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.”

Zachariah’s words and 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

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 elite fighters, and that

with which those upper-cla*s families earn money. There’s

a lot of profits, so we’ll leave it at that for now. I think we should invite the people from Draco Hall to come over for a drink sometime soon. We can further this discussion once we get a

Larry and his men just to see their reactions seems like a step in the right direction.” Edith, the

Sheila had just returned from some

knew where Severin lived, she could always hang out with him if she had nothing

motioned for the others to