Chapter 6 - The Manager’s Fate

'So youthful, affluent, attractive, and robust… Isn't he superior to this aged fool who could have me as a father?'

'Should I make a move with him or what?'

Although Ethan was still dressed inconspicuously and aside from his attractive appearance, nobody would give him a second stare, the gaze that Tara was giving him had completely transformed right now.

It was filled with fondness and infatuation.

You'd think she hadn't seen an attractive man before in her life, given the deep emotion in her eyes, staring at Ethan.

And the complete opposite of this gaze was the one she was giving her sugar daddy.

It was filled to the brim with aversion.

'Why don't I just make a move with him instead of continuing to stay with this aged man whom I couldn't freely show to people?'

As soon as Tara thought this, excitement flashed in her eyes, and she couldn't wait anymore to rush at Ethan and profess her undying love to him, but she held herself for the time being.

Knowing nothing, after gazing blankly at the pot-bellied manager for a moment longer, Williams became furious.

'You still want to play hard, right?'

With this thought, Ethan glanced at the middle-aged man who had now taken a subordinate position beside him.

"Weren't you here to beat the person who changed the ring up half to death?"

"I…" the middle-aged man became nervous, thinking that Ethan was asking a sarcastic question, but before he could find an excuse, Ethan continued.

"I want him to be beaten till he confesses all his sin."

"Huh?"

Everybody was shocked, but they all soon understood what was going on, causing them to gaze pitifully at the manager.

As for the pot-bellied manager, he became petrified half to death when he heard Ethan's directive and saw the excited look that immediately appeared in the gangsters' eyes.

"You… you… what do you think you are doing? Are you going to start misusing power now that you've bought the company?"

Ethan smiled at this question. "Didn't you misuse your own power when I was still under you?"

The middle-aged man could no longer retort, and he immediately broke down just when the gangsters who had been given a go-ahead were about to reach him.

Without knowing, he fell to his knees in fear, making his pot belly look as though it would burst like a balloon filled with water that was suddenly poked in the middle.

"Please forgive me! Please don't make them beat me up. I… I promised that this was the first time I'd done something like this in my life, I…"

Without even asking him, the pot-belly manager began to confess all his sins, making everybody there gasp.

Before long, the gazes directed at him by everybody, especially those who had accepted his accusation of Ethan, became filled with deep anger.

As it was, the middle-aged man had also ordered a ring before the parcel came to be delivered to a customer, and since it was a delivery worth a fortune, it had to go through the manager first before it was sent to the person receiving it.

The manager, thinking that nobody would notice since the fake ring was like a carbon copy of the original, which he had wanted to give his side chick decided to swap it.

He had first thought about denying knowing anything about the swap when the owner complained about receiving something different from her delivery, but he had however become restless after receiving different threats, causing him to decide to push it on Ethan whom he already had a fallout with.

Even before the pot-belly manager finished his confession, he was already sobbing heavily, regretting all his actions.

Nobody knew what to do for a moment after hearing his story.

Even the gangsters who had already stopped in their tracks forgot to move.

After a moment, Ethan released a sigh and spoke coldly. "We both know that this wasn't the first time you've done this and gone scot-free."

With Ethan saying this, the staff there began to recall all the times when customers would call or come, screaming about receiving different deliveries from what they were expecting.

They began to nod their heads to Ethan's words while Ethan merely shut his eyes for a moment.

His first thought was to have the manager arrested, but then he recalled how he had been beaten to the extent that he'd have turned crippled the previous night due to this man's directive.

Although completely, Ethan didn't hate the man due to this, as it was because of him that he knew about the person who claimed to love him cheating on him, Ethan still hated him badly.

Added to this, he imagined what would have happened to him if not for the system that had suddenly done its magic.

Thinking about these two, deep ferocity flashed in Ethan's eyes. "What are you guys still waiting for? Beat him up already," he said coldly, making everybody's heart go cold from fear.

'Is this still the gentle Ethan who always accepts everything thrown at him?'

His former colleagues thought in fear and everybody who had spoken bad about him to his fate, also accusing him of the theft he hadn't committed became filled to the brim with fear and they began to shiver hysterically, ready to break down, thinking that Ethan was going to turn to them now.

However, luckily for them, Ethan just turned around and walked out as soon as the beating of the pot-bellied manager, whose cry was like that of someone who was having the skin of their body peeled with the side of a blunt knife began.

"Sir… sir…"

As soon as Ethan stepped out, the cry of a lady, which was almost covered by the torturous cry of the manager sounded.

Frowning slightly, Ethan paused and then turned around.

"What is the matter?" He asked coldly, having zero goodwill for the lady before him who had been heartless and had wanted him crippled just because of a mere ring and losing a face.

As for Tara, she didn't mind the cold gaze she was given by Ethan at all.

'You men are the same. You will soon calm down when you know you can have me.'

With this thought, Tara gave Ethan the best of the sexy face she could portray and then spoke seductively. "I know you are still mostly furious at me for what almost happened back inside, and I have no objection against your anger. However, I'm the type who doesn't like to not apologize after offending someone. For this reason, could you give me your mobile number so I could properly apologize to you later?"

Ethan, "_"

His gaze went blank for a moment, then it became filled with irritation and disgust.

Although he had never experienced something like this before, since he had never been wealthy, he had seen different movies and read different stories to know what was going to happen next.

After a second of staring, Ethan turned around intending to leave without saying a word, dumbfounding Tara badly.

'Is he leaving just like that?' She thought 'Was I not explicit enough, or is he playing hard to get?"

A bold smile appeared on her face. "How about I give you my beautiful and sexy body in exchange for your forgiveness?"

Ethan almost stumbled when he heard this, then he turned around and almost spat, but his lips raised at one end, turning to a smirk when he saw the dumbfounded middle-aged man behind Tara

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"This is the best ending you could have."

Saying this, Ethan walked away and didn't look back again.

'What did he mean?' Tara was confused.

She was about to run after Ethan, as she couldn't have such a delicacy leave her starving when a cold voice entered her ears. "So, this was what you were coming to do when you claimed to have forgotten something in the car?"

Tara's body went cold when she heard this, and she became nervous to death.

Slowly turning around, her face became slightly pale when she saw the furious glare being given to herself.

"You… you seemed to have misunderstood something."

"Oh… have I?" the middle-aged man questioned with sarcasm. "I knew you were such a person with loose morals, but I thought you'd have long changed after showering you with love, money, attention, and affection, but…"

Reaching here while speaking with a pained voice, the middle-aged man's eyes suddenly turned red. "From now on, we are done. You are to return every single thing I've ever given you."

"What?!"

Tara was scared to death.

….

Back inside the branch of the courier company building.

Although everybody was looking at their manager getting beaten to the extent that he now has blood covering his entire body, nobody's mind was there; instead, they were discussing.

"To think that we'd always looked down on Ethan, thinking he was the biggest loser amongst us."

"So, he was rather a big tycoon who only came here to check what he's buying."

"This is a big lesson to us never to hate on anybody for no reason in the future."

…..

After leaving the spot, Ethan stopped and hopped into a taxi, without thinking about the person he had just encountered.

His destination was his school.

Recalling those who had always bullied him in the past, Ethan's eyes suddenly flashed coldly.

'You all should get ready for my revenge. Especially you, Blessing. I will make sure you regret ever thinking of cheating on me.'