Chapter 54: A Small Letdown

Once the power was gone, with no money and no clout, nobody cared who you were, and nobody listened. First they'd pry that son-in-law out of his seat, then take their time cleaning up the cronies he left behind. Cut off the head of the snake, and the rest withered. "The old gentleman understands, and that's what matters. If there's nothing else, I'll take Lauryn first," Leonard Zimmerman said. He'd laid out the situation for the patriarch; the rest he left in the patriarch's hands. The Tibbert family's...