The taxi driver was clearly in shock while he was driving.
It was apparent that he knew Damien Rye and had heard of his name before.
Gerald was a little confused. “Who is Damien Rye and where did he come from? Is he more powerful even than Flynn Lexington from Mayberry Commercial Street?”
Gerald asked the driver.
After taking a peek at the back of the car, it seemed like Damien did not follow them. Gerald let out a sigh of relief.
“Ahem, how do I put it… Flynn Lexington is indeed a powerful figure in Mayberry, he has the entire Mayberry International Inc. behind his back. As for Damien Rye, he’s from the Rye family, one the wealthiest families in Mayberry. He’s the cousin of Henry Rye, the former head of Rye Group. Although Mayberry International Inc. is the first, it’s still a foreign company that has been established in Mayberry for just over ten years. On the other hand, Rye Group is different. It has been here for forty years, and the Ryes, a local mafia family, has deep roots here in Mayberry.”
“No matter how powerful Mayberry International Inc. is, they’re still strangers to this land. However, both the Rye Group and Mayberry International seem to get along pretty well!”
The driver was like a chatterbox who would not stop talking once he opened his mouth.
As the driver introduced the Ryes to him, Gerald started to recall his past memories, especially about Henry Rye.
He remembered he once had a brief encounter with the Ryes before.
But when was that?
Why did both Chad and Danny Xanders disappear from Mayberry? What made Alice cry so much that she would not dare to come out of her dormitory? In the end, not even her parents could do anything, and they had to seek help from Zack Lyle to resolve the issue.
He remembered while they were dining in Royal Dragon Villa, Henry Rye’s second-generation rich son, William Rye, flirted with Alice and Jacelyn while being drunk.
Then, Danny ordered his people to teach William a lesson.
Which led to the Rye family’s retaliation.
He did not ask Luke for any help. Instead, Zack was the one who stepped in to mediate the matter which involved Alice and Jacelyn.
The Ryes let them go.
However, Gerald also remembered clearly that Zack used to warn him on keeping an eye out for his own safety and to conceal his identity and so on.
There was no doubt that Mayberry International Inc. was indeed the largest company in Mayberry, but that did not mean that every other company would be intimidated by them.
After all, they only knew that the company was run by her sister, Jessica. They were unaware of Jessica’s terrifying past, so the local underground mafias were not afraid of her.
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