“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!

anyone since we started our business!” Cordelia looked at

She licked her lips. “Could it be people you had grudges with before?

air. Robert came to Jangasas to secretly deliver the

How could a living person be gone out of the blue!? Now that he was nowhere to be found, Zephyr

his teeth. “I suspect that Uncle Matthew’s already found him

widened his eyes,

about me,” Zephyr instructed, “Cordelia, though… Get a few reliable men to watch her going to and leaving work. Her safety

“Got it!”

all of a sudden after

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

the shadows. If they could not lay

pressed his lips together. His

sounded from the outside

As Cordelia went past him, she found

“You’re done with work?”

her gaze and hooked her arms with him to go into the

and it felt empty. It was currently leisure hours after people went off work, so

lessened.

froze, and a wash of disappointment

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