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?"

exchanged looks and

lady over there? She's married to the deputy

friend. Think she should be saying

a look at the guy they call Marco. He is the big boss of the 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.

could finish, Luna snapped furiously,

to Scott. "Scott, this insolent

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the boys can have your way with her. Let's see how pure she acts

crowd gasped, covering her

to be an intellectual-how

smirked, grabbing Luna by the hair and

dare hit me? Scott, kill him" Luna shrieked in

Smack! Smack! His hand met her face with sharp, echoing slaps.

Robin to act so

silent, too stunned to

Jasmine backed away, terrified.

stood frozen, struggling to process what was

he couldn't believe Robin

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

Robin wiping his hands

her words.

out in a cold sweat,

Wrights' celebration was still burned

as a guest by Brookhaven's richest family, to 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

It was simply impossible!

Luna humiliated and broken, Desmond finally

or go head-to-head with a figure like

the deputy director of the

on the wrong