stood up and asked with a glowering expression, “What did you say? Are you sure it’s those two from yesterday?”


    The underling nodded profusely in horror. “Yes, it’s those two from yesterday. I wouldn’t recognize them wrongly! They’re currently smashing the things in the main hall of the first floor, and the guests are terrified.”


    Dous kicked the coffee table furiously, but he identally touched his hidden injury, making him fly into a rage. “Didn’t you say that Lucas Gray was knocked off the bridge? Why is he still alive?”


    The one who came to report the matter earlier didn’t seem too well, and cold sweat broke out on his forehead. “He indeed... fell into the river. We saw from afar that he fell off the bridge and plunged into the river. The rescue teams rushed over, but they were stopped.”


    Bam—Dous pped the underling hard on the face.


    “Bullshit! If he really plunged into the river and drowned to death, are the ones here creating trouble ghosts? You trash!”


    Dous was just celebrating the fact that he had killed Lucas and took revenge. But now, they were here pping him in his face!


    “Let’s go. Gather everyone and go down with me. I refuse to believe he can defeat us!” Dous eximed as he hurried downstairs with a furious and menacing expression.


    At this moment, the people in the hall below were all badly bashed up by Jordan, and broken ss, wine bottles, ceiling lights, and shattered debris of furniture covered the ground. The initially luxurious hall was smashed and ended up looking like a garbage dump.


    Today, Dous had just hired more than ten henchmen, but they were all currently rolling in pain on the ground with broken wrists!


    Seeing this, Dous was overwhelmed with exasperation. Those bastards!


    “Damn it! Beat them!” Hearing Dous’s order, his underlings behind, who were all holding steel rods and weapons, immediately charged forward.


    “Hmph, you must have a death wish!” Before Lucas said anything, Jordan picked up a chair and rushed over.


    His movements were far quicker than Dous’s underlings. Before the underlings’ weapons could hit him, the leg of Jordan’s chair had already mmed onto their wrists and thighs.


    Bang!


    “Ah!”


    “Waaa!”


    With Jordan’s fast and urate hits, the dozen or so people who rushed up all shrieked in pain miserably as they dropped their weapons and started rolling on the ground, clutching their wrists and thighs and wailing loudly.


    Seeing this, Dous became terrified and furious.


    The ten-odd people holding weapons actually failed to even harm Lucas in the slightest. Instead, they were beaten up by the other party!


    “Stop! Lucas, what exactly are you trying to do?” Dous gritted his teeth and red at Lucas while the fear and horror in his heart surged again like yesterday.


    “What do I want to do? Aren’t you aware of what you got someone to do today?” Lucas looked at Dous with an icy cold re.


    On that bridge today, his wife and daughter had had a close shave with death. How could Lucas let Dous off easily?


    Dous suddenly choked.


    He had sent someone to run over Lucas and his wife and daughter with a car, but his n failed, and Lucas was now at his door and seeking revenge. This was totally out of his expectations.


    Facing Lucas’s icy cold eyes, Dous subconsciously took a few steps back. “There must be some misunderstanding somewhere. Actually, there’s no unresolvable feud between us. Why don’t we sit down and have a good talk? What do you think?”


    Despite saying that, Dous didn’t really n to bury the hatchet.


    He would never forget the shame Lucas had brought himst night! He would never spare Lucas!


    When they sat down to chat, he would have someone spike Lucas’s drink and then get his subordinates to make him have a taste of his own medicine!


    Once he was done taking revenge, he would make him vanish forever!


    Lucas sneered and nced at Dous in disdain, as if he had seen through his thoughts. “Have a good talk? Who are you to do that with me?!”


    Lucas gripped the wine bottle on the table next to him and fiercely smashed it on Dous’s head.


    Smack!


    With a crisp sound, the bottle shattered and cut open Dous’s head. Crimson blood began gushing out from the top of his head.


    After being stunned for a while, Dous touched his bloodied head and glowered at Lucas furiously. “You... How dare you...”


    “Hmph, you’d better remember this. If you dare to provoke me and the people I care about again, I’ll definitely make your life a living hell!” Lucas kicked Dous in his knees, twisting his legs into a warped angle, and made him tumble out far, far away.


    Without being able to utter a single word, Dous passed out.


    Everyone in the room was scared into silence, not daring to breathe a single word as they watched Lucas and Jordan leave. Too terrifying!


    Only when the figures of these two people hadpletely disappeared did someone from the Luxe quickly take Dous to the hospital.


    ——


    Soon, Brad Dous’s father, Gordon Dous, hurried to the hospital.


    When he saw his son, whose head was wrapped in bandages and legs were covered with casts, Gordon Dous was infuriated.


    In Orange County, no one had ever disrespected the Dous family or had the guts to beat his son so badly!


    “Find him! Get someone to find him! I must take revenge and kill him!”


    ——


    At this moment, Lucas was already on his way back to thekeside vi with Jordan.


    He was covered in blood just now, so he didn’t want to go back to the Carters, lest Cheyenne and Amelia saw the state he was in.


    Thinking about Cheyenne’s request for him to let the Carters off today, Lucas called Flynn Davis and gave him some instructions.


    After taking a shower, Lucas stood by the railing on a balcony and looked at the sparklingke outside with a bitter smile.


    Previously, he proposed to Cheyenne at the Intercontinental Hotel but was turned down by her. Later on, he revealed his identity to her and wanted to return the Brilliance Corporation to her.


    Unfortunately, Cheyenne refused to ept it.


    Cheyenne had always had a strong backbone and wasn’t willing to ept favors for nothing. She merely said that she would go to the Brilliance Corporation, but she hoped to work her way up to her former position from the bottom.


    Cheyenne was determined, so Lucas had no choice but to give in.


    This was how kindhearted, intelligent, and independent the woman he loved was.


    ——


    The following morning, Dominic Carter, who had stayed up all night, suddenly received an excellent piece of news.


    The Brilliance Corporation, which the Stardust Corporation had snatched away, suddenly gave the Carters an offer to be the guarantor of their debts and even decided to sign a cooperative contract with them!