Chapter 148: Would She Agree to an Amputation?

"Are our lives worth less than hers?" Pierce Jackson fixed Ms. Porter's assistant with a frosty stare, his gaze cold as steel. "Hmph. Do I really need to spell it out for you?" The assistant's name was Daniel, a young man around twenty-seven or twenty-eight. He was a head taller than most, at least six foot one, his black-rimmed glasses giving him a scholarly air. But the words coming out of his mouth were hard to stomach. "Tepvine-a so-called new first-tier city in Chicia, top ten nationwide...