The elderly man walking in was no ordinary bystander.
Just a day earlier, he had arrived by helicopter from the provincial capital, spoken a single sentence, and erased the Fields family from existence. Even more telling, he was the very man whose life had once been spared by Matthew Powell himself. He was the wealthiest figure in Centralshire State, the sitting chairman of the provincial Chamber of Commerce, and the unquestioned pillar of the provincial capital’s most powerful clan—the Wainright family.
Master Wainright.
Any one of those titles alone was enough to crush a man’s spirit. And now, all of them stood embodied in a single, calm figure, right there in the restaurant.
It was obvious that Oscar Ritchson recognized him.
Unfortunately, Emily Zane did not.
Her eyes rolled back
