To the Love of My Life

Chapter 764: Fearlessly Blocking the Blade (14)

Chapter 764: Chapter 764: Fearlessly Blocking the Blade (14)

Originally, Steve Burton planned to return to the West Suburb Villa at six o’clock. However, because Ruby Gregory came to the city, he ended up having dinner with Rusell Henris, Edward Woods, and Howard Coleman in the evening.

After dinner, since there was still plenty of time, Steve didn’t rush Ruby to go home, and instead, the four of them went to The Sapphire Bistro and rented a mahjong table to play.

Howard was a bit off his game. Among the four playing mahjong, he was the only one losing.

In just two hours, he had lost nearly 300,000 in chips.

The one winning the most was Edward Woods, who had a cigarette hanging from his mouth and impatiently tapped his fingers on the table, waiting for Howard to make a move.

However, who would have thought that after Howard drew a tile, he stared blankly at the table, not reacting at all for quite a while.

Edward took the cigarette from his mouth, blew a perfect smoke ring, glanced sideways at Howard, and said, “Howard, what are you daydreaming about? Everyone at the table is waiting for you to play your tile!”

Hearing the voice, Howard didn’t even move his eyelids and threw out a tile without even looking at what he had drawn. It was clearly a “Bamboo eight (??)”, yet he called out “Mahjong tile of two circles (??)”.

“Howard, did you forget to take your meds when you left the house today? Can’t even tell the difference between bamboo eight and two circles?” Edward mercilessly mocked him.

“I won,” Steve said calmly, pushing forward the tiles in front of him.

Rusell glanced at Steve’s winning tiles and then calculated, “Howard, you owe our brother 69,000 in chips.”

Howard opened the drawer in front of him, grabbed everything inside indiscriminately, and pushed it all to Steve.

While Rusell pressed the “shuffle” button on the mahjong machine, he couldn’t help but gaze at Howard for a moment before saying, “Howard, you’re really off today. What, did playing around with women recently ruin your brain?”

Howard had no intention of responding to Rusell and simply took a cigarette from the case, lit it, and began to inhale deeply.

“Oh… Howard, you seem to be all pent-up… ” Steve was the dealer this time, and Edward pressed the button for him, revealing the dice roll, and then circled his finger around the mahjong table and stopped at the tiles in front of Rusell. “Bro, start drawing from here…”

Steve slowly stretched out his hand, grabbing a tile. Edward also reached for a tile, jokingly saying, “What’s the matter, Howard? Did Madeleine kick you out of the house yesterday?”

Hearing this, Howard was instantly enraged, slapping the tile he held in his hand onto the table, “Edward, what the hell are you talking about!”

Edward, seeing Howard’s reaction, was even more certain that Howard was bothered about Madeleine. He was just about to continue mocking him when the usually quiet Steve spoke up with a smile, “Edward, talk less.”

Edward shrugged and closed his mouth.

Howard pursed his lips tightly, bowed his head, staring at the mahjong tiles in front of him, his breathing slightly unsteady.

Rusell curiously looked at Steve, smiling and saying, “Our brother’s temper has improved a lot lately. He’s becoming more and more like a warm gentleman.”