Chapter 16: Salute the King of Northville!

The Looske family estate had fallen dead silent, the kind of hush where not even a bird dared chirp. Everyone kept their heads down, at a loss for words. At first, they had told themselves the man before them was only joking, or at worst bragging and shooting his mouth off. Some even clung to the idea that everything they saw was part of a setup, a trap laid by someone else. They refused to believe that a house as powerful as the Looske family could splinter apart in the blink of an eye. That sliver...