“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!”

her lips. “Could it be people you had grudges

secretly

living person be gone out of the blue!? Now that he was nowhere to be found, Zephyr had already

that Uncle Matthew’s already found him first.

widened his eyes, looking

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

“Got it!”

felt chills down his spine all of

other Hamertons considering conspiring, he had never been scared, even if there was a direct

were lurking in the shadows.

pressed his lips together. His sculpted face

voice sounded from

lower and ran out. As Cordelia went

“You’re done with work?”

gaze and hooked her arms with him

it felt empty. It was currently leisure hours after people went

in the cabinet at the back, barely lessened. The cakes and desserts in the glass case by the bar had

eventually froze, and a wash

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