As the elevator reached its destination and jingled, Peter clenched his knuckles as he growled viciously under his breath, "At the very least, I will die a man, and not a dog."
Frank did a double take even as he stared at the man.
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Soon, Peter and Frank were striding down a hallway.
When they opened the huge doors of Kit's office, they found over twenty burly bodyguards standing on either side of the desk in the middle of the office, as if they had been waiting.
Behind the desk sat a man who resembled Larry Jameson but was clearly a few years younger.
"Hehehe…" He chuckled with a pipe between his lips, watching Peter and Frank coolly. "Welcome, head of Lanecorp's health and security department, was it? I heard you were coming to see me?"
"You're Kit Jameson?" Frank remained undaunted despite the towering, menacing security guards around them, even slowly walking up to Kit's desk.
"Indeed, I am." Kit nodded.
"I've come to tell you two things."
"Really? Do tell," Kit replied, lowering his pipe and appearing to be listening attentively.
"Firstly, I've come to thank you."
"Thank me? For what?" Kit was actually puzzled.
"Heh…"
Frank glanced nonchalantly behind to look at Peter, who was panting from the tension in the room, before turning back to look Kit in the eye and chuckling. "For giving that land lot to Peter, which then fell into my hands. It's really valuable now, so I have you to thank for that."
All at once, the security guards around him were bellowing.
"Don't waste your breath with him, Mr. Jameson! He obviously came to mess around!"
"I'll take him down right now, sir! Let's cut off his arms and talk later!"
Nonetheless, Kit stood, clasping his hands behind his back, restraining himself as he growled, "I've looked into you, Frank Lawrence. You suddenly showed up in Riverton and married Helen Lane, and you were chased out when her family hit it rich. Somehow, you ended up hooking up with Vicky Turnbull—so you're nothing but a manwhore?!"
With that, Kit started to bellow every word. "Who has your back now?! The Turnbulls?! Are the Turnbulls expanding into Zamri now?!"
Frank was taken aback by Kit's outburst, surprised that Kit would do a background check on him.
Fortunately, however, Kit never found out who he really was, instead presuming that he was Vicky's sugar baby.
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