Lord Protector Novel

Zeke looked at her as he smiled and didn’t utter a word anymore.

Seeing that, Sharon felt uneasy when he stared at her and thought to herself. What did he mean?

However, she soon understood his hidden message.

The couple wants to enjoy an intimate moment together. So, I’m the third wheel and the light bulb!

As such, she put a wry smile on her face and said, “I just realize that I’ve to attend a meeting later. Please excuse

me for I’ve to get going now.”

Zeke pretended to ask her to stay, “Why don’t you stay here for a little longer?”

At this moment, Sharon was complaining deep in her heart.

You’re so fake! You are the one who don’t want me to stay.

“It’s okay. The meeting is quite important. Please excuse me.”

As soon as Sharon left, Lacey couldn’t wait but popped a question, “Zeke, tell me what happened to Logan Hugh.

Why did he kneel before you?”

Zeke replied composedly, “Didn’t I say it before? Logan Hugh kneeled and apologized to me because I got the

evidence that he bribed Harvey Hoffman.”

Lacey continued to ask suspiciously, “Is that so? How did you get the evidence though?”

Zeke explained, “Hadley was the one who told me this.”

“I’m sure you’re aware that Hadley used to work with Logan Hugh and was part of the scheme too.

“But when Hadley realized just now that I’m her grandmaster, she wished to mend her mistakes. So, she

surrendered to me and told me the truth.”

However, Lacey remained dubious and asked, “Did you say you’re Hadley’s grandmaster? What kind of

grandmaster are you?”

Zeke hesitated for a moment because Lacey might be terrified if she knew that he was the grandmaster in the

industry of ‘killers’.

After all, a “killer” is even more evil than the underworld to most ordinary people.

Therefore, he chose to lie to her, “I’m the grandmaster in the industry of medicine. Hadley’s master regarded me

as her master because I used to give her advice.”

Lacey asked again doubtfully, “Really? But I see you’re not that old...”

Since Lacey was suspicious about it, Zeke immediately changed the subject and said, “That’s enough. Let’s not talk

about this and have a drink instead. We’ll drink and get rid of our worries.”

“Okay then.” Since Lacey was in a bad mood, she didn’t intend to continue the topic and started drinking with Zeke.

Logan was aware that he could never escape from this place alone in ten minutes.

Therefore, he made a phone call to his henchman Dawson.

Dawson was a driver in a pharmaceutical company owned by Logan.

Logan instructed him over the phone, “Dawson, pick me up and secretly transport me out of Oakheart City.”

Dawson felt that something was wrong because even Mr. Hugh, the staff officer, needed his assistance to ‘secretly’

transport himself out of Oakheart City.

Nevertheless, as Logan’s henchman, Dawson was aware that he shouldn’t be asking any questions.

As such, he agreed to Logan’s instruction without hesitation and departed right away.

In just ten minutes, he arrived in a cargo van loaded with medicine and pills and met with Logan.

After Logan hid in the pile of medicine, Dawson immediately hoped in the cargo van and sped off to leave the state.

However, when they were about to leave Oakheart City, their cargo van was stuck in a heavy traffic jam.

All the cars couldn’t even move an inch.

As Dawson began to feel anxious, he hopped out to ask one of the drivers.

He gave a cigarette to a Volkswagen Passat’s driver and asked, “Bro, do you know what’s happening in front?”

The driver lighted the cigarette and answered slowly, “Hmmph! The military has set up roadblocks to inspect every

car. Well, It might be related to drug smuggling because the military seems to be focusing on inspecting vehicles

that transport medication.”

Then, Dawson immediately told Logan about the situation, Logan became a bundle of nerves.

Since the military prioritizes vehicles that transport medication, it must be searching for me then.

Does Zeke Williams even have connections in the military? If not, why would the military be dispatched here for

vehicle inspection?

He took a deep breath to calm himself down and instructed Dawson, “Turn around and leave the city from another

exit.”

Dawson quickly turned his car around and used another road that led to the exit.

Nevertheless, they became despair because another roadblock was set up to inspect vehicles that transported

medication.

When Dawson wanted to try another exit, Logan stopped him and ordered, “Dawson, find out from someone if

there are roadblocks on the other exits.”

As soon as he finished, Dawson took out his phone and made several phone calls.

After a while, he told Logan dejectedly, “Mr. Hugh, all the exits have been blockaded including many of the dirt

roads. There is no way we can’t leave the city now.”

Logan was startled when he heard Dawson’s answer.

There are easily twenty thousand soldiers required to blockade the entire Oakheart City. This is an implication that

the authority of a field officer is needed to be able to mobilize such a large number of troops.

Is that damn Zeke Williams a field officer?