The bottle shattered on Louis. He moaned in pain.
He immediately ran back and grovelled, "I'm sorry! William, I have realized the error of my ways. Please have mercy on me! After all, we used to be roommates. You're a good, forgiving man. Please forgive me just this once!"
How dare he bring up our stint as roommates? He drove me up the wall back then.
Even after we stopped being roommates, he kept causing trouble. Yet, he was quick in begging for mercy.
However, he was nobody I could destroy with a snap of my fingers. I couldn't be bothered to sink to his level.
"You don't have to grovel before me. You should be apologising to Liam and Benjamin. Do you know why he borrowed 800 dollars from Zack?"
Louis shook his head vigorously.
I chuckled coldly and said, "Ben couldn't protect you for nothing. He needed to collect some fees to do so. The 800 dollars was exactly that. However, he tried to save you some face and didn't call it by that name. He formulated the excuse of borrowing 800 dollars from you guys. Do you understand now?"
Louis was speechless. He was definitely scouring his mind for when Benjamin needed to collect fees for his protection services.
However, he had watched Benjamin and Tiffany argue, as well as their eventual make up. He made sense of things quickly before adding, "Yes, of course. I get it now. I was dumb. How could I not have realized? It was … oh right! It was Maximus who forced me to say this and frame Benjamin!"
Today, Maximus had gotten beaten to a pulp. Their respect for him had disintegrated. Even Louis could insult him.
I laughed and said, "That explains it. Why aren't you apologising to Ben yet?"
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