Xo Novel
Chapter 63
Chapter 63
Janet brought Maxie to meet with Daran and together they worked out a plan. After nailing down the
details, Maxie went to talk to Baron in house as they had discussed. The front door to Baron’s house
was shut and all curtains tightly closed. There were some angry civilians and journalists outside of the
house, yelling and asking Baron
to come out.
Maxie took a detour and went behind the house. There was a back door. After 3 knocks, the door
opened a crack and revealed Baron’s face.
“Get inside! Quick!” Baron hissed, grabbing Maxie in.
He had aged significantly in these past 3 days. His eyes were bloodshot and there were messy
stubbles on his chin.
Even with the window shut and the drapes closed, they could still hear the angry cries from outside,
which must be an emotional torment for Baron.
“What took you so long!” he hissed.
Maxie’s face was cold, “I wasn’t sure if I wanted to meet with you. We got nothing to talk to you.”
“WHAT?”
Baron gasped in disbelief, widening his eyes as though this was the most ridiculous thing he had ever
heard.
“You f**king betrayed me, Maxie! You gave my account book to Daran and that f**king bitch Janet! I
trusted you with this and this is how you godman betrayed me!”
He paced around the room anxiously like one trapped dog.
“Why did you betray me? It makes no sense. We are on the same boat! You and me! We are a team!
Did Daran and Janet force you into this? They must do. It was only reasonable-”
Maxie gasped, “They didn’t force me anything! I gave them the account book myself. Voluntarily!“.
Baron halted in his track abruptly.
His face twisted in rage.
“…What?” he gritted.
“We are no team, Baron.” Maxie let out a cold sneer, “You threatened me with my family! You treated
me like a f**king slave! You seriously think I was acting on my freewill to collaborate with you? NO
F**KING WAY! I am disgusted by everything you do!”
Her words infuriated Baron big time. With a deafening howl, he charged at Maxie raising a fist.
He had abused Maxie thousands of times like that in the past 3 years.
But this time, Maxie refused to suffer it in silence.
She grabbed Baron’s wrist easily with one hand and swirled her body. Baron was sent flying in the air
like a shot put and hit against the fireplace with a huge crashing
sound
Baron dropped on the flood, curling up his body in pain, groaning. Maxie walked forward and pulled him
out of the pile of charred woods and ashes.
“You seriously think I can’t fight back?” Maxie stared at him and hissed, “You are a weak puss to me,
Baron. You can’t even take down a single bear on your own. You are only capable of threatening me
with my family. And now your only leverage is gone. I can crush your sculp barehanded.”
Baron quivered, panting roughly.
“s–Stop!”
He cried urgently in panic.
“My father was your mentor! H–He was nice to you! He made you a strong warrior! You can’t treat his
only son like this-
–
“I think he’ll beat the shit out of you first if he sees you like that,” Maxie snarled. “And stop using other
people to manipulate me! I have had it enough!”
She set Baron down in the corner and stared down at him coldly.
“Spill it. Why do you want to meet with me today?” she asked.
The rude and aggressive version of Baron was gone. Now he was shivering by the corner like a
defeated dog.
“I–I can’t go to trials.” He gulped in fear, “You saw how things went with Lady Harper not long ago.
Those ignorant civilians will skin me alive…”
“Then what do you want me to do?”
Baron grabbed Maxie’s pants with a shaky hand and begged, “Get me out of town before my trial,
please. I know you can do this, Maxie! I still have some money hidden elsewhere. Once I am out, I will
pay you with a shit load! I promise!”
A disgusted look flickered by Maxie’s eyes.
“So you are going to flee?” she snarled. “What about those people who still had faith in you? Do you
know that there was still a great deal of soldiers who believed that you were innocent now? Don’t you
think that you owe them an apology?” Text © 2024 NôvelDrama.Org.
“I DON’T F**KING CARE!” Baron roared.
His face contorted slightly. There was a crazy gleam in his eyes.
“I don’t f**king care what others think, OK?”
Baron breathed heavily and snarled:
“All I care right now is my own safety. You know what? This is probably for the best. It was fun being
the Gamma before but things had changed not that we are about to go to war. I don’t want to die in the
battlefield like my stupid father did! So jokes on those idiots who made me Gamma. I am out of here!”
Maxie clenched her fists.
“And what about those people you hurt? Those families you broke apart? Don’t you want to at least
apologize to them?” she asked freezingly.
Baron waved his hands impatiently, “Can we focus on me right now? I stepped on an
ant while walking today. Do I need to apologize for killing that ant as well?”
Maxie inhaled deeply.
Then she let out a sarcastic snort.
“I think your little speech just made it a lot easier for people to accept that you are a complete jerk,” she
said.
Baron blinked blankly, “W–What do you mean?”
Maxie pulled off a brooch from her shirt and put it up to Baron’s eyes.
Baron stared at it, and he was shocked to notice that a small camera was hidden within that brooch.
“Say hello to your soldiers. I’ve been streaming this alive.”
Maxie said icily, looking at Baron’s horror–struck face.
“Now the joke is on whom?”
***
At the same time. Riverside Pack’s training field,
“Yeah! We had faith in him. Yet he called us idiots!”
“And he pocketed the money that should be used to buy us new uniforms, training facilities and
weapons. Asshole!”
The noise and angry mutterings grew louder and louder. Until somebody stepped out and cried:
“Let’s head to Baron’s house now! And make him spill out the money he took from us!”
His suggestion was agreed by many.
The huge crowd started pouring to the front gate.