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.

two swift punches that connected loudly with each of

collapsed to the floor as though they had been struck

“Huh?”

by

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

was standing there

that punk just

capable bodyguards; they could take on a group of

was strange that they were both laying unmoving on the floor

Let her go,” Dustin threaten

retorted angrily and waved his

men.

surrounded Dustin, but he merely scoffed and attacked

as fast as lightning, and his attacks were extremely fierce. Each of

waiting to be slaughtered, in the face of

heard, and in the short span of

the last bodyguard dropped to

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

with his own strength, just like

scene.

Chris‘ eyes were wide

it be? Is this really that piece of trash, Dustin Rhys?” a dumbfounded Lyra wondered

an indecipherable expression

but she never knew that Dustin was such a formidable

Or was it because I never cared enough

she wondered. 1

Edward started panicking at this

reckoning,” Dustin stated as he

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

being threatened.” Dustin’s expression turned cold and in a

knife.

with a forceful twist, the switchblade fell to the floor with a

before he let out a piercing shriek, similar to that of a pig

“Argh-”

slap to his face just as his

mouth.

as though he had just tasted

dead meat!” Edward somehow mustered