"Mr. Yates, please, look... if the police arrive, this situation becomes impossible to handle quietly..." Uriah York looked at Frank Yates with pleading eyes. His earlier arrogance had evaporated, replaced by the desperate terror of a man who knew he was standing on the edge of a precipice.
If the police filed an official report, the paper trail would inevitably reach the internal audit department of the Azure Cloud Group. And for the crime of offending a holder of the Golden Dragon Card, the punishment wasn't a fine or a reprimand. It was amputation.
Frank Yates didn't waste words. He reached out and took Cloud Lee’s hand. Her fingers were cold, still trembling slightly from the adrenaline of the confrontation.
"Let's go," he said simply.
He led her out of the Jade Mansion Restaurant,
