Since Zorn was Birthright rank, Gene naturally had to be careful and gather enough men to deal with him.

In short, Frank had run straight into a metaphorical wall.

He had come to Drenam Limited too early, before Gene could deal with Zorn, which was why Zorn had misunderstood and thought that Frank came to pull a scam. "That's Gene Pearce," he said, pointing at the frail man who needed help walking.

"That's him? He looks... sickly," Helen murmured, though anyone could see that Gene was in bad shape.

"Yeah. Some people close to him poisoned him with a bug. I cured him yesterday, so he agreed to transfer those land deeds to me."

Helen was surprised. "Are you saying that Gene has broken his promise?"

"No, he didn't—we came too early, before he could sort out his personal issues," Frank replied, watching as over a dozen men entered Drenam Limited with Gene.

"This might get dangerous," he murmured with a frown, as none of the men Gene brought were Ascendant rank.

"What?" Helen asked, puzzled.

in thought for a moment before turning to Helen. "Drive back to Lanecorp right now. Gene is going to attack Zorn,

about you?"

scratch me." Frank smiled. "Did you bring the

a document folder from the

and got

even as he urged

go back

.n

word. I'll be back

I'm done here."

I'll wait. Be safe, okay?"

"Yeah."

did not need words as they could both see

as Helen's car disappeared from view before

Zorn was

also practiced the

rare

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