Winner Takes All

On the mountain road.

The light was dim.

Making all the shadows appear long.

An old black Nissan car was parked in the middle of the mountain road, with dim halogen lights.

Jack got his chilly gaze fixed on the person in the car.

Click!

The Nissan door opened, and the man walked down slowly to the Rolls-Royce.

"Young master..."

Mr. Ward looked cold and asked for Jack's opinion.

Before he finished his sentence.

Jack said, "Wind down the window."

After the window got wound down, a hoarse and old voice was heard.

"I'm here to explain to you."

Staring at the person outside the window, Jack looked firm then twitched his mouth and sneered, "Do you want to apologize insincerely again like in LJ Hospital?"

The person standing outside the car was the mysterious person!

"LJ Hospital?"

Mr. Ward was horrified, his eyes full of terror.

The mysterious man had been to LJ Hospital before?

"Come down, I'll explain to you." The mysterious man sounded rough and croaky, but with strong determination.

Mr. Ward looked serious and was about to refute.

The mysterious man seemed to have expected Mr. Ward's reaction; he said coldly, "I'm not going to harm him, if I have the intention, two of you are not my opponents. There's no way you can run to on this mountain road."

The cold words revealed an extremely strong self-confidence.

However, for Jack who had experienced such horror from this mysterious man before, softened his expression at the exact moment.

"Mr. Ward, let me down. I want to see what else can he explain."

With the help of Mr. Ward and the mysterious man, Jack got out from the car.

The mysterious man pushed Jack into the darkness beside him.

Mr. Ward stopped in front of the car, he was worried about Jack and he wanted to chase after him.

But he stopped abruptly after two steps.

He...had also seen the mysterious man's trick before.

Like what the mysterious man said, if he really wanted to do something, Jack and him together would not be his opponents. They would be at absolute lose.

The mysterious man would not do anything to undermine Jack yet.

Mr. Ward raised his head, looking at Jack and the mysterious man drifting away.

Under the dim light, their shadows seemed longer and longer.

Mr. Ward frowned slightly, with his sight fixed on the mysterious person.

He sensed familiarity deep down his heart.

Mr. Ward could also see that the mysterious person had been disguised all over his body.

So, this sense of familiarity was also vague.

The night wind was breezy.

It was cold and autumnal.

Jack was sitting in a wheelchair and did not ask the mysterious man where they were heading to.

As the two moved forward, they maintained silent in a strange way.

Finally,

When the wheelchair reached a street lamp, the mysterious man stopped at last.

He moved beside Jack and sat on the floor. He took out two cigarettes, passed one to Jack and slowly lit another one by himself.

Jack smoked quietly after he lit his cigarette.

In fact, he rarely smoked anymore as Amber did not like the smell of cigarette, and also he did not want to affect the health of Amber and his child. Smoke curled up.

The figures of Jack and the mysterious man became shorter. As the smoke rose, they were as quiet as the lambs.

Finally, a cigarette burned out.

The mysterious man said, "About Yael and your wife, I did play a part, and I'd like to apologize to you."

Indeed!

A fake apology!

A disdainful smile was drawn at the corner of Jack's mouth; he flicked the cigarette butt away and remained silent.

"But please believe me, I am really not apologising hypocritically as you thought."

The mysterious man shrugged, his old and hoarse voice made every word of him seemed to be said out hard, "The reason why I apologize is because I was not there at the time and failed to protect them."

"Protect?"

Jack's smile disappeared, with a deep gaze, he looked at the mysterious man suspiciously, "You mean, you have always been near us and protecting us secretly?"

"Yes!"

The mysterious man nodded, "If not you think on the way to North, I could really foresee anything and appeared around you when you were in danger?"

Jack was stunned.

In a daze, he recalled about what happened when they were heading to the North.

Brent, Mr. Ward and he were being chased by two helicopters and there was no way out, pushing them to a desperate situation.

And that was the truth,

If it were not for the mysterious person who suddenly appeared at that time, the three of them would have been dead at the North.

To be honest, Jack had never forgotten about the incident.

It was also because of this, Jack's impression towards the mysterious man had changed and became confusing.

He was bemused and could not come to a conclusion about the mysterious person, was he a good man or a bad man? He was stuck in the blind alley of doubts. And now, the mysterious man has always been protecting them secretly?

The surroundings are still and silent.

While looking at the mysterious man's gaze, Jack's brows furrowed.

Everything about the mysterious man appeared on his mind again.

However, it was still as complicated as before.

The cooling night breeze.

Gently blowing Jack's hair and clothes.

The mysterious man did not seem to be in a hurry. Seeing that Jack had never reacted, he turned his head and lit a cigarette on his own and started smoking.

"Wait!"

Jack suddenly appeared very serious, his brows stretched out, and his eyes staring at the mysterious man, "You're lying!"

"What lie?" the mysterious man dangled his cigarette and looked back at Jack.

"If you have been protecting us, it would be me who got hurt in this incident, not my wife and Yael!"Content © NôvelDrama.Org.

Jack's eyes were burning, and he caught a key point in his chaotic thought.

It was this key point that made him think the mysterious man was lying.

And the fundamental cause was that he hurt Chattis in the capital city, which led the Twelve Golden Guard kidnapping on the mountain road.

Brent and the Twelve Golden Guard were seriously injured and admitted to ICU from the fight.

If the mysterious man had been protecting them in secret, he should have appeared that time.

The final straw was cut off by him; there would not be incidents like Amber being kidnapped and Yael losing his life anymore.

Even if Jack had to react at the last minute, it should be him who went over, not Yael.

But

The mysterious man sneered and his words were cold,

"How can you be so stupid?"

Jack was shocked.

"I have been protecting you in secret. Do you have any idea about who do I want to prevent you from?"

Boom!

In just one sentence, Jack finally realized in an instant.

He was not dumb; he could get what the mysterious man meant by that.

What the mysterious man meant was that there were other people who were coveting him in the dark, and the mysterious man had been guarding against those people!

"How can you forget about the incident at the North so quickly?" the mysterious man asked.

Jack's pupils tightened, "Who are those people?"☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐