Victor’s hesitation was painfully obvious.
He did not dare fight Dustin. The thought of tarnishing his hard-earned reputation or, even worse, losing his life to Dustin, was enough to sap any courage he might have had.
He was leaving himself an easy way out.
All Dustin needed to do was offer a plausible explanation, and Victor would latch onto it as an excuse.
“Why did I kill the Aquila family?” Dustin sneered with a cold face. “The Aquila family was once an underling of the Fox family. T