The room froze as if someone had poured a bucket of ice water over the entire hall.
“Sir Joseph?” Ethan Hanks blurted out, his voice cracking in n***d panic.
Even Hugh the Hugeman—a man whose name alone was enough to make half of Valor City tremble—stood stunned, brows knotting as he murmured, “Sir Joseph… why are you here?”
Emily Zane, Gregory Zane, and their entire clan all wanted to rush forward to greet him, but the aura rolling off Joseph Bailey was so suffocating that their legs refused to move.
So this…
This was the man known as the uncrowned king of the city’s underworld?
This was the man everyone fed their respect to, the man whose shadow stretched over the entire Central District?
His presence was crushing—violent—like a storm bottled inside a human body.
While everyone w
