Chapter 20: Going Home, Conversation With Chloe

Chapter 20: Going Home, Conversation With Chloe

"What?!"

They couldn't believe it. They felt like they were hallucinating or the light was playing a trick on them.

"Is that a Bugatti?" One of them asked, and rubbed his eyes, closed and opened it, to make sure that he wasn't seeing something else.

"The fuck?! Silas is driving a Bugatti! How? Where did he fucking get it from?" He asked, but no one could give him an answer, as all of them were experiencing the same things; shock and confusion.

Unfortunately for them, their confusion won't be cleared anytime soon, as Silas had already driven away.

...

Inside the car, Chloe looked at the group of people standing in front of the pub, looking at the car in shock, and laughed.

"What a bunch of fools. Organizing a get-together just to show off because you got a managerial position in your dad's company," She said and laughed.

"Way to go, Silas. You're really something, shocking them like that. I must say, I'm very much surprised myself. I told you to do something about your confidence so that you won't be bullied when you come to the gathering, but I didn't know that you already had everything figured out," Chloe said, and turned to look at Silas with a probing gaze.

"What?," Silas asked, when he saw her looking at him like a detective watching a suspect.

"Nothing. I'm just trying to see if it's really you or it's a doppelganger, or maybe a clone," She replied, and turned to look at the road.

"Pfft.. what do you mean by doppelganger or clone. It's me, Silas in the flesh."

"You handled yourself pretty well today. Standing up to Daniel and those dogs that he always carries around him. You didn't even flinch before Layla. I thought you guys were going to start throwing punches when you see each other."

Silas heard this and smiled without giving a response. What can he say? He got a skill that helped to overcome the trauma of his high school bullying days.

He got a text from Daniel telling him how he told Layla to date him and break up with him publicly. He was very angry when he read the message but he couldn't do anything about it.

"I got played, I guess," Silas said with a wry smile.

"You did."

The rest of the drive was quiet. Few minutes later, Silas stopped in front of a building and Chloe came down from the car.

"Thanks for the ride, I will call you later. Take care," Chloe said, and walked into the building, and Silas drove off.

On the way, Silas couldn't help but think about Daniel and Layla, and what Chloe said.

"Daniel is a coward, he's what he was then and what he is now because of his father. Take away his trust fund and subsidy daddy, he's nothing"

"I guess that's how it's going to be done then, Take away his father. Well, we already have something like a blood debt between us, it will just be killing two birds with a stone. Put Daniel's father behind jail and the third generation chaebol will come crashing down, like a fallen tree," Silas said to himself.

About Layla, Silas had no thought about her. She was his past and it will remain just like that.

...

Few hours later, Silas had already taken his bath and was about to go to bed.

As he lay on his bed, he thought of the things he still have to take care of, getting the contact information of the president of Stanford University because of the new system mission he got, and cleaning up Daniel's father.

The two of them comes with their own difficulties but the first on his priority list.

"I hope to get lucky with getting the president's contact information," Silas said to himself before sleeping off.