Fredrick knew that Harold and Dante had never met before today, so there was no way the both of them could be telling such a well-choreographed lie. The only possibility here was that they were both telling the truth. At the side, Risa was standing with her hands held in front of her respectfully. She had also listened to everything that Dante had told them, and unlike Fredrick, who needed to hear Harold's words before she believed Dante, Risa didn't have any issue believing her master immediately. The moment Dante said that there was a twilight world filled with Djinn that could use magic, Risa immediately accepted that it was true, and the only thing on her mind right now was thoughts of how she was going to keep up in a fight against these Djinn if they were so powerful! If Dante ever needed her help to fight against the Djinn, then Risa knew that she would be seriously outmatched by their magic, so she needed ot find other ways to defeat them!

'I should tell Tim to supply more grenades to me later. I need to increase the destructiveness of my arsenal.'

This thought went through Risa's mind, and Risa nodded ot herself as he eyes shone with resolve! Dante spoke up without knowing the strange thing going through Risa's mind:

"Harold, I'll need you to draft up a new contract document and send it to me later. You already know the details of the deal, so make sure you draft a proper agreement. Get everything ready for a meeting with the Bellagrini, and when I call you to tell you it's time, make sure you are already prepared. Do you understand?"

Harold nodded to Dante when he heard this order, and he fumbled to catch the documents that he had come with when Dante threw them at him nonchalantly. Dante told Harold that he was free to go, and Harold quickly moved to leave the room. Once Harold was gone, Dante spoke up with a frown on his face.

"Risa, I need you to go speak to Roxanne. There's a new target she also needs to keep an eye on. Since it seems the Rogue family is interested in our company for some reason, tell Roxanne to put some spies on them and find out what they're up to, but the spies should make sure they aren't discovered. We don't know what sort of abilities the family has, so I don't want them tracing anything back to us. Just tap their phones, internet, mail, everything. If they even whisper about the Lucas family, I want to know about it."

Risa bowed to Dante once she heard her orders, and she quickly moved out of the building to go and do as he said. Once Risa was gone, Dante finally leaned back and sighed while staring into the fire. The flickering flames allowed him to calm his mind slightly as he thought about the possibilities, and no matter how much he thought about it, Dante just didn't like the idea that a family of Djinn was interested in his family. The Lucas weren't Djinn, and even though Dante knew they would never lose against any other regular gangster family, a family filled with Djinn was a completely different story. This could be the end of the Lucas family if Dante didn't handle it properly!

"Dante, all this seems completely insane, and I still don't know if it's even real, but if it is, then aren't we in serious trouble right now?"

Fredrick spoke from his place beside Dante, and Dante hummed as he continued to stare into the fire. Fredrick had also figured out that the family could suffer greatly from being on the radar of the family of Djinn, and Dante was glad that he didn't have to keep explaining things to him all over again. But Dante decided that he wasn't going to allow Fredrick to get distracted by this. Fredrick was the family lawyer, not the battle expert, so Dante needed Fredrick to focus on his own job.

"I'll need you to look into the lawful implications of the deal with the Bellagrini. I want to make sure the Bellagrini don't know that the Lucas are going to be involved in the Bear Hug deal that Harold will bring to them, so draft a subsidiary contract that gives Harold the front seat in the agreement but allows us to still retain the ninety percent ownership of all the Bellagrini stocks that we buy. Is something like that possible?"

Fredrick could immediately tell that Dante was switching the topic away from the Rogue family, and Fredrick frowned slightly at this, but Fredrick knew that Dante was only trying to move forward without being held back by 'what if's' so he just decided not to let it bother him, and he thought about the deal that Dante had spoken about. Trying to create a contract like the one Dante wanted was a very delicate matter. They had to somehow make the Lucas family the main recipient of the stocks while making it seem like they were some sort of subsidiary so that the Bellagrini family wouldn't see anything wrong with the contract. It would be difficult for any regular lawyer to do something like that without being found out. But Fredrick wasn't just a regular lawyer. He was the damn best lawyer in the city.

"I'll look into it and draft something for you. I need to get back now. Martha says the kids want to see me before they go to sleep. I'll have something on your desk by tomorrow."

Fredrick pushed off the desk he had been leaning on while looking at his watch, and Dante smiled when Fredrick spoke about his wife and kids. Fredrick was the only member of the family who had married and had a stable family, even in the midst of all this madness, and even after so long, it was only Dante and George who knew about this. Not even Fredrick's mother and siblings knew that he was a family man, and Dante could understand why Fredrick refused to say anything to the rest of the family. It was a very delicate matter to have a family in a business like theirs, and the rest of the Lucas family had proven time and time again that they were not the sort of people who could keep their mouths shut if they were given secrets. The Matron would likely blurt out that Fredrick had a family to some random person at a random party without knowing it, and that would put them in danger, and both Angelina and Richard were horrible at keeping secrets when they were drunk, so Fredrick just decided not to tell them. Dante had actually been the best man at Fredrick's wedding, and he was glad that Fredrick had a place he could return to and be happy away from the madness of this family.

"Tell them I said hello, alright? And what about James? Is the fever still strong?"

"James is fine. The fever was just a nasty bug, but it died out the other day, so he's running around with his sister and breaking things like he always does. I'll see you tomorrow. brother."

Dante smiled and nodded to Fredrick, and Fredrick left the room to return home. Once he was gone, Dante turned back to the flickering flames, and his eyes narrowed as a thought passed through his mind.

'I wonder how Philip's mission is going.'

….

BOOM!

A massive explosion echoed through the night as Silas' warehouse suddenly erupted in wind and fire and the dark sky was suddenly lit up in an orange glow! A loud laugh rang out from the building as a figure was seen flying out from the flames, and the smoke cleared up to show that the figure was the young Djinn known as Jackson! Jackson was having the time of his life at this moment! No matter how many video games he plays, nothing could ever beat he excitement of a real battle! Jackson's hands were coated in flames as he called on all the fire surrounding him, and they answered his call and converged towards him before he put his hand towards another figure in the distance and unleashed them!

PWHOOMM!

Jones gathered wind all around him and used it to form a protective shell as he tried to block the flames from Jackson, but even with all his strength, it was obvious that Jackson was far stronger than Jones, so the flames easily snuffed out the wind and slammed into Jones! Jones flew back like a rocket, and Jackson followed after him with another massive explosion that lit up the sky! On the ground, Philip was watching the fight between the two men with wide eyes. He couldn't believe what the hell was going on here, and from the looks of shock on the faces of the other men around him, Philip was sure that they couldn't believe all this either.

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