A week later.
Arthur was in the office of the company reviewing some documents before giving his signature.
These documents concerned a deal with another company for electronic chips and processors to be used in their latest smart phones and computers. After all, the company specialized in electronic chips, CPUs and GPUs all the together becoming one of the major companies in the technological innovations in the world.
And looking through the deal, Arthur highlighted some sections and clauses that needed further negotiations with the other party.
"It seems we will need to meet again and make further discussions for the price." Arthur muttered to himself in a deep tone as he looked at the purchase price with narrowing eyes.
Doing little calculation, he knew that the price for a single unit is slightly higher than the cost by 1 or 2 dollars which was very low considering a profit in the future. Even if buying a huge amount according to the market value and getting a discount for it, it wouldn’t be this low which would be a loss to Arthur.
This is just a rob in daylight.
"They think I don’t know how to do business, or that I’m an idiot who will put his signature easily without thinking." He sighed before closing the documents and putting them in the secret drawer that was hidden cleverly in the desk.
After that, he stretched his body a little before looking behind him at the sight of New York City through glass walls.
It was night already and the moon hung high in the sky casting its silver light on the earth, while the city was illuminated by the street lights, neon lights and advertising boards.
He looked up at the sky that was filled with lots of stars that looked like ornaments and decorations that made the sky even more beautiful than it was.
"It’s still beautiful as always." He muttered to himself as he always liked the sky and spent some time whenever he had a free time or was in a good mood to look up and watch the sky alone. It gave him a since of calmness and tranquility that he sought.
After observing the sky for some time, he decided to close his office and go back home.
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After getting out of the company’s doors, Arthur went to his car that was parked in the garage.
Today, he came alone using his own car as he sometimes liked to drive himself.
After getting inside, he turned the engine on and drove away toward his house, or better say, his mansion.
The nightlights gave a different view to New York making it vibrant and cool which was the perfect time for those who liked the night partying till dawn.
This was how everyone lived their lives, some worked on day and others worked on night, some slept during the day then woke up in the night to party and spread chaos.
And to Arthur, he liked the quite places, although he was one of the night lovers, he didn’t like noise and preferred to stay alone in the night watching the stars and the moon rather than listening to some noisy and energetic music that made him annoyed and irritated.
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While driving, Arthur noticed something that piqued his interest, a pretty girl surrounded by a group of burly guys that from their appearance looked like a gang or a group of troublemakers in his eyes.
But if you looked closely, the girl was really beautiful that it wasn’t strange that they surrounded her with those hungry gazes they held as if devouring her which made the girl shudder and tremble in her place.
They pushed her against the wall making her feel cornered before the guy in the middle grinned wickedly and seemed to say something that Arthur couldn’t hear as they were far from him.
And although it wasn’t his business, Arthur observed out of curiosity wanting to know what they would do.
’Would they try to take her to some shady place and try to force themselves on her which would be the obvious in such situation, or would they do something else like.....I don’t know, maybe threaten her with something to take her money? Kidnap her and demand huge amount of money in exchange for her release?’
Many different scenarios ran through Arrthur’s head until one of those burly guys, the one in the middle which could be translated to the leader, noticed him.
He had a tanned skin with muscles straining against his white tight T-shirt, he had a very short silver hair and a pair of blue eyes that looked sharp.
"Hey! What are you looking at, huh?" He scowled and looked quite angry to see someone watching with such a look that said "continue, I’m just watching."
"Do you think you are watching something funny?" He said as he approached Arthur’s car along with his companions who looked at him as if he was a cornered deer.
The street was empty with few people walking who didn’t give a shit about the situation and decided to ignore it fearing they might get involved.
But why did Arthur take such an obvious bad route?
Well, he just wanted to have a quite night drive before going back home, but didn’t expect to stumble into such situation.
Arthur tilted his head looking confused as if what the man had said was in another language he didn’t understand.
Meanwhile, the girl looked at him with her crimson red eyes filled with curiosity and intrigue as she didn’t expect such a variable would come out of the blue
But when his pink/purple eyes gazed at her, her breath hitched while her heart began beating like crazy for some reason.
’Those eyes...’ She muttered inwardly as she couldn’t look away while he gazed straight at her as if stripping her bare of everything.
’Such a strange eyes? Maybe a super rare color?’ Arthur thought.
"Are you blind?! I’m up here!" The burly guy looked irritated and indignant as he saw how Arthur looked at the girl behind him.
"Drag him out of his fancy car boys, let’s teach him that playing hero isn’t a good job these days." The guy said to his companions who did waste a single second before surrounding the car as one of them tried to open the door and pull Arthur out.
"I’m coming out myself, no need to touch my car with those hands of yours." Arthur said as he got out himself while rising his hands up before one of them pushed him toward their leader.
"You think this is a joke?"
"Well, yes?" Arthur replied normally like a human being.
"It seems this little one doesn’t understand the situation he is in. Come on boys, show him how we play!" The leader said with a crazy grin while his blue eyes gleamed dangerously.
This made his companions have sharp toothy grins as they looked at Arthur already considered his fate sealed.
But when one of them tried to grab him.
Arthur with a quick and efficient movement, caught his hand and flipped the guy over.
The guy felt the world turning upside down before feeling the cold ground kissing his skin while his hand was in Arthur’s holding gripping it tightly that you could hear bones being broken before letting go.
"Aggghhhh!!"
The man didn’t understand, no one understood what had happened as it came out of the blue in a way no one expected.
"Are you gonna stand here all day? Come on, I don’t have much time, must go back home already." Arthur said as he looked at his watch which infuriated the leader of the group.
"Get that fucker on the ground, now!" He barked before they lunged at him like hungry wolves.
But then, something strange happend.
Anybody who tried to attack found himself passed out by a single strike from Arthur.
He was efficient and deadly never wasting movements until all of them laid unconscious on the cold asphalt ground.
"Your turn." Arthur said in a deep calm voice that for some reason made the man angrier than afraid, just looking at his companions on the ground like that made him tremble with anger that consumed him.
"You are dead, mother*****er!"
Meanwhile, on the other hand.
The girl with long white hair and crimson eyes had a look that told that she knew what was going to happen next.
’Sigh, that idiot.’