<h4>Chapter 48: Bastian returns</h4>


    "I know, Uncle," Mark proudly nodded his head.


    "Good. Do you want chocte?" Ryder said.


    "Yes, Uncle. I love chocte," Mark replied as he nodded his head excitedly.


    "I have a chocte that I brought from Chocte Land. It cost a billion dors, but I can sell it to you cheap. Are you willing to buy it?" Ryder said.


    He took out a chocte from his pocket and showed it to Mark.


    "From Chocte Land?" Mark licked her lips as he greedily stared at the chocte in his hand.


    "I’m willing, but I don’t have a billion dors," Mark sadly said.


    "As I said, I’ll sell it to you cheap. Just give me everything you own, and I’ll sell you this chocte," Ryder innocently said.


    He kept making the chocte dance right before Mark’s eyes. He wasn’t letting him take his eyes off of the chocte.


    "I’ll do it!" Mark said as he hurriedly nodded his head.


    "Good. Sign here then,"


    Ryder brought out a document and ced it before Mark.


    The document said that Mark was making Ryder the owner of everything he owned.


    "I don’t have a pen, Uncle," Mark reacted.


    "It’s fine. I have a pen," Ryder said.


    He gave a pen to Mark. He came fully prepared. He couldn’t let anything go wrong after all.


    Mark signed the paper where he pointed.


    "Good boy. Here you go," Ryder gave the chocte to Mark and ced the document in his shirt pocket.


    [Ding... Mission Completed. The system will be inessible for 2 hours as it will be going through an upgrade.]


    He heard Janus’ voice.


    A smile appeared on Ryder’s face as he heard the announcement. Finally, his headache was over.


    He stood up and turned to leave. His mission waspleted.


    But as soon as he started walking towards the exit, Esmi came out of her office.


    She was looking for Mark, but her eyes opened wide in surprise as she noticed Ryder.


    "Ryder!" She called out.


    Ryder was surprised to hear the voice. It was the voice he didn’t want to hear after all. He realized that it was the voice of Esmi. He wanted to leave silently and not disturb her in this dangerous ce.


    He couldn’t leave, unfortunately. He turned back to look at the person who called him, and just as he had expected, it was Esmi.


    "Come with me," Esmi said as she red at Ryder.


    "That’s going to be bad," Ryder sighed with a wry smile as he started walking towards Esmi.


    He entered her office. Esmi closed the door behind her.


    "You came here, and you didn’t even try to meet me? Were you trying to sneak out?" She said with a smile on her face


    She sat on top of her table and rested one leg above the other as she faced Ryder.


    "Not at all. I didn’t want to disturb you in the office. How have you been?" Ryder asked.


    "I’ve been good. But I keep wondering. Why didn’t you call me after that night?" Esmi said with a pout.


    "Ah, well. I didn’t have your number, and I was hesitating ining to this ce like that," Ryder answered her as he tried his hardest to keep his focus on her face instead of something else.


    "Why were you hesitating? You think that you can abandon me after all that?" She said with a smirk.


    "Well, I don’t want your position to get affected because of me," Ryder was trying to talk, but Esmi ced her fair fingers on his lips and stopped him.


    She got down from her table as she moved behind Ryder. She wrapped her arms around him as she brought her lips closer to his ears.


    "You can’t be so unfair to me. I feel like I’m empty without you," She whispered in his ears.


    "That..," Ryder couldn’t think of what to say since it was his own decision.


    "You might be worried about being with me, but there’s no way I’m letting you leave me. It’s been such a long time since I finally have a man I like," She chuckled lightly as she came to the front.


    She sat on Ryder’sp and kissed his lips.


    Ryder also gave up resisting.


    He wrapped his arms around her as he passionately answered her kiss.


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    While Ryder was giving the fruit of forbidden pleasure to his Esmi, his best friend was right outside the club.


    Surprisingly, Bastian hade to the club with a girl.


    He was easily allowed entry with the girl.


    As he entered the Club, the first thing he noticed was Mark sitting alone at the table.


    He walked up to Mark and sat on the chair near him.


    Although there was another chair nearby, the girl decided to sit on Bastian’sp. Bastian didn’t mind it as he started rubbing on her thighs.


    "Hey Mark, Why are you looking at that chocte so intensely?" Bastian asked as he looked at Mark in front of him.


    Mark had a bar of chocte in his hand, but he wasn’t eating it. He was just staring at it.


    "I... I want to eat it, uncle. But if I do that, I will finish it. I don’t know what I should do," Mark said with a face that looked like it would cry at any minute.


    "Hahaha... I didn’t know you liked choctes so much. Anyways, You have so much money, man. You can buy as many choctes as you need," Bastian couldn’t help butugh as he saw Mark’s reaction.


    "It’s special chocte from Chocte Land, Uncle. There is only one. I can’t get any," Finally, tears appeared in Mark’s eyes as he hugged the chocte.


    Bastian was frowning as he heard his reply. He didn’t know what was happening, nor did he want to get involved. He felt like Mark was messing with him.


    "Where’s aunt?" He asked.