Chet believed his excuse was wless.


    However, even as he was busy fantasizing, Frank held out his palm and waved in front of his eyes. "Your sabotaging efforts had destroyed five billion dors worth of Lanecorp property. Pay up, and we will let bygones be bygones." "Five billion...?"


    Even Noel''s lips parted when she heard the number, though she soon shook her head in exasperation.


    Frank was clearly ripping Chet off!


    "Impossible!"


    Chet was clearly shocked by the astronomical number too.


    Forget five billion-he did not even have one billion to pay Frank, as he was definitely overreaching here.


    "Naturally, the money is no skin off Lanecorp''s back. What I want is to see your sincerity. So? How about it?"


    Frank kept staring at Chet in amusement, intent on seeing how much Chet would pay just to survive.


    After all, Frank had plenty of other options if he wanted the two billion dors lost.


    "O-Okay!"


    Chet knew right then that he was in no ce to bargain against Frank, and he could not argue at all, or he might end up just like Grom.


    But as he whipped out his phone while Frank watched, pooling everything he owned and calling favors, all he could gather was around 700 million dors.


    It was certainly a far cry from the five billion Frank demanded.


    "Shit..."


    Theck of money could kill Chet right then.


    However, he certainly did not dare to


    tell Frank that he did not have the money either, and he turned stiffly


    toward the Lionheart ma


    elites.


    "Boys..." he murmured. "Anyone here have some money to spare? Let''s pool it together to pay Lanecorp, and they might spare your lives..."


    The Lionheart martial elites could die from sheer rage right then, but they had no choice but to y along as it meant their lives.


    But they were mere footsoldiers, and


    only had 800 million dors after pooling everything they had-which still made them 4.2 billion dors short of the five million Frank was asking for. en FindNovel


    "It seems like you don''t have the money?" Frank asked calmly nearby.


    "Uh..."


    Chet grimaced as his heart sank to rock bottom-Frank would definitely kill them if they could not pay up!


    But at that decisive moment an idea came to him.


    Even if he did not have the money, he could ask someone else for it!


    As the vice-chief of Caudal Hall, surely five million was a trifle to Sil Lionheart?!


    Chet put thoughts to action right then and called Sil.


    "Is it done?" Sil asked as soon as he answered, clearly unaware about anything that had happened on Chet''s end. "Ahem..."


    Chet cleared his throat awkwardly as Frank looked on and thought of an idea soon enough. "Mr. Lionheart, I just met Noel York..." "Noel York?!"


    Sil sounded clearly surprised.


    Soon, a female voice snapped from the other end too. "You saw her?!"


    "Yes," Chet replied, turning to slide a guilty look at Noel, who remained on the couch "So, Mr. Lionheart... After some persuasion, Ms. York said that she''s willing to switch sides from Lanecorp to join the Lionhearts." ? N?velDrama.Org - All rights reserved.