Chapter 14: First confrontation
Rex slowly turned to look at his brother, like something just struck him.
"Brother, how d—did you know Jeslyn Lee?"
Maverick glared at him, and Rex immediately shut his mouth. He pulled out his phone to make the call that would destroy lawyer Smith’s life while his heart swelled with ecstasy to fish out more gossip from his brother.
The lawyer fell on his knees and begged. "Master Maverick, please, I beg you, forgive me! I’m sorry, I promise to bring her out... I promise!" He begged fervently, but Maverick had long since stopped paying him any mind and was now chatting with someone on his phone.
Lawyer Smith knew that asking for forgiveness from this devil in front of him was no use. He had never heard where Maverick forgave anyone before but only wanted to try his luck.
He turned to the smiling angel who was about to make the call that would ruin him and begged. "Young master Rex, please save me."
"Hehehe... you have handled some minor cases for my brother, and you were privileged enough to know a few things he’s capable of, yet you took him for granted because of greed. Handing you to the cops is because of his benevolence, so you should thank him. Hehehe...hello."
Lawyer Smith felt his knees had lost strength and slowly fell back on his buttocks, looking dazed.
What did he just say? Benevolence? His criminal case is numerous, and he knows that the only outcome for him is a life imprisonment sentence.
However, what these two brothers didn’t know, or they do know but chose to ignore, was that he had sent a whole lot of bad guys, including good guys, to prison, so what would become of him if he met them in jail? And Rex is telling him to be thankful? Isn’t dying once better than getting tortured daily in prison?
Of course, Maverick knew that, and that was the exact reason he decided to send Smith to prison. One reason was for him to experience how life in prison was for making Jeslyn, his wife... and the second reason was to punish him for disobeying him and putting others before himself.