The words, once spoken, refused to fade into silence. Issac Monroe's audacious declaration that he intended to purchase lives from the powerful Percy Family struck the entire assembly dumbfounded. A wave of profound, speechless shock swept through the ballroom, leaving every single person in a state of wide-eyed astonishment. Even the hardened members of the Percy Family found themselves rooted to the spot, struggling to comprehend the audacious spectacle.
A collective, sharp intake of breath, a distinct "Hiss!" of disbelief, echoed through the crowd, predominantly from Madison Clarke, Sadie Sink, and their companions. While a sum of one hundred million dollars as figures on a bank statement might not have elicited such a visceral reaction, the sheer reality of that amount in cold, hard c
