Jasper laughed as he said, “Why are you looking at me? She’s in charge here.”
Julian immediately nodded and said, “You have such high expectations of me. I’ll do my best to protect Mr. Laine!”
Wendy smiled and said, “Alright, that’s that then.”
…
The next day, Brac County found itself in chaos.
Suppliers arrived at Future Industries, demanding payment, whilst banks refused to sign them a loan. Moreover, they had even demanded that Future Industries repay all their loans immediately.
Future Industries’ financial support chain was on the verge of collapse.
Just when things could not get even worse, Ambition Corporation put out the word that the Quare brothers from Future Industries were laundering money from Ambition Corporation.
Xavier claimed that he was going to kill the Quare brothers.
Future Industries collapsed in an instant.
As for the Zion family…
As one of the most famous families in Brac County, their shipyard piqued the attention of many when Harbor City ripped apart their contract.
Then, the various businesses they owned got exterminated.
They suffered an industry-wide closure.
Anyone who had any sort of relation to the Zion family immediately abandoned them to save themselves.
It was as if a large invisible hand had crushed everything the Zion family had built in Brac County over the years.
The members of the Zion family sat in Harvey’s house, sobbing hysterically.
Now that the family business was done for, members of the Zion family began stabbing each other in the back. They were hoping to take whatever remaining benefits there were for themselves.
Harvey sat at the head of the table. He seemed to have gone gray overnight.
He smoked cigarette after cigarette, the ashes piling next to his feet like a tiny mountain.
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