Chapter 128: Claude's Deal

"I heard you are looking for a reporter," he began, his thin lips spreading into a devious smile like that of the cunning devil. Immediately, those blue eyes widened in surprise. Claude laughed again, more heartily than before, which irked the beast further. His navy gaze narrowed into a lion's battle glare. "Don't be impressed," the silky voice chuckled. "I'm not." Two open palms shot up as if in surrender. "Alright, alright. I'm getting to it." The grey eyes darkened to their usual shade whenever the panther eyed its prey and was about to launch an attack. "I have the reporter, and I will give him to you. I will even get him to print a retraction." The beast appeared unfazed. Slowly and quietly, he tapped a finger in a steady rhythm for a while and then asked, "What do you want?" Claude clapped his hands in a slow, taunting pace with a smirk on his charming, conceited face. "You read my mind well, dear boy. No wonder they call you the ri