The Invincible Mercenary King (Haylan Jaber)

Chapter 3

“How dare you beat Sam?”

Sam’s wails drew the attention of all the hooligans, and they all turned to glower at Haylan.

Sam grabbed his broken wrist, his face contorting with pain, and yelled frantically, “Boys! Go on.. Chop him up!”

He was infuriated.

He had been a bully in this neighborhood for years, and no one had ever had the balls to hit him.

All he wanted at that moment was to kill Haylan.

Hearing his words, those hooligans shouted and threw themselves at Haylan.

“You’re dead!”

Haylan kicked Sam away, picked up the steel pipe on the ground, and dashed out.

He agilely moved among the hooligans and struck hard and fast.

Before long, bones were broken, and blood was drawn. All those hooligans were knocked off their feet and wailing on the ground.

Haylan ended where he had started without a scratch.

“W-What the hell?”

Looking at his men on the ground, Sam staggered to his feet, and his mouth hung open with shock.

Charlie and Felicia were astonished too.

So were the others gathering around the bungalow.

No one had expected the man coming out of nowhere to turn the tide so effortlessly.

“You’re their head, right?”

Haylan whipped his head around and examined Sam with penetrating eyes.

Sam looked aghast and intended to beat it.

“You can’t leave so soon.”

Haylan’s face sank. He took a stride forward and kicked Sam on the ground.

Sam was so scared but tried to look collected when he said, “I’m warning you. I work for Harper of the Quinern Group. You…”

Slap!

Haylan slapped him on the face and cut him short.

Sam asked

I’m going to hit you

of Sam’s head, his eyes grim, and banged it against the

in rivulets from Sam’s seven orifices and down his face. He lay on

hair of everyone at

Haylan did

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away and

lackeys picked him up and went out of sight

the steel pipe, Haylan turned to face Charlie and Felicia and said, “Dad,

and Felicia stared at Haylan and shook uncontrollably, with a look of disbelief marking their features.

since Haylan left, and he’d returned a completely different man. Charlie and Felicia could barely recognize their

I’m Haylan,” Haylan said.

“Haylan? My son…”

on Felicia like a

a while, then tears poured down her cheeks. She ran to him and threw her

“Mom.”

his mother, and his eyes

them with eyes swimming with

time, Haylan let go of his mother and said to Charlie in a choked

grey hair, Haylan felt so contrite.

than he’d imagined in the past eight years. He must

then gave Haylan a hard smack across the face. “You stupid boy, you might as well never

you know how worried your mom has been all these eight

didn’t get a single word from you. You didn’t even bother to make a call. Your

troublemaker, get down on your knees now!”

violently in

and sometimes thought he must have died. The bitter memories of living in fear and worry made Charlie

Dad.” Haylan sank to his knees.

beside himself with anger and raised his hand to

dare beat my son!”

hurried to them with red eyes and pushed Charlie away. Gathering Haylan in her arms,

scowled at Charlie.

and he dropped his hand

say to him, but when she opened her mouth, all she could get out was. “You’ve lost weight, son. It’s so good that

when she

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the past eight years must have been

Haylan. She tightened her arms around him and

down beside her and dabbed tears off

long while, something suddenly struck him, and he said in haste,

lives nearby

too late to

respond, a frigid