The Man's Decree

Chapter 456 Demolition

Hannah showed Josephine around as soon as they entered the room in an effort to make her feel more at ease. At the same time, Jared drifted in and out of the rooms drunk on nostalgia.

“Take a good, long look, son,” sighed Hannah. The house is coming apart soon. I don’t know where we’ll go to once they evict us.”

“Aren’t they going to rehouse you, Mom?”

“Hah!” exclaimed Hannah scornfully. “They didn’t even subsidize our rent. Some of us have been living here for decades and they are only giving us about a hundred thousand per home. That’s what we’re worth to them. Though we should be grateful that other villages receive much less compared to us, it’s hard to feel too optimistic when our future is that uncertain. Besides, your father and I had just forked out so much for the renovation and it’s going to get torn down just like that!”

“Come to Horington with Dad,” Jared suggested. “The place in Dragon Bay is still vacant anyway. I haven’t had the time to drop by and sort things out over there.”

Hannah glared at her son. “Though Josephine’s family is rich enough to let you live in a huge house like that, you can’t be sitting on your hands all day, you hear me? You can’t be spending all of her money for the rest of your life. Be a man!”

“You are mistaken, Mrs. Chance. Actually-”

Mom,” Jared cut across Josephine. “I’m working on

of her to not look down on us, you know.” Hannah gazed fondly at Josephine. “You must treat her well, son. If I hear that you do anything

girl

been good to me, Mrs. Chance. I’ll twist his ear

the smile. “Inform me when you do. I’d like to get

being secretly delighted at how quickly the two most important women to him bonded. “Are you ganging

out laughing

female voice suddenly came from outside the

at once and dashed out

as she could remember, she had been inseparable from Jared, who had gotten into more fights than he could remember to protect her from her own mischief. Despite being cousins, they were

wonder how my

the very least, greeted him when he arrived outside the room. Her ponytail bounced excitedly at his appearance, revealing two deep dimples on