Rising from the Ashes (Andrew and Lauren) novel Chapter 2388

Andrew grinned, not bothering to waste more words on Benny.

The two Murphy family experts felt their scalps tingling and instinctively wanted to flee. However, Benny was their employer. If they abandoned him now, there was no way he would survive.

Besides, how would they ever explain themselves to the Murphy family patriarch when they returned?

The two had no choice but to force down their fear and trembling.

"Please stop!" one of them called out desperately.

"We apologize! Please don't strike again!"

With a sharp snap, Andrew flicked his finger. The twisted steel spike in his hand shot out at a speed too fast for the eye to follow.

Both Murphy experts immediately cursed in their hearts; certain death was next. But after a second of stunned silence, they glanced at each other, realizing that they were completely fine.

There were no holes in their chests, no heads blown apart.

The pain never came.

Then, they heard a raspy groan behind them. Both froze as their necks stiffened, and they slowly turned around.

Benny was lying on his back staring upward with eyes wide open, dead and unblinking. The fatal wound was obvious: a hole punched clean through his chest where his heart had been.

Andrew's flick had been perfectly lethal.

"What…" The two bodyguards stood there, completely blank, as if their souls had been ripped out.

After a long while, the two Murphy family experts finally regained their senses. Their first instinct was to run, but they immediately abandoned that thought in the next second.

Running was pointless. Whether it was the ruthless Murphy family patriarch or the Lloyd family's Dragon Prince, they were both far beyond their ability to escape from. If they fled, they would spend the rest of their lives consumed by fear, living in a personal hell from which they could never recover.

The two men made their final decision. They carefully lifted Benny's corpse and returned to the Murphy family estate to await the patriarch's judgment.

Back inside the auction house, Enzo, the auction manager who had previously clashed with Andrew, was drenched in cold sweat. He was so terrified that he nearly fainted from fear.

Enzo had actually been partially responsible for Benny's ambush at the doors. It was he who had instigated the whole thing, wanting to watch Benny teach Andrew a lesson as payback for the humiliation Andrew had inflicted on him earlier.

However, he had never expected Benny to crumble so fast. Rather than drawing blood from Andrew, the blade had shattered entirely in his hand.

What shocked Enzo most of all was that Andrew had actually dared to commit murder so openly. And the victim was no ordinary person; it was the heir of the Murphy family, one of Chetvine's major powers.