An Understated Dominance by Marina Vittori

Chapter 223

At the Laney villa. Phineas paced back and forth in the living room, looking extremely anxious. It was the break of dawn, but he hadn’t slept a wink since he lost contact with Matt, who left at midnight. It was as if Matt had

vanished into thin air.

Phineas sent a group of bodyguards to search, but there was still no news of Matt, which told him that something was wrong.

Suddenly, someone’s car beeped at his door. He glanced outside and saw a black SUV parked outside.

The car door opened, and a figure wrapped in a burlap sack was dumped out as the car drove away.

“Huh?” Confused, Phineas nodded to the bodyguards at the entrance, who quickly opened the sack to reveal a

naked man with a swollen nose and bruised body.

“Dad …The young man opened his eyes dazedly and cried out hoarsely.

“Matt?” Phineas was flabbergasted. “W–what happened to you?”

“It was Dustin Rhys H–he

Matt burst into tears. No one knew what he’d been through last night. There had been many times when Matt wanted to kill himself but couldn’t bring himself to do it. He had no idea how he pulled himself through the agonizing pain.

“Don’t cry. Tell me what happened. I’ll take care of it!” Phineas quickly told his men to bring Matt inside.

Because of the adrenaline shots he received. Matt was still conscious despite his injuries. So, under his

to finish, withholding some details.

he told Phineas everything

far!” Phineas slapped the table furiously. A shiver went down

to tear him to pieces, no matter the cost!”

protected by the Harmon family and the Brooks family. It’ll be hard to

him.” Phineas considered.

to pretend like nothing happened?” Malt scowled, his eyes bloodshot. “I

no matter what!”

As long as he was willing to pay a hefty sum to hire a killer, getting rid of Dustin should be

the door, and three men strolled into the house. One of them wore a dated suit while carrying a cane with a dragon head attached to it. He was followed by

are you?” Phineas was

pointed at Hunter. “That’s the guy who

clearly recall the

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you’re Dustin Rhys‘ men. Are you here to apologize?”

it doesn’t matter if you grovel. There’s no way I’ll forgive that punk!” Phineas‘ expression was murderous. What happened last night would be his nightmare for the rest of his life, so he

man in the suit smiled faintly.

just the three

engulfed the villa. Phineas had been

You’ve fallen into my trap! I’ll make sure none of you

alive today.”

“How dare you!”

man flung out his arm at

on my tur!! You’re dead meat!” Phineas was outraged. Just

men to attack, a gold badge landed near his feet

it up and froze in terror at the sight of the majestic five–clawed golden dragon emblem on the front of the badge. On the back of the badge, “Rhys” was engraved in

power. Many people shared

incurred fear from countless others, and