“Nothing…” Cordelia forced a smile. “Business hasn’t been good these days, huh?”

It stumped Zephyr. He had never been concerned about whether the business was good since the beginning. The purpose of opening this shop was just to make Cordelia happy. It was just that she would be unhappy if business remained bad.

Zephyr frowned. ‘Goodness, how did I miss this!?’

He would probably have to ask Josiah and Fredric to get more customers over these days. While he thought about it, he heard Cordelia huff. “Someone must be behind this! Business was okay previously. How could it just disappear!?”

“What?” Zephyr paused.

Cordelia whipped out her phone and tapped on a few review apps.

Iris had plenty of reviews, but almost all of them were bad ones.

[I heard that the boss of this cafe is a felon—an inmate!]

[Yeah, don’t go to that shop! What good coffee can a boss who’s gone behind bars make?]

[Even one star is too much! Dodgy shop!]

Cordelia read through them, page after page, her hands shaking.

“Darling, look…” she said, aggrieved. “I only found out today that so many people are calling our shop a fraud!

possible? We haven’t offended anyone since we started our business!” Cordelia looked

lips. “Could it be people you had grudges with before? Like

that Marcus seemed to have vanished into thin air. Robert came to Jangasas to secretly deliver the

cold. How could a living person be gone out of the blue!? Now that he was nowhere to be

teeth. “I suspect that Uncle Matthew’s already found him first. They’ll definitely

Robert widened his eyes, looking

Get a few reliable men to

“Got it!”

spine all of a sudden

Matthew, Yale, or other Hamertons considering conspiring, he had never been scared, even if there was a direct confrontation. This time, however, he

they were lurking in the shadows. If they could not lay a

together. His sculpted

sounded from the outside of

out. As Cordelia went past him, she found the person mysterious and wanted to do a double take when

“You’re done with work?”

retracted her gaze and hooked her

no customer in the cafe, and it felt empty. It was currently leisure hours after

the cabinet at the back, barely lessened. The cakes and desserts in the glass case by the bar had not

eventually froze, and a wash

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