Chapter 6: Encircling and Containing Russell

His extremely cold words seemed to have already pronounced a death sentence on Russell.

The temperature around them seemed to drop several degrees in an instant.

John's body shook violently. He understood—Philip was angry.

"Philip, please calm down."

Even though he was Philip's elder, he showed none of the pride an elder should have in front of him.

The reason was simple.

The Windsor family had been relying on the Herman family all these years.

Without the Herman family's help, how could he have transitioned into the arms business?

So John was very anxious. He was extremely worried that the situation between Stella and Philip would affect their cooperation with the Herman family.

"I admit, this whole thing is entirely Stella's fault! She already had an engagement with you—that's a fact we all acknowledged. But now she's brought in this bastard. It's just too much!"

"But I assure you, we had absolutely no idea about what she was doing! So this has nothing to do with us."

John kept giving Emma meaningful looks.

Emma immediately stepped forward to explain, "Yes, Philip, everyone else in the Windsor family is innocent."

John glared hard at Stella.

"Philip, I admit that what Stella has done is absolutely disgraceful to both our families!"

"If you want to cancel the engagement with her now, I have absolutely no objection! She deserves this! I promise you, not only will I not protect her, but from now on, the Windsor family won't acknowledge her existence! I'll act like I never had such a daughter."

John's attitude at this moment was incredibly humble. He had already prepared himself mentally.

As long as it made Philip happy and maintained the deep cooperation with the Herman family, he didn't care about turning against Stella!

But Philip fell silent.

Because, like John, he also didn't want to give up on this marriage.

First, the Windsor family had successfully entered the arms business, and in this deal, the Herman family was the real beneficiary!

As for the Windsor family, they only got a small portion of the profits but bore enormous risks. With such an opportunity to make easy money, the Herman family certainly didn't want to give it up.

Once the marriage alliance failed, many uncontrollable situations could arise. After all, only marriage was the strongest bond to tie two families tightly together.

Of course, there was another very important reason.

The first time Philip saw Stella, he wanted to pin her down hard! Strip off her clothes and fuck her hard!

This was a man's most primitive, animalistic desire for a beautiful woman. Stella's looks and figure perfectly matched his preferences. It would be such a waste to miss this opportunity.

Moreover, Philip had been with countless women of all types, but without exception, they all fawned over him.

Only Stella was different—she actually rejected him!

The more it was like this, the more enjoyable the conquest would be. When this proud woman moaned in bed, it would feel amazing!

Finally, Philip chose to compromise.

"Uncle John, I believe Ms. Windsor has just been blinded by some bastard."

As he said this, he glanced at Russell with complete disdain.

"But my feelings for Ms. Windsor are genuine, and our two families should have even closer cooperation."

"As long as I can marry Ms. Windsor, I don't care what happened before. As long as she's absolutely loyal to me from now on, I can accept everything about her."

As soon as Philip said this, John immediately got excited.

"Really? Thank you so much, Philip!"

He whipped his head around and glared at Stella.

"Stella! Did you hear that? What are you standing there for? Philip is willing to give you this precious opportunity—why don't you thank him quickly?"

But Stella directly grabbed Russell's hand, her face full of determination.

"I've said it before—there's only one man in my life, and that's Russell!"

Then she stared at Philip.

"Just meeting for the first time, and you already have real feelings for me? Ridiculous. Philip, your love is really cheap."

Philip's face turned dark with anger.

"You!"

John immediately felt his blood pressure spike. He raised his hand.

"Stella! How dare you provoke Philip again and again? Damn it! I'll beat you to death!"

Just as John was about to rush toward Stella, at the critical moment, Philip suddenly stopped him and forced out a smile.

"Uncle John, I believe Ms. Windsor must have been deceived by that bastard. She's innocent."

"So the real culprit should be him. I think as long as we get rid of that trash, Ms. Windsor will come around, right?"

John's eyes lit up.

He hadn't expected Stella's charm to be so great that Philip would make concessions again and again.

However, what he didn't know was that what Philip needed more was for the Windsor family to serve as cover for the Herman family.

"Yes, yes, yes, Philip, you're right!"

"I'm afraid we'll dirty your place today."

John immediately caught on.

"No problem, I'll have people clean it up."

Philip suddenly clapped his hands.

"Someone!"

Immediately, a rush of footsteps could be heard.

Russell instinctively turned his head and saw more than a dozen men in suits running over quickly.

Soon, they had completely surrounded Russell.

Of course, only Russell—they separated Stella and Russell.

Philip stared at Russell and sneered.

"I can give you one chance. As long as you kneel in front of me right now and lick my shoes clean."

"Maybe if I'm happy, I'll even have someone bury your body. Otherwise, I'll just have to kill you and throw you in the river to feed the fish."

After speaking, a bodyguard brought over a stool.

Philip placed his foot on the stool.

He wanted to humiliate Russell hard in front of Stella!

Only this way would Stella understand how huge the gap was between bottom-feeding trash like Russell and a nobleman like him.

Then she would naturally come around, crawl onto his bed obediently, stick her ass up, and wait for him to fuck her hard!

However, Russell's face remained indifferent.

He seemed completely unconcerned by Philip's words.

"What? Don't you want to have your own tombstone?"

Russell sneered.

"Save that thing for yourself. I don't need it."

Instantly, Philip's expression changed!

He gritted his teeth and nodded viciously.

"Good! You asked for this. Get ready!"

The next second, all the bodyguards drew their pistols from their waists and quickly chambered rounds!

They aimed their guns at Russell!