Chapitre 22: Poker Face.

Oleksiy Vlad smiled as he heard Victoria. He asked suddenly, "By the way, Vici, why is your aura flooding the whole cabin? Did you get angry over something?"

Victoria sighed and said, "I got angry over that hunter Bones." her eyes became cold instantly as she uttered his name.

Oleksiy raised an eyebrow and asked in a cold voice, "What is the matter?"

The princess replied, "That bastard, who dare he waltz inside my company and showed me a bunch of letterheads from the tribunal, and claim the ownership. He even dared to say that even I belong to him. Humph, filth." in the last syllable, her voice was almost like a scream filled with disdain and disgust. She did not blame Oleksiy for hiding this matter from her.

Oleksiy Vlad asked, "Did he come here with those documents? What did you do?" he was surprised. He was out of town when it happened. His state of mind that day was clouded with rage and he ignored the puppets he placed around her.

Victoria replied, "I asked him for a month to hand over the company. In the meantime, however, I only made an excuse. What I really want to do is to come up with a sure-shot way of killing him. Help me, Father. How do I kill this filthy creature?"

She put on an aggrieved expression on her face as she was talking to Oleksiy Vlad.

The man smiled and said, "I want to kill him as well. That guy is not so easy to kill. The hunter I called over cannot get it down so quickly, because Bones, don't break the rules. We have to think of something."

Victoria sighed as she muttered, "If only the tribunal can organize a death match." Her words made Oleksiy's eyes shine for a second.

He said, "I will try to come up with something." assuring her.

Blood princess nodded as she said, "Let's do this. I will look for a way on my side and you look for something on yours. This way we will come up with something sooner than we would on our own. I want him for my birthday."

Oleksiy sensed a strong desire to kill radiating from his daughter. He smiled brightly and then started laughing. He said, "Very good, my child. I shall give him to you then."

Victoria smiled happily when she heard this. She did not clarify the way she wanted Bones for her birthday. This pair of father and daughter was playing a game with each other. Oleksiy suspected Victoria from the moment she killed Aran.

While the latter completely hated Oleksiy Vlad. The reasons were obvious. He murdered her mother. She was feeling nauseous with him being around. She stood up from her chair and said, "Father, let's go home. I can continue the work tomorrow morning."

Oleksiy nodded with a smile and stood up from his chair. The two people walked out of the cabin, Oleksiy habitually put his arm around Victoria's shoulder. The girl smiled contently on the surface but inside her heart, she hated Oleksiy Vlad.

The two people came outside the building and boarded the car. They drove home with a poker face. The game has begun and the cards have been dealt. Unlike usual poker games, bigger cards do not decide the winner, but the efficiency to play these cards is the key factor.

They both were clever people. Oleksiy was an old relic, who lived for over two centuries. His experience was terrifyingly rich. As for Victoria, she was the youngest business queen. Her brain did not work like the rest of the people at all. She was capable, compared to her father she may look young, but she had help from a strong player.

Yet unknown to the two of them, another person was very interested in this game. The dealer of the cards. While the two people went back to the Vlad mansion. Shine City Cemetery was welcoming a man in black clothes.

His profile was like Bones to an extreme, but he was not Bones. This man had short hair, he wore a black suit with a bowler hat over his head. He walked with a cane in his hand. the cane was just a decoration. he held blue roses in his hand as he walked towards a grave.

At this moment there seemed to be a person cleaning the area around the gravestone. He noticed a person walking over and looked at him with confusion. He asked, "Excuse me, sir."

The man raised his head, revealing his chiseled face. His handsome face and gentle aura dazed the janitor into a bit. The man asked softly, "Yes."

The janitor snapped out of his daze. He replied, "Sir, I mistook you for the Mister who visits here regularly. I had something to tell him. We do not have his contact information."

The man replied, "It is alright. You can tell me. I can contact that person." but before the Janitor could reply a cold voice sounded.

"No need, I am here. Tell me what is it you need from me." Bones walked over, draped in a black shirt and black pants. His long hair still kept some moisture from the bath earlier. The janitor glanced at two people and he found they looked really similar. He thought that these two might be brothers, yet the opposite impression was too striking.

Bones glanced at the janitor with an indifferent gaze. He asked, "What is it?"

The janitor said, "Sir, we need your contact information. The curator asked me to pass on the message if I came across you. The gravestone has aged a lot since your ancestors erected it. So it is advised that you let the church send a priest and purify it again."

Bones nodded and handed out a card to the janitor. He said, "I will arrange it. You can leave now."

The janitor took the card and was about to leave when the other person called for him, "Excuse me." the janitor turned around and this man passes him a wad of cash notes. He said, "I thank you for the service you have rendered us."

The janitor was a poor man, he did not refuse the money and left quickly. The person stepped out of the range when the temperature in the area dropped sharply. Bone spoke in a freezing voice, "ALUCARD TEPES, WHAT ARE YOU HERE FOR?" his poker face was broken, it was covered with boundless rage.