Chapter 347: My Word Is the Only Permit You Need!

Everyone froze on the spot. Leighton Lynch and Maddox Zimmerman, along with the other officials from the City Lord's Mansion, looked as if someone had slapped a talisman on their foreheads. One by one, they stood there slack-jawed, eyes wide. The City Lord was promoting Leighton Lynch, and he still had to ask Diego Santee, a live-in son-in-law, for permission? What in the world was going on? Maddox Zimmerman and the others had spent most of their lives crawling through the muck of officialdom....