Marcus looked up and saw Alex slowly coming down the wooden stairs one step at a time. Marcus lifted his hand and waved at Alex with a big, exaggerated motion.

When he looked closely at Alex's face, he saw a very perplexed and totally confused look on it. Seeing Alex look so lost and unsure of himself made Marcus feel a deep, warm party happening inside his chest. He internally celebrated with a lot of joy.

'Yes, yes, exactly like that,' Marcus thought to himself with glee. 'I want you to suffer more. I want you to feel bad.'

Marcus was absolutely sure that this guy standing in front of him was a total loser. He was certain of it. For one thing, trying to steal a legal wife from her lawful husband was a bad thing to do. And two, Alex was failing at it. He was failing even though he had those amazing, generational good looks and a big dick.

'Well, actually, wait,' Marcus corrected his own thought.

'I-it wasn't really that big. It was normal. Ah! Whatever. It doesn't matter at all. It wasn't like Lily preferred his thing anyway. She didn't care about that. She just wants mine. She wants me. As always, true love wins over simple lust. Love is stronger. That's for sure.'

Alex kept walking across the room until he was standing right in front of the counter where Marcus was.

"You are in a rather merry mood, Marcus?" Alex asked, his voice smooth. "What happened today? Did you see something that excited you? Why are you so happy?"

Alex smiled at him, but it wasn't a nice smile. It was a mocking smile. He leaned his elbows on the counter in a relaxed way, acting like he was cool.

"Ha ha ha! Indeed I did," Marcus laughed loudly. "I heard something that soothed my heart. It made me feel great. You know the feeling, right? The kind of satisfaction you get when your lover chooses you? She chooses you even though there is competition from others. That exact kind of satisfaction."

Marcus snickered back at the bastard. He stared him right in the eyes. He was not going to back down here at all. He was not going to be weak. He was a winner after all. His wife is his. She is his alone.

"Oh? Is that it?" Alex asked, looking down at him with a smirk. "Did you score well with the girls? Or perhaps did one of them give you a compliment or something? Is that why you are so happy?"

"Ah, wait, here is your cut of the deal," Marcus said, ignoring the question. "It is 100 crowns! And we are only debted for 100 more crowns, right? After that is paid, everything will go back to normal, right?"

Marcus reached his hand into his drawer. He took out two notes. They were hundred crown notes. He placed them on the counter and slid them across the wood towards Alex. Alex looked down at the notes. He nodded his head slowly. He was actually quite impressed by this.

"Wow. Those girls bought 200 crowns worth of stuff? That is impressive!"

Alex said this, but looking at the money also gave him a bad feeling. It gave him sudden flashbacks about those stupid, annoying Milk terrorists! He hated them so much.

'I will get back my money!' Alex thought angrily to himself. 'I will definitely get it back.'

"Indeed," Marcus replied, and he sounded very happy about it.

"Anyway, take care of yourself, Marcus," Alex said, straightening up. "I will come back for the remaining crowns very soon. Obviously, please tell Lily to get some more rest. She is really not in a good condition right now. He he. You know what I mean. With her body pain and her muscle ache."

Alex laughed a little bit. He reached out and took the money from the counter. He put it inside his pocket. When he did that, his hand felt the crumbled cheque that was already inside his pocket.

He tapped his fingers on the table one last time before he turned his body around to leave. He started walking away.

"You will never succeed..."

The sound of Marcus's voice rang out in the room. It made Alex halt right in his steps. He stopped walking immediately. A smile formed inside his mind.

'There it is. He totally took the bait. Now all I have to do is fan the flame and make it bigger.'

Alex thought this to himself. He wasn't going to just say his brilliant idea out loud to Marcus right away. No way. That would be an instant reject. He needed Marcus to come to him first.

He needed Marcus to strike at him. And for that to happen, he really needed to fan the flame even more than before. And he definitely did that with his last sentence.

And now, Marcus took the bait and he was coming back for more of it.

"Hmmm... what was that?" Alex asked. He turned his body around slowly with his hands deep inside his pockets.

"I said, you will never succeed in stealing my wife away from me!" Marcus shouted.

'Oh, that is very direct.'

Alex and Marcus stared at each other for a long moment. Then Alex snickered loudly before he turned around to walk away again. He needed to bait him even more.

"It is only a matter of time, Marcus. A weak man like you could never measure up to a man standing at the pinnacle like me. I have a strong body, a genius mind, and pockets filled with cash. Hypergamy is a real thing, and ladies always prefer my type of man. See ya later."

Bam!

Marcus slammed his fist hard on the table.

"Absolute stupidity! Do you know what she said? She said that I am superior to you! You are the so-called Alpha male? You, with all your money and your body and your connections, you can't even take a simple woman like Lily? What does that make you?

"What more can you do other than this, you scum? You are trying to steal a married woman but you are failing miserably at it! You are just a piece of dog poop staining the sole of a boot!"

Marcus barked these words out. He was indeed very pissed off. But he was pissed off in a good way. He felt like he could finally say all of these things right to this bastard's face. Whatever Alex tries to do, Lily won't fall for it.

Alex smirked a very evil smirk. His plans were coming along perfectly. It was really only a matter of time now before he won.

"It is only a matter of time before she becomes completely addicted to me," Alex said smoothly. "And when that finally happens, all of your stupid little smiles will fade away."

"Yeah, right, like that is ever going to happen, you bastard," Marcus shot back quickly. "No matter how hard you try, and no matter how much you punish her, Lily's love for me would not change. It won't change a single bit. And when your debts are finally paid off, we are going to live happily ever after. We will be happy."

Marcus said this with a lot of pride in his voice. He was not going to lose to this bastard. He was way too prideful for that right now. Especially after knowing exactly what his wife wants.

He should be proud, right? Like, seriously, which wife or girlfriend will stay with the poor husband if she is wanted by someone else? Someone who is handsome, and tall, and with money and... cough cough... a slightly better dick than him?

Obviously, no one would do that. No one except for his Lily.

Alex snickered inside his own head.

'Now. It is the perfect time to give it to this man!'

"Oh? Since you are so confident? Since you are so sure that your wife will choose you over someone better looking?"

Alex asked, mocking him.

"She will choose you over someone with a bigger dick and more cash like me? Then how about this? How about we make a bet? Are you man enough to accept the challenge? Or, are you nothing more than a little dick? Hu hu."

Obviously, when giving a challenge to someone, one should make it more mocking. It should be totally rage bait worthy. That was the true essence of fooling anyone. Obviously, a simple-minded weakling like Marcus, whose manliness just got questioned, is going to take the bait. That is for sure.

Marcus paused for a second. Then he spoke.

"What challenge?"

Alex raised a finger up and shook it back and forth at him.

"Obviously, you don't need to accept this challenge if you are not sure. If you are not sure your wife would choose you again. And of course, if you are not man enough..."

Marcus fisted his fist tightly. Anger was flaring inside him like a fire. How many times does he have to say that Lily will always choose him over a rich asshole?

"Fine! If that is how you want to play, so be it!" Marcus shouted. "I will accept any challenge you give me. I will accept it and I will prove that Lily will always... always choose me!"

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