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Chapter 116

Chapter 116: Master Minds Chapter 116: Master Minds But it seemed each passing day was determined to prove that there were always new depths to human deception.

The crowd stirred, whispers spreading like wildfire.

Some looked doubtful, others curious, and a few outright hostile.

Nnenna, standing a bit farther away, listened carefully to the entire exchange, her mind racing.

What?

She raised an eyebrow in disbelief.

‘This entire mess… was because of me?’ She had picked this spot randomly, assuming that since it was a market, it didn’t belong to any particular person but was government owned, free for vendors to set up their stalls, even if just temporarily.

She never imagined it was private property.

A strange warmth filled her chest as she realized something else.

Despite all this, the old man hadn’t mentioned her at all.

He was shielding her, protecting a girl he barely knew.

Her hands clenched slightly at her sides.

She wanted to step in, but she knew better.

Even if she spoke up, who would listen to a fifteen year old girl in a servant’s uniform, hidden behind a shawl and sunglasses?

No one.

She decided to keep watching.

The woman, still standing tall with her arms crossed, scoffed.

“An apology?

Oh, no.

That won’t cut it.

‘sorry’ after you’ve been making profits on our land for two days.” She

fair way to settle this.” She paused for effect before delivering her

over every single money you made on both

All of it.

even.” When the woman demanded the old man hand over all the profits he

through the gathering, a mix of shock and

of it?” one man

wants everything he made?” “That’s too

ask for

for that.” Some people exchanged uneasy glances, unsure

young man shook his head, voice low, “No way that’s

to rob him blind.” But others, more sympathetic to the woman’s

older man said, scratching his

my land,

for all of it?” a

voice chimed in, “She’s got no shame, asking

some members

and it was clear the

the same spot clenching her

This was extortion.

crowd that

fact, several people

hadn’t made money because

a space, but that wasn’t

success came from his hard work, his delicious cooking, the way he used mouthwatering aromas to lure people in, the free samples that got them hooked,

the crowd couldn’t take it

one of the

stood up, arms crossed, his face set in a

you demand all of his

even a percentage, but

Murmurs of

the bone yesterday, with his granddaughter helping him—” Nnenna almost choked at

Granddaughter?

his children!” the man

they earned just because

just charge a reasonable rent instead of

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