Salute To The General

In the dead of night, a figure could be seen kneeling before the gravestone of Cayden. That figure was none other than Jett, Layden's favorite mentee who he saw as his own son.

After Layden's death, the Quillen family members, as well as Layden's old subordinates were all investigated. Many were secretly arrested.

Lately, Jett had been busy searching for medical research institutes on behalf of Cayden in hopes of finding an antidote for his mentor so that Cayden could escape from the Ariaricans' control.

That was why Jett had not been by Layden s side recently. Furthermore, as Layden rarely assigned him to work on illegal matters, he managed to fly under the radar of the investigation team.

At the moment, he was kneeling before Layden s grave as he suppressed the anger and sadness blooming in his chest. He grounded out, "Mr. Quillen, I know your death isn't as simple as just a heart attack. Someone must have reported you and set you up for death. Moreover, I can guess the person who did that must be Nathan Cross. He must have reported you to the Chief Military Governor, and that's why this happened. I'm but a weak man. I don't have the courage to settle the score with the Chief Military Governor. However, I'm not going to forgive that b*stard Nathan. I'm going to kill his whole family to avenge you, Mr. Quillen."

The next day, Nathan, along with Colin, boarded a normal plane in plain clothes and returned to Channing from Brimmopolis.

Cayden's case was over, and Penny's birthday was in two days.

Coincidentally, Nathan was mostly done with his work, so he decided to take a break to go home and spend time with his family.

In the afternoon, Nathan reached Channing.

When he stepped out of the airport with Colin, a BMW 7 Series rolled to a stop before him.

Penny and Ava came down from the car.

As it turned out, Penny was about to leave her office when she received a call from Nathan and found out that he was back. Overjoyed, she rushed to the airport with Ava to pick him up.

"Hubby!"

The moment she saw Nathan, she could no longer hide her excitement. She shed off her stoic chairman's demeanor and threw herself into Nathan's arms.Owned by NôvelDrama.Org.

Nathan beamed as he combed his fingers through her hair and said, "I remember that your birthday is on the day after next. Since I was done with my work, I took a holiday to come back and celebrate your birthday with you."

Penny whined, "You should have told me earlier that you're coming back! You came back so abruptly that I didn't even have the time to tell the family about your return. I could only bring Ava along to pick you up."

Still smiling, Nathan replied, "It's fine. It's not like my return's some kind of important event in which everyone has to come and welcome me back." Penny said, “Dad, Mom, and Queenie will be absolutely thrilled to find out that you're back."

Nathan chuckled. "I miss them too.

Come on, let's get inside the car and go home."

With that said, Nathan and Penny

were

t to enter the car to g

home on Nathan spotted

someone from the

worhise

The man was in a suit with his hand in his pocket as he strode toward Nathan.

A hitman?

Just when Nathan realized that something was amiss, the man in the suit had taken out a gun, about to fire at him. "Be careful!"

Nathan pressed Penny's head down as he crouched and used the BMW to shield and hide them.

The hitman was none other than Jett.

Jett knew that Nathan was

good at fighting. As such,

he bought a gun, hoping to kill ch

by filling him with lead instead.

Yet, what he never expected was that Nathan's reaction was lightning

fast. vathan realized what he was

about

to do and hid behind the car

just as he pulled out the gun.

During the moment when he was taken aback by Nathan's response, Colin and Ava reacted.

Ava shot out a triangular bay.

With a whoosh, it stabbed right into Jett's right hand, which was wielding the gun.

Thud.'.

A look of agony crossed Jett's face, and his grip on the gun loosened, causing it to fall to the ground.

In the next second, Colin sprang toward him like a ferocious tiger.

Thump!

With just one punch, Colin downed Jett.

Once the passersby around them realized what was going on, they screamed and fled the scene.