Chapter 27

Wilbur observed lan carefully. He seemed to recall hearing his last name being mentioned by Lightning Hank earlier.

“Can we talk inside?” lan said politely.

Wilbur smiled and then turned to look behind him. Faye had sat up with the blanket on her legs.

He bowed slightly. “Come in.”

lan made his way to the living room slowly, sitting down on a corner of the couch. Wilbur sat down next to Faye and lit a cigarette. “How may I help you?”

lan looked at Wilbur and said, “Lightning Hank’s dead.”

“Oh well. He deserved it,” Wilbur said calmly.

lan frowned. “The Owens clan started out as a small escort business before switching to corporate when the new Dasha was formed. Nevertheless, we’ve always been good fighters in the past centuries.”

“What does that have to do with me?” Wilbur asked calmly.

respond to Wilbur’s question but said, “Clans like ours place value on keeping our true strength hidden to the outside world, and we’ve built up enough of a name for ourselves

referring to Lightning Hank,”

Hank was my father’s pupil. He has done a lot for the Owens, and I have to speak up for him to some extent if something happened to him. I wouldn’t be

clan like the Owens nurtured someone of Lightning Hank’s character. It truly is a

to, but what we do know is that he’s part of the Owens clan. Now that he’s dead, someone has to

great if a b*stard like Lightning Hank came out of there,” Wilbur said

“Anyone who dares

replied, “Is that so? Aren’t you afraid that I

first?”

“I’m just a member of the Owens clan, someone unimportant. If you killed me, the clan would just pick another

of you,” Wilbur said.

in three days. The

see what all those clans are all about, anyways,” Wilbur responded coldly.

conversation. He turned around and walked out of the house.

“The clan seems

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They wouldn’t dare mess with me if they knew who I

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