Chapter 62

"Don't lie to me. I'll verify this with Stephen." Simon pulled out his phone.

Before he could punch the numbers, his phone rang with a call from Stephen. The suspicious timing of the call made Simon's heart sink. He dreaded the realization of his worst fear.

Simon shakily took the call.

"Dad, North Hill City is in trouble."

Those words hit Simon like a ton of bricks.

It was true. North Hill City was done for. To make matters worse, they gave the culprits the means to commit the crime.

"Shawn and-"

Simon interrupted Stephen and said, "I got it. Your priority is to restore order in the city.

"Stop the mayhem from spreading. North Hill City's economy can't afford another hit."

Then, he ended the call.

Simon sat on the chair at a loss, devastated that the city was ruined at the hands of his son. Stephen had become a disgrace.

“It's all your son's fault. North Hill City is ruined because of the people your son picked.

"Your son only realized what was going on when the trio fled on him.

"We can estimate the city's financial loss at 50 million dollars. The cost can break

the city."

Faced with the accusations, Simon could not hold his tongue anymore.

"Cut it out!"

Jolting to his feet, Simon glared at everybody and said curtly, "Don't push everything on my son as if you can do no wrong.

"Who jumped on the idea with Stephen? Who wanted to interview them? Who helped them achieve nationwide recognition?

"Who made Ethan the scapegoat?"

The barrage of questions shut everybody up.

The group was in a bind. They got it all wrong, accusing the good for bad and

would not have

truth were

out.

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asked, "What

group fell silent as a

more could they do? They were out of

is to tell the truth. We can't

group tried to cover it up, Shawn and the others on

they would relish the prospect of even greater turmoil. Everybody would be too distracted to catch

The group sighed

Hill City, hoping to convince some businesses and investors to stay. The plan

met with several businesspeople and

city needs you more

you stay. I'm talking about a fifty percent tax

presented many enticing terms that tempted the businesspeople and investors. However, that was all there was to

need somewhere peaceful. North

a regular occurrence now. Heck, explosions were common too. Bombs could be

will restore peace and order to the city as soon

the people started to

occurred in the streets. Someone

Stephen turned pale.

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businesspeople

North Hill City is

their heels to leave. It was now or never if they wanted to

grabbed one businessman and said, "Can't you

stopped and gave him a callous

here today,

to say. We have a

arm off, leaving Stephen standing

yet again, and Stephen could not understand why the public had so much faith in him. Despite Stephen's humble pleading, the

any

in North Hill City quickly emerged online, and the public expressed

confusion.

mayhem

this another

away. Can't someone just

a

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