Life After Prison

Chapter 494

The wealthy merchants standing by the side started gossiping amongst themselves when they realized Severin was, indeed, missing.

In fact, some of the wealthy merchants were inwardly rubbing their hands in glee at the turn of the events as they were jealous of the Shanahans’ meteoric rise to success. They had been. waiting for the Shanahans to make one wrong move and were sure no one would be willing to work with them once Valerian had shown his displeasure.

Zachariah must have sensed something was not right and he quickly signaled Sheila to be quiet with his eyes. It took her a while to get what he was hinting but once she did, her face. immediately fell as she lowered her head. It was then she knew she had caused some trouble. ‘Looks like Severin is really not here. Otherwise, he would have come out to welcome us,” thought Sheila. She recalled how Valerian immediately came to Severin’s rescue with just one call and hoped that they would continue to have a good relationship with each other after all the dust had settled on this matter.

Fortunately, Stanley was quick to react. “Mister Valerian, I do apologize. He had a sudden onset of diarrhea and had no choice but to rush to the toilet. We didn’t expect you to arrive so early so we didn’t ask him to join us.”

all good, all good,” said Valerian with a reassuring smile. He did not really mind one way or

with relief when they realized Valerian

in and stopped in an empty field

saw Severing walking toward them. A second ago he was still mentally patting himself on the back for his quick thinking but Severin’s appearance meant that his lies had

even worse than the

merchants sarcastically pointed out, “Hey, isn’t that Severin? When you

possibly be. How can a mansion

of them to lie to Mister Valerian.