The Man's Decree

Chapter 458 Dog

“Forget it, Jared.” Ingrid waved her hand before wiping her tears and forcing a smile. “It’s no use talking about it. Besides, I’ve already accepted my fate.”

“Tell me, Ingrid,” he insisted. “I will help you.”

“Yes, Ingrid,” added Josephine. “We’ll both do.”

Ingrid gazed at Josephine for several moments before deciding to trust them. “Jared, do you remember Dog?”

Jared nodded. “Of course I do. He’s the dropout who used to collect protection fees from his victims outside the school gates, isn’t he? He even gave me a kick that I haven’t forgotten.”

Ingrid murmured in a small voice.

rage. “He’s a degenerate who did not even graduate middle school! How did Aunt Sarah allow you

Dog, she already had a negative impression of him painted in her mind’s eye from the way the others were talking about him. This girl is beautiful and vivacious. She deserves to marry somebody better than

crying again as she recounted to Jared her tale of

blue with rage and slammed a

dare he!” Josephine

did not explore different career opportunities after his expulsion. As the rate of industrialization in Horington exploded in recent years, inhabitants of the numerous villages around the area had required a nudge to cooperate given the large investments dumped into Avenport for property development. Due to a combination of high stakes, impatient investors. and tight project deadlines, Dog, who had secured a contracting apprenticeship and worked his way to make a name for himself in Avenport, had put his bullying

bring the very same men to the occasional stubborn residents who rebelled against the developers’ terms and beat them into submission, often succeeding in coercing them into agreeing to a lower rate than what

the school one day and blackmailed the principal to expel her. Then, he threatened Ingrid with her

charge of recommending the valuation of properties for approval. In an attempt to curry favor with his future in-laws, he valued Ingrid’s family’s house for a million, and their entire village to be slightly higher than the market rate.

gritted teeth, his