If George didn’t give him an explanation today, Eddie would not hesitate to end George. Even if George was powerful in the underworld, Eddie was unafraid. After all, he was the son of the Trenton family!
With a flare of anger, he went straight to George’s home. When he arrived at George’s house, the lights were on, and it looked like George hadn’t rested yet.
“George!” shouted Eddie as he pushed open the front door of George’s house, huffing and puffing.
As soon as the door was pushed open, Eddie saw George sitting in a chair of which a lion’s head was on the top. The lion’s head was carved of wood, lifelike.
The chair was huge, with a fluffy blanket, and George was sitting in it, looking majestic. He was smoking a pipe in his hand and wearing pajamas that showed off his bulging belly alongside a pair of shorts.
As soon as he saw Eddie come in, he wasn’t very surprised, showing a slight frown. Then he put down the pipe in his hand and coldly called, “Eddie!”
He didn’t panic but instead maintained a composed demeanor.
Eddie stormed over to George and growled furiously, “George, what was that? Why did you stand me up? I treated you as a big brother, but you stood me up. Do you know how humiliated I was?”
As soon as George heard this, his face turned gloomy, and he braced himself to sit up, tugging at his pajamas, then looked straight at Eddie and sneered, “Humiliated?”
He touched his face, and the pain of being slapped by Lorence was still vivid. He hadn’t even gone to Eddie to settle the score and Eddie came to him first! This guy really took himself as his brother?
This wasn’t the Northwest. If it were, he’d willingly call Eddie brother. But this was Vernon, and the Trenton family meant nothing here.
At the thought of this, the anger he had just felt in his heart burned again. Right now, he still didn’t know why Lorence hit him. If he really offended Lorence because of this guy, it would really be a loss.
Now, Eddie had come to raise hell against him! If he didn’t give Eddie a lesson, how could he rule his men!
Thinking of this, George stood up from the chair, his eyes became stern and he looked like a fierce tiger. Looking at Eddie, he took a step toward, and as he did so, he asked, “Humiliated, huh?”
Eddie looked at George, who looked a bit horrifying and felt nervous. He unconsciously moved back two steps. George was the head of tens of thousands of men, so of course, he had some intimidation.
Eddie, however, mustered his courage and swallowed, convinced that George wouldn’t do anything to him. He’d given George his girl and money, and the last time when they drank together, George had said that he’d back him up and take him as his brother.
It was George who betrayed his trust, and he didn’t believe George would do anything to him.
Thinking of this, Eddie straightened his back and said without hesitation, “Yes! You shouldn’t be so treacherous. You should have called me and told me you couldn’t come. How could you be so dishonest?”
“Honest?” George had come close to Eddie.
Eddie stood still for a moment, just staring at George with cautious eyes.
George looked at Eddie with bloodshot eyes and suddenly raised his hand violently, slapping Eddie across the face. A loud snap was heard, and Eddie’s body was sent staggering backward, falling to the floor.
George lowered his head to point at Eddie and growled with a face full of anger, “Who the fuck do you think you are? How dare you come into my house and tell me what to do? Do you really consider yourself my brother?”
Eddie’s head buzzed because of the slap and he looked at George in dismay, not realizing how George could hit him and insult him.
“How could you…” Eddie pointed at George, stammering and failing to get a word out.
George grunted and stared at Eddie, saying in a bland tone, ”Eddie, you think that you can command me to do things just because you gave me some money? I’m warning you, don’t ever think of yourself as my brother or go around doing things in my name. What the fuck do you take me for? Do you think I’m one of those punks out there? Don’t you ever underestimate me!”
Eddie was so anxious that he shivered and said, “George, wasn’t it you who said that I could mention your name if I run into problems? As long as I mention your name, there’s nothing I couldn’t do in Vernon. You said that!”
George laughed outright, then shook his head and said, “Are you really so fucking stupid, or are you just faking it? Do you believe me when I say I’ll give you my place tomorrow?”
Eddie’s face instantly stiffened as he stared at George, who sneered and took two steps back and forth in place, saying, “But honestly, I was on my way there. But who the hell have you offended? I offended a big shot for you and got a slap because of you!”
Speaking of which, he couldn’t help but get angry, kicking Eddie. George was fat, and when he kicked Eddie, the latter felt so much pain.
Eddie could do nothing about it, since he had been pampered since childhood, with no strength to fight back.
But George was different. Although he was fat, he had fought a lot. When he kicked Eddie, Eddie felt his bones broken. Now even George was against him!
“George, I’m the son of the Trenton family,” Eddie yelled angrily at George.
“So what?” George spat in Eddie’s face, then contemptuously roared, “This is not the Northwest. You’re here in Vernon, you piece of shit. I can kill you right now and your dad won’t even know. “