Life After Prison Novel by Silencieux

Chapter 272

As soon as Claude and the others left, Zachariah and several of the Ballards’ elders fell silent in the room.

After some time had pa*sed, a middle-aged woman said to Zachariah, “Sir, I think Claude has a point. We need to be wary of Draco Hall!”

Zachariah nodded. “Indeed, we do, but I’m afraid that we shouldn’t mess with Draco Hall. If Brookbourn Mansion joins hands with underground forces like the Emerald Cloud Gang in dealing with Draco Hall, our reputation and image would be tarnished if word gets out! Moreover, Draco Hall did not commence any further action after absorbing the Cedar Gang.”

said, “Sir, the upper-cla*s families hand over ten percent of their income to us every year, don’t they? How about we raise that by double? The councils in other cities mostly request a twenty percent contribution from the upper-cla*s

a wealth of funds right now, but Draco Hall will surpa*s us if they take over the Emerald Cloud Gang. Even if that doesn’t happen, we are now barely on par with each other. The way I see it, we should adopt the suggestion that esteemed elder, Edith, has just proposed and increase the contribution amount to twenty percent! Only with money can we hire

main stumbling block is the difficulty with which those upper-cla*s families earn money. There’s been a recession in the economy the past two years, and

City, and the locations that were given are quite good too. I believe it’ll bring us a lot of profits, so we’ll leave it at that for now. I think

reactions seems like a step in the right direction.” Edith, the middle-aged woman, nodded her head

moment, Sheila had just returned from

where Severin lived,

smiled and motioned for the others to