FakeNovelArcus shrugged. "Don't worry. I'm just discussing the prospect of a partnership with Mr. Derek. All we want to do is make money, and we have no interest in anything else.
"Moreover, if Mr. Frankton wanted to act, he would already have. Why wait until now?" While Arcus already had a plan on what to do against warhawks like the geezer, he decided to be reasonable for the tbeing-it was never too late to move against him later.
And the geezer was a sly old fox who would never believe Arcus either. He pretended to buy it nheless, as the purpose was to distract.
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtNheless, as Arcus returned to the mansion, he quickly had his people look into the geezer and other people of interest in the Costner family.
In a day, a full stack of data was in front of him.
As it turned out, several elders of the Costner family carried considerable influence in the family-one of whom was Walt Costner, the geezer who showed up to warn Arcus. He was a strong martial artist and used to be the head of the family but overestimated his importance and made too many enemies.
The family ended up in shambles because of that, and Walt was forced to step down. Even so, he never deferred to Derek since he was younger and was constantly sabotaging Derek, even once planning to leave and establish his own family.
However, while that was not against the rules, it was a family doctrine to not put all their eggs in a single basket. While the Costner family retained overall control, they had other adopted members and vassals. In fact, certain small factions who were concerned about being bullied or lone martial artists would swear fealty to them, even marrying into the family.
As such, if one wanted to establish another branch of the family, the new family head must establish a similar foundation of outsiders beforehand. Not even the new family head would be allowed to violate that rule and must invest all their resources into helping those outsiders.
On top of that, leaving the main family also meant no chance of accessing the base of the family's power and wealth, so Walt quickly gave up on the idea.
Now, even as Arcus wondered what he should do to deal with that geezer, a BM Group member suddenly ran in his room and exclaimed, "We have a problem! Someone attacked one of our safehouses and wrote in blood that it was Derek Costner's doing!" Arcus frowned, as he already had a good read on Derek.
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏmEven if the kid wanted to attack them, he would not draw attention to himself, though he would not want to make enemies of Frank in the first place! The only explanation for this was that Walt was responsible and tried to pin the blon Derek. Hence, after the Costners went to war against Frank, Walt could just sit back and claim the spoils later.
"It's just a cheap shot." Arcus snorted. "We can retaliate-but make sure that we are only targeting Walt Costner's cronies!" "Alright!" Arcus' plan was simple.
His attacks would hint to Derek who really was would true cuesponsible and what the true culprit's purpose was.
Moreover, Arcus would not l embarrass Frank, while he would also get Walt to understand what he was dealing with. en.kikistories And just a day later, Walt arranged a meeting with Arcus.
Still, knowing it was an ambush, Arcus had his people lay in wait before going.
As both men took their seats, Walt asked coolly, "What is the meaning of this? Why did you attack my men?" Arcus spoke bluntly, because that was necessary with people like Walt. e on, Mr. Costner. Can't we skip the play-acting already? Any fool could tell that you're the on who attacked our safehouse and tried to frDerek for it. Sol'll be frank-we won't make enemies of the Costner family, but we're not about to let you off the hook either." en.kikistories "So you're saying you're going to stand in my family's path to glory?!" Arcus shrugged. "Mr. Frankton has already made it very clear that you should keep things strictly business. Everyone needs to eat, after af... but as the saying goes, the nail that sticks out gets hammered en.kikistories Walt was incensed. "Lugh Frankton is just lucky enough to gain the power of the spiritron vein! What is so impressive about that?! "Also, he should know never to mess with a lion in its den. If hees to Shanton again, he won't be leaving anytsoon! "As for you, I will have your head on a spike, to show Lugh that the Costners are not to be messed with!"
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