“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!

started

it be people you had grudges

to Jangasas to secretly deliver the news to him. “Sir,

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

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

Robert widened his eyes,

me,” Zephyr instructed, “Cordelia, though… Get a few reliable men to

“Got it!”

all

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

were out in the open while they were lurking in the shadows. If they could not lay a finger on him,

pressed his lips together. His sculpted face

Cordelia’s sweet voice sounded from the outside of

Cordelia went past him, she found

“You’re done with work?”

her gaze and hooked her arms with him to go into

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

jars of coffee beans were sitting neatly in the cabinet at the back, barely lessened. The cakes and desserts in the glass case by the bar had not been sold at

and a wash of

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