Chapter 142: Attacked
Micheal stood inside the waiting room as he was told, a man in a black suit came out from a smaller room in the waiting room
“You don't have an appointment with Mr Duke Martin-
The man engaged his gun and pointed it towards Micheal
“Who are you?”He asked, Micheal chuckled at the way they operated. He stood up and walked up close to the man, covering the mouth of the gun with his palm.
“Tell Duke Lucas's twin brother is here to see him,” He told him.
The man, upon hearing Lucas's name, quickly made a call to the mansion. After a few minutes, Micheal was led out of the room from a smaller door, then went through yet another gate before seeing the mansion.
“Evil dirty men” He muttered as they led him to Duke Martin's study.
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Grace took a deep breath, she paced up and down in her room, she was worried, very worried
“A bullet in my arm, mmm, not so bad, I can do it” " she told herself, shut her eyes tight and slumped on the bed; Lucas entered and stared at her.
“You know we must not listen to my Uncle's friend; we can do things our way”, Lucas uttered.
“No, he has a point, if they find out I did not die they might come after you, or find me and make that I die-
“It's okay you won't get injured-
She sat up immediately and stared at him
“I don't trust bulletproofs; they are as useless as every other thing that aids protection”, Grace snapped.
“Well, I'm sure Gabriel will make sure he doesn't get a fake one”, Lucas assured her.
“Hmm, whatever, if Jason releases a bullet, I will never forgive him”, Grace told him.
“You do know that they might be using his criminal records to threaten him” Lucas uttered.
“Mm, like you did, right?”She snapped and slumped back on the bed; Lucas lay next to her and held her tightly.
“Don't worry, I will make sure to give them a warning for coming up with such a thing”, He assured her.
Suddenly, Lucas's phone rang, and it was Kelsey; he answered and put the call on loudspeaker.
“You need to get here with Grace; you won't believe who just stepped into my office requesting to see you” " she uttered and ended the call.
Grace and Lucss dressed up and hurried downstairs. Lucas stopped briefly and whispered something to Sarah, winked at her and left with Grace.
They arrived at the city chamber and hurried to Kelsey's office; Grace entered first and saw a man in a suit sitting there, ignoring him; she sat down as Lucas entered. He chuckled and sat on Kelsey's desk.
“Duke?”He stared at him.
Grace raised her head in shock and stared at him; Duke smiled, took Grace’s hand and gave her a slight kiss on her hand.
“You must be the famous mistress that has landed the almighty Lucas on the edge of a cliff” " he uttered. Grace smiled, irritated by the way he talked as though he had nasal issues.
“That should be me.”She smiled and gently took her hand; Duke turned to Lucas.
“You know why I didn't allow you to come to Ashley Cole's funeral, right?”He asked and Lucas nodded.
“Well, either way, I think Charleston is a snitch in all of this, I heard you finally ended Montero's reign”, Duke added.
“That's old gist”, Lucas uttered with pride; Duke suddenly laughed terribly and shook hands with Lucas.
“I'm here because a certain twin brother of yours had the guts to come to my mansion, I allowed him to brief me on the things that were going on, you should let them have the family estate-
“Yes, Duke, I already did. I am only concerned about my firm”, Lucas told him, and he smiled.
“Well your brother is a very smart person, he knows about our uh-, other uh-, company-
“He does?”Lucas asked, a little surprised.
“Yes, well, I would have killed him, but you know me, I like to win my opponent in court before finally killing them”, Duke stated, and Grace smiled.
“He wanted to threaten me and I pretended to accept his deal, but Lucas our pledge remains our pledge, we don't snitch or turn our back on others, but Charleston-, he uh-, he's bent on going against everything we stand for ever since his little issue with your sister” Duke uttered, Grace was amused at how he knew everything that was going on.
“So we work together and show Charleston why he shouldn't snitch on the four clubs”, He told Lucas.
“And I hope you know that the four clubs owe you, Lucas, we do”, He added.
Grace and Lucas felt so relieved after they met with Duke, Lucss couldn't wait to get his company back and hire back his men. He currently had only Carl and Rodrigo and he needed more men. Grace, on the other hand, was happy that Duke was on their side, but she still wanted to know what these four clubs were about and what they did in their company.
They were both still lost in their thought when Lucas stepped on the brakes with force, they almost hit a car.
“What's going on Lucas?”Grace asked.
“I think there's an accident in front-
“Uhh the traffic is much we need to go home, what about the plan we had, it's night already, and I don't even have the fucking bulletproof-
“No don't worry about that, they won't hurt you while am here”
Lucas told her, but he was wrong; as Grace turned to adjust herself, someone passed swiftly, putting their hand through the window and removing it quickly.
“Who the fuck-
“Lucas-
Grace sat uneasily, Lucas stared at her and looked at her stomach
“Fuck!”
A knife lay there in Grace's stomach causing her to bleed profusely.
At that same time, Micheal stepped out of the Rosé's with General John; they were chuckling and talking when a car stopped, and someone shot both Micheal and General John.