Chapter 8: Shooting

"Hello, Liam, are you here? I thought you didn't dare to come!" There was a loud laugh from the darkness. 

Liam didn't hesitate to answer. 

"Why wouldn't I dare come! Martin didn't dare come and let you come, Gary." Everyone knows that Gary is Martin's twin brother, a skilled gunman, he is also the oldest fox. 

"My brother doesn't want to see your hateful face! I know you're here because of the gunpowder we kept." Gary is the police officer and also the guarantor of some of Martin's businesses. 

"That's right! How much money do you guys want?" Liam slowly lit his cigarette and took a puff. 

"My brother doesn't want to talk to you, not want Sharon to marry you! Tell me, we want to put your goods in the sea! Dog!" Gary grinned wickedly. 

Liam calmly pulled out his gun and aimed it at Gary. 

"Gary, don't joke like that, it's not funny, what if I said: I want to marry Sharon?"

“Ha… ha… ha, you think I believe you will marry Sharon when you point a gun at me!” Gary spat out a puddle of saliva, laughing loudly. 

With the sound of the car door opening, Ryan felt that the situation outside was not good at all, although his boss did not want too many henchmen to come. 

"I'm telling the truth! How can you believe me?" Liam stowed the gun in the leather pouch on his side. 

"I want you to leave an arm, okay?"

Liam's face showed an annoyed expression at the old man's way of speaking - Gary. 

"Don't joke, Gary! You want your niece to marry a cripple?"

"Well, don't get cocky with me! I can tell Martin I messed up. Anyway, I've been eyeing you for a long time."

Liam tried to remember what he had done to offend Gary to make him hate him so much but was completely unimpressed. 

Bang…

A loud, high-pitched gunshot rang out, and Rayan was startled to see Liam slowly fall to his knees. 

"Boss!"

Gary clearly played bad. 

"Hurry up!" Rayan shouted. 

Darkside's group was ordered to immediately rush towards Gary's group, the atmosphere was extremely chaotic. 

Liam felt his hand ache, then the fishy smell of blood wafted through the air. He was too subjective, Gary was such a jerk, he even dared to shoot secretly. 

"Boss, are you okay?" Ryan leaned over and helped Liam. 

"It's okay, help me get back to the car! A bullet wound in my left hand."

"Yes, there's a first aid kit in the car. Let's go back to the Darkside first. What about that gunpowder?"

Liam frowned slightly, blood oozing out of his arm. 

"Leave it! My father asked you, he told him to call me."

"Yes."

The Zimmer family didn't want to negotiate, so they brought the bastard Gary to negotiate. Liam didn't think he'd dare to fire first. 

But before the car returned to the Darkside mansion, a phone call came! 

Ryan looked at Liam, asking. 

"Should we listen, boss? Mr. Olive Vineyard seems to know the story." Rayan is afraid of Liam one but afraid of Olive ten, he calls Olive's full name all the time! After Liam took control of the Vineyard Corporation, Olive rarely interfered in business again. 

"Listen, don't let him get mad."

"Lord Olive, it's me - Ryan, it's Mr. Liam's assistant!"

"Give Liam the phone." Ryan could hear the suppressed anger in Olive Vineyard's cold voice. 

"Father, it's me - it's Liam!" Liam is also coldly holding the phone. He and Olive are not a biological father-son relationship anyway, there's no need to pretend to be close. 

"Uhm, I heard you went to the harbor yourself to find the Zimmers to get the gunpowder back?"

"Yes."

"Stupid, is there a simpler way to get approval and support from the Zimmers that you don't do, go and confront them. How about shooting?" Olive loudly. 

"Yes, but it was Martin who put aphrodisiacs in my wine at the party... the shooter was also Gary." Liam lost his patience to answer. 

"I've taught you so many years, I didn't expect you to be so stupid! Martin brought Sharon to the door, not so that we could take advantage of the Zimmers' weakness but take advantage of many benefits. than for the Vineyard Corporation? You destroyed it all."

"I understood what you meant, but I decided to marry Sharon as a redemption for my previous wrong decision, how do you feel?" Liam tried to suppress the pain, lowering his head to speak over the phone. 

"On the occasion of your being shot and injured by Gary, let me talk to the Zimmers about compensation… see what they say! Sharon has liked you for so long, if she wants to come and take care of you, you should gladly accept it. Understood?"

"Yes, I understand, Father!"

"Good!" After saying her purpose, Olive immediately turned off the phone. He doesn't care about his adopted son Liam, he cares about the operation of the Vineyard Corporation. According to intelligence reports, Liam was slightly injured, only hitting his left hand, not too dangerous. The important thing now is to negotiate with the Zimmer family, get the right for themselves. 

"Boss, how's it going? Mr. Olive isn't giving you a hard time?" Ryan looked at Liam's worsening face and asked worriedly. 

"It's okay, call Doctor Daniel over!" After saying that, Liam leaned back in the back seat, closing his eyes. 

All day today, Liam did not come to bother, Sylvia was extremely relieved, she could not leave the room but could read a book, sleep a little. The wounds on the body as well as the kisses from the intense exercise last night also gradually lessened the pain. 

There is the sound of cars running into the large courtyard in front of the villa, because this place is quite quiet so all noises can be heard very clearly. 

"Is Liam back already?"

Sylvia went to the window and looked out, the bright lights of the car sweeping across the yard. A group of people dressed in black ran over, surrounding a person who had just stepped out of the car… he was not walking straight, and seemed to be injured. 

"Is it Liam? Is he hurt?"

Sylvia suddenly felt a little happy in her heart. She was worried that he would come looking for her again. That painful feeling of dying over and over again made Sylvia shiver, chills.