The Deadly Assassin Robin by Tristan Storm

Chapter 455 Defying the Untouchables

Robin's sudden move stunned everyone in the crowd.

"This guy's fearless! Doesn't he know who she is?"

"Luna's family is one of the top ten in Brookhaven, the Shaws Group.

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"The Shaws have been powerful in Brookhaven for years, with connections in the provincial government and even Brighton's elite."

"The Feron's risen fast recently, some say even overtaking the Shaws

"With a family background and foundation like that, it's not something just anyone can afford to mess with.

"Even though the Ferons and the Shaws both present themselves, as highbrow intellectuals on the surface.

"They put on the airs of intellectuals, but if you cross them, they'll crush you without mercy."

"Does this kid even understand what kind of trouble he's in? He's in way over his head."

A young woman in the crowd overheard and bristled. "He drugged her drink-of course, he deserved to get hit!

"If Luna's a professor, she should know better than to make a scene!"

An older man shook his head. "You're still young, miss. You don't see how the world works yet.

"Someone's title or status doesn't define their character.

"This is a material world. It's all about who has the power. For people who aren't powerful, there's no real justice.

Only those with power get to decide what's right or wrong."

The young woman held her ground. "I refuse to believe everything's about power. Isn't there any decency left in the world?"

few middle-aged men exchanged looks and shook

that lady over there? She's married to the deputy director of the

close friend. Think she

gray area in the provincial capital. From your perspective, they shouldn't mix with people like that." The young woman scoffed, "Even if the deputy's wife and Ms. Shaws are over the line, they'd never

finish, Luna snapped

turned to Scott. "Scott, this

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crowd gasped, covering her

supposed to be an intellectual-how could she say

Luna by the hair

me? Scott, kill him" Luna

with sharp, echoing slaps. The

Robin to

too stunned to

Jasmine backed away, terrified.

stood frozen, struggling to

background, he couldn't

moment to snap out of her shock. "Jasmine, call Mr.

hands with a napkin, looking utterly

her words.

sweat, a chill running down his

at the Wrights' celebration was still

have crushed Landers and the Hamiltons, to magically pull a two-billion-dollar investment from the Hamiltons to the Dunns account-that was the kind of man Robin was How had he dared to think the Ferons and the

It was simply impossible!

humiliated and broken, Desmond

go head-to-head with a figure like Robin.

and even the deputy director

afford to be on the