Life at the Top

Lisa felt both terrified and in despair when she heard this.

“Are you giving up too, Dad?”

Norman shook his head and replied, “I’m not giving up. I’m just stating the reality of the situation.

“When we first met Jasper in Swallow Capital for the first time… T o be honest, did we actually hate him that much?”

Lisa bit her lip and stayed silent.

“But it’s too late for all of this now.”

Norman sighed deeply.

“Gale and Mr. Atticus certainly won’t help us now, so we’ve got to think of a way to help ourselves.”

Lisa looked at Norman and asked, “Do you have a plan, Dad?”

looked down lightly. An unstable light flickered in his weak gaze as he replied, “There’s

a higher price for their protection. I’d bet more than half my family’s wealth

…

following day, news of the dissolution of the Haddock’s Chamber of Commerce’s Waterhoof City Branch

up in the social ranks knew how

City branch meant that Haddock’s Chamber of Commerce’s influence had

that this was Teo Chamber of Commerce’s work After all, the two chambers were mortal enemies, and traces of work of businesspeople from Teo could be seen in the dissolution of

weirder was that there were no signs of Teo Chamber in Commerce in Waterhoof

this chance to enter Waterhoof City’s market, they had completely

City seemed to have turned into a vacuum where there

the air,

sat partially on the sofa, his expression frantic like he had

conditioning in the room was set to Jasper’s favored 24 degrees Celsius.

due to