The Promise of Happiness novel Atalie and Samuel

Chapter 473

Chapter 473 A Hundred Bottles of Wine To Empty

The man’s inflection had the warmth of jade, yet it had the coolness of the thawing snow in spring.

 

Natalie’s taut heartstrings were given a reprieve. She glared at the man who had shielded her behind him, bewildered.

If not for his timely appearance, her right eye would have probably been laid to waste there and then.

When one of Gerik’s subordinates went down with a broken wrist, the fearfulness of the other was apparent when he regarded Bastien.

“What are you standing there for! Get him!” Gerik yelled. “Pull a knife on them and show them what’s what!”

The subordinate spat and brought out a switchblade which he unsheathed before he charged in Bastien’s direction.

“Die!”

With a kick, the blade was sent scuttling across the floor by Bastien’s deft foot before it even got anywhere close.

Though disarmed, the man sprawled on the floor remained obviously undeterred. He reached across for that switchblade in anticipation of using it against Bastien and Natalie afterward but Bastien was quicker and beat him to the punch.

and then stabbed it cleanly into the back of that

blinding spurt

swift and decisive,

sufficient to send Gerik staggering back

big misunderstanding. We don’t have to get violent.

“Okay.” Bastien nodded.

in the belief that his counterpart had agreed to a truce and would not be pushing things

was, until

third stricken upon the couch, Joseph asked, “What shall we do with

a hundred bottles of

to lug in a hundred bottles of expensive wine which they laid neatly

“T-This is?”

Here are a hundred bottles of wine. Finish them all without leaving a single bottle unemptied and without spilling a single drop, and you’ll be free to walk away.” There was not a single billow between his brows when he spoke. “My men will supervise this personally, and you shall be penalized, another bottle for every drop

Gerik’s eyeballs almost popped.

is already no joke, never mind a hundred bottles of

not show some mercy and let me off?” Gerik’s legs went limp beneath

whatsoever in

on

“Will do, Mr. Nine.”

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