Living With My Lady Boss by Blue Silver novel Chapter 1053

"Besides, we won't have to pay the Cookville Jays anymore. Our family will be protected enough with Envoy Penn alone," said Rowan.

The crowd could not help but frown. Was this man really as powerful as their clan leader and elders were making him out to be, to the point where he could trump the three Cookville Jays?

Just then, however, a peal of laughter sounded from outside the door.

"Very well, very well! You Cooks are getting gutsy now, even thinking of not paying us anymore! Who gave you the nerve for that, huh?"

The Cook family were shocked, looking toward the door at once.

Three middle-aged men with ashen expressions swaggered into the room.

They made a beeline for Jude, Rowan, and the rest, standing right in front of them while radiating an overwhelming pressure.

The three men were none other than the three Cookville Jays, peak Ambience level cultivators Warren Corbain, Taver Quizmo, and Sander Wallis.

All three men had made a name for themselves for a long time now, dominating the Cookville cultivator circle. Every year, every single company or corporation would have to pay them an envoy fee—or their business would not last.

This had angered many businessmen, but they had no choice but to follow the rules set in place.

Jude looked at the three men, refusing to back down in the slightest. "You three have freeloaded off the Cook family for long enough, haven't you?"

"Long enough?" Warren smirked. "You're talking as if you would be able to run your businesses in Cookville without us!"

Jude eyed them coldly. "All you do is take our money, but never actually do anything. Back when we had gotten into a dispute with another clan, both parties each paid the three of you ten million dollars to help us settle it. And what happened? You just had both parties take fifty strokes of the cane, which meant we lost anyway. Really, what have you even done for our clan?"

"How dare you! We have kept peace in Cookville, and that is enough work to warrant everything we have gotten! How dare you speak to us like this?" Taver retorted sharply.