Chapter 174: The Truth of Their Origins

They stepped into the hidden room. The first thing Gerome Tetlow produced was a check from the Casson family for one hundred million dollars. He tried to hand it back to Jordan Sowden with a show of polite humility. Jordan waved it away. A hundred million might have looked astronomical to outsiders, but to him it was pocket change. He did not spare it a glance. What he wanted, with a raw urgency that gnawed at him, was the truth of Elina Sowden's bloodline. "Let's get to the point," he said,...