Chapter 91: Settling It Alone

There's always a way out. From the warplane, a rope ladder uncoiled and dropped. One by one, the people of the Warth family were hauled aboard. Snatched from the jaws of death, Chandler Warth crushed his son, the family's prodigy-Melvin Warth-against his chest and bellowed, "We claw our way back from the brink. We Warths aren't pushovers. Nobody gets to push us around. We fight back, however hard it gets!" The others did not share his bravado. Their phones had buzzed with one dismal update after...