Jonah lowered his head, unable to speak. He was truly defeated.

There was no other way out, so he could only shoot Chloe a look.

Chloe had already been awake for a while, and she immediately burst into tears. “Oh, my son! What should I do now? Helen, I don’t want to keep living anymore! I only have my son; if something happens to him, I… I’d rather be dead!”

Helen hastily held onto her. “Don’t worry, Chloe. I’ll find a way to help you. Please, Mr. Manning—I’m begging you this. Can’t you help us?”

Craig looked at Matthew, and the latter gave a slight nod. After all, he knew very well that Helen would keep dragging this out if they didn’t resolve this matter.

“I’ve explained things very clearly earlier. This is mainly a problem of compensation and whether the victim is able to forgive the perpetrator. If we can resolve these problems, we can also try to resolve the other remaining problems,” Craig answered.

“You hear that, Chloe?” Helen hastily asked. “No one actually died, s-so this matter is still something that can be resolved. We’ll just have to pay a bit more, but won’t everything be okay by then?”

much do we need to pay?” Chloe

the latter was exasperated. “This really isn’t something that’s easy to say. From my experience, I presume it will

dead, so why do we have to pay one

 

your son to stay in prison for a few extra years, or

a moment. After a moment of silence, she burst into tears again.

that those foreign countries are gold mines. How can you not even have one million in the bank? Not only that, Uncle Jonah’s also a

at Jonah

ever since those four came back, they wouldn’t shut up about how their lives were while they were overseas. Now that Demi had taken the opportunity to

were being put on the spot. Although they boasted about spending the last few years abroad, their lifestyle was just an average one in reality. Chloe didn’t work, and Jonah was the sole breadwinner. Once they deducted all their expenses from Jonah’s monthly salary from his job at

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