An Understated Dominance (Dustin Rhys)

Chapter 17

“Then go to die!” Dustin stated expressionlessly, but his hard gaze was unnerving.

“Go to thell?” Edward burst out laughing.

Even the group of bodyguards standing behind him burst into laughter; all of them looked at Dustin as though he were an idiot.

“You little punk! Don’t you know who I am? You’ve got some nerve speaking to me that way,” Edward said cockily.

“I don’t know who you are, and I couldn’t care less. You have three seconds to let her go, or else,” Dustin stated plainly.

His words instantly caused a stir; even the people who were holding Dahlia were

shocked.

None of them expected that Dustin would say such a thing; he was remarkably brave compared to the silent Chris.

However, such bravery was useless.

“You really don’t know what’s good for you. You’re going to die!” Chris‘ face was full of resentment because Dustin’s show of bravado only made his cowardice even more

apparent.

Naturally, Chris was irritated and even filled with resentment when a good–for- nothing like Dustin was braver than he was.

“Are you fucking insane?” Edward looked Dustin up and down before continuing, “So you want to play hero, huh? Fine! I’ll see just what you’ve got!”

With that, he raised his hand and gave another signal.

Two burly bodyguards swiftly charged forward at the same time to tackle Dustin. Both of them were 6.3 feet tall, extremely muscular, and the size of a bear. They each had an imposing presence.

Dustin looked like a mere child in comparison, so everyone present assumed that this confrontation would be over without suspense.

They were wrong.

Dustin delivered two swift punches

that, the two huge men collapsed to the floor as though they had been struck by lightning

“Huh?”

shocked by what they had just

what had happened as, in the blink of an eye, both of the bodyguards were

was standing there

punk just

men who had just fallen were his most capable bodyguards; they could take on a

laying unmoving on the

your last chance. Let her go,” Dustin threaten

Get him!” Edward retorted angrily and waved his hand to signal

men.

him immediately surrounded Dustin, but he merely scoffed and attacked first, not wasting

as lightning, and his attacks were extremely

burly bodyguards were utterly defenseless, like sheep waiting to be slaughtered, in the face of Dustin, who was

could be heard, and in the short span of a few

bodyguard dropped to the floor

and were staring at Dustin with wide eyes as though he were an anomaly. None of them would’ve ever guessed that

effortlessly taken down so many men with his own strength, just like in

scene.

strong?” Chris‘ eyes were wide open in

trash, Dustin Rhys?” a dumbfounded Lyra wondered out loud,

how to fight?” Dahlia had an indecipherable expression on her face once she

years but she never knew

good at hiding it? Or

she wondered. 1

panicking at this

am your reckoning,” Dustin stated

and held it against Dahlia’s throat. “Come any closer, and I’ll slit her

cold and in a flash, he charged forward and grabbed hold of Edward’s hand that was

knife.

fell to the floor with a loud clattering

stunned for a moment before he let out a piercing shriek, similar

“Argh-”

to his face just as his

mouth.

as though he

meat! All of you are dead meat!” Edward somehow mustered up the courage