Chapter 243


    243 The childhood conflict (2)


    “Really? Do you have to do what Grandpa said to you? You are still very young and naive. Do you think


    no one would know what you are trying to achieve by being friends with the enemies? It’s obvious as


    day, Damien and that’s Why Maverick doesn’t like you. Not only are you following Grandpa’s ns, but


    you are also bing a nuisance. You are not even as intelligent as his friends, you are the dumbest


    person in the ss! Maverick only sees you as a stupid person and that’s why he’ll never like you!” 1


    Those words broke Damien’s heart. His Grandfather didn’t tell him anything and he’s not trying to


    befriend Maverick for any malicious reason. He genuinely likes Maverick.


    He looked at Maverick, waiting for him to deny the allegations the he saw him as a nuisance. He was


    waiting earnestly for Maverick to push Ruben and call him a liar, but Maverick didn’t. He only sneered


    and walked out.


    Damien wanted to run after him to exin his own part but Ruben held him, preventing him from


    leaving. However, Damien refused to be stopped and forcefully pushed Ruben away, causing him to hit


    his head on the edge of the table.


    Because Damien was in haste to leave, he didn’t see the blooding out of his brother’s head, nor


    did he notice that his brother had fainted.


    Outside the cafeteria, he finally stopped Maverick and exined that Ruben was lying, then he asked.


    Maverick what he thought about him.


    “Just like your brother said, you are a nuisance, Get a life, you aren’t fit to be close to me. I despise


    you!”


    Those words pierced Damien’s heart and for years, they stuck to him like glue and refused to leave.


    He indeed started to take his academic studies serious and even outdid Maverick’s friends, still no


    matter what he did, Maverick was always some steps ahead of him. He could never catch up.


    When Maverick’s father bought him an ind, an invitation for Damien to appear on the ind was sent


    to the Yu family but at that time, Damien was already locked away, so Ruben went in ce of


    Damien.


    When Maverick made his first kill at the school because of his little brother, Damien was triggered. If


    Maverick could, then he also can. With that, he bribed the informant who always brought him news in


    the darkroom to help him out of the room.


    The n took some months and when he finally came out by pretending to be very sick, he realized


    that Maverick had taken over histe father’s dyingpany and was trying to bring it back up.


    So Damien, with the anger that his family was no family to him anymore, and also for the fact that


    Maverick was way ahead of him, killed his oldest brother, causing so much trouble in the Yu estate that


    forced everyone to submit to him.


    When he became the leader of his family, he held a meeting with Maverick to ask him if he was now


    worthy to be his friend but not only did Maverick not honor the invite, he sent a message to tell Damien


    that he will forever be worthless and would always be below him.


    From there on, Damien started to do things out of line to prove to Maverick that he was wrong, he had


    always been wrong about him but Maverick kept angering him each day that passed.


    To make Mavericke to him and beg him for something, Damien set the scheme to involve a


    woman in his life, that was when he realized that Maverick loved a young child called Rossa, he tried to


    search for her but failed, still, he didn’t give up,


    When he saw that after some years, he couldn’t find Rossa, he made his brother bring in Vera to stand


    as Rossa, but he changed his mind when he saw that Vera and Ruben were taking too long to appear


    at the hotel, SI he made his men to kidnap any girl and send her to Maverick. Who would have thought


    that the guards would kidnap the birthday girl who was drugged by her friends for whatever reason? So


    Jeslyn ended up being the one Maverick slept with.


    After that, he tried to kill Jeslyn to close that plothole to his n but realized she was too pretty to die


    just like that. So he started to form another scheme where she would be useful, however, Destiny


    yed a cruel joke and she became pregnant.


    How could she? How could an outsider get so entangled in his meticulous n?


    While he was trying to alter his n to fit in Jeslyn and Vera without having to change the whole n,


    he realized Jeslyn’s family was weird, so he tried to dig deeper. However, the only thing he found was


    that Jeslyn was actually Maverick’s Rossa!


    It became even better when Maverick was still searching for his Rossa, that was when he built a nice


    chess game and started ying the two as he wished, using Vera as a substitute for Rossa and


    watched from the side as Maverick treated Vera as if she was Rossa.


    Damien snapped out of his memory when the car came to a halt. He looked around and realized they


    were at Maverick’s mansion.


    “Are you really allowing me into your home?” Damien asked, a little surprised.


    Maverick nced at him for a while. Yes, he was also asking himself what he was doing, having his


    wife’s enemy into the house. But they were already here.


    He got down without uttering a word and started to walk towards therge front door. Damien chuckled


    as he watched Maverick’s defiant back as he walked with an air of authority, arrogance, and pride. He


    was the definition of a superior being.


    For some reason, Damien couldn’t help admiring this man who was his frenemy.


    What does he feel for Maverick even after all that has happened between them? He wasn’t sure.


    Damien couldn’t put his fingers on why he doesn’t see Maverick as a pure enemy. A part of him wanted


    that recognition and praise that he had been longing for, from Maverick. He felt that something in him


    will beplete if Maverick genuinely treats him like a human for once.


    “You should get down.”


    Damien heard the hard voice of one of Maverick’s men and turned to his side and saw that the guard


    had opened the car door.


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    Damien got down and looked around the beautifulpound. It was night time and people were


    sleeping, so it was only littered with armed men and women in ck.


    “Where is Kimberly?” He asked.


    “She has been taken away for treatment. Follow me to your quarters. The guard said and started to


    walk towards one of the many buildings in thepound.