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?”

down lightly. An unstable light flickered in his weak

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

…

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

meant nothing to the majority of civilians. However, people higher up in

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

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

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

chance to enter Waterhoof City’s market,

City seemed to have turned into a vacuum where there were

the air, Jasper met

partially on the sofa, his expression

set to Jasper’s favored 24 degrees Celsius. Despite

was due to