Lord Came Back From The Battlefield

“Fletcher, Sharon, you should take it!”

“Thank you. We appreciate it, but we don’t need the money. Please take it back.” Sharon continued. For her current situation, the money was undoubtedly a huge temptation-several hundred thousand would be enough to cover their family’s expenses for two years. However, after struggling with herself for a moment, she resisted the temptation.Text property © Nôvel(D)ra/ma.Org.

Billy’s eyes flashed with approval when he heard Fletcher and his wife’s words. The neighbors saw that Fletcher and his wife didn’t want to take the money and didn’t insist any further before saying their goodbyes and leaving.

Fifteen minutes later, the family went back inside their house again.

“Billy, did you do this?” Felicia asked him as soon as they entered the house, “Do you know any influential people?”

“No, the friend I know is just an ordinary clerk in the real estate department.”

“Do you think I was born yesterday? Can an ordinary clerk make a big developer compromise like this?” Felicia pouted her lips in disbelief.

“Well then I don’t know either. I just asked my friend to mention it to them so that they wouldn’t make things worse.” Billy added after pausing for a moment, “It’s possible that the developer had some conscience left.”

“When have you ever seen a developer with such good conscience? Not only did they make up for our losses but also gave us an extra twenty thousand?” Felicia still didn’t believe what Billy said.

Her parents looked at Billy with equally skeptical eyes.

“Um… I’m not sure.” Billy shrugged his shoulders. “Forget about it, don’t worry about the reason. It’s a good result, isn’t it?”

“But…” Felicia started to speak again.

Bang!

Just then, there was a knock at the door.

“Is it you? What do you want now?” Felicia opened the door and saw the bald man from yesterday. Her expression immediately tensed up.

“Miss Knight, please don’t get me wrong. I came here to apologize.” The bald man led two followers into the house.

He instinctively glanced at Billy and Casey and a strong fear flashed in her eyes deep down inside. Then he knelt down towards Fletcher’s family and began, “I’m sorry for what happened yesterday. Please forgive me…”

“You can stand up and talk!, Harleen took a deep breath before continuing, “Tell me, who went to see your boss? Why did your attitude change so much?”

“No one went to see our boss.” The bald man added after getting up from the ground, “Our boss went to town last night for a special meeting on demolition. At that meeting, relevant leaders emphasized strict investigation of compensation for demolition issues. Our boss was worried that homeowners would cause trouble so he made this decision.”

“Why are all our neighbors thanking us then?” Harleen continued asking.

“There’s an office worker in that department, and he says he knows your family.” The bald man paused briefly and continued, “He gave our boss a heads up and suggested we give some compensation to the homeowners to avoid any trouble.”

After speaking, he took a bag from one of his followers.

“Inside this bag is 200, 000 in compensation for you. If you want to sell your house, we’ll buy it at market value.”

“If you don’t want to sell, you can stay here for now. When the demolition officially starts, I’ll find you a temporary place to live until your new house is built.”

“Is this really happening?” Felicia asked.

“It’s only fair, Miss Knight, if there’s nothing else I can do for you today then I’ll take my leave.” The bald man put down the bag and quickly left through the door. He didn’t want to stay another minute longer than necessary in case he said something wrong. Once outside, he felt like his back was drenched in cold sweat.

“They gave everyone $200k?” Sharon opened up the bag after the bald man left and looked at it with joy on her face. She regretted refusing her neighbors’ money earlier but now she felt much better seeing that they had received their own compensation too. At the same time, she looked at Billy with a suspicious look. Although she couldn’t be sure if it was Billy who made this happen or not, but Billy did put forth effort into making things right. And most importantly, this incident not only made her proud in front of her neighbors, but also unexpectedly brought her two hundred thousand.

“Casey, did you go see Egbert last night?” Harleen asked Casey after thinking for a moment.

“Huh?” Casey was slightly stunned and shook his head vigorously. “No! He’s a big boss who dabbles in both black and white. How could I dare to go see him?”

“You two never tell the truth!” Harleen glanced at Billy and spoke up.

“Daddy, Tasha wants to be lifted up high. Daddy help Tasha lift up high.” Tasha said while leaning on Billy’s chest.

“Okay!” Billy started throwing Tasha into the air.

On the west side of the city, Osmond Watkins sat in the living room with a cigar in his hand and a gloomy expression on his face. Ever since Albion’s incident happened, he had been feeling down. What bothered him even more was that he had mobilized all the resources of his family to investigate the incident from five years ago, hoping to find any remaining members of the Miles family, but so far, there was not a single lead. Furthermore, the person who had driven his son to his death that night at Crown Hotel had vanished without a trace, as if they had evaporated from the face of the Earth. He didn’t even know who to seek revenge against.

Before long, footsteps echoed at the door. Soon after, Brian Watkins walked briskly inside, carrying a thin, blood-soaked man in his arms. Blood continued to trickle from the man’s mouth.

“Osmond, we have a lead!” Brian dropped the thin man to the ground and looked at his elder brother as he spoke.

“Speak!” Osmond’s eyes lit up.

“A few days ago, this guy drank too much at the table and accidentally revealed an important piece of information.” Brian pointed to the skinny man and continued, “Five years ago, he saw Fletcher’s eldest daughter save someone with his own eyes. It is very likely that it was one of the remaining members of the Miles family!”

“Hmm?” Osmond narrowed his eyes and looked at the man before asking, “Are you sure it was Fletcher’s eldest daughter?”

“Yes… yes…” The skinny man said with difficulty. “She… she is Ozin’s number one beauty. I… I can recognize her at first sight…”

“Where did you see her saving someone?”

“Just… just on the street next to the Miles family’s mansion back then…” The man kept spitting out blood from his mouth. “I… I saw her helping a bloody man into a taxi…”