Chapter 317 - Joes Demise I (1/2)

Alec shrugged before dropping the profusely bleeding man on the floor. He would die out on his own due to blood loss.

The man should have already gone into shock, but since Alec used his serum on him, he wasn't able to do so.

Joe was all but trembling now, knowing deep down what was about to happen to him, even if he couldn't accept it.

He'd never accept it.

The sounds of Connor's gasping breaths as he slowly died out haunted the man.

The best he could hope for right now was for mercy at Travis' hands.

Yet, he could not see the young teen doing so for him. Not after he had so much as forced the teen into his servitude, along with the now deceased Bill and Connor.

No, he didn't think that the teen would have much of a forgiving bone in his body. Especially when it was Joe who had all but coerced them into it.

Travis would not have forgotten about that.

Joe's mind whirled.

But… if he was tortured at Travis' hands… which he was probably too faint-hearted to do on his own – there was a reason why the young master of the Ross Clan had employed them – he would possibly be able to escape later on.

As long as he didn't land in that monster's hands, anything was preferable.

”Please, young master Travis,” Joe started begging. ”Please forgive me. I won't ever do it again. It… it wasn't as if I wanted to do everything that I did to you.”

Alec's eyes glinted coolly as he took in Joe's words. The man was disgusting and willing to debase himself just for the little chance of absolution. However, his words had been designed and worded to inflict emotional harm on Travis.

Not only would it remind him of what had happened nightly, it would leave him incensed and at the mercy of his anger.

People who were angry made irrational decisions at times, and that was likely what Joe was aiming for.

He also – from the way he looked at Alec from time to time – didn't want to land in Alec's hands and suffer a long and torturous death like how Connor was right now. The man wasn't dead yet, but he would be soon.

Alec smiled his normal gentle smile, which only made Joe shudder as his incessant pleading grew louder, as if the increase in his volume would spur Travis on.

Indeed, Joe's words had successfully reminded Travis about what had happened to him on a daily basis, and the young master of the Ross Clan was angry and wrathful. He was, however, not as lost in his anger as the man wanted him to be.

The emotion in his eyes was so much deeper and that much more scorching than the look of resentment that he'd shot at Alec previously.

It made a shiver go down Alec's spine, and he didn't fight the curl of his lips that was more than what one would expect from a 'gentle' individual like Alec.

Alec was all for retribution.

It felt like he was a part of the sudden bloom in character from Travis, something that felt strangely humbling.

If there was ever a doubt that a single action of his could cause an entire landslide to happen, it was at this moment that Alec reaffirmed it.

Travis sneered.

Joe and his associates were the typical bullies who bullied the weak but feared the strong. It meant that he was a snivelling coward that catered to the strong.

…More than that, it disgusted Travis when he thought about how he'd behaved even remotely similarly to them before.

It had been a harsh wakeup call for the young master of the Ross Clan, and not one that he would be making again any time soon.

He was angry. He was so angry that he laughed, the disbelief in his mind had no other way to come out.

The spineless, utterly disgusting man had actually managed to bring tears to his eyes – as if he had any right after causing Travis pain. As if his 'regret' now could ever absolve him of the guilt that stained him black.

He laughed from anger, and he laughed from sadness.