The atmosphere of the car became dead silent as Sean spoke his mind. There was only smoke and
silence filling up the closed space. After a while, Denise looked at Sean with a bitter smile. “Did Nigel
tell you all of that?” “Half from him, and half from my own doing,” Sean answered. Denise frowned and
did not understand. “You found out by yourself? You‘re from Merchant City and are not related to
anything here in Saigen City. Why do you want to investigate my family?”
Sean curled up his lips and took a huge puff of his cigarette. “Yes, neither my family nor my friends are
related to Saigen City. This is also my first time here, and your family has nothing to do with me either.
But...”
He looked to the side at Denise with his bright eyes. “Not long ago, I joined a gang in Merchant City.
Every brother in the gang treated me very nicely, and they were very willing to accept me as one of
them. However, there is a scar in their hearts that they can‘t heal.” Upon rolling down the window, the
breeze blew into the car and dispersed the smoke in the car. “More than three months ago, they lost
their leader, and his seat would always be empty every time a meeting came up. At every gathering,
they‘d also prepare another set of cutleries. This is an unspoken way for them to remember their
leader. It also pains me to see it, so I think I should do something for them.” Once he finished, he raised
his brow and looked at Denise. “Do you understand it now?” Denise kept quiet for the longest time.
Finally, she bit her lip. “The leader that you‘re talking about... Is it Luke?”
All this while, she had been kept in the dark. She did not know about Luke and had always thought her
brother was awakened from a vegetative state. Her par secret from her, too. It was until yesterday that
she realized Luke was another brother of hers. The brother that she was looking at was the other twin
brother.
That was why she would spend time getting to know Luke. However, the information she gathered was
the information that was available on the internet; a gang leader who dominated Sea City and Merchant
City. She thought these kinds of gang leaders were no different from the gangsters she often saw on
the street.
Now that she heard Sean talk and reminisce about Luke with respect and nostalgia, she realized she
was narrow–minded.
After a moment of silence, she spoke, “This Luke... What was he like?”
“He has a charming and unique personality.” Sean took the last puff and threw the cigarette butt out the
window. “Let‘s go.” Only then did Denise regain her senses. She smiled embarrassingly and started the
car engine. On the way to the mansion, she could not help but ask about Luke.
“After Luke passed away, did the gang elect a new leader?”
“No.” Sean squinted and looked ahead. “They‘re waiting for him to go back.”
To others, he was here in Saigen City to help Joshua and Luna to look after Riley to ease their burden,
but the truth was…
“Sean, we admire your bravery and courage, but you’re not qualified to be our boss.”
“What if I can get Luke’s information?” Sean asked.
“If you can find our boss, we’ll admit and let you be our second–in–charge. If the boss himself says that
he no longer wants to be our boss, then you’ll be our boss in the future.”
The words from the person in charge of the gang kept lingering in Sean’s mind after he departed from
Merchant City.
He closed his eyes silently. He knew that even though he shared the blood from the Lynch family, his
childhood and younger years had decided his path. He could never be a successful businessman that
everyone envied like Joshua or Jim.
However…
If he could achieve what Luke had achieved, that was another type of success, was it not?
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