Chapter 128: The Dumbstruck Patriarch

"It looks like the old man has made up his mind," Marlee Casson sighed. She had thought that, difficult as it might be, she could still find common ground with the Lapwood family. Now she realized she had been naïve. When money's on the line, friendship doesn't count for much. "Since the Lapwood family has already chosen a side, they should be ready to live with the consequences," Elijah Quinny said, his fingers drumming on the table-tap, tap, tap-as a half smile played on his lips. "Miss Casson,...