A Healer’s Journey (Finnegan and Nuthana)

Chapter 40 Are You Still Courting Me

“Caesar!”

Oscar’s eyes reddened when he saw how Caesar had died in the dingy morgue.

There was a somber look on Tristan’s face as well. “Mr. Goldberg, what are we going to do now?”

He thought that if Caesar, an Amber Realm fighter of Absolute Rank, were to intervene, Finnegan was bound to die. However, now, Finnegan had killed Caesar and was even taunting them by sending Caesar’s body to them.

A wave of fury and helplessness washed over Tristan. He realized Finnegan was far harder to deal with than he imagined.

“I have to kill him!” Oscar gritted his teeth as a murderous look entered his eyes. “I’m going to tell the rest of my seniors that Caesar has been killed by Finnegan. They’re all Enigma Realm fighters. I refuse to believe that Finnegan will survive their assaults!”

Tristan’s eyes lit up. “Is it the rest of the Goldberg Five? How long will it take for them to arrive?”

Forcing away his anger, Oscar said, “A few days, I’m guessing.”

Tristan was wracked with worry when he heard that, but he dared not urge the rest of the Goldberg Five to come at once. “I’ll try to stir some troubles up for Finnegan first so that he won’t have the time to come after us.”

What he did not know was how Finnegan could not be bothered to attack in advance.

The night went past.

Early in the morning, Finnegan received Quiana’s call, asking him to attend Ximena’s engagement with them. He could not stop his parents from attending it, so he agreed to meet them at a specific time.

After that, he asked Alisha to keep an eye on the Chomsky family so that they knew what the Chomskys were planning to do after seeing Caesar’s body.

Very soon, Alisha came back to report to him. “Tristan did nothing after cremating Caesar instantly. In fact, he even continued to stay in the hospital and never step foot out of the building. However, I’m guessing that he has asked Oscar to get more help. You’ll have to be more careful. It’s highly likely that the incoming help is the rest of the Goldberg Five, and they’re all Enigma Realm fighters. The seniormost among them is Eleazar Goldberg, and apparently, he’s a step away from reaching Terra Realm)

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Finnegan gave her a smile. “I’ll go with the flow. No one will be able to stop me from destroying the Chomsky family.”

Alisha was still worried despite his words. “Finnegan, do you want me to ask my grandpa to summon Spencer Klausen? He’s one of the Five Unparalleled and the disciple of Helmuth Bach, an Ether Realm fighter. Spencer is currently a Terra Realm fighter of Intermediate. Rank.”

shows up now, he won’t be

then, Bernice

telling Alisha to contact him if anything popped up, and Finnegan

call went through, Bernice grumbled,

be chastised that early in the morning. “What’s wrong,

evidently just

Finnegan went silent.

“Sorry, Darling, but could you please tell me what I’ve done wrong so that I

initiation to apologize worked. In a softer tone, Bernice said, “I just found out that your house was forcibly demolished.

calling because I hid the demolition from her.

for housing, but my dad booked rooms in a hotel before I could tell him about it. They don’t want to waste the money

glad to hear that,” Bernice said in an even softer tone, but Finnegan could still hear the tinge of resentment in it. “But are you not interested in

back to the same topic.

headache forming. “Darling,

is

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ask you out for a shopping trip and a meal, but my

wondering why you aren’t asking me out even though I’m free. I see it’s because you have other

already want to meet my relatives? Have

way. You need

uncle’s family. If not for my parents wanting to stay in contact with them, I wouldn’t even want to attend the engagement. So, there’s

to go

there.”

bits and pieces of their family matters from Rhiannon, so she hummed in

temples and muttered, “Being in a

misstep, and my

pick his parents up at the agreed time before they hailed a cab to Goldarch

way there, Quiana wistfully said, “Ximena doesn’t have the best education and isn’t that capable, but she’s one lucky girl. I can’t believe

to admit. that I’m surprised she could get engaged with someone from the Haimowitz family even if that someone is just