Chapter 1075: Unwarranted Disaster
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
“You’re here, Alex!” A crisp and clear female voice suddenly sounded from behind them.
Lucas and Alexander turned around and saw a slender beauty walking over with the company of a muscular man.
“Ashley, why are you here?” Alexander said with surprise. Then he frowned and said, “This isn’t a place for girls. You should quickly go home!”
Ashley pursed her lips and said firmly, “Alex, I’m your sister and a Steele too!”
Then she pointed at the muscular man behind her. “He’s a peerless powerhouse I invited. He once won the championship in an underground boxing tournament abroad. He’s extremely strong!”
Hearing this, Alexander was over the moon. He looked at the muscular man and asked politely, “Sir, how should I address you?”
The muscular man smiled. “Mr. Alexander, just call me Rocky.”
Many martial arts practitioners would usually use an alias, so Rocky was a suitable name for him.
“Alright. Rocky, are you confident about tonight’s competition?” Alexander asked with concern.
Rocky looked at the two experts fighting brutally in the ring and said confidently, “I should be able to manage. At least I’m much stronger than the two in the ring. I dare not say that I’ll be able to win tonight’s championship, but I’ll definitely be among the top three!”
Hearing Rocky’s confident words, Ashley was very excited, and she said to Alexander proudly, “Alexander! I told you the expert I found is extremely strong. We will definitely win today!”
“Great!” Alexander was overjoyed. If Rocky could really make it into the top three, the other two camps of the Steeles might not be able to compare.
The Steeles’ representatives hadn’t been able to take the top spots in the previous annual tournaments of Club Illuma.
While everyone was feeling excited, Lucas suddenly said, “It won’t be that easy to make it into the top three.”
As soon as he said this, the expressions on Alexander’s and Ashley’s faces froze.
Rocky narrowed his eyes and stared at Lucas hostilely.
Ashley had worked hard to find an expert, but Lucas just had to be a wet blanket, so she was naturally displeased.
But she still remembered that Lucas was her brother’s friend, so she asked, “Alex, who is this?”
Alexander also has a tinge of dissatisfaction in his heart, but at the thought of Lucas’s identity and skills, he began hesitating.
He introduced to Ashley, “Oh, I forgot to introduce you. This is Mr. Lucas Gray, the chairman of the Stardust Corporation.”
Then he introduced to Lucas, “Mr. Gray, this is Ashley, my younger sister.”
Ashley looked at Lucas, crinkled her nose in displeasure, and harrumphed coldly without greeting him.
She was extremely displeased with Lucas’s remark because she had gone to great lengths to find an expert for this competition. Moreover, he had just confidently said that he could be among the top three. Yet Lucas was being a wet blanket by saying that it wouldn’t be easy to make it to the top three. This was akin to saying that Rocky wouldn’t be able to make it to the top three.
Alexander hurriedly rebuked, “Ashley, how can you be so rude?”
Although Lucas hadn’t promised to help him compete in the tournament, Alexander still didn’t want to offend him and cause a strain on their relationship.
To be honest, the reason Alexander wanted to ask Lucas to help him in this annual tournament was not only because of the brief interaction they had at the auction yesterday but also because he had asked someone to investigate Lucas.
The person Alexander had approached was a high-ranking military personnel. But just this morning, this man called Alexander and told him that even he couldn’t check Lucas’s files. All the information about Lucas had the highest-level top-secret security, and only the few people at the highest echelon had the authority to view it.
Generally, those who could have their information protected with such a high level of secrecy were either people with great secrets or big shots who were absolutely not to be offended.
So although he didn’t get any information about Lucas from his friend, he could conclude from Lucas’s information being top secret that Lucas was definitely someone he could not afford to offend!
It was precisely the reason that Alexander wanted to ask Lucas for help and requested him to help him compete.
But Ashley had no idea about this at all. When she heard Alexander say that Lucas was just the chairman of a corporation without saying anything about his family, she knew that he wasn’t the scion of a prestigious family in DC.
“Alex, why did you say that to me? He’s just the chairman of a small company, and his family background is far inferior to the Steeles. Yet he’s babbling nonsense when he knows nothing about martial arts. Why are you defending him?” Ashley said with great dissatisfaction while glowering at Lucas in disgruntlement.
“Shut up!” Alexander immediately hollered coldly. “Is this how Mom has been teaching you? Who told you to judge others like that? Mr. Gray is my friend, and if you dare to speak to him rudely again, get lost immediately!
“Apologize to Mr. Gray right now!”
Alexander reprimanded Ashley sternly almost without saving her any pride.
He was really infuriated, not only because of the superficialness in what Ashley had said but also because he was afraid that she might offend Lucas.
“Alex! You…” Ashley’s eyes widened in disbelief. She could hardly believe that her brother, who had always been gentle to her and doted on her, would suddenly be so mean to her and force her to apologize to Lucas!
But after seeing the fury in Alexander’s eyes, Ashley knew that he was really mad at her. She could only grit her teeth and apologize to Lucas reluctantly. “Mr. Gray, I’m sorry!”
But although she apologized, the expression on her face and the angry gaze in her eyes clearly showed her reluctance. She even resented Lucas, who was the reason she had been forced to apologize.
Lucas was speechless.
He had just told the truth because Rocky was too over-confident. In fact, he could even be considered conceited.
So Lucas couldn’t help reminding them not to rejoice too soon.
The people who appeared in the ring might be skilled in martial arts, but they were still far from the level of true experts. Lucas didn’t believe that the standards of Club Illuma’s annual tournament was only at this level. The true experts had yet to appear.
Given Rocky’s aura, he was still worlds apart from true experts, and it was impossible for him to make it into the top three.
But his remark caused him to draw the resentment of a woman, a disaster that was truly unwarranted.